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In narrative folklore, the days of the week (most often Friday and Wednesday) are special (female) characters that have a more or less pronounced demonic nature.

Germans (Lower Austria or Bohemia), Moldovans, Romanians, Gagauz, Bulgarians, Greeks, Slovaks, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Galicia, Podolia, Volyn, south-east of Kyiv, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav), Belarusians, Russians (Oryol, Tambov), Ingush, Mordvins.

Western Europe. Germans (Lower Austria or Bohemia) [the third son of a peasant - the foolish Hansl; one day, in a few days, a tree grew, the top of which was lost in the clouds; the princess promised a reward to anyone who could get the fruit from this tree; everyone who tried took with him several pairs of wooden shoes, which he had to throw down as he climbed; some shoes were not thrown off and were lost - what happened to them? G. also climbed, taking 12 pairs and a lead hatchet; everyone thought that he would fail, but his shoes continued to fall; one day he reached a hollow; in it a terrible, but not evil old woman fed him and gave him a place to sleep; she said that she was Monday, and he still had to get to all the days of the week; from Saturday he would find out what to do next; After Saturday there were no more shoes left, and the hatchet became blunt; G. reached a stone wall into which a tree trunk had grown; he opened the door and found himself in a meadow; in front of him was a shining golden city; the hatchet had a golden handle instead of a wooden one; on the tree which G. was climbing were golden fruits; in the meadow were golden animals; G. decided that he was in heaven and remained there; or he came down and told the whole story]: Vernaleken 1889, no. 30: 170-173; the Greeks [one day St. Paraskeva (Friday) spoke to a woman and she invited her to spin with her for the night; and later she noticed that her legs were covered with wool like a donkey; she said: look, they are killing St. Thursday's goat; she left the room, and the woman locked herself in; one day she stood at the window asking to be let in to take her spinning wheel; if the woman had let her in, she would have killed her]: Zochios sa, No. 4.

Balkans. Moldavians [a woman gave birth from an infusion of grass collected on Ivan Kupala; she named her son Basil the Green; a dragon kidnapped the princess, the king promises her and half the kingdom to the one who returns his daughter; BZ comes, kills dragons in succession - from 6 to 24-headed; the Half-Man comes (vertically), he is invulnerable to the sword, kills BZ, makes the princess say that he killed the dragons; wedding in a year; BZ's mother found her son's remains, saw how one ant revived another with grass; she revived BZ with the same grass; he goes to look for the Half-Man; Holy Friday sends to the Holy Trinity, she calls the birds, only the dove knows that the power of the Half-Man is in the 9 worms in the golden apple in the lame hare's crevice; gives a flute that makes one dance; BZ swam with difficulty across the river where the snakes were (he dropped his flute, found it, started playing, the snakes started dancing); made a hare dance, killed it, got an apple, started crushing worms; came to the tsar disguised as a doctor to treat his son-in-law, finished him off, married the princess]: Moldavian Tales 1968: 302-312; Moldavians [the tsar lost his seal; if he had a son, he would have gone to the next world, would have taken the signet ring from his grandfather's hand; Tudor's daughter puts on men's clothing, goes in place of her son; a deer got its antlers stuck in the snake's mouth; the snake asks to cut off the deer's antlers, the deer asks to kill the snake; T. kills the snake; the deer leads to the castle where the grandfather's ring lies; if you step on the threshold, you will stay there forever; T. stumbled over the threshold, the devils took the ring and led her to the main one; he promises to release T. if he brings the white horse of the Red Tsar; the deer warns her not to take the bridle; she takes it, is caught, the Tsar orders Ilyana Kosynzyana to be brought; on the way T. and the deer visit St. Wednesday (gives a box), St. Friday (a brush), St. Saturday (a scarf); IK is a nut that a witch is rolling in the castle, it must be replaced; other witches return, order the nut to open, it does not open, they set off in pursuit; the deer orders to throw away the comb (forest), box (mountain), scarf (river); witches: if you are a woman, become a man, and if a man - a woman; Tudora became Tudor; at the Red Tsar's the deer chipped in IK, T. received a horse, and the deer returned; the same at the chief devil's; T. took away the ring; T. returns home on a horse with a seal and a bride]: Botezatu 1981: 246-257; Romanians [the following formulas are used to expel the "Mistress of the Bottom" from the house: Run to the Garaleian Slope, because there is a big fire there (the children of Marzoli were there), the houses of Joimerica are burning, the houses of the Mistress of the Bottom are burning on the Gergeut Mountains, the houses of St. Friday are burning with flame, the houses of St. Martha are burning on the hill on Ardyal, the house of the Mistress of the Bottom is burning on the Galarei Hill, the Kanagali Mountains are burning, / At the top of the hill, / of the Galilean Hill, / A very big fire is burning / With flames up to the sun]: Sudnik, Tsivyan 1980: 250-251; Romanians[the mighty king always laughs with his right eye and cries with his left; he has three sons; mighty tall Florea, stocky strong Costan and the youngest Petru - tall, but with a girlish character; the elder brothers refused, P. agreed to ask their father about his eyes and received a slap in the face from him; but it seemed to him that the left eye cried less and the right laughed more; and he asked again; both of the father's eyes laughed: that three sons are good, but they are unlikely to be able to defend themselves from their neighbors; that is why there is laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the fairy of the Morning Dawn, then I will wet my eyes and both will laugh, for I will understand that the sons are brave; F. galloped on his best horse to the border of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on the earth; F. turned around, but after a year, a month and a day he did not return home; K. went; the dragon also has three heads; also turned around, but did not return home; P. rode on, the dragon had 7 heads; the horse reared up, P. went back to get another horse; an old nurse: we need the horse your father rode; he replies that the horse died long ago, and in the stall there are only scraps of the bridle; the nurse orders to bring such a scrap and hit the post with it; immediately a beautiful horse appeared under a precious saddle; now there is a 12-headed dragon at the bridge; the horse orders to cut off the main head and flies forward - one day like the wind, the next - like a thought; in front of them is a copper wall, as well as trees, bushes and grasses made of copper; the flowers whisper, but the horse forbids them to pick them; otherwise they will have to fight the Velva; but he picked them in order to see her; she has the mane of a horse, the antlers of a deer, the muzzle of a bear, the eyes of a ferret, the bodies of different creatures; after three days of battle P. threw a bridle on the Velva and she turned into a beautiful horse; This is the brother of the horse P., who was bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (all the same - another velva-horse); gold (the same, the strongest and the youngest of these horses were disenchanted); now they are riding through the frozen country of St. Sereda, and there is fire along the edges; this is the frost from which a calf freezes in the womb of a cow and the rocks crumble; when they reached the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; box: the eldest sons took power from him; now they are riding through the hot country of St. Thursday (Joi, Jupiter); the rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where there are springs and flowers, maidens turn to P., seducing; St. Thursday: further on will be the country of St. Friday, give her my wishes for health; it is neither cold nor hot there; but darkness has descended and in it are the daughters of the Tornado; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse bids him throw down a copper wreath, the spirits rush after the wreath; he showed Friday a silver wreath and she allowed him to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks him to bring her a mug of water from the spring of the Fairy of the Morning Dawn on the way back; gave her a flute, the sounds of which make one fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and go in to the Fairy,dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: the eyes of an owl, the muzzle of a fox, the claws of a cat; her gaze deprives one of reason; the Fairy's palace is where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither hot nor cold, eternal twilight; P. put the giant guard and the seven-headed dragons to sleep with his flute; the milk river is not in sandy or jelly banks, but in banks of gems and pearls, flowing at the same time quickly and slowly; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in the flowers; P. tied the sleeping giant's fingers, woke him up, ordered him to carry him across the river - then we will fight; but the giant drove P. into the ground up to his knees, and P. him up to his waist; the giant P. up to his chest, P. him up to his neck; then the half-tied giant agreed to carry P., standing with both feet on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed is the bread of strength and the wine of youth; He took a bite of bread and a sip of wine, kissed the Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, got some water and left; gave the water to Friday; Thursday warned him not to communicate with people on the way back; gave him a handkerchief that protected him from lightning, spears and bullets; the knowing box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water and want to kill him; P. does not believe, breaks the box; the brothers come to meet him, ask him to get water from a deep well, leave them there, take the Fairy's water and come to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards to look for P.; they did not find him; the Sun searched for 7 days, but P. is where its rays do not reach; the Fairy ordered that darkness should come and now only the king-father, who received his sight from that water, began to see, and all the others - no; Florea came to the Fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with the middle brother}; The Fairy ordered everyone to come to her, so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants all would only weep; Friday sent whirlwinds to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard how P. ended up in the well; now there are only bones and dust there; Thursday boiled the dust in a cauldron with the dew of life, it turned into an ointment, they rubbed the bones with it, P. came to life; orders the horse to fly fast, like a curse; arrived to the Fairy, kissed her; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; the P. brothers gained sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20: 237-295;took some water and left; gave the water to Friday; Thursday warned him not to communicate with people on the way back; gave him a handkerchief that protects from lightning, spears and bullets; the knowing box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe, broke the box; the brothers come to meet him, asked to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards to look for P.; they did not find him; the Sun searched for 7 days, but P. is where its rays do not reach; the Fairy ordered that darkness should come and now only the king-father, who received his sight from that water, began to see, and all the others - not; Florea came to the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with the middle brother}; The Fairy commanded everyone to come to her, so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants all would only weep; Friday sent whirlwinds to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard how P. ended up in the well; now there are only bones and dust there; Thursday boiled the dust in a cauldron with the dew of life, it became an ointment, they rubbed the bones with it, P. came to life; commands the horse to fly fast, like a curse; arrived to the Fairy, kissed her; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; the P. brothers gained their sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20: 237-295;took some water and left; gave the water to Friday; Thursday warned him not to communicate with people on the way back; gave him a handkerchief that protects from lightning, spears and bullets; the knowing box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe, broke the box; the brothers come to meet him, asked to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards to look for P.; they did not find him; the Sun searched for 7 days, but P. is where its rays do not reach; the Fairy ordered that darkness should come and now only the king-father, who received his sight from that water, began to see, and all the others - not; Florea came to the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with the middle brother}; The Fairy commanded everyone to come to her, so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants all would only weep; Friday sent whirlwinds to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard how P. ended up in the well; now there are only bones and dust there; Thursday boiled the dust in a cauldron with the dew of life, it became an ointment, they rubbed the bones with it, P. came to life; commands the horse to fly fast, like a curse; arrived to the Fairy, kissed her; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; the P. brothers gained their sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20: 237-295;Romanians [the king asks his three daughters what to bring them from the city; the two eldest ask for dresses; the youngest - a singing nut leaf; an invisible voice gives in exchange for a promise to give him what the first one comes out to meet him upon his return; the youngest daughter comes out; her father takes her to a certain place and she disappears from sight; she ends up in the underworld, where the prince must spend another 6 years in fear of the dragon; a year later she gives birth to a son and comes to see her relatives; when she comes for the fourth time pregnant again, she tells of her happiness, and she gives a candle and tells her to look at her sleeping husband; he says that now he has lost three quarters of his strength; he tells his wife that she will not give birth until he puts his hand on her stomach; a cloud carries him away; the wife goes to the Moon (she gives a golden fork), to Holy Friday (a headscarf), Holy Sunday (a golden hen with chickens; tells where the prince and the dragon live); the dragon buys items in exchange for permission to spend the night with the prince, slips him a sleeping potion; the third time the prince hears his wife, she gives birth to golden-haired twins; the prince boils the dragon in resin; they return home, along the way picking up the older children left with the prince's sisters]: Bîrlea 1966: 420-422; Romanians (Bukovina) [a stepmother forces her husband to throw his stepdaughter out of the house; along the way she nursed a sick dog, cleaned a pear tree of caterpillars, cleaned a well, coated a tumbledown stove with clay; comes to a forest house, washes the children of the old woman of Holy Friday - snakes and other creatures; chooses the ugliest chest as a gift; on the way back the stove is full of pies, the well - of clean water, the pear tree - of pears, the dog gives a necklace of gold coins; horses, cows, sheep come out of the chest; stepmother's daughter does not help passers-by, is rude to children of Saint Friday, scolds her children, chooses a large chest; the oven does not give pies, the well gives water, the pear tree gives fruit, the dog bites; snakes crawled out of the chest ate the old woman and her daughter; the old man gave his daughter in marriage to a kind man]: Staufe 1853: 42-50, 469-472 (=Kremnitz 1882, No. 19: 228-237; also in Moldavian Tales 1968: 113-118; only here the old woman is called Saint Friday); Gagauz[a master has three daughters, he is looking for someone who can graze his horses; the eldest daughter is walking, the father turned into a bear, went out to meet her, the girl ran home; the same with the middle one; the youngest goes to an old woman for advice; she tells her to give the horses hot coals, to take the one who will eat them; a skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on her, was going to shoot the bear; her father blessed her to graze horses for three years; the Sun fell in love with her, but does not understand whether she is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises her to watch how she urinates and what things she buys at the market; the girl urinates like a man, at the market she takes only things for men; after three years she shows the Sun her breasts and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put up a golden swing; the girl sat on it, the Sun lifted her up; the palm advised the girl to keep silent for seven years; then the Sun took another bride; she tells the first to bring a sieve from Mother Resurrection; Sunday sends to Friday, she sends to Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve has been taken by the khobur; the khobur orders to play the violin, goes for the sieve, but in reality - to sharpen his teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, to run; the khobur killed the mouse, chases after it; the girl threw the canvas (the river; the khobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank the water), the brush (the forest), the stone (a rocky place, the khobur cannot cross); the girl brought the sieve; the second bride: you, mute, bring her a pot; the girl: may your tongue be taken away; the Sun slaughtered a ram, heard, rushed to the girl, his hands are covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride a goat, both left through the chimney, the Sun has not married yet]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30: 42-44; Bulgarians (Plovdiv region) [in order to get rid of St. Wednesday, one must leave the house and say: Hey, I'm a pig, I'll throw it in the fire! to which St. Wednesday replies: Hey, wash your feet there, they'll burn in the fire ; when St. Wednesday leaves, one must douse the fire with water at home]: Sudnik, Tsivyan 1980: 248; Bulgarians [St. Petka will appear to a woman who breaks Friday prohibitions in the form of a snake; in some places, the male character of St. Petko is revered, who is represented as a wolf, and P.P.'s day {Petka or Petka?} is considered the beginning of the wolf days and the women's rituals of the "Chicken Service"]: Levkievskaya, Tolstaya 2004: 632.

Central Europe. Russians (Orlovskaya) [a girl was spinning late on a Tuesday evening; at night she decided to go to bed; she put down her comb, did not cross herself and said: "Well, Mother Sereda, help me so that I can get up early tomorrow and finish spinning"; when she woke up, she saw an elderly woman walking around the hut; this woman said: "I am Sereda, you were calling Sereda, weren't you. Look, I have spun the linens for you and already wove them, and now let's whiten them and put them in the stove. The stove is lit, and the iron pots are ready, and you go to the river and get some water"; the girl took a bucket, went to get some water; she came to an old woman who was her neighbor, told her about the guest; the old woman said: "Take the buckets, knock on them and shout in front of the hut: "The Sereda children were burned at sea!" She will jump out of the hut, watch out, try to jump into the hut before her, lock the door and make the sign of the cross over it. No matter how she threatens or begs, do not let her in, but make the sign of the cross over her with chalk and your hands and say a prayer”; that is what the girl did; S. ran out, then began to ask to be let back in; the girl did not let her in; when the roosters crowed, S. squealed and disappeared; the canvases remained with the girl]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 112: 237-238; Russians (Tambovskaya, Lipetsk district) [one woman did not honor Mother Friday and began to spin {on Friday}; she fell asleep during the day; P. came and covered her eyes with fire; she woke up and screamed; she began to beg P. to forgive her; at night P. returned and cleaned her eyes]: Afanasyev 1959, No. 13: 47; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Mukachevo) [a childless woman asks to give her at least some boy; gave birth to a little one, christened Alamik; he grew up, made a cannon and a saber out of wood, every day brought animals from hunting; came to a castle where there were 12 robbers; beat them at cards, chopped up 11, and on the 12th put him on bread and water; brought the mother to the castle; forbade opening one door; she came to the door, the robber said where the key was, she let him out; in order to ruin her son and stay with her lover, the mother pretends to be ill, asks to bring her wolf, bear, lion milk; the she-wolf, bear, lioness give milk and a cub each; sends for flour to the devil's mill; then for the piglet of God's sow; he comes to Friday; she orders him to leave the animals with her, gives him a horse, teaches him to grab the piglet without taking his foot out of the stirrup; on the way there, promise the drowned ferrywoman to find out how long it will take her to ferry him across the river; on the way back, when she has ferryed him, say that until she drowns the animal; this animal turned out to be a buttock pig, it drowned; Friday kept God's piglet for herself, replacing it with another; the mother asks for God's wine; Friday: you will reach two crushing fiery mountains, wave a towel, they will let you through; they will ask you to find out how long they will fight; 12 women will sleep, grab one formidable, without taking his foot out of the stirrup; having passed the crushing mountains, to say that they should fight until someone was crushed; they crushed 12 women; Friday replaced the wine; the mother suggested that A. should bathe him and tie his little fingers together to test his strength; when she tied them with a silk thread, A. could not break them; a robber jumped out; A. asks before he dies to be allowed to squeak his pipe three times, and to give the pieces of his body to the animals; the animals came running to the sound of the pipe; the robber chopped up A., hid his heart, and the animals brought the sacks with the remains to Friday; she ordered the animals to wash them, folded them, put in the heart of God's piglet, washed them with God's wine and A. came to life; he chopped up the robber; put 12 barrels in front of his mother: until he cries enough, he will not free her; A. came to a city where there was mourning; the dragon blocked the water, gives them in marriage to girls, it was the princess's turn; the tsar will give his daughter and half the kingdom to the savior; A. sent a woman for water: let her tell the dragon that it was for A.; the dragon gave it; on the way the woman drank the water; but the dragon gave it again; when A. fell asleep at the well, the princess attached her ring to his hair; at first the princess did not move from fear, then she shuddered, A. woke up, cut off 20 heads of the dragon; this was seen by a gypsy who climbed a willow; A. sent the princess to her father, cut out the tongues from the heads; as soon as the dragon was killed, water flowed throughout the city; the gypsy picked up the heads, brought them to the tsar; first a wolf, then a bear, a lion run to the princess, she recognized them and fed them; A. came, put the princess's ring on a plate, she recognized it; A. showed his tongue, the gypsy was torn apart by horses; a wedding; A.'s mother came, put a robber's bone in his bed, he died, they buried him; animals dug up and brought it to Friday, she revived him with God's wine; A. returned, the bone was found in the bed; his mother was torn apart by four horses; A. inherited the kingdom; maybe they are still alive, if they did not die]: Dei 198: 19-31; Ukrainians (Galicia) [Pyatnonka, or Friday, is a woman, thin and terrible, fierce and sharp, you can't plead with her or argue with her; she walks through the villages and looks to see if everyone is celebrating Good Friday; asks the woman why she is working; the woman - why, are they kneading the dough; Friday came out, and the woman's hands were stiff in the dough; another woman was chopping wood; Friday tore off her skin and hung it on the fence as a mockery of the whole village]: Zorya 1883: 201 in Gnatyuk 1902(2), No. 176: 179; Ukrainians (Carpathians, a tale) [a woman, in defiance of the ban, ashes laundry on Friday; Friday comes to punish her; the woman: Oh, Friday, Osianskaya Mountain is burning! Friday: Oh, my children will burn there! runs away]: Tolstaya 2009: 383; Ukrainians {Galicia? published in Lviv} [Paraskeva Friday monitors compliance with Friday prohibitions; she appears to a woman who ashes laundry on Friday, threatening to boil her in the same way she boiled the laundry; the woman saves herself by exclaiming: “Oh, Friday, Osianets Mountain is burning!”, after which Friday runs away shouting: “My children will burn there!” (Yes, my children will burn there!)]: Levkievskaya, Tolstaya 2004: 632; Ukrainians(Podolia) [a stepdaughter and her stepmother's daughter went to a party; the stepdaughter was spinning, the stepmother's daughter was having fun; on the way back she took her stepdaughter's work and passed it off as her own; the stepmother kicked out her stepdaughter; a shepherd is grazing horses, asks to help her graze, the girl does it; the same with sheep; bulls; a cherry tree asks to pick cherries from it - she picked them; a pear (ditto); she cleaned a dog; a gentleman asks to pull his carriage out of a spring (she pulled it out); St. Nedelya offers to serve her; orders to bathe her children, to take care of them {obviously, she did everything, and children are reptiles and insects}; returning, N. orders to look into her left ear: there is a carriage, horses, clothes; the stepdaughter took everything she needed; the shepherd boy gave a mare with a foal (and the master in the source did the same), another - a cow with a calf (etc.); the dog - corals; gathered cherries; pears; the stepmother sent her own daughter, she did not fulfill the requests, returned empty-handed; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to the mill; the devil offered to help thresh if the girl walked with him; she asked first to bring her different items of clothing one by one; she returned with them; the stepmother's daughter asked to bring her everything at once, the devil tore off her head and left it in the middle of the mill]: Levchenko 1928, No. 565: 495-496; Ukrainians (Podolia) [earlier, Holy Friday and Holy Week walked around the world; P. dried up, all the bones were visible, and N. was chopped up and cut - scary to look at; asked people to fast and honor the holy places (svyata shanuvali); but they don’t go anymore – God knows what the reason is]: Levchenko 1928: 173; (cf. Ukrainians [Paraskeva Friday monitors the observance of Friday prohibitions; she appears to a woman who was ashes laundry on Friday, threatening to boil her in the same way as she was boiling the laundry; the woman saves herself by exclaiming: “Oh, Friday, Osianets Mountain is burning!”, after which Friday runs away shouting: “Yes, my children will burn there!”]: Levkievskaya, Tolstaya 2004: 632); Ukrainians (Volyn, Novograd-Volynsky district) [it is already forbidden to work on Saturday after sunset; a traveler looked into the window of a hut, there a young woman is weaving; a beautiful young lady comes in to her and asks why she is working; she explains that she wants to finish; when she finished, she wants to cut the canvas, but the lady asked her for a knife and tore off her skin; it was Nedelya]: Chubinsky 1878: 432-433 (= Bulashev 1909: 272-272); Ukrainians(SE Kyiv, Cherkassy uyezd, Mliev village) [the king grew old; he sees in a dream that there is a queen beyond the fiery sea; the Orda River flows from her little finger; there are apples in the garden entwined with planers; whoever drinks that water and tastes the apples will be rejuvenated; the eldest son went away, could not bear the heat of the fiery sea, returned; the same with the middle one; they laugh at the youngest fool, they gave him a horse that carries homebrew, a saddle made of straw, a bridle and bast; horse: my dear sir, my beloved sir, how long have I waited for you! take the heroic ceremonial from your right ear, let me graze in the early dew; he returned as a heroic horse; at the sea he orders to take the handkerchief from his right ear and wave it three times; the sea froze for 20 arshins, and when they crossed, after a wave of the scarf, it began to flame again; they reached a hut, there Saint Monday gives the best horse to reach that queen; the same with Saint Sereda (gives an even better horse); in the third hut Saint Friday (same); there is a fence around the garden, look - the hat will fly off; the horse jumped over the third time; the horse: the girl sleeps for 12 days, wakes up on the 13th; the prince collected apples and water, but, contrary to the horse's prohibition, came together with the girl three times; the horse carried her out of the pit, jumped over the fence, but touched the strings; the alarm was raised; Friday, Sereda direct the pursuit along the wrong path; the girl sees from the mountain, chases again; the horse orders to get it out of his right ear. {skip page; it is clear that the prince ended up in the lower world and protected the chicks of the mighty bird from the bad weather}; she agrees to take him out to the ground, orders to take 12 barrels of water and 12 pieces of meat; the prince cut off the last piece from his leg; on the ground the bird burped him up and put him back; at home the prince again pretended to be a fool; the queen built a bridge and appeared with her three sons (the prince “kissed” her three times); orders the king to “give her the villain”№ the king sent the eldest son; the queen orders to break his ribs, put him on a horse and let him go; beat the middle one, but leave him alive and let him go home; the youngest came out, he was also beaten]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 81: 322-329; Ukrainians(Kharkiv, Lebedinsky district, ca. 1878) [A widow enters into a relationship with a snake, gives birth to a boy, his mother pushes him in a carriage until he is 12, then he gets up, turns out to be tall and strong. The snake does not want the boy to live, convinces the mother to pretend to be ill and ask her son to get berries from the snake garden. The boy sets off, goes into the hut of the girl Sereda, she knows about his grief in advance, calls him brother, tells him the truth about his mother and the snake, puts him to bed, gives her horse, living and dead water. She tells him not to be afraid of vipers, to revive the murdered Moskal near the snake garden, he will lead him to the garden, where nothing can be touched, otherwise all the bells will ring. The boy flies over the fence, takes berries, on the way back he touches an aspen branch, the snake appears, but cannot catch up. He returns to Sereda, she feeds him, replaces the berries with berries from her garden, insists that the snake needs to be fed with them. The boy brings the berries to his mother, asks her to eat them right away, then notices that devils have settled in the house. The snake eats the berries, and so does the mother. The snake convinces the mother to send her son for the golden-bristled pig so that she can get better, the son asks who she spoke with, the mother answers - with God, the son doubts - with the devil. The boy comes to his sister Sereda, she gives him a horse and 2 bottles, explains that under two moving mountains you need to collect healing (healing) and living water, and catch one of the 12 piglets near the mountain. On the way, the piglet runs away, the boy leaves the horse, and when he returns with the loss, he no longer finds the horse, wolves eat it. He goes back through Sereda, she has replaced the piglet, the mother prepares it, gives her son vodka to drink, asks if he can break the iron chain, he offers to test, he cannot break it. The mother calls the snake, together they chop the boy up, put the pieces in a sack, tie it to a horse, and release it into the field so that he scatters the pieces. The horse gallops to Sereda, she revives the boy with the help of water, gives him "pivpivsidka" (?) of hops, he cannot lift it. Then she gives him berries from the snake garden, the boy was able to lift the sheet. She roasts the pig-golden bristle, he gains strength - if a stake were driven into the earth and sky, he would turn the world upside down. Sereda gives him a sabre, says that the mother and the snake are now feasting. The boy appears, cuts off both their noses, an ear and cuts the snake, the mother ties him to the horse's tail and releases him into the field. Goes to live with his sister Sereda. Fairy tale ]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 75: 285-290; Ukrainians(Ekaterinoslavskaya, Mariupol district, Olginskoye village) [when dying, the father gave 40 sons a horse each, and a foal to the 41st; they were going to marry Friday's daughters, but she had only 40 girls; and Sereda had 41; when they lay down with the girls, the youngest took his foal out into the entryway and begged the girl for her kerchief; the foal ordered that the kerchiefs be taken off all the girls and tied to the brothers; Sereda slaughtered her daughters; the brothers gallop away; the foal ordered that the kerchief be waved (sea; then forest; mountain); the brothers stayed at home, and the youngest rode away; the foal ordered not to pick up the shining feather of the firebird, but the lad picked it up; they spent the night in a dugout; the woman reported to the tsar that the feather was bright; the tsar orders a ring to be taken out of a cauldron of boiling milk; the horse sneezed, the milk ran out, the lad into the cauldron and back, became a handsome man; the tsar dived in and was boiled; the lad married the tsarina]: Dragomanov 1876, no. 25: 336-338 (=Novitsky 2007, no. 119: 83-86); Belarusians [in one hut they worked until late on Saturday; a woman comes, all in silver and gold; she took off her clothes and showed her body; it is all wounded, chopped, in cuts and bruises; it was you who beat and cut me, not honoring the week {Sunday, but maybe Saturday}; since then these people have not worked on the day off]: Federowski 1897, no. 346: 138; Belarusians [a woman asked a man for a ride% seeing two white dogs, asked him not to give her away; when the dogs ran away, she called herself Nedelya; if she were torn apart, only weekdays would remain]: Belarusian folklore 2023: 56-57; Belarusians [Sereda and Pyatnitsa met at a crossroads and walked on together; a passerby greeted them, and they began to argue: with which of them; they returned so that the man would address them again; they said who they were; whom does he love more? man: Nedelya (i.e. Sunday); and of us? Man: on Wednesday everyone eats, but on Friday they do not spin; they realized that nothing could be achieved from the man]: Belarusian folklore 2023: 57; Slovaks[a mother breastfeeds her son three times for seven years; when she is convinced that he is able to uproot a beech tree, she says that it is enough - let him take care of her now and provide her with a home; the son found a dragon's castle in the forest, broke into it, killed the dragons; in the tenth room another one is chained to the wall; he asks to be freed, other dragons have chained him; the young man refuses, brings his mother to live in this castle; forbids entering the tenth room; she goes in, agrees to free the chained one; for this it is necessary to bring wine from the barrel in the basement; after each cup one of the hoops falls off; in order to get rid of her son, the dragon advises the mother to pretend to be ill, to bring a piglet of an earthen pig; the young man came to St. Nedelka; she orders him to mount her horse named Tatoshik, gives her a pike to prick the piglet; it will squeal, the pig will chase it; the second time the piglet will not squeal out of fear of the pig, he can be taken away; the next time the mother, on the advice of the dragon, asks for living and dead water; Nedelka teaches: the water of life is in the right mountain, it will rise at noon; death is in the left one, it will rise at midnight; the mountains almost crushed the young man's hands; Nedelka kept the living and dead water for themselves, and gave the young man ordinary water; the dragon suggests sending for a pelican; Nedelka: the wind from the flapping of the pelican's wings tears out trees; the young man brought the pelican, Nedelka kept it for herself, and gave the young man a simple eagle for his mother; bring a golden apple from the dragon's garden; Nedelka gives a ring: if you turn around and think about it, your strength will increase a hundredfold; the horse carried it over the garden wall; the apples are guarded by a princess kidnapped by dragons; if they are stolen, she will be killed; she also gives a ring that multiplies strength a hundredfold; The dragon under the apple tree; they began to wrestle, the dragon drove the youth into the ground up to his ankles; The raven: Whom shall I help? The dragon: Me, he promises gold; The youth: Me, he promises the carcasses of all the horses grazing in the meadow; The raven sprinkled the youth with water so that the dragon's heat would not burn him; When the youth turned the second ring, he drove the dragon into the ground up to his shoulders; He chopped off his head; The princess herself plucked an apple for the youth; The youth promises to come for her in a year; He brought a golden apple to his mother; She offered to tie him up: Is he as strong as his father? The youth broke the rope; Then she tied him with a silk cord: He did not break it; The dragon chopped him into pieces, they loaded them onto T. and drove him away; T. came to Nedelka, she revived the youth with dead and living water; but there is no heart: his mother took him out and hung it from the ceiling. Nedelka ordered to dress up as a beggar, come to the castle to play the bagpipes and ask for a heart as a reward; the mother began to dance with the dragon; the piper said that he was too old to take money, but he would like a heart; Nedelka washed the heart with living and dead water and ordered the pelican to put it back in the boy’s place; after this she let the pelican go; she turned the boy into a dove: let him fly to find out what his mother was doing; in order to become a man again, he must think about her; the mother orders the dragon to shoot the dove,but he turned into a young man and cut off the dragon's head; he took the mother out into the yard, threw up the sword; falling, it pierced her heart; the young man came to the king whose daughter he had saved, and married her; if they did not die, then they are still alive]: Wenzig 1857: 144-156.

Volga - Perm. Mordvins [{cf. Lezgins and Tabasarans}; a slovenly, careless girl goes to rinse laundry on the bank of the Sura; a thunderstorm begins; out of fear, she offers herself as a daughter-in-law-servant to Vera-pas - Nishke-pas (here - synonyms); a silver cradle descends from the sky, she sits in it, rises; thunder is her father-in-law, a cloud is her mother-in-law, lightning is her husband; Vera-pas - Nishke pas allows her to unlock six barns, not to unlock the seventh, and if she unlocks it, to look back over her right shoulder; in the first there is cold, in the second fog, in the third Friday (old man), in the fourth - Sunday , in the fifth winter-old man, in the sixth - summer-old man; in the seventh he sees his native land, his father and mother hold a funeral feast for it; VP-NP lets her go for an hour, tells her not to tell her story and not to take anyone with her; the younger brother went after her, killed by thunder]: Paasonen 1909, no. 3: 30 in Endyukovsky 1932: 236-237.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Ingush [God has three sons; the crooked Elta (God gouged out his eye for disobedience) rules over wild animals, Eter is in charge of the affairs of the dead, Resurrection rules over time]: Akhriev 1875: 14 (= Veselovsky 1883: 11).