Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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N27B. But there's no bird's milk .28.29.31.-.34.

It is said that somewhere or someone did not have or did not have only bird milk.

Poles, Russians (central provinces, Vologda), Western, Eastern and Northern Ukrainians (Galicia, Podolsk, Kiev, Kherson, Poltava, Volyn, Chernigov), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Kumyks, Avars, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Veps, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Uighurs (Kashgar), Shors.

Central Europe. Poles ["Tylko ptasiego mleka brakowało", "Wszystkiego tam obficie, mleka tylko ptaszego nie było na wety", "Nic nie brakowało, chyba tego ptasiego mleka", "Wszystko, prócło z ptasiego mleka"]: Grigas 1987:209-210; Russians: Dal 1862 (no place of recording; most likely including central provinces) ["Everything is there except bird's milk. But there is no poultry milk"; "You will find everything in Moscow except poultry milk"; "The rich man has everything, but there is no poultry milk. Everything is there, except poultry milk"]: 79, 346, 960; Sadovnikov 1876, No. 2310 (Vologodskaya, Totma) ["What can you never find in St. Petersburg? - Poultry milk"]: 280; Western, Eastern and Northern Ukrainians (Podolsk, Kiev, Poltava, Volyn, Chernihiv) ["poultry milk is dumb" (Zvenigorodshchina, Radomyshl, Piryatinshchina)," You don't know bird's milk" (Berdichev), "khiba ptashachy milk is nema" (Proskurov), "You don't know poultry milk" (Starodub)]: Nomis 1864, No. 1348:29; Western Ukrainians (Galicia) ["All May, hiba for bird of milk fun (zabagay)"]: Zakrevsky 1860:150; Eastern Ukrainians (Kherson) [the person went to look for work; sees a hut that did not exist before; in the hut there is a rich table - except that there is no bird's milk; no matter how much it eats, food does not decrease; God and St. Peter, the man hid under the table; those who came in sat down to eat; an angel enters: a child has been born; an angel: how happy is he? God: how much do we have now; God and Peter are gone, there is no less food on the table; the man put food in a bag, brought it home, fed his wife and children; the next day the man came back to that hut; again an angel and that The same answer; but this time the man told his wife; she tells the angel to ask about his own happiness; now there is only one lamp, a piece of bread and a glass of water on the table; God answers the angel again, How are we now; man knelt before God; God: why didn't you ask yesterday or the day before; and now you'll be poor to death; the hut is gone, the poor man returned home]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 3:122-124; Belarusians [ proverb: "siahò je dastàtkam, tuąlko ptùsznaho malakà brakùje"]: Grigas 1987:209 (referring to Federowski M. Lud białoruski na Rusi Litewskiej. Warszawa, 1935. T. 4. S. 252).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [lived a great sultan; and what did he not have in the palace? everything except poultry milk]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 8:92; Abkhazians (p. Pakves, Ochamchira District, 1934) [ending: "The girl's parents arranged a wedding. The young man stayed with the prince. He took his mother and father to him, and they lived happily ever after. They had everything, but they did not have enough poultry milk"]: Shakryl 1974, No. 39:208 (reprinted with a little processing in Gabulov 1987:51); Ossetians (Irons, 1921) [ending: "We soon prepared a wedding feast, invited people and welcomed them well. There was nothing but bird's milk at their wedding feast. The boy and the girl stayed together, and even today they live and live"]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 77:363; Kumyks [proverb: "Zhymchykny syutyunden kairy sende ne de bardyr" (except bird's milk You probably have everything)]: Hajiakhmedov 2015:140; Avars [episode: "He [young man} climbed up to the tower, entered the mansions and sees: the Tsar Maiden is sleeping on the golden bed, a star is burning on her forehead, under the mouse shines for a month, and its body is so thin that you can cover it with two fingers. There are gold and silver candlesticks in the legs and heads; on the table there are all kinds of food and drinks, except for bird's milk"]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:292; Georgians (p. Oladauri, Adjara) [episode: "He {the rider} liked the woman at first sight, and he shouted to her: "What kind of dog's head is on your lap? You'd better get up and come with me. If you become my wife, you'll live in a hall and in luxury. Unless you don't have enough bird's milk"]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 124:243; Azerbaijanis [episode: "Ahmed thanked me and hid the keys in his pocket. And as soon as Ojai left, he immediately began to explore the rooms. Whichever door he opened, he saw such riches that he could not say in a fairy tale or describe it with a pen. No Shah had so many gold and gems. There wasn't just poultry milk here"]: Seyidov 1983:24.

Baltoscandia. The Veps (d. Zalesye, Prionezhsky District, 1937) [fairy tale episode: "Again, the Tsar says: "Vanyusha, you know how to cook a royal dinner. Let everything be there except birds' milk." The guy went home, came and told his wife. My wife says: "I told you that you started teaching me too early, it will be a lot of trouble. Go to bed," he says. My wife went somewhere and made a good dinner before, there was everything but bird's milk" (see summary in the K27x3 data "The Hero's Tsar and Wife")]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 14:82; Latvians [proverb: "Putna piena vien trūkst"]: Grigas 1987:209; Lithuanians [famous phraseological units "bird milk", "cuckoo milk", "swan milk", "cat milk"; say: "Viso buvo, paukščių pieno nebuvo" ("Everything happened, there was no bird's milk"), "To ten trukst - tik paukszcze pieno" ("What's not there - just bird's milk"), "Viso tūri, tik gegužęs pieno neturi" ("He has everything, but no cuckoo milk"), "Ti tik gulbes pienș betruksta" ("There's only swan milk missing"), "Wisso buvo kates pij by nebuvo" ("It happened, cat's milk it wasn't")]: Grigas 1987:206, 209, 213.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars ["kugarchen sote genitmi (yuk)" - (only) poultry (letter pigeon) milk is missing (not enough)]: Makhmutov 1987, No. 4055:143; Bashkirs (Ishimbay district, 1968) [episode: "I woke up {eget}, and their leaky hut, blown from all sides is full of food and drink. And bags of flour and meat are plentiful, but there is no poultry milk. The mother was more surprised than before, but she fears whether it was honestly obtained"]: Barag 1989, No. 48:219.

Turkestan. Uighurs (Kashgar) ["If I enter a bai's house there is everything except hen's milk"]: Jarring 1948, No. 5:133.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Shors: Arbachakova 2010, No. 1 (Myski, 2000) [episodes of an epic tale: "I brought nine rooms inside, /When I entered, /On the gold (table) /Except there was no bird's milk - /So much drinking and food was laid out"; "At the golden table [Ak Kana and Altyn Sabak] sitting down,/[All] drinks and food -/Unless there was only bird's milk - /They began to eat and drink"]; No. 2 (until 1995) [fairy tale episodes: "On a white (tablecloth), a great deal of food that was not seen by man immediately began to appear: on the upper earth, no matter how much food there was, everything appeared. The old man then sees: there is only no bird's milk, even an araga has appeared"; "Just opened the tueska hat, a large table appeared in the middle of the big floor, on the big floor food unseen by man appeared on the table. Kara Kang then sees that there is no bird's milk on this table, and food he hasn't seen in his entire life has appeared! When Kara Kahn saw this, he was not surprised; he was surprised. He who was not afraid was frightened"]: 158, 175, 187, 197.