M90a6. Rejuvenating apples. 14.27.28.29.31.33.

Owning some apples ensures eternal youth.

Kabils, Algerian Arabs (eastern Algeria), Scandinavians, Slovenes, Russians (Terek coast, Arkhangelsk, Tambov), Ossetians, Azerbaijanis, Kyrgyz.

North Africa. North Africa. Kabila [a sick father tells his seven sons to bring the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), those they cook 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man picks up and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws him into the hole; brings his wife into the house of the devas, tells him not to enter the same room, leaves hunt; the wife comes in, sees that one dev is only injured, heals him, converges with him; the young man comes to the cannibal teriel, puts on her chest, now she is his mother, promises to help; trying to get rid of from the woman's husband, dev advises that she ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat in front of the ox, change straw in front of the dog; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw horns furiously, you will fly across seven seas, fall on an apple tree, pick apples; an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back; when he returns, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; dev to the woman: tell her husband that You are afraid if he is not weak, let him tie himself; when he can't break his fetters, I'll get out and kill him; he tears all his fetters; T. young man: they will kill you, ask you to put your bones in a bag, load it on a donkey, he will come, I'll revive you; when he came back to his wife, she offered to tie him with her hair, he couldn't escape, the devil killed him and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded her bones, covered him with wool and silk, gave him milk, his body recovered, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a bag of salt and a bag of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, dev lets him in; offered to tell a fairy tale; while he is telling his story, Dev and wife sink into the ground, he cuts their heads off; kills their deva son; wants to return to his father, T. gives the box (do not open it on the way) and a black man; he opens outside the house, there is a beautiful daughter T., she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises a Jew a reward for killing his son; he leads the young man hunts, feeds salty meat, gives water in exchange for eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the black man does not let him in, kills everyone; the young man hears the conversation between the old eagle and the chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; chicks: suddenly our father will treat us like a man with his son who is under a tree; eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of a tree; the young man saw the light, the chicks covered an eagle; the young man came to the old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he killed a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that the black man would be tied to blood, blood will spill, he will fall; witnesses: this man killed a black man; the father hands over power to his son without knowing who it is; before that, asks the wise men if the father can marry his daughter-in-law; 6 say yes, the seventh, that no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him, orders him to kill a Jew and punish the 6 wise men]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 2:11-24; the Arabs of Eastern Algeria (Souf) [the king keeps his seven sons in palace, wanting to protect them from all the bad things in the world; they are given boneless meat, almonds without shells, watermelons without skins; once a black maid forgot to take out the bones; young men began to play by throwing bones into each other, broke the window and saw the outside world; told the maid to tell everything about birth, love, death; sent him to ask him to let them go; the king married sons; his daughters-in-law annoyed him, he decided to get rid of them; the Jew advised him to be sick, let the sons bring the blood of their wives; six wives were killed, and the youngest Ali brought blood to the gazelle, ran away with his wife; they came to the house of 40 blind gulas; those They made 40 tortillas and 40 servings of meat; Ali quietly took one serving; the ghouli got into a fight, Ali killed them and threw them into the well; his wife heard a groan, pulled out and hid one guli who had just been injured; Ghoul advised to send Ali for golden rejuvenating apples; the old woman teaches Ali to slip between the crushing mountains; have time to jump over the garden fence (as soon as the wall sees Ali's horse, she will begin to grow ); picking apples, galloping away without turning around; Ali turned slightly to his voice, the horse's tail was cut off; the old woman tells her to give the rejuvenating apples to her and his wife to bring the usual ones; the ghoul advised to offer Ali play chess for a living; Ali let his wife win, believing it was a joke, but she killed him, put pieces of his body in a bag, attached his horse to the saddle and told the horse to jump to where he came from; old lady she put the pieces together, but her heart and liver were not enough; she sent the cat to the ghoul, who brought her heart and liver; the old woman revived Ali with the juice of rejuvenating apples; he came to the ghul under the gul disguised as a dervish, hacked him down at night, stabbed his wife, returned to the old woman; she turned the cat into a beautiful woman, Ali married her, returned to his father, who handed him the throne]: Scelles-Millie 1963:313-316.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece []; Slovenes [the king is old, weak; the old man orders to eat a rejuvenating apple; the eldest, middle son is rude to the beggar he meets, he turns them into crows; the younger is generous , gets an apple, the king recovers, the youngest turns brothers into people with this poor branch]: Arkhipova 1962:104-107.

Central Europe. Russians (Teresky Bereg) [the tsar grew old, sent his sons for rejuvenating berries; the eldest, middle son went - did not return; there are three roads from the pole: he is alive - the horse is hungry; I do not live myself 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 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 elders to the youngest; the old man has a head in a big corner, his legs are on the threshold; the mistress of the rejuvenating berries is sleeping, 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, seemingly gol Kabatskaya, his wife meets and takes them home]: Balashov 1970, No. 43:139-146; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [tsar sends sons for rejuvenation apples and live water to cure blindness; two older brothers cannot cross the river, build a bridge that is blown away by the current every night; third brother Ivan Tsarevich goes for the elders; the old woman points out I. the oak under which the horse is hidden; I. frees the horse, he jumped on his shoulders, I. tamed him; took his armor and the kladenets sword; the horse jumps over the river; I. consistently goes to three Baba Yagas, changes his horse to a diptera, three-winged, four-winged; jumps into the garden on a four-winged; takes apples, living and dead water; kisses and "spoils" the sleeping King Maiden; a horse refuses to carry until I. is flooded with water; I. drenches; the horse jumps over the strings; the sound wakes up the Tsar Maiden; she sends the servants in pursuit; old women change I. horses in reverse sequences; after the third hut, I. fires an arrow towards the chase, pulling ditches, but does not stop the chase; writes on the stove a ban on chasing him, for someone who cannot lift it in alone; the chase returns; I. goes to bed next to his brothers; they cut the head of his sleeping man with a sword, throw him into the river; bring apples to the king; I. catches the princess, who was drawn to be a victim three-headed snake; she finds the dead man alive and dead water, revives I.; he promises to save the girl; falls asleep; the girl cannot wake him up; I. wakes up from tears; cuts down the snake's heads, buries them into a hole, covers him with a stove; falls asleep; drabants (guards) cut I.'s throat with a sword, throw him into the swamp; force the princess to imagine the drabants as her saviors; the king is preparing to pass the princess off as a drabant; Three days before the wedding, the girl goes to look for I.'s body; finds it on the third day; revives with living and dead water; I. plays at the wedding as a musician; the girl says that it was I. who saved her from the snake; I. can show where their heads are buried, the drabants cannot; they cannot lift the stove, I. raises; the drabants are afraid to take their heads out of the pit; the king gives Princess I.; I. goes for a blessing; the old woman says that The Tsar Maiden came to the city and demanded I. to answer; the tsar sent his eldest son; the Tsar Maiden's children drove him away; I. goes to the Tsar Maiden; the Tsar Maiden's children are trying him too; Ivan Tsarevich by the hair brings children to the Tsar Maiden, marries nay, leaves for her kingdom; marries her son to the one he saved from the snake]: Smirnov 1917, No. 1:3-12; Russians (Tambov Gubernia) [the king is old, blind; we need rejuvenating apples, living water; the eldest son comes to a woman, she offers to lie down with her Duneya, he falls into the dungeons to threshing raw rye; the same average; the youngest hits D . in the bathhouse, makes the brothers let go, they go wandering; the youngest comes to the girl, she refers to her sister, she refers to the other, the eldest to their witch aunt, teaches her 6-winged horse to cut the veins of an aunt, carry apples, water on its 4-wing; brothers steal from a sleeping apple, but not water, into the underworld; there they give maidens to be eaten by a snake, the turn of the royal daughter; the hero cuts off the snake's seven heads; the deceiver kills him, makes the princess recognize him as the snake as the winner; the princess catches his head and torso in the sea, revives him with living water; he shows the snake heads hidden by him; the deceiver tied to a horse, let her into the field; a hat bird lifts the young to the ground, on the way she feeds her a bull, the princess cuts off the last piece from her thigh; the bird regurgitates it, the prince applies back; restores sight to his father with water; deceiving brothers rushed into the river]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 171:431-435.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [one golden apple ripened on the sledge apple tree a day; it healed people from diseases and healed wounds, although it did not save them from death; at night someone stole an apple; sledges took turns guarded, but to no avail; it was Warhag's turn; he sent the sons of Ahsar and Ahsartag to guard; if the apple is stolen, one of them will be beheaded by sledges, the other hand will be placed on stakes; Ahsartag guarded until midnight, but then told Akhsar that he could continue to sleep; at dawn a dove flew in; Akhsartag cut off half of her wing with an arrow, the apple fell to the ground; the brothers went to the ground on a bloody trail to the sea; Akhsartag descends into the sea; if bloody foam immediately rises, he dies; if white, let Ahsar wait for him for a year; in a house at the bottom of 7 brothers say that they have 3 sisters; one of them, Zerassa, is in the habit of stealing sledge apples in the guise of a dove; if you put on a severed wing and letting her eat an apple, she will recover; whoever cures her, she will marry; Ahsartag Dz healed; a year later he remembered to go back to his brother; Z. turned herself and her husband into fish and they surfaced; they came to Ahsar's tent, but he was just hunting; Ahsarsag went to look for him, they missed each other; J. mistook Ahsar for her husband, they were so similar; Ahsar put his sword in bed for the night; Z. got up, was offended; Ahsarsag returned, thought that his wife had cheated; Ahsar fired an arrow into the sky: let will hit me at the place that Dz touched; the arrow hit Ahsarsag in the little finger and he died; Ahsartag stabbed with a sword; Uastyrzhi descended from the sky with a three-legged horse, promised to bury his brothers if Z. went for him; when he did it, Z. said that she must wash herself first, went to the sea, went to her father; Uastyrji promised to find Dz. in the world of the dead; his mother sent Z. to give birth to sledges on earth, otherwise they they do not recognize children as their own; Dz. gave birth in the lower tier of the Warhaga ancestral tower; the twins Uryzmag and Khamyts were born; they grew up quickly; H. broke the girl's jug out of mischief; she advised him to find it better his grandfather Warhag, who grazes sledges; W. recognized them, brought them upstairs to the ancestral tower; married Z.; died a year later, Dz died a year later; before her death she ordered her sons to guard her three nights the crypt; H. went to guard, but heard the music and went to the wedding; at that time Uastyrji came in, revived Dz., got together with her, she gave birth to a girl, died again; Uryzmag heard crying, took out a girl, she was named Shat & #225; Noah; same in Kaloev 1980:375; addition: On the third night, Uastyrdzhi came to D.'s crypt, then let his horse and dog go. A year later, dead D. gave birth to Satan, the foal of Arfan, "the eldest of horses," and the puppy Silam, "the oldest of dogs." D. left offspring that formed the powerful Nart family of Akhsartagkat)]: Liberinsky 1978:50-64; Azerbaijanis [Shah's apple tree annually brings one rejuvenating apple, its someone takes away; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the younger Melik-Mamed injures the diva, the brothers are on a bloody trail; the elders cannot go down to the well because of the heat, MM consistently meets three girls at the bottom and three divas; each points a bubble with the diva's soul, MM breaks it; sends the girls upstairs; the youngest says that if the brothers cut the rope, MM must jump on the white ram; the rope cuts, the white ram drops MM on the black one, which takes it to the realm of darkness; there the dragon devours the Zumrud chicks every year; MM kills him; the bird promises to take MM upstairs if he gets it forty oxen carcasses and forty wineskins of water; MM kills a dragon that covers the water that gives it for girls; the king gives him meat and wineskins full of water; the last piece of MM cuts off his thigh, the bird applies him back; MM is hired by a tailor; in his true form, on horseback, cuts off the head of his older, middle brothers; opens, marries, gives two other girls for courtiers]: Akhundov 1955:50-63 (= Mazaev, Kasumov 1997 (2): 463-474).

Baltoscandia. The Scandinavians [Odin, Loki and Hoenier walked for a long time, got hungry, killed and began to fry the bull. A bull does not roast at the behest of a big eagle sitting above them in a tree. The eagle promises that the meat will be ready if it is allowed to eat it. Starts to eat meat. L. hits him with a stick, which sticks one end to the eagle and the other to L. The eagle rises into the air and lets Loki go only for promising to lure Idunn and her rejuvenating apples out of Asgard. L. lures I. out of Asgard into the forest (he says he found some apples and asks him to bring her for comparison). Giant Tiazzi arrives in the form of an eagle, carries I. The aces immediately turned gray. They grabbed L., who promised to go to the giants if Freya lent him his falconry. After receiving it, he flew north to T.'s home while he was boating at sea. L. turned I. into a nut and flew back with her. In Asgard, aces set fire to the plumage of the stalker L. T.-Eagle, they killed him. His daughter Skadi wore a chain mail and helmet and went to avenge her father. She was offered a ransom: choose a husband. She saw pretty legs, thought it was Balder and that was Nyord from Noatun. The second condition is that the aces must make her laugh. L. tied the goat by the beard with a rope and the other end around his scrotum. Both were pulling and screaming. K. Loki fell to her knees and she laughed. O. threw T.'s eyes into the sky, made them two stars]: Younger Edda 1970:56-57.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [the old man had three sons and an apple tree; he ate these apples every year and got younger; one day someone ate all the apples still unripe; the following year, the eldest son went to guard, fell asleep; the next year the middle son was the same; in the third year, the youngest son did not sleep all night, played the flutes; a goldbird flew in, began to peck apples; the young man crept up, but the bird flew away, leaving him in him a pen in his hand; the father sent his sons to pick up a bird; the eldest went on good horses, the youngest was a two-year-old; reached the black stone with the inscription: "Whoever goes to the left will die, who to the right is a horse will die"; foal: "Go to the right"; a wolf chased the young man in the forest, the young man jumped off his horse, ran away, the wolf attacked the horse; the wolf to the young man: "Since I ate your horse, I will help you achieve what I want"; told him to sit down and close your eyes to him; when the young man opened them, he saw that the ox had brought him to the city; the wolf: "The bird is in this house, sneak in, grab the wings, not the legs; the young man grabbed the bird by the legs, the bells rang, horsemen woke up, the young man was brought to the khan; the khan promised to give the bird in exchange for a horse with a golden mane and tail; the wolf brought him to another city: "Behind 40 palaces, there is another palace, in which a horse, do not take it as an excuse, but grab the mane"; the young man again forgot the wolf's order; the khan will give the horse in exchange for Khan Bunchy's beautiful daughter; she went out into the garden in the morning, 40 girls were walking in front of her, 40 more behind, left and right; the wolf took B.; On the way back, the young man and B. fell in love with each other, the young man asked the wolf to come up with something; he turned out to be an even more beautiful girl than B., the young man took her to Khan, who gave the horse; when the khan entered the yurt, and there was a wolf , the khan fainted, the wolf caught up with the young man and B.; then turned into a horse, the khan gave the golden bird; Khan's wolf regained his appearance, ate all the horses and caught up with the young man; when we reached the forest, where the wolf ate the horse young men, the wolf gave the hair from his mustache and stayed there; when the young man and B. fell asleep at rest, the older brothers killed the youngest, took the girl, the bird, the horse; the wolf rushed, and his friend's corpse was pecked by crows; the wolf the ravens grabbed the ruler, ordered him to get immortal water; he sent the crows for immortal water, they brought it in their beaks; the wolf mixed it with the blood of the raven ruler, smeared the body of the young man, the young man woke up: "I slept for a long time"; at home, the elder brother is going to marry B.; the young man sent an old woman to his father: let him be allowed to play the flute; B.: "Here is the young man who took me, and these two killed him and they brought me here"; the old man married his youngest son to B.; once they were visited by a wolf in the guise of a wandering dervish; the young man recognized him, received him and escorted him with honor; the old man ate apples from his apple tree every year and was young]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:187-191.