K100f2. He who has quenched his thirst breaks the chains. .16.22.23.26.-.32.35.

The captive supernatural character breaks his chains and breaks free after being given water (or wine, etc.) to drink.

Germans (Pomerania), Zhuangs, Sinhalese, Java, Yao (Guangxi, Vietnam), Croats, Serbs, Hungarians, Moldovans, Russians (Pskov, Gorky, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Galicia, Kharkov), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Avars, Georgians, Armenians, Persians, Bartangs, Estonians, Setos, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Northern Khanty.

Western Europe. Germans (Pomerania) [a young man herded pigs in the forest year after year; one day he came across a tree whose top went up into the clouds; he climbed all day, spent the night tied to a thick branch, then reached a fork where there was a village; having learned that the tree continued further, he reached a castle; there was an enchanted girl there: she must live in this castle forever; the young man stayed with her; she warned him not to unlock one of the rooms; the young man unlocked it, there was a raven nailed to the wall with three nails; he asked to give him something to drink; the young man gave a few drops, the nails fell out , a raven flew out the window; the girl says that it was the devil who bewitched her; now he will carry her away; in the morning she was gone; the young man climbed down from the tree and went in search; he met a wolf; he gave him three hairs to call him for help; the same bear; a lion; the young man comes to the princess; she says that an old hunter (i.e. that sorcerer) is guarding her; he has a three-legged horse that knows everything and will easily catch up with the fugitives; they run away, the three-legged one screams, the sorcerer comes running: are they far? - Not far, sit on me and we'll catch up; the sorcerer to the young man: this time I forgive you, because you gave me water, but next time I will kill; the young man teaches the princess: I'll come, I'll crawl under the bed, and you ask where the sorcerer got the three-legged stallion; the sorcerer and the princess call each other "daughter" and "daddy"; the sorcerer replies that he got the three-legged one by three days of service; there is a witch nearby, she orders those who come to graze her foals; whoever can, can choose a foal to his taste; sometimes she also gives 12 lambs to throw to 12 wolves, so that they can pass through the forest; but she did not give them to him, the sorcerer, so the wolves caught up with the foal and tore off one leg; whoever is not able to graze, has his head removed from his shoulders and put on a stake; it is already time to erect the ninth fence around the house; the young man sets a condition for the witch that in addition to the foal, she should also give him lambs; the witch gave him provisions with her; the young man drank vodka and fell asleep; waking up, he remembered the wolf's hairs; he orders him to mount him, and having caught up with the scattered ones, to strike him three times with the bridle, making the sign of the cross; the foals stood rooted to the spot; the young man drove them to the witch in time; She began to beat the foals, but they told about the wolf; the next day the witch gave the young man more vodka; he woke up later, but called a bear and it drove the foals back; on the third day the witch filled the flask full; the foals were driven back by a lion; the witch had to let the young man choose a foal for himself, he chose the most inconspicuous one; it barely gallops: the witch put pies in a bag, leaving the foal hungry; the young man gave them to him, he gained strength; the young man threw lambs to the wolves; when the sorcerer chased the young man on a three-legged foal, his four-legged one did not run away, but advised his sister foal to throw off the sorcerer; she threw him off and the foals trampled him to death; then the princess rode on a three-legged one, and the young man on a four-legged one; a wedding; the king died and the young man received the throne; four-legged man tells him to cut off his and his sister's heads; he does so and the horses turn into a prince and princess; they were bewitched by the same sorcerer; the forest turns into a flourishing country with villages and towns; if the king and his wife did not die, they are still alive]: Jahn 1891, No. 3: 19-29; Germans (Pomerania) [the son of a poor widow does not want to herd pigs; shear sheep; she takes him to look for a job; the master takes him in; he leaves for a year, during which time the young man must keep order in the house, but not enter the 12th room; he fulfills the condition twice, the master is pleased; on the last day of the third year he opens the room; there is a black raven nailed to the wall with nails; he asks for a drink; the young man gives him water, the nails fall out , the raven flies away; immediately a little book falls from the shelf; the youth tries to put it back, but it falls again and again; the youth takes it away; the owner returns, but says that when the youth released the raven, his term of service was just over; so he rewarded the youth generously and let him go; he opened the book, a Moor appeared and asked the owner what he wanted; soon the youth had a magnificent palace, and the king gave him his daughter in marriage; but the general was not pleased; having penetrated to the youth's wife, he persuaded her to find out what caused the youth's sudden enrichment; the youth tells his wife; the general seizes the book and tells the Moor to move the palace to a place where there is neither moon nor sun; the youth goes in search; the East wind carries him to the West, that to the South, the South to the North, the North to the Mother of Water, that to her daughter - the Mother of the Earth; the Mother of the Earth calls all the earthly creatures; one mouse knows about the palace; she penetrates there, pulls the book out from under the general's pillow; he wants to kill the mouse, but his wife says that it is their son's favorite toy; the young man tells the Moor to put the inhabitants of the palace to sleep and move it back; shows the king his daughter in the arms of the general; forgives his wife, and the general is torn apart by four bulls]: Jahn 1891, No. 58: 317-224.

Burma - Indochina. Zhuang (Yunnan) [the sky was close to the earth, since then the tops of the bamboo are crooked, because they rested against the sky; the thunder god emitted lightning, blinking his eyes, created gusts of wind with his wings, blows of his feet - thunderclaps, in his hands an axe and a chisel, he smashed everything with them; came to visit a man named Bubo; after eating and drinking, he decided that he should collect taxes from farmers; B. offered him a choice of tops and roots; he said that he was a celestial being, so he chose the tops; B. planted taro, the thunder god got rotten leaves and dry stems; the next year he chose the roots, and B. planted rice; the next year the thunder god promised to take both the tops and the roots, but B. planted corn and took the ears; The thunderer ordered his general Lumeng not to send any more rain; B. ordered the people to open the floodgates of the heavenly river, water watered the fields; then the thunderer raised the sky higher, leaving only the tree of the sun and moon for communication; B. led the people to get water from the underground dragon, but he was the thunderer's brother and refused; then B. grabbed him by the horns and ordered him to pluck his beard; the dragon gave water; but in the third year there was another drought; the thunderer sent general Lumang to repair the floodgates; B. climbed the tree to the sky, pushed L. into the river; one of the warriors, Qigao, warned that the thunderer was going to destroy the people with drought; B. put his sword to the thunderer's throat, forcing him to give rain; the thunderer came down to take revenge, slipped on wet mats, was caught and tied up; B. went for salt to kill the thunderer and salt his meat; he told his children not to let him out, not to give him a drink , not to give him an axe; the thunderer persuaded them (they gave him water with indigo dye, so he turned blue), gained strength, flew out; gave his tooth, ordering them to plant it: during the flood, only Fuyi and his sister will be saved; the thunderer opened the floodgates of the heavenly river, and the dragon released the waters of the underground lake; B. swam in an inverted umbrella; the thunderer wanted to hack him to death with an axe, but B. himself cut off his legs; the thunderer was afraid that B. would end up in heaven with the waters of the flood, threw down the waters; B. fell with his umbrella on a mountain, broke, his heart bounced up to the sky and became Venus; F. and his sister were saved in a pumpkin (which grew from the thunderer's tooth); they came out when the waters receded; turtle, bamboo: you must get married; brother and sister: if you come back to life, we will get married; killed a turtle, chopped up bamboo, they were reborn; Venus-B. also told them to get married: light fires on two mountains, if the columns of smoke merge, then it is possible; the sister gave birth to a piece of meat; they chopped it up and scattered it, people emerged from the pieces; the thunderer attached rooster claws to the legs instead of the severed feet; after the dragon's beard was torn out, two tufts remained: they are with his children, the carp; Qugao became an earthworm; when it crawls out, the thunderer tries to cut it in half; if worms crawl out, it means a thunderstorm; shamans began to recognize the future by the shells of turtles and stems of bamboo]: Miller 1994: 137-150.

Malaysia – Indonesia. Java [when Sesela was working in the garden, lightning struck; S. grabbed the old man Thunder, brought him to the Sultan of the Demak region; he put Thunder in an iron cage, S. ordered not to give him a drop of water; an old woman came, she was Thunder’s wife, gave him coconut milk, he melted the cage, returned to heaven with his wife]: Knappert 1977b, no. 14: 51.

China - Korea. Yao (Guangxi, Yongxian county, Luocheng city; according to Chang Zhenxia, ​​"A study of the images on the stone sarcophagi from Shapingba", magazine "Shouwen yuekan", vol. 1, no. 10-11. Lü Zhenyu. Beijing: "Zhongguo shehui shigan", 1962) [before a thunderstorm, a boy and a girl began to watch as their father began to repair the roof; the father became angry with the thunder god Lei-gong and put an iron cage under the eaves of the roof; L., holding a wooden axe in his hands, descended, flapping his wings; the man shoved him into the cage with a pitchfork and told the children not to let him drink; L. begged the children to give him a few drops of water; having broken the cage, he pulled out his tooth and ordered them to put it in, and he himself flew away; Having learned of what had happened, the father began to make an iron boat, and a bottle gourd grew from the planted tooth; when the gourd was opened, countless teeth were found inside; the children threw them out and climbed inside themselves; a downpour gushed, the waters covered the earth; the father sailed in a boat to the iron gates and began to knock; the spirit of heaven ordered the spirit of the waters to drive away the waters; they immediately subsided, the boat fell, crashed, the man also crashed; the children were saved in the gourd; the boy's name was Fuxi, the same as Paosi ("brother-gourd"); the children grew up, the brother proposed to marry his sister; she proposed to catch up with her; but F. ran in the other direction and ran out to meet his sister; they got married; the wife gave birth to a lump of meat; they cut it into pieces, began to rise to the heavenly gates; the wind blew, unrolled the bundle, the pieces of meat fell and became people; [ The one who fell on a leaf received the surname Ye ("leaf"), on a tree - Mu ("tree"), etc.]: Yuan Ke 1987: 39-43; Yao (Man of Vietnam, border with China) [the Lightning spirit Leung Kung came down to set fire to the house of the spirit Tiang Lo Ko, made of banana leaves; TLK caught him, turned him into a rooster, put him in a cage; if you give the Rooster even a drop of water, he will again become a thunderer; LTK gave his beak for water, TLK poured him water, LTK flew away to the sky; the beak became a tree with one fruit; in order to overtake LTK in the sky, TLK blocked the river, caused a flood; on the advice of the birds, the young man Fu Hai and his sister sat in the fruit, were saved; LTK destroyed the dam, the fruit with PH landed on the mountain; Turtle, Bamboo advise brother and sister to get married; FH beats them, now they have stitches; FH nevertheless marries his sister, she gives birth to a fetus; people grew from seeds; after the flood, 12 suns, moons and stars appeared, God ordered them to dry up the earth; Luong Vung shot the luminaries, leaving one sun and one moon]: Karpov, Tkachev 1958: 260-262; Yao(Vietnam) [Chang Lo Co built a house, Thunder in the form of a rooster came down to destroy it, slipped, was caught, put in a cage; Phuc Hy (this is the son of Chang Lo Co) gave him wine, he returned his strength, broke the cage, gave the boy a tooth, told him to plant it, a pumpkin would grow; PI and his sister climbed into the pumpkin during the flood, sealed the hole with wax, took food and a couple of domestic animals with them; Chang Lo Co got on a raft, but the water suddenly subsided, he crashed; the turtle advised PI to marry his sister; in anger, he smashed her shell with a stone, it grew together, but traces remained; the same advice and the episode with bamboo (marks from a knife); brother and sister went to sleep on different banks of the rivers; two trees grew out of their stomachs and intertwined; after three years, three months and three days, the sister gave birth to a pumpkin; the brother ordered to sow seeds everywhere; when they arrived at the mountain, there were only three seeds left, so there were few mountaineers]: Dang Nghiem Van 1993: 326-327.

The Balkans. Croats (Austria) [{the text is jagged and confused, including fragments of different plots}; a poor brother and sister went wandering; in the evening in the forest the brother saw a light in the distance; he also saw and took a belt with an invincible sabre; they came to the house; old woman: there are robbers here, they kidnapped me too; the robbers promised not to kill the children; old woman: when the chieftain comes, he will kill; but he did not; Agnes became a cook, and Hans {how is it in Croatian?} chopped wood; A. fell in love with the chieftain; invites her brother to go swimming so that he would take off his belt with a sabre; but he managed to jump out of the water and grab the belt; the old woman died, the brother hacked to death the robbers; he threw the half-chopped chieftain into the cellar, promising to return in a year; a voice from the cellar: I am suffering from thirst, throw down a barrel of wine; when the wild king drank it, one chain broke; after the third, he broke the last chain, went out and promised to help Hans; gave his hair: if set on fire, he will appear; G. met two dogs, fed them, they promised to help; there are black flags in the city; the seven-headed dragon ate all the cattle and all the girls, it's the princess's turn; the princess in black clothes was brought to the chapel in a black carriage with black horses; G. summoned the wild king, he tore off one head from the dragon, the dogs - two, G. himself chopped off 4; the princess gave Hans half of her scarf and a gold ring; G.: I'll be back in a year; cut out the tongues from the dragon's heads; the gypsy attributed the victory to himself; the princess demanded a year before the wedding; the wedding is already; G. sent his two dogs, the princess recognized them, sent with them golden plates with all the dishes (tying them around their necks in scarves); G. came, showed the tongues; the dogs dragged the gypsy through the city, tearing him to pieces; the sister came; the wife said let her live with us, make the bed; she put a knife under the sheets; it stabbed Hans, and Agnes ran away; the dogs found her and tore her to pieces, together with the princess they died on Hans's grave]: Neweklowsky, Gaál 1983, № 26: 171-181; Serbs : Karadzic 1856 in Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956 [dying, the father orders his three sons to give three sisters to the first ones who come for them; the elders are against it, the youngest each time gives the sisters to the Unknown Power; the brothers go to look for them; every night the youngest kills a dragon coming out of the lake, cuts off and hides its ears; the youngest goes to look for fire, by the fire 9 giants eat human flesh; the young man pretends to eat too; pretends to help them enter the city, kills them one by one; nails a snake crawling to bite the princess with a knife; marries her; the king does not order the ninth room to be unlocked, the young man unlocks it, Bash-Chelik is chained there, promises three times another life for water, breaks the chains , carries off the prince's wife; he goes to look for her, comes to his sisters, they are married to the king of Snakes, Falcons, Eagles; each gives a feather (if you burn it, he will come to the rescue); the prince carries off his wife three times, the BC catches up with him each time, takes away the three lives he was given; the fourth time the husbands of his sisters revive him; the kidnapped woman finds out where the BC's life is (the bird is in the fox's mouth, that one is in the mountain); snakes, eagles, falcons get the bird, the BC dies, the prince returns his wife]: 145-164; Mijatovies 1874 [the tsar's apple tree blossoms in one night, bears fruit, but the fruit disappears; two sons guard it, fall asleep; the youngest sees eight peahens descending to peck apples, the ninth turns into a girl; gives the youth two apples; so every night; The envious elder brothers send an old woman, she cuts off a lock of the peahen maiden's hair; the peahens fly away; the prince orders the old woman to be tied to the horse's tail; he goes to look for the girl; in the castle, the old woman offers him her daughter; she gives the servant a fur to blow over the prince's ear; this makes the prince fall asleep; the peahen wife cannot wake him up three times; the prince cuts off the servant's head, the hermit sends him to the dragon's city, the prince finds his wife; she orders not to unlock the twelfth room; there is a barrel in it, someone in it asks for a drink; the prince gives it, the dragon flies out , carries off the prince's wife; the prince saves a fish, a fox, a wolf along the way; he finds and takes his wife away, the dragon on his horse easily catches up with them, spares the prince, takes his wife away; she learns from the dragon that his horse's brother, a mangy foal, is with the old woman; she gives the task of grazing her mare and foal for three nights; from this herd the dragon's horse; the prince comes to the old woman, only one stake is missing a head; a fish, a fox, a wolf help to find the mare and foal, who turned into fish, foxes, wolves; the prince chooses a mangy foal, takes his wife away; the dragon's horse says that they will not catch the prince, throws him off, the dragon crashes, the prince's wife mounts this horse]: 43-58 (=Ashliman 2002); Hungarians [the king's apple tree blooms in the morning, apples by night, but someone steals them; the king will recover if he eats an apple; he promises his daughter in marriage; the swineherd Janos undertakes to guard; he climbs the apple tree to heaven; there the princess Etelka was picking apples; J. took her as his wife; she orders not to open the 12th room; I opened it, there was a seven-headed dragon chained there; he promised three kingdoms if I gave him water; he was freed and carried away E.; Ya. takes three horses in succession, finds E. and carries him away; the first time the dragon's horse says that he will have time to eat, drink, crack a sack of nuts - they will catch up anyway; each time the dragon takes one kingdom from Ya.; the fourth time he tears it into pieces, puts them in a sack, ties it to the horse, and lets go; the horse sees how a snake is dragging a blade of grass to revive a baby snake that was run over by a cart; he asks for half of the blade of grass, revives Ya.; he asks E. to find out where the dragon got his horse; the dragon first beats E., but the third time answers that the old woman Iron Nose asks him to pasture her horses three days a year; whoever copes with it will be given a horse; along the way Ya. makes a fish, a duck, a fox healthy, they promise to help; the old woman makes horses fish (the fish drove them), white crows (the birds drove them), eggs (the fox grabbed the rooster, the old woman chased after it, Ya. broke the eggs; the best horse warns that he will be a lousy foal, he must be chosen; teaches how to avoid death when the old woman gets up at night to chop Ya.'s bed; teaches to ask for a foal, a dirty saddle, a bridle, an old saber as a reward; the dragon cannot catch up, his horse is Ya.'s horse's uncle, threw the dragon off; wedding; Ya. brought the king apples and a guy like himself, whom he married to the earthly princess]: Ortutai 1974, No. 8: 164-189; Moldavians [Tsarevich Fat-Frumos; dying, the king orders him to give three sisters in marriage to snakes that will fly after them; FF gave, the snakes have 3, 6, 12 heads; FF finds a portrait of Ilyana Rozolyana in one of the rooms; took it, passed the copper forest, came to the copper palace of the elder sister; her husband-snake gave him strength; the same with the middle, elder sister (silver, golden forest and palace); the husband of the eldest tells to go to Okh; he gave two cornflowers to turn into a fly and back; it is necessary to pass 24 brothers of IR; FF penetrated, moved twice, on the third time extinguished the lamps, took from IR an oath by her three horses to become his husband; she gave the keys to all the rooms, forbade entering one; FF opened the lock, there is a chained snake with 24 heads; asks for hay and water; ate, drank, broke free from the chain , then ate a herd of oxen and 12 barns of bread, tells FF to get out; the horse asks the snake, gallop whether as a thought or as the wind; as a thought; the snake took IR from the silver forest; the next time from the copper forest; this time the husband of the elder sister gave FF 25 snake powers, and the snake 24; FF won and killed the snake; during the fight IR gave wine and bread to FF, not to the snake; wedding]: Botezatu 1981: 209-217.

Central Europe. Russians (Pskov) [dying father orders son Pantelei to give three sisters in marriage to the first who will ask for their hand in marriage; he gave them, arrived to the copper kingdom, took a wife; wife orders not to enter the building in the garden; P. entered, there a nine-headed snake was boiling in resin; he asks for a drop of water; P. dropped a drop, the snake flew out and carried off P.'s wife; he successively comes to the sisters' husbands, these are Thunder, lightning (silver kingdom) and the bird Agey - the main one over animals and fish (golden kingdom); she gave a ball of yarn to follow him, and her feather - to call her, if trouble; on the way P. begged two wolves, a fish and a crayfish, bees, they promised to help; P. reached the snake's house, took his wife away; the dove-messenger informs the snake about this; he asks his horse if they will catch up; horse: if we sow wheat, reap it, bake bread, we will still have time; the snake took away his wife, but forgave P. for letting him out; the second time he chopped him into pieces; the witch-grandmother burned the feather, the bird A. flew in, collected the pieces, sent two crows for living and dead water, revived P.; first we need to find out from the witch-grandmother where to get a horse like the snake's; the witch-grandmother tells that there is a witch more cunning than her; she turned her three daughters into mares; the witch-grandmother gave a ball of yarn that will lead to the black-haired girl - Baba Ega's shepherdess; the girl explains that Baba Ega demands that her mares be grazed without loss; whoever can, will take any foal; the girl gave a pipe to lure the horses in the evening; the pipe helped twice; On the third day Baba Ega threatens to kill the horses if they return, but they are driven back by wolves, bees, and pikes with crayfish, who promised T. their help; Baba Ega allows him to choose a foal; the girl teaches him to ask for the very worst and also a pood of wool; the girl teaches the dragon to first kill the dove-witch; the foal quickly gains weight and takes P. and his wife away; the dragon catches up, but the horse kills him and his horse; P. and his wife return home]: Smirnov 1917, no. 108: 342-348; Russian : Afanasyev 1958(1), no. 159 (place of entry not specified) [When dying, the parents of Ivan Tsarevich (I.) order that his three sisters be given in marriage to the first to ask for their hand in marriage; these are Falcon, Eagle, Raven; I. goes to visit his sisters, meets Marya Morevna (M.), marries; she does not allow him to look into the closet; I. looks in, there is Koschei (K.) in chains, asking for a drink ; I. gives him something to drink, he breaks the chains, carries away M.; I. meets the sons-in-law, leaves with them a silver spoon, fork, snuffbox; I. takes M. away; K.'s horse tells him that they will have time to sow the wheat, reap, bake bread, we will catch up anyway; K. forgives I. twice, on the third time he chops him into pieces, puts him in a barrel, throws him into the sea; the Eagle gets her, the Falcon and the Raven bring living and dead water, revive I.; M. learns that K.'s horse is from the mare on which Baba Yaga flies around the world every day; gives a handkerchief to cross the fiery river; I. ​​does not touch the chicks, honey, lion cubs; Baba Yaga orders to graze the mares three times; the bird, the bees, the lioness drive the scattered ones; the bee orders to gallop away on the mangy foal; I. makes a bridge with a handkerchief; Baba Yaga pursues, the bridge collapses, she dies; I.'s horse kills K. with its hoof, I. burns the body; I. and M.'s wedding]: 376-382; Russian (Gorky) [{the storyteller does not understand the plot well}; Ivan's fire went out, he saw a small flame in the forest; the man gave him matches, telling him to find an immortal man hanging on chains and tie him up with three more; this man kidnapped the princess; let I. take her and marry her; an old man along the way: when you enter the palace, do not look into one room; I. opened it, there the man hanging on chains asked for a drink three times; after each ladle of water, he throws down three chains and gives I. a hundred years of life; having freed himself, he invites I. to live with him; he will leave, during this time I. may try to leave his domain, but if he catches up, he will take away a hundred years of life; [on the third time Ivan manages to escape]: Borovik, Mirer 1939, No. 94: 238-240; Russian (Voronezh, Bobrovsky district) [The girl stumbles upon a forest dwelling, enters the rooms, and in the third she sees the Monster on a chain. It asks to move 2 vats of blood, drinks, gains strength, and frees itself and forces the girl to live with him ("or else I'll eat you"). Ivan is hunting in a dense forest. He does not kill animals, but replenishes his hunt - each animal gives its cub. Ivan has a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub, a raven cub, and a falcon cub. Ivan goes into the hut, meets the girl, learns about the Monster. It sees the hunt and decides to make peace. The three of them live together. Ivan takes care of the girl like a sister. The Monster persuades her to pretend to be sick and send Ivan with the hunt to the mill for water and supplies, so that the Monster could lock Ivan's faithful animals there. Ivan collects water, calls the animals, but they are locked behind 12 doors. Ivan thinks that the animals will catch up with him, returns home. The Monster asks Ivan to light the stove. A crow, a falcon, and an eagle fly to I., telling her not to hurry, and telling her how many doors the hunt has gnawed through. The Monster sends the girl several times to find out if the bathhouse is ready. I. replies that one, two, three corners are heated, delaying the moment when the Monster appears. It appears in the bathhouse, is about to grab I., the hunt appears, pushes the monster into the stove. I. leaves the girl on a chain, promises to forgive her when she cries a vat of tears. He leaves for another state, stays with an old woman. She is afraid of the hunt, tells her about a princess who cannot marry: a giant defeats the suitors, but she does not want to marry the giant. I. leaves the hunt with the old woman, tells her to watch his knife: if it is covered in blood, it is time to release the animals. He arrives at the capital city and proposes to the princess ("her height was heroic, her face white as snow, her eyebrows black as velvet, her cheeks scarlet as cherry blossom, her high chest rising") to marry him, she agrees. I. fights with the giant, he grabs his hand, blood flows, the old woman releases the hunt. Animals come running and tear the giant apart, I. cuts off his head, marries the princess. He goes to visit his adopted sister (she sat on a chain for a year), finds an empty vat, releases her, offers to go to him as a maid. The girl finds the Giant's tooth in the oven, sews it into a pillow and puts it under Ivan. The tooth gets into his ear, he dies. The princess buries him in a high tower (with the inscription "There is no one stronger and braver than the Russian hero Ivan"). The hunt climbs into the tower, the bear lifts the lid of the coffin, the hare takes a tooth out of Ivan's ear, Ivan comes to life, plays the pipe, the animals dance, the princess rejoices]: Korolkova 1941, No. 8: 45-49; Ukrainians(Galicia, Sambir district) [a rich man prayed to God for a son, but went into the forest, the baby got lost; a forester raised him; when the lad was 20, he ordered a club to be forged (the first one was too light, he ordered a heavier one to be forged), went wandering; three young ladies were bathing, he stole the dress and wings of the middle one; got married; one day she asked to return it - she flew around the hut; she flew out through the window, ordered to look for her on Ovsyanaya Mountain; the hermit whistled for animals - no one knows about Ovsyanaya Mountain; he sent him to his older brother; there - the same thing; to the oldest; the lion came last, the hermit orders him to take the lad; he took him, but threw him into a hole; the lad got out; he stopped the mill; promised to start it again if the miller would deliver him to the princess; he hid the lad in a barrel of flour; they brought it to the palace; There he is not allowed to open the doors, which are tied with bast; he entered; someone black asks to give bread and water ; the guy gave it, he flew up and carried off the princess; the guy came to the widow, hired himself out to graze horses; the girl warned her not to eat the food, what they offered was poison; he grazes for three days, beats the horses with his club, brings them home safe, the widow offers to choose which one she wants, he chose a little horse; he asks twice first to allow him to graze with the mother mare; after this he brings her to the rock on which the princess and the black man are; the guy threw his club at the black man and he disappeared]: M. Dragomanov in Pankeev 1992: 124-130; Ukrainians (Kharkov) [The princess gives birth to a son, her parents drive her away, cut off her hands, tie the child to her back. She wants to drink at the well, the son asks her to put her hands in the water - she puts them in, her hands grow back again. They settle in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a strip of bark and smeared with excrement"), the snake asks to give him a drink - there are buckets of water and blood nearby, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother to enter the barn. In his absence, she enters, gives the snake a drink , he becomes a handsome man, convinces her to destroy her son - to send him for rings, which can be obtained by riding between two shifting mountains. On the way, Ivan comes into a hut where a girl is embroidering, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, at the mountains the horse orders to climb into his right ear. Ivan takes out a bandura from there, puts it between the mountains, from playing the bandura the mountains stop, takes the rings. The mother again pretends to be ill, sends her son for snake fat, he again gets the girl's horse, he tells him to beat the snake when it wakes up (?), it "cowards" for 11 days, on the 12th dies. Ivan cuts out the fat, brings it to his mother, she demands bear's milk, he again takes the horse from the girl, the horse advises to tie the saber "to the ears", the she-bear asks not to kill her, milks the milk for Ivan. The horse gallops 12 miles in one jump, in the house Ivan sees his mother with a dove (a snake that has turned into a snake), the bird flies out the window, Ivan chases after it, the mother asks her son to throw down his sabre so as not to get hurt, he obeys, the snake takes its form, kills Ivan, scatters the bones in the field. Three mermaids, the sisters of the girl from the hut, see him, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, he is healed, gets up, then speaks (the ability to speak as a stage of returning to life; then it is not clear - something was cut off and molded into a cake and eaten). He marries the girl from the hut, kills the snake, seats the mother in front of two buckets - his and the snake, to understand who she cries more about - him or the snake. He returns, sees that the bucket is full of snakes, leaves his mother]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 158: 155-159; Belarusians [a matchmaker came for the elder, for the younger sister, they went out onto the porch, carried away by the wind; brother Ivan the Peasant's Son goes to look for them, goes into the house, the hostess tells him to marry her; do not look into the door that is tied with bast, smeared with mud; he opened it, there is Kashchei on chains; asked to give him three buckets of wine and three loaves of bread , three alder logs and three aspen logs; ate and drank, broke the chains with logs, carried away Marya the Beauty; I. found M., took her; K. asks his three-legged horse if we will catch up; horse: have dinner and go to bed, we will catch up in the morning; the old man returned M. twice; I. came to the sisters, one was married to the Sun in the copper house, her brother-in-law gave her a falcon; the second to Thunder in the silver house, gave her a little dog; I. carried off M. for the third time, K. caught up with him and killed him; Thunder and the Sun grabbed the crows, ordered the crow to bring living and dead water, revived I.; he tells M. to find out where K.'s soul is; K.: an island, an oak tree, a hollow, a hare, a duck, an egg; one must get a horse like K.'s from Baba Yaga; I. went for K.'s soul; released the queen of the flies, she promised to help; the same the king of crayfish; a sparrow; Baba Yaga orders to graze the mares; flies, crayfish drive the mares; they order to choose a horse in a scab as a reward; Baba Yaga orders to collect the sown poppy; sparrows collect; I. received a horse, he brought him to the island, I. got the egg with K.'s soul; I. took M. away, his horse told K.'s horse not to come near; I. ​​broke the egg, K. died]: Vasilenok et al. 1958: 115-122; Belarusians [the bishop allowed the widowed priest to marry the one who would wear the clothes of his dead wife; the daughter had to; she went into the forest to a cell; food fell to her from the sky; the prince wandered there and took the priest's daughter as his wife; a son, Ivan, was born; the priest's daughter saw her father, he was asking for alms; she invited him to the palace; he stabbed the child and put the knife in his daughter's pocket; she was banished; she brought the body to the cell; 15 years later she saw how one snake revived another with grass; revived her son; I. found the house of devils, killed them all, hung one on a hook; despite the ban, the mother went in there; the devil asked to give her "a piece of cod with his blood"; she gave it to him, he jumped off the hook ; he became her husband; he ordered to send his son first for a piglet to the Fish-Koschei, then for gold and silver apples to the garden of the 12-headed snake; I. took the princess from the garden of the dragon; they hid from the dragon in a monastery; the mother tests her son's strength: she wraps him in hemp, silk, then a copper "dart"; the devil began to beat him, blinded him, pinched him in a split pine tree; the cabbies freed him, the "spring water" restored his sight; I. tortured the devil to death; married that princess; ordered his mother to wear cast-iron shoes: when you wear them out, then I will be your son]: Romanov 1887: 66; the Czechs [leaving, the king and queen order their son Yanko to look after his three sisters; the Sun, Wind, and Moon arrive in succession, ask Yanko's sister to be his wife, all three agree, leave the house; the king is pleased that his daughters have married kings; Yanko goes to visit them; the field is strewn with bones; the skull replies that the beautiful bogatyr Ulyana has defeated everyone; the same on another field; Ya. enters the castle, exchanges his sword for the one hanging on the wall and jumps; defeats U., she offers to live with her; leaving, she gives the keys, forbids entry to the 13th room; Ya. opened, there is a fiery dragon chained to the wall with three hoops; says that he is tormented by thirst and asks to give wine from the last barrel ; after each jug drunk one hoop falls off; the dragon gives Ya. life and takes U. away; Ya. comes to the Sun, who does not know where U. is, and sends him to the Moon; the Moon goes to the Wind; who replies 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 - we'll catch up; the dragon took U. away and spared Ya, since he gave 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 brought him to the witch, she offered him three horses to graze - these were her horse daughters, who turned into doves and flew away, but the Wind drove them back and ordered them to be bridled; the next day they turned into ducks, the Moon lowered a handkerchief into the lake, it dried up, I. put the bridles on again; on the third day the horses turned into pine trees, the Sun began to scorch them, they had to turn into horses again; the Sun orders them to ask for a miserable nag as a reward; the witch orders them to milk the mares; the little horse: before you bathe in milk, call me; the milk boiled, but the little horse drew 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; J. takes U. away, the dragon gallops after him, J.'s horse tells his brother to throw the dragon down, the dragon falls into the abyss; J. brings his wife to her parents and receives the throne from her father]: Nemcova 1978: 119-132; the Slovaks [in the absence of the king and queen, their three daughters are taken as wives and taken 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 Janko 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; J. arrives at her palace, replaces the sword hanging on the wall, fights with U., she admits her defeat, becomes his wife; when leaving, he allows J. 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 more 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 Sun King sends him to the Moon King, who to the Wind King; he gives him 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 life from Ya, takes U. away; the same a second time; the Dragon promises to tear the fugitives apart the third time; the Wind King orders him to get the brother of the magic horse that the Dragon rides; he transfers him overseas to the witch; she orders him to graze three mares for three days (these 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 Wind King forces them to come down, gives Y. a magic harness to throw at them, the doves turn into mares again; on the second day the mares turn into ducks, the Moon King 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 previous appearance; advises Y. to ask the witch for a sick little 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 little horse cools it, Y. becomes a beauty; the witch wants to become a beauty, to become Y.'s wife, the end returns the heat to the milk, the witch is boiled; on the way to the Dragon, the little horse orders to bathe him, becomes a magnificent horse; Y. carries Y. away; Y.'s horse shouts to the Dragon's horse that a brother should not chase a brother; he throws down the Dragon, U. mounts the horse, they arrive at J.'s parents; there is a celebration, J. receives the throne]: Nĕmcová 1970: 150-163.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [Aldar is childless; while hunting, he bent over a spring, but the water immediately went away and a voice was heard: boil the crop of a black hen, give it to your wife to eat, she will bear a son; Aldar put the crop not in the cauldron, but on the coals; it burst, half flew off to the side and a dog ate it; she gave birth to a golden-haired boy, and the wife to an ordinary one; the boys grew up quickly; Aldar's son (SA) went to look for a bride and took with him the son of a bitch (SS); 7 Uaigs began to woo the sister of theirs; they demand that he climb a tree and come down with a full cup of water without spilling it; throw a sword at an apple tree so that the apples fall out; SS does everything (he splits the apple tree in half); the Uaigs gave up their sister; SA stays at home, SS hunts with the Uaigs, kills more divi than all of them together; drags the prey on the branches of a tree, dragging it along; the uaigs gave SA the keys to 7 chambers, and ordered not to enter the 8th; but he entered; in six there are jewels, in the seventh - a milk lake, in the eighth a seven-headed uaig on chains; spews hot coals from his mouth, the chains are red from the heat; asks to collect a bucket of milk from that lake and pour it over him ; SA did it, uaig broke the chains, stuck AI under the beam, carried away the sister of uaigs; SS goes to search, ordering not to touch SA for a year; SS meets, takes as companions a priest carrying a church on his head; a man who catches a hare, and millstones are tied to his knees; drinking the sea; everyone answers that the real miracle SS will see further; they raised the slab, there is a hole under it; everyone tries to go down, but orders to raise it, because there is heat below; SS went down, there is SA's wife and that uaig; SS asks the woman to find out where her husband's soul is; uaig: in the middle pillar of the house; SA advises to decorate the pillar and dance around it; under the hearth; decorate the hearth and dance again; in the boar, for which a hundred woodcocks mow hay; in it a roe deer, in it a hare, in it a casket, in the casket three swallows; SS goes to the steppe; the mowers sometimes cry, sometimes sing; they do not have time to mow the hay and the boar devours one of them; SA hid in the hay, killed the boar, the roe deer, the hare and two swallows, in which the courage and power of the uaig; came to the uaig and tore off the head of the one in whom his soul is; the companions lifted the woman; SS tied a log in his place, the companions let go of the rope; in the house of the uaig SS found his mother: one tusk above the heavens, the other in the underworld; threatens to hack her to death if he does not help her return to earth; she points to the ram: if you take the right horn, you will rise to the earth, and the left, you will get to the seventh underworld; SS grabbed the left one and came to the village where the dragon closed the water; gives once a year for a girl, it is the turn of the aldar's daughter; SS dressed up as a girl, the dragon came out of the water, SS chopped it up; aldar reports that an eagle sits on the black mountain and flies to the ground once a year; SS approached the nest; the eagle hatches three chicks a year and each time they are devoured by the Zaliag dragon; the son of the bitch chopped up the dragon; it began to rain, the eagle flies and cries, believing that the chicks have been eaten; then the sun shines: the eagle sees that the chicks are alive, and the sunlight comes from her eyes; then the wind - from her wings; the eagle agrees to carry SS to the ground if he prepares meat and beer; SS cut off the last piece from his leg; on the ground the eagle put it back; SS gave the shepherd a ring and ordered him to show the bride the priest who was getting married that day; she recognized the ring; SS chopped up his companions, took the sister of the Uaigs and brought her to them at the last moment, when they were preparing to slaughter SA (SS fired an arrow, warning that he was already close); on the way home, the devils slipped SA and his wife a bed, they lay down and turned to stone; SS went to the Uaigs for their felt whip and revived the petrified ones with a blow of it; at home he returned youth to Aldar and his wife with the same whip; wedding, feast]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 45: 162-177; Avars [a young man lives with a girl; she goes to visit her father, does not order one room to be opened; he opens it, there is a chained Nart, asks for a drink, the young man gives it , the Nart is freed, flies away, carrying the girl; the young man comes for her, takes her away, the Nart on a wind horse easily catches up, takes her away; for the third time he promises to kill; the young man asks the girl to find out where the Nart's soul is; he says that it is in a broom, she dresses it up; then she says that it is in three eggs in a chest on a tree in the middle of a lake, one can only get there on a wind horse, and his sister has such a horse; the young man goes, along the way he saves ants, bees, and fish; the Nart's sister demands that she graze her horses; the horses go into the ground, but the ants drive them back; the bees drive them back a second time; the Nart's sister gives him a wind horse, the young man destroys the Nart's soul, takes his wife]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 26: 269-271; Georgians [the vizier promises to find a boy indistinguishable from the prince; finds among the Tushin shepherds; the king's wife is afraid that the throne will go to the shepherd's son, the king orders to weave an extra thread into his son's dress; the shepherd's son is offended, both young men leave; gveleshapi surrounds them, orders to bring a girl not born of man, leaves the prince hostage; the son of Tushin comes to the old woman, she throws a tree into the sea, while the waves have receded, orders to grab a reed from the bottom, in it a girl; they are captured by the dev, the son of Tushin gouges out his only eye; gives food and water to the bearded dwarf chained by the dev, he breaks the chains , carries away the girl; the son of Tushin kills veshapi, who once every seven years devoured the chicks of the Paskundzhi bird; the grateful bird brings him to the entrance to the underground forest; he lifts a stone, under it is a foal's bridle and a bottle with the soul of the dwarf; she breaks, the dwarf dies, the foal carries the young man and girl to the ground; gveleshapi turns out to be a girl bewitched by the dwarf; in order to be disenchanted, she had to see a miracle - a girl not born a human]: Chikovani; 1986: 88-94; Armenians (Ararat Valley) [a poor man and his pregnant wife came to the city of Turtamba, but it was too late and the gatekeeper did not let them in; the wife gave birth to a boy; the king had a dream: the one born near the city wall would cut off his head; the king ordered to buy and kill the baby, but the servant moistened the swaddling clothes with the blood of a bird, left the boy under a bush; a doe nursed him; he became incredibly strong; the king's servants managed to catch him with difficulty; his name is Jeyran-oglu; he quickly learned the science; the prince is not allowed into the 40th room, he entered, there is a portrait of a beauty, he went in search, D. is with him; the devas are amazed by D.'s power, they unquestioningly give their sister to the prince; while she sleeps, the prince takes the keys tied to her braids, unlocks the rooms; in one is a white deva, in front of him is pilaf and water, but he can't reach it; the prince unties the chain, the deva pulls up the cauldrons, eats and drinks everything, breaks the chains and carried off the prince's bride; D. went off to take her away, and the devas chained the prince to a post and put a lamp on his head; D. chopped off the head of the white deva, brought the girl, chopped off the heads of five devas, spared two; the king realized that D. was the boy he had dreamed about; he ordered the servant who had spared the boy to be beheaded; D. overhears the conversation of three doves; the king will send a horse for D., who, if he sits on it, will burn; he will be locked in a room with a snake; if a drop of its blood touches his body, D. will turn to stone; D. orders the groom to mount the horse; D. killed the snake, but turned to stone; the prince's wife dreamed that she had to kill her two children and wet a stone with their blood; she did so, D. came to life; [he cut off the king’s legs first, and then his head]: Ioannisian 1968: 136-145.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [Wolf, Lion, Eagle marry three daughters of the deceased shah; their brother Malek-Ahmad hires himself out to a Jew; he feeds him for 39 days, on the fortieth day orders him to slaughter a camel and climb inside; birds carry MA to the mountain; the Jew orders the precious stones to be thrown down and leaves; MA comes to a dirty old woman, washes her; this is the mother of the divs, she asks his sons not to kill him; he opens the forbidden forty-first door; there Yusuf Shah Peri suffers from thirst; MA gives him something to drink, he breaks the chains , gives his seal and flies away to Mount Kof; behind the forty-second door there is a garden and a stream, MA steals the clothes of one of the three dove-maidens; the wife gives birth to two boys, the divs lower them to the ground; the wife asks for her clothes, orders him to come for them to Mount Kof; MA again, unrecognized, hires himself out to a Jew, kills him by throwing a stone at his head from the mountain; the divas forgive him, but do not know the way to Kof; he asks his uncle; it is a wolf who married MA's elder sister; the wolf does not know, sends to his brother the lion (the husband of the middle sister); the lion sends to the eagle (the husband of the youngest sister); the eagle calls the birds; the last to appear is a small bird; he says that his grandmother knows her, but she can no longer fly; the eagle promises to send food to the grandmother; she eats for 40 days; then orders to prepare 40 fat tails of ram and 40 wineskins of sherbet; the meat runs out, MA cuts off a piece of the thigh; having reached the goal, the bird puts the meat back; MA shows Yusuf the seal; Yu. is the brother of MA's wife; he sends his sister, her husband and sons to the land with gifts; without MA there is drought, famine; MA is made shah, abundance comes]: Osmanov 1987: 243-250; Bartangtsy [the king gave his son the keys to 40 treasuries, but did not give him one; the prince stole the keys, found a portrait in the chest, fainted; the king had to let his son go look for the beauty; Vezirbacha ("the vizier's son") caught up with him and went with him; they came to the girl's house; she has 12 brothers, they can't lift the cauldron, V. lifted one; the div brothers came, V. broke their arms; the prince and the divs ate a portion each, and V. 12 carcasses of meat; the divs gave the prince their sister; they gave the keys to 40 rooms, but did not give them one; the prince broke the lock, there is a div on a chain; asks for water ; having drunk the water, he tied the prince with his hair and carried his wife to the next world; V. went in search, ordering them to wait for him for 110 days; as soon as V. left, the divas tied the prince and left; but the lame diva untied him and tied him again by the time they returned; V. ate the bread of that diva's sister, went down into the lake after the diva; there the price of the prince is sought in the diva's beard; V. killed the diva; sent the girl up; when he himself was pulled out, seeing that he was not a diva, they threw him back; V. came to the old woman's house; at night he came out: laughter on one side, crying on the other; the dragon demands a man, a jug of oil and two sacks of bread every morning; it's the turn of the king's daughter; V. fell asleep, putting his head on her lap; woke up from a falling tear; chopped off all 7 heads of the dragon; the dragon became a bridge across the river; the servant said that he killed the dragon, but only V. was able to raise his head; the king gave V. a Simurgh bird; V. sat on one wing himself, and loaded the other with a supply of meat; the Simurgh carried it to the ground, gave it a white feather and a black feather; to be an old man, you have to stick a white one in your head, and a black one in your youth; there was a fight for that girl, V. took her away; the prince did not complain about the div brothers for tying him up; he returned home with V. and his wife; his father went blind; the prince wiped his eyes with a handkerchief and he regained his sight; all is well]: Sokolova 1960, No. 6: 32-40.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Rannu) [dying, a forester bequeaths to his son to take care of the landowner's forest, but not to go to one place; he goes, there little devils are fighting over bast shoes (runners), a hat (he sees everything), a sheepskin coat (makes invisible); the forester shoots, promises to award the things to the one who brings the shot that flew out first; six swans fly by, he, putting on bast shoes, follows them; they bathe in the lake, taking off their feather clothes; he hides the clothes of one, takes him as a wife; they have a son; the wife laughs; promises to tell what, if he shows where her clothes are; tells a funny story about the devil; the husband opens the chest; the wife grabs the clothes, flies away; he comes to an empty house, there is food, drink, goes to bed; six Swans enter; each says that someone ate her bread, slept in her bed; the wife finds her husband in her bed; flies off for her son, tells her husband not to enter one room; he enters, there is an old devil chained up there; asks for water, the forester gives it, the devil drinks three times, breaks the chains , waits for the forester's wife, carries her away; the forester finds, takes the wife, the devil catches up, carries her away again; this happens twice, the third time he kills; earlier the forester picked up and saved a half-dead wolf; now the crows and ravens flocked to peck the forester's corpse, the wolf caught the little crow; he promised to return the crow if he brought living water; he brought it, the wolf revived the forester; the forester's mother sends him to a smart old man living far away; he says that a witch lives overseas, her white mare gives birth to 12 foals every year; there are human heads on the stakes, one stake is empty; if you graze for 3 days, you will get a foal, you need to take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king of horseflies and the king of crayfish will help to graze; the forester does everything, takes his wife away; the devil's horse says that he will not catch up, because his brother is stronger than him; both horses kill the devil, the forester and his wife come home on them]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 14: 78-84; Setu [when leaving, the king orders his son to first give away three sisters and only then look for a bride for himself; he gave the sisters to the king-month, the king-wind and the king-sun; the king returned, and the prince came to the underworld for Helen the sorceress (Nõja-Leena, who is held captive by the devil; she gave him the keys to all the rooms, forbade him to enter one; he entered, the devil was burning there in chains, asked to pour water on him; after the third bucket he broke the chains , took possession of Helen; he will give it back if the prince can graze and drive his cattle back three times; the moon, wind and sun drove them; they had to move away; Helen orders him to pick out a horse that had grown into manure and the ground; when they cleaned it out, it grew wings; another horse warns the devil: stop sleeping, they will leave; the devil caught up, but Leena got rid of him with her magic; the devil to the prince: I will leave you alone if you bring a handful of sand from the cemetery; he took it and carried it, a man comes towards him - the closer he gets, the taller he is; he defeated the devil]: Säärits 2022: 479-491.

Volga - Perm. Marie (meadow) [dying, the father tells Ivan to give three sisters in marriage to the first ones who propose to them; they are taken by Raven, Kite, Hawk; I. finds a portrait of Maria Marievna in his father's chest, leaves to look for her; arrives at the first sister; her husband flies in, sits on three oak trees, they go into the ground, he turns into a man; gives a magic towel, I. leaves his ring, if it turns black, trouble will happen to it; the same with the other two sons-in-law; Kite gives a magic tablecloth, Hawk - a ring; teaches to feed the captured MM suitors first, she keeps them like pigs; locked up with the suitors, I. opens the magic towel, everyone feasts; gives it to MM for permission to touch her breasts; the tablecloth - for permission to touch her hair; ring: MM lies down on the bed, I. kisses her {one must assume, not only}; MM keeps I. with him; MM goes to war, leaves the keys, allows the suitors to be released, forbids unlocking some doors with 12 keys; I. unlocks, there is a 12-headed dragon on chains; asks to give a bottle of green water; drinks, breaks the chains , flies away, carries away MM, giving I. three lives; I. arrives, takes MM away, the horse answers the dragon that we will have time to sow rye, brew beer, drink it, then we will catch up; the dragon catches up, takes away one life (century) and MM; this three times; the fourth time the dragon kills I., lowers him into the sea in a barrel; the rings of Raven, Kite, Hawk turned black; The hawk finds a barrel, fuses the pieces of I.'s body together, the raven revives him with living water; the hawk tells MM to find out from the dragon where he got such a fast horse; brings it to MM; I. overhears the dragon explaining: he was grazing 300 horses of Yaga the lamb; MM gives I. a tablecloth to make a bridge across the sea; I. is a good shepherd, Yaga's daughters persuade their mother to give I. a horse; I. takes MM away again, I.'s horse tells his brother to throw the dragon down, he dies, MM mounts his horse; a wedding, at which I.'s sons-in-law also feast: Chetkarev 1941, No. 9: 160-169; Kazan Tatars [the padishah has three daughters and a son; the son got lost; three horsemen successively promise to take him home if he gives up his sister; the third time he agrees; In the morning the sisters were carried away; the brother goes off in search; comes to the old woman-mother of those horsemen; she shows the way; the sons-in-law are divs, each gives a tobacco pouch; the brother comes to the daughter of the padishah; whoever sees her faints; he unties the first tobacco pouch, tables with food appear; the princess asks to give her a tobacco pouch; when the young man gives the third, he orders his comrade to tie him to the princess; the padishah marries them; orders not to unlock the twelfth room; the young man unlocks it, there is a 12-headed div, asks for water, promises to save from three deaths, breaks the chains and carries away his wife; the young man finds his wife, tells her to find out where the deva's soul is; he meets the deva twice, who takes away his three lives given to him; the wife decorates a broom; a poker; the third time the deva confesses that his soul is in an egg, in a duck, in a chest, on the back of a bull in the sea; the sons-in-law help to grab the bull, get the egg; the young man breaks the egg, the deva dies, the young man takes his wife; then he also destroys the sons-in-law]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 64: 315-321; Bashkirs : Barag1988, No. 56 [a whirlwind successively carries away three daughters of King Garif; his son Akhmet sees a beauty in a dream, they go to look for her, successively stops with the devas - the sisters' husbands; one of them is the master of birds, another - of animals, the third - of water creatures; each gives a handkerchief; Lena the Beautiful (LP) sends A. to prison, where those who came to woo her are sitting; agrees with A. that she will marry him if the four batyrs cannot hold him back and he kisses her; A. loses twice, each time gives LP one of the handkerchiefs; on the third time he kisses, marries; finds the deva Kasim-batyr behind a locked door, gives him something to drink, he twice gives A. 150 years of life, flies away , carries away LP; A. takes LP three times, K. catches up each time, first takes away his gifts, then kills A.; the devas-sons-in-law find out about this, seeing blood in the pipe left by A.; they look for a doctor, only a lame frog gets living and dead water, revives A.; LP hides A., pricks the girl, tells Kasim that she is crying, wanting to know where he got the six-winged stallion, where K.'s soul is hidden; K. answers, A. listens; first K. says that his soul is in a ram, in a broom, LP adorns them; A. spares the wolf, the hawk, the anthill, the pike, the cat; the cat distracts the dogs of the old woman who owns mares; K. got his 6-winged horse from her; the old woman orders the mares to be herded, they scatter, turning into foxes, doves, fish; the wolf, the hawk, the pike drive them back; the old woman scatters poppy seeds and orders them to be collected, the ants collect them, the cat gets what the mouse swallowed; A. chooses a thin foal as payment, this is a 12-winged horse; he carries A. to the island; along the way A. takes a saw from the little devils; saws down a poplar on the island, gets a chest from under it, kills a duck that flies out of it, takes three eggs from it, in them is K.'s soul; kills K., returns home from LP]: 389-402; 1989, No. 11 [{confused text, the narrator confused the plots}; the mole and the crow sowed grain, did not share the harvest, the war of birds and four-legged animals began; the tired bird Samrigush asked the man to take her for fattening; the wife is unhappy, orders to shoot; the man took the gun three times, but did not shoot; three years later S. carried the man to her home; dropped and picked him up three times, so that he too would experience fear; orders to ask the old woman for a copper bridle, a rusty saber and a rug; you need to jingle the bridle, a shabby nag will appear, put the rolled-up rug as a saddle, do not unroll it until you get home; the man unrolled it, there is food in it, but he cannot roll it up and the horse no longer obeys; the old man rolled it up, ordering to give what the man does not know at home; this is his son; he became rich at home; the old man took his son; sewed him up in the horse's corpse; the beast carried him to the river, the young man went out, 12 swan maidens came to bathe, he hid the wings of the youngest Maisarvar; she brought him to the old woman; she orders 1) to uproot the forest overnight, sow, harvest, bake bread; 2) to sew boots with one hand while the straw burns (M. does everything); 3) to tame the horse, tie it to the post (the horse is an old woman); M. teaches which bridle to take, what to beat with; 4) to distinguish M. among the 12 sisters (they write, M. one letter in red); the young man receives M.; she orders not to unlock the 41st room; he unlocks it, there is a giant, asks for a drink, is freed , said that he would take M. away; M. and her husband run, the giant caught up with her, took her away; they run again, 11 sisters chase after them, M. - a haystack, her husband - a wattle fence, the sisters returned; a swineherd and a pig (the giant did not recognize her, but the old woman caught up with her, recognized her, took M. away); the husband goes to look, feeds the bears, wasps, snakes; the old woman orders the horses to graze, the bears, wasps, snakes drive them back; for the work the young man asked for a bridle, a rusty saber, a rug {as in the beginning}; the young man runs again with M., the old woman and the giant became large, M. and her husband - a hen with a rooster, hid the cereal; the husband leaves M. at the edge of the aul; she becomes an old woman, he does not want her; he wants to take another, but M. turned him into a monkey; then freed, the beauty herself, all is well], 42 [a young man hires himself out as a worker to a girl; she forbids opening one of the rooms; there is a dev, asks for bread, water; the young man gives it , the girl returns, when the dev breaks the last chains, lies down on the bed; at first he answers that his soul is in a pillar, in a broom in a bathhouse; the girl orders them to be brought; the dev confesses that in two pigeon eggs in a box at the bottom of the lake, a spider has woven a web over them; the young man goes to look, along the way he saves a bear, a wolf, bees; he hires himself out to graze the sorcerer's horses; the horses scatter, the bear, the wolf, the bees collect them each time; a poor horse orders to ask for him as a reward; the horse dives, the lake is in blood, the young man pulls him out; the next time the water turns white, the horse gets the box from the bottom; young man breaks eggs on deva's body, takes girl as wife]: 74-86, 194-198.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Kazym dialect) [Little-Man-Power lives with three sisters on a sacred cape; at night someone orders the eldest sister to be taken out; the next night the middle one; the youngest; he comes to the royal city, stays with a woman with a seven-fathom braid; the wife leaves the keys, orders not to unlock the eighth barn; he unlocks it, there is a one-eyed sack nailed to a beam; asks to give him water ; drinks, breaks down, carries MMM's wife away; MMM goes to look, successively comes to his sisters; they are married to Wolverine, Bear, Wolf; Wolf gives a ball of thread, you have to go to the sea to get it, on the island is the house of the one-eyed sack; when he falls asleep, you have to cut it with a sword; the wife turns MMM into a needle; MMM cuts the sack; but he still pursues them, cuts MMM into pieces, throws them down; the sons-in-law fish out the pieces in the water, bring them back to life; he comes to his wife again, she turns him into a thimble; the sack sleeps, having become a snake; MMM cuts it up, returns home with his wife on a winged horse]: Steinitz 2014, No. 15: 110-122.