M90B. The sun is rising from the west.15.17.27.29.

The character was wrong when he claimed that the sun would never rise in the west or go down after midnight.

Sicilians, Socotra, Jordanians, Palestinians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Greeks (Lesbos), Nogais, Georgians, Armenians, Kurds.

Southern Europe. Sicilians (SW Sicily, Salaparuta) [poor Pippi has a mother and two sisters; he was hired as a boopas on a farm, but only for food, without money; an old ox advises asking the owner to give him back Pippi; the owner agrees; on Maslenitsa, P. went with an ox to visit his relatives; people are fleeing from a rabid bull; the ox advises to ask the bull if P. can tame him; defeated the bull; the king promises a daughter and gold to the one who plows a huge plot of land; the ox plowed, P. received the princess (during plowing, P. was given wine with opium, but the ox woke him up); the ox ordered him to be slaughtered; all dishes were prepared from his meat for a feast, and a garden grew out of buried bones; the wife found out the secret; the older sons-in-law proposed an argument: they know what the trees grew from; P. lost everything; thought that the sun had betrayed him, went to him; one old man sends to the older one, to the oldest; the oldest gives a pin to pull a splinter out of the lion's paw on its way to the sun; a grateful lion led to a sea of black water; tells him to say hello from him a winged snake; he appears before sunrise; the serpent hid P. under its wing so that the sun does not burn; then P. asks the sun why it gave it away; the sun: his wife betrayed; agrees to set after midnight; returning, P. makes a bet with his older sons-in-law, who are convinced that the sun will set at half past ten; his sons-in-law gave P. all his property, but P. returned it to them; the amazed king gave P. crown]: Calvino 1980, No. 172:616-622 (=Kotrelev 1991:148-156).

Western Asia. Socotra [The father tells his son to cut off and bury his finger after his death; it will grow into a tree that will bring wealth. And that's what happened. The young man asked those who came to guess what kind of tree it was. Whoever did not guess gave away the property. The young man got married even though the bride loved someone else. She promised her former lover to find out the secret of the tree. She told her husband to tell her a secret if he loved her. He swore an oath not to tell anyone. That man came in, sat all night, and at dawn said that the tree was from the owner's father's finger. The owner had to hand over all his property. He went to wadi and met a radiant woman there. She said she was the Sun her wife swore to. Let the tree owner argue about whether the sun will rise in the west or east. If one loses, one will return the property and the other will lose his life. The sun rose from the west, the man received back his property and the opponent's property, and the woman became covered with purulent ulcers due to a violation of the oath]: Kogan, Naumkin MS, No. 4 (resume in Naumkin et al. 2014, No. 4:2) ; Jordanians, Palestinians [{the motives present in the texts are listed according to S. Thompson, among them}: E607.1, The bones of the deceased are collected and buried; D1461, The Magic Tree provides the treasure; F961.1.2, The Sun moves from west to east; N81§, Bet: the sun will move from west to the east (will rise in the west and go to the east)]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 561B§: 319-320.

The Balkans. Albanians [a poor man saves a snake from the fire; she tells him to plant a wonderful fern in the yard, the poor man has become rich; a rich neighbor promises to give half of his work if he guesses what it is plants; didn't guess, I had to give it back; his wife told the wife of the former poor man that her husband was going to leave her; the husband denies everything; next time his wife demands that her husband swear, he swears "snake grass" ; the wife brags to the rich man's wife, she tells her husband; the snake advises to bet: if the sun rises from the west, the rich man will have to give all his property and leave; the snake sends the former poor man to the mother of the Sun; on the way, the pear asks to know why it does not bear fruit; the snake - why it can't crawl away; the water in the pond - why it is not flowing; the princess - why she is not married; the mother of the Sun promises that her son will rise tomorrow from the west; let the princess sweep the yard before sunrise; a man must drown in the pond; the snake must grab someone; the weight must be dug from under the pear; the person gives advice (to the pond and the snake goes a distance), digs gold from under the pear; in the morning he leads the rich man to the snake, which grabs him, drags him into the pond; the poor former man comes to the princess, becomes her husband; his former wife and wife He sent the rich man to the pond, they drowned in running water]: Lambertz 1952:138-144; Bulgarians [the poor man's bones grow a tree that brings gold instead of ordinary fruits; the owner of the inn (merchant, moneylender, king of Turks) learns the secret of the tree from the poor man's unfaithful wife, makes a bet, gives the right answer to the question of what the tree grew from, gets all the property of the loser; the man goes to the Sun, to ask how he can recover what he lost; on the way, an apple or pear tree is asked to know why it is barren or no one eats its fruits; a muddy or bloody river - why no one drinks its water; a girl - why no one marries her; the Sun promises a man to rise from the west; let him bet on this with the one who deceived him and return everything; a treasure must be dug from under an apple tree or pear tree; someone in the river if she must drown, then the water will be clean; the girl must get up early, wash herself, comb her hair and not take the garbage towards the sun; the person digs up and takes gold, wins the bet about places of sunrise]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № 461A: 162-164; Greeks (Lesbos) [parents sent their son overseas to study music; when he returned, he fell in love with a girl who is not a mother liked it, and she sent her son away again; the serpent asks him to play and dances himself; then brought him to the treasure cave; the young man can take whatever he wants, provided that he invites the snake to the wedding and he will call him brother; if this does not happen, he, the snake, will die; then his bones must be buried, a cypress will grow; drink coffee with his wife under him, and leave the third cup for the cypress: he will bend down and drink; it is necessary invite visitors to guess three times what kind of tree it is (snake cypress, Snake-Cypress), let them bet their fortunes; the mother forbade calling the snake to the wedding, he died; because of the third cup the wife is jealous of coffee, her husband told her everything; the servant overheard, asked for calculation, appeared in the guise of a merchant, called the tree; the cypress immediately collapsed; the husband decided that his wife had betrayed him, told her to go to the merchant; the old woman advises her husband to ask the merchant to answer whether the sun will rise from the east or from the west; makes it rise in the west; the husband returned everything, lived well with his wife]: Rouse 1896, No. 1:151-154.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Nogais [bai gives his daughter Altynshash as the first person he meets; this is a poor young man Omiruzak; he buys two cats, comes to a village where rats gnaw people's noses and ears; cats caught rats, residents they pay in gold; O. is happy with his wife in a new house; bought a snake, she died, a golden tree grew on her grave; A. blurted out the secret to the mullah's wife; O. told the mullah that if he knew the secret, let him take it away house and wife; in a dream, the soothsayer says O. that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west; O. argues with the mullah where the sun will rise, the sun has risen in the west, O. returns what he lost and gets the mullah's wife]: Nogai 1979, No. 28:137-140; Georgians (Imereti) [Solomon asks the employee if he wants money or good advice; he chooses advice; 1) don't trust secrets to anyone; 2) don't offer anything yourself, if not asked; 3) here is a road; wrap it in snakeskin that you find on the way and stick it in the ground in your yard; a tree with golden fruits grew out of the staff; the man hid it in a chest, became rich, got married; once, when her husband was away, three Armenians came and asked him to spend the night; when they saw a golden tree, they decided to steal it; they promised his wife money if he found out from her husband where he got this tree; He did not reveal the secret for a long time, but in the end he told it and his wife told the Armenians; they demanded a tree from him, he agreed to give it back if they told me where it came from (otherwise they would pay him themselves), lost the bet; went to Solomon again; he ordered a new bet with the Armenians: from which side the sun would rise; they replied that it was from the east, but this time the sun came from the west (if they said that west, S. would have picked it up from the east); the man returned his tree; continued to visit S.; the king called S. to his place twice through the vizier, had to go, the servant was with him; at lunch the king needed a knife, servant S. offered his own; the king said that his knife, the man was imprisoned, S. was forbidden to see him; S. hit the cat, he meowed, S. began to bake it in a loud voice so that the servant behind the wall could hear; let him say that He took the knife out of the body of his murdered father, and since the king's knife, the king is the murderer; the king did not know what to answer and let the man go]: Dirr 1920, No. 67:254-256; Armenians [the snake orders to cut off her head, leave in the hut; there is a pomegranate tree that bears fruit with jewelry; the poor man gets rich, becomes king; others have found out about this, took the tree; he goes to God with a complaint; on the way two women they ask to know why they suffer from headaches, three horses - why scabies harass them; old god: women must marry, horses must serve people; they must be taken; the person who took grenades will come again bet; we must bet that the sun will rise from the west; this is what happened; the man regained his kingdom, but left his wife and children to the enemy]: Khachatryants 1933:246-252 (=Karapetyan 1967:154-158); Kurds [Avci Ahmad hunts, the white snake asks him to protect him from the black snake, he shoots but accidentally shoots the white tail; the white snake returns to his father, the snake shah; he sends cobras to sting AA , but they hear his story addressed to agha, tell the khan that AA is innocent; the Shah summons AA, orders him to point to the guilty serpent; AA indicates that he is being killed; the daughter of the Snake Shah tells him to ask for poison as a reward from her father's mouth; AA began to understand the language of stones, plants, animals; the Shah's daughter tells her severed tail to be buried at home; a tree with unprecedented fruits has grown; AA asks everyone what kind of tree it is; caravan persuaded AA's wife to find out the secret, AA answered correctly, so he won the argument, got his house and wife; the white snake tells me to sleep at the mazar; the saint buried there tells me to argue with the caravan that the sun will rise in the west, go to the east, give a jug of gold; the sun has risen in the west, AA has returned its home; then how AA understands animal words, then gets into trouble and then avoids misfortune; finally dies]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 23:238-247.