M81E. Don't herd cattle on giant land, ATU 314A, 321.
.14.-.16.21.27.-.29.31. (.34.?) .35.
Theyoung man undertakes to herd cattle and is warned not to cross the borders of a giant, dragon, witch, etc. The young man violates the ban and kills a giant.
{The 314A plot definition in Uther 2004 contains so many episodes that it is impossible to judge the presence of any of them in specific texts without referring to the texts themselves}.
Algerian Arabs, Basques, Italians (Piedmont), Sicilians, Ladins, French, Bretons, Scots, Bhutan, Germans (Swabia, Tyrol), Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Greeks, Albanians, Serbs, Croats , Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Karelia), Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Karachays, Georgians, Armenians, (Estonians), Latvians, Lithuanians, Danes, (Altaians?) , southern Khanty.
North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria [Emhammed, the youngest of the Sultan's three sons, hunts lions and panthers, the elders bring partridges; the brothers envy him; they tell their father that he can bring an apple stalk whose the fruits are rejuvenating; the father sends E., who brought a stalk, the apple tree soon grew, brought three apples; the sultan ate and became younger; by the end of the year he aged again, but new apples arrived in time; one day someone apples stole; the eldest son guards, efreet takes away both the apples and himself; a year later, the same with the middle son; when E.'s turn, he cuts off the efrita's hand, but he takes the apples; on a bloody trail, E. comes to the hole ; goes down the rope; there is a city; E. consistently meets three beauties, each on a golden bed, kidnapped on her wedding day; E. cut off the head of efrita, freed the brothers whom he beat and walled up; found 9 stolen apples, divided them between beauties; sent brothers, then women upstairs; the youngest gave a ring: if E. is not picked up, let him open the chest, there are two reeds in it, they must be thrown to the ground, they will turn into black and white goats; white will carry it to the ground, black will lower it even deeper; the brothers cut off the rope; E. touched the black goat, which carried it down; there is an old woman, with her dog, a donkey, two goats and a goat; straw in front of a dog, a bone in front of a donkey, a thistle in front of goats; E. gave thistle to a donkey, straw to goats, bones to a dog; the old woman said that goats should not be taken to good ones pastures, they have owners; E. began to herd goats there; lions, panthers, jackals attacked, but E. killed them all; saw the snake crawl to the vulture nest; chopped it into 7 pieces and gave them chicks; the mother bird is grateful, the snake was her worst enemy, the mother bird takes E. to the ground; the three rescued women do not want to marry the E. brothers, who called themselves saviors; the youngest demands a caftan, sewn without scissors and needles, let him stand and dance; the sultan tells the tailor to make a caftan; E. lives with a tailor, turned the ring given to him, 7 girls appear, they perform everything; now the girl demands a silver chicken with golden chickens; the same; the girl agreed with E. that at the wedding she would throw the apple not to the Sultan's eldest son, to whom he wanted to give it, but E.; E. appeared on a white horse, cut it off two fingers to the older brother; the next day against his middle brother on a black horse; the sultan slightly wounded E. with an arrow to identify him later; everything was clarified; the sultan gave the throne to E.; he forgave the brothers, married them to older beauties, and he married his youngest]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:39-63.
Southern Europe. Basques: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 13 [Canillo fisherman caught a fish (redfin pagel), which asks to let it go, promises wealth; the fisherman lets go, got rich, but became impoverished again; caught the same one again fish; it promises wealth if the fisherman gives her what he meets first at home; he thinks a dog will come out, and Canillo's son younger has come out; we must send him to a house by the sea; hell lives there, taking the form of a fish; in the house, the devil makes a special noise, the devil throws him into the sea; he swims to the shore; a lion, a dove and an ant ask for help them separate the dead horse; he gives the lion meat, a dove giblets, ant bones; they give it the ability to turn into a lion, a dove, an ant; in the form of a pigeon, K. flies to the house; a beauty nearby; asks where life is the devil; in Mount Iparrarre his brother, he has a hare in his stomach, a dove in a hare, an egg in the blue; K. flies to that mountain, is hired as a shepherd; the owner tells him not to take the sheep to the mountain, the hell will kill them there; K. drives them to the mountain, in the form the lion fights the devil, the sheep eat fresh grass; the maid spies, hears K. dreams of a piece of bread; on the third day she brings bread, K. overcomes the line; in the form of a dove, flies to the first line in the form of a dove , an ant enters his house, breaks an egg on his forehead; returns to his father; he became arrogant when he got rich, but when he recognized his son, he took him to him]: 62-68; Italians (Piedmont; the text is glued together from two one-story - the beginning is from one, the end from the other) [at confession, the priest tells the young man that stealing from thieves is not a sin; he came to the forest to the robbers; they say they are also sinless, because tax collectors are robbed; the young man loaded the robbers' treasures on a mule and brought him home; hired the king as a shepherd; he warns not to chase sheep across the stream; there is a serpent that eats sheep; when the young man walked in the pasture, the princess threw him a cake out of the window; across the stream, the young man sat on a stone to eat a cake, and the sheep began to graze on the good grass; a three-headed serpent crawled out from under the stone; the young man killed him with his staff; one of the heads is a crystal key; the young man opened the crystal door to the dungeon for them, where crystal servants are ready to serve in the crystal world; the young man collected crystal flowers, gave it to the princess; in the other two snake heads are the keys to the silver and golden worlds; the king announces the tournament; the young man wins three times on crystal, silver and gold horses; marries a princess]: Calvino 1980, No. 13:40-42; Sicilians (Palermo) [one of the two merchants allows his son to go overseas with his childless friend; the young man's ship sank, but he escaped and ended up in an enchanted castle; his owner and everyone around him will be disgraced if a young man spends a year with her without seeing her or revealing her secret to anyone; one day he asks permission to visit his relatives; the owner of the castle gives a treasure ship and a wand that will instantly take him to the right place; at home, the father and his friend spent all their savings on the trial: the young man's father accused his friend of killing his son; everything was clarified; but the young man let his mother slip and she gave he can light a candle at night and look at his wife; a drop of wax has fallen, his wife woke up; now you can save her either by defeating the sorcerer: there is a rabbit in his stomach, a dove in the rabbit, there are three eggs in the dove, they need bring; the young man was hired by shepherds; the owner warned not to let the cows into the forest: there is a sorcerer, he kills both cows and people; the young man drove them there on purpose; he fights with the sorcerer all day long; he says that He would have defeated him if he had bread and wine; the young man says that he needs bread and milk to win; they leave for the night; the next day, the shepherds made bread and milk for the young man and he killed the sorcerer; brought three eggs to his wife; she placed the imperial crown on him; told him to throw three eggs from the balcony; after that, all the bewitched spoke, life was revived]: Calvino 1980, No. 171:611-616; ladins [there are three giants in the Alps who do not allow cows to herd in their meadows; the guy took an iron staff, hired a shepherd; he does not order to drive cows to the land of giants; the guy drives them there three times, hits everyone the giant with a club on the head; everyone asks him not to kill; for this one gave a wind horse, the second gave a lightning horse, the third a thought horse; having received a horse, the guy kills the giant every time; three times, each time a new and even faster horse, wins the races that the king arranged to choose his daughter's fiancé; wedding]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 85:228-231.
Western Europe. The French: Cosquin 1887, No. 43 (Lorraine) [the spoiled princess saw a herd of sheep and wanted a lamb; her parents sent her to a shepherd and she bought a lamb; wanted to herd herself; the lamb became a sheep, a sheep brought lambs, a princess got a herd; the king found a shepherdess for him; the princess warned him not to go into the forest: there are three giants; the boy went, whistled on the whistle, went out a giant in steel armor; what do you have on your back? a bag of supplies, help yourself; the giant drank wine and fell asleep, the shepherdess stabbed him; went into his house: everything was steel, even a horse; on the second and third days the same (silver giant, gold); the king arranged tournament, every day a pot of flowers as a prize {tournament not described}; the winner will get a princess; the shepherdess comes in steel, silver, gold clothes, wins every time; the princess grieves, for He does not love these knights, but the shepherdess; he brought her to the golden house; wedding, everyone is happy]: 89-93; Delarue 1957, No. 302 (Gironde; also Haute-Brittany, Lorraine, Poitou) [returning from service, the soldier sees like a polar bear, a raven and an ant argue over a wild boar; a soldier gave giblets to a crow, his head to an ant, the rest to a bear; everyone is happy, they give fur, a feather, a leg that allows wanting to take their image; the guy was hired to work for the owner; he advises not to go to the black forest, because there is a terrible black bear; the giant took the princess to a castle in the middle of the sea; whoever saves her is king will give her hand; the guy flew to the princess as a raven, negotiated with her; she put him in a cage so that he could hear her talking to the giant; the giant replies that his strength is in the egg, the egg is in the pigeon, the dove in a black bear; he dies if an egg is broken on his forehead; a guy deliberately drives a herd to the ground of a black bear; turned into a polar bear 10 times stronger than a black bear; a black bear is killed, a pigeon flew out, the guy caught up with him in the form of a crow; flew to the princess, broke an egg on the giant's head; a ship sailed to the island, the guy and the princess boarded him, but the sailors threw the boy into the sea; but he became an ant clung to the ship's hull and sailed safely; the guy and the princess at the king, wedding]: 134-135; Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 502 (Niverne) [the king held a wild man caught in the forest in shackles and let him look at him for a lot of money; the prince played with oranges, rolled alone into a cage with a wild man; he promised to give it back if the boy released him; taught him to tell his mother what was in his head lice, and while she was combing it, quietly pull out her key; opening the cage, the boy asked his mother to comb it again and put the key back; when the king was about to kill his wife, the prince had to confess; the king ordered his son to be killed and his tongue and heart brought to him; in the forest, a wild man ordered the dog's tongue and heart to be brought to the king; gave the boy a ring, the touch of which he kills; the boy changed his clothes, hired to herd cows; he was told not to cross the border beyond which the giant's land; but good grass was only there, the young man drove the cattle there; the giant to meet him, the young man killed him with a ring; the next day he went to the castle of the giants and killed 11 brothers first, then their mother; in the treasure palace; when a local princess summons men to choose a spouse, the young man arrives in a luxurious carriage and the princess chooses him; he visits his father]: 221-223; the Bretons [the señor of Reranrais Castle has three daughters, but no sons; daughters ask their father to buy them a knightly outfit: they will go to serve the king, pretending to be men; the eldest Marguerite is driving; the father dressed up as a robber, jumped out on the road in front of her, M. galloped back; the same with the middle Franseason; the youngest Allet jumped forward; told the king that her father specifically said that he only had daughters, wanted to surprise; the Queen fell in love with the new page; the maid of honor became pregnant and said it was the page's fault; Aleta had to reveal to the king who she; the maid of honor was torn apart by four horses, the king married A., a son was born; the king's men captured the strange creature Murlu, put him in a cage; the ball thrown by the prince hit the cage; M. promised to return it, if the boy takes the key out of the sleeping king's pocket and unlocks the cage; when leaving, M. promised to help the boy; the king swore to kill whoever releases M.; the queen tells his son to run; he sat M. on his shoulder and M. took him to the palace of the King of Naples; the prince was told to herd pigs - not to let him into the forest, to bring the herd safe in the evening; M. helps, the pigs are intact, multiply; sheep (the same; M. drove the sheep into the forest, did not allow him the forest giant to eat them); cows (back to the forest, where grass is better; M. gave the prince a magic sword, the prince killed the giant himself, took gold and gems from his castle); sees the princess to be given to the snake; sends his retinue, calls M., who appeared in the guise of a mighty horse; on the first day, the prince cut off 6 heads; they grew, on the second day he cut off all 7; the coal miner picked them up, called himself the snake the winner; presented heads, and the prince (still in the guise of a shepherd) showed his tongues cut off; the coal miner was thrown into the oven; the wedding; M. came in, turned into a beautiful queen; she was the one who tried to build an imaginary page; for this turned into M. until the son of the imaginary page, i.e. the girl, marries the princess; {at first it was about the maid of honor, not the queen}]: Luzel 1887 (2), No. 4:296-313; Scots [the siren asks a fisherman son in exchange for a rich catch; he says he is childless; she gives three seeds for his wife, a mare, a dog, and three seeds to plant; they will give birth to three sons, foals, puppies; three trees will grow if one of the brothers dies, the tree will dry up; since then the catch is rich, but when the eldest son is 3 years old, the father must send him to a siren; she extends the sentence twice, but at the age of 14, the young man tells him to make a sword for him , goes by himself; helps the dog, falcon and otter fairly divide the corpse of the sheep (three parts for the dog, two for the otter, one for the falcon), they promise to help; he hires to herd the king's cows, but the pasture is scarce, the cows are not milked, so the shepherd is not fed; the next time he came to the green pasture; the giant said it was his, wanted to eat it, but the dog ran and jumped on his back the young man cut off the giant's head; next time the same with the second giant; the princess must be given to the three-headed monster; the young man goes with her three times to the lake, cuts her off on the head; each time the general attributes victory to himself; before the battle, the young man falls asleep every time, the princess wakes him up wearing one of her jewelry; the general is unable to raise his severed heads, the princess marries the young man; the monster drags him into the lake, the princess buys him back with her jewelry; at first she only asks to show her husband, but then gives him all the jewelry and the monster gives the prisoner; but then kidnaps herself princess; the blacksmith replies that the monster's life is in an egg, in a trout, in a crow, in a white-footed fallow deer on the island; a dog, a falcon, an otter help catch them all, the monster returns the princess, dies; nearby a castle from which they do not return; the young man goes, the old woman kills him; the tree has dried up at home; the same with the middle brother (the princess takes him for her husband, they are so similar); the younger one cuts down the old woman's head, but she picks it up, puts it back; a dog rushes at her, her younger brother kills her with his own sword (or rod? Slachdan druidhach), he also revives brothers; older brother receives his father-in-law's throne]: Campbell 1890 (1), No. 4:72-85; Germans (Swabia) [a noble and rich man hires shepherds one by one, prohibits herd sheep in three valleys where giants; every shepherd violates the ban, is killed; the fourth also drives sheep to a dangerous place; while the giant took out his sword, the guy killed him with a stick; took his sword and clothes; came to the castle, where the table is set and the inscription: whoever drinks this wine and controls the sword will defeat the devil; the guy drank wine, took a sword; the next day, the same in the second valley with the second giant (the guy pierced he was killed with a spear) and in the second castle; killed the third giant with a stone from a sling; in the third castle he did not drink wine; found a black horse in the stall; when he learned that the guy was in the land of giants, the owner forbade him more herd sheep and ordered to help the gardener; the owner must give the daughter the line; the guy remembered the inscription in the castles; went to the third and drank wine there; the devil appeared in the form of a snake; the guy killed her, came back, nothing without telling; the next day the same (damn dragon); the third day, the same (damn eagle); the owner noticed a wound on the boy's arm, he had to tell everything; the guy married the owner's daughter]: Meier 1852 , No. 1:1-9; Germans (Swabia) [the miller sends his two eldest sons to people; considers the youngest Hans too stupid, but he also leaves; at the fork, the brothers broke up; G. was hired by a noble man herd sheep; he does not tell them to herd where the land of three giants begins; G. goes there; meets a princess in the castle, who gives a pipe that everyone dances when playing; G. plays, the giant dances, G. killed him with a stone; so with all three; G. cut out their eyes and tongues, took them with him; the princess returned to his father; the owner G. sends his own son to the king, allegedly he killed the giants, but G. shows his eyes and tongues; Now the king demands that G. win the tournament; the servants of the giants give him vestments and weapons, G. won; the king orders him to go to the monastery, captured by 30 robbers; G. plays the pipe, they danced until they died; leaving his wife, G. went to visit his father; pretended that he was just a shepherd; the father ordered the geese to herd; G.'s wife came for him; recognized her husband, but did not show it; G. spilled soup, his father beat him; at night G. climbed into his wife's bedroom; in the morning he went out in royal attire; returned with his wife to his kingdom]: Meier 1852, No. 29:101-109; Germans (Tyrol) [the young man was hired as a shepherd to the Count; should not herd cattle in an enchanted pasture; a dragon with one head goes there; a young man decapitates him with a previously obtained magic sword, an iron key in the dragon's head; then the same with a double-headed a dragon (silver key), with a three-headed (golden key); with an iron key, the young man opens an underground chamber in which a black horse and steel armor; the count's daughter sits on top of a pole and holds a flower; an unrecognized young man on a black horse takes off and picks up a flower; the next day the same (a camera with silver armor and a horse); on the third day, with gold ones; after each time, the shepherd brings a flower to the count's daughter; everything turns out; wedding]: Zingerle, II, p. 326 in Cosquin 1887:93; Germans (Tyrol) [the master does not tell the shepherd to drive the sheep to the land of the three giants; the king promises a daughter to the one who will save the country from them; the shepherd came playing the guitar, gave the giant a drink, put sleeping pills into the wine, stabbed the sleeper, cut off and hid his tongue; the same with the other two; the forester found the heads, brought them to the king and demanded the princess; the shepherd presented his tongues by exposing the impostor]: Zingerle, II, p. 91 in Cosquin 1887:94.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Bhutan [the son of a wealthy peasant woman went to buy a bull; the poor son also went; at the fork, the first followed a good path, the second along a barely visible path; the poor stuck his staff in the ground: if he reaches the goal, then the staff will sprout; in the hut, the blind old man and the old woman give each other food; the boy quietly settled between them, ate everything; the old man closed the door and they caught him; he begged for mercy him; he was entrusted with herding cows and not entering sinpos lands; a shinpo girl came, fangs from her mouth; promised to kill herself, but first told her to clean her head of nits, but not to crush one louse in which her life; the boy crushed the louse, the girl died; the boy dug a hole nearby, disguised it; the girl's father and mother (father with fangs, mother with breasts on her back) came up; fell into a hole; the boy asked where the eyes were old people; under an inverted pot in the kitchen; the boy took out his eyes and filled a hole; restored the old people's sight; asked them for a golden horn, the sounds of which gather cows at any distance; old people they reluctantly gave it away; the old woman ordered to blow either into the gorge, but not on the mountain; the boy blew into the gorge, all the cows (or rather females from the crossing of mitans and Bhutanese cows) went to the sound; the boy came to the place where he stuck the staff: it had already become a tree; but a rich boy brought only a few skinny Tibetan cows; at night he pushed the poor man into the fire, which burned down; but one of his cows began to lick the ash and the boy revived from her nostrils to become a wonderful young man; when they brought the cows home, the poor also pushed the rich man into the fire; the cow began to lick the ash, and an undersized madman appeared from her nostrils freak; his mother is terrified, the mother of an edible boy is happy]: Choden 1994:21-26.
The Balkans. Hungarians [royal swineherds disappear one by one; a guy named Pista ventured to hire; the oldest boar advises asking the king for bread and wine to give to the dragon; the dragon drank, fell asleep, P. stabbed him; found a copper key to the copper lock in his throat, there is a rose, P. gives it to the king's youngest daughter; the same with the other two dragons (silver and gold locks); in different guises P. three times wins the tournament, each time he hits a golden apple with the name of one of the princesses with a spear; P. comes, under his hat, three apples; the younger princess picked it up, the apples fell, P. married the youngest princess]: Gaal, p. 32 in Cosquin 1887:93-94; Bulgarians [a young man herds sheep or goats of a blind old man; he does not tell them to drive to the ground by the self-made who blinded him; the young man violates the ban and forces them to the ground self-driving to regain their eyes; to do this, he provokes them to stick their fingers into a split log and knocks out a wedge; or hangs them by their hair on a tree; or tells them to pay for their game on the flute]: Daskalova-Perkovska and others 1994, No. 321:120-121; Albanians [the son of a peasant agrees to sit on a magic bird, climb Crystal Mountain; drops jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to let him down back; the young man finds a goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat who returns tells one goat, then the other to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen again imperceptibly both times; the goat himself remains for the third time, takes him to his blind owner; he lets the young man herd herd, does not tell the goats to be taken to the edge of the cliff; there the peri dance, the young man plays the pipe, the peri is the first to get tired, the young man ties makes her return to the owner's eyes; having seen 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, on a heroic horse brings his wife home, gives her belt key 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 away through a smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends he sends him to his older brother, 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 him an apple so that their cannibal brothers do 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 source); 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 (Banat) [after retiring from service, soldier Petru immediately lost all the money; in the forest I met a man rocking trees and playing with stones; they began to live in a hut, cook in turn; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, hits cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he disappeared; P. orders him to be lowered on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but cannot get up, for companions they removed the rope: they were afraid that the dwarf would come out; light in the distance, P. went to the ground; the house, in which a blind old woman was eating hominy with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman felt it; if a girl were a daughter, if the boy, then a son; asked P. to herd her sheep, but not to go to the land of the dragons that stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flutes; the dragons listened, asked them to teach them; P., playing, brought He split them to the oak tree, ordered them to put their paws into the gap, knocked out a wedge; ordered them to tell them how to restore the old woman's eyesight; dragons: there is a milk pond next to us, let her wash the eye sockets three times; P. cut off the dragons, the old woman washed her eyes, began to see; P. left the old woman, towards the fox: don't shoot, I'll give you a fox; then the same wolf and bear; P. came to town, there's mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, turn the king's only daughter; the princess was left in the swamp; P. fell asleep with the princess's head on his knees; woke up from a dripping tear; the princess took one of P.'s arrows; he hit 11 heads with arrows, and the 12th with a princess's pin; cut out his tongues; the gypsy cut off the head of P. who had slept, and brought the dragon's heads to the king; a snake crawls, grass in his mouth; a fox: why is she? snake: to grow severed heads, my son was cut off; the fox took the grass, grew his head, but P. is still dead; the wolf met a woman: what are you carrying? woman: living water; the wolf took the water, P. came to life; came to the palace, showed his tongues; the gypsies were put in a barrel of nails, lowered from the mountain; wedding; after the death of King P. reigned, his animals always reigned remained in high esteem]: Schott, Schott 1975, No. 10:65-75; Greeks, Serbs, Croats: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:205-207.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Bashkiria), Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Belarusians [The young man serves as a shepherd for the blind old man and old woman: herds cattle in the forbidden meadow of witches (snakes) and forces her to restore her eyesight to the elderly (she extracts medicine, living and dead water); after seeing the light, the old man rewards the young man]: SUS 1979, No. 321:117-118; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the tsar is old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, the middle son did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive - the horse is hungry; I do not live myself; the woman is smooth, the feather bed is soft; Ivan Tsarevich goes, where I live not to be; the old woman gives a horse, sends it to her sister, she to the other, the third to their brother; there you have to bow to everyone: the old man, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, from elders to younger; the old man has a head in a big corner, his legs are in the threshold; the mistress of the rejuvenating berries is sleeping, there are tyn around the house, you have to jump over so that the strings do not ring; I. took live water, rejuvenating berries, kissed hero girl; on the way back, the horse hit the strings; the girl woke up: there was an unwashed face, she drank but did not close the well; the old women detained the girl, I. managed to jump to his land; I. came to girl, there's a bed with screws, he unscrewed the screws, pushed the girl into the cellar, where people rescued those who were still alive, including his brothers; when he fell asleep, the brothers pushed I. into the hole, took everything for themselves; in their world I. came to an old man; he asks not to herd oxen on the east side, where Baba Yaga with her three daughters, she blinded him and killed his old woman; I. leads the cows there, each time she tears off the head of one baba yaga puts it under the bed; the latter made the old man look away; he is grateful, calls the bird to his aunt's leg; she takes I. to the ground, there is not enough meat, he cut off his legs from his calves, the bird regurgitated and put it back; And . returned to her parents; the girl came by ship, with her two boys; the elder, middle brother call themselves fathers, the girl tells the children to accept them, they beat them, cut the buckle out of their ass; I. goes, in appearance Gol Kabatskaya, wife meets and takes her home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Arkhangelsk, summer coast of the White Sea, Nyonoksa) [After going fishing, three brothers walk along the blood river to the barnyard. One is left to fry the bull, the others hunt. He appears with a fingernail, a beard from an elbow (hereinafter referred to as Himself), demands to take him to the table, eats a bull, hits his brother and leaves. The brothers return, spend the night hungry, and the next day the other brother stays to fry the bull (same). On the third, the youngest Ivan does not agree to carry Himself to the table, hangs him by the beard to the matitsa. The brothers come back, eat and throw bones at Himself's beard. They let him go and move on, and Himself goes under the rock. The brothers cut the belt out of all the bulls in the yard and lower Ivan into the hole, promise to wait for him and pick him up when he pulls the belt. Ivan enters the kingdom of copper and sees a red girl. She weaves and soldiers jump out of each cotton with stuffing (a bird in a loom) and two more, saying that this is an army against Ivan the Fool. Ivan asks her not to weave. She sends him to her sister in the silver kingdom, everything repeats itself, she to the third girl in the golden kingdom (the size of a sieve). She also agrees not to weave more soldiers, tells me how to get three girls out and defeat Himself. Ivan finds him by the sea (in a strong spirit), they are fighting, thirsty and leading Ivan to the field. There are bowls with strong and empty water, the girl swaps them in advance. Ivan drank a lot, defeated Himself - put it in the palm of his hand, pressed down the other. He took the girls, rolled each of the three kingdoms into an egg. Brothers raise girls, but they don't want Ivan. A girl from the golden kingdom begs her betrothed (Ivan) to get her betrothed. They lower his rope, Ivan ties a stone to his belt, and his belt breaks off. The brothers wanted to marry the girls, but they refused. A girl from the golden kingdom goes to work as a cook for her ass. Ivan in the lower world is hired by a blind old man as a shepherd. The old man warns that Baba Yaga pulled out his eyes and will pull Ivan out. Ivan herds the herd in Baba Yaga's field, she sends her daughter to grab him, Ivan tears off his daughter's head and brings him home to the shop, and tells the old man that it is birch bark for bast shoes. She does the same with her second daughter. On the third day, she drives the cattle to Yaga's house, and she goes out to catch them. Ivan sits on horseback, holds her hair, chains Baba Yaga, cuts her with iron bars, and she says where the old man's eyes are. With his eyes inserted into the old man, Ivan cuts Yaga to death. The old man gives Ivan a bird to get to his world and feed the bird a bucket of meat in flight. Ivan returns to his village, finds out that girls don't want to marry his brothers until they get dresses from their kingdoms, Ivan rolls out kingdoms, takes dresses and rolls the kingdoms back. The girls understand that Ivan is near. Two marry brothers, a princess from the golden kingdom for Ivan]: Onchukov 2008, No. 86:226-229; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [two princes went for a walk with their sister Maria, lost her; father gave a portrait sisters, let them look; after their departure, the Queen gave birth to another son named Pokati-Gorokh; the brothers came to their sister, she hid them; Raven Voronovich flew in - shuryaks, come out; he killed them and drank alcohol - like alive; tells his wife that death was written to him only from Pokati Groh; PG grew up, "threw my grandmother in the back of the back"; she cries: your two brothers and sister did not bother me; PG comes to my sister, not hides; greets BB, both shake hands to blood; both eat and drink a lot; when flying away, BB tells him not to enter the back room of the front stable; PG goes, there is hay in front of the lion, meat in front of the horse, PG shifted; then he opened the door - two girls flew out and disappeared; PG ran to BV's mother, asked for forgiveness; she persuaded BV to forgive too; both go to war, PG on the horse that BV fed meat; when BB was feeding meat fights, a street will wave in one direction, a lane in the other; but there is only more enemy power; PG came to the blacksmiths: soldiers appear from hammer blows, non-commissioned officers in another place, girls in the third they sew on the hoop like they are poked with a needle - officer; PG: amen to your work; they are grateful for stopping them; the warriors are no longer there, BV killed everyone, joyfully rolls like a hay pile; PG killed him; guilty in front of his mother, she led her to the well to collect living and dead water; PG drowned it in it, took water for herself; revived the brothers, went home with them and his sister; picked up a stone, a hole under it, told his brothers put him down in his belts; sent two girls to his brothers from below, but they couldn't pull him out; married those girls; PG came to the old man, began to herd his oxen; he tells them not to drive them to protected meadows; PG drove there, towards the monster with three heads, he killed him; the next day about five heads, the same; then six; hid these heads under the bed; the old man found it, glad; promises to ask The firebird, will it carry PG to the ground; sitting on the bird, PG feeds the poultry meat, it is over, it cut off its legs from its calves; the bird flew to the ground, died exhausted; PG revived it with living water, it regurgitated the meat from his legs, he took it with dead and living water; returned home, got married]: Smirnov 1917, No. 11:111-121; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Vozhgory, 1928) [Pop got lost, met a bear, helped arrange a den, and winters in her. Palfil Popovich (PP) was born to a bear. In spring, pop returns to the village with his son. Popadya does not immediately recognize her husband, she is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, it is difficult for parents to feed it, they send it to the forest to herd cows. PP catches a bear who wants to pick up a cow, brings him to the village and locks him in the barn. The maid comes in when the bear eats the last cow. Pop sends PP to the king for tribute, he rides a bear, meets an enchanted man. To break free from the spell, he must "bring the mountains to one place." PP helps him, they go together. It's the same with having to uproot an oak tree. The three of them and the bear come to the king, the PP demands tribute, the king pays to leave as soon as possible. PP gave one bag of gold to his ass, and left with the other four. The three of us stayed in a hut, catching bulls. Two go to town for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands a treat, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. It's the same when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, reproaches his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there's any other ground under the floor. He cuts bulls, makes belts, and his comrades pull him down. PP enters a copper, silver and gold tower, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls are happy and ask to take them with them. It's a pity for PP to leave the tower. Everyone throws the ring from her hand onto the roof, the tower turns into rings, they are given to PP. Satellites lift the girls, but the PP is too heavy, the companions cut off their belts, the PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. He is hired by a blind old man to herd cows. He shows the border of the Baba Yaga glade and forbids herding cows there. The PP complies with the ban three times, and the fourth time she drives cows to Baba Yaga's land, she is angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows are full and roaring. PP takes the herd back to Baba Yaga's meadow. She says she would fight with the PP hero and hear about his strength. We agreed to hit three times. Two PP blows do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a bag and tramples her, lets the old man feel at home, who makes sure that Yaga has been killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into his skin, catches a crow that has flown up, sends the other for living and dead water. After receiving water, he tests it: he tears the bird, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he sees the light, and in gratitude promises to bring the PP to the ground. His witch daughter does this, she eats people and knows how to turn into a bird. Orders to tie an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off its calves. The bird says its meat is sweet and would eat it, but his father's request doesn't allow it. Spits out swallowed, PP's legs are intact again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom, the girl from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one arm and the other's leg. He puts up a silver and gold tower, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278; Russians (Zaonezhye) [the widow became pregnant, gave birth to a son Okati-Goroshka; the tsar received rumors about his pampering, OG asked the king not to execute him, he would find his three missing daughters; the tsar agreed; OG meets, takes the heroes of Roznigor as companions, then Usynya; came to the house, R. and W. could not shake the gate, OG opened the gate; R. cooked dinner, but he came with his fingernail, his beard off his elbow and ate everything; the next day he did the same with W.; on the third day, OG took his Sam-with-nail into the yard, pinched his beard; the heroes went to the mountain throw the anchor, R. and W. did not anchor, OG, climbed the chain and came to the copper kingdom; the elder princess hid it, her husband flew in, sensed the Russian spirit, the princess began to caress him, he fell asleep, the OG cut off his head and followed the second princess (the same, the silver palace); the third in gold; each packed her palace in a box; the princesses went down, the heroes pulled off the chain and OG was left alone at the top; came to the house by the lake; there the old man asks to herd his cattle, but on the road, not on the grass; OG disobeyed and the snakes began to sting the cattle; OG killed them with a sword; on the third day, a 12-headed snake, the mother of the dead, arrived, tried to eat OG, he cut off six heads for leaving the other six, brought her alive and dead water; he smeared the old man's eyes with them, he saw the light; the grateful old man sent OG home, putting it on an eagle; there was not enough meat, had to be cut off from her own calves; the shoemaker said that the first princess followed R., the second for W., and the third for the one who would sew her shoes like they were in the golden kingdom; OG opened a box in which the golden palace and took out his gold boots, sent a shoemaker with shoes to the princess, who understood everything and asked for the same dress; then the whole palace; in the morning, the shoemaker was asked who was the builder of the palace, he pointed to OG; OG married the princess, R. and U. to two other princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41:119-123; Belarusians [option; Ivan Tsarevich descended to the lower world, killed a polar bear, sent princesses to earth copper, silver, golden palaces; picking him up himself, the brothers let go of the rope; he came to the blind old man and old woman, whose snake had drunk their eyes; hired to herd the goats; contrary to his grandfather's orders, drove them away into the snake's meadow; he defeated the snake, forced the old people to regain their sight; they ordered to take the skin of a white bear instead of a horse, an otter instead of a saddle, a female snake instead of a whip, hit the skin three times, carried the skin to white light]: Romanov 1887, No. 10:85; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky University, c. 1878) [Son Lev steals and sells his father's best horse, his parents send him and his coachmen to the forest, order him to be killed. They feel sorry and cut off his little finger, kill the dog, bring the boy's heart, liver and finger to his parents. The father buries what is left of his son at home, and an apple tree with silver and golden apples and branches grows. When an apple is plucked, blood flows from the tree, and the words are heard: "deception, my friend is a snake." The lion finds himself in a deep yar, enters a beautiful house, sees that the windows are open, pancakes lie on them, blind old people live here, a woman bakes pancakes and puts them on the window, the lion eats them, the grandfather asks for a treat, the old woman realizes that the pancakes are gone. They ask the stranger to identify himself (if the old one is a parent, the young one is a son), Leo responds and stays with them like a son. They rejoice at him, he herds their goats, they warn them if they herd them near fast waters - they give them a bucket of milk, but the snake forbids them: they gouged out the eyes of the old people. The serpent forbids Leo to lead goats, drives a goat, holds her ear and presses a snake, asks where he keeps the eyes of old people - under a trough in the yard, makes them insert, tells the woman to warm the milk, wash it with it eyes and insert. A lion and a snake rub the eyes of old people, and they see the light. The lion plants the snake in the oven. Old people go to look for a bride for their son, forbid him to enter the barn, he enters, for the first lock, money for the second, silver, for the third - a "personal horse with golden hooves.." a tall bay horse with golden hooves, he sits on it, the old people hear that their horse has been released, the old man harnesses six goats, the horse tells Leo to say "become goats" three times, he says they stop. Leo returns to his native village, tells his story, plays, and is asked to play for his father. He listens, asks Leo to stay with him as a son, learns his story, admits that he is his father]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 79:304-307; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:205-207; Poles (Silesia, Malinowski 1900): Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:205-207; Shcherbakov 1980:59-65 [the royal shepherd tells the shepherd not to drive sheep into the forest: there are giants there; but the forest has the best grass, the herd herds sheep there; on the oak tree there is an inscription: a sword flame is buried here, which is used to defeat giants; he dug it up; killed three giants one by one; finds, takes a piece of bread, a bag, a pipe in the castle; dudit - an officer appears, calls him a savior; 3,000 prisoners came out of the basement; among them, a doctor revived the sheep killed by the giant; the undercover was dipped in a well, his hair turned golden; the king will give his daughter to him who will ride a glass mountain three times; disguised as a queen, undergrazing performs a mission; a shepherd talks about a wonderful knight; after the third time, a soldier wounded to mark the hero; the trail remains; the stargazers tell the king that the hero is near; everyone is examined, the king tears off the headband from the backup - the hair is golden; the herd has received the queen and the throne], 115-125 [the shepherd grew up in the field a golden life; he tells his three sons to guard him; when it is the youngest's turn, the bird takes the sheaf; the young man behind her; there is a house in the forest, an old man lies by the fire on that sheaf; the young man invited him to be his son; the blind wife The old man agrees; the old man gives sheep to herd, does not tell them to be allowed into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take them away; gives a violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him the violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises to teach to play, first you have to straighten your fingers; the spirit put them in the split trunk; the young man let him go for promising not to touch the sheep; the spirit points to grass that will restore blind vision; old people promise to get adopted son girl; you have to drive a goat to the sea; three ducks will arrive, throw off their clothes, become girls; you need to hide the shirt you like; the guy succumbed to persuasion, gave his shirt, duck flew away; a year later, the old man sends the guy again; after bringing the girl home, the guy took pity again and returned his shirt; the third time was the last; the goat (this is the old man) is transported to another sea; the young man did not give up his shirt , the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man, his wife and newborn daughter went to visit his real father; having a golden life, the shepherd became a prince; at a feast, the daughter-in-law asks his father-in-law to get her best outfit - the husband hides it in the chest; became a duck and flew away with his duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man a masm to become a hare, a fish, a fly; the young man reached the top of the glass mountain; overheard that his wife was without he grieves, became human again; his wife's parents handed him the throne; he sent for his real father and for that old man, made them ministers].
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Alushta district, Biyuk Lambat) [(the beginning of the text resembles a fairy tale; then the genre changes); war has begun; the padishah's son-in-law turned into an iron lion, smashes enemies, then again becomes human; goes down to the well to wash; gone; his companions replace him with another young man; the wife says that a real husband would first fly as a bird, then crawl with an ant; the companions say the truth; the padishah's daughter took a chest of gold and diamonds, came to the well; below Kökce Obur holds her husband; the wife continuously hits the drum; KO agrees to raise the young man's head above the water if his wife leaves she is gold and a diamond; then the same to her shoulders; to the waist; to the knees; to the ankles; to put it completely in the palm of his hand; the young man flew away as a bird, and KO grabbed his wife; the young man flew to his wife as a bird, told him to find out what is the power of KO; the wife, whom another girl approached, ask; KO: in a broom; young man: ask again; KO: there is an ajdaha with 40 heads; you need to cut off heads, cut out the heart; there is a box in it, there are three sparrow; the young man flew to the shepherd; persuaded him to let him herd the sheep for himself; the owner does not order Azhdakh to herd in the pasture; the young man drives the sheep there; he and Azhdaha drive each other into the ground; the shepherd for the night returns; so three days; the third time the owner gave him a fat cake, the young man killed Azhdaha, took out a box; made the pasture vacuum earth (belongs to everyone); killed sparrows, the witch died; brought two more women, he now has three wives]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 42; Abkhazians, Karachays (Levin 1978, no. 4, 7): Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:206-207; Georgians [Vision received from a witch: the hero gets to a blind maiden; he grazes cattle in the forbidden mountains of devas and, defeating them, multiplies the cattle, pulls out the witch's handkerchief, soaks it in golden water and restores the deva's sight, he also does it himself golden-haired]: Kurdovanidze 1977, No. 321:245; Ossetians [after Aldar's death, his son Koy squandered everything and was hired as a herdsman; the son of the new Aldar married his sister 7 Waigs, but she refused to start a wedding until the herdsman Koy is among the travelers; Coy agrees only after Aldar comes for him; as he arrived, Coy saw that the dragon surrounded Aldar's brothers in a ring; cut down the dragon; then the two fight; a scream is heard: if my unfamiliar brother Coy were here, we would have dealt with you; when Coy arrived, his sister had already been killed; Coy hit the killer with a sword, he turned into a ball of blood and rolled away; Coy came to 7 Waigs; the Black Horseman came and demanded his sister 7 Waigs; Coy suggested that their horses fight; Koya's horse killed the enemy's horse, Coy decapitated The Black Rider; then the same with the White and the Red Horsemen; Coy came to the gorge, where the grass was waist-deep on one side and shaved on the other; let the horse go, hired a farmhand to the local aldar for three Araks drunk every evening and three dances with Aldar's three daughters; on the other side of the river, the land of the boar, he kills everyone; Coy pretended not to know, the boar forgave him; the next time he fought; the boar: if only I could drink from a spring that hits from under the rock! Coy: If Aldara's youngest daughter would give me araks! The farmhand sent by Aldar heard this, and the next time the girl gave Koy araki, who killed the boar; Aldar decided to give him his aldarism and daughter, but Koy refused; called his horse, came to the gorge, where the caves are the bad breath of a seven-headed waig; another horse is saddled, telling him to change to him; fighting, the Waig pushed Koya into the well and covered it with a stove; the wife of an unknown sister found out, her husband arrived, he pushed back the stove, they killed the Waiga; called his brother to him, Coy refused; his sister's wife turned into a black-brown fox, Coy chased her, she became a woman again; under the crypt there was a house, a woman offered to hide; flew to heaven, where she ordered gold earrings, Koy then took one; the same underground - took one shoe; the third time she hid in the cave where the 7-headed waig was, Koy unnoticed stole the knife with which the woman was going to slaughter him if he did not find it; the woman admitted defeat; her husband, Koya's unknown brother, came in, gave him half of his herds; Coy saved the devil from his hands Aldara's youngest daughter, who gave him the Araks, took with him; the shepherd cries (remembers how he was killed), then laughs (someone revived him); Coy realized that this is the one who was killed by the 7-headed waig; they met; Aldar does not want Koy to settle on his land; Koy brought iron clubs from the sky from the Kurdalagonov, threw two; the first cut off half of the Aldar tower, the second cut off the entire tower; Aldar allowed him to settle]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 44:66-72; Armenians [a son in the family, a daughter was born; the dough disappears; the brother watches, sees how the baby gets out of the crib, swallows the dough, comes back; the parents refused to kill daughter; brother left, saw a herd of sheep, with him blind husband and wife; for several days the young man has been slowly eating milk; they notice that milk is disappearing; the young man confesses that he stays with these people; they are not they tell them to drive sheep east and west; in the west live devils that dazzled them, and in the east there is a cannibal lioness; a young man goes to hell, splits a log, offers to stick his hand, knocks out a wedge; demands from the devils return the eyes and teach them how to insert them; then kills them all; lioness: if I face one lion cub, you can pass, or if more, I'll kill them; a young man hides two lions in a bag, raises them like dogs; a lioness believes that she gave birth to only one; the young man decides to go to visit his native places, leaves a saucer of milk: if it turns black, he is in trouble; the house is empty, one sister; says that she will go cook and eat horse, asks if brother came on foot; he says yes; she leaves again; rooster: she went to sharpen her teeth; brother runs away leaving a sandbag; sister thinks that the brother is in the bag, bites her, sand in her eyes; brother climbs on a plum that grew from a bone that he threw when he left home when he was young; the sister gnaws on the trunk, the brother moved to the second plum; the milk turned black, the lions were lowered, they came running, tore the cannibal apart]: Gardner 1944:165-168.
Baltoscandia. Latvians [A witch steals eyes. A boy herds old goats on witch silver grass, across golden dew. A witch comes running, pulling out the eyes of old people. The boy herds the goats again, the witch wants to snatch his eyes out too, but the shepherdess asks her to allow him to play the pipe. The witch also wants to blow. The boy tells her to stick her horn into the hollow of an oak tree, pinches it, makes the witch confess where the old man's eyes are hidden, and then kills her. At home, he puts his eyes in old people]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 321:276; Lithuanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:206-207; (cf. Estonians [Ludza only, Latvian borrowing is highly likely]: Kallas 1900 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:206-207); Danes [mother wants to get rid of her naughty absurd son; he takes his three dogs as a share in the farm, leaves; hired a shepherd; he warns him not to herd cattle in the troll's meadows; he herds, a three-headed troll comes out, each dog tears off the head; in the land of the troll, the guy found gold robe and money; he brought part of the money to his father; came to the castle, where the king must give 10 pigs a year to the 9-headed sea dragon; the pigs are over, must give his daughter; every day, each dog tears off three heads, the guy cuts off and hides his tongues; the second time he wears black, the third time he wears a red robe {the first time, obviously, in white}; each dog was tied by the princess neck chain; guy leaves for 10 years, coal burner tells the princess to say that he defeated the dragon; 10 years later, the guy showed up when the wedding is being prepared; the princess recognized her chains on dogs; the king sends the guy has a beautiful outfit, but he rejects it, is in gold taken from the troll; shows his tongues; coal burn is executed]: Holbek 1987:500-502.
(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians? Uther 2004 (1): 207 refers to Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der nördlichen türkischen Stämme, 1966 - not available).
Western Siberia. Southern Khanty (b. Konda, S. Patkanov, 1888) [A childless old man set fire to his barns so that smoke could rise to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother-why doesn't he have children? Heavenly Father sent a son, who gave three seeds, let the old man let his wife eat; she gave birth to a boy, he grew up quickly, came to one of the ends of the earth, the bear and the wolf let him see the old woman, who gave him a name Like Aspen Leaf, the Agile Husband (VM); he returned home, only one foal from his father's herd did not bend at his arm, he took it; tells his father to marry him one of the three royal daughters; the father was beaten, expelled; the priest's youngest daughter was given without dowry; his wife refuses to look in his head - she did not even look aside where the Merchant, the Wanderer (KS); his flying horse brought him to the old woman; she says that no one returned from the city of CS; gave a bundle of 60 silver rings; the next old woman gave a ball of thread, the third gave a white towel; teaches how to avoid a mountain of human bones, throw rings to 60 warriors, cross the bridge across the sea; the warriors shot, only pulled three hairs out of the horse's tail; the CS's mother turned the VM into a needle, hid it from her son; he orders to show the person who came, became his brother, ordered his wife to be beaten, when she arrives magpie and gets out of her magpie skin, with three silver bars; the wife is forty again and flew away; the COP does not tell me to open the seventh room; in others - frogs and lizards, in the seventh - the girl is CS's sister; the VM married her; goes to fight the seven-headed menqua, tells his wife not to leave the house at that time; cuts down the menqua warriors, but there are more and more of them; then he cut her husband, who carved warriors out of flint like sparks, destroyed warriors, hit something with a sword; at home I found out that the COP had left the house - he hit him, why did they release him? they found the body, put it in the coffin; wife: mother-in-law wants to kill you; he entered his mother-in-law's house, fell into the lower world; there the old man and the old woman adopted him; they do not tell him to herd cattle in the menqua estate, he stole their eyes; but grass is better on the other side, the VM drives cattle there; hacked one-, two-, etc. -headed menkvas; the seven-headed man cannot cut down his head, he drove him into the ground, the menkv asks him to take his white towel, wrap around his neck, then cut; then VM cut off his head; came to the Menkwa mother, fights with her, changed buckets of strong and weak water; the old woman's daughter shows that the old woman needs stab her chin; VM did so, killed an old woman; daughter tells her to burn her, sweep away frogs and lizards that will crawl out of her into the fire; VM tells the girl to jump over the fire - if she used to live with a man , she would fall into the fire; she fell, there were lizards too, he burned them; he took the eyes of the old people, restored their sight; they told them to prepare meat, put firebirds on their backs; she brought the last two pieces to the ground he cut off his legs from the calves; the firebird belched them and put them back; the wife is lying between two men; the VM wanted to hack them, the wife: these are your sons; the VM cut the youngest son, sprinkled blood on his body CS, that came to life; revived his son with live water; his wife's brother (i.e. CS) set up a copper playground for games, the VM arranged a silver one; everyone lets a block of stone on his court; the VM takes flint, sparks turn into husbands ; when he throws his stone, he breaks the arms and legs of the CS people, tears them apart; the COP lets the VM and his wife (i.e. his sister) go home to the VM - he cannot live with a hero who is stronger than him; on the way they come To those three old women, his wife turns them young; at home, VM climbed onto the roof, looks into the house, where his parents are quarreling over a spark; he poured water or snowed to put out their fire; they swear; he opened, their daughter-in-law turned them young; the VM scatters chips brought from another world, they turn into a populated city; abundance is all around]: Lukina 1990, No. 88:220-237.