M90a1. Lice skin, H522.I.I, ATU 857.
.12.-.17.23.24.27.-.37.42.
It is required to sew clothes from the skin of lice (fleas) or guess the origin of a large animal, a large skin, the contents of the box; the animal (skin) arose from lice (fleas), in the box - louse.
Douala, Nubians, Egypt, Arabs (?) Morocco, Algerian Arabs, Kabilas, Spaniards, Portuguese, Catalans, Aragonese, Basques, Italians (Liguria, Umbria, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria), Sicilians, French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms, Austria) , Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Marathi, Bali, Romanians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Gagauz people, Albanians, Greeks, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelia), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev), Abazins, Kurds, Ossetians, Georgians, Turks, Persians, Estonians, Setus, Danes, Western Sami, Finns, Livons, Latvians, Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs (Turgay ), Kyrgyz, Uighurs (Khotan), Buryats, Mongols, Altaians, Northern Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Dolgans, Nanais, Ulchi, Tlingits.
{Uther 2004 refers to Norwegian and Swedish signs - there is no such motive there}
West Africa. Douala [Inono Njambe kills his wives and children to gain magical powers; Njambe Inono's son remains; people beat his father, he dies soon after passing on knowledge to his son; he continues to kill people; he and his wife are sent in a boat downstream; he establishes a settlement where he plants a huge palm tree, a bird on top, a crocodile in a pond, a leopard in a cage; they are the magical defenders of the village; NI Njambe's wife gave birth to a girl, a chimpanzee comes to play with her; when the girl grew up, he kidnapped her; NEITHER takes other wives, everyone gives birth, but N. is pregnant but does not give birth; NOR chases her away; in the woods she has to cut her firewood; the boy from her womb says he will chop it, goes out, becomes an adult Jeki man, cuts wood, returns to the womb; forbids his mother to see him and cut his umbilical cord; one day he goes out pick shrimp on the seashore; other NI wives see this, throw baskets in horror, J. also delivers their baskets full of shrimp to the village; when J. is finally born, from the mother's belly first various vessels, a boat, fabrics, etc. fall out; then J. tells him to give birth to him on a pile of garbage; NI does not like J., 1) asks what is in the chest; J. deliberately answers incorrectly, he is beaten; then says that in female lice chest; 2) clean the chest (there is a leopard in it, J. drowns it in a chest); 3) bring the crocodile out of the sea; J. tells the crocodile that I expect him as a wise adviser, tames him with magic; in the village he begins to devour everything, NOR tells him to take him back; 4) get nuts from the palm tree; at the top there is a dangerous Kambo bird; J. tells the other sons of NI to climb first, the bird pecks them; J. cuts down bunches of nuts, kills, burns a bird; this makes NI weaker; J. goes to the land of spirits for a sister kidnapped by a Chimpanzee; there are many girls in the house, J. must identify his sister, releases a bee, she sits on her sister, J. brings her home]: Belcher 2005:268-281.
Sudan - East Africa. The Nubians [the princess will be given to whoever guesses whose skin it is; the ghoul, the sorcerer, guesses what the princess gets, she runs away from him]: Kronenberg, No. 17:83-89 in El-Shamy 2004, No. 621:352-353.
North Africa. The Arabs of Algeria (Medea) [the king has 7 daughters and a peach tree; ghuli got into the habit of stealing peaches at night; the king sent his eldest daughter to guard; she wore a military outfit but fell asleep; the same with the other five; the youngest consistently cuts off the head of the ghulas who approach the tree; but from the seventh she only cut off the scalp, the ghoul ran away; as a reward, the king is going to marry her first; to the one who He guesses what kind of object is hanging on the window; this is the skin of a huge lice, which the king fed and then stabbed; that ghoul took the image of a handsome man; when she saw him, the princess showed with signs that there was a louse on the window; having received a wife, The ghoul sent the royal retinue halfway, only the maid remained; the ghoul gave the keys to 7 rooms, forbiding him to unlock the seventh; the princess unlocked: there a terrible ghoul devours a donkey; the princess lost consciousness; when she came to her senses, a ghoul in her husband's guise asks what is on his crown; there is a scar, but the princess replies that it's okay; then the ghoul tied her to a tree and went to buy firewood to burn her; the maid freed her and carried them on her back; the lion met them, invited them to his place, fed them; the ghoul demanded his wife, but was forced to leave; by the merchants from the girl's father's kingdom; she told them everything, asked them to send sheep and camels as a gift to the lion; the king sent; his men took the princess; the lion gave her a lion cub: if the ghoul came again, the lion cub would kill him; the ghoul came in the form of a beggar, the princess lowered the lion on her, the lion ate gulya; but it was the one who ate the donkey in the seventh room; when the princess remarried, her ghoul husband appeared; bribed the maid to add sleepy powder to everyone but the princess's dishes; took the princess; she convinced him that she would not run away again, and offered to take his father's treasures; found a lion, let him go for a walk, he ate it; called the people and doctors, who revived those who had fallen asleep; the soothsayer said that The princess was betrayed by her maid; she cut off her head]: Desparmet 1910:407-422; the Arabs of Egypt [Princess Dalal combed her louse, put it in a jug of butter; when she grew up, the louse also became huge , broke the vessel; the king ordered her to be removed and hung on the door; whoever guessed whose skin it was would marry the princess; the cannibal took the image of a man, said that it was lice skin, received D.; going home, refused to take his servants and even his wife's mother with him; settled D. in the palace, became an ogre again, brought her the head of a man; but she refused to eat, he brought her a ram; took the form of her mother, offered to run, but she refused; the cannibal is happy; the same is her maternal aunt; but when she took the form of a paternal aunt, D. burst into tears and said that her husband was an ogre; he became himself again; D. persuaded him to let her go to the bathhouse , and only then eat it; changed clothes with the old woman and left quietly; came to another king, the prince fell in love with her, married her; the queen mother is afraid that his wife is a werewolf; the cannibal came, D. asked for time off In need, she asked the saint for help; she gave a sliver to throw a sliver into the mouth of the ogre, he would lose consciousness, he would be killed; but for this D. must give her first child; she gave birth to a daughter, gave it back; the queen mother says that she ate the baby; she was sent to peel the onion; ten years later, the fairy returned her daughter to her; the king solemnly returned his wife; later the Sultan of Spirits needed a bowl of water from the emerald sea, he can only bring it earthly girl; D. was asked again by her daughter; brought to the sea, she collected water, but her hand turned green; the sea weigher found out that there was less water; went to sell jewelry to meet the one who had green hand; found a girl; first her perfume beat her, then the Sultan married her]: Spitta-bey 1883, No. 5:61-79; kabila, Arabs (?) Morocco (Marrakech) [the princess will be given to whoever guesses whose skin it is; ghoul, the sorcerer, guesses that the princess gets the lice, she runs away from him]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 621:352-353.
Southern Europe. Spaniards: Malinovskaya 2002 [the king orders to fatten the louse, take care of the parsley stalk; both are made huge; parsley wood is used to make a tambourine hoop, pull lice skin over it; the one who guesses what the tambourine is made of will be given to the princess, the unguessed ones will be executed; the shepherd goes to marry, meets and companions Strongman, Zorkogoye, Slukhach, Wind-blowing, Skorokhod; The hearing hears the conversation princesses with a maid, the shepherd guesses; the king orders the princess's papers to be delivered from Rome immediately; the Speedboat brings, the watchdog kills a witch trying to speak a shepherd from a distance; the king tells you to take good corn from bad corn overnight, the saved ant takes away; the shepherd gets the princess, the count offers her as much money as he can carry; the strongman takes everything, the king sends an army, The windblow throws him away in the wind]: 219-224; Shishlova 1971 [the princess rejects the grooms; drives an ugly old man, he throws a spider at her, he cannot be shaken off; finally, the spider was shot, the princess told make a tambourine out of his skin; whoever guesses will marry; she sees a beautiful young man, shouts to him what a tambourine is made of; a humpback beggar hears it, takes the princess; tells him to be carried across the river; she threw it into the water, but his hump grew to her; repeated her words after her; the princess was hired as a maid for the prince she fell in love with at the time; the prince is preparing to marry, the maid makes pies, gives hump, offers to jump into her apron, if he wants more, threw it into the oven; became beautiful, the prince married her]: 93-99 (=Shustova 1994:251-256); (cf. Puerto Ricans also have lice skin motif: Mason, Espinosa 1922, No. 63, 64:19-21, 21); Portuguese: Cardigos 2006, No. 857 [the king fed the louse to the size of a calf; the princess made a dress out of her skin; promises to marry whoever guesses what material the dress is made of; the old man (boy, beggar) guesses (or overhears the princess telling her lover about it); she threatens to make the guesser unhappy, he refuses intentions to marry her]: 206; Coelho 1879, No. 39 [Coimbra]: 92-93; Catalans: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 559 (Mallorca included) [the king promises a daughter to whoever tells which animal the skin has been removed, which she has; on the way to the palace, the hero meets and companions a rat, a lion and a dung beetle; the rat overhears and finds out that it is a lice skin; the king wants to give his daughter to another, throws the hero to lions; the lion saves him; the dung beetle stains the bed of the king's chosen groom with sewage, the king drives him away; the hero marries the princess], 857 [the princess fattens the louse to the size of a calf; makes her shoe leather or drum; promises to marry the person who guessed what this material is; the hero overhears the conversation, or is kind to someone who knows the secret], marries a princess]: 122-123, 167; Aragonese [king orders to make a tambourine out of giant lice skin; promises to give her daughter for someone who knows what this material is]: Gonz√°lez 1996, No. 621:90; (cf. Basques [two poor brothers meet the devil; he promises to give a bag of gold if in a year they tell him what the vessel is made of, otherwise he will take their souls; on the last night before the end of the term one of the brothers finds himself at the cave, hears the devil telling the witch that the vessel is made of nails cut off on Friday and Saturday; the next day the devil is forced to give the young man gold]: Barandiaran 1962a, No. 23:93-95); Italians (Liguria, Umbria, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria), Sicilians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 621; 142; Italians: Andrews 1892, No. 3 (Liguria) [at the princess there were no lice; when the maid found one, she brought it to the king and he began to feed the louse; she grew huge, she was stabbed to death, her skin was hung in the window; the king promised to give her daughter to whoever said whose it was skin; the clothing seller tried to persuade the maid to tell him a secret; began to name different animals, and when he called the louse, the maid confirmed the guess; he got the princess]: 16-17; Italians ( Campaign, Naples) [retelling in Aarne 1930:13; an orc (cannibal) guesses whose skin (fleas) it is; gets Princess Porciella, takes her to the forest; brings meat from people and wild boars; P. does not want to eat it, complains old woman; she promises that her 7 sons will help; the first hears everything; the second, if she spits, will be a soap lake; the third, if she throws a piece of iron, a field covered with sharp knives will appear; the fourth will throw a splint, a forest will appear; the fifth will splash water, there will be a river; the sixth will throw a stone, a tower will appear; the seventh is a sharpshooter; the brothers run away with P., each creates obstacles; when fleeing they hide in the tower, the cannibal returns to bring the stairs, but his seventh brother hits him with an arrow, his head is cut off with a knife; P. runs to his father, who rewards his brothers and their mother]: Basile 2018:86-93; Basques: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485.
Western Europe. French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms, Austria): Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485.
Western Asia. Syria, Jordan, Iraq [the princess will be given to someone who guesses whose skin it is; the ghoul, the sorcerer, guesses that the princess gets the lice, she runs away from him]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 621: 352-353.
South Asia. Marathi (Mumbai) [When a black woman combed her princess and caught a louse, the princess told her to put the louse in a vessel and fatten her; when the princess is 12 years old and wants to be married, she promises marry only someone who understands what kind of animal she has; the guest princes could not guess; the maid quit, told her son about the louse, he guessed it; the princess was going to marry a black man; after The black man refused to be accompanied to the ceremony, carried the bride in the chest; left out of need; at this time the prince came up and opened the chest; when he found out what was going on, he took the girl, putting two cubs in the chest; bringing the chest home, the black man told the guests to have fun and ignore the screams from the bedroom; the tigers tore it; the next day they broke the door and saw them eat up the remains; the princess's father handed it to the prince throne]: D'Penha 1891, No. 7:111-113.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali.
The Balkans. Hungarians, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485; Romanians (Banat) [the emperor's daughter was born at the same time as the foal; she grows and cares for him, feeds him with fire and gives him wine; when she is 15 years old, her father decided to marry her; told her to make a drum by pulling the skin of a lice over it; whoever guesses whose skin it is will get a princess; the magician dragon sent his son, also a magician, he guessed it; the princess's horse told her everything; the king is also horrified; the horse tells her to ask his father to give her men's clothes and everything she needs, takes her away princess; tells you to look back; princess: the dragon catches up; the horse: how to fly - like the wind or as a thought? princess: like the wind; flew into the city; the horse tells you to go to the king, call yourself a prince, ask for service; the king will agree, for he is a friend of your father's youth; the king has fallen in love with the imaginary prince, and his associates became jealous and suspected that she was a girl; advised to send the prince to the bazaar, where there are various gold items; if he chooses a weapon, then a man, and if a spindle, etc., then a woman; the horse appeared and spoke about an insidious plan; the prince chose a weapon; the minister proposes a second test: send the prince to pick grapes; if he eats them unwashed from the vine, then a woman, and if she washes them and puts them on a plate, then a man; then the prince was offered to get a sorceress, the daughter of a neighboring king; her father keeps her in a glass palace on a glass mountain; the horse tells the king to ask the king for more jewelry and ornaments; when he sees them , first the princess's maid, then her mother, and finally herself, were amazed and the king gave his daughter to the imaginary prince; the lie brought her to the king, but she did not want a bearded man; the king shaved; the prince admitted to the bride that he himself is a girl; and he told everything to the king and the courtiers; the king married the princess to his son; he went to war, and his wife gave birth to two golden sons; the magician dragon took the form of the owner of the inn , replaced the letter: gave birth to two puppies; replaced the prince's answer with the command to execute the witch wife, drown the puppies; the woman was raised to the fire, but her horse rode, devoured the fire, took the mistress and her children away; said he would die: let the giblets place the giblets in the four corners of the wide field and the heart in the middle; the children herself and the children climb inside his carcass for the night; in the morning she is in the palace, and in front of the entrance there are two lions; they they guard the palace and bring edible roots and herbs; the prince returned, grieves; once he saw the palace while hunting; the hostess told the lions to let him in; he recognized his wife and children; everyone is happy; on the magician dragon sent an army, he was destroyed; after the death of his father-in-law, his son reigned]: Schott, Schott 1845, No. 16:111-126; Albanians [the king ask his daughter to look for lice; she found a louse in her beard; the king ordered put her in a box (and feed her); soon the louse became huge; the king orders to remove the skin from the lice and promises to pass her daughter off as someone who says whose skin it is; only the devil immediately said that it is the skin of a lice; the king realized that the one who guessed was not human; re-tested; the devil appeared in different clothes and asked to show the princess; grabbed her and carried her underground; that night the king forbade lighting the fire; alone the old woman did not pay attention; they came to her; she explained that her 7 sons were returning after dark and would not be able to find a home; the king called sons; one hears a man speaking in any distance; the other tells the earth to open; the third can quietly steal anything; the fourth will throw his shoe to the edge of the world; the fifth will call the tour in one word; the sixth will knock down anything at any height ; the seventh will catch everything that falls; the king sent them after the princess; the first heard a conversation underground, the second discovered the ground, the third carried the princess without waking up the devil, the fourth threw his shoe to the edge light; the devil took time to get his shoe; after catching up with the brothers, the devil asked permission to look at the princess through a small hole and flew with her high into the sky; the sixth brother shot him, and the seventh picked up the fallen princess; the king asks her who to marry her; the princess: the one who has taken her into his arms; he is the youngest; the princess's husband has received the throne, and the rest of the brothers have titles and posts]: Dozon 1881, No. 4:27-33 (=Meyer 1884, No. 8; 118-113); Gagauz people [the king skinned the lice; who guesses whose skin will get the princess; Cinderella guessed, got the princess, turned into a night a snake; the girl sent a letter with a dove; there was a man who stole the girl unnoticed by the snake; the serpent catches up, the man hit his fist, a cast-iron fortress appeared; the tsar got his daughter back]: Moshkov 1904, NO. 77:140.
Central Europe. Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelia), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev) [Lice skin (fleas): the princess makes a riddle (who owns it) skin); the young man guesses whether the princess should become the princess's husband; a more noble groom disputes his rights; the husband should be the one to whom the princess turns to at night (turns out to be poor)]: SUS 1979, No. 621:167-168; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the tsar found a louse in his daughter's hair, raised it, took off his skin and put it on the wall; whoever finds out whose skin I will give it back; the daughter asked the old man to tell the handsome guy what it was a louse, and the old man himself announced and took the princess; when he took him in a boat across the river, she shoved him into the water, and he seemed to move into her and repeat all her words; she was silent; she got a job with another king cook; says: how delicious! sitting in it repeats; princess: delicious, so go out; she pushed him into the soup, he cooked; Ivan Tsarevich divorced his young wife and took the princess worker]: Balashov 1970, No. 132:370-171; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya) [a louse was found in the princess's hair, put it on a sheep, it became the size of a sheep, a ram on a ram; the skin was made, her shoes were sewn; the tsar promises to give her daughter for someone who can guess what done; Damn it; the king left the key in the princess's clothes, sent her to {?} goat; Damn it, the goat replies that the princess is at home; The devil overturns the key, rushes in pursuit; the princess tells the goat to fall to the ground, listen; throws a comb (forest; cut through the road), flint (mountain, Damn made his way), flint (river of fire); Damn asks for a towel, pull it; the princess let go in the middle, the devil drowned; the princess married in another kingdom]: Onchukov 1906, No. 56:147-148; Poles , Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [the sister of seven brothers rejects the grooms; she raises a louse that does not fit in the chest; the girl stabbed her, salted her meat, promised to marry whoever says whose it is; after many attempts guesses the one from whose head this louse fell; sparrows tell the mother that her daughter is in the dungeon; each of the brothers says what gift he has (shoots accurately, leads an army underground, catches everything shot down without letting it fall to the ground, etc.); using these properties, the brothers penetrate the underground dragon, quietly carry their sister, kill the dragon that grabbed her and carried her to the sky, pick her up falling, returning home with his sister]: Tugov 1985, No. 57:172-174; Turks: Gordlevsky 1961, No. 18 [(summary of the text from the collection of Ign. Kunosha); the king hangs the skin of a lice that has reached the size of a cat at the palace, promising to pass off his only daughter as someone who will determine the name of the then unknown parasite; dev guesses and demands a reward; the king's stallion hides the princess in a pavilion in the middle of the sea; driving by, the prince meets her and marries her; then goes to war; the king sends his son the news of the birth of two children; dev replaces her at night the messengers have letters; the mother, mad with fear for the babies, runs; the devil rushes after her; the stallion saves her again; she lives in his cat; the deva's slander is exposed, the prince goes in search of his wife; finds her home; children learned by their mother ask: "Can a woman give birth to two kittens?" ; the prince is reunited with his wife, they return to the king; the maiden is given a choice: forty horses or the same number of cuffs; hoping for pardon, he asks for horses; he is tied to his tails animals]: 183; Eberhagd, Boratav 1953 [the padishah promises a daughter to someone who understands what kind of beast is in front of him (it is a calf-sized louse)]: 166; Ossetians, Georgians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians (Khorasan) [the king fed the louse to the size of a cow; he will give his daughter to the one who guessed who the skin was removed; through the wife of the vizier, the divas learns the secret, gets the princess]: Marzolph 1984, No. 621:127.
Baltoscandia. Estonians (Kodavere); Setu; Finns, Livs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485; Latvians [the princess has lice leather shoes; whoever guesses what material they are made of will receive princess as a wife; the toad guesses (s) and takes the girl away; "further as in 425A" (there are many different episodes under this number)]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 425B: 284; Lithuanians [{resume does not allow us to fully understand plot}; the Queen has a star on her forehead, the sun with the moon on her head; after her death, the king wants to marry her daughter; she demands a lice leather dress, gold shoes, etc.; runs away; when refused, the carrier tries to drown her; she hired to work in the kitchen; comes to church wearing magic dresses; the last time she didn't have time to take it off, she just threw rags on top; her brother recognizes her]: Cox 1893, No. 194:75; Western Sami [the king fed the flea, hung the skin on the wall, promised his daughter to guess which animal it was removed from; the wolf answered correctly, got the princess; the king dressed up the cowshed, the wolf took her like the bride, began to ask questions in the forest, from the answers I realized that the girl knew everything about the barn, returned it; the cook was the same; the king had to give her daughter, she did not know the answers, the wolf realized that she was really a princess; at home the wolf became prince charming; by allowing his wife to see her family, he forbade her to tell her that her husband was human; his wife broke her promise, the prince remained a wolf]: Pollan 2005, No. 24:97-98; Danes [king asks her daughter to see what is in his hair; she takes off the big louse; they put it in oil, she grows; when the barrels are small, the louse is slaughtered, the skin is removed; the king is dissatisfied that the princess rejects everyone suitors; promises to pass her off as saying which animal the skin was removed from; the wolf sniffs and tells the king that it is the skin of a lice, tells her to give her to the princess; brings her to a luxurious castle, forbids her light a fire; at night the wolf turns into a man, but the princess does not see him; when she gave birth to a son, the wolf immediately took him away; allows him to return to his parents for three days on condition that you do not take anything with him from their home; but the mother gives the knife to be put on the bed; the husband will be scratched; if he screams, he is a troll, and if he moans, the man; he groaned; forgave his wife, but since then he limped on his right back leg; when the wife gave birth to a daughter, the wolf also took her away immediately; the wife visited her parents again; the mother gave a box of matches and a candle; the wife lit a candle; the husband said that the witch bewitched him for 7 years for refusing marry her daughter; became a wolf and ran away; she came to Sister Wolf's castle, where her son was; her second sister had a daughter with a wet nurse; the wife went to the glass mountain, saw the Wolf climb her; she slides; the old man gave iron shoes to climb the mountain and ointment, heal the cuts; on the mountain in the castle, a woman was hired in the kitchen; a local young housewife would soon marry the Wolf; a witch tells me to wash the white flannel daughter and white black (the old man performs); tells me to bring jewelry from his sister for the bride; a young man gives a ball to follow; a rod to put it in a door that slams all the time; a bag grains - give to geese; tongs - give two people who move air with their bare hands; ladles - give to girls who interfere in the cauldron with their bare hands; two loaves of bread - give to guard dogs; a pot of fat - lubricate the door hinges; the witch's sister can't eat anything, do not look back on the way back; the witch's sister gave her leg to a calf, the woman threw it under the bench, she answers from there; the second time she hid it under clothes, the witch's sister believed that the woman ate her leg; when the woman runs back, the witch's sister tells the guards to hold her, but everyone refuses because she treated them well; the witch's sister warned do not open the box on the way, but the woman opened it, the bird flew out and disappeared; the young man asked for that calf leg that remained under the woman's clothes, sent her to bring jewelry again, leg ran and brought it; having received the box, the witch allowed the woman to attend her daughter's marriage; gave the woman two torches; she could not move, she could burn; the prince grabs them and hands a witch and her daughter; they burned down along with the castle; a meadow on the site of a glass mountain; the couple took the children and returned to the woman's parents]: Grundtvig 1878:251-276 (=Mulley 1878:225-236).
Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [Akkhan and Karakhan decided to marry children if wives give birth to babies of different sexes; A. has a son, K. has a daughter; A. died, K. forgot his promise; A.'s eldest daughter-in-law to his son: what is wrong with me to flirt, it would be better to go to the bride; the son asked his mother to fry wheat, held her in her hand, she had to confess; K.'s wife died, telling him to take a new wife more beautiful than her; K. found no one more beautiful than her daughter ; she set a condition: sew a flea fur coat and a lice leather handkerchief; K. fulfilled; she dug a hole in the bathhouse and covered it with a carpet; K. went, failed; the daughter left, began to live with the elderly; son A. found K ., pulled him out of the hole; K. says that his daughter killed her mother and went to the maiden; son A. stays in the same house as daughter K.; brings her wife, not knowing who she is; they have a son; K. comes, the daughter recognizes him, lets them live; he kills the boy, puts the knife next to her daughter; the mother tells her son to take the murderer wife; the son leaves her with the old people in whom he found her; she sees one snake reviving another, going around the stump; revives the son; he grows up, wins, chains the deva, frees the captives, lives with his mother in the deva's palace; K. comes, frees the deva, he figures out how to lime the young man; the mother of the young man fell unconscious when she saw K.; he sends her son for the medicine - the bear's milk; the young man takes a piece of stone out of the bear's leg, she gives milk; the young man again defeats the deva by splashing milk, turns K. in stone; marries a princess, reigns; his mother and father are with him]: Barag 1988, No. 54:377-385; marie [Lice skin: the king makes a riddle (who owns the skin); who will guess will receive the hand of the royal daughter; the devil overhears the answer; the princess escapes with the help of a horse and transformations, marries the prince]: Sabitov 1989, No. 621:38; Tatars: Uther 2004 (1), No. 857:485.
Turkestan. Kazakhs (Turgay) [a rich old man will pass off Ganifa's daughter as someone who can guess what material the glove is made of; two wolves heard G. complain to his friend (this is her daughter-in-law) that he will remain old maiden - she sewed a glove from aphid skin; in the morning a horseman comes accompanied by an old man - yesterday's wolves; the horseman guessed right, G. is glad, spent the night with him; tells her daughter-in-law that at night the groom scratched her chest and knocked his teeth; the groom asks not to accompany him when his wife is lucky home; G. sees how the groom became a wolf; friend: he is the one who has been taught werewolf; for the night both became wolves, howling summoned others to the set yurt; when the wolves fall asleep, pacer G. tells him to jump away, throwing small expensive things behind him at his instructions; each time the wolf picks up an item (ring, brooch) and takes it back to the yurt; the racer tells him slaughter him, eat his meat and blood, sprinkle blood around him, throw away his entrails, lie in his belly with his right front leg; in the morning the horse's belly became a yurt, his leg became a young husband, drops of blood - to the people who elected G. Khan]: Ethnographic materials 1898, No. 5:29-33; Kyrgyz [Khan's daughter Kuluke Madylgen cut and sewed a fur coat from her father's intestines; the khan could not determine what it was made of; when the daughter explained, the khan announced that he would give his daughter to someone who could figure out what the fur coat was made of; the red-eyed old man said that the intestines were lice; the khan had to give his daughter; the horse told M. with himself, a white camel and a slave Kuita, a sable hat out of clothes, a damask knife from utensils, and to dress in men's clothes; when they left, the old man said: "Go where I pull along, spend the night where I'm pulling along, spend the night where I am I pull across", went forward; the horse: this is the old sorcerer Jelmoguz; the horse ordered not to turn around - the old man will attack Kuita with a black-striped tiger; and so it happened; then the old man appeared, asked : "Are you going, beautiful Madylgen? Go where I pull along, spend the night where I pull across", drove forward again; it happened again with the white camel; now the horse warned that the old man would attack M., told me to sit tight; he would ride below the cloudy sky, above the cranked grass, so that M. closes her eyes more tightly, and when she hears "open your eyes", let her open it; she will see how thin (like a dorsal) yurt curls out of a small (like a heart) yurt brain) smoke, this is the old man's house; in the old man's house, a three-year-old warned M. that when the old man comes home, his eyes will come out; you need to cut them out with a damask knife, let him do the rest; horse flew over mountains and deserts, descended near the city, M. settled on its outskirts; the city's khan named Akimkan had forty wives, but not a single child; he went hunting, his hunting eagle sat on a grass hut, the horseman sent for the eagle saw M., fell unconscious; when he returned, he told Khan that he had seen an angel in the flesh: boy, but the voice is gentle, his face is beautiful, girl, but dressed like a man; the next day everything repeated, the khan went to the third, fell in love, but could not determine whether the man or the woman was in front of him; asked for advice from 40 wives, one advised to give the stranger 40 twigs of meadowsweet and instruct them to cut them off for spindles, the man cuts smoothly, the woman is uneven; the horse: put the rods in the left nostril, pull them out of the right nostril, they will become smooth; another wife advised to arrange jumps; the man has sleeves and floors they flutter at random, and the girl will ride shyly, picking them up and pulling them up; the horse taught M. to dissolve the floors and sleeves when jumping; the younger wife advised to invite a stranger to drink vodka and poison guest, and Khan's vodka and honey; when the guest gets drunk, it will be easy to determine his gender; horse: at every sip, say to yourself: "Sweetness to me, and hops to a gray three-year-old"; in the afternoon, one elder went into the yurt and exclaimed: "It is cruel to allow the horse to experience such torment, let the owner cut it himself"; when she heard him, M. shuddered, her sable hat fell from her head and everyone saw her beautiful hair; horse:" Blame only yourself" and disappeared; A. married M. in a separate yurt; when it was time for her to give birth, A. went hunting; 40 wives sent a slave, paid a witch, who replaced the boy who was born and the girl was puppies, the children were thrown into the river; they were caught by a gray three-year-old who rushed; Akimkan left M. with her puppies on a deserted island; a few years later, a three-year-old brought her children to M. on the island, ordered cross to the other side; "Before the crossing, an eyeless old magician will appear, ask him to be transported too, led to fill both of his boots with sand; seat the children in front and the old man in the back; when we enter the water, hit me with a damask knife; when the old man falls into the water, stab my belly with a knife, when I die, don't cry, cook my meat and eat it, name my son Aitomush, and my daughter Kyuntomush; stick my 40 ribs in the ground they will turn into an iron yurt with 40 bars, live in it"; as it happened, M. and her children settled in a yurt, Aytomush grew up as a hero; met Akimkan, who hunted; he told his wives that he had met a young man named Aitomush; soon the khan was attacked by enemies, he sent a messenger to Aitomush with the news that if he defeated his enemies, he would marry two girls, Apal and Yupel; M. drove the messenger away; his khan again sent - the same; Aitomush woke up from the noise, drove and defeated enemies; Khan with horsemen came to him, saw M., found out and fell unconscious; took her and her children; an old witch at the crossroads of 9 roads put on a stake, 40 wives were hanged; Khan put his son on the throne, married his daughter and healed happily]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:27-34; Uighurs (Khotan dialect) [tsar goes hunting, daughter puts two fleas in his stocking; driving past the cemetery, he declares that the deceased was his brother, he must cook a shroud for him; leaves fleas in the shroud; one flea ate the other, became a kid; the king tells the vizier to make a tambourine out of her skin, promises her daughter to someone who guesses which skin a tambourine is from; only the divas guessed, the princess laughed; three years later, the divas takes his wife to show her parents; the horse tells the princess that her husband is a diva, tells her father to ask her father for a certain horse and camel, not to say why, otherwise the princess sucks blood; the horse delivers the princess from the country of the diva to her father (camel, apparently, it prevents the wonder from seeing the fugitives); Andreev 1929, fairy tale 621]: Malov 1961, No. 7:16-19.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats; Mongols: Mikhailov 1962 [the khan ordered the elderly to be killed with a sheep's tail; the young man hid his father in a hole; the neighboring khan orders to determine where the planed tree has the top, and where is the bottom; the young man's father: the log will float along the river with the upper end forward; the neighboring khan sent a monster: what is this? young man's father: well-fed louse; if you rub your nails, the monster will be frightened; the khan has stopped killing old people, ceded the throne to the young man]: 64-65; 1967 [khan leaves; one wife promises to sew boots, the other sash and flea leather shirt, the youngest to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver back; older wives feed the baby to a cow; the returning khan orders the youngest wife to poke out his eyes, cut off his arm, leg, tie it to the tail of the cow, drive out; the cripple sees how a blind crane, a fox without a paw, a lame hare healed by eating certain grass; did the same, recovered; her cow gave birth to her own son; the eldest wife pretends to be sick, demands the heart of a child with a golden chest, a silver back; the servants gave her a dog's heart, she immediately recovered; the young man grew up, came to the khan, told his story; the khan drove away bad wives, the young man's mother took again]: 142-145; Bawden 1976 [one wife promises the king to sew seamlessly boots, the second a shirt made of lice leather, the third to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver ass; promises fulfilled; while the eldest distracts the younger one, the middle one lets the dog eat the child, it refuses; wraps it in straw, gives it to the cow, they eat; the husband tells his wife to poke out one eye, cut off his hand, break a leg, tie the same cow to the tail, drive it out; a woman watches different crippled creatures become whole {probably after eating certain grass, etc.}, recovers; the cow gives birth the boy she ate; the eldest wife pretends to be sick, asks her husband for the heart of a boy with a golden chest, a silver ass; the servants find him, but he disappears like a rainbow; next time they bring a heart dogs; the son tells the king his story; the youngest wife is returned, the eldest are expelled]: 494-495; the Altaians [the father sends three daughters for berries, holes the youngest's tuyaski; while they find a hole, they filled the tuyas, evening has come; the girls came to the seven-headed Tielven's hut; he sends them for skewer branches, they bring unusable ones; he goes by himself, they run away; they tell Beaver that his his back is round, his teeth are white; he drinks the lake, they cross to the other side; T. says his back is flat, his teeth are yellow; the Beaver tells him to make a raft out of reeds, rock it in the middle of the river; T. drowned; girls climbed on a fir tree; after urinating, they betrayed themselves to three passing merchants; one promises her future husband to sew clothes out of lice skins, the second to bake a thousand pies from one wheat, and the third to give birth to a gold-headed son; husband and wife leave her husband's newborn mother; she throws the baby into the sea, lulls the puppy; the mother exposes her breasts, says, shuyut smoit (My Milk River), after all lures her son out of the water; grandmother is tied to an immense stallion]: Kandarakova 1928:125-127.
Western Siberia. Northern Mansi (Berezovsky District): Kupriyanova 1960:63-65 [the daughter finds a louse in her father's head, which turns into a horse; the father promises to give his daughter to someone who guessed where the louse came from; guesses Hot lagup hatup wirs (someone with six legs and six arms); father and daughter wrap birch bark around the horse's legs and tail, run away; every time H. catches up with them, birch bark falls, he is in it gets confused; the girl's mother tells me to tie the horse to a small tree; the girl's younger brother leans over the ice-hole, from there the beast orders to tie it to the big one; the horse pulls out the tree, pulls it along; woman on a horse (mother or daughter?) petrified; H. burst, died], 65-68 [daughter finds nits in the eyelashes of the Bald King; presses, she turns into a louse; the girl presses the louse, she turns into a flea; the flea into a horse; as in the first version; a girl gets married, tells her husband to tie a horse to a small tree; her husband's younger brother leans over an ice-hole; an animal from an ice-hole: Your brother's wife told me to tie the horse to a big tree; the horse drags the larch to the owner, she sits down, runs away on it; the horse is tired, tells her to slaughter it, hide in her stomach; the horse is petrified, her ears become nails; the beast ran into them, died; the wife returned home, scolded her husband]; Eastern Khanty (b. Pym) [the old man tells his daughter to look in his head; there is a golden louse, he turns her into a golden winged horse; whoever guesses what the horse came from will pass off his daughter as him; the cannibal overheard, turned into a young man , got a girl; she gives birth to a son, her husband eats him; the wife calls the golden horse, he takes her away, she marries a merchant; he leaves, she gives him a note to tie the horse to a thin tree; someone replaces - tie to fat; wrote a note that a son was born, the moon was on one cheek, the sun was on the other; the other was replaced by a freak with a snake tail instead of legs; the merchant writes to wait for his return; substitution: Throw the mother and son in a barrel into the sea; the horse pulls out a century-old larch to which it is attached, takes the mother and son to the island, tells him to be killed, to climb into his belly; they find themselves in a rich iron house; The cannibal comes to the roof, asks to let him in; rolls on the roof, attacks nails, dies]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 103:99-97.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [a lonely dog Laaiku saw Jige Baba, turned into a child, she decided she had given birth; L. asked for meat, the old men slaughtered their only deer; asked them to move to the other side rivers, take a boat ride alone; sailed away, shouting that he was Laaika; the prince promises to pass off his daughter as the one who guessed the riddle; L. lies down in the grass, the prince's daughter stumbles over him, tells her friend that if got married, would not carry water; that her father has a pack cover made of seven lice skins; L. guesses what the cover is made of, gets married]: Efremov 2000, No. 17:277-281.
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais: Aurorin 1986, No. 4 (Garin Nanais) [the younger sister made a tambourine out of lice skin, a shaman belt out of flea skin, came to camla; one mergen did not guess; in another house, Mergen guessed The tambourine broke, the poody married the guesser]: 39; Kile 1996, No. 36 (p. Condon) [the old man asked his daughter to look in his head, she found a golden flea, the old man flattened it, made a tambourine, demands that his daughter's suitors guess what the tambourine is made of; a man with a hairy one guesses face; they had to give their daughter, since then they have had meat; the daughter's husband is always silent; she finds his mask in the hollow; the husband is furious, scolds his wife; the wife's parents ripped all their hair out, quarreling over that their daughter was given; the husband agrees to visit them; he always gave them half of the meat he got]: 345-347; ulchi.
SV coast. Tlingits [the young man has an abscess on his finger; he opens, turns into a little man; helps to complete the tasks of an old woman who kills grooms; 1) guess what animal this skin (well-fed lice) is; 2) kill a monstrous octopus, 3) a rat; 4) get a lost bracelet from the bottom of the sea (a man sends a shark for him); a young man marries an old woman's daughter; quarrels with his wife, she disappears; he turns into snipe that walks on the beach]: Swanton 1909, No. 38:177-180.