K137A. A girl in the guise of a young man gets a wife for her brother.

.29.32.-.35.

Brother is killed. Sister in his clothes gets a woman. Brother comes back to life, sister puts on women's clothes again, the got woman believes that the girl's brother was the one who married her.

Abkhazians, Stavropol Turkmens, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Telengits, Khakassians, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Baikal and Transbaikal Buryats, Nenets (Vaigach).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [hunter Chiz-Ikuatla saw a 7-story house, a tree and a bed nearby, he lay down on the bed; the youngest of the 7 adauy came, CHI squeezed him out and threw him out, then hacked the rest to death; settled his sister on the top floor, began to live with his mother downstairs; smells the adauy; it turns out that the youngest adauy remained alive, her mother took him as her husband; he advises her to pretend to be ill, to send CHI for the heart and liver of a special kite; he gives a feather, orders to kill another kite; the same - a bull (gives a hair); a boar (bristle); then the mother persuaded CHI to allow her to bathe him, and adauy poured a cauldron of hot wax on him; nailed the remains in a trough and threw them into the sea; the sister in men's clothing went in search of CHI, hired herself out as a servant to the prince; his daughter, believing that he was a man, wanted to take him as her husband; she asked to wait; by the sea she accidentally pulled out a feather, a strand of wool, a bristle; a kite searches in the sky, a boar in the ground, a bull pulled a trough out of the sea; the sister went for her "bride", took her to the sea, overtook her, put her clothes on her brother; seeing the dead man, the princess wiped him with a handkerchief and CHI came to life; he orders the bride's retinue to go to his mother, and he and his sister will appear in the form of beggars; no one can lift the spear of CHI; only an imaginary beggar lifted it, killed the adauy; he pronounces a spell, CHI's mother burns; CHI's wedding with the princess]: Shakryl 1975, No. 73: 333-341; Stavropol Turkmens [after the death of a rich man, his children remained: a gray maiden and a gray youth; Their mother got together with a div; he persuaded her to offer her son a test of his strength: she would tie his thumbs with a belt; he stretched the belt; then she tied them again; a div appeared, cut off his head; threw the head and body into the steppe; the sister found, sewed up the remains, put them on a tree, exchanged clothes with her brother; went to the city; the king will give his daughter to the one who knocks a ring off a pole; the imaginary youth knocked it down, received the princess; promised not to touch his wife until they came to his home; rode ahead, ordering them to get to the tree: he will sleep in the branches; the girl herself again exchanged clothes with her brother; the wife saw how a saiga antelope ran into a sharp branch, and the other cured it with some kind of grass; the wife cured the youth with the same grass; he learned of what had happened from a note left by his sister; the sister herself fell into a hare trap, became a hare; when the hunter took it out, the hare again became a girl, the hunter took her as his wife; the gray youth, having united with his wife, told her everything and went off to look for his sister; he hears how a boy, playing knucklebones, says: I throw her with the hand of the gray uncle; so he found his sister; then he went to find out what happened to his mother, saw her in the arms of the div, killed them both; all is well]: A.K. 1875, No. 5: 29-33.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Kiltyai Mergen and his sister live alone, their parents are dead; KM warns his sister not to hurt the cat; the sister got angry at the cat, hit it, it put out the fire; the sister sees smoke, comes to an old woman, the latter gives her a scoop with coals, tells her to shake them along the road so that the coals don't go out, to sprinkle ashes on the ground, promises to follow this trail in the morning; in the morning he asks if KM, his sword and dog are at home, the sister replies no, the old woman asks him to look in her head, sucks blood and bone marrow; KM notices that his sister is drying up, she tells him everything, he stays at home, the old woman turns into a three-headed azhdaha, KM kills him, but the sword bounced off and killed him too; the sister hid her brother's body in a hollow, dressed in his clothes, came to the city, disguised as a young man, won a competition of archery, received a princess as a wife, and with her her silver wand; the same with the other two kings, received a princess with a copper wand and a princess with a brass wand; she rides ahead, puts clothes on her brother's body, meets the princesses in her own guise; they see her husband lying down, each hits him with her wand, and he comes to life ; the sister feels superfluous, leaves, marries the old woman's son; KM goes in search, hears a lullaby in which the baby is called the son of KM's sister; visits her sister, returns to his wives]: Barag 1988, No. 52: 367-373.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [the mother of a boy and a girl died, the father took another woman, she tells her husband to get rid of the children; the father takes them into the forest, tells them to fill a sack with jida, the sack turns out to be full of holes; returning home, the brother and sister see that their father and stepmother have migrated; they find two exhausted horses; they take care of them; the horses grow fat, the brother and sister grow up; they come to live in a cave; while the brother is away, the prince arrives; the brother does not want to give up his sister, the prince kills him; the sister pretends to be submissive, kills the prince; she comes to the city in her brother's clothes; she wins at archery; three khans successively give each daughter in marriage to the imaginary young man; the imaginary husband asks each of the wives to bring the most precious thing that her father has; The first brings a wand that revives someone who died no later than 3 months ago, the second brings a whip (that revives a one-year-old dead person), the third brings Baba Yaga {apparently, dzhalmauz-kempir}, who revives someone who died up to 3 years ago ; the imaginary husband takes his wives, supposedly to their parents; rides ahead, again changes clothes with the murdered brother, hides in a cave, leaves a note for his brother; the wives arrive, see the body of their husband; they fail to revive him with a wand or a whip, Baba Yaga swallows and regurgitates the living young man; he reads the note, understands how he should behave; the sister comes out of the cave, tells everything; the brother meets his impoverished and again widowed father, takes him to live with him]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959: 25-34.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Telengits (Saratan village, Ulagan district) [Boodoi-Këkshin tells his sister Boodoi-Koo not to kill the gray mare, not to go to Mount Bodyoty; she slaughtered the mare, put its liver in the fire, the fire went out, she went to the mountain, comes to the wife of the seven-headed Djelbegen for fire; she tells him to look in her head, pulls a red thread out of BK’s clothes; D. follows BK along it, kills him, sucks out his blood; the brother found his dead sister, hides in a hole; one of D.’s heads sings, the other laughs, etc.; the brother kills him, revives his sister with his blood; he kills D.’s eldest, youngest sons, the middle one kills him; he is killed by BK’s sworn brother Kuzyl-Taad’i; the sister leaves the dead man in the rock; he can be revived by the daughter of Ai-Kaan Altyn-Tan and Kun-Kaan Kyumush-Tan; AK and Boodoy-Koo, disguised as her brother, ride after them; Boodoy-Koo, disguised as her brother, wins the competition and gets both girls; they are surprised that the imaginary man can handle a needle; they ask him to make a spit; Boodoy-Koo does not know how, goes behind the mountain, where her brother's horse whittles a spit for her; Boodoy-Koo rides ahead, puts her brother's clothes on his body, leaves the body as if her brother had fallen from his horse, and runs away in the form of a hare; the girls see Boodoy-Kökshin's body, revive it with healing water , he takes them as his wives; finds his sister's note, catches it, brings the hare, does not know how to turn him back into his sister; the wives do not like the hare, pour poison into his ears; brother puts a hare in a chest on the horns of a maral; the hunter finds a beauty in the chest, marries her; the brother finds out about this, everyone lives in peace]: Sadalova 2002, No. 30: 301-307; Altai people (Katun) [after the death of his parents, a teenage boy, Altain Sain Salam, and his younger sister were left behind; ASS regrets that he cannot bring home the meat of a killed animal on horseback; he sees the heroic horse Aikym-Saikym, his sister explains that the horse is for him; ASS brought game for his sister on horseback; but when he rode off again, he fell from his horse and broke his neck; the sister ordered the rock to part, placed her brother's body inside, put on men's clothing and went to woo the daughters of the Sunny Khan and the Moon Khan; "She could tell by the frosty collar that it was winter, and by the warm shoulder blades that it was summer"; each of the khans promises the middle daughter whose arrow flies through the eye of a needle, an iron hook, a mountain forest and falls (at the feet) of the khan; The imaginary AAS fulfilled the condition and received the girls, but did not sleep with them on the way back; they were already thinking of returning to their fathers; the sister galloped forward, ordered the rock to open, put a note in her brother's hand describing what had happened, turned into a hare and ran away; the daughter of the Sun Khan hit AAS with a whip, he came back to life; the daughter of the Moon Khan completed the revival; AAS hit the hare in the leg with a wooden arrow, caught him, gave him to his wives and ordered them to feed him well; the hare gnawed their clothes; they killed him; AAS placed the hare in three boxes, one inside the other, left a note for the doctor asking him to revive the hare, and launched the box into the sea; the box floated to the domain of the Moon Khan; his doctor revived the hare, the hare became a girl, the khan's son married her; after 7 years, AAS went to look for his sister and came to a yurt, there was a boy running around there; sister AAS saw the horse Aikym Saikym and cried; the horse saw her and neighed; the brother and sister met and had a feast]: Radloff 1866, No. 2: 12-23; Khakass [Pohta-Kers was killed by Khydat-Khan; his younger sister Pogana-Aryn hid; she read in her book that the means of reviving the dead was available to the daughter of the Moon Khan Ai-Aryg or to the daughter of the Solar Khan Kyun-Aryg; dressed up as Pohta-Kers, she wooed these girls; when she lay with one, then with the other, she stuck a sword between herself and the girl; Kyun-Aryg had a whip with a gold handle and a gold scarf, with which PK was revived, he began to live with two wives; Ai-Aryg took a dislike to PA, turned her into a hare, she ran away; PK could not catch this little hare, but then he caught her in a loop and the sister again took human form; he settled her in a taiga hut; AA tracked her down, came, suggested that PA search her head, poured black lead into her ear; PK did not notice any wounds on his sister, put her in a coffin, tied her to a tree; Khara-Khan's son Khara-Pidekey found her, brought her home, the shaman performed a shaman's ritual, his spirit-helpers extracted the lead, PA came to life, HP married her; her brother searched for her for a long time, arrived when her little son was home; HP asked him to show how his mother lulls him to sleep; he repeated the song, it says it all; a joyful meeting of sister and brother; Ai-Aryg was tied to the top of a tree, a fire was lit below; Pokhta-Kers asked for a magnificent wedding with Kyun-Aryg; [everything is fine]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 11: 130-135; Tuvans (retelling of a tale based on two versions from western Tuva; originals in the manuscript collection of the Tuvan Research Institute of Language, Literature and History) [Ekendei-mergen and his wife have a son, Boktu, and a daughter, Bora; they often play in the forest; one day they came and found the camp burned down, the parents were gone; they found a half-dead foal in the pen, they nursed it back to health; they acquired a farm; Bora remembered overhearing a conversation between her father and mother: her father hid a warrior's shoes, clothes and weapons in a hiding place, and her mother hid everything a woman needed; her brother and sister found it; having put on their father's clothes, Boktu became a strongman; he tamed the strongman's horse that the foal turned into; they named him Ayan-Kula ("slender dun"); her sister has a dream three times: her brother chased an animal, fell from his horse and broke his neck; but Boktu still chased the goats, fell and died; the eagle tells the sister to anoint the body of her brother with herbs; the sister left the body in the opened rock, cut off her braid and mustache and took it with her; the eagle: bring three daughters of three khans, they will revive Boktu; they will fly in as swans; the swans are flying, Bora hit one with an arrow, a feather fell; on it is an inscription: I am the daughter of Ayun-khan; find me, and I will be Boktu's wife; Bora put on her brother's clothes, attached his braid and mustache, rode on her brother's horse; the eagle and the eagle promised to help; she rode, not knowing the time, recognized winter by the frost, summer by the dew; seeing the old man, she turned into a pitiful lad on a wretched horse; the old man: in three days Deer Khan ("heavenly khan") is holding an archery competition; the winner will get his daughter; the son of the Moon Aldyn-möge will win; the arrow must fly through the hole in the fox's shoulder blade, through the eye of a silver needle, pierce a mountain of firewood and set it on fire, smash the head of an iron statue; Aldyn-mogyo's arrow pierced everything, but only scratched the head of the statue; Bora aimed and drew her bow all day, her arrow pierced everything and smashed the head of the statue; but A. suggests they fight; the horse teaches Bora to rub himself with medicine, Bora's body became like a man's; she tore A. off the ground, circled her for two, three months and tore her into small pieces; the khan gave away his daughter; Bora promised to pick her up on the way back and rode on; (the same episodes; Ai-khan's archery competition, the main contender is the son of the Sun, Hyuler-möge; his arrow hit the head of the idol, but itself broke; Bora's arrow broke the idol; defeated H., his body turned into pieces of bronze); the horse warns that Hyun-khan is the most dangerous and strongest of the three; the main contender is the giant hero Ang-Shora-möge ("shora" is not a Tuvan word); he offers to pull his bow: whoever can, will win; Bora pulled, the bow broke; now a running competition; ASh made two magic paper men; instead of Bora, an eagle (in the form of a man) ran; the horse snorted, the men were blown away by the wind and soaked by the rain; then the races; the eagle flew and overtook the rider, and then became a man again; but they gave him a sleeping potion to drink, and put the jug on his ear; Bora broke the jug with an arrow,the eagle won; Bora won in archery; she defeated (in male guise) the strongman Chargyry-kara with steel legs; then ASH called the son of Iron Teek-myoge; he is iron, on one side is fire, on the other is ice; the horse Ayan-kula furkul, on one side on Teek-myoge there is a storm with a downpour, and on the other is the sun; the fire went out, the ice melted, Bora scattered its pieces; now the son of Earth Cherzi-myoge; Bora crushed him; the son of Heaven Te-myoge; Bora tore apart his head, on which there are two horns: now you will be only a mountain goat, prey for hunters; then Ang-Shora-myoge himself began to wrestle with Bora; they fought for a long time, they recognized winter by the frost, and summer by the dew; Bora tore him apart: you will be mice and pikas; the eagles hear Hyun Khan's maid saying that Bora is a woman and should bathe; the horse snorted, a storm started, the cattle died, no one saw Bora's body; the maid advises to put the boys to whittle bows and arrows and the girls to cut robes; if Bora is a woman, she will look at the girls; then they decided to give Bora a drink, but the horse magically drank for her, and Hyun Khan's daughter said that she had a fiance, although he did not; the khan punished the informer-maid by giving her in marriage to a poor man who was grazing calves at the end of the world; Bora overtook the khan's daughters, opened the rock where her brother's body was, returned his clothes, mustache and braid, put a letter in his hand with a story about what happened, and she herself became a hare and ran away; the khan's daughters revived Boktu, he read the letter; ordered to catch the hare; Only Hyun Khan's daughter treated him well; Boktu took his sister {was she human again?} into the forest, settled her in a sky-high bone house, stuffed animals for her; the wives wonder why he brings them less than usual; leaving again to hunt, Boktu asks each wife what she will do in his absence; Deer Khan's daughter: sew a sable hat; Ai Khan's daughter: sew a silk robe; Hyun Khan's daughter Aldyn-dangyn: give birth to a son; gave birth to a golden-breasted guy; she also sewed a hat and a robe; the other two wives ask to be allowed to take care of the boy, and they themselves threw him into a flock of sheep; a black ram stood over him, warmed him all night and did not let him trample; the same with the camels; with the horses; they told the servant to throw the child into the sea; when Boktu returned, the two wives showed the hat and robe, and instead of a child - a puppy; Boktu beat Aldyn-Dagan with a whip and rode away; to find out where he was, two wives tied a thread to his horse; they waited until Boktu rode back, offered Bora to comb her hair, stuck a silver pin into each of her heads, Bora fell dead; (apparently, the wives consider Bora to be her husband's mistress); when Boktu found the body, he dressed it up like a doll, tied it to the horns of the maral and released it into the forest; began to beat the wives, they confessed to the murder, he drove them away; Aldyn-Dagan advises to turn to the eagle and eagle; the maral ran to the shepherd who was tending the flocks of Karaty-khan ("envious khan"); his wife found the needles and they pulled them out, Bora came back to life; began to call the shepherd and his wife father and mother; the son of Karaty-khan shot an arrow, it fell into the shepherd's tent; seeing Bora,He ordered his father to marry him to the shepherd's daughter; the servants came - they were amazed by the beauty, then the khan himself - too; he called the shepherd to him; he answers, as Bora taught: my daughter; Khan: if so, count how many years the bear is on the wooded side of the mountain and the hare on the sunny one; Bora orders the shepherd to attach a skull to each of his shoulders, and sprinkle salt on the hare's path; bear: I have lived 60 years, but I have never met a three-headed one; ran away out of fear; hare: I have lived 50 years, but I have never eaten so deliciously; the khan ordered to catch the bear and the hare and beat them; each: I have lived 60 (50) years, but it has never been so painful; now the khan orders the shepherd to roast the ox whole, so that there is not a drop of blood, not a speck of dirt inside, and not a hair outside; Bora to the shepherd: give the ox some salt water to drink and drive it until all is gone from it; then roast it in the sand in an earthen oven; now the khan orders to make yogurt from the bull's milk; Bora orders the father to stay at home; when the khan came, he replies that the father is pregnant; can the bull be milked? Bora combs her hair, the khan: how many are there? How many tracks did your horse leave; the khan sent gold, silver, arak, and married Bora's son; Bora gave the father a thread a fathom long; let him take for it as much cattle as can be tied with the thread; they tied all the young animals, and all the females ran after them; three days later the shepherd takes Bora to the khan; the khan described the whole world and left a letter on a pole; Bora: what a fool: you forgot the kite and the hawk; The khan tells his daughter-in-law to tend the sheep, but not to call a sheep a sheep, a wolf a wolf, etc.; he himself sent wolves and ravens; Bora: On the bank of the current, at the base of the growing one, two howling ones took away and gnawed to death one of the ones I lead, and two croaking ones pecked out what those I lead look at; the eagles told Boktu where his sister was; Bora tells the son she gave birth to to sing about who his mother, father, uncle are; Boktu heard, gave a letter to the boy, Boktu and Bora met; she was nursing her tired horse Ayan-Kul; now if he moves his right ear, white clouds will float, and black ones with his left; the eagles told Boktu where his parents were; his father is grazing calves, his mother is milking cows; they are slaves of Saraatai ​​Khan; Boktu arrived disguised as a poor lad; and then he defeated S. in a duel and burned him; He settled his parents in his yurt; at home, Aldyn-dangyn's wife told him: when Boktu kicked her out after beating her, she saw a lame mouse; it ate some grass and got better; A. did the same; the aging servant who had thrown her son into the sea saw a boy coming out of the sea to play on a stone; then they made some felt, scattered some knucklebones on it, and put it on the stone; the boy came out, started playing with the knucklebones, and fell asleep; they wrapped him in the felt and carried him away; he screamed in a terrible voice: Masters of the sea, mother and father, where are you? The sea approached, but was only able to tear off the hems of the clothes of those carrying the boy away; A. tells him that she is his real mother; Boktu went into the forest to look for his son; he stole meat from a hero; he caught him and wanted to kill him, but Boktu told him everything, and he believed that Boktu was his father; they found a heroic horse for him, and he tamed it; the old woman suggested calling the young man Khaa-Chengei (ХЧ; there was no name before),Khan-Shilgi riding a horse; he is going to woo Mongun-dangyna, the daughter of Biche-khan; she is friendly, gave him a piece of cheese, so that he would give half of it to her father; HC caught him when another hero was defeating him; threw the hero back, saved Biche-khan; he gave him his daughter, but she was betrothed to the younger son of Kurbustu-khan; this is a golden man, he wounded HC in the liver; his wife orders to shoot at the golden thread that connects the enemy with the moon; the arrow broke the thread, the golden one died; the same with his elder brother (bronze, the thread to the sun); the sky began to approach the earth, this is Kurbustu getting angry; HC moved them apart, rode to Kurbustu along the mountain ridge, throwing back the falling lightning; horse: this ridge is Kurbustu's back; they arrived at Kurbustu's head; he asks to bring two horses, which his sons, who he killed, brought every year; the horses tore him to pieces, but the head grabbed the reins, directed the horses, collected the body parts and HC became whole again; Kurbustu is frightened, orders to release the horses; to get a giant maral; HC hit a tuft of wool near the heart with an arrow, killed the maral, brought the skin; Kurbustu sent HC back to earth]: Grebnev 1973: 12-173; South AltaiTuvans [the hero Sharaldai met a bald man, who imposed himself on him as a brother, convinced him to tell him what his soul was; in a knife in the sole of his boot, in a bird in a box hidden in the horse's nose; in three red threads on the navel; when Sh. fell asleep, the bald man broke, tore these receptacles, Sh. died; his younger sister Meshgeed Ulaan hid his body inside a rock; made a figure of a young man from barley porridge; this figure or M. himself wins the competitions, in which the winner is promised the khan's daughter; each time he says, "Not I (do this and that), but my brother Sh."; having tamed his brother's horse, he pierces the eyes of seven darning needles with an arrow; defeats the heroes; makes a huge spit; having received the khan's daughter, leaves early, gets his brother's body, writes on his hand that she will turn into a hare, goes away to the mountain; seeing the lifeless Sh., his wife revived him; the little black servant suspects a substitution, but the wife says that in his homeland her husband became taller and stronger; Sh. finds his sister, asks her to take human form again; the servant offers to look for lice, pours tin into her ears; Sh. put his deaf sister in a box, hung a wild ram around her neck; one day he saw two boys - these are his nephews; one hunter shot the ram, the tin leaked out, he married Sh.'s sister; Sh. wanted to punish the servant, but his wife advised him to forgive her]: Taube 1978, no. 28: 121-125 (= Taube 1994, no. 11: 127-131); Baikal Buryats(balaganskie) [brother Garyulai-mergen and sister Agu-nogon-abakha; G. is going hunting, meets a 7-headed Mangathai; asks: what is behind you - your soul or the soul of your horse? G. looked back, Mangathai swallowed him, spat out his clothes; the horse picked up G.'s clothes and weapons, brought them to his sister; she changed into her brother's clothes, met Mangathai, asked him the same question herself, he looked back, she killed him with an arrow, caught and killed the horse; her horse orders to cut the thumb of Mangathai's right hand, in it are the bones of her brother; she burned the bodies of Mangathai and his horse; asked the mountain to open, put her brother's bones there for safekeeping; in a man's outfit, under the guise of a groom, she went to the three daughters of the deity Esege-malana, who can revive the dead; the horse warned not to drink tea from a dangerous woman, A. splashed tea on her, she died; killed a bear that was ravaging an anthill, the ant khan promised to help; the horse carried A. up a steep high mountain, there is a source of living water, A. drank, became even stronger; revived people whose bones were under the mountain; revived three invisible bathers who were dying of fatigue; revived a dying dog, which could also be invisible; two more suitors came to E. to woo his daughters; A. called herself by her brother's name - G.; E. invites them to wrestle each other; the invisible bather wrestles instead of A., wins; shaman: imaginary G. is a girl in disguise; E. arranges new tests; shoot at a target (the invisible bather wins); horse races (the dog held up the rivals' horses); Each of the suitors is to spend the night in the barn with the bear (the invisible bather killed the bear, the other suitors themselves were killed, E.'s daughters revived them); divide the red and white millet (the ants divided it); the imaginary G. received E.'s daughters; said that first he must check on his herds; on the way, E.'s daughters test her husband again: they put fire and a snake on him while he was sleeping; he pays no attention; A. took G.'s bones from the mountain, put his clothes and weapons nearby, left a note for her brother in the clothes, herself became a hare, and ran into the forest; E.'s daughters revived G., became his wives; G. found a hare, grabbed it, and it became A.; E.'s daughters forgave A. for her deception; they have a silver ladle in which there is any food and drink; everything is fine]: Eliasov 1959: 92-109 (= Eliasov 1959b: 113-122; the text is a processed version of M.N. Khangalov’s recording - see Khangalov et al. 1889, No. 9: 32-48); Transbaikal Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 6 (Selenginsky, Bichursky district of Buryatia) [Zer Dalai sees a lung among the herd, it turns into a 50-headed mangadhai Asuri Shara; they decide to fight in 3 days; ZD hides Bashalai's sister, a bird and a dog in a white rock; mangadhai kills him; asks all the objects in the yurt where the inhabitants are; the door handle says that in the white rock; B. runs from the mangadhai, pours blood from the basket, mangadhai licks it off the ice, tongue for example, B. cut off his head; dressed as a man, goes to heaven to the three resurrectors; ends up inside a bottomless camel monster; there are people swallowed 5, 10 years ago; B. punches a hole with an arrow, people and animals come out; The resurrectors suspect that it is a girl, but she avoids verification; leads them to the remains of her brother, runs away herself, having thrown herself into the clutches of a hare; the resurrectors revive ZD, become his wives; he is going to shoot the hare, the sister tells him not to shoot, takes on human form; the two older wives tied a ball of red thread to ZD's belt, they used it to find the house where B. lived; they threw a gold ring into her mouth, she died; the younger wife tells ZD that she is not guilty; he asks the older ones what they want: the tails of 70 horses or the tips of 70 ribs; he tied them to the tails of stallions; ZD put the body of his sister in a box, hung it on the horns of a blind red deer; the red deer came to Hartaganag Khan; a child and a gold ring fell out of the box; the girl grew up, the khan's son married her, they have a child; ZD found them, all is well]: 109-117; Dugarov 1990 (Khilok district, Chita region, 1935) [the old couple have a daughter, Nogoondar, a favorite of the goddess Green Tara, and a son, Sagaandar, a favorite of the goddess White Tara; he kills too many animals, and his parents decide to kill him; the father makes a pit trap in front of the house, the mother prepares poison; the horse warns of the danger; S. enters the house, but cannot refuse to touch the poison with his finger, and falls dead; the old couple throw the coffin with the body into the Black Sea; after this, Bukha Khan gouged out each of the old couple's right eyes, smashed each of their right hands, took away their property, and took them into slavery; S. N.'s sister, who was preparing wedding clothes for the khan's daughter, arrives; S.'s horse tells her to dress as a man and gallop to the sea; on the way she kills a 15-headed mangadhai; promises to marry the 25-headed man, because he promises to save her brother in exchange; he immediately kills his former wife and sons, orders to build a tower on the island and fish out the coffin, but the sea has torn everything to shreds, and N. hid in the hawthorn bushes; she sees an ice floe, which orders her in her brother's voice to marry only Khabsargalt Mergen; 3 heavenly swan fairies pulled out the ice floe, inside is a coffin, in it is a baby, into which S. turned; he grew up, but 7 pot-bellied khans killed him again; the horse: he will be revived by the 3 daughters of the celestial Eseren; N. flies in as a bird, overhears how 3 brothers and 3 sisters praise S. and N., who are better than them; in the form of a man, she proposes to the three sisters; so as not to be exposed, she makes a deal with a horse: when the eldest maiden enters the imaginary man, the horse will seem to break loose and gallop along the Milky Way, and the owner after him; N. invites the three maidens to bathe in a lake with living water and brings her brother's body there; they revived him, he pretended to be their husband , and N. returned in women's clothing; S. married the youngest of the maidens; one day she went to visit her father, and S. went hunting; N. did not keep an eye on the cattle and the hearth; N. went to look for fire, went to an old woman, she drank her blood, gave her a firebrand, N. barely returned and died; S. killed the old woman with an arrow, put his sister in a box, tied her to the horns of a red deer; the old man and the old woman found a coffin, and in it a little girl; she grew up, married Kh.-mergen, gave birth to a whiny daughter; S. arrives there, enters disguised as a beggar, his sister recognizes him, he takes on his true form; arrives to Bukha-khan, who has his parents in slavery; he reveals himself to them; orders them to answer the khan and the khan's wife insultingly in the morning; they run in, S. kills the khan's wife, becoming a snake, and the khan in a duel; returns the khan's appearance to the parents]: 266-282.