J25a1. Child born in grave saves mother. .28.29.

The woman dies, but remains incorruptible and gives birth to a child in the grave. The child is found and brings the mother back to life.

Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, {Kiev}), Georgians, Turks.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Poltava) [the king and queen died, leaving a son and daughter; the son writes to another prince that when his sister laughs, gold falls, when she cries - pearls, where she steps - flowers grow; that prince asks to send her to him as a wife; the princess went with a maid; by the river the princess undressed, took out her eyes and began to bathe; the maid put on her dress, took the eyes, came to the prince; he was surprised that gold did not pour out, but still married; blinded, she came out of the water, crying; an old man came up, saw the girl with a heap of pearls; took her to himself; she embroidered a towel with gold, pearls and flowers; ordered to sell only in exchange for the eyes; the deceiver gave one eye; for the next towel - another; learned that the soul of the princess was in a poplar in an egg; found the egg and put it in a chest; the princess to the old man: I will die, bury me over the road; the prince rode past, found a coffin, in it the princess seemed alive; he got together with her; the next time with the dead woman there was a child; the prince took him to himself; he cries, insists: give me the egg; he had to give it; the prince went to church with his son, he dropped the egg, the princess came back to life; the prince began to live with her, and the deceiver was tied to the tail of a horse]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 6: 24-27; (cf. Ukrainians(Kyiv, Cherkassky district, village of Mliev) [a merchant lent money to a poor man after the latter took St. Nicholas as a guarantor; he died; the merchant is taking the body and the icon to the market to sell, both together; the icon would be bought, but no one wants the dead man; the widow's son asked his mother for money, buried the dead man, took the icon; the old man (this is St. Nicholas) asked the guy to take him into the shop; business went well; he orders to buy a ship; the guy has one, and his uncle has two ships; they sailed to a city, where the king orders to spend the night in the church three times; the uncle promises a reward to whoever agrees; the guy goes, the old man advises to take plums with him; a snake comes out, becomes a girl, eats plums all night, and the guy reads {the Psalter}; the uncle gives one ship; the next night - a pood of plums; the third - one and a half poods; the uncle gave the second ship; and the king asks to find him a bride; the guy: I have a sister: she coughs - gold comes out of her mouth, she cries - pearls come out of her eyes; the sister was sent with an old woman and her daughter; she got the coachman drunk, they went on foot, took the girl into the forest; they gouged out her eyes and pushed her into a pit; the woman's daughter put on her clothes; the disappointed king threw her brother in prison; the shepherds found the blind girl in a heap of pearls; she asks for silk, weaves a scarf, asks to sell it in exchange for an eye; the deceiver buys it; next time a second eye; the sighted one is rich, builds a house where they feed and water her for free; first the soldiers come, then the officers, then the courtiers, and then the king himself; he orders the girl to be brought to him for the night; the deceiver found out, orders her to be killed; from a blow to the chest she began to cough, coughing up gold; dead, she gave birth to a child; the king came up, she coughed up {the last} gold and came back to life; she began to cry - pearls; the king understood everything; he released the girl's brother from prison; the deceiver was tied by her braids to the tail of a horse; where she hits her head - a grave, where with... {?} - a valley; I would have been there, drinking honey and wine, it would have flowed down my beard, but nothing would have gotten into my mouth; I was shot from a cannon, I flew here into the hut and now I'm sitting here]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 7: 27-35).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [the wife of the elder brother orders her husband to drive away the younger brother and his wife; they give birth to a daughter, her tears are pearls, she laughs - violets and roses pour out; the prince is hunting, a servant enters the hut, is struck by the beauty of the girl, the prince takes her to marry; on the way his uncle gives her salty food, takes her eyes for water, dresses his dark-haired daughter in her clothes; explains to the prince that she has become ugly from waiting; a blind woman cries pearls in the forest, an old man picks her up; exchanges violets and roses, a necklace from the uncle for the girl's eyes; she dies, the son sucks milk in the coffin of his mother; the prince finds the son, he tears the necklace from the imaginary wife, puts it on the mother, she comes to life; uncle and daughter were torn apart by horses]: Chikovani 1954: 244-249; Turks [a girl (var.: princess) was born into a poor family; three (or more) dervishes (peri; deceased mother) predict that where she passes, the grass will turn green, her tears will become pearls, if she laughs, roses will fall from her lips, gold will appear in the water in which she washes herself; they give her an amulet (bracelet); the girl grows up, marries a prince, goes to him accompanied by another woman (this is a sister, a servant, a neighbor, a black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace the beauty with his ugly daughter); suffers from thirst, her companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind woman lives with other people; the palace needs roses, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl regains her sight; (the padishah sees the grass growing green under the walking girl); the deceiver steals the girl's amulet, she loses consciousness and is placed in a tomb; ( she gives birth to a child, who sucks the breast of the dead mother ); the prince finds her and revives her]: Eberhardt, Boratav 1953, no. 240: 291-294.