F9G. Brunnhilde, ATU 519. .11.-.14.16.17.22.27.-.34.36.

A powerful woman defeats and kills the suitors. The hero or his assistant defeats her (usually on the wedding night, tames her by beating her with rods or a whip). The hero marries the heroine.

Mongol, Bulsa, Arabs of Sudan, Nubians, Berbers (?) of Morocco, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Irish, Frisians, Arabic written tradition, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Arameans, Burmese (?), Hungarians, Croats, Greeks, Romanians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetsk, Novgorod, Vologda, Oryol, Ryazan, Tula, Bryansk), Ukrainians(Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Poltava), Belarusians, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Adyghe, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Avars, Dargins, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Uzbeks, Shughni (?), Swedes, Finns, Estonians, Vepsians, Lutsi, Latvians, Lithuanians, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Buryats, Central Yakuts.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Mongo [see motif J56; youth Ilelangonda (aka Ilele) rejects brides, goes to look for a wife; Mbombe promises to marry the one who defeats her in single combat, standing in a pool of oil; always wins; I. defeats her; on the way home, M. does everything better than he does; he crushes excellent mushrooms, she picks them up; a porcupine escapes from his trap, he sends M. with the dogs; she catches the porcupine, it turns into an antelope, runs away; catches the antelope, she turns into a leopard; M. screams, I. runs up, throws a spear at M., she throws a net with a leopard at I., I. runs away from the leopard, naming all the living creatures he meets in the forest; runs to a village of women; there is only one man there, an old man; I. must learn the names of the women or he will be killed; is about to relieve himself in a garbage dump, sees an old woman in a pile of dirt and garbage; she was the leader of the women, but was thrown out when a young woman leader appeared; advises what to do; I. makes a hole in the fish pond; the woman who notices this calls out all the others by name; I. remembers the names; during the meal I. names all the women; M. arrives, easily calls all the women by name, eats all the food, retires with I., they return to the village, M. is pregnant; further motive J4]: Belcher 2005: 204-207.

West Africa. Bulsa : Schott 1993: 14f in Uther 2004(1), no. 519: 307–308.

Sudan - East Africa. The Arabs of Sudan : Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 31 [Muhammed Othman - son of a sultan; he was raised by him in a closed courtyard, looked after by a slave girl; when he came out into the world, he fell in love with the daughter of nomads, his father married him; he threw a stone into an old woman's jug; she took revenge by telling his wife's relatives that MO was an idiot; they migrated; his wife wrote to him that in a week she would be given to another; MO ransomed a dead debtor who was not allowed to be buried; he was given the daughter of the ransomed man; further on there are two roads, MO chose the difficult one; there is a woman who cut off the heads of 99 men; MO wrestles with her, wins, takes her as his wife; through a servant he gives the ring to his first wife, putting it in a jug of water, she returned to him; the sultan was jealous that his son had three wives and decided to destroy him; but the daughter of the nomads knew everything in advance; she ordered him not to go to her father barefoot (poisoned nails), not to sit on the poisoned chair, not to drink coffee from the offered cup; but then they blinded him and threw him under a tree; two birds say that he can be cured by mixing the liver of one with the lungs of the other; he grabs the birds, his sight returns; he comes when the sultan is preparing a wedding; the robber wife was the first to recognize him, she cut off the sultan's head herself; the vizier was torn apart by camels; MO became the sultan], 32 [the orphan Ahmed heard voices at night; the old man tried to take the chicken from the old woman; A. threw stones, the old man got scared, ran away; the old woman did not tell what the secret of the chicken was; A. stole it and eventually ate it; the old woman; the one who ate the heart of a chicken has the strength of 40 men; the sultan will give his daughter to the one who will outrun her in single combat; more than a hundred contenders have already been executed; A. defeats the girl several times, marries her; at night the previous owner of the chicken comes, rips open A.'s belly, takes out the chicken's heart; in the morning A. discovers that he has lost his strength; the sultan drives him away; A. eats green and yellow dates; four horns grow from the first, and four horns disappear from the second; A. first sells the green ones to the sultan, his daughter grows horns; then, under the guise of a doctor, feeds her yellow ones, and the horns disappear; the sultan recognizes A. as his son-in-law]: 151-155, 155-159; Nubians : Kronenberg in El-Shamy 2004, no. 519: 289-290.

North Africa. Arabs of Egypt [a poor musician's wife gives birth; he went to beg, but found a hen and an egg; it began to lay eggs, which the Jew bought for good money; when the musician went on Hajj, the Jew gave his wife some silver and told her to cook the hen; the son came up and ate the crop; the servant told him to run away; the Jew pursued him for a long time, caught up with him, rushed at him with a knife, but the boy knocked him down and killed him; he came to the king's palace, 39 heads were hanging on the gates; the king's daughter ordered the suitors to wrestle her, killed her; on the first day the youth and the princess wrestle, but the winner is not determined; when the youth falls asleep, the king orders his healers to find out what the matter is; they cut open the youth's chest, took out the crop of the hen, and quietly stitched up the wound; in the morning the youth realized that he had lost his former strength and ran away; Three people fight over a flying carpet, a bowl that fills with food, a hand mill that gives out money; a young man throws a stone: whoever reaches it first gets magical items; he takes them himself and flies away on the flying carpet; he flies to the palace of the king's daughter, puts her on the carpet, and carries her to Mount Kaf; but as soon as he steps off the carpet, the princess takes everything and flies away; a young man found dates: a huge horn grows from the yellow one, but disappears from the red one; he collected them, returned to the palace, sold the yellow dates, and the princess grew 8 horns; disguised as a doctor, the young man fed the princess one date - one horn disappeared; one horn every day; the king married him to his daughter and made him a vizier; the young man asked his wife where his magical items were; the princess promised to obey and they began to live well]: Spitta bey 1883, no. 9: 112-122; Arabs of Algeria , Berbers(?) and Arabs of Morocco : El-Shamy 2004, no. 519: 289-290.

Western Europe. Irish [Aoife – a female warrior; Cuchulainn defeated her but spared her life, then fell in love and she bore him a son]: Coghlan 2019: 11; Frisians : Uther 2004(1), no. 519: 307–308.

Western Asia. Arabic written tradition (One Thousand and One Nights) ["The Sixth Tale of the Slave Maiden"; princess ad-Datma agrees to marry only the one who defeats her in battle; takes away the horse and weapons of each defeated man, brands him with fire; the Persian prince Bahram fights successfully, but al-D. uncovers his face, B. does not know what to do, is defeated, branded, does not eat or drink for several days, refuses to return to Iran; dressed as an old man, hires himself out as a gardener to ad-D., brings his goods, promises to give them to the one who marries him, and then to divorce him after a kiss; al-D. gives him a concubine; the next day B. repeats the offer; al-D. is tempted by the jewelry, B. takes her virginity; she decides to go with him to Iran; [wedding]: Salye 2010, night 597-598: 237-240; Palestinians [Prince Jamal ed-Din hunted for a long time without success; finally, he saw a gazelle; as soon as he approached it, it was far away again; he let his companions go; pursued for 5 days; the gazelle disappeared, a castle appeared; D. moved the stone door, placed the horse among 6 horses, lay down among 6 men; their sister came in, counted; when they found D., they were amazed: he moved the door, which they could move only six; the brothers questioned D., explained that the gazelle was their sister Guzlan; they gave her in marriage to him; they went to look for 6 sisters in order to marry; D. defeated the army of the Franks alone; cut off the ears and nose of one man and sent him to his king to tell what had happened; the old woman advised to give her a ship and gold and silver, sailed to D., said that everyone on the ship was killed, let him throw her a rope; pulling it, dragged D. onto the ship and brought him to the king of the Franks; they were going to execute him, but the princess Hilâne took her to her, they escaped on that ship, taking that old woman; D. executed the old woman, now he has two wives: H. and G.; every day he scares G. when he hits the ground with a club behind her; H. advises to say: do not boast of strength, the princess of India is stronger than you; G. came to that princess, won the duel and she became his third wife; G.'s brothers returned; D. decided to visit his parents; he was warned not to go along the road where the evil Negro was; he went; first the Indian princess fought with the Negro; then D. defeated him, spared him and he became his friend; they came to D.'s father; began to live in the palace; enemies attacked; D. left the Negro with his wives and went to fight alone; the king-father came to the chambers of his son's wives to invite G. to sleep with him; she took it upon herself to wash him, soaped him and pushed him naked out of the window; the guards found him, took him to prison; the next day the vizier brought him out of there; the king ordered the destruction of his son's castle; they began to fire from cannons, but the Negro caught the cannonballs and threw them back, destroying half the city, for he was a demon; D. returned and cut off his father's head; reigned; invited G.'s brothers to live with him]: Littmann 1984: 267-282; Arabs of Syria[while pursuing a gazelle, the prince finds himself in a castle, the gazelle turns into a girl, and he marries her; an old woman lures him onto a ship, and he is captured by the king of the Franks; the king's daughter falls in love with the young man and flees with him; having heard of a mighty Indian princess, the young man goes to her, breaks down a door that no one could open, defeats the princess, and takes her as his wife ; he returns to his father with three wives; along the way he defeats a black man who promises to serve him, and the black man's soul is in an apple; the young man's father wants to take the wives away, but the black man destroys his army; the young man kills his father and becomes the ruler of the city]: Nowak 1969, no. 135: 147-148; Arabs of Palestine , Iraq , Yemen : El-Shamy 2004, no. 519: 289-290.

Burma – Indochina. Burmese (?): Uther 2004(1), No. 519: 307-308.

Balkans. Greeks (Lemnos) [the king's palace has 40 rooms; the king is jealous, the queen is beautiful, he killed her a few days before she was due to give birth; cut the boy out of his mother's womb; not believing that it was his son, he left him in the forest; a female wild animal suckled him; one day, 4 doves from the four ends of the world flew to this place; seeing the boy, one said that he was of royal lineage; the second: and will reign; the third: after much suffering; the fourth: the foal will help him achieve his goal; and the king began to regret what he had done; went hunting; saw a beauty in a cave; sent people to her, but they fled when 9 dragons came out of the cave; the king ordered a portrait of the girl to be painted and hung in the room where he did not let anyone in and where he spent most of his time; another king attacked, killed him, captured the capital; in the forest he saw a young man, ordered to catch him, baptized him and began to raise him together with his own son; they named him Ivan the Deer; he is incredibly strong and a little older than the prince; after the death of the king, the heir and IO found a portrait; the old servant said that this is a portrait of the sister of dragons; IO realized that his mother was killed by his own father; decided to return to the forest; in the stable, an inconspicuous end ordered to take him and pull out his hair: cut and I will appear; IO came to the cave of dragons; there is a beauty and an old man; he accidentally knocked over a huge cauldron, but IO picked it up with one left hand; in full view of the dragons, he threw a rock; amazed by his strength, the dragons gave him their sister; the young king is jealous; promises to bring closer to himself the one who will bring him IO's head; the old witch promised to kill IO and deliver the sister of dragons to the king; became IO's servant; She said that he boasted of his strength in vain: the heroine was stronger; IO went to look for her; there were crowded mountains ahead; IO called a horse, it rushed past, only cutting off its tail; horse: the heroine's strength was in three hairs on her head; if you wrestle with her, pull them out; he did so, the girl fell at his feet; by the road there was a Negro, whose lips weighed 40 centners; he offered to wrestle everyone passing by and killed him; IO wrestled with the Negro; he called a horse; horse: the Negro's strength was in his shadow, hit it with a spear; the Negro became IO's servant; the sorceress to the king: give me a ship with a crew, and I will deliver IO to you; she gave IO an apple, he fell asleep, was carried onto the ship; the king threw IO and the heroine into a pit; she hugged IO, the apple fell out of his hand and he came to; he forgave the king, but killed the sorceress; at a feast the king blinded IO, but a black man licked his eye sockets with his thick lips and restored his sight; IO killed the king and became king himself]: Georgeakis, Pineau 1894, no. 11: 68-80; Hungarians , Croats , Romanians : Uther 2004(1), no. 519: 307-308.

Central Europe. Poles [a maiden will marry only the one who wins her; a prince comes accompanied by a clever servant; the servant helps him complete a difficult task (tame a horse, etc.); on their wedding night, the princess tries to strangle her husband (wring his neck), but the servant takes his place and gains the upper hand; upon learning what the matter is, the queen asks for the servant to be given to her and orders his legs to be cut off; he lives with another cripple – blind or armless; forces a demoness (sorceress, monster, etc.) to return their lost limbs to them; returns to the prince, he receives the throne, and the wife resigns herself to it]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 519: 168-169; Czechs [when leaving, the king and queen order their son Janko to look after his three sisters; The Sun, Wind and Moon arrive in succession and ask Y.'s sister to marry them, all three agree and leave the house; the king is pleased that his daughters have married kings; Y. goes to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that the beautiful bogatyr Ulyana has defeated them all; the same on another field; Y. enters the castle, exchanges her sword for the one that hangs on the wall and jumps; defeats U., who offers to live with her; leaving, she gives the keys, forbids entry into the 13th room; Y. opened it, there was a fiery dragon chained to the wall with three hoops; he says that he is tormented by thirst and asks to give him wine from the last barrel; after each jug he drinks one hoop falls off; the dragon gives Y. life and carries U. away; Y. comes to the Sun, who does not know where U. is, sends him to the Moon; the Moon - to the Wind; he answers that the dragon makes U. wash his clothes in boiling water; he, the Wind, tries to cool the boiling water; Ya. takes U. away; the dragon's winged horse raises the alarm, but says that there is no need to hurry - they'll catch up; the dragon took U. and spared Ya., since he granted him one life; the Wind reports that the witch has a brother of the dragon's horse across the sea, who is faster than him; the Sun, the Moon and the Wind give Ya. a peg (gold, silver, wooden) to call them for help; the Wind takes him to the witch, she offers to graze three horses - these are her horse-daughters who turned into doves and flew away, but the Wind drove them back and ordered to put on bridles; the next day they turned into ducks, the Moon lowered a scarf into the lake, it dried up, Ya. put on bridles again; on the third day the horses turned into pine trees, the sun began to burn them, they had to become horses again; the sun orders to ask for a miserable nag as a reward; the witch orders to milk the mares; the little horse: before you bathe in milk, call me; the milk boiled, but the little horse sucked in the heat, I. became even more beautiful; the witch also decided to become a beauty, but the little horse released the heat and she was boiled; I. washed the little horse, he became powerful, winged; I. takes U. away, the dragon gallops after him, the horse I. orders his brother to throw the dragon off, the dragon falls into the abyss; I. brought his wife to her parents and received the throne from his father]: Nemtsova 1978: 119-132; Slovaks[in the absence of the king and queen, their three daughters are taken as wives and carried away by the King of the Sun, the King of the Wind and the King of the Moon; upon the return of their parents, Prince Yanko goes to look for his sisters; three times he comes across a place where human bones lie, the skulls answer that they were beaten by the beautiful bogatyr Uliana; Ya. comes to her palace, replaces the sword hanging on the wall, fights with U., she admits her defeat, becomes his wife; leaving, he allows Ya. to open the doors of 12 rooms, forbids him to look into the thirteenth; he breaks the ban, sees the chained Dragon, he gives him wine three times, each time another shackles fall from the Dragon; after the first time the Dragon gives Ya. a second life, then another; after the third time he flies away, taking U.; Ya. finds the sisters, the King of the Sun sends him to the King of the Moon, he to the King of the Wind; he gives a horse, which brings Ya to the Dragon's cave, Ya takes U. away; the Dragon's horse tells him that he will have time to sleep for an hour and smoke for an hour, easily catches up with Ya, the Dragon takes one of Ya's lives, takes U. away; the same a second time; the Dragon promises to tear the fugitives apart the third time; the King of the Wind orders to get the brother of that magic horse on which the Dragon rides; he carries him overseas to the witch; she orders him to graze three mares for three days (they are her daughters), she will kill him if he lets them go; on the first day the mares turn into doves and fly away; the King of the Wind makes them come down, gives Ya a magic harness to throw at them, the doves turn into mares again; on the second day the mares turn into ducks, the King of the Moon dries up the lake; on the third day the mares turn into fir trees, the Sun King sends heat, forcing them to return to their former form; advises and asks the witch for a sick horse lying on a pile of dung as a reward; the witch orders to milk the mares, to bathe in their milk; the milk boils, the horse cools it, I. becomes a beauty; the witch wants to become a beauty, to become I.'s wife, the end returns heat to the milk, the witch is boiled; on the way to the Dragon, the horse orders him to be bathed, becomes a magnificent horse; I. carries away U.; I.'s horse shouts to the Dragon's horse that a brother should not chase a brother; he throws the Dragon off, U. mounts the horse, they arrive at I.'s parents; a holiday, I. receives the throne]: Nĕmcová 1970: 150-163; Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Olonetsk, Novgorod, Oryol, Ryazan, Tula), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Poltava region), Belarusians [ Blind and legless : a servant helps the prince marry a bogatyr's wife; instead of the prince, he fights with her, tames her at night; having learned of the deception, she cuts off the servant's legs, appoints her husband to be a shepherd; the legless man finds the blind man, they help each other; the witch heals them, they tame the princess and rescue the prince]: SUS 1979, No. 519: 149; Russians (Karelia, village of Shalga, former Olonetsk province) [a childless king asks God to give him a son; sees in a dream an order to buy a seine; they caught a pike, fried it, the queen ate it, and the nanny ate part, the guts - the cow; Vasily Tsarevich, Vasily Nyankin and Burza Volovich (BV) were born; the brothers grew up, crippled other children; went out into the world; BV could not choose a horse for a long time: if he put his hand on it, the spine would break; an old woman: there was a cellar under an oak tree, in it stood a horse, eating hot coals; they stopped under another oak tree; at night BV called for a horse; the horse ran, the earth trembled, flames burst from its mouth, smoke came out of its ears; Idolische with three heads was riding across the viburnum bridge; BV cut them off, went to bed; they rode on, the same thing happened the next night (with 6 heads); then with 9; BV section 8, fought for a long time, the horse killed Idolische; Vasily Tsarevich married Marya Tsarevna; at night she laid her hand on him, almost strangled him - there was a firewood; BV went in her place, beat her with iron, copper and tin rods until she recognized her as her husband; In the bathhouse, Tsarevich Vasily saw his wife's blackened body and took pity on her; she sent him to graze the cows, and BV cut off his legs; he made friends with her brother Mikhail, whose hands she cut off and whose eyes she "dug out"; he began to carry him around the city; they began to live in a forest hut, stole the elderly queen and she began to take care of their food; Baba Yaga began to come to her breasts to suckle; BH lay in wait for her, began to beat her, she promised to get living water; she brought them to a well; they lowered a sparrow there, tore it apart; they beat him again, brought him to another; in him the dead dove came to life; M. and BV drank, washed themselves, became whole and strong; they threw Baba Yaga into a well with dead water; BV caught up with the hero, won, it turned out to be his brother, Vasily the Nanny; Baba Yaga promised him death; they defeated her army, but she herself went under the slab underground; BV went down the belt; flew to Akhramey's state on the Noguy-bird; there every day a snake comes out of the sea to eat a man; BV defeated the snake; he asked to let him go, and for this he received a ring that makes him invisible; having received the ring, BV killed the snake; Akhramey gave him his daughter in marriage and gave him 40 ships of goods and jewelry; they came to the wife of Vasily Tsarevich; BV poured the drink that she gave him on the horse's mane - the mane became damp; BV gave Vasily Tsarevich living water and left him to reign; he himself returned to his father, he died, he inherited the throne]: Azadovsky 1947, No. 8: 73-79; Russian(Vologda) [Matusha grew up, had nothing to eat, set out on a journey; rain with hail, and on the tree there was a nest of the Magus bird; M. covered the chicks with his coat, and then fed them all the bread; the bird flew in, told him to dig under the tree; there was a jar with living water; take a sip and bury it back; M. gained strength; a servant hired him to carry water to the king; M. spends the night in a pit where they threw out ashes; they began to call him Matyusha Ash (MP); across the sea there is Tsar Vakhromey, his daughter Nastasya; whoever asked for his hand in marriage never returned; the Tsar went, asked MP to take him with him; ironically answers the king (you will have a sword, but not you to flog; Vakhramey: cut down a zoo-year-old oak tree with one blow, then I will give you my daughter, and if you don’t cut it down, my head will be off my shoulders; the king wants to set sail at night, but MP volunteered to cut down the oak; tells the king to say: our weakest can do this; he cut it down with one blow of his saber; shoot down the top of a dome in the neighboring kingdom with an arrow; MP shot it down; break in a horse; MP drove it to death; V. gave it to N.; she understood who had completed the tasks; and the king ordered MP to cut off his legs and throw them into the sea; he swam out; a blind man is walking, looking for healing water; MP tells him to carry himself, brings the bird Magus to the tree, takes out a bottle of living water, returns the blind man’s sight, and his legs to himself; they approached the king’s city, he is grazing cows; he asks for help, his wife is tormenting him; MP came to [the heroine, she took him as her husband, and the king remained to graze the cows]: Mintz, Savushkina 1955, No. 14: 62-66; Russian(Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [a bear with iron wool eats people; the king ordered to build a high pillar; placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful on top with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, out of annoyance began to gnaw a broom; he ordered to go to the field, there was a pillar; the bear began to swing the pillar, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, mounted a horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore him apart, brought him in the mouth of I. and E. to the pillar; the same a second time (the geese carried away, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third bull; three times he covered the bear's eyes with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the bull orders him to be slaughtered, the bones to be collected, beaten, and a little fist-sized peasant will emerge from them - himself as small as a fingernail, with a beard as long as an elbow; the little peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, killed them all and locked them in one room, not allowing E. to go in there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; in order to destroy I., she sent him for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives it to her with a wolf cub to boot; the same with the she-bear; the lioness; E. sends for the firebird's eggs; it swallowed the little fist-sized peasant; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the little fist-sized peasant had escaped; he ordered the beasts to tear the chieftain apart, and tied E. naked to a tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; he brought E. to the heroine; E. conquered her with difficulty and took her as his wife; at night she put her hand on E.'s chest, he felt ill, he called a peasant; the peasant beat the girl until he tamed her; I.'s wife persuaded him to free E.; she began to look in E.'s head and threw a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw it, pulled it out, and began to die himself; then the bear cub; then the fox, but she threw the tooth into the frying pan and it crumbled; E. ordered that E. be tied to the tail of a horse and scattered across the field]: Afanasyev 1958 (2), No. 202: 94-97; Russian(Orenburg region) [an old woman orders a pike to be caught and cooked for the childless queen; a servant girl eats a piece, a cow licks up the washings; all three give birth to a boy; the cow's son is stronger than the others, the Burya-hero (B.); a servant girl eats a piece, a cow licks up the washings; all three give birth to a boy; the cow's son is stronger than the others, the Burya-hero; beats 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons, hides their heads under a viburnum bridge; eavesdrops like a fly as the Dragon's wives agree to become a well, an apple orchard, a hut; does not allow the brothers to approach them, chops them into pieces; orders the blacksmiths to grab the pig (the Dragon's mother?) by the tongue with tongs, who will chase him; beats her, makes her regurgitate the swallowed brothers, kills her; defeats the army of the Indian king, who promises to give his daughter in marriage to Ivan Tsarevich; she flies in as a dove, asks her father (calls him grandfather) to stick his head out of the water, plucks three hairs, Ivan Tsarevich must guess which root the grass is from; B. flies in as an eagle, rips off the head, gives it to Ivan Tsarevich, he shows it to the bride, B. sends the head back to its place; before the wedding night, B. lies down in Ivan Tsarevich's place; the wife thinks her husband is sleeping, begins to strangle him; B. beats her with iron, copper, tin rods; after this, Ivan Tsarevich can live with his wife]: Afanasyev 1958(1), No. 136: 267-277; Ukrainians (Poltava) [the princess either burns the suitors in the bathhouse or strangles them at night; the prince goes to woo her; he meets and takes as his companions the strong prince Ivan Ivanovich (II) and then a gypsy; the princess suggests going into a red-hot iron bathhouse; the gypsy farts so hard that there is frost on the walls; II lies down with the princess instead of the prince; she puts her hand and foot on him, but does not crush him; and he breaks 12 iron rods on her in the morning; after this the prince could sleep with his wife; she did not notice the substitution, but then the prince confessed that it was not he who was with her that first night; she sent him to tend the pigs; she does not go home alone in the evening; the queen orders him to kiss her on the ass; he had to comply; II found out, dressed up as the prince, killed the pig with a kick, again broke 12 iron rods on the princess; After this, the prince and his wife began to live well]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 60: 227-229.

The Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [there lived a great sultan; and what did he not have in his palace? everything, except for bird's milk; but no children; the sultan went on a journey; the old man gave him an apple: eat a third yourself, a third - your wife, a third - the mare; a son will be born, except me no one should know his name; after the birth of the son, the people are indignant: why is the boy not given a name; at the last moment a dervish came, gave the name Shash-Smail; slapped the boy on the back: may your back not bow before the power of people"; he named the foal Hamer-tai; "may no bird of the sky overtake you"; the sultan kept his son locked up in the yard for 18 years; ShS fell ill, the reason is unclear; drunkards offer to let him go to them - he will tell everything; ShS saw Guluzar-khanym in a dream; the messengers returned, but G. was not found; then ShS mounted his G. and rode off in search; arrived at the palace of the beautiful Gulberi; she was in grief: her 7 brothers had gone to war and never returned; ShS destroyed the enemies, the brothers gave him G., but ShS did not touch her; he left, promising to return in a year; an Arab in the desert: my master lacks only one human head to finish building the fortress; ShS defeated the enemy, he took off his clothes, and before him was the beautiful Guzel-batyr; ShS wanted to part with her too, but she rode with him for Gulberi; the old woman said that she was getting married today; Guljuzar agreed, they ran; at a halt ShS fell asleep on Gulberi's lap, and Guljuzar fought with the army pursuing them; seeing that her two brothers were killed, Guljuzar shed a tear, ShS woke up; by this time the enemy had already been destroyed; On the way home, SS captured the sister of the seven brothers and began to live at home with three wives; but SS's father himself fell in love with Guluzar; she has an all-seeing mirror: her father dug a hole for SS to fall into; the next time, her father offered poison, but his wife told SS to eat only what her dog tried; the third time, her father invited his son to play chess; the loser will allow himself to be tied up; SS easily broke the ropes; her father: in whose lies your strength? SS: in the little finger of your right hand; her father bandaged his little finger, SS became weaker than a child; her father ordered him to be blinded and thrown into a well in the desert; Guluzar destroys the warriors sent after her; SS hears the conversation of the birds in the well: if you touch your eyes with my feather, then the blind will see; they drop the feather; [ShS regained his sight, untied his little finger, climbed out of the well, destroyed his father's army; his father was executed, ShS met his wives and ascended the throne]: Kondaraki 1875, No. 8: 92-108; Crimean Tatars[a childless padishah, taking a vizier, goes off on a journey; they are dressed in dervish clothes; a real dervish addresses the padishah at a spring; he knows with whom he is speaking and what the padishah is doing; he gives an apple: eat it yourself, and give the peel to the mare; but do not give your son a name until I come and name him; a boy and a foal are born; the children call the sheikhzade "the nameless bey"; the teacher says that he will not be able to educate him in this world, he needs an underground abode; the padishah ordered to dig a cellar, tells to feed the boy boneless meat; when the boy is 12 years old, a bone was found in the meat; he threw it at the glass ceiling, it broke, the boy began to unsuccessfully catch the sunlight; the teacher agrees to take the boy out of the cellar; he sees a horseman, tells the teacher to tell his father that he too should be given a horse, a peregrine falcon and a greyhound; a young man is 15 years old; a dervish enters: the sheikhzade's name is Shah Ismail, the horse's name is Kamer Tay; SHI is hunting with companions his age; he chases a gazelle, it hides in a tent, turns out to be a girl; SHI loses consciousness; an old woman living with the girl tells her to run her breast over the young man's face, this is the only way to save him; SHI and Gulizar have fallen in love; he gave her a ring, she gave him a precious comb; SHI is pining for love, one of the young men tells the padishah about his meeting with G.; she is the daughter of a nomadic bey; the padishah and the bey agreed on a marriage; but G.'s mother did not agree, and wandered off with her daughter towards India; the bey gallops to catch up with them; the vizier suggested arranging a choice of a bride for SHI: let all the girls of Kandahar come, and let all the men sit at home; but G. does not; SHI gallops in search; the palace has no doors, SHI broke the wall, entered; peri Gulperi is crying there; her brothers are fighting with the devas; SHI cut down all the devas; the brothers gave him Gulperi, but he put a sword on the bed between himself and his wife; having learned that SHI is looking for his beloved, the brothers report that they saw an Arap passing by with bloody hands; SHI reached the palace of Arap Yuzengi, saw pilaf cooked in blood; AYU suggests to fight, and then eat; one lip of AYU is on the ground, the other on Mount Keshish; AYU hit SHI so that his mother's milk flowed from his nose; SHI knocked AYU down, was about to stab her, but she turned out to be a beautiful girl; he goes with SHI in search of Gyulizar; they stopped at an old woman's; she says that the Shah of India will marry his son to the daughter of the bey of nomads; arranged a date for SHI with Gyulizar; while they were sleeping, AYU destroyed the attacking army; together with the three captured girls, SHI returned home; AYU senses danger, orders to ask to settle them in a separate palace; SHI's mother became jealous, orders the padishah to kill their son; seeing the girls, the padishah also wanted them for himself; AYU gives a stone that identifies poison; then the vizier offered to play chess with SHI, the loser will have his hands tied; SHI won three times, and then deliberately lost; admits that he is kept in this world by the bowstring of his bow; they tied him up, gouged out his eyes, put the right one in his left pocket and the left one in the right; AYU pretends that they agree to marry the padishah,asks to send 100 concubines - she will send jewelry; sends a bag with the severed heads of concubines; defeats the army of the padishah; SHI in the desert hears the conversation of doves: we will throw off a feather each, if SHI wipes his eyes with them, he will regain his sight; SHI inserted eyes, but the executioner did not put them in the way SHI asked; his appearance changed; he became a warrior of the padishah; fights with AY; the padishah praises him, allows him to take a horse and weapons; SHI takes his horse and his sword Zulfikar, comes to his wives, they recognized him; A, cut off the head of the padishah; funeral and wedding; they achieved their goal, may Allah help you too]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 84;Kalmyks : Uther 2004(1), #519:307-308; Adyghe (Bzhedug) [after the death of his parents, the prince's son began to live with his father's friend; seeing a beautiful dove, he promised to marry only an equally beautiful girl; adoptive father: there are two of these in the west, one in the east; the young man rode east, left the prince's son an arrow: if there is blood on it, trouble will be with him; almost froze on the way; finds the girl, she sets conditions: overtake the rider, shoot three released doves, wrestle her; the rider is an old woman on a donkey; she suggested searching the young man's head, put her to sleep, galloped away; he caught up with her, threw sand in her eyes, returned first; shot the doves, knocked down the girl; the dagger does not affect her, he took her with him; On the way he takes a ring from a horseman who is chasing captives; a scarf from another, a bracelet from a third; three people are fighting over their father's inheritance: an invisibility cap, a whip, a spit, a leather dastarkhan; the young man promises to give it to the one who brings the bullet he fired, takes everything himself; a seven-headed giant is nailed to the ground near the house, there are three maidens in the house; the young man enters invisible; each one tells how the young man took a ring from one, a scarf from another, a bracelet from the third; the young man enters, the maidens go with him, do not order him to free the giant; he frees him, the giant carries away the maidens, the young man flies to him on a dastarkhan-plane, hitting him three times with a whip; he stops at a hole in the ground; the young man widens it with a spit, goes down, kills the sleeping giant, takes the maidens; meets the aged son of the prince; meets a shepherd, he tells the sheep to cry: the prince's son died long ago; the youth: he is alive, slaughter the sheep for the feast; he married the beauty he brought, he also married off three girls well]: Tambiev 1900: 52-60; Abkhazians(Zap. 1933) [in winter, the princess sees two apples on an apple tree; she knocks them both down, and the river carries one away; the princess and her husband ate the first apple, and the miller's wife and her husband ate the second; both women became pregnant and gave birth to a boy; the prince's son cries all the time, and his parents send the children to throw him out; the miller meets them and says that his baby is also crying; as soon as the children are nearby, they stop crying and start playing; the miller gives his to the prince; the young men ask him to make them two iron balls; they throw the balls up, and after three days they fall on their knees and break; then they ask him to make two golden balls; they fall after 10 days and only bend; the young men set off on a journey; at the fork, the younger Pycha goes left and Pycha goes right; if blood drips from the tip of the saber, then trouble will befall the owner; P. arrived at a dead city, the inhabitants were eaten by a giant, only an old woman hid in the stove; P. and the giant grabbed each other and slammed each other into the ground; P. - up to the waist, jumped out, slammed the giant in up to the neck, cut off his head; but two heads grew in place of one, then three; the old woman sprinkled ashes on their necks, then the giant died; P. promised the giant's sister to marry her on the way back; defeated 7 heroic brothers and also promised to marry their sister; an old woman came up to the fire in the forest, asked to tie up her horse and dog, then swallowed both them and P.; it was an aroupap (witch); K. rode in his brother's footsteps, both women took him for P., he asked them to wait; his horse and dog began to beat and bite the aroupap, she had to vomit up the swallowed ones whole, then K. cut off her head; P. heard a voice, went to look for her; the old man: it is the voice of a girl who is beyond your power; but P. decided to win her; the old man: a Moor is tied to her iron gates, you must not answer him; P. and the girl fought with sabers for 64 years; finally P. defeated her; she gave him a ring; P. answered the Moor, he broke free from the chain, they began to wrestle; a little bird: rip out the gate, there is a chest under it, there is a bird in it, there is a piece of paper in it, there is a Moor's soul in it; P. tore up the paper, the Moor died; on the way home P. captured two other women and a brother; K. chose for himself a sister of 7 brothers; she asked to bring her younger 6-year-old brother; he is stronger than P., but gave him his sister; they both came to the three sisters, the 6-year-old fought with them for 120 years, won, took the youngest; a feast; whoever listens to a fairy tale turns to the right – he will have wealth, turns to the left – he will have a lot of money]: Khashba, Kukba 1935: 1-12 (=Shakryl 1975, No. 30: 153-161); Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 43 [a man named Shepherd comes to another named Son of the Sun, then both to Son of the Moon; the prince will give his daughter to the one who shoots down a needle suspended at the height of a bird's flight with one shot, catching the fragments in the hem of his Circassian coat; P. carries out the task, but gives the girl to the Son of the Sun; in another place the same - to the Son of the Moon; comes to an old woman, she sends him to a giantess, ordering him to touch her breasts with his lips; the giantess sends him to a female heroine who kills suitors; orders him first to hide in a pit, lure out the female heroine's dogs, she gets tired of them, she beats them half to death; then the same with her horse; then find her sleeping, beat her with her own bronze whip until she submits; and that's how it all happened; one day the wife washed her hair, a hair floated down the river, an old woman found it, showed it to the prince, promised to bring this woman; she became a servant to P.'s wife, persuaded him to ask what his soul was in; in a casket, the old woman threw it into the river, P. died; the old woman lured the woman into a boat, brought her to the prince; the Son of the Sun and the Son of the Moon shot arrows into the sky, it returned bloody; the Son of the Moon asked Kit to burp what was in his stomach, he burped up the casket with P.'s soul, P. came to life; P. threw his ring into the vessel with which the servant of the prince's new bride came for water; the sworn brothers threw the prince from the high porch, the old woman was torn apart by horses], 70 [dying, Zan bequeathed to his son to take Dzhankulyaz as a wife; he goes in search; the shepherd teaches: D. will offer a race, her two eagles should peck out their eyes, you need to have time to cut off their wings; when D. enters the kunatskaya, two snakes will come out of her mouth, you need to dodge, the snakes will smash against the wall; then you need to beat D. until she swears to be a faithful wife; and so it happened; on the way home, the horseman wanted to beat D. off; they fought for a long time; the young man spied on how the wounds of the "rival" were being treated in the hut, it turned out that she was a girl; he beat her with a dogwood stick, knocked off her hat, and also took her as a wife]: 110-117, 214-216; Ossetians[in old age, Aslan decides to test his sons; the eldest and middle ones return from distant, dangerous places, but A. says that he got there in a day; the youngest, Kaurbek, gets a horse and heroic weapons from under a burial mound; meets his father's brother, who fought with the army of Donbettyr's daughter; K. wounds her, kills the horse, makes belts from its skin, and goes down to the sea; the old woman teaches her to change vessels with living and dead water; K. defeats D.'s daughter, gives her to her uncle, revives the horse with living water; takes out the sword stuck in his grandfather's skull; he teaches him to hit the khan with it, and not to strike a second time; K. kills the khan, takes his daughter; there is eternal night in the khan's country; K. comes to the sea, across it there is a whale-bridge; K. crosses it to the house of the Sun; his mother hides K., asks her son-Sun questions so that K. can overhear the answers; the Sun does not illuminate the khan's domain, because he tried to kidnap his daughter; the whale lies like a bridge, because it swallowed the ships; K. goes back, tells the whale the answer, he releases the ships, frees himself; K. takes the daughter of the Sun away, the light spreads throughout the khan's domain; the Sun sends fire-breathing man-eating mares with steel jaws to the kidnapper of his daughter, K.'s horse destroys them; the daughter of the Sun insidiously tells K. to milk the remaining mares, bathe in boiling milk; the horse advises K. not to throw herself into boiling water, but to walk along the crossbar on which the cauldron hangs; the daughter of the Sun believes, bathes herself, comes out unharmed, the darkness over the earth dissipates; Zaliag-kalm in the sea (!) does not give water for drinking, demands a boy and a girl per month; K. kills him, the blood colors the sea yellow, now the sea is called "Yellow"; the elder brothers kill the sleeping K. and his horse; the daughter of the Sun sends the daughter of Donbettyr to revive K. with living water; K. forgives his brothers, gives one the daughter of Donbettyr, another the daughter of the khan, washes his father with living water, he becomes younger; K. decides to get Khadija as a wife for him; with difficulty defeats the warrior; the hawk reports that this is Kh., she will lose her heroic strength if she is kissed; K. kisses, brings Kh. as a wife to the father of sons; the eldest, the middle one return from distant, dangerous places, but A.]: Byazirov 1971, No. 15: 156-173; Ingush [seven brothers died; their sister-heroine dressed as a man, destroyed the enemies, returned and locked herself in a tower; debris rushed into the courtyard of the tower, the girl threw it further down onto other people's crops; the people decided to prepare the young man to defeat the heroine, then she would have to marry him; the girl defeated him, but when she saw his face, she gave in; they celebrated the wedding; the tower remained empty]: Dakhkilgov 2010b, No. 260: 226-227; Nogays[When dying, the bey ordered his sons not to go to the south; the eldest went with his people, they found an empty house with food and drink, stayed for the night, all were killed; the same with the middle brother; the youngest Kenjebai did not fall asleep, hid in a barrel in the yard; a rider on a six-legged horse arrived, killed everyone; he counted that there were 41 horses, and 40 killed, but did not find K. and left; K. rode on the trail; he came to the old woman elmauyz, her nose went to the door, she swallowed and regurgitated K., now he is her son; her real son does not know where the six-legged horse galloped off to; the same with her sister (the sons of old women fly in and are called karakus, but then they are not birds, but people); the son of another sister explains that this is the horsewoman Altynshash (golden-haired); you have to dig a tunnel into her house, tie her hair, beat her with a whip until she agrees to give up her horse and riches; A. agreed and invited K. to become his wife; they live well; A. dropped a lock of her golden hair into the river; a fisherman found it, the khan sent the old woman Azazil to find the owner; K. greeted her; she persuaded A. to find out where K.'s soul was; he answered that it was in the bowstring, A. cut the bowstring, but K. replaced it; then K. confessed that his soul was in a golden box, which was braided into the forelock on his head; the old woman quietly unbraided the forelock, threw away the box, K. died; the old woman brought A. to the khan; elmauyz looked at the spindle, blood was flowing from it; the son of the first elmauyz rules the animals, the second the birds, the third the fish; one pike complained of pain; it turned out that she had swallowed the box, it was taken out, K. came to life; he came to the khan's country, threw the ring into the jug of the servant who came to the spring; A. recognized him, K. carried her away from the wedding with the khan on a six-legged horse]: Kapaev 2012: 53-64; Avars[after the death of their father, three princes go in succession to woo the king's daughter in the south; the eldest and the middle one answer the old woman that the bride is more precious to them than her advice; the groom must defeat the princess in order to marry her; but she defeats them, their heads are cut off; the youngest listens to the old woman, she explains that the princess wins because she shows her breasts to her opponent; the prince did not look at the breast, the princess promised to become his wife, but, taking out a golden slipper, asked to find a pair; the prince arrived in a beautiful valley where there were tents, but no people; a young warrior appeared, they fought all day; the shepherds told the prince that in the fortress there was a princess guarded by two dragons; the prince threw each half a ram, recognized in the princess yesterday's warrior, won, she gave him the second golden slipper, he brought it to the first princess; now she asks to find out what happened between Balai and his wife Boti; A three-headed serpent crawls to the nest of a huge eagle; the youth kills the serpent, the eagle brings it to Balai; Balai gives the scraps left over from the dog to the half-petrified woman; makes her eat with a blow of the whip; this is Bati; Balai's story: when Bati lay with him, she was icy; Balai watches her; at night she rides away on a wind-horse, he pursues on a cloud-horse; seven giant Narts play with her; Balai kills six, cuts off the leg of the seventh; Bati returns first, with a blow of the whip turns Balai into a bitch for seven years; then into a mule; then into a hawk; the hawk throws him against the whip, returns him to human form; turns Bati into a bitch; from a mule; into a half-petrified woman; the youth's bride is Bati's sister; the eagle carries the youth away from Balai's arrow; the king kills his daughter, the young man kills the lame Nart in the dungeon and his son, born of the Nart by the king's daughter]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965: 269-280 (=Dirr 1920, No. 13: 71-80); Dargins [the padishah has 40 wives, but only one son, Shahismail; learned that another padishah has an invincible son, Arabuzinka; helped seven brothers defeat the Persians, married their sister; defeated A., she turned out to be a girl who promised to marry the one who defeated her; Sh.'s father is jealous that he has two wives; sends a horse with a poisoned saddle, A. guessed, Sh. put the one who brought him on the horse; the father offered poisoned food, A. again found out and removed the bowl; the father asks what to do to make Sh. die; Sh.: tie my fingers with an iron rod that is in my pocket; the padishah tied them, ordered Sh.'s eyes to be torn out, put them in his pocket; Sh. hears the pigeons talking: in order to regain his sight, he must insert eyes and dive into the lake; Sh. regained his sight, but sees poorly; his father is at war with his wives; the unrecognized Sh. offers to bring him A.; accuses his father, he is executed, Sh. becomes the padishah]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 24: 259-260; Armenians(Erzurum) [the king ventured into a part of his kingdom from which no one had ever returned; he also disappeared; the eldest son inherited the throne; the younger, taking a friend, went to avenge his father; they chased an antelope, found themselves in the forest, the antelope was missing; the prince and his men entered the tent; the people pounced on the food and began to drink water; the prince walked away and saw the bones of the people; when he returned, his people were dead - poisoned; the prince began to wait in hiding; a warrior maiden arrived with her people; she invited the prince to her; her name is Zoolvisia; the prince rode to the old peri woman - the mother of 7 genie brothers; they returned from hunting in the morning, warned how dangerous Z. was; the prince gave them scissors: if they rust, then trouble will happen to him; he came to the sister of the first peri, she also has 7 sons, the prince gave them a mirror: if it fogs up, then trouble will happen to him; then the prince gave a razor to the third sister, who also had 7 sons: if blood dripped from it, trouble would befall him; then the prince came to the monk; he told him that Z. was surrounded by 40 Amazon girls; in the mornings she looked over the country from the tower; if she noticed strangers, she screamed, and they fell dead; it was she who turned into an antelope; you had to plug your ears, hide and run up to her after her third scream; then she would lose her power; the prince did everything just like that, the spell was destroyed, Z. became an ordinary woman; she let her hair down from the window of her castle and he went up to her; 40 days and nights, 40 girls served them; Z. gave the prince her lightning horse and a box with her lock of hair; one day while hunting, the box fell into the river, the water carried it away and the king of the East found the lock of hair; the witch said whose hair it was and promised to deliver it to the owner; sat on a jug filled with snakes and, driven by another snake, flew into Z.'s garden; introduced herself as a pilgrim who had fallen behind the caravan; the prince put her on a horse, but the horse threw her off; Z. was also unhappy with her appearance; but she won her favor; persuaded her to find out what the prince's strength was; having learned what was in the dagger, Z. told the old woman about it; she threw the dagger into the pond; released the snakes to bite the maids, put Z. in a jug and flew to the king of the East; the genies, with whom the prince left a handkerchief, etc., saw that trouble had befallen him, came to Z.'s palace; killed the snakes and the maids came to life; the genies caught fish in the pond and found the dagger in her stomach; when they put it under the prince's pillow, he came to life; the half-dead horse also came to life; the prince galloped into the city of the king of the East; stayed with an old woman; sent her to Z., giving her his ring; Z. told her to tell the king that she agreed to marry her; appointed a meeting place with the prince; he took her away; killed the king and his people who rushed in pursuit; took the throne himself, and Z. became queen]: Seklemian 1898: 59-71; Azerbaijanis: Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 2 (the village of Sakhly, Kazakh district, western Azerbaijan) [while dying, the tsar orders his three sons not to go into the garden; the eldest son goes, and a hero comes towards him, whose horse kills warriors, and kills the tsarevich; the same with the middle brother; the youngest tames the horse, defeats the hero, who turns out to be an infidel girl; the tsarevich pursues her, orders her to accept Islam, and takes her as his wife; on the way home he becomes friends with the devil, and they promise to help each other; one of the devil's sons could swim underwater for hours, the other hears everything; the tsarevich lives with his wife by the sea, takes his wife's portrait hunting; the wind carries it away, the tsar sees it, his witch mother becomes the tsarevich's wife's servant, asks what its strength is; a wreath; throws it into the fire, the tsarevich is unharmed; in a knife; the witch throws him into the sea, delivers the prince's wife to the king; the div sees blood on the prince's ring, asks his sons to help; the listener finds out everything, the swimmer gets the fish that swallowed the blade, the prince comes to life, comes to his wife, together they destroy the king's army, all is well]: 34-41; Nabiyev 1988 [dying, the Shah of Isfahan leaves the throne to his eldest son Ahmed, makes the middle Mohammed vizier, and the youngest Hasan an adviser; orders to take a rusty sword on the campaign; A. leaves, does not take the sword, a hero on a winged horse kills him; the same with A.; G. takes the rusty sword, defeats the hero, who turns out to be a peri and the daughter of the Frankish king; leaves a note, asks the Frankish king for her hand; G. took out the div's splinter, the grateful div brings him to another, he to a third, the third to the land of the Franks; G. puts a ram's stomach on his head to pass for bald; the king takes him to tend geese; the peri recognizes him; she must choose a groom by throwing an apple at him, throws it at G.; the king drives them out of the city; he falls ill, G. calls a diva, who gives him medicine, G., disguised as a doctor, cures the king; the daughter explains everything; a magnificent wedding; another contender for the peri's hand goes to war, G. fights bravely; the contender hires an old woman to kill G.; disguised as a beggar, she comes to the peri, finds out that her husband's strength is in his sword; the enemies pull out the sword, send G. to prison, the peri to the harem of the enemy king; the diva sees blood on his knife, the divas surround the enemy city, return the sword, G. and his wife]: 47-53; Dirr 1921, #59 [Rustamsal – son of Qahirman; once mocked an old woman; she said that it would be better if he freed his aunt, kidnapped by the 14-headed White Div; parents and sages deny everything; but R. goes in search; comes to one king, having scattered the guards; he brings K., they admit that K.'s sister has been kidnapped; give R. the weapons of their ancestors]: 219-236; Turks[40 sons of the Sultan send the youngest to ask their father to marry them; they are told to sit down only when the Sultan offers a green chair - then he will understand what the sons wish; the brothers leave in search of brides; they spend the night in the ruins; the youngest sees a seven-headed giantess; he drives her away, but she returns with 40 sons and 40 daughters; as they enter, the young man cut off the head of each; the giantess disappears into the water, the young man follows; the giantess gives the keys to 4 rooms, in each there is a girl, these are brides for the brothers; the giantess asks to take her with him; he calls his father-in-law - the king of the giants; the young men and brides find themselves surrounded by a stone wall; the giant releases everyone except the youngest brother; to show his power, the giant orders him to be burned, the ashes scattered, sprinkled with water - he is reborn; orders to get for him the daughter of the neighboring king; the king demands to plow and sow a huge field overnight, to collect the harvest (ants fulfilled); to eat 40 cauldrons of food (blacks ate); to defeat the princess; she wins; the young man again burned the Arab's hair, he imperceptibly helped to knock down the princess; the young man took the princess and gave her to the giant; asked her to find out where he keeps his life; the giant: three deer will come to the watering hole, in the belly of the yellow one there are three boxes; having killed the giant, the young man took his wife, found his brothers; they argue over his bride - who will get it; the young man got her himself; a wedding with two wives]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 7: 77-83; Kurds[Aslan Pasha is a Kurdish padishah, his son is Shaismael; the emir of the Arabs migrated to him, he has a beautiful daughter Golizar; Sh. fell in love with G., but the emir of the Arabs migrated; G. left a letter: I will wait 40 days, then do not come; Sh. came to the castle, there is an iron wall around; he destroyed it, in the castle is the girl Golperi; Sh. defeated the enemies of her seven brothers, they gave him Golperi, but he refused to get together with her until he gets Golizar; at the crossroads, one road leads to Sham, the second - maybe you will return, maybe not, the third - you will not return; Sh. went along the third, came to the palace of Arabi-Zangi; he says that they do not return from him, Sh. - that he came by chance, got lost; they fight for three days, it turns out that AZ is a girl; says that she could easily kill Sh., but she liked him; her brother was the leader of 40 robbers, they slept with all the women, when they came to her, she killed them all, since then she did not take off men's clothes; Sh.: I will take you, but first I will get Golizar; Sh. together with AZ came to the Arabs, defeated them, took Golizar away, settled with three wives next to his father's tent; Golperi guesses, each time warns that his father wants to kill Sh. (poison; throw into a pit); Sh. himself says that he can be killed by tying his thumbs with a bowstring; he was blinded and abandoned; two doves dropped a feather, taught him to see; Sh. pulled a ram's stomach over his head, began to work for a shepherd; A. sends warriors to fight AZ, she defeats everyone; unrecognized Sh. also fights; the next day he is revealed; AZ killed A., Sh. is happy with three wives; having killed his father’s supporters, he ascended to the throne]: Rudenko 1970, No. 52: 174-183.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [only the last wife of the bay gave birth to a son; by the time it was time to do toi on the occasion of circumcision, the bay became poor; friends went to war against him; the son is strong, he moved his mother, father and all the property to another place; the father died; the div came to dig up the grave; the youth chased him, he hid in a cave; at the entrance the youth found a baby; this is his mother's son from the div, his mother has been in a relationship with him for a long time, she hides him in a chest; the youth found him, killed him, made a belt out of leather, left; stayed with the robbers; the div's son grew up, found his brother; the youth left him two bowls of pilaf, by which he will know if trouble has befallen him; left; came to a city where a dragon devours people, the turn of the ruler's daughter; the dragon is surprised that the youth is not afraid; orders to show his hair; the youth shows the torn off donkey's tail; the dragon runs away in horror; the bald man ascribed the victory to himself; but only the one who can transplant 40 tall trees from the forest to the garden in one day, tie a pumpkin snuffbox to the top of one and shoot it down with an arrow will marry the padishah's daughter; the young man fulfilled the condition and married the padishah's daughter; two moons rose; one was a reflection of the face of the daughter of a padishah of another country; she was a heroic woman; the young man began to wrestle with her, but she won, and he was thrown into a dungeon; the diva's son saw that in one bowl the pilaf had turned to blood and in the other to pus; he came to the young man's wife, and she thought that her husband had returned, they were so similar; he defeated the heroine, married her, and the freed young man returned to his wife]: Afzalov et al. 1972: 502-508; Shugnans {? archive of I.I. Zarubin; Zarubin seems to have worked mainly with the Rushan-Shughni languages} [the king gives his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but does not give him one; the prince steals the key, unlocks the chest, and finds a portrait of a beauty in it; the king notices that his son is turning pale and the portrait is missing; allows his son to go in search; stays in the city with an old woman; the girl just happens to be getting married; the prince puts on women's clothing, winks at the girl, and she orders that the woman be sent to her, and they are united; the girl teaches him to steal her during her wedding with the king; they arrive at the castle, the mistress of which orders everyone to fight her; the prince defeats her and also takes her as his wife; at home, the king falls in love with one daughter-in-law, and the vizier with another; they decide to kill the prince; they take him hunting, there is no water, the vizier promises water in exchange for his eyes; the prince's hound hid them under a stone; the dog led the blinded prince to the water, brought a flatbread from his wives; he hears a parrot telling a starling: you need to wipe the eye sockets with the leaves of this tree, then insert the eyes; the young man plucked a leaf, the dog brought the eyes; disguised as a dervish, he comes to the king; he replies that he can play the rubob and persuade a woman to love whoever he wants, but for this he must be left alone with her; he dug a hole with his wives, the wives pushed the king and the vizier into it, the prince cut off their heads]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 32: 316-326.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [ The Strong Woman . A young man helps a king get married. The grateful animals perform tasks: they thresh barley, gather flax; the young man tames a horse – the bride. On the wedding night, the bride wants to strangle the king. The king runs away from the bedroom, and the young man comes in instead and beats his young wife until she becomes as powerless as a three-year-old child. The next day, the wife tells the young man to cut off her legs and make the king a shepherd. The young man meets an armless strong man. They both kidnap princesses and catch the devil who visits her. The devil heals the young man and the strong man. The young man gives the queen a thrashing and tells the king to beat her every morning]: Arijs, Medne 1977, no. 519: 296; Lutsi {zap. 1933} [two heroes: Ukha Kukhalevich and Franz Vintsian; Ukha's parents did not want to let him in, but he left the house; knocked F. off his horse, it turned out that he was a girl; when she came to, she reproached him; if she had hit him with full force, she would have killed Ukha; the devil sits on an oak tree, scorching with heat for 40 miles, Ukha killed him; there is an empty castle in the forest, that girl F. came there; they began to fight with a big devil - the Serpent; he almost ate Ukha, and F. chopped him into pieces; Ukha descended into the lower world; there is a hut on chicken legs with ram's horns; Ukha: turn to face me; there is an old woman, calls her brother her son, gives him a ball of yarn, it rolls to her middle sister; she sends him to the third {apparently the eldest}; from there he goes to the king, who scorches with fire; wolf: do not eat me; orders to sit on it, jumps into the water, they are only slightly burned; the king also calls Ukha his brother's son; the king has 12 heroes, they do not like Ukha; they tell the king that he threatened to get a horse with the sun in front, the moon behind; the wolf: the bridle is even better than the horse; the horse with the bridle was stolen; heroes: Ukha threatened to get the princess; the wolf brought her to the garden, ordered to seize the princess when she comes out into the garden; they brought the princess to the king; she demands her 12 more maids; they brought her; the princess demands a self-playing kantele; with the help of the wolf he got it again; then a self-cutting sword; heroes: Ukha threatened to defeat them all alone; Ukha chopped up 6 heroes, the king asks to stop; Ukha wants to go home; the king: Raven Voronovich would have delivered, but he is walled up; Ukha freed him, fattened him up; began to rise, there was not enough meat, had to cut off the calves of the legs; on the ground VV regurgitated them, Ukha implanted living and dead water; Ukha returned to F.; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018: 106-113; Finns[three brothers and three sisters; the sisters were carried away by a whirlwind; the eldest brother went off in search; three years later - the middle one; the mother does not want to let the youngest go, but he insists; asks the blacksmith to make iron shoes, a club and a chain; he reached the mountain, where his brothers are; one of them had hair that reached the ground, the other had moss growing on his head; the youngest threw the chain up the mountain and climbed it; further on there is a heather plain, on which a brass house revolves; he told him to stop; the youngest sister is in the house; let the brother walk around the house three times against the sun, then he will see the keyhole; the husband came; they agreed to come to each other's aid; each will know if there is blood on the handkerchief; the same in the silver house of the middle sister; in the golden house of the eldest; the young man came to the heroine; she was sleeping, he grabbed her; he let her go when she agreed that he would not be her father, not brother, but husband; she went to war; The blacksmith makes 300 warriors per night, and if the girl doesn’t destroy them during the day, things will go badly; she forbids the young man to enter one of the rooms; he enters: all sorts of animals are hanging there, some by their legs, some by their horns, asking to be freed; he frees one, and the rest free each other; they tear the young man to pieces and throw them into the river; blood appears on the sworn brothers’ handkerchiefs; they turn into a snake, a mouse, and a fish; the one who has become a fish finds the young man; the girl pours an elixir over the remains, everything grows together, the young man comes to life, becoming stronger than before; he persuades the girl to take him with her to fight the forged warriors; he goes to the blacksmith, says that he knows his craft and will forge him a new head; smashes his head with a hammer, and new warriors no longer appear; they go to the young man’s homeland; the sworn brothers take their sisters; but when the young man lowers his bride down the mountain, his brothers cut the chain and take the girl; the young man spent several years on the mountain, grew overgrown with hair, dressed in a deerskin; then he saw a blind old man with a huge beard below; asked for help; he held out his beard, the young man jumped on it as if it were a soft blanket; touched the old man's eyes, he regained his sight; old man: hurry, your brother is preparing a wedding with your bride; having reached home, the young man climbed up half the shelves in the bathhouse; maid: the devil take it! the bride understood, brought clothes, cut and washed her; wedding]: Löwis of Menar 1927, No. 31: 90-96; Lithuanians[the king died, leaving a son and three daughters; every time the brother leaves, a beggar knocks at the door, one of the sisters brings him bread, he takes it away; the young man goes off in search, comes to the sisters in succession; the first has a falcon as a husband, the second a vulture, the third an eagle; each, upon entering, sniffs (the smell of a person), but then warmly welcomes his son-in-law; each suggests where the young man should take a wife; the eagle advises him to take a female heroine, who must be defeated in single combat; gives a cart with horses and a bird-coachman who will take him to her; the female heroine suggests wrestling; the prince defeated her by grabbing her by the hair and hitting her with a whip; she does not allow him to enter one room; he entered, a man was hanging there, asked to give him beer; he gave it and freed the hanging man; it was a king without a soul; he put the prince's wife in a cart and drove away; the prince catches up with him twice, the king without a soul defeats him, but does not kill him because he freed him; the third time he chopped him up; the princess asked permission to collect the pieces and send them with a cart; the bird-coachman called a falcon, a vulture and an eagle; they asked a kite to bring living water and healing water; but he could not: there is a wall of fire around the lake; the kite brought water from the ditch; then the eagle wrung the necks of the kite's chicks: now you will get them; the kite flew through the fire, brought living water, revived both the chick and the prince; all three bird-sons-in-law tell them to go to the king without a soul to find out what his life is; unrecognized, the prince hired himself out as a huntsman; the kidnapped woman recognized her husband's voice; the king without a soul answered his wife that his soul was in the sea, there was a stone, in the stone a hare, in the hare a duck, in the duck an egg; the prince spares the dog, the kite, the crab, each promising to help; the local people know where the stone is; they gathered the fish and only one is missing; when she arrived, she said that she had been far away and had gotten lost {looks like a fragment of the episode in which the fish were gathered to find out where the stone was}; the stone was delivered, the prince broke it, the dog caught the hare, the kite caught the duck, the crab got the egg that had fallen into the sea, the prince broke it, the king died, the prince returned his wife]: Leskien, Brugman 1882, no. 20: 423-430; Swedes , Estonians , Vepsians : Uther 2004(1), no. 519: 307-308.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [=Klabukov 1948, No. 38: 108-114; a man died, leaving behind a son Muzeyem, the widow is pregnant, gives birth to a son Marsalim; the mother tells Muzeyem not to ride the red horse, no, not to climb the mountain; he violates the ban, kills a three-headed snake on the mountain, frees 40 girls and 40 guys, locks another snake in the cellar, covering it with a stone; the freed build a village, Muzeyem lives in it, taking his mother with him; she drops a comb into the cellar; the snake advises to poison Muzeyem, then he will become his mother's husband; Marsalim hears, switches the plates; the next time he washed away the poison poured by the mother on Muzeyem's head; chops off the head of the snake hidden in the chest; Muzeyem comes to life; goes to woo the daughter of the Fire King, leaves Marsalim a ring; on the way he stops at his bride's; the old woman gives him 3 apples; a bull will come to the river to drink, drink all the water, he must roll the apple, cross on dry land; and so it happened; Muzeim throws the second apple, the road becomes smooth; he throws the third into the washbasin, he himself climbs the tree; the daughter of the Fire King saw the apple, ordered him to get down; he must defeat the princess; she throws all the suitors up in the air, Muzeim caught him, but locked him; Marsalim's ring turned black, he comes to Muzeim's bride, she takes him for her suitor, he accidentally left a mark on her eyebrow; he comes to the old woman, kills her sons, makes her show the way; the same thing happens to the Fire King as with Muzeim, but Marsalim himself throws and catches the princess; he marries after Muzeim was released and fattened up; on the way back they stop by to pick up Muzeim's bride; they compete in archery; Muzeim shoots off Marsalim's little finger; he says that the sin has been atoned for: with this little finger he injured his bride's eyebrow]: Kralina 1960, No. 69: 192-198; Bashkirs[Alyar Khan and Bulyar Khan agreed to marry their children if a son and daughter were born; a giant son, Alpamysh, was born, but his father died, and his father, Barsyn, did not want to give her to A.; B. left, promising to marry the one who would defeat her in a fight; began to live on a hill, rolling huge stones at those who came to woo her; A. kicked the stone, fought with B. for 7 days, won, took him as a wife; her parents and brother refused to accept a wedding gift from their son-in-law; A. began to prepare for battle; promises the horse shepherd Koltobe property and a wife in exchange for a heroic horse; having obtained the horse, regrets what he promised, forced K. to refuse his promise; when A. was sleeping, the enemies threw him into a pit, the horse was locked in a stone barn; A. made a dombra from a board that fell into the pit; The daughters of the enemy khan heard and began to bring bread to A. A. asks the geese to deliver the letter; they refuse, because he was exterminating them; a lone goose agrees, B. learns of A.'s fate; the daughters of the enemy khan pulled A. out, who killed him and his warriors; the shepherd replies that A. was evil, and the flocks belong to K.'s uncle; A. killed him; the same with the second shepherd; the third grieves for A., ​​who reveals himself to him, showing a golden moon on the crown of his head; under the guise of that shepherd A. came to K.; B. demands that the one who wants to marry her draw A.'s bow; A. drew it, B. embraced him; A. asks K. whether he wants 40 mares that have never foaled or 40 sleds of firewood; he wants the mares, they tie him to their tails; the place where his head touched became a hummock, and where his tears flowed became a lake]: Barag 1888, no. 3: 45-51; Mari , Kazan Tatars : Uther 2004(1), no. 519: 307-308.

Turkestan. Kazakhs(judging by the toponyms - Mount Begazy - a region of Karaganda) [the batyr Koblandy robbed the khan, killed his young son Karaman in a duel, took the people captive; an old man covered with a cauldron and a boy covered with straw remained; they found K.'s bow; two strong men carried it, and the boy lifted one; he found a foal for himself; the old man named the boy Talas-pay, and his horse - Koshchu-gar'at; for three days in a row, when T. leaves, three swans strip the old man's face, tear his fur coat, beat him; K. put on the old man's clothes, went out himself; he trampled the swans, but they sat him on themselves, flew up, but he jumped off; he shot at them, a gold ring fell; having prepared meat for the old man, K. set off on his way; he met a shepherd; he replies that he is grazing Kadir-kan's cattle; one must say, "Cross, cows", they will cross the sea themselves; "Tie yourself, calves"; "Give milk, cows"; I lick the soles of the youngest of Kadir-kan's three daughters; T. killed the shepherd, dressed in his clothes, sat on his bull, did as the shepherd explained; cut out the cow's tongue, in the girl's yurt began to stroke her feet with it; girl: is your tongue cracked? T.: yes; began to stroke more gently; the girl does not tell me to go tomorrow to where they bathe; he went; they flew in the form of swans; the youngest noticed the shepherd's golden crest, realized that it was T.; in the evening she put on pomade, they slept together; girl: how to let my father know that I want to get married; T.: bake three loaves of bread: burnt, half-burnt, good; The khan ordered his daughters to choose their own husbands; the youngest chose T.; the khan allocated them a small yurt; the khan, upset by his daughter's choice, fell ill; the doctor said he needed saiga meat; the in-laws got nothing, T. gave them the meat, but the khan only felt worse; T. kept the saiga intestines for himself, from which the khan recovered; the khan's winged black mare gives birth to a foal every day, which is carried away by the bird Alyp-kara-kush; the elder sons-in-law fell asleep, T. shot, cutting off the foal's tail and the bird's silver feather with an arrow; the elder sons-in-law took the tail, but T. did not give up the feather; T. brought it himself and placed it near the khan's yurt; Kozu-gar'at rode to the yurt on horseback, an old woman came out with 7 heads; T. did not eat, but invited her to her place; the only food was human flesh; They exchanged salt and agreed not to harm each other; T. rode to the bai-terek tree, there was a bird on it, he shot it, only his horse was able to carry the carcass; a maiden, the bird's daughter, caught up with him and offered to wrestle; three days later he defeated her and took her as his wife; there were prisoners in her house, they let them go; after spending the night with an old woman with 7 heads, they rode on; T. saved a snake from a fire, it gave him the ability to understand the language of animals; a bay horse, the brother of T.'s horse, came towards him, it ran away when Koblandy took everything; T. appeared to the khan in his true form; he called his daughter a clever girl and himself a fool; T. came to his father, who was already starving; Koblandy went to take revenge, his grown-up son with him; before the duel, T. and Koblandy began to question each other; it turned out that their mothers were sisters; they made peace; Ir-Kosai came to take revenge, defeated and killed Koblandy and T.’s son; T. and he had equal strength, they made peace]: Potanin 1916, No. 11: 73-79;Kirghiz (west. Ivanovsky in the east of the Chiliktinskaya Valley) [the Mohammedan Gali and the Russian girl Dariga - of gigantic stature; they began to wrestle and wrestled for 15 days; D.'s strength increased, G.'s weakened; after this G. prayed to God for 14 days and defeated the girl; her father bequeathed to her to marry the one who defeated her; G. went to Medina, and D. 9 months later gave birth to a son named Sadilda; he was strong and learned from birth; at the age of three he sees an old woman and a boy, flicked the boy on the forehead, killed him; the old woman: better look for your father; on the way S. killed a snake and if the messenger of God had not held back his stick, it would have cut the earth; in Medina S. became the mullah of the main mosque, but went to Mecca, because his father had gone there; there were wrestling competitions and S. defeated G.'s sons, and then him; Having learned that it was his father, S. threw himself into the abyss]: Miller 1890b: 120-124.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Buryats : Uther 2004(1), No. 519: 307-308.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts(Khayakhsytsky nasleg of the Boturussky ulus) [Olonkho "Obstinate Kulun Kullustuur"; Kulun Kullustuur (KK) was settled in the Middle World as the future ancestor of the Yakuts. He is very rich and completely alone. In the form of a bird, a messenger flies in from Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay, the daughter of Sandaar Toyon, with an offer to marry Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay. Otherwise, she will defeat him and marry him, since she is a famous strongwoman and an outstanding udagan. From their birth, the celestials predetermined them to marry and be the ancestors of the Yakuts. KK, angry, cuts the bird into 7 parts with a sword. Each turns into smoke and rises upward, and at the top the parts join together, the bird flies away. After some time, Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay arrives on a black cloud and repeats her proposal. KK rejects her proposal a second time, and they fight to the death. Kyun Tolomon proves to be a worthy rival for KK. Both are exhausted, and Kyun Tolomon suggests ascending to the Upper World for judgment. Having received consent, she places KK on a cloud and raises him to the Upper World to Yuryung Aiyy Toyon; he is the elder brother of KK's father, Wardaah Dzhesyogyoy. Yuryung Aiyy Toyon is organizing a celebration at this time. Kyun Tolomon Nyur Gustai is the winner in all the competitions of the celebration, and KK does not participate in these competitions. The celebration ends. The host calls 49 advisers to judge the arrivals. They judge and determine that Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay and KK are destined to marry. Taking into account the groom's protest, the bride is given the right to pacify the groom by any means necessary, and then marry him. During the trial, KK is sentenced to 7 days in prison for rudeness before the judges. This does not help. The supreme judges cannot persuade him and hand him over to Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay. She uses all her charms to pacify her future husband. With the help of magic mucus, she blinds him, then, surrounding him in a whirlwind, entangling him with a rope, puts him on a cloud, and takes him far away with the aim of pacifying him with the help of the abaasy heroes. So she lowers him from the cloud into the pipe of the hero Muus Buodzhulaan. Despite the help of the abaasy, his mother-udagan and other udagans, KK defeats and kills him. But at this time the future bride arrives, and they again enter into battle. The battle continues for more than 90 days. Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay summons a cloud, blinds the groom with mucus, ties him up, puts him on a cloud with a whirlwind, and carries him further. He lowers him down a pipe into the house of the hero of the abaasy, Turbutunan Timir Suorun. This hero is all iron. The fight between them lasts 150 days. Neither of them can overcome the other, although Timir Suorun is helped by his mother and other udagans of the Lower World. The battle of the heroes causes a lot of trouble in the Middle World. In the midst of the battle, they fall into the Lower World and continue to fight there, causing a lot of trouble. The ruler of the Lower World, Buor Magalai Buor Surgei, orders: “Come on, my nine guys, climb up my belly fat like a ladder, stand side by side on my shoulders and on my head, hook them with nine hooks and try to lift my upper eyelids! And you,My eight girls, climb up my belly fat like a ladder and hook my lower eyelids with eight hooks, try to pull my eyelids down as far as possible! If I could see with my own eyes what kind of people destroy everything like this, I would not regret it even if I had to die! "Nine guys run up the belly fat and, standing on the crown of his head, rest their feet on his shoulders, firmly hook my upper eyelids with nine hooks, turn them inside out, pull them up, eight girls, having climbed up the belly fat, reliably hook my lower eyelids with eight hooks and pull them down. The bulging, icy-transparent eyes of the old man appear, "similar to the evening light on a full moon in January." The old man looks and asks to leave his domain and go to the island of the Sea of ​​Fire. Both heroes go to the island of the Sea of ​​Fire, each take a pole and begin to fight again. These poles begin to wrap three times around the body of each of them and strip it to the bones: both heroes are covered in wounds, losing a lot of blood. The first to turn to his mother Uot Kurbai Udagan for help is the hero Timir Suorun. His mother sprinkles him with dead water, which helps only the heroes of the Lower World. His wounds heal, his strength returns, and he attacks KK with even greater fury, presses him, knocks him down. Finding himself in a hopeless situation, KK still rejects the help offered by his bride. He asks his aunt Kyyra Chokhchoy Udagan for help. Kyyra Chokhchoy Udagan pours cold water on him from a cloud. The blood stops flowing, the wounds heal, his strength returns, the hero begins to defeat his opponent. Timir Suoruna turns into flame and descends into the Sea of ​​Fire, and kills the hero KK. Then KK turns into a huge eagle and flies in pursuit of his bride, who meets him at the pass between the two worlds. They engage in battle. KK wins. Before dying, Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay calls for help from the udagans and shamans, who kill KK. Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay also dies, but the shamans and udagan resurrect her with magic. On the advice of the udagans and shamans, Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay cuts the groom's head and chest. A frog appears in the head, and a sandpiper appears in the chest, near the heart. The frog and sandpiper are talismans inserted by wizards to make KK ruthless, rude and stubborn. Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay kills the frog and the sandpiper, and revives the groom with the help of magic and living water. The revived groom immediately shows tenderness to the bride, sits her on his lap. They kiss three times, then go to the bride's parents, and from there with her dowry - to the husband's homeland. They take with them a lot of cattle, 9 slaves and 8 slaves. On the way they encounter the hero of the Lower World Taas Olorchokh - the son of the udagan, who was once killed by deception by Kyun Tolomon Nyurgustay, who promised to be his wife. She keeps her husband from meeting Taas Olorchokh, fearing that the latter will kill him. After the victory, she mounts her horse and goes to her husband. They live in his house peacefully and in contentment. The wife, using magic, builds a silver fence around the yard, and in the middle of the yard, a golden house with 40 rooms.Kyun Tolomon gives birth to a son. The child immediately disappears from the house. He is taken by magic into the depths of one of the burial mounds and raised there. The mother sometimes goes there to breastfeed him. A second son is born. He is taken away by the mother of the murdered Taas Olorchokha in revenge for the murder of her son. A third son is born, who remains to live with his parents. This son becomes four years old in 4 days. He spends all day hunting birds with a bow. One day, the revived Turbutunan Timir Suorun comes to them. Born a second time, he is called Kytygyras Baraanchay. He comes to take revenge or die a second time at the hands of KK. They fight for 90 days, Timir Suorun begins to win, Kulun Kullu-stuur is wounded. Exhausted, he can barely stand on his feet. Having learned about this, his wife replaces him in the battle, but after 9 days of fighting she weakens, she is threatened with death at the hands of the abaasy hero, then her husband replaces her. Returning home, Kyun Tolomon collects his udagan accessories, turns into a crane, flies to the Upper World, informs Yuryung Aiyy Toyon about the disaster that has befallen them. Two heroes descend from the Upper World - Kyun Toyon's son, Kyunche Byogyo, and Yy Toyon's son, Yyyktai Bootur, tie Timir Suorun to a pole, forbid him to be finished off until 6 years have passed, until the eldest son of KK leaves the burial mound. One day, the youngest son, continuing his usual walks, stumbles upon a fenced area, climbs over the fence, sees the abaasy hero tied to a pole, takes pity on him, feeds him. When the eldest son is nine years old, the mother, having paid the sorceresses for her son's upbringing, brings him from the burial mound. The son does not enter the house, but is placed on an arangas arranged for him near the house. He turns out to be lame, but a very strong hero-sorcerer. The hero abaasy, tied to a pole, is brought to him for judgment. By the decision of the eldest son, the hero abaasy gives a receipt written in blood that he will guard the passages from the Upper and Lower Worlds, and will not let anyone through. The younger son makes a fire in the field, as his elder brother ordered, kills two bulls, and feeds the hero abaasy. Timir Suorun eats his fill, thanks, and goes to the place indicated to him. The dishes and the remains of the food are burned. One day, the younger son leaves the house and hears the clatter of horses. This is the middle son of KK, who was raised for 7 years by his grandfather Uordaakh Dzhesyogyoy, miraculously escaping from the abaasy woman who kidnapped him. All three sons of KK gather to the great joy of their parents. The eldest and middle sons were named Yuryung Aiyy by Toyon, and the youngest by his parents. The eldest son is called Boskongoloy Myulgyun the hero. The middle son was called Ytyk Suyulla the hero, and the youngest was Toyon Nyurgun the hero. The time comes for the sons to get married. After consulting with their mother, the two youngest sons go to the east. On the way there is a tall spreading birch tree, on the branches of which is a nest of a Siberian crane. The Siberian crane itself turns into a beautiful woman, saying that she is the future wife of their older brother, Boskongoloy Myulgyun. She is the daughter of the spirit of the crimson cloud Kyykyllaan udagan, her name is the hero Kyys Nyurgun. Kyys Nyurgun invites them to come and stay with her. Ytyk Suyulla agrees, Toyon Nyurgun protests.The woman uses magic to throw them and their horses into an abyss from which there is no escape. The heroes are rescued by their elder brother, who learned of their plight, as the shaman pulls both brothers and their horses out of the abyss with his staff. Boskongoloy Myulgyun meets his future wife. She declares that she will not marry him voluntarily, turns into smoke, flies up and disappears. He lags behind her a little, saving his brothers, but swears to pursue them until victory. Having admonished the younger brothers, Boskongoloy Myulgyun pushes off the ground with his staff, jumps onto a black cloud and disappears, heading south. The younger brothers travel to the east, to their brides. They pass the lands of Dzhuluskhan Baai Toyon, Sabyya Baai Toyon and many ancestors. They arrive at the house of the son of Okhumal Baai Toyon, the hero Yuryung Uolan. His sister Kyun Tunaly is destined to marry the middle brother, Ytyk Suyulla, who has a peaceful nature. The intervention of the rude Toyon Nyurgun, who insulted the bride and her brother by engaging in a fight with the latter, delays the time for the agreement. This fight is stopped by Boskongoloy Mulgyun, who flew in on a cloud. He scolds his younger brother for his rude intervention and offers to accompany him to the bride. Yuryung Uolan agrees to the marriage of his sister with the middle brother, Ytyk Suyulla. Toyon Nyurgun arrives at the golden house of his future father-in-law, Ayaatyr Ala Nyurgun Toyon and his wife Tysy Hotoy Khotun. Greeting the hosts, Toyon Nyurgun says that he has come to woo their daughter, Yuryung Yuekeydeen. The old men answer that they have no power over their daughter now, because three abaasy heroes, Usuutuur Usun Tuigun, Timir Dyybyrdaan and Timir Nygyllan, who arrived earlier, are vying for her hand. Toyon Nyurgun kills the first of them on the fifth day of the battle. The second one runs away, frightened. They fight the third one for ninety days. The abaasy hero begins to win, but he is helped to be killed by the Tungus hero shaman Arjamaan Djarjamaan, who strikes the hero with a spear and then disappears. Toyon Nyurgun's bride is kidnapped by the Tungus shaman. Toyon Nyurgun pursues this shaman for a long time. On the way he leaves his horse, turning into a falcon, then a mouse, but he cannot achieve anything. He is helped by his niece, Aybangsa udagan, the daughter of Ytyk Suyulla. With the help of magic and deception, she kills the shaman Arjamaan Jarjamaan and returns her uncle's bride, turning her into a golden ring. The latter must turn the ring into a bride when he enters the eastern edge of his native country. Aybangsa udagan herself sits on a cloud, flies to help another uncle, Boskongoloy Myulgyun, catch up with his bride and pacify her. Boskongoloy Myulgyun pursues his future wife Kyys Nyur-gun for 9 years. During this time, she pits him against various abaasy heroes. Boskongoloy Myulgyun is the winner every time. He can no longer stand on his feet, but he still has such strength and magic that none of his opponents are able to resist him. They end up in different countries, turning into fish and birds. In the end, the uncle and niece manage to defeat Kyys Nyurgun.She obeys, and all three fly to the homeland of Kului Kullustuur on two clouds. As they approach his native country, they see not one household, as was the case before, but four: one is KK, the second is his middle son, the third is his youngest son, and the fourth is arranged by the younger brothers for the older brother. Aibangsa udagan introduces Kyys Nyurgun to the old people, and Boskongoloy Mülgün does not enter the house, but remains at the door. The groom and his niece subject the bride to torture with fire. With each blow of the whip, various worms pour out of the tortured woman in abundance. Then she is washed with sea water and living water. She is freed from the spell, becoming even more beautiful. A multi-day feast is arranged in honor of the arrivals. Nine years have passed since the day Boskongoloy Mülgün left the mound. As was predetermined, one fine morning he freely stands on his feet and looks such a fine fellow as never before. He begins to live in the house, eats with everyone together, becomes an ordinary person. All four families live amicably and richly; countless herds fill the meadows and fields. Only Aibangsa udagan remains unsettled. Finally, she too marries the silver-clad hero Duguy Saaryn. At first, she does not agree to marry him and engages in battle with the groom. With the help of witchcraft, she throws him into the abyss, but then, at the suggestion of her grandmother, she resigns herself]: Pekarsky, Ergis 1985: 285-442 (=Emelyanov 1980, No. 27: 120-126); central (?)Yakuts (a summary of several archival texts, places of recording not indicated; central? recent Russian borrowing?) [the son of the White Tsar intends to marry the daughter of the Blue Tsar; the blacksmiths of Bakhsy build him ships; the peasant's son, a hero, throws the tsar's ships ashore, for which he is put in prison; the hero is freed from prison by the tsar's sister; he becomes the captain (soldier) of the ship; obtains an invisibility shirt, a self-assembled tablecloth, and a flying carpet (or an iron horse); the heroine princess gives the prince difficult tasks: to shoot from his grandfather's bow, tame the hero's horse, and bring back the golden hair of the sea spirit; instead of the prince, his servant does all this, and he saves the prince from the iron embrace of the princess; the princess learns of the deception, the prince is thrown into prison (into the sea), his legs and arms are cut off; the servant finds magic berries that make a person strong, handsome or ugly; then he frees the prince; having changed their clothes, the two of them come to the princess, treat her to the berries, after eating which she turns into an animal (abaasy kyysa); the servant returns the princess to her human form; her wedding with the prince takes place; the princess asks the grandfather of the sea spirit for her horse, the strength of a hero and one hair of the sea spirit, but the servant pulls out many of them; because of this the princess loses her strength; the servant marries the sister of the prince]: Ergis 1967a, No. 154: 199.