M81e1. A young man returns sight to old people, ATU 321.

.27.-.29.31. (.34.?) .35.

A young man lives with an old man whose eyes or eyes were carried away by a giant. The young man goes to the giant, kills him, brings his eyes, the old man sees the light.

Hungarians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Romanians, Greeks (?) , Serbs (?) , Croats (?) , Ukrainians (Kharkiv), Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Karelia), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Abkhazians, Karachays, Avars, Georgians, Svans, Armenians, Latvians, Lithuanians (?) , Nenets, southern Khanty.

The Balkans. Hungarians [the old woman advised a childless woman to swallow legumes that she would sweep out of the house; the woman found, swallowed three grains, gave birth to sons named Evening, Night Owl, Dawn; they grew up, went to look for service; the king asks to clean the well, promises three daughters; the brothers did their job, but the king admitted that dragons were guarding his daughters; the brothers saw a hole in the forest, stopped , they began to cook one by one; every time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn was left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for promising to show him how to go down into the hole; Dawn came down, the Queen gave a multiplying ring, Dawn demolished 9 heads to the dragon; hitting the table with this royal stick turned the palace into a silver apple; the same with two other royals (12 -head dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent the queens upstairs; tied a stone instead, the brothers cut off the rope; Dawn sees blind spouses handing food to each other; their the 24-headed dragon pulled out his eyes; Dawn quietly took the meat; then opened; the couple ordered not to herd sheep under the dragon's dominion; Dawn killed the dragon, returned his eyes blinded; one woman's eye swallowed cat, Dawn put a cat's eye in the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn hid the vulture birds from the hail of chicks; the mother bird tells me to cook meat and wine, brings Dawn to the ground, there was not enough meat, he cut off the meat from the calf; the bird: it was delicious, I would know it ate you; under the guise of a beggar, Dawn came to the king, the brothers did not recognize him; they answer that whoever brings his brother must be tied to the tail the horse, and the queen who saved must be married to her; the royals recognized their rings; Dawn forgave the brothers, married the younger princess]: Ortutai 1957, No. 5:141-150; Bulgarians [young man herds sheep or goats a blind old man; he does not tell them to drive them to the ground by the self-dazzled him; the young man violates the ban and forces them to return their eyes; to do this, he provokes them to put their fingers in a split log and knocks out a wedge; or hangs it on a tree by his hair; or tells you to pay for his game on the flute]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 321:120-121; Albanians [the peasant's son agrees to sit on the magic a bird, go up the Crystal Mountain; throws off jewelry from there, but the people below refuse to bring it back; the young man finds a goat pen, cleans it; the three-eyed goat who returns tells one, then the other goat to guard, one goes to graze, the other falls asleep, the young man cleans the pen again imperceptibly both times; the third time the goat himself remains, takes him to his blind owner; he lets the young man herd herd, not tells 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 her up, makes the owner's eyes return; after seeing the light, the owner gives the young man the keys, tells him not to unlock twelfth room; three Beauties of the Earth fly into it to swim, the young man hides his youngest's belt, brings his wife home on a heroic horse, gives the key to his belt to his 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 the smoke hole; the young man flies back to the mountain, the old man sends him to his older brother, who sends him to the spring where Krasa's maids the land collects water, the young man throws a ring into the jug, the wife and her sisters come to him, turn an apple so that their cannibal brothers do not eat it; they smell it, agree to give it to their sister if son-in-law 1) will bring an armful of firewood, 2) a barrel of water larger than them (the young man pretends to tie the forest with a rope, dig up the entire source); 3) catch a hare, get a nut; the young man falls on a hare from a tree, gets wife]: Serkova 1989:55-57; Romanians (Banat) [after retiring from service, soldier Petru immediately lost all the money; in the forest he met a man rocking trees and playing with stones; began to live in a hut, one by one cook; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, beats the cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he disappeared; P. tells lower him on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but cannot get up, because the companions 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 is a hominy with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman felt it; if a girl would be a daughter, if a boy, then a son; asked P. to herd her sheep, but not to go to the land of dragons that stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flutes; the dragons listened, asked them to teach them; P., playing, brought them to the oak tree, split them, 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: next to we have a milk pond, let her wash her eye sockets three times; P. cut off the dragons heads, 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 the city, where there was mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, the turn of 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 knocked down 11 heads with arrows, and the 12th with the 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. 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 Lev to stay with him as a son, learns his story, admits that he is his father]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 79:304-307; Belarusians [option; Ivan Tsarevich descended to the lower world, killed a polar bear, sent princesses of copper, silver, golden palaces to the ground; raising him 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 herd goats; contrary to his grandfather's orders, he drove them to the snake's meadow; defeated the snake, forced the old people to regain their sight; they ordered them 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, the skin brought to the white world]: Romanov 1887, No. 10:85; Russians (Arkhangelsk), 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 a witch (snake) and forces her to restore their sight to the elderly (he gets medicine, living and dead water); after seeing the light, the old man rewards the young man]: SUS 1970, No. 321:117-118; Russians (Terek coast) [the tsar grew old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, the middle son went, did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive, the horse is hungry; himself I live not to be; the woman is smooth, the feather bed is soft; Ivan Tsarevich goes where I do not live; the old woman gives a horse, sends it to her sister, she sends it to the other, the third to their brother; there everyone must bow: the old man, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law, from the eldest to the youngest; the old man has a head in a big corner, his legs are on the doorstep; the mistress of the rejuvenating berries is sleeping, you have to jump around the house, you have to jump over so that the strings do not rang; I. took live water, rejuvenating berries, kissed the heroic girl; on the way back, the horse hit the strings; the girl woke up: she was unwashed, unwashed, drank but did not close the well; the old women detained the girl, I. managed to jump to his land; I. came to the girl, there was 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 a hole, took everything for themselves; in the lower 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 there are cows there, each time she tears off the head of one baba yaga, puts it under the bed; the old man made him look away; he is grateful, calls the bird to his aunt's foot; she takes I. to the ground, there is not enough meat, he cut off his legs from his calves, the bird regurgitated and put them back; I. returned to her parents; the girl sailed 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, looking like a kabatskaya goal, his wife meets and takes them home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Arkhangelsk, summer coast of the White Sea, Nyonoksa) [ After going fishing, the 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 come back, 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 - he 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, 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 a princess, R. and U. to two other princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41:119-123; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:205-207; Poles: Shcherbakov 1980 [on the shepherd's field a golden life has grown; he tells his three sons to guard him; when it is the youngest's turn, the bird took the sheaf; the young man behind her; there is a house in the forest, by the fire on that sheaf lies an old man; the young man invited him to be his son; blind the old man's wife agrees; the old man gives sheep to herd, does not tell them to be allowed into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take 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 teach him 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]: 115-125; Uther 2004 (1), No. 321 (Silesia, Malinowski 1900): 205-207.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians, Karachays (Levin 1978, no. 4, 7): Uther 2004 (1), No. 321:206-207; Avars [father and son took a frozen horse and hired Khan; son as a groom, the horse was weaned; attacked enemies, a young man on his horse defeated them, the khan married him a daughter and appointed him a successor; wife: as long as there is a braver man in the world, you should not go to bed with me; the young man came to an eyeless man, whose noseless wife killed the sledge, brought his clothes; the noseless recognized the clothes of the son who was killed by the sledge; another sledge drove the young man knee-deep into the ground, but decided not to kill the brave man; said he could go down into the frozen sea and break through the ice; broke through the ice with his head, but froze into it; said that he could only be killed with his own knife; the young man found the nose and eyes of old people next to the knife; the sledge tells after his death eat a piece of bacon from his stomach and gird himself with his gut; the hostess ran: throw fat to the dog, tie the tree with his gut; his gut clenched and broke the tree; his nose and eyes stuck to the old people; the sledge did not cut them off and tore it out; the wife nozzled, cut off her nose, and the husband blinded himself, not wanting to look at his noseless wife]: Khalilov 1965, No. 52:142-145; Georgians [Vision received from a witch: the hero gets to 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 becomes golden-haired himself]: Kurdovanidze 1977, No. 321:245; Swans: Dumezil 1996:84-85 [=Margiani 1890b: 6-11; when dying, Amiran's mother tells her husband to remove the premature fetus from her body and put the bull in her stomach for a month; then put A. to the cradle and put them in the spring of Yaman; the women came for water, A. took the jugs and beat the women; Jaman brought A. to be the servant of his sons Visib and Badri; all three became sister cities; they they offend other children; they ask: if you are strongmen, why don't you find Iaman's eye and put it in him; I. explained: he should have delivered firewood to the monster; when old, he could not do it, the monster took an eye, otherwise he would have taken away his sons; you can only fight the monster if you can crush a millstone on your knee; they did it; A. fought the gray maiden, V. with the red maiden, B. with black; red and black killed, but gray swallowed A.; V. and B. shouted to A. to take out his diamond knife; A. cut the maiden from the inside; came out blind; the brothers smeared his eyes with the insides of the maiden, A. saw the light; with the help of the sister of the 9 virgins A. and his brothers killed them; she made a bridge of her hair over the abyss; when the brothers crossed him, V. cut off her hair and the maiden remained on the other side; she cursed A. telling them to marry Bright Kaklotia (she lives in the air); the brothers came to the maiden, who is going to eat them in the morning; his sister is chained in his house; the brothers released her, she pointed to the diamond sword with which you can kill a maiden; A. killed him, there is a pole in his house, there are many eyes on him, on top of a box with I.'s eye; Bright Caclotia's daughter on the ottoman under heaven; A.'s horse picked him up, A. cut off the chains, the ottoman fell; parents the girls sent an army; his brothers killed him, but V. and B. died; the girl washed her face, A. revived her brothers with this water; celebrated the wedding; even bird's milk was among the dishes], 85-86 [published on cargo. 1897; Amirani, Yusibi, Badri noticed that their father Iamani was blind in one eye; the mother replies that her father had smallpox; then the sons put hot corn bread on her chest; the mother said that when B. and Yu were born, Dev demanded to give one of them; the father did not agree, then Dev took one eye from him; the brothers go to look for the deva, see him on the rock, he spins (spruce is a spindle, a millstone is a spinning rod); dev swallows A., he rips his stomach open, but loses his eye; threatens to kill the deva if he does not heal him; dev tells him to take a piece from his heart and liver, rub his eye socket, A. recovers; dev demands now heal his side, but A. inserts a wooden braid in it, otherwise Dev would swallow the whole world; now when the dev swallows the sun or the moon, the star soon comes out through the braided line; A. demands that his eye be returned I.; dev shows a pole in the house, there is even a box on it, another eye in it; brothers return their eyes to their father; celebrated a wedding; there was even bird's milk among the dishes]; Chikovani 1954, No. 32 []: 173-181; Armenians [a son in the family, a daughter was born; the dough disappears; the brother watches, sees how the baby got out of the crib, swallowed the dough, came back; the parents refused to kill their daughter; the brother left and saw a herd of sheep , his husband and wife are blind with him; for several days the young man has been slowly eating milk; they notice that milk is missing; the young man confesses that he stays with these people; they do not tell them to drive sheep east and west ; in the west live devils who 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 that the devils return their eyes and teach them how to put their hands in insert; then kills them all; lioness: if I face one lion cub, you can pass, and if more, I'll kill them; a young man hides two lion cubs in a bag, raises them like dogs; a lioness believes that she has given birth to only one; a young man decides to go visit his native places, leaves a saucer of milk: if it turns black, then he is in trouble; the house is empty, one sister; says that she will go cook, eats the horse, asks if his 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 brother is in a bag, bites her, sand in her eyes; brother climbs on a plum that has grown from a bone he threw when he left home when he was young; his sister chews on the trunk, the brother moved to the second plum; the milk turned black, the lions were lowered, they came running, tore the cannibal]: 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.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians? Uther 2004 (1): 207 refers to Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der nördlichen türkischen Stämme, 1966 - not available).

Western Siberia. The Nenets [of the three sons of an old Khant are the youngest fool; father, mother, older brothers dream of wild deer coming from the north and south; a fool sees two argish, deer in one dark, in the other is colorful; in anger, his father breaks his arm and leg, throws him out of the plague; he gets to the plague of the eyeless old man and old woman; boiled meat is lowered from the hole above them; the old man ripped his arm and leg with a knife young men, he is well; the meat stops coming down, the young man climbs the pole through the hole into heaven to the old man's son; he is sick, the young man gives his sister a bandage from his bakers, tells him to tie a plague to the pole, the son of the elderly recovers, the meat descends again; in the plague of old people, the young man pushes the iron leaf under the hearth, descends to the lower world, takes the eyes of the old people from the sihirt, gives it to the old people, they see the light; Two argish with dark and colorful deer appear next to the plague; a young man gets an old man's daughter, rides home with her on deer, puts his mother, brothers on a filthy sledge]: Labanauskas 2001:209-214; 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 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 go 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.