N35. Jelly shores. 28.31.31.

Somewhere milk rivers flow with banks made of jelly (porridge) - a sign of abundance (impossible in reality). Cf. H16B motive.

Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya (?) , Vologda, Kursk), Belarusians, Scandinavians, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Mordovians.

Central Europe. Russians (Terek Bereg) [the tsar walked, chose a bride, overheard the three sisters talking under the window; first: if I were a queen, I would weave canvases all over the world; second: made beer; at three she would bring 9 heroes to her bellies, legs knee-deep in gold, hands up to the elbow in silver, the sun in the forehead, a month in the back of her head, small stars on the braids, the dawns close by the ears; the king married the last, left; the queen gave birth to three sons, Baba Yaga stole them; the same for the second time; the third time, the mother braided one in her braids; Baba Yaga changed letters, the queen was thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel was washed ashore , broke; in the morning the church, houses; the walkers passing are surprised: there were swamps, white-stone chambers and viburnum bridges became; the son became a trinket fly, flew with kaliki, heard everything; they told the king about the miracle ; queen's sister: our aunt has jelly shores, a river of milk, a red spoon; a trinket fly pecked out her eye; in the morning she and her mother have a river of milk, etc.; next time: a third bull, a bathhouse on her tail, there is a lake under her tail, a church on her horns; a third woman: our aunt has 8 fellows in the open field, legs knee-deep in gold (etc.); a trinket fly tore off a piece of her nose, flew to her mother, she explains what it is his brothers, carried away by baba yaga; gave curls; the son flew to the house in the field; there are 8 pigeons, turning well done at night; they all flew to their mother, began to live well; the Kaliki tell the king about this; he moved in with the children, left them the kingdom]: Balashov 1970, No. 46:155-160; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [the tsar ordered the lights in the city to be turned off; sent his son to look for his wife where there would be no fire extinguished; Ivan Tsarevich overhears the conversation of three sisters at the window; each tells what she will do if I. marries her; one will sew a carpet with an embroidered plane on it; the other will sew in silk towel; the youngest will give birth to three sons three times, the sun is in her forehead, a month on the back of her head, frequent small stars on her braids; Yazhenya volunteered to be a midwife; replaced the children with kittens (she carried the children into an open field); puppies; puppies again; turned the children into wolves; the last woman in labor hid in her spit; I. persuaded I. to throw the queen in a barrel into the sea; she was thrown onto the island, her son knocked down the bottom, created a palace; turned around mosquito, overheard the sailors tell about the wonderful palace on the island; I.: my brother has a bull, a bathhouse on his tail, a lake on his back, a palace on his horns; my son creates such a bull at home; next time: a lake crystal, jelly shores, silver spoons, no loss; third time: 8 sons are clear falcons, wolves during the day, and well done at night; mother baked koloboks with fresh milk, told her son take them under the spruce; the brothers ate them, the milk on their lips, did not turn into wolves anymore; greeted their ninth brother, began to live with their mother; the king came, recognized his wife; I froze in a barrel, swims to still]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:144-148; Russians (North - Olonetskaya?) [Masha is hard-working, her sister Dasha is lazy; when leaving for the fair, her parents tell them to look after their youngest son Ivanushka; swan geese carry him away on their wings; Dasha runs after him, refuses to eat rye pie by the Stove, a sour apple by the Apple Tree, taste milk, jelly by the Milk River with jelly shores; The hedgehog indicates where Baba Yaga's hut is, Ivanushka plays with golden apples in it; Dasha grabs it, runs, The River, the Apple Tree, the Stove refuse to cover, the swan geese take Ivanushka away; Masha eats a pie, an apple, a jelly; the River, the Apple Tree, the Stove hide her, the swan geese stop the persecution]: Karnaukhova 1948:78-83; Russians (Vologodskaya) [after the death of his parents, Ivan lives with his aunt; she gives him one hundred rubles three times, he bought a dog, a cat, a snake; the snake leads to his mother, tells him to take a ring from his right hand as a reward; I. asks his aunt to marry the king's daughter Mary; the king demands a house like his, the workers from the ring perform; a crystal bridge, a milk river with jelly banks, cages on the bridge, birds in the cages, and go to the crown, apple trees to bloom; everything is done, I. received M.; M. asked about the ring, tickled I. in his nose, the ring fell out of her mouth, M. ordered I. to be taken to the swamp, and her to her father; a cat with a dog came to I. tickled M. in her nostril, she spit out the ring; the dog is swimming across the river, the cat is on the dog, dropped the ring, the fish swallowed, the fishermen caught the fish, the cat got guts, brought I.'s ring, he forgave M.]: Smirnov 1917, No. 34:187-191; Russians (Kursk) [when leaving, parents tell their daughter to take care of her brother; she played too much, swan geese took Ivashechka, her sister rushes to catch up; the stove asks to eat her pie, the apple tree is her wild apple, the milk river with jelly shores is milk and jelly; the girl replies every time that her father does not eat wheat, garden and cream; they do not show the way; they do not show the way; the hedgehog pointed out; the sister grabbed his brother, the swan geese followed; I had to taste what they offered, the river, the apple tree, the stove were hidden; the sister and brother ran home, the parents returned]: Afanasiev 1984, No. 113:185- 186; Russians (the place of recording is unknown) ["In a long time, when God's world was filled with goblins, witches and mermaids, when rivers flowed milk, the banks were jelly, and fried ones flew through the fields partridges, at that time there was a king named Pea with Queen Anastasia the Beautiful; they had three sons, princes. A considerable misfortune shook - an unclean spirit dragged the queen away"]: Afanasiev 1984 (1), No. 130:195; Belarusians (d. Nikolaevsk, kr. Aniken Kavunov, 50 years old, illiterate) [The tsar lived, wanted to marry - went to foreign lands. I traveled to other kingdoms three times and did not find a wife. He returns from the third kingdom, goes to the village, sleeps with a man. The horse coachman took him to water and let go of the bucket. He looks - it's dark everywhere, only the hut is shining. I went there to get a bucket, went to the window, saw three girls sitting talking. They say about the king and groom and that he will not find brides more beautiful than them. The eldest says that if she married her, she would feed his entire army with bread alone; the middle says that if she took her, she would cover his entire army with one needle, and the youngest says that if she took her, she would she gave birth to 12 falcon sons: "A month in his forehead, a star on the back of his head, and silver on the elbow!" The coachman, without asking for a bucket, reports everything to the king. The king goes to marry, chooses a smaller one and takes her to his kingdom. Here they live, his wife is pregnant. "There's an alarm here," and the king must leave town. He punishes his wife to write to him if he gives birth to someone and leaves. Two months later, she gives birth to 12 falcon sons, writes a letter to the king and sends a messenger to him. The sisters found out that their sister had given birth and bought shanks for themselves on the way. A messenger comes to his older sister in a tire, she finds out what his errands are, sends him to the bathhouse, and replaces the letters herself, writing to the king that "I gave birth to you, my darling, 12 pieces - cat legs, mouse tails, dog mouths." The next night, a messenger stops in another shank, and the middle sister stops there. She also got to the point, sent him to the bathhouse, and replaced the letter herself. She wrote even worse than the eldest one. A messenger comes to the king, the king reads a letter, cries, writes an answer - to wait for his wife. On the way back, the messenger visits both sisters again in their shanks, they send him back to the bathhouse and replace letters (one worse than the other) to ruin his sister and sons. The messenger brings a letter to the queen, she reads, cries, but there is nothing to do. He tells me to make a barrel with iron hoops, puts 11 sons there - "If I'm not a sinful soul, you will live!" − and lets them into the sea. She takes her younger 12th son, comes from the kingdom, finds a monastery and there she becomes a worker, and gives her son to study. He learns fast - "as he has learned in one year, as the other 10 years study." He grew up big and calls his mother from the monastery to make his own house. They came to the sea, built a house for themselves and started trading. Cabbies were walking that road, and their mare necklaces - they gave that foal to the prince. The sailors came, he treats them and greets them. He goes to see them off, goes to his horse. And he says to him, "climb on me and fall off me, you will turn into a dove, fly to the sailor, sit on his right shoulder, he will bring you to the royal chambers, and you listen to what the king and the queen are talking to will be (it was his older sister who became his wife). That's what he did. The sailor told the king about his widow and her son, who could not be more beautiful than that they had built a house for themselves on the other side of the sea. The king wants to go, but his wife dissuades him - is that marvelous! She talks about another wonder - an oak tree, there are 12 roosters on it, each rooster has a bright woman, each lady has 12 girls, they sew expensive clothes and throw them away - there is no one to wear them. The dove hears everything and flies back. He flies to a horse, sits on it and falls, turns into a human being. The horse asks what the king and queen talked about. Ivan recounts and asks the horse to help him get this wonder. The horse tells Ivan to ask for his mother's blessing and set off. That's what he does. Ivan comes on his horse to that oak tree, tells him that he is standing in the wrong place, and if he went to his kingdom, they would wear all these clothes there and "and they asked God for you!" Oak agrees and follows Ivan. Everyone marvels at the miracle. This story (the arrival of sailors - advice with a horse - flying a dove - an overheard conversation between the king, queen and sailor - the king's desire to go to watch the wonder - his wife's excuses and her story of a new miracle - the return of the pigeon - advice with a horse - receiving a mother's blessing - a trip for a miracle - a miracle willingly goes to Ivan's kingdom) is then repeated 5 more times (i.e. 6 in total). After (1) oak, other miracles: (2) a pole, a cuckoo on the pole: "what kuknya, duck a soldier from yae fart" - with a horse, and with a saddle, and ready for war, but they have nothing to eat, they starve to death; (3) wild boar He plows his snout, harrows its hooves, sows its tail, at 3 days bread ripens, but there is no one to eat it, and dies; (4) the river - jelly banks, "come - eat, and destroy your bags!" You eat it, it regrows; (5) 11 brothers in a cell by the sea live and do not know that they are brothers from the same mother and one father; (6) the bridge from the royal porch to Ivan's Palace, "the golden bridge yes silver, the poles are standing, the lanterns are burning, the firebirds are singing." The miracles collected in Ivan's kingdom no longer work idle: "The oak sews clothes, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo, the soldiers jump out, put on clothes, the boar sows bread, the soldier eats bread, goes to the river - he came, ate, I went to live, to the cagelnya (a brick factory or a clay quarry - K. B.) do different jobs." Differences in cases (5) and (6): (5) After listening to Ivan's story about a miracle with 11 brothers in the same cell, the horse advises him to ask his mother not just for a blessing, but for her to bake her breast milk from her breast milk Ivan comes to his cell, the horse advises him to go inside and instead of the sweep that will be on the table, put his own, from breast milk, and hide himself. That's what he did. A barrel comes from the sea, 11 fellows come out of it, go into the cell, the elder divides the swirl into 11 parts, everyone eats, looks at each other, cries, recognizes themselves as brothers, asks the one they want to leave Ivan brought it, Ivan comes out, everyone is kissing, and now there are 12 brothers together; Ivan sits on a horse, the brothers in a barrel, and go to his kingdom, his mother meets them, a feast. (6) The sailor tells the king that there is no longer 1 wonderful cotton in Ivan's kingdom, but 12, the tsar wants to go, his wife says that it is dangerous for them to go by sea, they will drown, and if there was a bridge... (see description above); after listening to Ivan's story about this task, the horse advises him to go to his brothers and tell them to "read old books before dawn and pray to God faithfully", and he himself should "take an ax, step into the yard, cut colas, drive colas into the ground, try so that blood from it was flowing." So he did - the bridge was ready by dawn. The king father harnessed his horses and drove across the bridge, greeted him with bread and salt, he was about to leave, and the mother of 12 heroes gives him a book that she wrote herself, how she left his court, the king reads and cuts off his second wife head - life has improved]: Romanov 1901, No. 19 (17): 169−178.

Baltoscandia. The Scandinavians [Sturla Tordasson's "The Book of Land Settlement" (1214-1284): "When asked about the new land {Iceland}, Floki spoke ill of it, Heryolv talked about both good things and good things thin, and Torolv said that milk rivers with jelly banks flow in the country they found - for which he was nicknamed Torolv - Milk River"]: Markelova 2014:351; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [when going to visit, the parents of a five-year-old girl tell her to watch her three-year-old brother, not to let him out of the house; the girl went to play, the geese took the boy; the girl runs to look for him; the goose asks to pluck him he has feathers, the girl replies that she is weak and cannot; the stove asks him to eat her pies, the girl says that she has no time; the milk river - the jelly shores ask you to try milk, jelly; the girl tried I found myself in a hut, where my brother plays with toys that geese bring him; the girl grabs her brother and runs back; they washed milk, jelly, found themselves on the other side of the river; ate pies from the stove; the girl gathered her strength, plucked the goose; brought her brother home]: Onegin 2012, No. 28:279-281; the Veps [in the texts on the story "Wonderful Children" there are the following descriptions: "Suddenly a river appeared, and it flows milk and jelly" (with reference to Näytteitä vepsän murteista/Keränneet ja julkaisseet Lauri Kettunen ja Paavo Siro. Helsinki, 1935) and "A river appeared, and wine, honey and milk flow in it" (IYALI KSC audio archive)]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996:12; Estonians [proverb: Piimajõed, pudrumäed ("rivers of milk, mountains of porridge")] : Õim 2016.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [parents tell their daughter to watch her brother; two wild geese took him away; the girl rushed to catch up; the oven asks for bread, a wild apple tree for apples, a milk river with jelly jelly on the banks; the girl does as asked; the hedgehog shows the way; Yaga sleeps in the house, his brother is playing with the golden testicle; his sister grabbed him, ran back; again fulfills the requests of the river, etc., they hide from stalking geese]: Evseviev 1964, No. 41:288-289.