M90C. Stepladder instead of wife .21.29.30.
Theman agreed with another that he could take the first thing he touched from his house. The visitor is going to take his wife, but when he takes up the stepladder to go up to the woman, he is told to pick up the stepladder and leave.
Meitei, Ingush, Kumyks, Georgians, Kurds, Pashtuns.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Meitei [a single man; he does not have time to meet friends because he has to do all his homework himself; once ordered a wooden figure of a woman to a craftsman; talked to her like alive; one day he went to meet a friend and told his imaginary wife to cook for his return; ashamed to say that he was single, the man replied to a friend that he was married and invited him to his place; leaving the guest at the door, the man went to cook everything himself, but saw a woman who cooked and cleaned everything; the figure came to life; amazed by the beauty of the hostess, the guest suggested that next time each of them had the right to take from the other's house what he touched; he thought he would take the woman away; a man brought a chest of jewelry from a friend; when a friend came to visit the person again, the wife She climbed a stepladder to the roof; the guest climbed after her, but was told to pick up the stepladder and leave]: Oinam et al. s.a.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ingushi [the poor man is married to a beautiful woman; found two growing watermelons, brought one to his wife; she advises selling it to a mullah; the mullah gave plenty of bread; when he found out that there was another watermelon, he made a condition : he will give him any object that the poor man touches, but if he does not bring a watermelon, he will give him what the mullah touches; the mullah sent the student to overhear the couple's conversation and steal it watermelon; not finding it, the poor man began to wander out of grief; a rich and generous man invited him to his place; gives him good clothes and an expensive knife, leads to the khan; tells him not to let go of the knife and not give in his seat next to the khan; but the poor man gave him more and more guests, was on the edge; gave his knife for others to look at him; the khan said that his knife was stolen along with his money; who took the poor man the man has achieved that he was given to him on bail on the condition that he would not teach him what to do; the owner does not turn to the poor man, but to the cat; let the poor man wear the best outfit and come to the best horse prince, demanding compensation for the brothers allegedly killed with the khan's knife; the prince paid off with money, the poor man became rich; the owner taught his guest: when he returns home, let all the property and his wife be placed on upper floor, and the mullah will give the stairs he touches when he climbs upstairs; the mullah got the stairs]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 124:332-336; Kumyks [=Khalilov 1965, No. 73:230-233; man asked the old man to give him four minds; he tells him 1) not to reveal secrets to his wife; 2) not to give anything if they do not ask; 3) ask the name of everyone he meets; 4) not to sit in someone else's seat; the man said to his wife that she saw watermelon whips on the way; she told the women and they told their husbands; one of the husbands loved the first man's wife; bet there were no lashes, tore them off at night; the loser asked for three day deadline: then you can touch whatever you want with your hand; he thinks he will touch his wife; the man did not immediately find the old man, because he asked his name; the old man advised him to sit on the top floor and put up the stairs; the winner climbed it; the owner told him to pick up three steps of the stairs and leave; came to visit with the old man; began to give way to everyone and was at the door; offered his cut the knife into a watermelon; the young man said that the knife was his; the old man swore to the young man that he would not give advice to the fool, agreed to take the case to court; began to beat the cat, saying: "My father was stabbed to death with this knife, so you are a criminal"; the young man got scared and gave the knife to the owner]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:200-201; Georgians [the employee agrees to take from the merchant not 20 rubles, but two lucky nickels instead of paying; merchant promises to take them to the employee's wife himself, who stays for another year; the merchant bought a cat for nickels; in another place where rats could not live, he sold it for pearls and precious stones, took them to the employee's wife; in the second year, the same (the merchant bought a mirror on his heels, sold it to the king, who had never seen mirrors); after the third year, the merchant gives advice to the farmhand: whatever you find on the road, pick it up and bury it at the doorstep; who He will not ask, do not say you know where it comes from; do not open your heart to anyone; the poor man found a snake's tail on the road, buried it at the doorstep; found out how generously the merchant paid him, but did not talk to anyone about it; in one night, a poplar grew at the doorstep with jewelry on the branches; the prince envied man's happiness; arranged a feast, ordered not a single knife on the table; the man was also invited, offered his knife; the prince said that the knife had been stolen from his father; they decided that if the prince found out what the poplar grew out of, the dagger and everything he would lay his hand on; the prince sent the sorceress to the man's wife, she persuaded her husband to share a secret; the merchant found out about the trouble, came; the prince forbade them to live together, so he turns to the cat so that the person hears in the next room; say about the knife that it was found in the body of the father of a man whom the robbers killed; when the prince climbs the ladder, cut off three steps, let him take it; the prince returned his dagger and ran away in shame]: Chikovani 1954, No. 63:311-315; the Kurds [Ahmad came to Aleppo look for a job, worked for a rich man for 7 years, bought 7 tips from the owner with the money he earned: 1) you need patience for everything; 2) the most beautiful is the one who loves your heart; 3) do not give anything until you are asked; 4) do not reveal the truth to your wife; 5) if you are sitting in a place of honor, do not talk to the one on the opposite end; 6) grab everything softer than a stone on your way home; 7) don't get up from where you sat down; A. hired a caravan man; he asks him to go down to the well to get water; when A. sent buckets of water upstairs, a door opened in the wall, the young man dragged him into the room, there is a beauty and a frog, the young man asks who is more beautiful; A.: who did his heart love; the young man gave A. seven grants; the caravan gave A. gold; A. asked to bring gold and grenades to his wife Seyran; seven-year-old son S. Ismail opened one grenade, and jewelry fell from there; S. bought ordinary pomegranates for her son, bought a palace and a garden for jewelry, got servants; when A. went to the house, A. noticed a dead snake on the road and, remembering the council picked her up, covered the house with earth by the porch; when he saw a young man next to his wife, he grabbed a dagger, but realized that it was his son; where the snake was buried, a tree grew; if anyone said it was a pear, on a tree apples appeared if the apple tree was covered with peaches, etc.; the guessing A. promises to give all the property, and not the guessing player would give him his own; everyone lost, A. became immensely rich; the huckster persuaded the old woman gain confidence, convince S. that A. should tell her a secret, leave a chest in the bedroom; he hid himself in the chest and found out about the snake tree; agreed with A. that he would give him three things if he will answer correctly; when he called the snake tree, it broke out and disappeared; A. asked for three days, came to his first owner, who took him to a feast with the padishah, told him to sit next to him; but A. everyone the one who entered gave way and was on the very edge; the padishah is looking for a knife to cut a watermelon, A. offers his own, the padishah liked it; the vizier said that this knife was stolen from the royal treasury; the owner asks to let go A. promises not to say anything to him for the night; tying his donkey, beats him and talks to him as if about the advice that A. had broken; tells him to say that his father was attacked by robbers, he pulled the knife out of his chest, let the padishah will now pay for blood; padishah: this is what the vizier said; the vizier was executed; the owner Ahmed: the three things that the huckster wants are A.'s life, wife and property; orders to put a high staircase near the house and get to the balcony with his wife; the huckster will take three steps - these are three things he touched, let him take the stairs; everything is fine]: Rudenko 1970, No. 45:116-126.
Iran - Central Asia. Pashtuns [Buzurg Khan tells his wife that she saw a ripe melon in the field; she deliberately claims that this cannot happen, the melons are not yet ripe; negotiates with her lover to take it away unnoticed melon and would argue with her husband: if there is no ripe melon in the field, he has the right to take what he touches first from his house, and if so, B. can take whatever he wants from that person; there is no melon; in the morning His wife's lover comes, sees her on the roof, starts climbing the stepladder; the husband tells him to pick up the stepladder and leave]: Thornburn 1876:197-199.
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