N26. When wheat grew on ice .29.30.32.
It issaid that the action took place when cultivated plants (wheat, cotton) grew on ice or salt.
Romanian Tatars, Nogais, Uzbeks, Kazan Tatars.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Romanian Tatars (speakers of the steppe dialect of the Crimean Tatar language, Dobruja) [beginning: "In ancient times, when the sieve was straw, when the swallow was a judge, when the lark was an old man when millet grew on the mountains and mowed with lightning; when wheat grew on ice and mowed with thunder. It was - it wasn't..."]: Roshiyan 1974:48; Nogai: Nogai 1979, No. 35 (no place of recording) [beginning: "In ancient times, when wheat grew on ice and millet on stone, when Khan's daughter grew was a kadium, and a starling was a sorcerer, on the side where the sun rises, lived a rich khan" (see summary in the M114b data "Come neither naked nor dressed")]: 153; Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 71 (p. Novo-Dmitriyevka, Tarumovsky District, 1971) [beginning: "A long time ago, when the goat was swelling, when wheat was growing on ice, when millet was growing on the mountain [rocky soil], when millet was squeezed with a noise [rustle], at a time when water boiled and became sour cream, while ants, becoming sheep, scattered across the steppe, Khan Poultry lived"]: 192; Aliyeva 2013, No. 107 (the place of recording is not specified) [beginning: "A long time ago when the khan's daughter was still a judge, when the starling was a sorcerer, when wheat grew on the ice, when millet grew in the mountains, when it was mowed, when the bags were made of felt, when the crow's beak was horny , an old man and an old woman lived"]: 467.
Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks (Sarts) [beginning: "There lived rich, lived poor, lived hungry, lived well-fed; the wolf was the cook, the fox was the manager of the feast; the raven was the sorceress, the sparrow was a gossip, and the ant was funny a storyteller; a goose was a trumpeter, a duck was a bugler, a turtle was a weigher, and a frog placed weights... cotton grew out of salt, and children were born from maidens..."]: Ostroumov 1906b: 11.
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars (recorded by I. Kunosh from Tatar prisoners of war in 1915 in Hungary) [episode: "My son took a hundred soldiers, took money and supplies for a year, and went in search. We drove for a month, drove for a year, and when a top grew on the turntable ground, and a beautiful meadowsweet grew on idle land, and millet on the stone, wheat on the ice, and all this was squeezed miserably with a sickle, then the travelers drove in into the dense forest. We drove up to the spring, to the clearing"]: Zamaletdinov 1992:124.