K131D. Seven-league boots. .15.16.21.23.24.27.28.31.32.

A shoe is mentioned, which, when worn, allows the character to quickly cover huge distances.

Portuguese, Italians (Piedmont, Ticino, Abruzzo, Basilicata), Sicilians, Ladins, Maltese, French (Champagne, Upper Brittany), Bretons, English, Germans (Westphalia, Brandenburg/Saxony, Pomerania, East Prussia, Upper Palatinate, Austria), Tibetans (Ghost Tales), Tibetans (Ladakh), Kannada, Tamils, Javanese, Slovenes, Croats, Greeks, Russians (Tersky Bereg, Vologda, Novgorod), Ukrainians (Kherson), Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks, Estonians, Livs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns, East Saami, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Mordvins, Mari, Bashkirs (Yukaghirs, Tetons).

Southern Europe. Portuguese (Algarbe) [a woman has three daughters; the eldest came to a river, saw a carnation in the water, reached for it and disappeared; the same goes for the middle one (rose), the youngest (jasmine); the woman cried, she gave birth to a son; he grew up, began to ask why his mother was crying every now and then; when he found out what was going on, he went off in search; three young men are fighting over their father's inheritance: seven-league boots, an invisibility cap, a key that opens all doors; the young man threw a stone, suggested that the three of them run a race, the fastest would get the items; he put on his boots, took the key and the cap, and ordered the boots to appear where his eldest sister is; she is happy in the castle; her husband arrives in the form of a bird, then becomes a man; gives her brother a feather to call the king of birds for help; the same with the middle sister (the king of fish, gives a scale); but the younger one is in the power of an old monster, he starves her and keeps her in a dark cave, trying to get her to agree to become his wife; the brother advised his sister to agree on the condition that the old man would tell her what his life is; she is in an egg in a dove, and the dove is in an iron chest at the bottom of the sea; the king of the fishes called them together, the last to appear was a sardine: she was crushed by the iron chest; the fishes delivered it, the young man opened it with his key; the dove flew out, the king of the birds ordered the birds to find her; the other dove said that her long-lost friend had flown to her; the young man received the dove, took the egg, ordered the boots to deliver it to the monster's cave, smashed the egg on his head; at that moment the curse fell on the husbands of the two elder sisters, they became people; the monster's treasure went to the youngest]: Braga 2002: 117-121; Italians (Ticino) [someone tramples a meadow at night; a peasant tells his eldest son to guard it, he falls asleep; the same with the middle one; the youngest Vittorino sees three white doves at dawn; they take off their feather clothes, turn into girls, and dance in the meadow; V. hid the clothes of the most beautiful one; she promises to love him; they live in the Sun Castle, where no one has ever been; V. gives away the clothes, and says at home that he slept all night; the fairy returns, there is a wedding; but in the morning she must return to the castle; there she is guarded by the monster Orco; she leaves V. a ring; he goes to look for her; two giants fight for the boots of seven marching orders, the cloak of invisibility, and a sword (its touch revives the dead); they agree to give this to V. so that he will return his wife; V. comes to the old woman, she calls the animals, but no one knows where the Sun Castle is; she sends to her sister, she asks for fish – the same; she – to her elder sister, she calls the birds; the phoenix is ​​late, because it lives far away, in the Sunny Castle; the old woman tells him to take V. there; he meets his wife, kills Orco with his magic sword; revives his wife’s father and brother, whom O. killed; remains to live with his wife in the castle]: Keller 1981: 298-308; Italians(Piedmont: Montferrat) [the son of a poor widow goes to seek his fortune; an old hermit in the forest reports that Destiny comes there once every hundred years; at midnight three girls appeared at a stream, undressed and began to bathe; the young man hid the clothes of the middle one and returned them in exchange for a "libro del comando"; thus Destiny became his wife; he brought her to his mother; one day he was not at home, and his wife asked her mother-in-law to give her the book that her son was hiding - she wanted to go to church with it; having received the book, she told him to look for it on the Island of Happiness, where there is no death; the young man goes in search; three robbers cannot divide the magic tablecloth, seven-league boots and a cloak of invisibility; the young man took possession of the items and arrived at Thunder, who sends Lightning to his brother, Lightning - to the 7 Winds; only Sirocco knows where the Island of Happiness is; on the island the young man enters the room where his wife is; at first he is in an invisibility cloak, then he reveals himself; one day he wants to visit his mother; wife: not two months have passed, but 200 years; wife accompanies him; a skinny old woman pretends that she cannot get up; wife stops: it is Death; a horse fell under a noble gentleman, the man again wants to help; wife: it is the devil! in his native village the man became convinced that on earth one grows old and dies; returned with Destiny to the Island of Happiness]: Comparetti 1875, no. 50: 212-216 (=Kóhler 1900: 412-413); Italians (Abruzzo) [on the way to the sorcerer Filippo, Peppino steals a hundred-mile-long boot and an invisibility cloak from robbers; (then runs away with the sorcerer's daughter)]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971, #310-d: 20; Italians (Basilicata) [a poor fisherman curses everything; a devil rises from the water, promises a rich catch for life if the fisherman gives him a child, who will be born when he turns 13; the fisherman is sure that his wife will not give birth again, promises; Lionbruno is born; at 13 he goes to the shore, makes small crosses out of sticks; the devil demands that they be destroyed, L. the latter does not destroy them, the head of the fairies Colina carries L. away from the devil; raises him to make her a husband; L. wants to go see his parents, K. gives him a ruby ​​that grants wishes, other fairies also give something; L. turns his parents' house into a palace; comes to the city; with the help of the ruby, he wins the competitions three times; the king demands that he take his daughter; L.: my wife is much more beautiful; the king demands to see her; L. turns to the ruby; K. sends her maids one after another in her place; when she arrives, she accuses L. of treachery, he finds her by wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes; three robbers steal the seven-league boots, the inexhaustible purse, and the cloak of invisibility; they ask L. to judge between them; he takes the items and disappears, the robbers continue to fight; L. stays with an old woman, she is Borea, the mother of the winds; she hides him in a chest from her sons; in the morning she makes them promise not to harm L.; Sirocco brings L. into K.'s room, he hides under the bed, drinks coffee, chocolate, and broth, which the maid brings for K.; L. opens, a wedding]: Crane 1885, no. 36: 136-147;Sicilians (Palermo) {=Gozenbach 1870.1, no. 6: 29-30?}; a poor youth is starving; a Greek promises to provide for him well, and that he will only have to work once a year; one day the Greek took the youth to a steep mountain; slaughtered a horse and told him to climb into its skin; an eagle lifted the skin with the youth up the mountain; the youth was supposed to throw stones to the Greek, but seeing that they were diamonds and gold, he guessed about the trap, collected stones and went to look for a place where he could get down; he found some kind of hatch and found himself in the palace of the Sorcerer Savino; he was going to kill and roast the youth: he does this with everyone whom the Greek sends for jewelry; the youth convinced S. that he did not throw a single stone to the Greek; then he took him into service: each time he was to inflict 99 blows with a club on each of the 12 ends; one of the horses says that they were all people too, but S. bewitched them; let the young man hit the ground with a club so that S. could hear the blows, and the horses will neigh; the horse says that in the morning 12 turtle doves fly to the pond, take off their clothes, become girls and bathe; you need to hide the clothes of the most beautiful one; the young man did so, ran and ran home to his mother, the girl after him; the young man warned the mother not to let his daughter-in-law out of the house; but when the young man went to sell the jewelry he brought from the mountain, his wife begged her mother-in-law to give her the hidden clothes, put them on and flew away as a turtle dove; the young man went in search; three robbers ask to divide the items they stole: an inexhaustible purse, seven-league boots, an invisibility cloak; the young man pretends to want to check whether the items are really such, takes everything and disappears; finds himself again at the same pond and steals and immediately burns his wife's dove clothes; the wife promises to stay with him, but he must kill the sorcerer and return the horses to human form - pluck three hairs from each; he does this; it turns out that his wife is the daughter of the King of Spain]: Calvino 1980, No. 164: 591-594; Ladins[the parents have three sons, the eldest Bucobello began to visit the girls; the father decided to discourage him, put on a bull's skin and went out to meet him; B. returned, asked the girls for a pitchfork and, having stuck it into the belly of the monster, threw it into the water; when everything became clear, the local court ordered B. to wander until he got scared, and to spend the night where the sunset caught him; one day B. spent the night under an oak tree, he hears the conversation of three large birds; in a village where there is no water, you need to hit a rock with a hammer, three streams will flow; the owner of the castle is afraid to enter there, because no one who entered ever came back out; there is a giant there, he sleeps from midnight until one in the morning; you need to go into the room where there is a sword on the wall, cut the giant down with a sword; the kidnapped princess is in the White Sea; to return her, you need to appear there invisible; B. got water, got a cart of gold, brought it to his godfather; the same – for killing a giant; B. comes to a woman, she hides him in the basement; when her daughter Tuman comes, she senses a man, but the mother denies it – there is no one; he asks if her daughter knows where the White Sea is; she replies that the Winds know about it (two different winds – the cold northern and the dry wind in the mountains); the northern wind (the same episode with the mother of the wind) does not know; the dry wind orders to show him a man; he says that tomorrow the princess is being married and he is flying there to dry linen; let B. take the mare (she is the last of the 12 horses); the mare turned into an old woman, gave her seven-league boots, an invisibility cloak, a self-assembled tablecloth; B. revealed himself to the princess, imperceptibly for others carried her away; returns with gold and the bride to his place, then lives in the royal palace]: Uffer 1973, No. 36: 140-154; Maltese [dying father blesses his youngest son named Thirteenth (he is a hunchback or Tom Thumb) to be the eldest; he steals the seven-league boots from the ogre; hires himself out to the king; envious brothers persuade him to give T. difficult assignments; an old woman, an old man or a father help to carry them out; 1) steal the ogre's blanket with bells on it; T. hides under the ogre's bed, pours lice, fleas and bedbugs there; the ogre throws off the blanket, T. carries it away; or T. brings the king another blanket; 2) steal the ogre's golden hen with chicks, a magic mare or a silver bell; he feeds the mare or brings the king another; every now and then he rings the bell so that the ogre stops paying attention; 3) steal the cannibal's ring; he grabs T.; T. arranges it so that the cannibal eats not him, but his wife; 4) deliver the cannibal himself; T. arrives unrecognized, offers the cannibal to test the strength of the iron cage in which the enemy is to be placed; he brings the cannibal in the cage, he is burned; with his seven-league boots, T. remains in high esteem in the royal service]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 328: 81-86.

Western Europe. The French (Champagne) [when Prince Gautier is 16, he sees a beggar being given food by a servant; learning that there are poor people, he goes wandering; comes to the cannibal's castle; the cannibal's wife asks her husband to eat G.; he offers him tasks: to divert a river along a different channel (the cannibal's daughter Firjoine does this with her magic wand); to cut down a forest (the same, all the trees fall at once); during a strong wind, cover the surface of a bridge with feathers (the same); F. hears that her father is going to eat G.; leaves two beans in the fireplace to answer for her and G., mounts a mule with him and they gallop away; the cannibal's wife senses that her daughter and G. have run away, but the beans answer for them twice; the third time they are baked and remain silent; the cannibal puts on seven-league boots and sets off in pursuit; F. turned the mule into a garden, G. into a rosebush, herself into a bee; the ogre returned, the wife says it was them; next time into a pole, a tableau, and a Lapon; the same; the third time the wife sets off in pursuit herself; a river, a boat, a duck; the mother knows that the duck is F., threatens to leave her in this form forever; agrees to let G. go; he returns home, and F. soon comes there and becomes a washerwoman; G. falls ill from love, the doctors are helpless; when the washerwoman arrived, she created a river, a boat, and a duck; G. recognized F.; wedding]: Gonzales sa: 25-27; French (Upper Brittany, west. 1879) [dying, the mother orders her three sons to hire themselves out only in the house that will take all three; the name of the eldest is La Perle (LP); Late in the evening the brothers found themselves in the forest and came to the cannibal's house; they begged his wife to take them in, although she warned them that her husband would come and eat them all; LP was awake and heard the cannibal promising his wife to eat them that very day; changed the hats on the cannibal's three sleeping daughters and on the brothers; the cannibal slaughtered his daughters; LP advised him to fatten him and his brothers now, because they were very skinny; the cannibal decided to fatten them for 8 days; LP heard the cannibal telling his wife: if only they knew that I had seven-league boots, a wish-fulfilling wand; LP waited until the cannibal fell asleep, climbed through the chimney and took away the boots and the wand, as well as the moon, which served as a lantern; put the brothers on his back and rushed off, putting on his boots; in the morning the cannibal put on another pair of boots and rushed after them; LP creates a mountain behind him with the power of his wand; the ogre goes around it; LP creates a river, the ogre stops chasing; the brothers settle in the city and, thanks to the wand, have as much money as they want; the brothers envied LP and stole his boots and wand, LP was left with only the moon; LP went searching and met two thieves; they called him to them: his moon would come in handy; they came to the castle where the enchanted princess was; the brothers were there, they had almost disenchanted her and gave her to LP; the thieves left, having collected treasures, and LP gave them the moon as a farewell gift; three monsters came, wanting to roast LP on a spit; but LP destroyed the monsters with his wand, and finally disenchanted the princess and married her]: Sébillot 1880, no. 19: 131-139; French(Upper Brittany) [a north-east wind blew all the apple blossoms off a man; the man threatened him and thought it had helped when the wind died down a bit; showed him his behind, but the wind knocked the man down; made a fire to scorch the wind, but his household burned down, leaving only a wardrobe and a bed; the man went to look for the wind; on the mountain there are 7 huts and a castle in which the winds live; the man cut off the north-east wind's ear; it gave him a donkey that scatters gold, a magic tablecloth, a magic wand, seven-league boots; when the man died, he left his sons the donkey, the tablecloth, and the wand, and ordered the boots to take him to heaven]: Sébillot 1894, no. 20: 182-183; Bretons [Allanic was a beggar with his mother, and when he grew up, he went wandering; met a young man like himself, Fistilou; made a pipe out of straw, and F. danced, so they earned money; bought a violin, but people did not like playing it; came to the castle of the cannibal Goulaffre; his two daughters and wife liked him; G. brought a dead man, ate him; at night he gave the youths red caps, and the daughters white; A. overheard that G. was going to eat them; changed the caps; G. cut off the heads of the daughters; the youths ran away; G. pursues them, putting on seven-league boots; when he fell asleep, the youths took them off him, ran away, came to the king; F. envies A., says that he can get more game than the prince; A., thanks to his boots, got a lot of game; he is in favor with the king and the prince; F. tells everyone about the seven-league boots of Alanic; The king orders A. to get the half moon and the keg of gold stolen from him by Gulyafrom; the moon hangs on G.'s tower and shines at night; A. sneaked in, stole it, and brought it to the king; now the king demands the gold as well; having received special scissors, A. cut the chains on which the keg of gold hung; it fell on the sleeping G., who woke up and grabbed A.; A. advised to put him in a sack and beat him with a tree trunk, and only then cook him; G. walked away, A. began to shout that he was a poor father of a family, and wanted to take some brushwood to cook food, but G. grabbed him; G.'s wife heard, released A., and he put her in his place; G. beat her to death with a tree, and A. took the gold and gave it to the king; now the king demands G. himself; A. orders a carriage to be made with a heavy golden box that will slam shut behind anyone who climbs into it, and with nails sticking out inside; A. arrives to G. unrecognized; says that A. has also done him harm, invites G. to climb into the golden box – he will take him to A.; G. climbs in, the hatch slams shut, A. brings G. to Paris; the box is lined with wood, set on fire, G. burns; A. marries the king's daughter, appoints F. a general, forgiving him everything]: Luzel 1870: 1-21; Bretons[when Prince Victor was born, the old woman said that when he turned 200 he would leave home; the king ordered to watch him, but he rode away secretly; he rode to the castle, there was a pond nearby, three girls were swimming in it, he hid their clothes; they asked to return; the youngest, Victorine, fell in love, promised to help, ordered to do everything as she said; a giant came out; he would give his daughter if V. fulfilled his orders; in one day, scoop out a pond with a sieve (Victorinus gives a ring: throw it into the pond and say: water one way, fish the other; chop down a forest with a wooden axe (the same: trunks one way, branches the other); in two hours, get a vessel from the top of a tower with a golden bird; Victorinus: chop it into pieces, make a ladder out of its bones, climb up the tower by it; when you get down, put all the bones together properly and blow; V. forgot his little toe; identify the bride in a dark room among her sisters; found out by feeling her toes; V. got a wife, a month later they decided to run away; at night, Victorinus stole the magic boots, but accidentally took the seven-league ones, not the fourteen-league ones; Victorinus cut off her hair and left her in the bedroom to answer for her; the giant is chasing; they hid in a hole in the bushes, he ran past; the next time they ran to the chapel; V. became a priest, Victorinus one of the choirboys; when the giant asked if the priest had seen the fugitives, he replied Dominus vobiscum; the next time they became a rooster and a hen among others in the village; a partridge and a hunter in a rye field; the giant turned into a kite, but V. shot it; the couple arrived at V.'s parents]: Postic 1998: 231-238; Bretons[Bayard, the son of the King of France, went on a journey; with him is his servant Izanik; one day he took aim at a she-boar with 9 little pigs; he heard a voice: I am a woman; you will either marry me or die; B. climbed an oak tree, but the she-boar tore it out by the roots; B. does not know what to do; the she-boar with the little pigs locked herself in the stable; there was a strange noise from there; B. peeped through a crack: instead of a stable, there was a luxurious hall and a beauty on the throne, with her 9 maids of honor; now B. is counting the hours until the wedding; but the woman says that by peeping, he broke the agreement, and now let him look for her between the blue and black seas, and between them are three gold and three silver chains; one day B. entered an empty hut; when the giant entered, he hid under the bed; the giant: today I got seven-league boots! the second entered: he got an invisibility cloak; third: a sword, from the blow of which 5000 warriors perish; the giants fell asleep, B. took the miraculous objects; arrived at a 200-year-old woman; she does not know where the black and blue seas are, sends to her 300-year-old sister, orders him to call himself her son; she believes that he is her nephew; January enter, then February, then March; they also believe that B is their relative; March calls the birds; the last to appear was a jay: tomorrow the princess between the black and blue seas is to marry the Turkish king; March orders the jay to show the way, puts B. on his back and brings him there; the princess does not see B., grieves that he is not there; he reveals himself; kills the Turk and his warriors with his sword; B. and the princess take the Turk's castle for themselves, I.'s servant marries one of the ladies-in-waiting]: Postic 1998: 324-332; Englishmen[in Cornwall, a peasant's son, Jack, promised to get rid of a giant who lived on an island; Jack dug a pitfall-trap, the giant fell through, he killed him and brought treasure; the giant Blandebor promised revenge; brought Jack to his castle, went after another giant, Jack threw ropes around their necks and killed them; freed the girls; spent the night with a two-headed giant; at night he put a log in his place on his bed; the giant beat him with a club; in the morning Jack said that during the night a rat touched him with its tail; the giant offered to eat a pood bowl of pudding, Jack put the pudding in a sack under his clothes; in the morning he ripped it open; the giant tried to do the same, his intestines fell out, he died; the prince bought the dead man from the creditors, and Jack hired himself out to the prince; told the three-headed giant that a king with a thousand warriors was coming against him, locked him up, and when he let him out, he received as a reward an invisibility jacket, a hat that would tell everything, seven-league shoes, a sword that would cut everything; the prince proposes to the princess; she orders him to find her handkerchief, otherwise she will execute her; a spirit friend carries her to Lucifer; invisible Jack flies after him, takes the handkerchief, the prince shows it in the morning; the princess demands to see the lips she kissed in the morning; Jack cut off Lucifer's head, the evil spirit left the lady and she married the prince; Jack kills other giants, frees the captives; saws through the supports of the bridge, the giant pursuer falls into the ditch, D. finishes him off; the giant Galligantua turned the Duke's daughter into a doe; D. blows his horn, disenchants the birds and animals turned into birds and animals; [marries the duke's daughter]: Shereshevskaya 1957b: 124-134 (=Kharitonov 2008: 191-197; Germans (von Haxthausen family, probably Westphalia) [the queen lowered the cradle with her newborn daughter into the sea; she sailed to the island, the ogress raised the girl for her son, hiding Okerlo from her husband; the prince arrived on the island, the ogress found him with the girl and promised to roast her son for the wedding; at night the girl heard that O. wanted to eat the prince immediately; took the golden crown from one of O.'s children, put it on the prince; O. ate his child; the girl and the prince run in seven-league boots; the bean says that the ogress is pursuing them in the same boots; the girl turned the prince into a pond, herself into a swan; the ogress returned, but O. explained that she had been tricked; the girl had turned herself and the prince into a cloud of dust (ditto); a rose bush in the girl's mother's yard and a bee; the ogress had gone, but the magic wand with which the transformations were carried out had remained too far away, and the girl could not return herself and the prince to human form; the bee stings everyone who tries to pick a rose; the queen herself slightly broke a branch, blood flowed; the queen called a fairy, who disenchanted the lovers; the wedding]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 222: 614-615; Germans(Brandenburg/Saxony - Mark) [a woman has 8 sons and a daughter; she did not have enough to do with her sons and wished that they would be swans for 4 hours and then people again for 2 hours; the swan sons flew away; the mother died; the sister went to look for her brothers; she came to the mother of the wind; she hid her in a barrel, otherwise her son would come and eat her; she cooked a rooster - it smelled; the wind smelled her, but did not eat her, advised her to go to the moon, giving her seven-league boots - they will come back on their own; the mother of the moon has the same thing; he told the sun to go to a glass mountain, and to climb it, he gave her rooster bones; the girl made a ladder out of them; the last crossbar was not enough, she cut off her little finger, it became a crossbar; at the top there is a house, in it are beds with feather beds made of swan feathers; the girl hid in the bed of the youngest; her brothers found her; they explained how to disenchant them; one must, keeping silence, weave 8 shirts in 8 months; the brothers made a shelter for her in a tree; the king's dogs smelled her; the king ordered her to come down or he would shoot her; he married her; when the king went off to war, his wife gave birth; his mother took the child into the forest and smeared the mother's mouth with blood, as if she had eaten the baby; the same thing a second time; the third time the king ordered his wife to be taken into the forest; her servant spared her, bringing the liver and heart of an animal; the queen found her children, they were nursed by wild animals; one day the king came there; at that time he was 8 years old, the mother said to her son: here is your father; the brothers acquired human form; the queen mother was torn apart by two oxen]: Kuhn 1843, no. 10: 282-289; Germans(Pomerania) [having returned from afar, the king ordered the fisherman to immediately bring him some vendace; he replied that they did not have any, but the king did not want to listen; the fisherman cast his net, but there were no vendace; someone came up and promised to help the fisherman out if he promised in 14 years to give him what he did not know at home; and let him sign in blood; the fisherman brought the vendace and learned that his wife had given birth to a son, and the queen had given birth to a daughter; having learned what the matter was, the king refused to eat the fish and ordered it to be thrown back into the sea; the fisherman's son grew up in the castle as a prince; having learned that he had promised the devil, the youth burst into tears; but a tiny man came, gave him a book and said that it would help; the devil carried the youth away hundreds of miles; demanded that he throw away the book, threatened to throw it into the sea, but he did not throw it away; and when they landed, the youth drew the sign of the cross in the sand so that the devil could not move; he had to give a receipt and write another one that he had no power over the youth; the devil flew away, and the youth walked across the plain; after 6 days he saw a hillock and a door; an old man in the room; he was ready to receive the youth, but when going out onto the hill, he should keep to the left and not turn to the right; but he was tired of this; the old man warned that death awaited him to the right; the youth nevertheless went, an iron gate was in front of him; it was as if someone's hands lifted him and he found himself in a room; everything he wanted immediately appeared; in the evening a black woman entered and disappeared; at 11 three dwarfs entered, told the youth to play cards with them; he did not react; then they began to play with him like with a ball, and at midnight they disappeared; the youth woke up when the sun was already high; on the second day - the same thing; the woman turned half white; Until 12 the youth was chopped and cut, and then he became whole again; on the third evening the woman became three-quarters light; they spoke to the youth in his father's voice, but he understood that it was all the devil; the same - his mother; he woke up in the royal bedchamber; the disenchanted princess threw herself on his neck; one day the youth wanted to go home to bring his parents; wife: here is a white horse, it will gallop, but it can carry only one person - leave the parents where they are now; the horse flew above the clouds; the parents did not recognize their son; when he was revealed, he also met the king; he arranged a parade; but the young king told the old one that his kingdom was much larger, and his wife was incomparably more beautiful than the king's daughter; the wife warned him not to tell anything, but the king violated her order and was now thrown into prison; he asked the children to bring his white horse, but it was not there; but then the old king received a letter from the young man's wife: let her husband go, otherwise the city will be turned to ashes; seeing the young king's wife and her warriors, the old king realized that the young man had spoken the truth; the wife had disappeared, leaving her husband with iron shoes and a staff: he would find her when he wore them out; in the forest he came across three people who were dividing up an inheritance: an invisibility cloak, seven-league boots, and a hat that shoots silently; the king put on the cloak, took everything, and disappeared; he came into the house,there is the mother of the Cannibal Moon; they had supper; then to the Sun; on the third evening to the Wind; he knows where the kingdom of the king's wife is; she is now celebrating a new wedding; they immediately flew in and the wind made a terrible storm; the queen sent a craftsman to repair the towers; the king agreed with him that he would give him work in the queen's room; when the newlyweds entered, the king began to beat them, remaining invisible; the groom decided that the devil was there and ran away; the king revealed himself to the queen; the wedding took place, but they]: Jahn 1891, No. 54: 281-298;Germans (East Prussia) [a broom maker caught a bird in the forest and brought it back; the king came in and saw an inscription under the bird's wing: whoever ate the heart would become king of England; whoever ate the liver would find three ducats under his head in the morning; the man refused to sell the bird; then the king promised to marry his daughter on the condition that he would be served roast bird at the feast; but the bride's two younger brothers looked into the kitchen; one ate the heart and the other the liver; when they came home from church, the king saw that the main one was gone and left in a rage; the brothers ran away and came to an inn; in the morning the innkeeper's wife found three ducats under one of his pillows; the innkeeper invited the boys to stay and live with him; he became rich; the elder brother dreams that he needs to go to England; the innkeeper is honest, tells about the ducats, gives the brothers money; they part ways at a fork in the road; the elder brother reaches England; the old king dies there; they decided to make a new unknown youth; so the elder brother became king; the younger one met two women who were arguing over an invisibility cloak; asked them for it, put it on, and disappeared; at another crossroads he took seven-league boots from two other old women; in the garden he tried cabbage and became a donkey; he tried another and became a man; he married a princess; at a feast the cook, the cook's wife, and the maid accidentally tried that cabbage and turned into donkeys; a maid of honor came down to the kitchen; the princess followed her; they also tried cabbage and became donkeys; then the young man turned everyone into people by giving them another cabbage]: Lemke 1887, No. 45: 221-226; Germans(origin of text not specified) [an old woman predicts to a childless king that he will have a son, but he will disappear in the 12th year; when Ferdinand is 12 years old, he goes with his parents to a wedding, chases a deer, loses his way; an old woman appears, offers to carry him, carries him across the river to her house; she has 3 daughters, the youngest is Lenore; after some time the old woman orders 1) to scoop out the lake with a spoon (L. drains it); 2) to turn the forest into firewood (L. does); 3) to build a palace not of wood, brick or stone (L. builds from gold and silver); 3) to choose a bride from among the old woman's three daughters (L. has a spot of blood on her forehead); at night L. turns 2 pillows into the likeness of people, the young people run, the old woman hits the pillows with an axe; the middle sister is chasing, L. turns herself into a mug of beer, F. into a mug lid, orders to hit her sister on the teeth; the eldest sister (a cherry tree and a thorny bush, the thorns scratched); an old woman is chasing, L. turns herself and F. into two ducks, they swim across the river; the old woman sends her daughter a dowry in three boxes across the river; the prince leaves L. to prepare a reception at her father's castle; L. orders not to kiss anyone, the old nurse kisses, F. forgets everything; L. has become a city dweller, three of the prince's servants come to her in turn; she asks the first to close the door, he sticks to the hook; the second - to the dustpan by the stove; the third - to the calf in the yard; the king marries the prince, the wedding carriage breaks down near the house where L. is; she gives the door boards to repair the carriage, asks to take her to the wedding too; puts on the first dress from the dowry given by her mother; the young woman gives F. up for the night in exchange for a dress, but puts F. to sleep; the next day a carriage shaft breaks, L. gives her his shovel; the same; on the third day only that calf moves the carriage; the servant told F. everything, he waits for L., but she accuses F. of forgetfulness, retreats to the castle between the earth and the sky; F. goes in search; two giants argue over seven-league boots; F. suggests that they run a race, runs away himself in the boots; the same two other giants, an invisible coat; the third - a saddle that carries through the air; F. ends up with the mother of the Moon, the mother of the Sun, the mother of the Wind; only the Wind knows where the castle is - he was drying the linen there, washed before the wedding; F. appears before L.; her new groom himself says that if the old keys are found, new ones are not needed; F.'s wedding with L.]: Tserf 1992: 53-76; Germans(Upper Palatinate) [the gardener's son Hans went on a journey; he saw a castle deep in the forest; a woman in black served him supper, showed him a bed and went away; at night a black man came and began to torment H.; in the morning the woman was in gray, the next night H. was tormented by two men; on the third morning the woman came out in white, begged him to endure the third night; Hans was beaten and tormented by three men, but in the morning the princess was disenchanted; H. married her; he wanted to visit his father; the princess gave him a ring to summon her if trouble happened; H. appeared in the guise of a prince, the king gave a ball in his honor; but the guests did not allow their wives to dance with H., for he was too handsome; then H. summoned his wife with a ring, in order to amaze everyone with her beauty; in the morning H. woke up alone, next to him were his old clothes and a pair of iron boots; his wife wrote that she was leaving him as punishment, and if he wanted to see her again, he must wear out the iron boots; G. went in search and saw three people arguing over the possession of an inexhaustible purse, seven-league shoes and an invisibility cloak; G. promised to settle the dispute, but first asked permission to try out the items; took them and disappeared; sees a running man - it is the wind, which is hurrying to dry the laundry of the princess, who is having a wedding; G. overtakes him, gives him the end of a rope, let him hold on to it and fly with it; in the tavern G. learned that the princess was to choose a husband tomorrow; stood invisible behind the altar and knocked the book out of the priest's hands; gave the groom a slap in the face, he flew away; at the feast, remaining invisible, began to give all the food to the beggars; dropped a ring, a servant picked it up and gave it to the princess, since her name was on it; she recognized G.; he showed his iron boots - they were not worn out yet; wedding]: Schönwerth 1981: 20; Germans(Austria) [the queen does not want children; when the king has left and she has given birth, she tells the maid to lower the box with the baby into the water; she told her husband that little Ferdinand had died; a fisherman caught the boy, he grew up; in the forest, while hunting, a figure in white comes to him and tells him to go to the King of Spain, for he is a prince, and not a fisherman's son; the figure gives him a ring; as long as it is on his finger, everything will be fine; he must not take it off for three years; F. comes to Spain and lives with the king as a prince; there are many beautiful ladies there; when three years are already up, F. has almost taken off the ring; a figure in white appears: what have you done? when F. went into the garden and fell asleep, the figure took the ring off him; he immediately changed, instead of a luxurious outfit he is wearing rags; he went wandering; three giants fight over a cap, cloak and boots; the one who owns them becomes invisible and moves any distance; F. suggests a competition with giants to see who can reach the top of the mountain faster, and he himself flies away invisible; comes to the Wind's house; his wife hides him, but the Wind senses him; he has done no harm; he is in a hurry to Portugal for the wedding of a princess who has lived in the forest for a long time; F. asks to be taken with him; at the wedding, the invisible F. takes food from the groom-prince; beats him when he dances with the princess; when F. and the princess are alone, she recognizes F.; calls the courtiers; I lost the old key, ordered a new one, and now I have found the old one; everyone replies that the old one must be used; the princess marries F.]: Latzenhofer 1906, No. 4: 113-116; Germans (Austria or Bohemia) [the city is destroyed, the soldiers brought the abandoned boy to the king; he raised him; the young man took a drum, knew how to wander; in the forest he saw a den of robbers; they did not notice him; he beat the drum, the robbers decided that soldiers were coming, they ran; {then in pdf skip page}; three devils fight over a bag {with what?}, seven-league boots and an invisibility cloak; the young man throws money, they run after it; he takes the magical objects and disappears; comes to an old woman, she has three princesses; the young man asks for the youngest; the old woman demands that he complete the assignments, otherwise she will execute; 1) saw down and chop down the forest with a saw and an axe made of glass; the princess brought him food; told him to lie down; warned him not to get into the old woman's cart; she is fiery and will take him to hell; when the old woman arrived, the work is done; 2) prepare hay with a scythe and a rake made of glass (same); 3) to tear down a glass mountain with a glass shovel and pickaxe, to build a castle hanging in the air, and to make a roof out of the feathers of all the birds (ditto); the princess leaves the spits to answer for her, runs away with the youth; when the spits stop answering, the old woman puts on 30-mile boots, sets off in pursuit; the princess turns the youth into a pond, herself into a fish; the old woman starts drinking and bursts; the youth and the princess return to his parents]: Vernaleken 1889, No. 50: 287-293.

Tibet - North-East of India. Tibetans : Yondon 1989 [translation of Indian sources]: 52; Waddell 1931 [(one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs give out water only in exchange for human sacrifice; the prince and his friend kill the frogs, who order them to be eaten, they will burp up turquoise, gold; the innkeeper and her daughter get them drunk so that they burp up more gold; the friends take away, supposedly resolving their dispute, the invisibility cap from the children, the seven-league boots from the demons; the prince is elected king, the friend - minister; the prince marries the daughter of the former king; the minister watches as the prince's wife comes to the old fortress for a date with Togkarko, who flies in the form of a bird; the minister lures the bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet, rolled on which he turns into a donkey and back into a man; puts it under the innkeepers; three years later the king orders to turn exhausted donkeys back into women]: 187-192 (=Shelton 1925, no. 23: 94-102); Tibetans (Ladakh) [in Lake Kokonor there are two frogs: Sebal, a golden frog and Yurbal, a turquoise frog; they would only allow people to take water if they sacrificed a human being to them once a year; it was the royal family's turn; the lama drew lots: it turned out that the crown prince Jigme had to be sacrificed; the prince had a friend, a poor man, Wangdus; they agreed that the one who woke up earlier in the morning would jump into the water; at night they heard the frogs talking: if both young men attack us together, they will kill us, I will regurgitate gold, and you will regurgitate turquoise; if they swallow it, they will regurgitate gold and turquoise themselves; everything happened just like that; the friends set out on a journey; two young men are in the village square they are fighting over the invisibility cap; V.: whoever reaches the chorten first gets the cap; V. put it on himself; showed it to the prince when the lads had left; in another village the same (seven-league boots; everyone put one on one foot); the king died, the princess will marry the one who is hit by the Stroma (a figure from sattoo) she throws; the Stroma hits the tree under which the prince and V. were sleeping; the people do not know which of them should have the throne; the one who gets the greater wealth; one burps gold, the other turquoise; they chose a prince, he made his friend prime minister; in seven-league boots and an invisibility cap V. ran around the country and reported everything to the king; Jigme reigned for a long time]: Metha 1975: 32-38.

South Asia. Kannada [a king and a minister prayed to Shiva to give them children; the wives became pregnant; the king and the minister agreed to marry the children if one had a boy and the other a girl; the minister's wife gave birth to a girl, and the rani gave birth to a tortoise; when the tortoise son grew up, he ordered his father to woo the minister's daughter for him; the daughter agreed, but the groom had to bring her the celestial flower parijata; the tortoise ordered it to be taken to the sea, swam to the mountains, addressed the Sun, became a youth; the Sun told him that in his past life the tortoise had been a prince and out of mischief had thrown the tortoise at the hermit; but immediately repented; so the hermit ordered him to remain a tortoise in his new life until he addressed the Sun in that very place; now the prince went to look for the flower; the first hermit refers him to his guru, the latter to his own; this one pointed out the lake where the celestial maidens come to bathe; you have to grab one sari and run without looking back to the temple of Ganesha; the prince did so; he returned the sari to the maiden, and she brought a flower from the sky; they met; she gave the prince a flute to call her when needed; one of the hermits offered to exchange the flute for a stick that makes you give up anything; the prince exchanged, and then ordered the stick to take the flute back; from the second hermit the prince took the bag in the same way, where everything fits, if you order it, and from the third - the seven-league sandals; the prince returned in the form of a turtle and gave the flower; the minister's two eldest daughters married normal men, the youngest - a turtle; the eldest sons-in-law go hunting; the turtle was also put on a nag; left alone, he turned into a prince; the eldest sons-in-law ran away from the tigers; the prince killed the tigers, gave them to his sons-in-law, for this he cut off their whiskers on the left; [at night the prince slept with his wife in his true form; in the morning he appeared to the people, showing his cut off moustache; the king handed over the throne to him]: Ramanujan 1997, no. 71: 193-198; Tamils[a sage predicts to a childless king that he will have two sons, but first he will lose his kingdom, although in the end his sons will help him; enemies drive the king out of the city, he and his wife serve in a rich house; the mistress takes care of the eldest, and then the younger boy; they decide to leave to earn their own living; in the forest they see an unusual mango fruit, they hide it in the portion of rice they took with them; a hermit waited a hundred years for the fruit to fall, and then went away to bathe; he believes that the boys did not take the fruit; explains that whoever eats the pulp will become king, and from the lips of whoever eats the stone, jewels will fall every time he laughs; the eldest ate the pulp, the younger - the stone; after the death of the king, the new one will be the one on whom the elephant hangs the garland; the elephant goes into the forest, hangs it on the eldest boy; the younger decided that a wild elephant had killed his brother; the younger stayed at the house of a dancer and her mother; when they learned about the falling jewels, they gave him an emetic and, having seized the bone, threw him out; he saw a dying saint, who had a bag that gave whatever you asked for, a cup that contained any food, a club that would defeat everyone, sandals that would walk in seconds; the disciples began to argue over the miraculous objects, went to look for a judge; the young man took the objects, the saint blessed him from the grave; the dancer's mother pretended that she accidentally closed the door in front of the young man that time; he asked the bag for a palace; he told the women everything; they suggested that he visit a temple on an island, left him there, taking the miraculous objects; there is a tree with four kinds of fruit that turn you into a monkey, a kite, an old woman and then back into a young man; having become a vulture, he returned to the dancer's palace, gave them fruits, the dancer became a monkey, and her mother a vulture; the youth took the magic objects; came to his brother's city, they recognized each other; threw a club at his father's enemies, returned the kingdom to him]: Natesa Sastri 1886: 120-139.

Malaysia - Indonesia. Java [a poor brushwood collector has 7 children; he decides to leave them in the forest; the youngest Wuragil overhears his parents' conversation, collects pebbles in advance, throws them along the way, brings his brothers and sisters back; next time he throws corn grains, pigeons peck them; the children come to an old woman; in the evening her cannibal husband appears; W. hears them agreeing to eat those who have come: their own children will be under tiger skins, and those who have come under ram skins; W. changes skins, the cannibal eats his own children; W. takes his seven-league boots, runs away with his brothers and sisters; thanks to the boots, he wins a running competition, gets a princess, soon becomes king; visits his parents; his mother recognizes him by the bump on his head – she once hit him]: Kratz 1973, no. 17: 111-114.

Balkans. Slovenes [a lord orders a fisherman to catch fish in three days for a feast he is throwing; the fisherman catches nothing; a man in green promises a rich catch in exchange for a promise to give him something the fisherman does not know at home; he will come for his promise in 20 years; the fisherman agreed and immediately caught some fish; the man in green warned that the fisherman had promised him a son; having finished his training, the young man orders his father to come with him to the shore and when he steps with one foot into the green man's boat, to say "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!"; after this the boat with the green man and the young man disappeared; they found themselves in the city of Perdonkorten ("Wundergarten"); in the castle a snake orders him to kiss it, he in turn orders it to disappear; the next night - the same thing, the snake has two heads; on the third - three-headed, he kisses it, it turns into a girl; After this, the castle and the town are disenchanted, the owner of the castle (and he is the girl's father) and the people greet the young man; he began to miss home, decided to visit his father; his wife gave him a ring that will allow him to be transported to his father and back; if he tells others about the ring, it will disappear; on earth, the lord wants to give the young man one of his two daughters; the young man tells them about the ring; they put him to sleep and steal the ring; after 5 years, the young man decides to go to Perdenkorten without the help of the ring; he comes to a woman, she has three dangerous brothers; the young man calls himself by the name of their missing fourth brother; they have seven-league shoes, an invisibility cloak, a hat that breaks through any obstacle; he asks permission to put all this on, disappears, comes to the house of the sun; his servant is there; the sun has returned, says that he does not know about Perdenkorten, tells him to turn to the moon; she also does not know, sends her to the wind; he says that tomorrow he will cool with a breeze those gathered for the wedding of the local princess; thanks to his miraculous objects, the youth follows the wind through all obstacles; remaining invisible, the youth throws down on the floor the church books that the chaplain had laid out for the wedding; the previous wedding is broken off, the princess marries the youth; narrator: they gave me wine in a sieve and bread in a glass and one on the back with a shovel; after that I left]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 58: 301-312; Croatians(Austria) [a boy was tending sheep, one got lost, he went to look for it, got lost, came to an unfamiliar house; there is a woman: we will feed you, but you can’t stay overnight, my husband is a vampire; she hid the boy, the vampire smelled him; agrees not to eat him if he completes the tasks; mow a giant meadow in a day, collect hay in haystacks (the vampire’s youngest daughter does everything); scoop out a pond with a sieve, collect and salt 5 barrels of fish (ditto); the girl warns: the father will ask him to choose a wife from his 9 daughters; she will have a ring in her ear; the girl: we must run at night; I will steal my father’s boots; put them on and say first “seven miles”, and then “a hundred miles”; the mother catches up (she has her own boots, they don’t fit her husband); the girl turned the young man and herself into a horse and a mare; the mother did not recognize her, returned; the vampire sent her again; turned into a thorny bush and another plant; a chapel and a priest; they ran up, got married, had children]: Neweklowsky, Gaál 1983, no. 17: 83-97; Greeks [in the morning the princess's shoes are worn out; the king promises his daughter in marriage to the one who reveals the secret, executes the losers; a poor man sees three people arguing over magical objects (an invisibility cap, seven-league boots, a staff, a sword); offers to give them to the winner, takes them himself; with their help he follows the princess, takes evidence of what he saw, presents it upon his return, marries the princess (many variations)]: Megas 2012, no. 306: 34-35; Greeks (Lesbos) [a husband and wife have 7 children, but nothing to eat; they decide to take them into the forest; The youngest, who was about a vershok tall, heard this, picked up some river pebbles and threw them along the way; the children returned over the pebbles; the next time the youngest took a piece of bread and threw crumbs, but the birds pecked them up; the brothers saw the light and came to the dragon; when the dragon returned, he told his wife to roast the children the next day; at night the youngest exchanged the crowns on the heads of the ogre's daughters for the caps of his brothers; the ogre came and hacked the daughters to death instead of the boys; in the morning the dragon put on seven-league boots, set off in pursuit, but fell asleep on the way; the youngest boy took off his boots, put them on himself, returned to the dragon's wife and said that her husband told her to give the messenger all the gold and silver; the brothers returned to their parents]: Kretschmer 1919, No. 14: 50.

Central Europe. Russians (Tersky Coast) [a peasant has three sons, he built a new house, sends his sons to sleep in it - what a dream they will see; the eldest, middle one see firewood - good; the youngest, how a fox jumped out from under the stove, and a snake from under the bed and bit off his leg; refused to tell; his father sold him to a merchant, he did not tell the merchant either; the merchant sold him to the tsar, the tsar put him in prison; was going to get married; the tsar's sister: the prisoners are released for the wedding; the lad was released; two argue over an invisible godmother, seven-league boots, a hospitable tablecloth; the lad suggests running a race, puts on the invisibility, takes everything, is transported to the ship on which the tsar was sailing overseas to his bride; the bride sends to string the bow, Ivan Tsarevich {= the tsar} is unable to, the lad invisibly strings it, the bow breaks; bride: we will sew half a dress, you sew the same, otherwise your head will be off; the guy stole the finished half, had to sew a new one, I. has the same as the bride; the same shoes, ring; the guy returned the magical items to those two, returned to prison; they released him for the wedding, the witch-bride found out, cut off his leg with a sabre; the guy to the king: here is my dream, your fox sister helped, and the snake-bride cut off his leg; he is on one leg in the forest to a hut, and there is a blind man, legless and a girl-cook; every day Baba Yaga comes to her to suck her tits; they grabbed Baba Yaga, forced her to give her living and dead water, return her legs and eyes, pushed her into a well, she died, and they were cured; he returned to the king, he is grazing mares, they swapped dresses; all the mares came running to the stall; the king's wife is surprised: if the husband doesn't kiss every mare under the tail, they won't come back, and here they've broken all the stalls; the guy came and started beating her, she was wrapping herself in all sorts of creatures, and when he broke her with a spindle, he broke her - there's a pile of gold on one end, and a beautiful maiden on the other; to the king: now you'll have a wife, and before she wasn't a wife, but a snake; from the king he went to his father, and his bull is tied up, no one can even kill him; he killed him with his fist and never went anywhere else]: Balashov 1970, No. 54: 186-192; Russian(Vologda) [a peasant asks his three sons what they dreamed about last night; one was visiting his mother-in-law, the other - at a tavern; Fyodor answers that nothing, since the dream said: if you do not tell your dream, then you will receive happiness and a kingdom; the father sold F. to the master; he did not tell either the master or the tsar; the tsar put him in prison; he himself went to the ends of the earth to fetch Elena the Beautiful; F. begged the tsar's sister to release him, promised to return by the time the tsar returned; to the tsar's sister: pick 11 more young men like me, go to Elena the Beautiful, otherwise the tsar will not get her; along the way, three devils fight for self-propelled boots, an invisibility cap and a flying carpet; F. threw a stick into a spruce tree: who will get it; he took the wonderful objects, and flew away with his comrades on the flying carpet; an invisible person is present during the conversation between EP and the tsar; EP demands the same dress that grandfather made; F. stole EP's dress, pretended to sew it himself; the same with the shoes; three copper, silver, and gold hairs, the same ones I will have tomorrow; F. secretly follows EP; she called grandfather out of the lake: copper head, silver beard, golden mustache; EP plucked three hairs, and F. a braid, half a beard, half a lip; they got married, but EP decided to first destroy F., and then the tsar; F. persuaded 11 companions to do everything like him, each one so that Fedka the servant; EP cannot understand who the real F. is; F. returned to prison; the tsar wants to execute him, but F. gives a paper with an explanation; the tsar made him a prince; [EP got the tsar drunk, F. took his place and married his sister]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 7: 43-52; Russian (Novgorod, Cherepovets district) [the father built a new house, sends his sons to spend the night; the eldest says that he dreamed of barns of grain; the youngest Nikita - that he washed his feet, and his father drank the water; his father left him naked and barefoot in the hollow of a tree; the prince found him, took him to his place; went off to woo the bride, called N. to him; two imps argue over the seven-league boots; N. fired: who will bring the bullet faster; he himself put on the seven-league boots and disappeared; the same with the invisibility cap; the bride demands that the prince get three golden hairs of a water spirit; invisible N. watches as the bride and her maid summon a water sprite from the water, he has golden hair; N. runs up and snatches it; the bride suspects that it was not the prince who got the hair, but N., and cuts off his right hem while he is sleeping; he cuts off everyone's; the bride agrees to marry the prince, and he rewards N. with a household; N.'s brothers kick their father out of the house, he comes to live with N., and accidentally drinks the water in which he washed his feet]: Smirnov 1917, No. 85: 306-308; Ukrainians(Kherson) [Ivan sets out to see the world; wanted to shoot a viper, but it asked him not to shoot; wrapped itself around his neck, told him to take it to a ruined castle; a cow asks his horse so that the horse would tell I. to buy it; showed the way; in the castle, the snake turned into a girl; she has two older sisters; they ask him to serve each for a year; they give him seven-league boots, an invisibility cap, a shirt that protects from bullets; in one hut they give him only dirty water; the snake covered up the clean water; I. ​​killed the snake, buried it, put a pole up to the sky on top; the tsar gave I. his daughter in marriage, but she loved the snake; she asked I. for the shirt (supposedly to wash it), gave it to the snake; he put it on, tore out the pole, chopped I. into pieces, tied it up, tied it to the tail of his horse; the horse came to those three sisters; the eldest revived I.; gave the cunning to become a drake; the snake saw the drake, took off his shirt, went into the water to catch it; I. became a man again, put on his shirt, killed the snake; in another version, I. kills the snake that was eating girls; marries the saved one]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 14: 143-145; Kashubians [after the death of her husband, the widow took her son to give him to someone to work; the master of the forest promises to feed him well: let the mother come in a year to the same place; leaving, the master tells the young man to clean 11 rooms, without looking into the 12th; food will appear by itself; opening the wardrobe, the young man found himself in a prince's outfit; the master returned a year later, pleased with the young man, left him for another year; then for the third; at the end of the third year, the young man looked into the forbidden room; there is a garden and a woodpecker flies there; the young man was going to shoot him, but accidentally opened a book, from it a little man: what would you like? the young man closed everything; the owner returned, allowed him to take any clothes and sent the young man home; there his aging mother did not recognize him at first; the daughter of a rich man fell in love with him, but he refused; one day he remembered the book, asked the man to create a castle and a garden where the trees had gold and silver leaves; he married a Dutch princess; but the minister was in love with her; she told him about the book; having got the book, he transferred the castle, himself and the princess to a place where there is no sun or moon; the young man went in search; two giants argue over an invisibility cloak; they agreed to give it to the young man so as not to argue; two other giants - the same (hundred-mile boots); he came to the giant - the owner of fish, birds and mice; the fish, the birds do not know; the last one to come was a fat mouse, it is difficult for her to walk; she was in an underground castle, where there is no sun or moon; the mouse was ordered to take the youth there; having reached the world of darkness, the mouse ordered a thread to be tied to it and, holding on to it, to follow; the mouse first took out the key to the bedchamber; then pulled out the book from under the minister's head; the youth moved the lock back; the minister himself chose the execution: to be torn apart by four bulls]: Knoop 1885, No. 11: 215-223; Poles[a stepmother kicks her stepson out of the house or sends him out to earn money; he gives money to a beggar and receives from him a violin, the sounds of which make everyone dance, a bow that always hits the target, seven-league boots (or other miraculous gifts); the boy competes in target shooting with a Jew or a monk, herds the Jew's cattle, lures the Jew into a thorn bush and begins to play the violin; the boy is brought to the miracle and sentenced to death; he asks to be allowed to play the violin, although those who suffered from his playing object; he has to be pardoned, or he runs away in seven-league boots]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 592: 194; Slovaks [every night a princess wears out 12 pairs of shoes; when dying, a father leaves his three sons three-league boots, a cap and cloak of invisibility; a passer-by offers to divide the miraculous objects and takes them for himself; promises the king to learn the secret of his daughter; follows the princess for three nights, each time taking the cup from which she drinks and the clothes she discards; tells the king everything; the princess dies; the soldier must spend every night in church, and in the morning his torn remains are found; the old man gives the soldier advice on how to behave and where to hide; the princess's body brightens; the soldier marries her; the old man chops her into pieces, washes her heart, restores her; all is well]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 199: 134-135.

Baltoscandia. Estonians : Järv et al. 2009, No. 14 (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 one says that someone ate her bread, slept on her bed; the wife finds her husband in her bed; flies off for her son, tells her husband not to go into one room; he goes in, there is an old devil chained up there; he 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; so twice, the third time he kills; earlier the forester picked up, saved a half-dead wolf; now crows and ravens flew in 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; human heads on stakes, one stake empty; if you graze for 3 days, you will get a foal, you must take the most inconspicuous one; the king of midges, the king of horseflies and Vähjäkuningas (?) will help you 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 ride home on them], 20 (Avinurme) [the princess spends 7 pairs of bast shoes each night; the king promises his daughter to the one who finds out what the matter is, cuts off the heads of those who do not find out; the soldier does not sleep, sneaks after the princess into the garden, sees her pick and throw an apple, the entrance to hell opens; the soldier also throws an apple; three devils fight over a magic tablecloth, seven-league boots, and an invisibility cap; the soldier promises to award them to the one who is the first to bring the apple he threw; takes everything himself, catches up with the princess; eats and drinks unnoticed; steals the box with the soldiers; in the morning proves that he was with the princess in hell (she says that this means the soldier ate the food, because usually there was extra left); gets the princess; defeats the attacking foreign king by sending soldiers from the box at him; returns everything to him after the victory; inherits the throne]: 78-84, 99-102; Livs[a one-eyed giant caught a boy on the beach, put him in his pocket and brought him to his cave; the boy realized that he slept for 7 days at a time; once he ran away, but on the fourth day the giant caught up with him and brought him back; the giant asks him and the other kidnapped but not yet eaten children to tickle him; boy: take off your boots, or you won't get to sleep; they were seven-league boots; the boy put them on, told the others to hold on to him, ran home; and the giant is probably still snoring in his cave]: Loorits 2000(1): 84-85; Finns [a father plows a field by the coast for 10 years, but each time a storm destroys the crop; the attempts of the eldest and middle brothers are equally unsuccessful; the youngest (he is a soldier) sees swans descending from a cloud, turning into girls, dancing, trampling the field; the soldier hid the swan dress of one girl, she had to become his wife; She explained that the witch had turned her and her sisters into swans and that only the grass that grew in that field could break the spell, so they trampled the crops; the king learned that the soldier had a beautiful wife; he ordered that all the creatures be brought in pairs by tomorrow; the wife ordered to wave a handkerchief - the animals appeared; all the birds - the same; get the lost keys; the wife: they are behind the altar in the church, you need to take and run without looking back; the soldier looked back, immediately fell off his horse with his temple on a stone and lost consciousness; the horse brought the keys to his wife, she gave them to the king; in order to avoid his harassment, the wife told her husband's parents that they should look for her beyond the Black and White Seas in a copper castle at the bottom of the Red Sea; she put on swan plumage and flew away; when the soldier came to, he saw three dead men fighting over an invisibility cap, seven-league boots and a self-cutting sword; tells them to give him the curiosities and to go back to their graves; went to the east; stopped at a pagan house where he refused to be baptized; the owner showed him three barns with copper, silver and gold coins; the soldier took away the gold; reached a spinning hut on a chicken leg; the soldier told her to stop; in the hut was an old woman with a nose three cubits long; she agreed to take him across the Black Sea on the condition that she would then cut off the soldier's hand; having reached the other shore, the soldier put on an invisibility cap and disappeared; there was another hut on a chicken leg, the hostess was stirring the coals in the stove with her nose; the same (he took him across the White Sea); the third hut was spinning and did not want to stop; the soldier threw a net under the cranes' feet, the hut stopped; the old woman collected birds, then fish; only the whale knew about the copper lock, his tail was entangled in the battlements of the wall; the whale brought the soldier to the castle; the soldier cut the chains, the castle floated to the surface; the soldier threw a ring into his wife's cup; she brought it to his home on her swan wings; the king sent an army, but the soldier aimed a self-cutting sword, the king and his army sank into the ground]: Konkka 1993: 17-28; East Sami(Skolts, Neiden) [someone steals turnips from the king's garden; the eldest and middle sons guard, hear the noise, run away; the youngest sees three maidens fly in, take off their winged garments, and begin to dig up turnips; he hid the garments of one, she agrees to marry him on the condition that he goes with her; the young man went to say goodbye to his father, the king does not let him, demands that he 1) cut down the entire forest, 2) cut off the branches on the cut down trees, 3) restore the forest; each time the wife orders this to be done with one tree, the rest fall, lose their branches, and rise again; the king lets his son go, but the heavenly maiden has already flown away, the young man went to look for her; meets an old woman, she gives him seven-league boots, sends him to the middle sister, the middle sister gives him a cap of invisibility, sends him to the eldest, she sends an eagle, on the third try the eagle knows where to fly; the old woman gives him a staff, if you turn it upside down, the dead will rise from their graves, if you turn it down, they will return to their graves; gives three pebbles; the eagle carries them across the sea, gets tired, each time the pebble thrown turns into an island to rest; across the sea the young man finds his wife and son; the father-in-law asks his son-in-law to use the staff to bring back his dead warriors; they rush at the king, the young man turns the staff, the dead return to their graves]: Lagercrantz 1961, no. 294: 132-140 (= Klaus 1995: 31-38); Norwegians [Halvor does not want to do anything, but hires himself out on a ship; gets off him, comes to the castle, there is a kidnapped princess; she gives him strong water to drink so that he can lift his sword; he cuts off the heads of the 3-headed troll; the same with two other princesses in two other castles and the 6- and 9-headed trolls; H. chooses the younger one as his wife; they live in the castle of Soria-Moria; H. wants to visit his parents; his wife gives him a wish-fulfilling ring, forbids him to talk about them; one day he says that he wants his wife to be near, then it will become clear how beautiful she is; the princesses appear, put H. to sleep, the wife takes off the magic ring and puts another ring on H.'s finger, they disappear; H. goes to look for them; the old man and the old woman say that the Moon knows about Soria-Moria, give seven-league shoes; she replies that when she passed there, a cloud covered the castle; the West Wind knows; with it H. comes to his wife's wedding; throws the ring into a glass of wine for his wife; she recognizes him, rejects the new groom, marries X.]: Dasent 1970: 396-409 (translated in Lyubarskaya 1987: 81-98); Danes[the grass doesn't even grow in the field; the eldest son is on guard, afraid of the hurricane; the same goes for the middle one; the youngest waited until the wind died down; three girls came down, took off their hats and began to dance; the young man hid one hat; returned the girl's promise to marry him and return in a year; there is money under a stone in the field, let the young man build a castle and invite everyone to the wedding except the king; but he invited the king; the king recognizes his daughter in the magic bride, tells the young man to bring gold coins from the top of the glass mountain; the girl gives him a mare and teaches him what to do; if it doesn't work out, he must look for her in the castle in the middle of the world south of the sun, north of the moon; it didn't work out, the mare is lost, the young man goes off in search of the castle; two people are arguing over their father's inheritance; these are seven-league boots; the young man throws a stone: whoever gets there first will get the inheritance; he puts on the boots himself; in the same way he gets a magic tablecloth and a sword that kills and brings to life; there is a terrible famine in the house of the lord of animals; the youth feeds everyone, the lord tells the animals to find out where the castle is; they do not find out, the lord of animals sends the youth to his brother, the lord of fish, who to the lord of birds; the last to appear is an old eagle, only he knows, carries the youth to the castle, teaches how to kill the animal guards; the princess promises to appear in six months and again asks not to invite her father; on the way back the youth brings the killed guards back to life; invites the king to the wedding, kills him, then brings him back to life; after this the king is powerless to prevent the marriage]: Holbek 1987: 572-573; Swedes [the youth meets brothers who are fighting over items they inherited; These may be an invisibility cap, seven-league boots, a flying carpet, an inexhaustible purse, a vessel or tablecloth with any food, a magic wand, an invincible sword, etc.; the young man suggests that the disputants run a race - the winner will receive the items; having used the invisibility cap, seven-league boots, etc., he disappears, taking all the magical items]: Liungman 1961, No. 518: 141; Latvians [ The father takes the children to the forest . They end up with a witch. She puts other people's children to sleep along with her own. The youngest boy ties the witch's children's head scarves (wreaths, hats) on himself and his brothers. At night, the devil appears and kills his own children instead of the other people's. The children run away, the devil chases them, but, tired, lies down and falls asleep. The boy pulls off the devil's seven-league boots, and all the brothers quickly get home]: Arijs, Medne 1977, No. 327B: 277; Lithuanians[a fisherman wrote near his house: "I live without worries"; seeing this, the king ordered the fisherman to catch a fish with diamond eyes and golden scales in three days; on the second day the fisherman turned to God, and on the third he asked the devil for help; the devil: then give me what you did not leave at home; the fisherman agreed, the devil let him catch a precious fish and promised to come in 12 years; and a son was born at home; when the boy was three years old, the king took him in and began to raise him as his own son; the fisherman met him and confessed that the devil would come that night; the king surrounded the palace with guards, and in the morning they were all dead; this happened several times; the fisherman's son took pity on the soldiers and went out into the yard in the evening; there was a table and a bench there; the fisherman's son circled the devil, lit a candle and opened the Holy Scriptures; the confrontation with the devil ended with the young man finding himself in an enchanted castle; he entered a room where there were three coal-black girls; they asked him to endure trials for three nights; all night the devils tossed him about; in the morning it became lighter, and the girls' faces turned white; after the third night the girls turned completely white, collected the torn parts of the young man's body, revived him and he took the younger one as his wife; one day he decided to visit the house; his wife: he is beyond seven kingdoms; gave him a ring, which she allowed him to use only once; he instantly found himself in the castle of his adoptive father, the king; they did not believe that the young man was married; he turned the ring, calling his wife; when he fell asleep, his wife took the ring and disappeared, saying that if he did not return to her in 7 years, she would marry another; the time was approaching; the hermit said that there were 14 miles left to the young man's wife, and her wedding was in the morning; the young man took the seven-league boots from the hermit, put on his hat and cloak and, invisible, instantly found himself next to his wife; began to trip the groom, and he fell; the wife after the third fall of the groom: now wait another 7 years; here the young man threw off his cloak; everyone is happy]: Leskien, Brugman 1882, no. 22: 433-438.

Volga - Perm. Mordva(Moksha) [Vanya was taken as a soldier, his parents died, he walks through the forest, not knowing where; enters the house, food is prepared, he ate, hid behind the mirror; an old man enters with three daughters; tells them not to be offended if the traveler ate; points his mirror at the field, at the forest, at the sea - there is no one; it means that the one who came here asks to leave; Vanya agrees to look after the stallion for a year; the girls turned into doves, their father into a whirlwind - they flew away; Vanya feeds the horse, but he is still half alive; he wanted to cut himself, but threw the knife on the floor; a guy jumped out: what do you need? now Vanya drinks and eats to his heart's content, listens to songs; Sivka became prettier; the owner returned, pleased, gives Vanya Sivka and a saber: one wave, he will cut down the entire forest or the entire army; the girls gave him an invisibility cap, seven-league boots, a self-shaking purse; Vanya arrived in the city, lives with an old woman; in the city, the witch princess orders that one guy's head be chopped off every day; she will marry the one who lies in wait for her three times; Vanya agrees; the princess put him to sleep, flew to her lover; Vanya woke up, put on the invisibility cap and seven-league boots, caught up with the princess, began to hit her in the face, she thinks it was hail; she returned, and Vanya returned faster than her and lay down; the same thing the next night - smeared the princess with mud; on the third night he found himself in the prince's palace; he promised the servant to help him return to his homeland, he opens the doors; Vanya entered the room where the wedding clothes were, took part for himself, tore part; returned to his city, bringing the servant on his back; seeing that the wedding clothes were gone, the princess returned home; Vanya tells the judges everything, the servant confirms and shows the wedding dress; the princess was given in marriage to Vanya, but she continues to fly to the prince; he goes to war against the king; Vanya smashes him with an old man's sabre; the prince teaches the princess to find out her husband's secret; Vanya replies that he swept away the army with a broom; in the morning there is another broom in the corner, unloaded, and the old one is delivered to the prince; he leads the army, Vanya again chops it with a sabre; one day he confesses to his wife that it is all because of her; the wife changes the sabre; Vanya is chopped into pieces; they gather them in a small barrel and tie it to Sivka; he rushes to his grandfather; the grandfather orders first to boil the pieces in a copper cauldron, then in a silver one, in a gold one; the broth is poured out into the yard; an apple tree has grown there: a copper trunk, silver branches, golden apples; the pieces were sprinkled from one bottle - they grew together, from another - Vanya came to life; he became a falcon and flew to the prince; he blinded the old tsar and now reigns himself; Vanya in the form of a soldier began to live with an old man and an old woman; he became a horse, the old man sold him for a cart of money; the prince bought it; the prince's wife knows that it is Vanya, orders to slaughter him; the horse asks the maid to save a drop of blood and bury it in front of the prince's window; an apple tree grew: a copper trunk, silver branches, golden apples; the wife orders to cut it down; the apple tree asks the maid to throw a splinter into the bathing pool; the prince took a saber, went to bathe, left the saber with clothes on the shore; the splinter became a drake, the prince - after him; the drake flew up, turned into a soldier, took a sabre, cut the prince and the princess apart, freed the old king, and married the maid himself]: Maskaev 1967, No. 13:120-133 (= Samorodov 1972: 160-177);Mari [the old people do not want to give their eldest daughter Myra to a stranger; she disappears; a year later the same thing happens to the youngest Anna; a son Ivuk is born; he leaves to look for his sisters; three little devils fight for the seven-league stockings and the invisibility cap; I. sends them to run a race, takes the stockings and the cap; in the forest the old man says that 8 years ago Yorok Yorokovich flew by; I. goes to the sunrise, into the house, past the lion, meets M.; she hides her brother in a chest, then introduces him to her husband; gives a magic scarf, sends him to A., she is married to Orel Orlovich; he tells that the sorcerer who kidnapped the tsar's daughter and ruled the Black City was chained by an even more evil sorceress; OO gives a pen, A. - an accordion, it plays only in the hands of I.; I. is put in prison, he feeds everyone with a self-assembled scarf; I. plays the accordion, the witch dances, cannot stop, gives away the keys to the tower where the princess is; I. marries her, destroys the Black City; opening the door in the rock, frees the sorcerer, he carries away his wife, I. returns, the sorcerer catches up, burns him, OO brings living and dead water, revives; YY orders to get a horse that is faster than the sorcerer's horse; I. overheard the sorcerer's story about how he got the horse while grazing the witch's herd; YY gives a whip, I. lashes the horses with it, every evening YY and OO gather them; he did not have time to hit one, it flew away as a bird; OO gathers the birds, they point to a hollow, OO gets a bird from there, it turns into a horse again; I. chooses a bandy-legged horse, he is the elder brother of the sorcerer's horse, orders him to throw off the sorcerer, he crashes; I. lives with his wife]: Aktsorin 1984: 55-66; Bashkirs [the orphan Umys bought a foal from an old man with his last money; saved a girl from a burning haystack; she turned out to be the daughter of the snake king; orders to ask her father for an old chekmen (protects from arrows), a hat (invisibility), boots (seven-league boots) and a sabre (scorches with fire); the princess disappears at night; putting on the invisibility hat, U. sees how the eget takes her away; U. follows, waves his sabre, the eget returns the princess, the king gives her in marriage to U.; U. defeated the army of devas; the wife asks what the secret is; U.: in the shovel; she orders her lover to replace the shovel; then U. tells the truth, the wife replaces the miraculous objects; the devas captured U.; he asks to cut him into pieces, put him in a shroud, tie the shroud to the saddle, the horse will take him home; the king of the devas took U.'s wife as his wife, imprisoned his parents; the snake princess caught a young raven, forced the raven to bring living and dead water, fused the limbs of the dead one, revived the living one; taught him to transform into a drake; the drake lured the king of the devas, he left the miraculous objects, U. flew up to them, captured and executed the king of the devas and the traitorous wife]: 1989, No. 5: 54-61.

( Cf. NE Asia. Russified, probably tundra Yukaghirs [angry at her disobedient grandson, the grandmother asks the Master of the Forest to take him away; the boy immediately disappears, people unsuccessfully search for him; many years later he runs away from the Master of the Forest, having stolen his four-mile boots; they are made of the white leather of the Master of the River; the Master of the Forest harpoons the Master of the River, and he tries to drown the Master of the Forest and his people when they cross the river on the ice]: Bogoras 1902, No. 29: 632-633).

( Cf. Plains. Teton [the eldest of four brothers pricks his toe; a girl, their sister, is born from the abscess; Rock Boy receives a gift of swift moccasins {European borrowing}, magic clothing; finds knife, axe, arrowhead, and uncle's hammer on the way; breaks Rolling Rock; monstrous woman says that Living Rock is her master; boy replies that it is his father; woman turns into an old man; it is he who crushes boy's uncle; boy revives uncle, crushes old man; salt water flows from him (origin of salt springs and lakes)]: Walker 1983: 140-146).

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