M91B. Ash sold, (ATU 1535).

.13.15.21.-.24.29.30.32.-.34.36.37.

A person manages to fraudulently sell or exchange ash for gold and money. Others are unsuccessfully offering ash for sale.

Tupuri, Amhara, Lavrung, Almora (rangkas), Kirati, Angami, Mikir, Garo, Mona, Pakistan, Kumaoni, Bengali, Hindi, Santals, Kondas, Assamese, Kannada, Tamils, Simalur, Adygs ( Bzhedugs), Stavropol Turkmens, Ossetians, Nogais, Kumyks, Dargins, Rutulans, Lezgins, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Turkmens, Persians (?) , Yagnobs, Vakhans, Ishkashim, Munjan, Bartangs, Sarykols, Mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, (Sami), Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Komi, Mordovians, Mari, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Tuvans, Shors, Khalkha Mongols, Inner Mongolian Mongols, Buryats, Western (Vilyuisky) (?) Yakuts, Nanais, Negidals, Wilta.

Sudan-East Africa. Tupuri [the pigeon and the ground squirrel sowed beans; collected 30 baskets, and the squirrel only two; told the pigeon that the bazaar did not cost beans, but ash from beans; the pigeon burned its beans, loaded the ash on carts and took him to the bazaar; he was laughed; on the way home, the pigeon asked the tailor to sew clothes for him; he gave little money, so the tailor sewed it from the remaining scraps; told the squirrel that he had ordered expensive clothes for money raised from selling ash; now the squirrel has burned its beans, she has also been ridiculed; on the way home, she sees a man who is going to sow sorghum, but the ground is cracked from dryness; the squirrel says knows who can glue cracks - pigeon; dove: yes, but you need an earth squirrel skin; a man ripped off a squirrel's skin]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 37:178-180; Amhara: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010 [seven brothers are angry; mother gives birth to Shinjiro, a boy with a finger; brothers try to lime him; tell him to steal a calf, feast in the forest, do not give S. meat; he asks for a bubble, hits him, making a fuss, brothers they run away, S. brings meat to his mother; after filling the bag with ash, asks him to spend the night; in the morning he says that the flour was replaced with ash; the owner gives him a bag of flour; the brothers go to change the ash for flour, they laugh at them]: 369-371; Bystrov et al. 1962 [=Gankin 1979, No. 120:166-168; one of the seven brothers is a dwarf, the others stabbed him to death; he caught mice with mice, climbed a tree, shook off the mice at the merchants, they ran away, he took possession of their property, said he bought them by selling their skins; the brothers slaughtered their bulls, got nothing; they burned the dwarf's house; he collected ash in bags, sprinkled it with teff on top, stopped for the night; he said that Negus flour had been stolen from him, replaced him with ash and teff; the owner put flour in his bags; the brothers burned their houses, went to sell ash, they were beaten; the brothers put the dwarf in a basket, left them at the edge abyss; he replied to the traveler that he was sitting to be cleansed from sins; the traveler swapped places with him, the brothers threw the basket into the abyss, the dwarf returned on the traveler's mule, said mules in the abyss; brothers asked to drop them, died]: 46-49.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a poor farmer says he sold manure for the price of an ointment; a rich man tries to do so, then kills a poor man's cow or horse; burns his house; he succeeds by deception get gold for ash; a poor man sells the skin of a cow or horse - supposedly, she guesses where the food is or where the lover hides; the poor man sells an animal that supposedly defecates with gold; a cauldron that, allegedly cooks his own food; a rabbit who allegedly runs to the address and gives instructions; throws up a corpse, others mistake it for a living, thinks he has killed a person; a rich man tries to imitate, burns down a house, killed his wife or mother; put the poor man in a bag to drown; he persuades the shepherd to switch places, brings the herd (says from the bottom); the rich man drowns]: Cardigos 2006, No. 1535:316-317.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lavrung [Blo ring and Zæn tşi together own a golden statue; B. tells his mother to hide among the pines, leads Z., asks who owns the statue, the deity (i.e. mother B.) answers that B.; H. sets fire to the forest, B.'s mother dies; B. brings the corpse to the king's house, the corpse is eaten by dogs, B. accuses the king of murder, receives gold, cattle; Z. kills his mother, carries her meat to sell, the king orders beat him; H. burns B.'s house; he puts ash in a bag, on top of two butterflies, tells the children not to open the king's house; they open it, the butterflies fly away, B. says that the valuables are gone, receives compensation; Z. burns down his house, sells ash, beats]: G.yu lha 2012:53-55; almora (Rangkas) [the man has only a small herd of goats; neighbors pushed them off a cliff, the goats died; the man took off his skins, went sell; spent the night in a cave on the way; robbers sat at the entrance; when they heard the crackling and rustling of skins from the depths of the cave, they ran away in horror, leaving the stolen silver; the man returned and borrowed from his neighbor measure; the neighbor smeared the bottom with resin to find out what he was measuring; saw a coin stuck; the poor man said it was obtained for his skins; the neighbor slaughtered his cattle, but received a penny for his skins; then he burned down the poor man's house; he collected the ash in a bag and went to sell it; on the way he accidentally exchanged bags with a man carrying flour; when he noticed a change, he brought flour home; the neighbor burned down his house, tried unsuccessfully to sell ash, and repented in what he did]: Grierson 1909:489; kirati (? eastern Nepal) [three crows brought orange each to the three sisters, the girls ate them, two gave birth to a son, the youngest a mouse; the sons grew up, went to royal service; two years later they asked permission to return home; the eldest sons asked for a horse as a reward, the mouse for a mule; the mouse son fed him gold, which he slowly pulled out of the royal treasury; the mule hit the house, the gold fell asleep; the mother asked her sister for a sieve, a piece of gold stuck to him; the mouse son said that he sold the ash from his burnt house profitably; the older brothers burned down their houses, they did not buy anything from them; then the mouse son said he came to pay homage to the snake living in the lake, and he gave gold; the older brothers jumped into the lake and drowned]: Heunemann 1980, No. 22:155-159; angami [the man put under the saddle ash; the other asked to lend the horse to his tired mother; first: but then all my money will turn into ash; the second promises to reimburse everything in this case; when the woman got down, ash was under the saddle, her the son sold the field and the house; the cunning man told the others that he had sold ash; they burned down their houses, but no one bought ash; but the cunning man received ash this way; his brother was the leader; the leader's cattle fell into the abyss; the skins they ripped it off, hung it on a tree for the night, began to dry it over the fire; people gathered to warm up, the branch broke off, everyone ran away, leaving money; the cunning man took the money, said he received it by slaughtering cattle and selling it skins; people slaughtered their cattle but could not sell their hides; then they burned down the cunning man's house; they tied them up to drown them, left them for a while; he began to sing; the shepherd liked it; the cunning man promised to teach him if he unties him and lets him be tied; the shepherd was drowned]: Hutton 1915, No. 22:82-83; Mikir [the widow has a son and six brothers; the uncles put the tops higher up the river, and the young man is lower and poorly made; but in The uncle's tops were only crayfish, and the nephew's top is full of fish; so many times; even when he left the top on the shore, a wild dove was caught in it; out of envy, his nephew's only calf was killed; he took off his skin and hid one leg in the brahmana's house; told him he smelled beef; found meat; fearing shame (cows should not be killed), the brahmana gave a bag of silver; the young man asked his mother to take it from his uncle a measuring basket; they saw that he was measuring money; said that he sold beef, advised him to sell that brahmana in the village; all the residents there were brahmanas, they beat the brothers; they burned down his house; he sold ash the villagers, where everyone has sore eyes; advised them to rub them in their eyes; uncles burned down their houses, came to that village to sell ash; they were beaten and rubbed ash in their eyes; they put their nephew in iron the cage to drown in the river, but they left for a while; the prince came up, the young man said he was caged because he did not want to marry his uncle's charming daughter; the prince exchanged places and clothes with him, gave the jewelry; the prince was drowned; the nephew came to the uncles in a luxurious outfit, said he had received it from his late grandparents at the bottom of the river; uncles told them to drown them; when bubbles appeared, nephew told those standing on the shore that the drowned man had been given beer to vomit; the young man became rich]: Stack, Lyall 1908, No. 2:48-55; garo [Gangbo Nokma is rich and smart; envious neighbors agreed to burn him in his house, but the GN found out, took it out and hid everything valuable in advance and took the family out; after the fire, he collected the ash in bags and said that he was going to sell it; he threw the ash into the river himself, dug up valuables, and when he returned, said he got them by selling ash; the neighbors burned their houses; in order to take revenge, they slaughtered the GNA's cattle; agreed to give him their skins; the GN dried them, made holes and pretended to be lucky to sell them; told the rich to a farmer who bought any skins; asked for water; he sent him to his house; Mr. told the peasant's children that their father told him to give him all the money and jewelry; the children called their father, asking again ; farmer: yes, give it back; he thought it was water; in his village, GNP showed the money: it was obtained for their skins; neighbors killed their cows, removed and perforated their skins; they laughed at them; Mr. offered to buy expensive fabric on credit; showed the owner a rich house - supposedly his, but in fact a stranger; said that his name would not give, and his father's name could not give; dressed up in purchased fabric like a groom for a wedding; the neighbors put him in a basket, carried him to drown him; left him by the pond and went to eat; the shepherd drove the herd away; the GNR said they wanted to force him to marry the king's daughter; the shepherd agreed to climb into the basket instead; GN brought the herd and said it was from the bottom; the neighbors allowed themselves to be drowned, all went to GN]: Rongmuthu 1960:11-19.

Burma - Indochina. Mona [Lezheboka promises her mother to earn money; fills the basket with ash, stays in a wealthy house, warns that his goods can't even be smelled; the owner's curious daughter opens the basket, Lezheboka accuses her of stealing jewelry, the rich man pays off in silver; other men burn their houses, go sell ash, no one takes it; they throw the crocodile into the river; he drags him thinks that the man is dead, Lezheboka runs away, climbs a tree; there is a man herding buffaloes, they will be back in the evening; Lezheboka says that they are chasing him - they want to marry a princess; a shepherd gives him a herd to take his place; Lezheboka brings the herd, says they are from an underwater land of the dead; 30 men jumped into the water, drowned; Lezhebok persuaded 30 widows to become his wives]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 156:379-384.

South Asia. Pakistan (p.10: "the story is known in Eastern and Western Pakistan" {i.e. Punjab}) [six brothers are married, the youngest Kashi is single; they do not love him, i.e. he is his father's main heir; they promise to marry, they are going to transport him across the river; K. pretends to forget something at home, offers to marry a shepherd, changes clothes with him, his brothers take him into the boat, push him into the water; K. brings him home shepherd's cows; says he found one in the river, the water spirit gave nine more; brothers burn his house; he carries a bag of coal, meets a man who has a rupee in his bag; whispers to what he has in his bag gold; during the night, the satellite takes K.'s bag; K. brings rupees home; leaves one in a sieve - allegedly used it as a measure for the money received from the sale of coal; the brothers burn down their houses and property, they sell coals, they are ridiculed, scolded; they remain day laborers; K. marries a wealthy bride, forgives his brothers]: Siddiqui, Lerch 1998:37-43; Kumaoni: Crooke 1895, No. 198 [Bhawá ni is a hard-working man, his half-brother Shankar is lazy and envious; killed ox B.; he covered his skin with sand, climbed a tree in the forest, robbers stopped under the tree, B. threw off his skin, robbers fled, leaving behind the loot; B. said he sold the skin at a high price; S. slaughtered his oxen, went to sell sandskins, he was beaten; he killed B.'s mother and burned down his house; B. collected the ash in bags, took him along with his mother's body; towards a rich man, decided to eat together; B. asked for food to his mother, who is silent, the man threw a plate at her, the body fell, he paid for the murder; B. told his brother that sold his mother's body and ash; as if S. did not receive money for the skins because he did not choose the right time; S. turned to the pandita for this, burned down the house, killed his mother, took him to sell, he was beaten; S. put B. in the bag, dragged to drown, left the bag by the river; B. tells the shepherd that he is sitting in Shiva's magic bag; the shepherd swapped places, drowned; B. brought the herd, said that from the bottom that S.'s mother sends greetings; Sh. B. gave all his cattle to throw them into the water; drowned]: 82-83; Upreti 1894 [envious neighbors drove the simpleton cows into the abyss; they died; he carried to sell their skins, stopped in a cave; The robbers came there; when they heard the gnashing of their skins, they ran away, the money went to the simpleton; he took the measure to measure the money, smeared the measure with resin, a coin stuck to it; the neighbors killed their cattle, but no one wanted buy skins; they burned the simpleton's house; he filled the bags with ash, carried to sell; on the road he accidentally exchanged bags with a flour seller; brought flour, asked for measure again; the neighbors burned their houses, nothing received for ash]: 94-95; India (translated from Hindi) [the older brother is handsome and smart, the younger brother is crooked and stupid; his wife and bull are also crooked; Shiva and Parvati give him five pumpkin seeds; the whole field is covered pumpkins, each with rice; the older brother burned down his house out of envy; the youngest carries bags of ash to the bazaar; on the way, the merchant asks to put a child on them; the curve warns that if the child wetts the bags, gold and silver in them will turn into ash; the child soaked, received gold and silver from the merchant in a crooked way; the elder brother burned down his house, went to sell ash, laughed at him; the elder and his friends screwed him the youngest to the bed with ropes, carried to drown, left, went to eat; crooked tells the shepherd that he is being forcibly married; the shepherd changes places with him, drowned; crooked drives his herd home; scolds the eldest, who drowned him off the shore, would not be herds of sheep, but elephants and horses in the depths; the elder asks him to drown him in a bag, dies; the curve lives well]: Zograf 1964:282-287; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi []: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 739:209; Bengalis: Bradley-Birt 1920, No. 4 [7 married brothers envy a single eighth named Khoodeh, who received the main inheritance from his father; lead it to marry; H. knows that they are actually going to drown him; goes ahead, invites the shepherd to marry, changes clothes with him; the shepherd is drowned, H. takes the herd; says he received the cows from the deity; The brothers set fire to his house, but H. spent the night away from home; H. collected the ash in two bags, told his fellow traveler that the bags were gold; that night took away the loaded cow H., let's leave his own, with bags of money on it; took the time to measure the money, deliberately left the rupee stuck; said he received the money by selling coal and ash; the brothers burned down their houses, went to sell coal; they were driven in the neck; they were hired as laborers; then brothers reconciled and everyone got rich]: 17-22; Sumtsov 2015 [a rogue sells a bird of truth, a cow defecating with chervonets, a young stick (which those who bought then killed their wives); bags of ash exchanges for bags of gold; fools (6 people) burned down their houses to sell ash and get the same amount of gold; they want to throw the rogue in a bag into the river, but he was released by a passerby, and when he led for bridles this passerman's horse, the stupid men asked where he got it, and when he told them he found it in the river where they had thrown it, one of them went down into the river, the water gurgled; the rogue said that the descended man catches a horse, and the rest of the fools jumped into the river for horses and drowned]: 134-135; Santals: Bodding 1929, No. 80 [the king's eldest wife has 6 sons, the youngest has a mongoose son; the father gives sell money for sons; Mongoose does not buy horses, but a donkey, but profitably; brothers burn his house; he fills the bag with ashes, carries him to sell, sleeps under a tree, tells merchants who come up not to take it away a bag of gold; merchants replace the bag with their own, Mongoose brings it to his mother, there is rice and money; brothers burn their houses, cannot sell ash; Mongoose's mother is killed; he leaves the corpse by the road on him Merchants come in, believe they ran over a woman, give buffaloes, Mongoose tells the brothers that he bought them by selling the corpse; they kill their wives, they cannot sell the corpses; Mongoose feeds the donkey rupees, collects them from it manure; brothers hit their horses in the ass with hammers, they die; brothers put Mongoose in a palanquin to drown in the Ganges; he tells a passerby that they want to marry him; a passer-by takes his place, drowned; seeing The mongoose is alive, the brothers ask him to drown them; Mongoose reigns]: 145-173; Campbell 1891 [the youngest of seven brothers planted a vegetable, the fruit has become the size of an inch; he warned the wives of the older brothers that she ate he will give birth to an inch tall boy (bitaram); one ate; Bitaram took lunch to his uncles in the field, almost everyone woke up; drove their cattle to the watering hole, they trampled them in the sand; the water washed him away; returning at night, he ran into thieves, frightened them (they thought the spirit was talking to them), hid the gold; sent his father and uncle to pick up the gold; the Raja looked for thieves, saw gold near B.'s house, his father and uncle were imprisoned; B . told his mother to give him a basket, beg for a cat, put flour into a bag; he made a saddle out of a bag of flour, rode a cat, told the bees to gather in another basket; the Raja ordered B. to be shot, no one got there; B. released the bees, the Raja had to give her daughter and wealth; B.'s wife had a cow as a source of wealth; the Raja's servants killed her but did not find gold inside; B. dried her skin, climbed a tree, dropped her skin at the thieves, they ran away, left the gold; B. asked the Raja to measure the gold, it stuck a little; B. explained that he had sold the skin; the Raja ordered the cattle to be slaughtered, but no one bought the skins; ordered B., B. hid in a hole; collected the ash in bags, told the merchant that they contained gold; the merchant exchanged it for bags of golden sand; B. took the measure from the Raja again; said he sold the ash; the Raja burned down the palace, but no one wanted to ashes; B. were carried to drown in a sack; the guards went away; B. told the shepherd that he was being forced to marry; the shepherd got into the bag, drowned; B. brought the herd; the Raja and his associates sat in bags, B. drowned them; to him the whole kingdom went]: 25-33; condas [the woman's eyes are sick; the man promised to bring a healing ointment; the tiger heard, asked the woman and him to lubricate his sore eyes; for this he brought an ox; people ate meat, and they put a boy on the skin so that the birds would not peck it; people went to the village and forgot about the boy; the tiger decided to help and brought another ox; both skins went to the boy; he carried them to sell; in the forest heard the voices of the robbers, climbed the tree; the robbers began to divide the loot; quarreled; the leader shouted - for God to defeat (the dishonest); at this time the boy dropped both dry skins; robbers they ran away, the boy got the money; at home he told his mother to measure what was in his bag; the mother went to her brother for the measure; he waxed the bottom; when the sister returned the measure, she stuck to the wax gold coin; his nephew explained that in the city his skins were directly torn to pieces and put gold in pieces; fellow villagers slaughtered oxen, came to town and shouted that they were selling ox skins; they were beaten , the brahmanas were indignant; knowing what would happen next, the mother and son left home, taking the money and leaving the pumpkins inside; people set fire to the house; when the pumpkins burst, they thought it had burst the boy and his heads mother; the boy filled two bags with coals, went to the city; there are many carts drawn by oxen on the road; the boy replaced his other; there were money and jewelry in the bags; the boy was in the village again he rebuilt himself, took his uncle's measure again, gold stuck to her again; the guy said he sold coal at a high price; the villagers burned down their houses, went to sell coal, they were driven away; they put the guy in a bag They beat me with batons for a long time and threw it into the water; but he threw it ashore; he started screaming: why do I need my gold now? two horsemen drove up - a merchant and his wife; the guy said that the gold was in the bag; the merchant helped to get out and climbed there himself, the guy threw the bag into the water, persuaded the beautiful woman to stay with him, because he is not only handsome and young, but also very rich; in the village he said that horses and a beautiful woman were given to him at the bottom of the river; all his fellow villagers asked them to drown; the guy healed well with his wife and mother]: Schulze 1922, No. 7:47-54; kannada [the brahmana asked the neighbor gowda {apparently the village manager} for a needle; he gave it on the condition that if the brahmana lost the needle, he would take the ox from him; the wife lost it, the brahmana took the ox, but he began to wither away and the brahmana took him untouchable; the brahmana asked for a skin; went to sell, spent the night on the way in a tree; the robbers sat under a tree to share the money; the wind shoved his skin down and She hit the branches and began to fall; the robbers ran away in horror; at home, the brahmana borrowed the govda to measure money; he waxed the bottom and saw a coin stuck; the brahmana said he had received money for the skin; Govda stabbed his oxen, but for all his skins he received barely a hundred rupees; the brahmana asked the hovda to give him the coconut shells that had been discarded; he burned them, filled the bag with ash, and went to where the other merchants were; said that he had gold sand in his bag; a merchant changed the bags; found it in his ash, and the brahmana found diamonds and pearls; the govda burned down the brahman's house, went to sell ash, and the potter gave him a quarter of a rupee; on the way Govda lost her and was unable to pay for the tea; the hovda and his men put the brahmana in a chest, carried her to drown; they saw deer, chased them; a shepherd came up, and the brahmana said that he was being carried wedding; the shepherd took the brahmana's place in the chest, drowned; brought a large herd, said it was from the bottom; the govda and his men asked them to drown; the brahman himself became a govda]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 54:149-152; Tamils [the younger brother is childless; someone sold him a child for a measure of corn and a rupee, but there was a monkey in the bag; she did any job and called her younger brother father; the monkey son asked uncle (i.e. older brother) that they grow best, and he said that tobacco; asked if he wanted the upper or lower part (of the crop), he chose the lower part; the younger brother collected tobacco leaves, and the elder brother collected tobacco leaves, and the older brother collected tobacco leaves, and the older brother collected tobacco leaves, and the elder stems were taken; the following year, a monkey son planted an onion and the older brother chose the upper part; the older brother angrily killed two cows pulling the younger brother's irrigation mechanism; a monkey son took off his skins and climbed a tree under which the robbers were staying; they came, began to divide the money, one of them is blind; "Share honestly, otherwise the sky will fall on you"; at that moment the monkey son threw off skins; the robbers ran away, the monkey son brought money to his father; the younger brother's wife sent him to measure money from the elder; the youngest explained to the elder that he allowed the skins on straps and sold it; he slaughtered his four cows, sold nothing, burned down the youngest's house; the monkey son collected ash in a bag, came to the robbers, said that there were jewelry in the bag, and then we would divide it; when they fell asleep, the monkey son changed his bag with the one in which the robbers had jewelry, brought it to his father; the elder brother burned down his house, no one bought ash; the elder brother put the monkey in a bag, threw it into the river; a shepherd nearby; a monkey Shouts out of the bag that he was thrown into the river because he does not want to marry his father's sister's daughter; the shepherd took his place; the older brother came with a stick, began to beat the bag; the goats went to the monkey; he said that there are still goats there; the older brother asked him to put him in a bag and throw him into the river; drowned]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 32:113-116; Tamils [the Raja has five sons; when his wife died, the Raja took the other and her squirrel son; the Raja is also dead, five sons are married; four want to drive the squirrel away, but the elder insisted that he be given a plot of bad land, oxen and grain; the squirrel hears The brothers' conversations and always knows their intentions; he called animals and birds, who raised crops; the brothers came at night to steal the grain, but it was already compressed; the brothers burned the squirrel's house; he sold the grain, but pretended as if he sold coal; to count the money, he took a measure, a coin stuck to it; the brothers burned down their houses, went to sell coal, they were beaten; they killed a squirrel ox; he stole money from the brahmana, took another measure for money, and told the brothers that he had sold meat to the brahman (beef is strictly forbidden to brahmanas); the brothers slaughtered their oxen, went with meat to the brahmana, who beat them again; the brothers put the squirrel in a bag and gathered burn but forget the matches; the shepherd chases the goats; the squirrel says he is sitting in a bag to get rid of the hump; the humpback shepherd climbed into the bag instead of the squirrel; he was burned, and the squirrel brought the herd six months later; said that after being burned, he went to heaven with his parents and they gave him a gift; the brothers asked them to burn; their property, wives and children went to a squirrel]: Blackburn 2005, No. 57.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [the Raja notices that the poor young man Palanchar is fat; he says he always eats the same food as the Raja; the Raja demands payment for it; P. burned down his hut, carried the coals in the basket, stopped for the night with people carrying gold in two similar baskets; said that he also had gold; left in the morning, taking a basket of gold instead of his basket; when those people found coals, they they thought that their gold had turned into coal; the Raja asks how P. became rich; he replies that people who own a mountain of gold live on the outskirts of the country; he exchanged their coals for gold; the Raja ordered them to be burned his house and go sell coal; no one bought it; Raja repented and handed over power to P.]: Koehler 1964:94-98.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi (Bzhedugi) [seven brothers have 7 arbs, they decided to divide the property; the youngest Kuizhiy burned his arba, carried him to the village, warned that if someone looked into his bag, the gold in it will turn into coal; the owner's daughter looked into the bag, K. received it for allegedly lost gold; told the brothers that he exchanged the girl for coal]: Huth 1987:284-285; Stavropol Turkmens [two rich brothers did not invite the youngest poor man to his father's wake; he stabbed the bull, made a wake, made belts out of his skin; after earning money, he said that he sold each strap for gold; the brothers cut their own cattle, they go to sell belts, ask for dearly money, the khan puts them in prison for a week; the younger one burned his kibitka, carried bags of ash, putting several gold in each; did not give way, the arba overturned, he said that because of the fall, gold became ash; the khan ordered the caravans to fill the poor man's bags with gold; the older brothers burned the kibitki, went to sell ash, they were chained like crazy; when let go, ran to slaughter the younger one; he drowned the shepherd, drove the herd, said that he had caught sheep in the river; the elder sees the reflection of the sheep, enters the water, blows bubbles; the middle brother hears "kyrk, kyrk" ("forty" ), believes that the elder has counted forty sheep, will soon take everyone, rushes after them, both drowned]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 97-99; Ossetians [three brothers shared their 15 sheep, each received five; Kobalia told the sheep to answer the wolves if they came that their master K.; the wolves ate the sheep, K. chased one of the wolves; he asks him not to touch him, promises to attack the herd of a one-eyed shepherd, at which time K. will be able to steal him; K. replies to his brothers that his sheep multiplied in the forest; the brothers drove them into the forest, they were eaten by wolves; K. asks him not to kill - it is better for the brothers to burn his house; loaded the coals in bags, said that the royal good was lucky; at night he poured out coals, accused people of stealing, filled his packs with gold, he told his brothers that he had exchanged coals for gold; the brothers burned down their houses, went to exchange the coals for gold, theirs they beat him; the brothers put K. in a wicker bag, carried him to drown; he tells him to leave him on the shore (he will roll into the water himself, let the brothers not take sin on their souls); tells the shepherd that the person who climbed into the bag will king; the shepherd took his place, K. drowned him, took his herd, told the brothers that he had caught it at the bottom; they ordered them to drown]: Byazirov 1972, No. 25:209-212; Nogais [six brothers burn a new arba , made seventh (he has a different mother); he carries coals covered in row to the city, says that he is carrying Khan's gold, if anyone looks, it will become coals; the Khan's sons look and fill the arba with gold; the brothers burn their arbs, laugh at them; they kill the seventh wife, who is carrying the corpse, says that under the row the beautiful daughter of the khan; the same thing gets from the khan's daughter as his wife; the brothers put it in a bag to throw into the sea; he shouts that he does not want to be khan; the shepherd offers to change; the brothers drown the shepherd, the seventh returns with the herd, says he brought it from the bottom; the brothers drown]: Nogai 1979, No. 32:147- 149; Kumyks [Lonely Yankylak prepared firewood, Nine Tonkullaks burned them; OYA collected coals, said he was selling gold, found the treasury, became rich; diesel fuel burned their arbs, went to sell coal, them beat; they killed OYA's mother; he brought the body to another village, leaned against the door, the girl opened it, the body fell, OYA said she was killed, got a girl in return; said he exchanged it for his dead mother; DT killed their mothers, went to sell, they were beaten; they put OY in a bag, left it by the cliff; OYA tells the shepherd that she is sitting in a bag because he does not want to become a kadiy; DT threw the bag off the cliff into the water; OYA is back {obviously with sheep}, he was left alone]: Aliyeva 2012, No. 88:399-400; Dargin residents: Aliyeva 2012, No. 85 [Nakrikutsul ("melody" + "ladle") sees that the mill is built so that under a millstone there was a lot of flour left, broke the millstone, took the flour; for this, the rich killed his mother; he placed the body outside the mullah's house, began to hide part of the food in his mother's pockets in the house; the mullah sent his daughter to call her mother N., N.: she is deaf, she must be pushed; her body has fallen, N. says that the mother was killed, she gets a mullah's daughter and an arba of kindness; tells the rich that girls and gold are given for murdered mothers; they kill their mothers, they laugh at them ; they burned N.'s house, he filled bags with ash, put a gold coin, stopped in a neighboring village, said that his gold had been replaced with ash, the owners found one coin, believed, gave gold; the rich burned their houses, brought them to exchange ash for gold, they were beaten; the rich carried N. to drown into the sea; he says he hid gold behind the rock; they threw the bag, ran to look for gold; N. tells the shepherd that he is sitting in bag because he does not want to become the head of the village; the shepherd changes places with him, he is drowned, N. drives the herd, says that there are many sheep at the bottom; the rich jumped into the sea and drowned; their wives tied N. to at home, ran for axes; N. says he was tied because he did not want to be a kadiy; a potter passing by asks to be tied; women hacked him down; N. brought pots home]: 390-393; Amirov 1878 [Mullah Nasreddin offended his jamaat in some way; then, in his absence, his house was turned into a latrine; when he returned, N. collected the crap, dried it, filled his bags and brought it to the city under the guise of a remedy against mice; sold everything in two days; the inhabitants of the village collected all the crap and also took them to the city; at this time, a messenger arrived from the city asking: how to use the powder; N.: catch the mouse and pour it on powder in the eyes; the messenger returned and told; at this time, the villagers brought their crap; they were beaten; when they returned, they killed N.'s mother; he brought the corpse to a rich house and made it look like the old woman was alive; At lunch, N. takes two servings - for her mother, she is embarrassed to enter; they sent her daughter to call her; the corpse fell into the river; the girl was given for N.; he said that in the city he changed the corpse for a girl; fellow villagers killed old women, brought to the city; they were driven away with clubs; they burned N.'s house; he collected the coals in bags, putting a few silver coins on the bottom of each; went to town, stayed with a wealthy Jew, and in the morning he became shout that he was robbed; judge: if there was money, there was something left at the bottom; as it turned out, the judge ordered to fill the bags with silver; N. said that he sold the coals; the residents burned their houses, took them coals, they were poisoned with dogs; the residents decided to drown N.; he ran, told the shepherd that he was being chased to make him king; the shepherd agreed to change clothes; the shepherd was drowned, N. brought the sheep from the bottom ; all residents drowned]: 37-41; Rutultsy [Kechal ("bald") filled the bag with coal, poured sugar on top, came to visit, shouted that his sugar had been stolen, he was given a bag of sugar; at home K. said that exchanged coal for sugar; the villagers tried in vain to sell coal; K. says: kill me, but don't set fire to the house; it was left alive, the house was set on fire, K.'s mother died in it; K. brought the body to a neighboring village, leaned against the wall; the owners' daughter ran to call her, her body fell, K. said that his mother was killed, received the daughter of the owners for her; at home he said that girls were given for the dead; the guys killed their own mothers; K. runs, says that gold is hidden in his clothes, they want to take it away from him, offers to change clothes, tells the shepherd to jump into the river; he drowned, K. brought the sheep, said he got it at the bottom rivers]: Aliyeva 2012, No. 87:397; Lezgins [Zyuhutbek ("prince of the toilet") brought the deceased mother to a neighboring village, left her as if she was standing, the owner sent his daughter for her, the support fell, Z. said that his the mother was killed, got the girl, said that in a neighboring village they were changing dead mothers for girls; neighbors took their dead mothers there, they were beaten; Z. burned the logs of his house for coal, went to sell them, putting a grain of gold in bags; the boys stole coal, Z. said that the bags contained gold, the khan paid him with cattle and things; Z. said that they paid dearly for each coal, and the villagers burned their at home, they began to sell coal, they were beaten; they chased Z., towards the shepherd, Z. tells him that they want to kill him (the shepherd), they change clothes; the crowd chases the shepherd, he jumps into the lake, drowns; Z. brings a herd, says that from the bottom of the lake, the villagers jumped into the lake and drowned]: Aliyeva 2012, No. 86:394-395; Georgians [Comble wants to kill the wolf, he promises to take the golden sheep out of the flock; the shepherds follow, the flock goes to K.; he explains that his three sheep have bred in the forest; others send sheep to the forest, wolves eat them; people burn K.'s house; he collects a braid of ash from above puts coins; comes to someone else's house, demands money in the morning, gives him money; neighbors burn their houses, try in vain to exchange ash for money; kill K.'s wife; he brings her to the house where he wants to stay, leans against a tree; the owner's daughters lead her under her arms, she falls, they think they killed her; K. gets the most beautiful daughter in return; people kill their wives, try in vain to exchange the dead for the living; K. orders everyone to climb into holes to kill him; he hides in the central one, people chop each other]: Chikovani 1954:304-306; Azerbaijanis [lazy Kharkhali was hired as a shepherd, but did nothing; they wanted him kill, they did not find it, they burned his house; H. asked his mother for two pieces of gold, put it on the bottom of the bag, on top of the coals; scattered it on purpose at the crossing; said that the girls scattered his gold; the bag was shaken out, on Two pieces of gold at the bottom, a bag of gold was returned to him; H. said he sold the coals; the residents burned houses, went to sell coal, they were beaten; the residents killed H.'s mother; he brought the corpse on a donkey to a wealthy house; asked the owner's daughter should call his mother; she pulled the old woman, the corpse fell, H. gave gold; the residents killed their fathers and mothers, went to sell them, beat them; H. exchanged clothes with the shepherd, told him that they were running to kill him; the shepherd threw himself into the sea; H. brought sheep; the residents believed that they had thrown themselves out of the sea into the water and drowned; two mullahs remained; H. ordered them to kill him by shooting from both sides; sat down, the mullahs killed each other]: Bogoyavlensky, 1892 c., No. 5:305-308.

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens (Merv Tekins) [the wolf ate the black goat Kömelek-bay, who forced him to bring a herd of goats; told people he killed a goat, chatted in the lake, the herd came out; people killed their own goats, they wanted to kill K., but killed his wife; K. drove on someone else's threshing floor, the owner poked the corpse with a pitchfork, K. accused him of murder, got a daughter as his wife; the neighbors followed his advice, lost their wives, burned his house; K. received gold for its ashes, neighbors burned their houses in vain; by cunning K. drowned everyone in the lake]: Samoilovich 1914, No. 11:535; Persians: Uther 2004 (2), No. 1537:272-273; Yagnobs [ the bald man offers the beardless to kill and eat his cow first, but refuses to slaughter his own; the beardless man made belts out of his cow's leather, sold it profitably; the bald man stabbed his own, did not sell his belts, burned the beardless man's house; he brings bags of ash to the bazaar; shouts that money has been stolen, replaced with ash; others give him money so as not to scandal; he tells the bald man that he sold ash; the bald man burned down his house, people laugh; the beardless man swapped places with the elderly mother, the bald man killed her instead of him; the beardless carries a supposedly living mother, his donkey eats someone else's sheaf, the owner beats him, the bald man accuses him of killing his mother, he gives gold, the beardless man tells the bald man that he sold the corpse; the bald man kills his mother, wants to sell the corpse, he is tortured for a long time in prison; he ties the beardless man in a bag, goes for a stick; the beardless hears that a shepherd is nearby, screams that he does not want to be peace, wants to be a shepherd; the shepherd climbs into the bag instead of him; the bald man kills him, throws him into the pond; the beardless brings the herd, says what is from the bottom of the pond; drowns in a bald bag]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 30:150-153; the Wakhans [three brothers do not like the fourth, Pleshivets; burned his wheat; he poured ash into the bag, said to the counter that there is gold in the bag; refuses to show - in that evil eye; the counter insists, receives a camel and sheep with goats in return for the allegedly missing gold; tells the brothers that he exchanged them for ash ; the brothers burned their wheat, they laugh at them; the brothers beat Pleshivets, and his mother was killed; he put her on a donkey, went to the shepherd, he touched the donkey, the corpse fell, Plesivets accuses the shepherd of murder, gets all his cattle; his brothers believe that corpses are exchanged for cattle in the bazaar, they kill their mothers; they put Pleshivets in a bag, carry them to drown them, leave them on the way; Plesivets screams that he does not want to be an amir; the old man sits down in a bag instead of him, they drown him, Plesivets brought his herd, said that from the bottom; brothers jump into the river and drown]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 54:437-439 (=Pakhalina 1975, No. 4:150-152); Ishkashim [the king's wife Hawksor, Devzor, Parisor; he expelled H. and P.; H. gave birth, offered to eat her child, but P. refused; H. ate him herself; then gave birth to P., raised a son; he began to beat animals with a bow; Once he saw a bald man in a sack, he shouted that he did not want to be king; the boy changed with him, he was thrown into the river; the herd brought bald, said that it was from the bottom; the Pleshivets brothers threw themselves into the river and drowned; the bald man killed their mother, put them on a donkey, led him to a pile of grain; the owner hit him with a stick, the bald man accused him of killing his mother, took his mother; burned straw, put it in a bag, said that there was gold, and if open it, it will turn into ash; the man untied it, gave 5 bags of gold; neighbors burned haystacks, went to sell ash; when they returned, they killed Pleshivets]: Pakhalina 1959, No. 7:133-135; Munjans [Pleshak he poured ash into a bag, put a few gold coins on the bottom; tells the mason that he is not folding the wall correctly; he invites him to try; Pleshak tells the mason to serve the stones, but not let him in winds, otherwise the money in his bag will turn into ash; this happened, Pleshak says that only the smell did not reach the bottom of the bag, the mason had to borrow money and give it to Pleshak; people believe that Pleshak set fire to the forest and sold ash at the bazaar; the same story with the blacksmith (filled the bag with coals, and at the bottom of the coin); people believe that Pleshak burned down his house; then they chase him, he tells the shepherd that they want to elect him king, he agrees to change clothes, the shepherd is drowned, and Pleshak brought the herd, said that from the bottom; all the men threw themselves into the water and drowned, their wives demand that Pleshak feed them; he is ready if women do not drown at night they get dirty in his pants; he cooked shushi (a thick sweet brown mass of apricot kernels), smeared the women's backsides, ran away in horror; Pleshak tells his grandmother to marry him the royal daughter; the vizier advises to ask Pleshak brings news from the Sun; he goes to the desert, sleeps under a rock; Khojai-Khizr orders him to close his eyes, carries him by air to the plain; there the lake where the Sun sets is pulled out in the morning with a chain, you have to fill your pockets with stones, these are yakhonts; Pleshak (he is now handsome) gets a princess]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 53:430-437; Bartangans [Badyushak (small, unsightly), he has two the older brother; they decided to burn him, tied him to a tree, went to buy firewood; he shouted that he did not want to be king; the old man asked for permission to take his place, gave his horse for it; the brothers burned him; B. came on horseback: if the fire were bigger, he would have brought horses to his brothers; the brothers burned his house; B. filled a bag of ash, met two viziers with bags of gold; replies that he has gold in his bag and silver, but if opened, they will turn into ash; the viziers ask to compare it with their gold, promise to give theirs if B.'s gold becomes ash; they had to give it back when B. threatened to complain to the king; B. told the brothers that he had exchanged ash for gold at the bazaar; the brothers burned down their houses, went to sell ash, they were ridiculed; they put B. in a bag, threw him into the river; the shepherd caught him; A. stuffed him into a bag and drowned him, and he brought his herd himself; said that he met his parents under water, that he would bring more cattle if he were abandoned where it was deeper; the brothers asked them to drown themselves, B. did it]: Sokolova 1960, No. 10:55 -59; Sarykoltsy [three brothers make saddles, the older two burn the younger one's goods; he collects the coals in a bag, tells the gold taker that if the bag is untied, the gold will turn into coals; that unties, gives away their gold; brothers burn their saddles, try to sell coals in vain; they kill the youngest bull; he smears his camel faces with blood, the owner does not recognize the camels, the younger brother takes them ; brothers try to exchange bulls' blood for camels; kill the youngest's mother; he puts the corpse on a donkey, leads him to threshing a man, he drives his father, the corpse falls, the man believes he is guilty of murder, gives his daughter; brothers put the youngest in a bag, he shouts that he does not want to be a beck; the pleshivets believes, changes with his younger brother; the brothers drown the pleshivets; the younger brother says he brought it from the bottom of the river herd; older brothers jump into the water, drown]: Pakhalina 1966:234-236; mountain Tajiks [Pleshivets collected more wheat than the brothers, they burned it in a bag; he collected ash in a bag, told the traveler that gold is carried, but if a man with an evil eye sees it, it will turn into ash; the traveler untied it, Plesivets said that he would lead him to the Shah, he gave his horse and property in fear; told the brothers that in the city the ash is exchanged for horses; the brothers burned their wheat, they were beaten in the city; the brothers killed Pleshivets's mother; he dressed her as a bride, put her on a donkey, left the donkey on the threshing floor; the owner of the threshing floor threw a stick and a corpse at the donkey fell, Pleshivey accused him of killing his mother, threatened to lead him to Casia, who gave his daughter in return; told his brothers that the dead in the city were being exchanged for girls; the brothers killed their mother, they laughed at them; the brothers dragged Pleshivets in a bag to drown; they moved away; the shepherd believed that Plesivets was sitting in a bag because they wanted to marry him to the Shah's daughter; he changed his place with him; he was drowned, Plesivets brought the herd, said from the bottom of the river; brothers rushed into the river, drowned]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 47:150-153; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2) [40 bald people in one village, one smart, Yuz Muhammad, asks him They did not call him bald (Kal), for this he cuts a cow for others, they continue to call him Kal; he makes overshoes out of his skin, sells one farmer, he sends him to his wife to take him to pay for grain, Yum notices a lover in the house; deliberately sprinkles wheat and collects it until the owner arrives; the woman hid her lover in Korchaga; the owner falls asleep, and Yum listens; as soon as a woman serves her lover food, coughs, a woman rushes into the room, Yum eats food; a woman thinks it's a cat; puts a pot of butter on the fire; takes it off; Yum coughs again; the lover gets out of the korchaga, falls into boiling oil with his feet; Hume slowly takes him away, for which he receives a purse of gold from the hostess; says to 39 bald men that he received money for his overshoes; they slaughter their cows, they laugh at them they burn Yum's house; he is lucky to sell ash, says that these are valuables, if a woman sits on the bag, they will turn into ash; bai's wife sits down, he gives a bag of silver; 39 bald people try to sell ash; they hit Yum's mother is almost to death; he takes her to bay, bai pushes the donkey, the old woman falls, dies, buye gives 10 bags of wheat; 39 bald men beat their mothers in vain; Yum runs away, tells the shepherd that he does not want to be casy, changes clothes with him; 30 bald ones drown the shepherd; Hume brings sheep, says that from the underwater kingdom; 39 bald sheep reflect sheep for a herd in the water, drown]: 332-340; Rogov 1980 [ while Agile made 9 arbs, 9 lazy men burned only one; out of envy they burned his arbs; Agile pretended to change ash for gold; the lazy burned their arbs, carried them to sell ash, they were ridiculed and beaten; they they came to beat Agile, came across a donkey in the dark and killed him; Agile put a dead donkey at the wheat ricks, the landlord hit him with a stick, Agile said that he killed his donkey and got paid his money; the lazy stabbed their donkeys, took them to sell, they were beaten; Agile ran into the steppe, the lazy chased him; towards the buy; Agile says they want to make him a shah; buy is called to be a shah instead of him, Agile shows where to run; lazy people are still chasing him]: 224-229;.

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Western (?) Sami [The fox pretends to be dead, the man with the sledge caravan picks it up, throws it on the first sledge, it slips off; stays lying only when thrown on the last one in which salmon; drops salmon from the sledge, runs away; to the Bear, Wolverine, the Hare replies that she caught fish in the ice-hole; ties one salmon to the tail, says that it has pecked; shouts that a man is coming, others jump up, tails cut short (Wolverine has it in the middle); the fox hides under the roots of a pine tree, the Bear tries to get it, she says that he did not grab her leg, but the root, and when the Bear grabs the root, the Fox pretends to be him grabbed her leg; yet the Bear took out the Fox, carried it, she sees the motley Woodpecker, says that she painted him at one time; the Bear also wants to be specked, promises to endure; the fox binds him, leaves it in a hole with burning brushwood; the bear is burned, the fox carries his bones in a bag, hits one in the bag, replies to the passerby that her parents are in the bag; the shepherd agrees to buy it, gives it in exchange a reindeer team; the Fox hired Stallo, the Wolf and the Mouse, told them to slaughter the deer, told Flea and the Hare to cook the meat; went to wash her stomach, hit them against a stone, shouting that it was not her who killed, but the workers; Stallo and the others were afraid that the owner of the deer had come, ran away; the fox threw hot guns at the Hare (hit the tips of her ears) and Flea (burned her tail), they ran away; that shepherd came, Lisa said that everyone it was eaten by workers and relatives, one of them is Laska; the shepherd threw his head at him, the tip of his tail turned black; the fox on the shore calls fish to transport it to the other side; successively rejects everyone (listed), accepts salmon's help; calls it to the shore, grabs it, carries it to fry in an empty plague; the roast hisses, the Fox thinks that people have come, jumps out; realizing what's going on, beats salmon, splashes of fat burned her eyes; The fox walks asking the trees if they would lend her eyes; two types of pine trees do not give, the birch tree gives, the fox runs away, the birch has time to hit her tail, since then the tip is white]: Klaus 1995:3-10).

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [9 Tukuldykov burned Mimyldyk's felling; he brought bags of coal to Bayu, who has three daughters; if you open the bags, gold will turn into coal; the girls opened it, buy paid with gold; T. burned their firewood, went to exchange coal for gold, they were beaten; they killed M.'s mother; he dressed up his body, brought it to a rich house, told them not to look under the blanket where his sister was; the girls looked in, M . accused them of murder, buy gave his daughter for him in return; T. killed his mother, took them to change for girls, beat them; they put M. in a bag, brought M. to the river to drown, went for poles; M. tells the shepherd that he is warming himself in a bag; he climbed in instead of him; T. drowned the shepherd, and M. brought his herd, said that from the bottom; T. asked to drown them, M. drowned]: Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 79:315-320; the Bashkirs [the old man betrayed the eldest daughter, she fell ill, died; the son-in-law brought the deceased, left her in the cart, tells his younger daughter, then his wife's middle sister to call her; she does not answer, the cart overturns, the father-in-law believes that his daughter is dead now; offers his son-in-law another daughter; he refuses; offers both remaining daughters, asks for a box of coal; 9 deceiving neighbors of his son-in-law burned his firewood; he brought coals, took two wives; answers deceivers who exchanged them for their dead first wife; they killed their mothers, went to change them; they laugh at them]: Zelenin 1991, No. 106 (109): 453-454; Komi (Ustsysolsk) [there are three brothers in the family, the youngest is a fool; his mother tells him to set a trap; he put him on the path to the well; his mother was caught, he killed her; put her in a sleigh, took him to the city, the merchant did not give way, pushed; the guy accused him of killing his mother, the merchant gave a cart of goods; the fool told the brothers that he had sold the corpse; the brothers killed their wives, went to sell them, they were driven away; the fool raked coals with ash out of the stove, loaded the cart; the merchant agreed to change carts without looking; the brothers went to sell ash, they were ridiculed]: Wichmann 1916, No. 28:85-87; the Udmurts [two sons from the eldest wife, the bald Taz from the youngest; after the father's death, the older brothers They kicked T. out with his mother, gave him a hut and a skinny horse; T. cut more wood than his brothers, they burned his firewood; T. collected the coals in a bag, stays with the rich man, says that there is gold in the bag, but if his open, gold will turn into coals; the rich man replaces the bag of imaginary gold with a bag of silver, T. brings it home; the brothers burned firewood, went to exchange coal for silver, they were beaten; they killed T.'s mother; he dressed up the corpse, comes to the rich man, leaves the corpse in the yard; the rich man sends three daughters to invite the guest's mother; they say that she is cold to death, the rich man promises T. a daughter, promises to bury his mother; T. chooses an average wife; tells the brothers that he exchanged the deceased for his wife; the brothers kill their mothers, take them to change, they were beaten; they put T. in a barrel, pushed them into the water; nyulesmurt (goblin) pulled out the barrel; T. says that he is a wumurt (water), accuses him of breaking his tower, threatens not to give him more water, tells him to get a new barrel from the bottom, puts him in the old one, lowers him into the pool, steals a herd nyulesmurt; brothers go down the ice-hole and drown; T. lives well]: Kralina 1960, No. 92:267-272; Mordovians (Erzya) [the kolesnik was going to sell the wheels, the envious brothers burned them; he carried ash, said merchants who carry clothes to the king; if you look at it, they will become ash; the merchants looked and paid money; the kolesnik said that he sold ash; the brothers burned their houses, took ash, they were beaten; the mother of the kolesnik was killed; he carried the corpse, said that he was taking the girl to marry the king; the people he met looked; the wheel: you jinxed it; they paid money; the brothers killed their wives, took them to sell, they were beaten; they put the chariot in the kul, they carried to drown, went to drink vodka; the kolesnik tells the shepherd that the person sitting in the kula sees the king; he climbed, drowned, the kolesnik brought the herd, says that from the bottom; the brothers ask them to drown; drowned]: Yurtov 1883, No. 26:249-271 (=Evseviev 1964, No. 50:340-343); Marie [three brothers, the youngest is bald, the elders do not want to take him to the forest to cut wood; he goes by himself, chopped twice as many of them; they burned his firewood; he put the coals in a bag, came to the wedding, said he was carrying royal gold; he was invited to spend the night; he said that if anyone looked into the bag, gold would turn into coal; people looked in, the bald man shouted that now the king will punish everyone, fill his bag with gold; at home, a bald man tells his brothers that coals in the village are bought for gold; the brothers burned their firewood, brought coal to the village, they were beaten; they killed their wife bald; he dressed up the corpse, brought him to the village, said that he was lucky to the king; if anyone looked into the wagon, the bride would die; someone looked in; the bald man was offered a choice of girls, he took the most beautiful one; brothers said that in the village they were changing the dead for the living; the brothers killed their wives, began to change them, beat them; the brothers locked the bald man in a birch bark box, carried him to drown in a hole; left them on the ice, went for an ax; on a sleigh pop rides; bald says he's warm; pop says he's frozen, climbs into the box instead of him, drowned; bald comes back with sledges and horses, says he got it in the river, you have to shout "I'm pop"; The brothers jumped into the ice-hole, shouting, "I'm pop", drowned]: Beke 1938, #54:534-538.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the youngest's 9 older brothers were nicknamed Piskun; after his father's death, he got only a lame bull; the bull was stung by a snake; P. pretended to stab him himself, because the skin is more expensive; in one house exchanged the skin for grain; when he heard a lover who came to negotiate with the hostess to kill her husband, he deliberately scattered wheat and collected it before the owner arrived; the wife hid her lover in a stupa; P. says the owner, who has a snake in his mortar, needs to cook jelly; P. poured the hot jelly into his stupa, which swayed, the owner generously rewarded him, and the hostess gave him even more for burying his lover; the brothers stabbed him bulls, they went to sell their skins, burned P.'s hut out of revenge; he brought a bag of ash to the khan's wives, said that it contained gold, but it would turn into ash if someone wanted the khan to die; in the bag of ash, his wife filled the piskun bag with gold so that he would not give them away; the brothers burned their kibitki, went to sell ash, mistook them for madmen; they put P. in a bag, carried them to drown; the khan died, the brothers ran there, P. told bay that they wanted to make him the new khan, they changed, his brothers drowned him; P. promised the shepherd to cure him of his sores, told him to sit for a day with a goat's skin over his head, stole his herd; said brothers that his late father gave them to him at the bottom; the brothers saw the reflection of sheep in the water, jumped into the water, drowned]: Sidelnikov 1958:369-377 (=Daurenbekov 1979:324-329, =Kanbak-Shal 1985:9-14); Karakalpaks (Takhtakupir District) [Lonely Shinkildek took out nine carts, Nine Donkuldaks decided to beat him; OSH put DD's wife in his place; DD beat her; OSH burned nine arbs, and loaded coal on donkey; reached the channel on the opposite side of which an old woman was sitting; she asked her to transport; OSH said he would move her, but he had two bags of money - if she sat on them, they will turn into coal; the old woman swore she would not sit down; when they moved to the other side, OSH accused the old woman of sitting on her bags and ended up with two bags of money; DD saw him, burned their arbs, we went with coal to the bazaar, but could not sell it; DD put OSH in a bag, tied the hole in the bag, brought it to the river bank, and went to drink tea themselves; a man who drove 1,500 approached OSH sheep; asked what Osh was doing here; OSH: "I should be made khan, but I don't want to"; the man said he wanted to be khan and ordered him to be put in a bag; DD came back, threw him into the water; two days later, OSH came to DD, chasing 1,500 sheep; reproached them that they did not even put a twig in his bag, and said that he had brought the sheep with his own hands; DD wanted to get the cattle, told them to put them in bags; OSH threw them into the water]: Baskakov 1951:45-46; Kyrgyz [seven rich people offend a poor man; a Bai son drove seven oxen to a watering hole; agrees to give them to the poor man if he knocks his brain out of the ground; poor man stabbed the only bull, buried his brain; stomped, his brain splashed, the Bai son gave the oxen; the poor man said he divided the bull's meat into 7 parts, buried it, told the oxen to stand up, from each buried piece An ox appeared; the rich slaughtered their bulls; beat the poor man and took away his oxen; the poor man brought a bag of ash and a bag of coal on a camel to the palace of the khan's daughter; said that the bags were filled with gold and silver, but you can't watch, otherwise they will turn into ash and coals; the khan's daughter opened her bags, filled her with silver and gold; told seven rich men that she burned her yurt and sold ash; the rich burned their yurts, went sell, they were put in a cold basement]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1977:297-299 (=1968:181-184); Uighurs (Lobnor) [one bastard has an ox, seven have no cattle; they offered the first to live with them; tortured the ox was worked, then killed; the first lousy man took off his skin, told his wife to cook the meat and pretend she was dead; seven bastards believed, ate the meat {according to the logic of the story, the first one owes in front of the guests revive his wife}; seven killed their own wives; burned down the first one's house, but he managed to climb the tree unnoticed; collected ash and coal in bags; told two girls that his parents were in the bags; they were ash and coal; the girls gave silver and gold; the bastard told the seven that he had sold ash and coals; they burned their houses; tied the bastard to a tree to burn, they left themselves; he told the passerby that he had ugly leg and arm, and now they have recovered; a passerby has taken the place of a bastard, because his arms and legs are also sick; seven have burned him]: Malov 1956, No. 4:44-48.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans [rich Kuchulug asks poor Argalyg to deceive him; he says he forgot the trick at home, asks the horse to return; K. comes; A.: so he deceived, I'm eating up the horse; K. burned down A.'s yurt; he collected the ash in a bag, says to the khan's daughters: a yurt in the bag, if a beautiful woman opens the bag, the yurt will turn into ash; everyone wants to open, glad, they asked the father to put A. a new yurt; he says to K. sold the ash to Karata Khan: she heals cattle; K. burned his yurt, the khan ordered him to be beaten; K. put A. in a bag, who ordered him to be burned at the crossroads at the juniper fire; K. went to collect juniper; A. tells a passing one-eyed khan that sitting in a bag will bring an eye down from heaven; Khan climbs into a bag, gives his clothes to A.; K. burns Khan; A. appears, says that the devils gave him clothes and a horse; K. asks him to burn, A. lives well]: Hadahane 1984:28-32; Shors: Arbachakova 2010, No. 9 [one- and two-eyed (Yigi Karak) brothers are rich, despise the elder poor Ush Karak (three-eyed); he goes to the forest, asks the brothers for food, they do not give him; their wives give him; the Criminal Code cannot kill anyone in the forest; the owner of the mountain kills animals, gives him sables; gives him a daughter for his son UK; on Mountain people come to the wedding, but the Araks are not enough, they take the bride back; the Criminal Code comes to the merchant, brings a bag of ash, says that it was the merchant who changed the skins; he pays for them; the Criminal Code says to JK's son that he became rich by selling ash; they burned the barns, went to sell ash, the Cossacks beat them; the Criminal Code came to cure them of a hangover, poured hot sourdough down their throats, the brothers died; after learning about this, the wives also died; Criminal Code began to live and get rich]: 243-259; Chudoyakov 2002 [while Argachi was hunting, the robber and Kuyurchi's forces burned down his hut; A. brought Karatta Kaanu's bags of coals, said they were gold and silver, but if you open it, that's it will turn into ash and coals; Khan tells his daughters to open, A. is indignant, the khan fills his bags with gold and silver; K. burned down his hut, came to the khan, he ordered it to be carved; K. killed the bull A.; A. asked the khan allow his bull to be allowed to see his bulls; when bull A. was found dead in the morning, A. said that Khan's bulls were hurting him; Khan gave him a better bull; A. told K. that Khan was exchanging dead bulls for living ones; K. stabbed the bull, brought it to the khan, who ordered him to be carved again; K. decided to burn A. at the crossroads of seven roads; went to buy firewood; A. tells the khan's crooked son, who was passing by, that he also had one eye leaked, but if he stands tied, his eye will recover; Khan's son untied A., A. tied him; K. burned Khan's son, and A. took his expensive horse and clothes; says K. that he saw his father in the next world and he He gave him everything; Father K. also prepared a gift for his son; K. ordered himself to be burned; shouted and then burned down]: 99-103; Mongols: Borovkov 1938 (khalha) [Poppe 1932:22-25; apparently the same in Khodza 1954:21- 23; seven bald brothers burned down Rastrepa's house; he collected ash and coals in bags carrying gold and silver; if you look at them, they will turn to ashes; the rich man insists, the rich man gives him back for" missing treasures" a bag of gold and silver; he says to the bald man that he exchanged his jewelry for ash; the brothers burned down their houses, went to sell ash, they were beaten; the brothers killed his cow; he poured blood into his gut, met seven camels with blue bald heads, painted them with blood; told the owner that the camels had red bald heads; they argued that the rastrepa got camels; told the brothers that he had exchanged camels for a gut with with blood; the brothers stabbed their cows, went to exchange blood for camels, beat the brothers; the brothers killed Rastrepa's wife; he told the khan that his wife was the best needlewoman; put the corpse on a wild camel, brought to the khan; the dogs rushed at him, the rastrepa stabbed the camel with an awl, he threw off the corpse, the rastrepa received a needlewoman in exchange for his "dead" wife; told the brothers that he had exchanged her for a dead wife; brothers They killed their wives, went to change them, beat them; the brothers tied the rastrepa to the top of the tree, went to buy firewood to burn it; he told the old man, who was looking for his horses, that sitting in a tree heals the eyes; he changed with a mess, burned; rastrepa comes with horses, says that he rose to the sky with smoke to the dragon khan, he was gifted; he led the brothers to the sea to catch horses, they throw themselves into the water, drown, Rastrepa took their property]: 40-46; Mikhailov 1962 [seven bald men killed a short man's calf; he saw seven camels with white spots on their foreheads, covered the stains with calf blood; the owner asks if he saw if he saw short camels with white spots; he says he saw only with red spots; man: so take them for yourself; the short man says to the bald that he exchanged camels for a slaughtered calf; they stabbed his own; they burned the short man's hut; he collected the ash in a bag; answers the khan's servants that if the bag is untied, the gold will turn into ash; they insist that they gave the short man a chest of gold; he says that he exchanged gold on ash; bald men burned their homes; killed the short man's mother; he put her in a coffin, took her on a camel; the woman frightened the camel, the coffin fell and crashed; short man: now I can't bury my mother; he was given a chest of silver; the bald ones put the short man in a bag, threw him into the lake; the shepherd pulled him out; the short man drowned the shepherd, brought the cows; the bald ones rushed into the lake for the cows, drowned]: 25-27; Starodumova 2003 {possibly Inner Mongolia} [seven bald Hozhgor brothers tease short Mozhgor; burned his cart; he carries a bag of ash to Khan, says that if opened, it will become soot, ash; so and it happened that they gave him a bag of gold; seven brothers burned their carts, brought coals to the khan, they were beaten with sticks; the brothers killed a mozhgor calf; he collected a bubble of blood, met 7 white camels, repainted their blood, the owner did not recognize them; m told the brothers that the khan gave them to him instead of the dead calf; the brothers killed their calves, the khan drove them away; they killed M.'s mother; he carried the corpse on a camel, his khan's dog frightened, the corpse fell; m tells the khan that his mother died because of his dog, the khan gave him living water, his mother came to life, gave property; m explains to the brothers that it was the water who shared the good, gave him; tells him to go to the water, look into it, there will be seven bald water ambassadors, jump to them; the brothers drowned]: 127-130; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia [seven bald men burned a bald, stocky arba with firewood, killed him ox and mother; a bald, stocky man brought a bag of ash to the khan's palace and told the children that if it was opened, gold would turn into ash and coals; the minister promised to fill the bag with gold if this happened; bald the stocky man brought gold and said he sold ash; seven bald men burned their arba each, went to sell coals, they were beaten; a bald stocky man smeared blood on a white bald spot on seven camels; the owner became them search, but was convinced that these camels had a red bald spot; the bald, stocky man said that he had received camels from the khan in exchange for blood and calf manure; seven bald men killed their calves and bore the khan blood and manure, they were beaten again; the bald stocky mother's corpse put on a camel; the khan's dog barked, the body fell; the khan revived the deceased in special water, gave the bald stocky man money; he said to the seven bald men that he was rewarded by a water khan; they jumped into the water and drowned]: Coyaud 2012, No. 66:144-147; the Buryats [the rich man promises to feed him meat if he can deceive him; the farmhand says he forgot the trick of the house, rides the rich man, cuts and eats the horse; the rich man burned the farmhand's yurt; he collected the ashes in a bag, tells the khan's daughters that he has a felt yurt in his bag and if the real beauty is on her look, the yurt will turn into ash; the khan's daughters are happy to be real beauties, the khan had to build a new yurt for the farmhand; the farmhand tells the rich man that the khan gave him a yurt for being ashes from the old one, he cured all his scabies; the rich man burned his yurt, went to treat the Khan's cattle, was severely beaten; puts the farmhand in a bag, wants to burn it; he asks to do it at the crossroads at the fire from fir and juniper; the rich man's people hung a bag on larch, went to get juniper; past the food, a one-eyed khan, a farmhand, says he is sitting in a bag to heal his eyes; the khan sits down instead of him, burned; the rich man sees the farmhand again, dressed well with a good horse (he took the khan's horse); the farmhand explains that Segeen's daughter Sabdag Tengri wanted to marry him in heaven, but she did not like his callous hands, asked me to find a groom with gentle hands; the rich man ordered himself to be burned]: Dugarov 1990:336-340.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (place of recording not specified; Vilyuisky?) [The Mockingbird Liar (OP) tells three merchant sons that his horse is defecating with silver coins; he stuffed their horse down the drain, the merchants believed, bought a horse; realizing that they were deceived, killed OP's wife and burned down his house; OP, returning from town, said that ash and dead bodies were worth the price in the city; merchants killed their wives and burned their houses; in the city they went to prison; when they returned, they put the OP in a bag, cut through ice-hole, went to get a net to remove the ice; a man on three horses arrived; OP said that sitting in a bag he heals his eyes; the one who came also wanted to be treated, changed places with OP; drowned; OM arrives on the top three; says that there is a rich country at the bottom, he made easy money on horses; merchants wanted to go under water and allowed them to drown]: Popov 1936a: 175-177.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais (Amur District, 1968) [The rogue steals firewood, tells the Strongman that the sledge and axe work themselves; the strongman borrowed a sledge, cuts down annoyance into pieces, burns the Rogue's firewood; he collects coals comes to the jeweler, accuses him of stealing gold, the jeweler fills half a bag with gold and silver; the strongman burned his firewood, goes to exchange it for gold, he is beaten; he killed the Rogue's mother, who left the corpse in the ice-hole, enters the house, says that his wife is deaf, the owner sends his daughter, she touches his "wife", the body falls into an ice-hole, the Rogue gets the girl as his wife instead of the "killed" one, tells Silach that he changed the dead to two alive; he orders to kill his mother, goes to change him alive, he was beaten; he puts the Rogue in a bag to throw him into a lake of fire, leaves him for a while; the Rogue says to a half-blind old man who drove four donkeys that he himself was blind and saw the light in the bag; the strongman throws the old man into the lake of fire; the Rogue brings donkeys, brings the stolen goods, says that from the bottom; the strongman tells him to throw him into the lake, burns; the old man and the Strongman complain to Enduri, he sends a wooden helper spirit; the Rogue tells his wife that the firewood has come, the spirit is running away; E. sends a turtle, the Rogue wounds it with a knife; a cow (beats); a soldier, they ask what the Dodger is most afraid of; he says that cookies and sweets, they are like a thick thicket; they throw cookies and sweets at the Trickster; E. comes for the Trickster himself, he offers to change clothes, jumps forward, tells E.'s close associates to kill the imaginary A rogue, takes the place of E.]: Kile 1996, No. 42:375-389; (cf. Garin Nanai [Big Cunning brings his dead mother on sledges to the edge of the ice-hole, enters the house where the beautiful daughter; asks for a girl call his deaf wife by pushing her; the deceased falls into an ice-hole, the Cunning gets the owner's daughter for his allegedly drowned wife; tells Big Strongman that he exchanged his wife for a dead mother; he killed his mother, took him, asks who replaces the living with the dead; he was beaten; he burned down the house of the Big Cunning; he put his guns in a bag, drove down the Amur River; (apparently cut off)]: Aurora 1986, No. 12:63-64); Negidals [The cunning offers to steal a pig, the Strongman stole; H.: I suggested, my pig, we'll ask Heaven; at a prayer by a tree, he hid his mother in a hole, who, on behalf of God, awarded a pig H.; S. poked with a stick to the place where the voice came from, H.'s mother died; he dressed up the corpse, brought it to the elder, left it in a sledge, said that his sister was still in the sledge, she could not hear well; the elder's daughter went and pushed the body, it fell into an ice-hole and drowned; H. received the elder's daughter in compensation; said he exchanged his dead mother for his wife; S. killed his mother, went to change, the villagers almost killed him; H. and his wife burned coal, they stuffed coolies, exchanged merchants for coolie, saying that they also had fur; H. also went to change the coals, the merchants killed him]: Cincius 1982, No. 29:147-150; Wilta [Argaccia collected coal and covered it with branches; in the city he passed it off as fur ("he brought a lot of skin"); received a lot of money; Puxene went to sell coal, he was beaten; A. killed his mother, dressed him up, put the corpse at the well; went into the house and said that his wife stayed on the street, he was told to bring her, the girl went, touched her shoulder, the body fell into the well, A. received the girl instead of the imaginary murdered ex-wife; A. told P. that he had squeezed the murdered mother on the girl, "in They regret the dead very much in the city"; P. killed his mother, went to sell him, beat him; P. put firewood on A. to burn; A.'s mother came from the dead, took his form and took his place; seeing that A. was alive, P. agreed to be burned; died]: Ikegami 2007, No. 16:62-67.