M99. The threat to exterminate birds, AA 981.1.

.12.14.17.21.23.27.-.29.33.-.35.

The character is going to abuse all birds or (less commonly) animals, but after hearing wise advice, he abandons his intention.

Hausa, Arabs and Berbers of Morocco, Arabs of Algeria, Tunisia, Palestinians, Tibetans, Sindhi, Sinhales, Bosnians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Macedonians, Sephardians, Bosnians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Albanians, Russians (Vyatka), Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Karachays, Adygs, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ossetians, Nogais, Georgians, Armenians, Isors, Talysh, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Chelkans, Shors, Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats, Darkhats, Oirots, Mongols, Mongols of Ordos, Mongors, Mansi.

West Africa. House [Solomon's wife sees that her neighbor's house has a smooth, beautiful floor; she explains that she kneaded clay on the blood of animals her husband had obtained; Solomon's wife asks him to bring her birds, he agrees; the king of birds learns about this from the rooster, the birds did not come in the morning, the king of birds appeared at 10 o'clock, saying that they were arguing on three issues; what is longer is day or night (if you count the day from the first screaming a rooster and until it's time to go to bed, then the day); who is more men or women (women, if you count those who listen to his wife in everything); Solomon sent the king of birds home, and the neighbor said joking with his wife, she did not add any blood to the clay]: Tremearne 1913, No. 54:302-303.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco: Bushnaq 1987 [Suleiman's wife asked for a carpet and a bed made of bird feathers; S. told all the birds to come; the little owl was late: I lingered, comparing night and day, stone and clay, men and women; S.: and who is more? If you count moonlit nights as days, there are more days; if you count lumps of clay as stones, there are more stones; if you count men who obey women, there are more women; S.: I mean, a woman? Owl: yes; you can ask your wife for advice, but it's up to the man to decide; S. birds: fly safely wherever you want; wife: I'd rather let you pluck my beard than let you say another word]: 244-245; Thay Thay 2001, No. 66 (Taroudant, southern Morocco) [Solomon's wife asks to make a carpet out of bird feathers; the bat came first, gave all the feathers and fluff, and left; the owl was the last to come; explained that she believed who more; more days than nights if moonlit nights are days; if you count burnt clods of earth as bricks, there are more bricks than stones; if you count men listening to women for women, then women more; S. placed an owl among the wise men; and the bat has no feathers left, it only comes out at night]: 78-79; Moroccan Berbers (Western 1950) [Solomon's wife demanded a carpet of bird feathers from him; he objected - it was now cold and the birds would freeze; but his wife was adamant; all the birds appeared except the owl; and when she came, she explained that I tried to find out what and who is more: days or nights, men or women; if moonlit nights are counted as days, then there are more days {nights is a mistake}, and if men who obey women are women, then women more; S. thanked the owl and let the birds go]: Leguil 1988, No. 23:151-155; the Arabs of Algeria [Solomon's lover asks him to make her a home out of eggs; he tells all birds and fish to bring eggs; not Sparrow and Hoopoe appeared; S. called them to account; Sparrow explained that he did not dare to bring such a small egg to such a great king; Hoopoe said he thought day or night was longer (day, for his moonlight prolongs); more living or dead (alive, because the recently deceased and the great ones are talked about as if they are still alive); men or women (women, because a fool demanding to build a house out of eggs is not a man); S. punished Hoopoe by making him smelly]: Hilton-Simpson 1924, No. 2:84-85; the Arabs of Algeria (Tiaret Plateau) [Suleiman's wife asked him to make her a cloak of feathers of birds of all kinds; S. called the birds; feeling sorry for them, took fluff from the lower parts of his legs, and some from the neck (now these parts are devoid of feathers); the owl did not appear until three days later; explained that there were more days than nights if moonlit nights were days; more stones than land if lumps of earth are counted as stones; more women than men if men who fulfill women's whims are also considered women; S. understood everything, allowed Owl to leave with all his feathers]: Aceval 2005, No. 145:182-164; Tunisian Arabs: I. Levin and W. Mazing in Shakryl 1975 [the modern oral tradition of the plot is probably based on a literary source, because the Isore version is almost identical to that recorded in Tunisia]: 436; Stimme 1893, No. 5 [ Sineddur tells his father-in-law king that women are both good and bad; gives two examples; Salomon's wife Bilkis told him to build a palace out of bird eggs; all the birds came, an owl and a lark stayed; the owl says that she does not love women; the spouses lived, promised to be a widower and widower if one of them dies; the husband is dead, the wife cries at the grave; the king tells the vizier to catch the thief, otherwise he executes; the vizier sees that woman; for promising to marry her, she offers to dig out her husband, cut off his head; the thief is one-eyed; the wife picked her husband's eye out herself; the vizier refused to marry a woman who is so treated the deceased; the lark tells the story of a merchant; he came to the city of robbers; left early, not knowing that he was not allowed to appear at that time; the judge put him in prison; he was wearing a snuffbox portrait of his wife; shown to the Sultan, who ordered the woman to be obtained; the vizier went to the merchant's city, began to negotiate through an old woman; the merchant's wife pretended to agree; told the maid to knock on the door soon after the arrival of the vizier; woman: this is her husband's brother, a robber; the vizier was put in the cellar, ordered to spin, kept him starved; the sultan sent a second vizier, the same thing with him; the sultan went the same; the wife took letter from the Sultan: before I returned, transfer power to the bearer; having taken the throne, she released her husband (he did not recognize her), ordered me to send goods to his homeland; returned earlier than him, began to ask where snuffbox; opened to her husband, let the viziers go with the Sultan]: 78-93.

Western Asia. The Palestinians [Solomon has a beloved wife; others bribed the old woman to quarrel with her S.; the old woman persuaded the favorite to ask S. for a love palace made of bird feathers floating in the air; S. told all the birds to come; the owl did not come; S. wanted to execute her, forgave her, but told her to answer questions; 1) which bird is the most beautiful? - My son; 2) Who is more alive or dead? - If sleepers are included as dead, then dead. 3) More than a day or night? - Days, because when the moon is shining, night becomes daytime. 4) More men or women? - Women, if you include men who indulge wives; S. laughed and let go of the owl]: Hanauer 2009:229-230.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [the queen is angry at the bird singing; she asks her husband to call all the birds and cut off their beaks; the king sends messengers to appear on the third day; the bat came on the fourth; became explain that other birds are idle and have important duties: to maintain a balance between the day and the new, between the number of men and women; and if a man begins to do everything his wife tells him to do, he writes him down as a woman so that his balance is maintained; the king understood the hint, was ashamed; said that he appointed the cuckoo king of birds, and the hoopoe as chief minister, then let the birds go; but the king all I was still offended, so I slapped him lightly]: Shelton 1925, No. 1:17-20.

South Asia. Sindhi [the queen asks the king to build a house out of oil; he gives the order; but when the sun rises, the oil begins to melt; queen: lead the birds to gather and cover the sun with their wings; everyone is gathered not just a mossirro bird; she comes the next day, says that their family was arguing about who was more men or women; they decided that if we count men who obey their wives for women, then women more; the king let the builders go and scolded his wife]: Schimmel 1995, No. 27:193-195; the Sinhales [the king feeds forest animals, the naked rewarded him with the ability to understand their language, but he should not talk about it tell; the queen is jealous of the animals; asks them to build a dam; everyone, led by a wild boar, works except the jackal; the jackal answers the boar that he is not just sitting, but thinks who is more men or women; if men acting at the behest of women are equated with women, there are more women; the king laughs, the queen threatens to drown herself; the king hears the conversation of roosters who are easy to control chickens; the king unfastened the queen, sent birds and animals to the forest]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 52:101-104.

The Balkans. The Bosnians [Solomon's wife demanded that a tower be built for her out of bird bones; Solomon called the birds; they all showed up, and the owl came very late; explained that she thought there were more mountains or valleys, men or women; it turned out that if the low hills are counted as valleys, then there are more valleys, and if men commanded by women are counted as women, then there are more women; Solomon decided not to build bird bone tower]: seb-hor.blogspot.ru; Serbs [the wife announced to her husband that she would recover if he built her a castle out of bird bones; the husband brought all the birds, but the owl was gone; he sent for her; she refused to appear; the man promised to kill her; then the owl came and said that she thought: more valleys or mountains; more valleys: if there is a mountain, then there are always two valleys; more men or women; if men, women living according to the word, count as women, then more women; man let the birds go; they asked the owl how she managed to avoid trouble; owl: I am more of you and my bones would go to the foundation]: Eschker 1992, No. 61:233-234; Montenegrins are Muslims (heaps) [wife asks Suleiman to make her a house out of birds; S. called all the birds, no Owl; only the fourth time Falcon brings him; Sych says he believed who is more, men or women; one more women, is the one on whose whim it is necessary to strangle all birds; S. admitted his sin, promised Sych that he would have a bird for dinner that would become fly to him to eat]: Gura 1997:576; Macedonians [same, short version; The owl, by God's command, regularly receives one sparrow]: Gura 1997:576; Macedonian Sephardim [king Solomon met a beautiful woman; she agrees to marry him if he brings every bird to the palace; the mountain cockerel is told to call birds; there is no nightingale or owl; the owl explains that she is concerned about bitterness peace, tells a story; the husband is dead, the wife is crying inconsolably; another man is going to be hanged; the woman agrees that instead of dug out of the grave and hanged her dead husband, becomes the wife who were led to hang; the owl gives his pen; the nightingale: I laughed at the joy that exists in the world; (long story); the nightingale put down his pen, the girl married S.]: Cohen et al. 1932:216-225; Bulgarians [ the king (prince) marries a Jewish woman (beauty); she demands that he build a palace from the bones of birds (animals); the king demands that the king of birds (animals) call his subjects; the owl (owl) appears with late and explains that she thought who was more men or women; that there were more women; that it was foolish to kill all birds (animals) for one woman; the king of birds rewards an owl with the right to eat a sparrow every day ]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no.*983*: 367; Albanians [the queen hung her clothes to dry, the magpies that flew by stained it; the queen demanded that her husband order the extermination of all birds; all birds ordered to gather, the owl appeared later than anyone else; said that he had solved two questions: why was ordered to gather and who were more men or women; if men who obey women were considered women, then there are more women; and the king is also a woman; the grateful king praises the owl for saving the birds; for this, let the owl receive two chickens a day; once he ate both at breakfast, believing that they will be in the evening yet, but no more chickens appeared on their own]: Lambertz 1952:185-189

Central Europe. Russians (Vyatka), Ukrainians [a palace of bird bones: at the request of his wife, the tsar wants to build a palace of bird bones; one bird does not appear, and then, when she appears, reports that she believed who are more men or women, and there are more women, because those who obey women are worse than women themselves; the king cancels his order]: SUS 1979, No. -983* (=AA 981.I): 252; cf. 221B: 89 [bird King Cook (circle, eagle king): devours many birds, decides to build a palace (nest) from their bones; birds negotiate to kill the king; at the signal of the cuckoo, the eagle kills him]; Ukrainians [king of birds (elder bird) Cook, at the request of his wife, called the birds to make nests out of their bones; the raven was two days late; he was counting valleys and mountains at that time; considering every place where water stood, valleys and valleys as a valley counted more; birds were temporarily released by Cook for food; the second time the Raven was late, counting dry and green trees; if we consider dry those with at least one dry branch, then more dry ones; in for the third time I counted men and women; if we consider men subordinate to women as a woman, there are more women; birds rebelled against K. for obeying his wife too much, Sokol killed him]: Sumtsova 1890: 80-81.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Akay {Karasubazar District?}) [when Suleiman took his hundredth wife, she is always ill; says that he will recover if he builds her a palace from the right wings or the left legs of birds; the birds turned to the old golden eagle, 380 years old; S. sent a messenger bird, the golden eagle promised to appear, but did not appear; S. sent a hawk, the golden eagle appeared; S.: why didn't he arrive for the first time? golden eagle: read a book to learn more: water or land; if you stand ankle-deep into the water, it becomes clear that there is more water; alive or dead: if sleepers are considered dead, then dead; smart or stupid: if consider obedient women as stupid, then stupid; S. appointed the golden eagle as a bird padishah]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 57; Kalmyks [Owl, the wife of the king of birds Eagle, says that he will give birth on the backs of birds, for this must all be tied by the nose; the Eagle drills the nostrils of the birds; the owl came later than anyone else; said that she found out who was more alive or dead; if you count the sleepers as dead, there were more dead; if rotten trees are behind those lying, there are more of them than standing ones; if women are in the power of women, there are more of them than men; the king understood, let the birds go; the Owl still has no nostrils]: Jimbinov 1959:72-73 (=1962:131- 132; =Basayev 2004, No. 161:262-263; first published. Folk art of Kalmykia 1940:162-163); Popov, Basangov 1936:45-46; Balkarians [Prophet Noch's wife fell in love with his young student; he was afraid that some bird would carry them; wife persuaded N. to gather all the birds and destroy them; N. blew the pipe, all the birds flocked, except for the owl (bikeush); he said that he counted the living and the dead, and there were more dead, because he counted them among them stupid husbands listening to the advice of their wives; N. let the birds go]: Baranov 1897, No. 5:27-28 (=Jurtubayev 1991:50, =2007:26-27); (cf. Karachays, Balkarians [Red Fook lives in the sky in a fortress of eagle wings; lowers boilers to the ground so that sledges fill them with supplies for him; sledges fill the boilers with stones; on advice Satanay Debet forges weapons for Yoryuzmek; he sits on an air wineskin, rises to the sky, cuts off F.'s head]: Aliyeva 1994, No. 8:311-313); Abkhazians [wife of the lord of animals and birds Ajveipshaa asks him to make a house out of their bones; A. called everyone, Owl was late; said that she counted the living and the dead, adding to the dead those who listened to his wife's stupid advice; there were one more dead; And . dissolves the meeting, says that every day one bird will go to Owl and go to heaven; when they see the Owl, the birds bite it, each demanding that the Owl eat it]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:101-102 (=Bgazhba 1983:24, =2002:28); Adyghi [the husband understands the language of birds and animals; the wife demands that he build her a house from the bones of birds, covered with their feathers; deciding to do so, he summons all birds; the owl appears later everyone and reports that she was late because she counted how many men and women there were in the world, and there were more women, because she considered men who listen to their wives to women; the husband abandons his intentions]: Tkhamokova 2014, No. 983:193; Abazins [the wife of the prince who owns the birds wants a palace of bird bones; the prince calls all the birds, the Owl has appeared only for the fourth time; explained that this is the first time I thought whether there was more land or water (water), the second - plains or mountains (mountains), the third - alive or dead; there were more living, but if we count those who had stupid wives dead, then there were more dead; prince let people go, drove his wife away]: Tugov 1985, No. 95:283-284; Ossetians [God became friends with the earthly man George, gave him a weapon; said that in the East there is a deer whose body is in bells, he cannot be killed; George is old; his son Geor has also become a hunter; despite his father's warning, he kills a deer; his father tells him to take the skin to the king; the royal treasurer asks George where he carries the skin and offers to buy it for a lot of money; the king orders George a house made of bird bones. "George gave his son 50 buckets of glue. Geor took them to the milk lake, fell asleep; three Sun chickens and birds from all over the world flew there and rushed to the glue." One of the chickens promises Georg to build a house out of bird bones and gives him a magic pen; he meets the royal treasurer again, who begs him for a pen for money; Geor builds a house for the king; the king sends for Beautiful Julata; Geor takes 7 girls and 7 boys with him; there is a snake in the tree, does not let the ship pass, Geor threw him a bull's carcass, missed the snake; then the wind from the eagle's wings prevents him from sailing, Geor throws the eagle a ram's carcass; Geor marries J.; the king sends an army, Geor asks God for help, he sends an eagle, then a snake, the wind blows the army from its wings, the serpent sinks ships; J. turns the treasurer and king into black wolf and goat; wolf eats goat, wolf killed by shepherds; Georgy and his son rule the state]: Sokayeva 2010, No. 14:73-74; Nogais: Aliyeva 2013, No. 57 [as in Ganiyeva 2011a; one of Suleiman's four wives fell ill and asks to build a palace from the bones of all birds; The owl comes only for the fourth time]: 256-257; Ganieva 2011a, No. 71 [the same in Kapaev 2012:288-289; the wife of the khan of birds gave birth to a son, ordered him to make a cradle of bird bones; the khan called the birds, the Owl was not there, ordered him to be brought by force; he replied that he heard loud screams and left; the khan ordered him to answer what was more; 1) days or nights; if misty days are equated to night, then nights; 2) living or dead; if slaves, slaves, blind people are equated to dead, then dead; 3) men or women; if whimsical wives are equated with women, then the women; the khan let the Owl go, put his son in a wooden cradle]: 191-192; Georgians (Guria) [the queen asks to build a palace out of bird bones; the king tells all birds to appear; forest curl (Prunella modularis) is only after a second order; explains that she thought who was more; there were twice as many women as men, if we count the men under the heel as old women; king refuses to build a palace]: Wardrobe 1894:177; Armenians: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 2 [Solomon's wife asks to build her a castle out of bird feathers; all the birds have arrived, there is no Owl; she was brought in, she says that he does not mind the feathers, but the wind will blow the castle; S., grateful for the advice, orders that three sparrows fly to Owl every day to eat]: 8-9; Ganalanyan 1979, No. 297 [=Dirr 1920, No. 70:258; Solomon at the whim of his wife, tells the birds to throw off their feathers to build a palace out of them; the owl was the last to appear; explains that she argued whether more people were alive or dead; if those deceived by their wives are considered dead, One more dead; S. let the birds go, but the Bat had already shed its feathers, now naked]: 116-117; Isors [Solomon has a pagan wife; asked her husband to make a birds' cradle for her son bones; S. told all the birds to bring them rib by side; the owl refused; S. sent a hoopoe; the owl told him a story; the husband and wife promised to be faithful to each other if one of them died; the husband died; an unfamiliar young man offered the widow a marriage on the condition that she would take out her husband's corpse and cut off his head; the widow agreed; the young man said that she would cheat on him too, left; the hoopoe said in response another story; kings Mireille invited the merchant to play chess if a cat with a candle in its paws sat with them until morning; the cat sat, M. threw the merchant in prison, took away his wealth; the merchant's wife came to play, bringing mice; the cat rushed after them; the wife released all prisoners; the owl came to S.; he asked questions; more ruins or houses (ruins - housing will also turn into ruins); more dead or alive (the living will also die); men or women (women themselves who listen to their wives); S. awarded the owl three sparrows that come to her every day to feed her; the hoopoe awarded the crown; He returned the ribs to the rest of the birds]: Eyvazov 1894, No. 6:68-71; Talyshi [the girl agreed to marry Solomon if he built a house for her out of bird bones; S. called the birds, but the owl did not come; S. sent a vulture to bring her; asks her questions; 1) there is more destruction or creation in the world (destruction if S. is ready to destroy many houses to build one); 2) living or dead (dead, once for one) S. donates thousands); 3) women or men (women, because those who indulge in women's whims are like women); S. awarded an owl: three chicks will fly to her every day to eat; she eats two, and He lets go of one as an offering to God]: Asatryan 2005:12-13.

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Norwegians [in fairy tales that tell how the hero gets to a sorcerer and runs away from him with his daughter (ATU, No. 325), the sorcerer tells 1) to cover the house with a roof of bird down or gold and with silver feathers; 2) get eggs from under the bird from the tree; 3) put your head under the sword, covering your neck with feathers only]: Christianes 1959:83; Danes [in fairy tales that tell how the hero gets to the sorcerer and flees from him with his daughter (ATU, No. 325), the sorcerer tells 1) to recognize his assistant among several identical women; 2) build a feather castle; 3) collect scattered grain or feathers]: Christianes 1959:88).

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 12 [Suleiman Patsh's wife asked him to build a palace out of bird bones; Hawk collected them, only Baigyz (remez oatmeal) did not appear; S. sent for him again Hawk; Baigyz explained that he considered who was more alive or dead; classifying sleepers as dead, and those awake, but not showing obedience to God, turned out that there were more dead; women turned out to be one more than men if men who obey women were considered women; S. ordered birds to be scattered]: 42-43; Malyuga 1970 [Khan of the Suleimen universe dropped a ring in the stream that gives power over animals and plants, allowing them to understand their language; the fish swallowed the ring; S. went into the house, where Zhalmauyz-Kempir; her daughter Buluk liked him, they hid S. from her husband LCD; B. cleaned the fish, in one it turned out that S.'s ring, he returned it, married B.; she demanded a palace made of bird bones; all the birds flocked, the baigyz (nightjar) hid under a stone, the falcon pulled it out and brought it; baigyz explains that thought who was bigger; 1) mountains or plains (mountains, if you count wore piles), 2) living or dead (dead, if you count sleeping), 3) men or women (women, if you add whimsical women men); S. let the birds go]: 23-27; Potanin 1883 [the witch Zura cunningly forced Solomon to marry her; demanded a yurt, the lattice of which should be made of bird bones and felt from bird down; a bird Baigus (owl) advises S. to lock Z. in an iron house, light firewood around; when the doors were opened, a snake crawled out from there, and saying that it would ascend to heaven, would become a star, would send troubles to people, disappeared; Baigus taught S. how to recognize Z.'s position in heaven]: 784-785; Potanin 1916, No. 57 [Suleimen has 40 wives, Zapura loved the most; all the girls said how happy S.'s wives are, and the fisherman's daughter said that she would control not only these wives, but also S. himself; S. bathed, took off his ring, put it on his clothes, the wind threw everything into the water, found S.'s clothes, but not the ring; he himself ordered his wives to enter the palace only the one who showed the ring; S. put on rags, went on a journey, stayed with that shepherd; each time three fish, according to the number of family members, fell into the net, but when S. began to live with them, the number the fish caught doubled daily; once golden slaves got into the net, the shepherd's daughter gutted her, her face lit up with the light emanating from the ring; S. married the girl, returned to the palace; after learning from magpies that S. disappeared, dhow came to Kudus Shagher (Arab al-Quds, Jerusalem); 39 wives closed themselves in their chambers, and Z. took a dhow; when S. returned, dhow fled, 39 wives came out with exhausted faces, and cheerful Z. said that they were not slander; S. asked the parrot, he told everything; S. turned Zapura into an unhappy star, doomed to hang between earth and sky; made forty for idle talk from white; much later S. promised his youngest wife (i.e. the fisherman's daughter) to fulfill her every wish; she wished a palace of bird bones; the birds gathered, there was no remez *bai-gush); the coccyx was sent for her; bai gush replies that busy counting; the same with the hawk; the falcon brought bai-gush; he explains that he believed who was more alive or dead (if those who wake up morning prayers are considered dead, there are more of them), men or women (women, if they include men, obeying wives); S. let the birds go and refused to fulfill a woman's whim]: 176-179; 1972, No. 7 [Jebrail Jalmouth Pegambar caught all the birds, made them holes in the nose, imposed on the lasso, was going to eat; Baigus (remez oatmeal) remained; suggests D. to make lasso from sunlight and cow oil; D. cannot, lets birds go; Kazakhs do not catch Baigus], 10 [Suleiman's youngest wife wants a palace made of bird bones; there was no bai-gush (remez oatmeal) bird when collected; she comes only from the third command, says she counted the living and the dead (among the dead those who do not come to morning prayers), men and women (women who listen to women are women themselves); S. abandons his intention; (same 1883:367)]: 49-50, 161-162; Sidelnikov 1971 (3) [Suleiman he dropped a ring into the stream that made it possible to understand the language of animals and birds, the fish swallowed it; he came to Zhalmauyz Kempir's house, her daughter Bulun did not allow her mother to tear it to pieces; both hid S. from the one who had arrived at night, her husband Dk; B. cleaned the fish, found a ring in it, S. put it on, married B.; she asks to build a house out of bird bones; says that there is not enough Baigyz bird; Raven, then Falcon, was sent for her; Baigyz answers, from under the stone, what he thinks; sticks out, the Falcon grabs him, brings it; S. asks what Baigyz thought about; 1) there are more mountains than plains, if we count wormpiles as mountains; 2) there are more dead than living ones, if we count sleeping for the dead; 3) there are more women than men if we consider weak-hearted men as women; S. let birds go, they chose Baigiz biem]: 199-202; Kyrgyz [Azret-Sultan decided to take his wife was one of the maidens of the khanate; they all went to the screenings, but he was in a bad mood and did not pay attention to them; while swimming in the river, he lost his mascot ring, it was swallowed by fish, and A. became a simple poor man; came to the hut of a poor fisherman; his daughter offered that the visitor help clean the fish; A. saw the girl take his ring out of the fish's belly; asked for it to be given to him; the girl disagrees for a long time, does not believes A.'s words; when A. finally put the ring on his finger, he appeared in all his power; married a girl he loved; when she became pregnant, she asked to build a palace for her from the fluff of all birds; they came and A. ordered them to be confused in order to pull feathers and fluff in the morning; the wife asked her not to touch the magpie, for she warned her of the coming happiness (when A. came up in the guise of a beggar, the scream of a magpie it came from the west, which is good); therefore, the magpies have all the feathers on their wings, but the other birds do not]: Poyarkov 1900:16-21; Kyrgyz (Naryn Region, Ak-Talin District) [wife asks Khan to build for her house is made of bird feathers; the khan told all the birds to come to him on the appointed day; the chicken, pheasant, crow and quail arrived a little late; they became angry with the khan and since then they have not been able to high soar and fly fast; the hoopoe was the last; he began to explain what he wanted to know - there were more living or dead men or women in the world; khan: and who is more? hoopoe: one more dead if you include those who sleep before sunrise; you Khan also slept before sunrise in your wife's arms; there are more women because men who obey women, I named one of the women; so you too, listening to your wife, were going to build a house out of bird feathers; the surviving birds were grateful to the hoopoe for saving them from death; they built it up for him a crown on his head and chose him khan]: Sabyr uulu 2008:266-267; (cf. karakalpaks [the khan has no son, he gives his daughter Gulziba to a boy; she becomes khan, the vizier's son becomes a vizier, finds out that the khan is a girl; they agree to run, but at night the vizier replaces the chieftain of the robbers; the khan's daughter runs away from him, marries the shepherd Meytin; sews skullcaps, M. sells them for a high price; the merchant finds out about this, the khan takes M. into service, gives difficult assignments, to take possession of his wife; 1) build a palace of tiger fangs (M. takes out a splinter from a lion, who tells the tigers to give a fang); 2) a palace made of the feathers of the king bird; Aydarkha's serpent devours her two chicks every year; M. is killed by a snake, a storm begins with rain; rain - the tears of birds, the wind - from their wings; all the king birds feather; Khan wants to burn M. at the stake to say hello to his parents in heaven; M. burns the feather of the king bird, which brings it to her, gives fruit for the khan; the khan and the viziers behave to burn themselves, M. is made a khan]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:3-13).

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkans [first created all the birds of Dyayashi big; his horse was frightened by the hazel grouse that took off, D. fell on a stone; decided to exterminate all the birds, called them, and the Hazel grouse was brought only three days later; he explains that on the first day he counted fish and stones, more fish if we count oblong stones as fish; on the second day, stars and hummocks, more hummocks if you count stumps; on the third day, women and men, women more if we add men who succumb to women's persuasion; D. decided that he planned to kill Ryabchik because of his mother's persuasion, decided to simply make him small]: Sadalova 2002, No. 6:87-91; Shors [ the wife tells the creator Chayachi that there is no order among the birds; he descends from the mountain; the Crane offers himself to be pastyks (foreman), C. tells him to gather birds; Chibis is the last to arrive, says he believed what more; 1) if you add a piece of sandstone to the stones, there are more stones than stars; 2) if you add dry aspen to lying trees, there are more of them than standing ones; 3) if you add C. to men, who listens women, then there are more women; birds choose Peacock not the Crane Thief as shepherd, each gives him a pen, so he is beautiful and colorful]: Totysh 1959:18-22; Tuvans [khansha wants to try anything poultry meat; it's Owl's turn; after which the Hawk is sent, the Owl appears only at the end of the third night; explains that the first night he went to a meeting, they argued, after the storm more fallen trees or persistent; if we count the bent ones as fallen, there are more fallen; on the second night, more days or nights; if we count cloudy days as nights, more nights; on the third, more men or women; if we count men who obey women for women, then there are more women; the khan forbade his wife to destroy birds, the birds thanked the owl]: Hadahane 1984:95-97 (=Paderina, Plitchenko 1986:136-138); Baikal Buryats: Barannikova et al. 2000, No. 23 (Irkutsk Region) [Owl, the wife of the bird Khan Khurdug, asks her husband to gather his subjects, unite them by their beaks, let them fan her wings in the summer; the owl arrives last, says she listened to arguing people; they discussed more standing trees or fallen (those who bent down counted as fallen, there are more of them); alive or dead (old ones were considered dead); nights or days (cloudy days were counted as nights); men or women (caught under the influence of wives, they considered women); decided: a man who obeyed a woman was a motley beetle, and a khan who obeyed hansha was a black beetle; they began to choose a new khan, decided Crane; Chekan asks Listen to the Crane's day or night cry; the Crane broke his back; decided that the Crane could not be a khan, they left the same; the Crane would transport Chekan]: 89-91; Eliasov 1973, No. 104 [ after the death of the bird king Garudi, the Eagle was chosen as king, he married the Owl; the wife asks to gather all the birds, thread a cord into her nostrils, put them in a circle, she will hatch eggs in the middle; the owl said he was ready gather birds, but he was the last one himself; explained that he counted how many standing and lying trees (more lying if you count dry ones); women or men (there are more women if you add men with an Indian mind); the tsar drove his wife away]: 370-371; the Trans-Baikal Buryats (Khorin) [after the creation of the world, animals had a meeting at which they chose kings and decided what way of life who would have; this the meeting was not burbot; the camel came last and finished; he needed to get kibygyn (testicles); since everything was dismantled, the camel was offered what was left; the offer seemed he was small and did not match his size, so he turned back and went back; the testicles threw him after him, they stuck to his ass; the elk, on his way from the meeting, met on the riverbank with burbot; said that he was told to live in the depths, eat mud and spend days in every bend of the river; burbot asked who got the horse, gun and dog; the elk replied that man; burbot said that now neither the moose nor he is unhappy - the man will kill them; the elk is upset and cries so much that two of his four eyes burst; now he has scars below the two surviving eyes; on the same birds chose a king at the meeting; almost everyone was for the crane; dogolon khanchir (choysh) opposed it; he said that the crane screams incessantly, without analyzing day and night; the birds agreed and chose King Garaudy; the crane is angry, trampled on the leg of the chase; the crowd told the crane to wear its shoulder when it needs to move from one country to another; therefore, in the spring after arrival cranes have signs of burden on their backs, and the shoulder cannot sit upright when they descend to the ground; Garaudy, the king of birds, married a fur ball (owl); she became pregnant and before leaving out of the burden, told her husband that she wanted to give birth to his subjects on their backs; G. ordered all subjects to come to him immediately; ordered arrivals to pierce holes in their beaks and, pulling them through those holes lace, tie everyone; almost everyone came to the call; all of them had their beaks pierced and, pulling their lace through their holes, tied them to each other; later than others, the goibanga (night bird with a nightjar) appeared; G. became interrogate him; he replied with a nightjar that he compared the number of men and women in the world, days and nights, high and low forests; G. asked who was more in each case; with a nightjar: "If you attribute men under the authority of the wife are women, there are more women; if you attribute cloudy days to night, there are more nights; if you classify the bent forests as low, low forests, it turns out to be more"; G. realized that in this case he himself was a woman, and was upset; not letting the nightjar's beak be drilled, ordered all bound birds to be disbanded; then flew to another place, leaving his wife; therefore, all birds except the nightjar have beaks drilled across]: Gomboev 1890, No. 13:73-75; Oirats (durbuts) [Khan Garide's wife asks to make a cradle of bird bones for the newborn; Khan Gathered all the birds and pierced their noses to tie them together; the Bat did not appear until after the second order; said she was deciding whether there were more days or nights, men or women; if twilight was counted as night, then nights; if men who listen to women's unreasonable demands are classified as women, then women; Khan Garida ordered birds to be released]: Potanin 1883:173-174; darkhats [(zap. Palkin); Khan Garidi married a shulmus; she proposes to make a tower out of bird noses; HG told the birds to get together, pierce their noses, and then cut everything off at once; Hottun shibo (pelican) appeared only after the third invitation; replied that on the first day she counted whether there were more days or nights (nights if cloudy days were counted as nights), dry or damp trees (if at least one branch was dry, count as dry), men or women (if a man listens to a woman, count as a woman); HG canceled the order; Shulmus told Hotun's neck to turn three times against the sun, but his neck turned only once]: Potanin 1883:175-176; the Mongols [Owl, wife of the king of birds Khan Garudi, asked all his subjects to hold her; HG pierced the birds' beaks, threaded the rope, and the wife sat on the birds; the bird was the last to appear guibanga; replied that she had been flying for 70 years, saw three feasts; the first - fewer days than nights (if cloudy days are counted as night); the second - fewer men than women (men doing business on council of wives, considers women); the king let the birds go; Owl said that he would meet her some time at night; since then Owl has been calling HG at night]: Potanin 1919a, No. 32:52; Mongols (Ordos) [ Khan Garidi, the wife of the bird khan, complains to her husband that she needs a soft bed; to do this, collect all the birds, take their fluff; the king gathered the birds, pierced their noses to keep them leashed; the bird Yabylyk ( yabalak is a Turkic "owl"); is the last; (hereinafter referred to as the untranslated phrase); Y. replies that there are more nights than days, because if we add cloudy days to night, and effeminate men to wives, then women and more nights; (further it is not entirely clear, the bird Yabylyk has departed)]: Potanin 1893, No. 3:343-344; Oirats (durbuts) [the king of birds Khan Garide had a son; khansha proposed to make a cradle of birds; khan collected the birds, pierced their noses to bind them; Sarisyn-Bakbagh did not appear; when he was brought in, he replied that he counted more days or nights, men or women; if you count the time when it was light but there was no sun, during the night, there are more nights; there are more men, because you can shout at an foolish wife; Khan let the birds go]: Potanin 1883:173-174; the Mongors [The King of Birds is married to the Crow; she reproaches him for His subjects live better than him; he orders all the birds to give him their homes, food and clothes the day after tomorrow; Magpies came later than anyone else; said they were late because they met debators; alone They said that there was more day, others that night; there was more night if cloudy days were counted at night; next time more men or women; women, if you count as women husbands who obey their wives; King of the Birds ashamed, let the birds go]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:130.

Western Siberia. Mansi [the wife of the Upper Spirit says he must live in a house made of the bones of all animals and birds; he gathers animals and birds to kill them; the owl asks who is more men or women; she replies that women, for a man living in a woman's mind is a woman himself; the Upper Spirit spreads animals, throws his wife from heaven to earth; the sister of the Upper Spirit (Kaltas-ekva) finds her inside the mountain where she gave birth to Ekva-Pyris; his aunt takes him to her bank of the Ob River, he grows up; the boy's mother remains in the mountain, she is Sakvtalyah-ner-Ekva - Upper Lyapin Gornaya River Woman]: Lukina 1990, No. 133:342-346.