M75B. The animal in the carcass was carried away by a bird.

(.12.) .13.-.15.17.27.-.34.

A person hides in the skin or carcass of a large animal. A bird brings a skin or carcass to the nest without knowing what it brought the person.

Nubians, Sudanese Arabs, Kordofan, Morocco (Arabs and/or Berbers), Berbers of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Spanish, Portuguese, Sicilians, Maltese, Thousand and One Nights, Qatar, Yemenis, Albanians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Czechs, Russians (Olonets, Pskov, Voronezh, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava), Belarusians, Karachays, Kabardian people, Ossetians, Chechens, Lezgins, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Bakhtiyars, Tajiks, Uzbeks (including Khorezm), Turkmens, Finns, Latvians, Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Uighurs, Kyrgyz, Mongols (Buryats?).

(Wed. West Africa. Balant [the king keeps his daughter locked; Mbana sees her in the window; the old woman gives him a precious wooden figure of a horse in which he hides; sells to the king for his daughter; in the room of Princess M. goes out; the daughter becomes pregnant, the tsar has to marry her off for M.]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:187-190).

Sudan - East Africa. Nubians, Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 936*: 640-641.

North Africa. Algerian Berbers, Arabs of Egypt: El-Shamy 2004, No. 936*: 640-641; Berbers (Sfisifa, SZ Algeria) [Solomon told the spirits that Djabersa had a daughter and Djaberka had a son, and they will get married; the griffin said he would prevent this, despite God's will, took his daughter Djabersa (with her mother), left her on a fig tree by the sea; Djaberka's son sailed there on his ship, lay down to rest, girl She threw leaves on him, found out that there were other people besides her, her mother and the griffin; told the young man to hide in the shoes of a dead horse; asked the griffin to take her to Solomon; the griffin brought both the girl and the boy, although he thought he had brought horse skin; was shamed by Solomon]: Basset 1887, No. 13:27-28; the Arabs of Libya and Egypt [the blind sultan will see the light if he gets the medicine - green fish; son of the Sultan and the son of the vizier catch her, but she asks her to let go and the Sultan's son lets her go; the sultan orders him to be killed and bring his blood; the young man's mother persuaded the soldiers to bring gazelle blood to the Sultan; the Sultan's son meets a stranger and they become twin brothers; a Jew hires the Sultan's son for business: a bird brings him to the mountain, where diamonds {obviously he drops diamonds to a Jew, but cannot go down}; his sister helped him out; The Jew comes for him again, tells him to get a magic ring and treasures from the treasure on the mountain; the brother forces the Jew to return the young man, while the Jew remains on the mountain; on the same mountain, the Sultan's son got the princess; the brother offers to divide everything; pretends to cut the girl in half, she regurgitated the box and it contains a cure for blindness; her sister says that he is that green fish; the son of the Sultan marries a princess and receives the throne from his healed father]: Nowak 1969, No. 53:79; Tunisia [after his father's death, Hassan squandered his savings and then started a shop; the wizard Imbragim came and turned iron into gold, stayed overnight, put H. sleeping pills and carried it away in the chest; ordered the assistant spirit to deliver three camels; H. and I. came to the foot of the mountain; I. ordered H. to climb into the skin of the dead camel; the vultures took him to the mountain; there he found a sign; refused to give it to I. until he brought him home; I. left; H. weaved a rope out of the grass, went down; came to the castle of seven daughters the lord of the spirits, became their brother; the sisters leave for a month, the youngest tells them not to go into the same room; H. broke the ban, there are flowers and a pond, 10 doves went down, dropped their feathers, became girls; H. fell in love to the youngest, they flew away, he returned to the palace; the returning fairies taught me how to hide the turtle's feathers; the fairies persuaded the captive to marry H.; 3 years later, I. brought a young man again; the fairy gave H. a magical a sword, H. cut off I.'s head; telling the helper spirit to give three camels, returned with his wife to his mother, and then moved from Basra to Baghdad; the wife gave birth to sons named Nasr and Mansour; H. went for six months to visit the fairy sisters; showed his mother where he hid his wife's feather outfit, ordered her not to give it to her or let her daughter-in-law out of the house; she persuaded her to let her go to the bathhouse; the ruler's wife saw her and called her to her; all women show how they dance; wife H. says she would dance better if she had her feather outfit; the eunuch brought a chest full of her dress; wife H. put on feathers, took both children, flew away shouting: let H. look for her on Wakwak Island; H.'s mother dug three graves, told the returning H. that his wife and children were dead; but H. dug up the graves, the mother was forced to tell everything; H. returned to the fairy sisters ; the youngest advised them to ask their father's brother; he took H., flew to the mountain on a flying elephant; then ride a horse to the cave; if there is a man in red, return, if in white, you will get a wife; a man in white leads him further; after his adventures, H. goes to the queen of the heavenly maidens; his sons recognize his father; the queen orders his wife X. to be beaten and thrown into prison, and he ends up in the desert; two sons wizards are fighting for their father's inheritance: a magic wand and an invisible hat; H. threw a stone: whoever brings it faster will give him wonderful items; takes them himself; frees his wife and sons, flies away from with them on winged horses; his army defeated the Queen's Soysky; H.'s wife forgave the queen; H. returned to Baghdad with his family, Harun Arrashid appointed him a vizier]: Stumme 1893, No. 2:13-39; Morocco (Arabs and/or Berbers): Mifsud-Chircop 1978:387.

Southern Europe. Spaniards [the poor man went to work; a man gives him 3,000 reais, tells him not to ask; he has candles burning in his house, one is about to go out; he tells the poor man that his life is will end before the candle burns out; tells you to kill the horse, make a bag out of the skin; blowing on the paper, creates a ladder out of it, tells you to go up to the castle; the poor man has risen, there are bones everywhere; the owner orders to fill throw the bag to him with them; breaks the stairs; the poor man digs a way, enters a house where the table is set and the bed is ready; he eats and sleeps, but an invisible hand pushes him; the old woman says that he will not get out of her; gives keys, forbids unlocking one of the rooms; he unlocked, there is a man and a woman half turned into lions; they advise the old woman to look in her head, kill with a stiletto; who were in the room the prince and his wife take on a human form, tell them to flee, otherwise the lions will chase; the man came to the master, killed him, took his family and began to live with the prince whom he saved]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, № 325A: 322- 325; the Portuguese [brothers one by one are hired by a wizard and disappear; the youngest comes; the wizard sewed him in the skin of a horse, made the young man on top of a mountain or tower; there treasures; the young man filled his skin with gold (or bones), threw off the owner, who left, leaving him to die; the young man met a giant (this is the enchanted king) with his daughter; only the wizard's book can do them spell; {once down}, he is again hired by a wizard who did not recognize him; he dies; {then the retelling of the episodes is so brief that it is impossible to explain the plot}]: Cardigos 2006, No. 325A: 75-76; Sicilians: Gozenbach 1870.1, No. 6:29-30 in Mifsud-Chircop 1978:387; the Maltese [the young man was hired by a rich man; he sewed him in the skin of a horse, she was transferred to the top of the mountain; tells him to lose gold, young man refuses; var.: the wizard opened the magic book and took the young man to the top of the mountain; the young man refuses to obey orders until the owner lowers him back; finds a wishful lantern and descends by himself]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 936*: 386-387.

Western Asia. One Thousand and One Nights: Salye 2010 (2), nights 499-530 [start see H55; further false story; King Taigamus had no sons; the stargazers said that he would only have a son from the king's daughter Khorasana; King Khorasan agreed to marry; stargazers predicted misfortunes for his son after 15 years; his name was Janshah; at the age of 15, D. chased the gazelle, the gazelle jumped into the boat, she was caught, but D. and his servants went by boat to the island at sea; the father sent letters about his son to all the islands; D. went to land on the wrong island to which he sailed; sent half of the servants deep into the island, remaining in the boat; he was brought to the palace; the island belonged to monkeys; the monkeys sank the boat, made D. king; he ordered the servants to help the monkeys defeat enemies; found a stove with a prophecy: the one who became king of the monkeys will be able get out of the island only by going to a city where there is not a single believer of true faith; the monkeys chased the prince, but they were destroyed by ants; in the city of infidels, D. hired a merchant, received it in advance fee; he was sewn into the donkey's belly and the bird carried the carcass to the nest; precious stones were around; D. threw stones to the merchant, and he left without showing how to go down; D. went to look for a way out, came to the palace; the owner forbids opening one door; D. opened and saw three girls dressed as pigeons coming to swim; a year later they flew in again; on the advice of the owner of the castle, D. hid one of the girls's clothes; this is Sitt Samsha, she agreed to become the prince's wife, he returned her feather clothes and they flew to the prince's country; Tigamus built a palace for D. and the secondary school; the secondary school smelled her clothes hidden under the floor palace, ordered D. to look for her in the Takni jewelry fortress and flew away; D. came to a man with whom he already lived, hired the same job, was sewn into the skin of a horse; refused to throw stones out of the merchant's nest; came back to the owner of the palace; he does not know about the fortress T.; one of the birds took D. to the king of animals; he called on the animals to ask about T.; the animals do not know; he sends D. to his older brother; the brother does not know sends to the sorcerer, to whom animals and mountains are subordinate, who summoned animals and genies; one bird said he knew where T. took D.; the king of jinns, i.e. the father of the secondary school, ordered that every person be brought to himself; wedding; the couple was taken to the kingdom of D.], 778-831 [the Persian praises the jeweler Hasan's products, offers to adopt him, promises to teach him the best craft; mother H. does not trust the stranger; the next in the morning, a stranger makes a gold bar out of copper, H. asks him to teach him how to create gold; this can only be learned in a Persian's house; they go to X.'s house, the Persian drinks it, puts it in a chest, in another puts money and jewelry, sends chests to the ship; the ship sails away; mother H. builds in a tomb with her son's name and lives in it; H. will be killed a thousandth if she does not betray, but H. refuses to worship the fire, the Persian tortures him while they are on the ship; during the storm, the sailors blame the Persian, want to kill him, he apologizes to H., the storm subsides; the Persian and H. go down to land, ride camels; a Persian sews H. into a camel's skin, a bird hides a mountain; there's firewood and human bones; a Persian asks to dump firewood, it's needed for alchemy; H. dumps firewood, The Persian leaves, leaving H. on the mountain; H. rushes into the sea, takes him ashore, where the palace of the enemies of the Persian, there are seven daughters of the genie; H. remains with them; a year later, a Persian appears with a prisoner, who is going to be sent to the mountain; H. kills a Persian, throws his head into the fire; frees the prisoner; the girls leave for two months; H. opens the forbidden door; 10 birds fly in; H. hides; birds turn into girls; bathe; X. falls in love with the elder; bird girls fly away; H. withers from love; ginnias come back, H. talks about everything younger, she promises to help; older jinnias go to hunting, the youngest advises H. to hide the feathers of the bird girl; the gennias arrange their wedding; H. dreams of his mother, he goes to her; in case of difficulty, he must hit the Persian's drum and the camels will take him to Jinniah; to mother H.'s house, his wife gives birth to two sons; H. decides to visit Jinny, punishes his mother not to go to the city with his wife; the wife violates the ban, goes to the bathhouse, she is seen by the Caliph's slave, reports to his wife; she demands wife H. to her, dresses her up; wife H. says that she has feather clothes, let her mother-in-law give them; the servant brings clothes, wife X. turns into a bird, takes the children and flies away - let her husband look for her on the Wak Islands; H. goes to the jinnias for help; Uncle Jinny takes the horse out of the mountain, gives a letter; on horseback X. reaches the mountain where the mighty sheikh sends a letter; he is allowed inside the mountain; he is given a new letter and a case with firefighting accessories that can be used to summon the sheikh in case of trouble; H. flies on the back of the efreet, gives a letter to the king; the king explains how move on; Hasan is secretly put on the ship; after getting off the ship, H. hides under a bench; at night asks for protection from a warrior girl, she brings him armor; H. mixes with warriors; girl warrior takes off her clothes, turns out to be an old woman; an old warrior commands an army of women, is ready to help; tells how to get to Wack Island; H. goes with her army through the island of birds; through the island of animals; across the island of genies; H. describes his wife to the warrior, the old woman recognizes the king's eldest daughter; H. must recognize his wife among other girls; he does not know if the queen is going to cut his head; old woman intercedes; says that there is not a single woman left in the city but the queen herself; she must also appear H.; he sees that the queen looks like his wife; she is her sister; the queen orders to be brought sister with children; children are brought before their mother; the queen is convinced that the boys are the sons of H.; the queen beats her sister; talks about everything to her husband, the father of the bird girls; the sorcerer's two children quarrel over the copper sticks to which genies and invisible caps obey; H. invites them to race, picks up wonderful objects; invisible, goes to his wife, she is crucified and tied to her hair; H. opens to his wife children, unties his wife, the old woman opens the gate, the Ifrites give X. three horses; genies sticks defeat the queen's army, she is captured; H.'s wife stands up for her, reconciles; the queen and the old woman go to their city; on the way they thank the king who put H. on the ship and both sheikhs; the sheikhs ask them to give them a wand and hat for their help; H. and his family visit the jinnias, thanks the youngest, returns home]: 64-101, 594-702; Yemenis [a man hung a sword from the ceiling: which of his sons can grab a sword; the sons of two wives could not, the concubine's son grabbed; the elder wife poisoned the food, handed it through the son of another wife to the son of a concubine; the bird, the dog tried, died; the son of a concubine and the son of the second wife leave; they come to the city where Afrit kidnapped the princess and gives water in exchange for the girls; son concubines force Afritis to bring him to where his lair is; kills him; frees 14 princesses kidnapped and hanged by the hair; after the king's death, people choose the first person they meet; the son of a concubine leaves his younger brother there as king, leaves himself; the Hindu invites him to go to India; there he leads to the mountain, tells him to climb into the dead camel; the eagle will lift the carcass up the mountain, we must throw off the dry brushwood; once on the mountain, the young man sees three dead and half alive; he explains that the Hindu told them to throw off the firewood, but in fact gold lying everywhere; he did not let it go back; the young man jumped off the cliff into the sea sailed to the island; there is the palace of the seven daughters of the king of the genies of the West; they make him a brother; when they fly away, they tell him not to go into the garden; he comes in, there is a pond, swimming in it, taking off the clothes of doves, seven daughters of the king the genies of the East; he hides the youngest's clothes; the daughters of the king of the genies of the West return, tell this girl to marry the young man; they transfer him to the city where the young man's brother is king; then he goes to visit his father, but everything is there only his mother is dead and alive; he is building a palace, telling his mother not to show his wife her pigeon clothes; the king next door kidnaps the young man's wife, telling her to dance; she says that if her mother-in-law brings her pigeon clothes, the dance will be better; the servants bring the clothes; the maiden flies away, taking the children, asks her mother-in-law to tell her husband to look for her on Waq Al Waq Island; the mother first lies to her son that his wife and the children are dead, but he opens the graves - it is empty; the young man meets two sons of Afrit, arguing over the invisible kufia, sword and staff (summons genies helpers); the young man throws a stick - who will bring it first will receive a kufia and a staff; puts on the kufia, becomes invisible, calls the genies to take him to Wak Al-Waq Island; there he applies to the old genniha's chest; she tells him to address the queen of the island, that knows all the women there; he does not find a wife among the audience; the queen has imprisoned her because she has married a mortal; using a kufia, the young man enters the prison; his sons see him, his wife agrees to return to him; genies defeat the queen's warriors; a young man with his family returns home, kills a Hindu, burns pigeon clothes]: Daum 1992, No. 13:130-145; Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 936*: 640-641.

The Balkans. Albanians [the peasant's son agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb the Crystal Mountain; drops his jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to let him down; the young man finds the goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat tells one goat, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen unnoticed again both times; the third time he stays alone a goat, takes him to his blind owner; he lets the young man herd, does not tell him to take the goats to the edge of the cliff; there peri dances, the young man plays the pipe, the peri is the first to get tired, the young man ties her up, makes her return the owner's eyes; seeing the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells him not to unlock the twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides the youngest's belt, brings his wife home on a heroic horse, the key to She gives her belts to her mother; three years later she goes with her daughter-in-law to the wedding, gives her a belt, her daughter-in-law flies through a smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, the oldest one, he sends him to the spring, where the maids of the Beauty of the Earth collect water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn an apple so that their brothers The cannibals did not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if the son-in-law 1) brings an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, digs up the entire spring); 3) catch a hare, get a nut; a young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets a wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; Romanians [the fisherman's son agrees to let the king fish go; his father beats him, he leaves; meets a dwarf, takes him as a sister; the dwarf notices that one owner has a new employee every day; watches as he tells the employee to climb a rope up a tree, lower the basket of gems, place an empty one the basket back, drops the rope, the snake swallows the worker, spews gems into the basket; the dwarf is hired by the owner, refuses to climb again, saying that he is dizzy, the owner climbs himself, the snake swallows it, the dwarf receives gems, takes treasures from the owner's house for the fisherman's son; the princess married 99 times, the groom has only bones in the morning; the dwarf brings marriage, goes to bed at night in the place of the fisherman's son, does not sleep, kills a snake that crawled out of the princess's mouth; threatens the princess to cut her in half, she regurgitates three snake eggs, the dwarf breaks them; says that he is the king fish; the son of a fisherman with The princess is rich and happy]: Sadetsky 1973:212-220; Bulgarians [a Jew hired an employee; at the end of his term of employment, he tells him to climb into the skin of an animal, eagles lift the young man up the mountain, there are precious stones; having overcome obstacles, the young man returns to the Jew; "forced again"]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 936*: 350.

Central Europe. Czechs [poor Tunda was hired for a hundred gold a month; there is no job; at the end of his term, the master takes him to the sea, hits the water with a twig, the waters part, they go dry to the castle, T. climbs through the window, master tells you to throw money, i.e. refuses, the window shrinks, closes; someone black shows 99 corpses of those whom the master lured earlier; because T. did not take the money, black leaves him to watch a pair of horses and goat; T. asks for cards, then his wife; tells him to snatch three feathers from one of the three swans who will come to swim; the swan turns into a girl; T. asks for permission to see her parents, the owner allows, but does not advise; at home, T. opens the chest he has brought, the wife grabs her feathers, flies away; T. returns, the goat takes him to the pond where the swans swim; the witch sends her daughter Amalka, that T. puts him to sleep every time the swans do not wake up, they fly further and further; in the last castle, the princess (this is T.'s wife) throws the ring, T. catches it three times with her sword, each time she leaves; the princess finds, the spouses unite; T. cuts it down heads for a black lord and a goat, they turn into king and queen]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:307-317; Russians (Olonetskaya, Pskov, Ryazan), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Poltava region), Belarusians [Golden Mountain: the hero is hired by a rich man as a worker; a rich man takes him to the golden mountain, gives him a sleepy potion and sews him in his skin (corpse) animal; birds take it to the mountain; the worker mines gold there and dumps it to the owner; he leaves the worker on the mountain; the worker escapes and later does the same to the owner]: SUS 1979, No. 936* : 239; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1940) [a retired soldier is hired by a master as a coachman. While the coachman is harnessing, the dove throws flint and chair at him, saying that if a soldier lights the grass, he can get rid of any need. The master orders to stay at the high mountains, treats the coachman with meat and vodka with sleepy drops. The soldier falls asleep, the master kills the old horse, sews the coachman into its skin. Birds peck at her, and an eagle takes her to the top of the mountain. A soldier finds himself at a red gold palace, walks in and sees a sleeping Serpent with a book. The serpent wakes up and the soldier appears to be his son, the serpent rejoices. A soldier lives with a snake like a son, listens. The serpent flies away and forbids you to enter the room with the golden lock (but gives you the key). The soldier misses and opens the door, sees three beautiful girls in gold chains, they ask for them to drink, the soldier gives them, one splashes water on the others and the captives turn into white cabbage rolls and fly away. The serpent returns, hits the soldier three times with a hot iron stick and orders him to search for the missing girls. The soldier wanders through the mountains, lights the feather grass with flint and chair, a mountain eagle appears and lowers the soldier down. In the city, a soldier is hired by the master to guard his daughters (do not let him out of the room). He spies on how they, locked in a room, and his friend turn into pigeons and fly away through the window. The soldier turns into a "crimson bird" and flies after them. She sees a lot of pigeons in the meadow, hides behind a rakit bush, Elena the Beautiful appears, sprinkles gold grain and "teaches birds wisdom." A soldier watches her, sings outside her window, she asks to catch a songbird, only she (not the other girls) can do it. She puts a robin in a golden cage, listens to a bird's song and falls asleep, the soldier flies out of the cage like a fly, becomes human, admires Elena, then returns to the cage. One day he kisses her, Elena wakes up, gets angry, threatens to kill a soldier for her freedom. He says he wants to marry her. She agrees to marry him on the condition that he hides three times and she can't find him three times from her magic book (mirror??) , if he fails, he will lose his head. The first time he turns into a fly, then sticks a pin into the book. Elena can't find it, she drops the book, the pin flies off and turns into a soldier. The second time he carves fire in the steppe, the eagle carries it under the clouds, but Elena finds it in the mirror, the third time he carves fire by the sea, it is carried away by a pike, swallowed by a beluga, but Elena finds it again soldier. She's giving him one last chance. The soldier meets three girls he saved, and in gratitude they hide him behind the mirror. Elena can't find a soldier and marries him. He brings her to his homeland, she takes one gold chest with her. A year later, the soldier leaves home, Elena pulls out her wings from the chest, turns into a dove and flies away. The soldier is again hired as a coachman to the master who once sewed him into his skin, this time pours out vodka, and makes his master drink. He sews it into the skin, it is carried away by an eagle. The soldier appears in his master's estate, frees the peasants and gives them land. She sees a dove above her, recognizes Elena in her, she turns into a girl and says that now her husband is worthy and remains]: Korolkova 1941, No. 7:40-45.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [in one of the folklore texts, the Ankao bird is called ass kush ("rebellious bird"); A. argued with the tsar that he would be able to separate a boy and a girl who are destined determined a life together; when the girl was 9-10 years old, A. took her to a cave on a rock; the young man came on horseback, saw a cave, stabbed his horse, climbed into it, A. took the horse to the cave; the king ordered bring a horse, lovers were in the carcass, they were married; as punishment for pride, the tsar exiled A. for Kab-Tau - the mountains that encircle the entire earth, forbidding them to return]: Dzhurtubayev 2007:407-409 (briefly in 1991: 72); (cf. Karachays [Sojuk became pregnant with a maid; she threw the child into the water to fall for the fisherman Bödene; his wife was sister S.; the boy was named Rachikau; one woman reproaches him for the fact that he offended her son says he was found in the water; R. asks his mother to fry corn, squeezes his mother's hand, who admits that he was found in the water, that his father has a three-legged horse; R. comes to the sledges; The malevolent Gilyastyrkhan calls sledges; Malevolent Gilyastyrkhani, who admits that he was found in the water, that his father has a three-legged horse; R. is a servant's son, hides in a fortress; R. pretends to be dead, lies for three months, the servants say that the body is rotten; ZG comes up, R. comes to life, cuts off the top of his head; ZG makes a copper patch on his skull; R. decides to die since he does not have the strength of lightning; (approximately the same, Appendix 1:513-517; once ZG went on a journey during the heat, his copper skull heated up, he died in agony)]: Aliyeva 1994, No. 106:511-513); Kabardian people [Ismel, not the prince, kills a boar; the prince sends him to the gorge for a goat, he disappears; the same with his son named Overmes; O. descends into the abyss, sees goats at the top of the cliff; wraps himself in the skin of a fallow deer, the Eagle brings him to the rock ; O. kills the Eagle, keeps the eagles; someone has taken away the meat supply, O. follows the trail to the hole, through it into the valley, stays with the old man; he does not tell you to go to the tower; next to the lake, the dove takes off its feathers, turns into girl, bathes; O. hides her clothes; Mezytlynyko, a forest man, comes up with a sharp bone protrusion on his chest; about to pierce the edge, O. stumbles, O. kills him; gives clothes in exchange for a ring; takes a girl as a wife; his wife feeds eagles; O. flies in one, kills a goat, flies home, puts a goatskin with horns on the prince, he runs away into the forest, remains a goat; flies for his wife and wealth, brings them]: Huth 1987:160-168; Ossetians [a farmhand boy took refuge from the rain in a fallen horse; the eagle brought it to the nest; the boy cut his skin into ropes, went down, came to the old woman; her seven returned sons, sensed the human spirit; took the boy as a brother; they are the eagles one of whom picked up the carcass; the middle eagle brother carries it on his back, he throws meat into his mouth; cuts off the last piece from of his leg; the eagle puts a piece back]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 39:127-130; Chechens [God created a man and a girl as his wife, Owl took the girl to a rock; she told the man to hide inside slaughtered horse, asked Owl to bring her horse meat; Owl brought a carcass, the man met the girl; Owl admitted defeat to God; God asked if he wanted to be punished for this or that world; Owl chose punishment in this world, was blind during the day, lost honor between birds]: Dalgat 2004:176-177 (Dirr 1908:1075-1076); Lezgins [the serpent asks the poor man to give him one of three daughters; the eldest, the middle refuse, the youngest Tavat Khanum agrees; the serpent asks him to step on his tail, turns into a young man named Sad-Eskander; the old woman persuades TX to ask her husband how to burn him skin; the third time he replies, TX burns it on the onion peel, SE disappears; after three years he comes to the spring, sister SE gives her water, she throws her ring into the jug, SE recognizes it; explains that the locals are Azhdaha, the old woman wants to marry him off as her daughter; on their wedding day, SE and TH run in the wind horse; throw razors (mountain of razors), salt (salt mountains), barley (barley to the sky) behind; TX po mistakenly pours water from the jug forward, the sea overflows in front of them; the horse moves to the other side, the old woman drowns; SE leaves TX in the cemetery, hires a merchant for two hours; he cuts the horse, plants SE inside, a parrot bird brings the horse's carcass to a rock where gold and yakhonts; SE scares the bird, does not throw gold to the merchant, comes to the old man; he tells the huge birds to take SE to his wife; SE finds TH, king amazed at his wisdom, gives him the throne]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:158-164; Georgians [the young man cries over the grave; tells the peasant that he is Tsarevich Dzhigan; he sailed with his comrades in a boat, it was brought the coast of the country of monkeys; they broke the boat; there were no horses, they rode dogs; only D. reached the country where merchants from India come every two years; the merchant offers a thousand gold coins for work and a girl; brings him to the foot of the mountain, tells her to climb into the womb of a refreshed horse; the eagles raised the carcass on the rock; the merchant orders to throw down precious stones; D. managed to go down, came to the old man, the king of birds; he leaves D. to guard the house, tells not to open the door behind which the predators; D. opens, there is a garden, three doves flew in, became girls, began to swim; the old man returned, D. asks to marry one of them; he orders to steal the youngest's shirt, Shemshibano; the doves arrived a year later, D. took the shirt and married S.; the old man advises wearing the shirt until his wife gives birth to a child; D. hides it in the chest, the wife finds, flies away, tells me to look for her in the city of Gevher; D. comes to that merchant again, but climbs into the horse's carcass without taking off his clothes or giving the merchant "for storage" gold; finds the king of birds again; only one bird knew about the city of Gevher; D. came to Father Sh, he is king there; two years later, D. and S. go to see his relatives; the wolf killed Sh., now D. cries at the grave; dug another one, lay down in it, died; violets grew up and crossed by stems]: Chikovani 1986:495-502; Armenians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 936*: 579-580 (the reference to Abkhazians is incorrect, this motive is missing in the source, although it is noted in the index); Turks [ the man (prince) went broke; hired a merchant; he tells him to climb into the animal's carcass, the birds lift it up the mountain; the man drops diamonds from there; the owner leaves, but the worker manages to get out traps; comes to another country and marries a princess (this is the country of the padishah of birds; swan maidens arrive once a year, he hides her clothes from feathers); after the wedding she runs away (finds clothes and flies away); he returns to Diamond Mountain; only the oldest bird knows where his wife is; after adventures, he helps his father defeat enemies and becomes a padishah]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 187:233-235; Kurds: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 14 [(end of a long story); Padishah's son Mirza Mahmood hired a rich man; he takes him to the seashore, tells him to slaughter his mule, gives him sleeping pills, sews him in his skin, and the eagle takes him to the island; the rich man tells him to throw precious stones - then he will show the way; tells him to look back; there is a hole and bones of people, one person is barely alive; MM made his way down the fox hole, came to the old man; saw portrait of a beauty, fell in love; old man: I am also young, but outwardly old because of love for her; explains that there is a lake on the mountain, three doves will fly, throw off their feathers, become Gurias; you need to hide medium clothes; MM returned the clothes after Guria promised to be his wife; the old man agreed to consider her a sister; MM comes with her to his father's town; guria: if the hand of (another) person touches me, I'll fly away; wedding; one day MM's wife was taken to a party; as soon as her hand touched another dancer's hand, she became a dove and flew away; MM hired that rich man again; asked him to come closer and killed him with a stone; MM hid Guria's clothes again and burned them; returned home with them], 28 [the mule rider caught up with the rider on horseback, drove together; saw a whip on the road; whoever has suffered more hardships in life will receive it; equestrian's story; he went to be hired as an employee; the old man invites him to marry his daughter; at night he leads his son-in-law to the well, asks him to go down and get gems; threw the rope and left; around the bone previously dead; the young man dug a way out; came to that old man unrecognized, he gave his daughter again; the son-in-law pretends to be afraid to go down to the well; the old man went down himself, the young man threw the rope; daughter and daughter-in-law the old man, whose husband died, agreed to become his wives; the story of the mule owner; the rich emir does not understand why his horses are dying; the groom tells him to pretend to be asleep and secretly follow his wife; the emir quietly jumps after her; sees her hugging an ugly moor in the desert; cuts off his head, ready to forgive his wife; she hit him with a wand, turned him into a dog; comes to live with good masters; they guessed it who is he; they gave the heart and liver of a cow, this restored him to his human appearance; the hostess tells him to come to his wife incognito under the guise of a merchant, quietly pick up the magic wand; with this, the emir turned his wife into a mule; this and eat his mule; the horse gave him a whip]: 167-185, 272-278; Rudenko 1970, No. 59 [Ali releases a huge fish caught in the net; his father kicks him out; the man hires him for 40 days, he will only work in the last of them; the owner sews Ali into the skin of a bull, the Simurg bird lifts him to the top of the cliff, tears the bag, flies away; Ali drops diamonds to the owner, who leaves him on the rock; Ali rushes into the sea a grateful fish saves him; a year later Ali is hired by his previous owner, who does not recognize him, Ali invites him to get into the skin of a bull himself; promises to tell him how to get off the cliff if he throws him off he has diamonds and a note to his wife to marry Ali's daughter; the owner jumps into the sea, dies, Ali marries his daughter; the woman giving away golden tareks was presented as a monster, gave birth to a piece of meat, he was cooked, fat turns plates into gold, she gives them away; asks why the craftsman in Baghdad breaks his saddles and Akhund cries when he looks at the tree; the saddler says he is just learning to make saddles; one Akhunda's wife was peri, shed her snakeskin, the other burned it; his wife, then two sons, became pigeons, flew away; Ali married the owner of the plates]: 218-222.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Marzolph 1984, № 936* (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Markazi, Isfahan, Azerbaijan) [like the Bakhtiyars; grateful fish pick up the hero]: 174-175; Braginsky 1977 [Simurg bird speaks Suleiman, who does not believe in predestination; Suleiman replies that the padishah of the East has a son, and the padishah of the West has a daughter; they are destined to meet; Simurg promises to prevent this, takes the girl to his nest, She considers Simurg her mother; the son of the Padishah of the East searches for the origins of the Nile, comes to a tree on Mount Kaf, the girl sees him; he teaches her to ask Simurg to take her to the river, and hides himself in horse skin; later S. brings the skin with the young man inside it to his nest; the daughter of the padishah of the East gives birth to a son; when Simurg brings Suleiman a skin, young spouses with a child find themselves in it; shamed Simurg flies away]: 289-315; Osmanov 1987 [Wolf, Leo, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased Shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad is hired by a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, tells him to slaughter a camel on the fortieth, get inside; birds take MA to the mountain; a Jew tells her to drop gems, leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of divas, she asks her sons not to kill him; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri is thirsty; MA gives him water, he breaks his chains, gives his seal, flies to Mount Kof; outside the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove girls; wife gives birth to two boys, divas bring them down to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, tells them to come for them to Mount Kof; MA again hires a Jew unrecognized, kills him by throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; divas they forgive him, but do not know the way to Kof; among the husbands of the MA sisters, only Orel can help: the mother of the bird under his command knows the way; asks to take fat tails and wineskins with her; the meat runs out, MA cuts off a piece hips; when the goal is reached, the bird puts the meat back; MA shows Yusuf the seal, who sends his sister, her husband and sons to earth with gifts; without MA, there is drought, hunger; MA is shah, abundance begins]: 243-250; Bakhtiyars [in the morning the baker throws the rest of the dough to the fish; the merchant promises him 40 days of comfortable life for fulfilling one assignment; leads to a mountain, kills a cow, tells him to climb into the skin, the bird picks it up and carries it to the mountain; the baker untied its skin, sees jewelry around; the merchant promises to show how to go down if the baker throws them off to him; then says that it is impossible to go down, picks up the jewelry and leaves; the baker: it's better to rush down the mountain into the river and be eaten by fish than on the mountain by vultures; grateful fish picked up the baker, carried ashore; the baker changed clothes to the merchant did not recognize him, and hired him again; asks him to show him how to put on the skin, ties it up, the bird takes the merchant away; the baker promises to show how he got down if the merchant drops his treasures; then says that there are two ways out: stay on the mountain or rush into the river; the merchant threw himself into the river and drowned]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 58:344-348; Tajiks: Amonov 1972 [a young man comes to an old man promising forty days of bliss in one day of torment; spends forty days with his daughter; the old man tells the young man to kill a sheep, make a wineskin, climb inside; the bird takes him to a rock where gold and precious stones are; promises tell him how to go down if a young man drops his treasures; leaves him on a rock; a young man jumps off a cliff into the water, he is saved by a crocodile whom he used to feed bread without knowing it; the young man pretends that he is the twin of the missing person, history repeats himself; the young man pretends to be a fool, telling the old man to show him how to get into the wineskin, ties it up; promises to tell him how to escape if the old man drops his treasures; leaves him to die on a rock; marries]: 38-44; Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 3 (Sistan) [the king and vizier stopped at the shepherd's house to wait out the snow; the shepherd's son Otai stabbed all 7 goats for them; the vizier invited O. to visit him later; O. came, but realized that the vizier himself was poor; turned to God; heard a voice: to dig there; found treasures and a source of water; set up a hospice home where everyone gifted; dervish is dissatisfied: the girl Tai is much more generous; O. came to T.; she promises to explain where her wealth comes from if O. finds out why the mullah proclaims Azan on the hill, laughs, and then cries; mullah: find out why a young man on the shore cooks pilaf, treats everyone, and throws the leftovers into the river; young man: find out why King Ahmad, the Carefree, puts the throne on the square, tells us to amuse and treat the people; the king says promising to execute O. after that; king: he agreed with his wife not to remarry if the other died; the wife wrote that she was dying, the king scoped himself, and she returned healthy and slept with the black slave ; O. ran away; the young man's story: he was hired for 40 days of rest and 1 work; the owner tells him to get into the skin of a bull; vultures lifted him to the rock, the owner tells him to throw gems down, took him away them; the young man rushed into the river and swam out; fish: this is for the kindness of your father, who saved me from a drying puddle; the young man returned unrecognized to that man, asked him to show me how to get into the wineskin, asked throw stones and leave the owner to die on the rock; now he generously feeds everyone and throws pilaf into the river; the story of the mullah: he was carried away by a bird, became peri, told not to be surprised; gave the first son to a lion, the second threw it into the water, gave the third to the wolf; the mullah objected; peri told the lion, the water and the wolf to bring the children, they were already grown up; then she took the mullah and left it on the hill; every day she arrives, the mullah laughs and then disappears and he cries; Ty's story: she is the king's daughter, who fed the guests kimiyo grass, they turned into gold, he grew rich; she fed the grass to her father, told her to make a lot of gold precious things, became fabulously rich; Otam and Tai got married]: 39-52; Uzbeks: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986 [(a plug-in story in the story, according to which the tsar demands to know why so people do this, they will say if the hero finds out about others, etc.); a young man is hired by a merchant who promises to feed for 11 months for free, only for the twelfth month; brings him to the seashore, where something feeds, the young man wakes up inside his wineskin; swims in it to the shore covered with precious stones; collects a wineskin of jewelry, the bird takes him away, the young man is left alone; in a dream, the old man tells him to go across the bridge; when he wakes up, he crosses the bridge to the other side, the bridge behind him falls into the water, turns into a fish; unrecognized, the young man is hired by the same owner, gives him a sleepy potion; marries to his widow; bakes cakes every day and feeds them to fish]: 134-138; Ostroumov 1890, No. 13 [the king is blind; the eldest son took money from him, the middle land, and the youngest went for medicinal land that heals blindness; the old man and the old woman tell me to climb into the horse's skin, the eagle will take it to the mountain, in 2 years it will be lowered, it will be necessary to catch the horse, he will bring it to the healing land; on the mountain, the prince fed the eagle's chicks; when the eagle lowered him and he caught the horse, he and the horse were swallowed by a fish; in the belly of the fish, a girl kidnapped by a diva and also swallowed by fish; she has healing land taken from the diva, she gave it to him; they got out of the fish, returned to the prince's father, who saw the light, the prince married the girl he had brought; the brothers killed him while he was swimming, the corpse was thrown into the river; his wife became a dove, found the corpse, revived him alive with water; revived her husband's brothers executed by the tsar; they were forgiven]: 79-81; Khorezma Uzbeks [the poor man hears how bai is ready to feed the worker forty days in one day of work; bai sews the worker in the skin a slaughtered bull, tells you to wait for a huge bird to bring him to the mountain, where gold and jewelry are born; the worker drops the bayu treasures, sees people around the bones; bai leaves him; in a dream, the sheikh Nejm-ed-din Kubra tells the worker to go after a fox that knows how to descend from the mountain; "At the end of the legend, the jewelry search situation repeats itself, but this time he is on the mountain by himself; he stays there, wealth goes to the worker"]: Snesarev 1983:154-155; Turkmens: Kekilov, Kosayev 1962 [the merchant hired Mirali for a lot of money, offered to go down to the well and fill the bags with everything except bones; picking up his bags, began to pick up M.; putting a churek in his mouth, let go of the rope; M. dug a passage to the bank of the Amu Darya; the fish he saved as a child picked it up; M. came unrecognized to the same merchant; pretended to be afraid to go down into the well; the merchant himself went down and filled his bags; M. pushed him into the well; the bags contained gold-bearing sand; M. brought it to Sultansoyun; when he saw the sand, he first ordered throw M. in prison, but when he noticed the gold, he apologized]: 43-45; Sokali et al. 1955 [Mirali and Sultan-Soyun argue who has suffered more (he will receive the gold bar they found); M . tells what the worker did to bay; he fed him for five days, then sewed him up at the cliff in bull's skin, the eagle was lifted to the rock, buy ordered him to throw precious stones on top, left; M. grabbed the eagle, he lowered him down; M. told Bayu that he had found the descent; Bai wanted to climb the rock himself, and died there; the SS rides his wife at night to a diva who teaches her witchcraft; the diva turns him into a black dog; after many trials, mullahs restore the SS to his appearance; he turns his wife into a donkey]: 188-194; Stebleva 1969, No. 38 [bai promises the orphan that he will eat 40 days and work alone; asks to remove the skin from the bull, climb into it; birds take him up the mountain, he drops bayu pieces of gold, buy leaves; the young man jumps into the river, the fish takes him ashore; he changes clothes, hires again unrecognized by the bay, asks show how to get into the skin; promises to show how to go down if bai gives him off his obligation to give him his property, wife and children; leaves him to die on a rock]: 198-200; Samoilovich 1914 (Akhal, village. Bagheer) [the Simurg bird undertook, at Suleiman's suggestion, to prevent a marriage predetermined by fate, but the marriage took place, Simurg fled in fear], No. 2:332.

Baltoscandia. Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 936*: 579-580; Latvians [Golden Mountain. My uncle sells his nephew to an old man. He gives the boy a sleepy potion and sews him into horse skin. Birds take the boy up the mountain, where there are many treasures. The boy drops his treasures, but the old man doesn't help him get down the mountain. For the second time, the maid replaces the potion, and the birds raise the old man on his head. He drops his treasures and asks the young man to help him go down the mountain, but the young man does not listen to him. Marries a maid]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 936*: 334.

Volga - Perm. Mordva [the old man promises poor young man Rav-Zholdyamo gold on top of the mountain; tells him to climb into the horse's carcass, the raven brings it to the top of the mountain, the RJ frightens him, lowers the bags of gold to the old man, who then burns a rope; RJ kills a kite chasing three ducks; they lower RJ to the forest hut, turn into girls; RJ hides the youngest's dress, marries, brings her mother's wife; she gives her a duck outfit, she flies away; three old brothers consistently send RJ to each other, showing the path of a flying duck; the eldest gives a flying carpet and an invisible hat, teaches a crow who is going to deceive eat a duck; RJ returns home with his wife]: Samorodov 1972:132; Kazan Tatars [a poor young man is hired by an old man, that month feeds him well, gives him a new girlfriend every day; leads to grief, sews them in the stomach of a dead horse; birds raise the carcass up the mountain, the young man drops marble stones; the old man loads them onto the cart, leaves; on the mountain, the young man meets the padishah of animals and birds; he forbids open one door; the young man opens, sees the sea, three doves fly in, turn into girls; the padishah of the animals promises that in a year they will arrive again, tells them to hide the clothes of his beloved; the young man hides brings her wife; the young man is sad around the house, the wife brings him there; finds his pigeon dress, flies away; the young man again hires unrecognized by the old man, comes to the padishah of animals; he tells the old bird take the young man across the river of fire to the city of divas; he finds his wife, stays with her]: Zamaletdinov 1992:162-168 (=2008b, No. 10:102-108); Bashkirs [Umyrzak is hired by bay, does not work for a week; then buy ties him by the mountain in the skin of a calf, two vultures lift him up the mountain, tear his skin, fly away in fear; buy tells him to throw gold and precious stones down, leaves W. to die on to the rock; vultures bring the wolf, W. climbs into his skin, grabs the birds that have returned, they bring him down into the valley; unrecognized, he also hires a bay, wraps him in his skin, tells him to throw it off gold, leaves to die on a rock]: Barag 1990, No. 45:111-115 (=Yukhma 1990:65-72); Marie, Udmurts: Uther 2004 (1), No. 936*: 579-580.

Turkestan. Uighurs: Reichl 1986, No. 16 in Barag 1900:450; Uther 2004 (1), No. 936*: 579-580; Kyrgyz [thieves stole a flock of orphans, beat him; the golden eagle brought him to a nest on a rock, where gold and gems; merchants ask to throw them off, refuse to help the orphan go down; the orphan managed to get out, came to Peri's possession; the old man tells not to unlock the seventh door; the orphan unlocks, there is a lake , plane tree, three doves flew in, shed their plumage, became girls, swim; the orphan hid her clothes alone, she became his wife; her father demands 1) to separate black millet from white millet (the bride does); 2) build a glass palace, inside a lake of butter and a lake of milk, etc. (same); 3) recognize the bride among three doves (she trembles slightly); a girl and a young man fly away in the form of birds, the father's guard in the form of a gyrfalcon next; the fugitives are millet, the guard is a rooster, snake fugitives, they crawl into the lake, they became fish there, the guard returned; the father chased himself, but the fugitives in the form of butterflies had already crossed the border of the Peri's possessions; became human; the young man went to the ail, leaving the girl waiting; the boar fatally wounded a girl; the young man was supposed to stay awake at night, fell asleep, Peri's father killed him, took his daughter's flesh; residents found the body of a young man holding a butterfly's wings to his chest]: Ledenyov 1987:115-121.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols or Buryats ("the Lamai legend passed on by Rabdanov") [the king asks Burkhan-Bakshi what fate awaits his newborn daughter; he is responsible that she will marry a beggar; To prevent the prediction, the Khan Garidi bird takes the girl to its nest; feeds meat to dead animals; when the girl grows up, HG asks B if his prediction has come true; B. replies that the girl has the beggar already has two children; it turned out that the beggar was afraid of HG, hid in a deer's carcass, HG took the carcass to the nest, and the beggar began to live with the girl]: Potanin 1899:432.