K155C. Girl on the scales. .23.33.

The father weighs his daughter regularly and finds out about her pregnancy when his daughter becomes heavier.

Gujaratis, Tamils, Karakalpaks.

South Asia. Gujaratis[the king died, leaving two sons; the eldest Phulsinh assumed power, but also died; his widow raised the younger one named Rupsinh; now he is the king; one day she was combing his hair and accidentally pulled out a hair; R.: your hands are not as dexterous as before; she replies: if you want a woman who does not make mistakes, then marry the queen of the Anards (Peri); R. took this seriously and the woman had to tell how to go to the country of the Anards and what dangers are on the way; in the forest there will be a poisonous lake of the Peri, you can not approach it; R. saw the Peris flying in on horses, who began to bathe; his horse was poisoned and died; R. stole one of the Peri queen's saddles, then put it on his horse and galloped away; the Peris give chase; they order the terrible elephant to trample R., but R. hit him on the trunk with his sword; he galloped into the land of robbers; the old man said that he had been waiting for his daughter's groom for a long time; they wanted to put him to sleep on the top floor of the house, so that the old man's 4 sons would throw him out of the window at night; but R. insisted on lying downstairs; did not sleep; the queen of the fairies tied a magic thread to his leg, but he tied it to the old man; the queen galloped away on R.'s horse, dragging the old man, who died; R. demanded his horse from the old man's sons, they gave him his father's; two demons are fighting; R. laughs and says that Shiva sent him to get the skin of two demons to stretch on a drum; the demons got scared, gave him a flying machine in exchange; R. flew to the country of Princess Phulpancha; she saw him and fell in love; R. lives with the old woman; she made a garland for the princess, and R. put his ring in it; dressed up as a poor Rajput, he began to serve the king; penetrated to P.; the princess is weighed every year; if she has not communicated with a man, she must weigh as much as five flowers; but this time it was heavy; the king ordered R. to be hanged, but he had given the old woman a bottle of amrita beforehand, which his brother's widow had supplied him with; the old woman revived R. with amrita; R. flew away on his flying machine; the hermit greets him; tells him to go to the pond; at night, beautiful anardas will emerge from the fruits on the pomegranate tree; one must notice in which one their queen is and take it; while running away, do not look back: you will turn to stone; the old man tells the anardas that the marriage of one of them with a mortal was predetermined; on the way back, R. got into conversation with the hermit; he endured asceticism for 700 years in order to get the queen of the anardas; he took away the pomegranate; swallowed a tree standing nearby, showing his power; but, taking pity, gave him a stick that kills any enemies; R. set it on the hermit, who returned the pomegranate; at home, R. began to prepare for the wedding; the young witch Rukhi became the queen's maid and pushed her into a well; the king did not notice the substitution; the brother's widow senses the deception and offers the false queen to return to the pomegranate; Rukhi: having come into contact with a mortal, I have lost my gift; she told her husband that his brother's widow was persecuting her and he had banished her; a lotus grew in the well; Rukhi tore off the petals and threw them out the window; where they fell, a mango tree grew; Rukhi ordered it to be cut down; a servant picked up the fruit and gave it to his wife; she gave birth to a girl; she grew up and was the spitting image of anarda; Rukhi ordered her to be hanged; but the girl's head became like Shiva's,and the body is like Parvati; her two eyes became a sparrow and a sparrow; her legs became banana trees; one day the king entered the temple of Shiva and heard these sparrows talking; the male tells the whole story; the sparrow: that night the queen of the anards will come out of the banana trunk, address Shiva, return and never come out again; R. grabbed his wife and did not let go; in the morning his brother's widow invited her to enter the pomegranate and she entered and came out; after this the brother's widow buried the pomegranate; the Ruhi were hanged; R. sent for the princess Phulpancha, taking her also as his wife; prosperity and long life]: Kinkaid 1925, no. 4: 90-101;Tamils ​​[the king has an only daughter, she is on the seventh floor of the palace; every day he weighs her, using lemons as weights; every day, morning and evening, the girl looks at the sun and laughs; Surya Bhagavan (the sun, he is also Shiva) decides that she is mocking him, comes at night, in the morning the room is in disarray; the king notices that his daughter has become heavier (i.e. she is pregnant); then Shiva opens up, they are happy; Shiva gives her a ring and goes for gifts; but the warrior replaced the collected dishes with an iron brazier; seeing her, the princess ordered that no one be let in; offended Shiva predicted that she would starve, work herself to exhaustion, cut off her fingers with a sickle and only much later would well-being return; her son asks who his father is; she gives him Shiva's ring; tells him to go to the river and help the old woman lift a jug of water; let him throw the ring into the jug; when the ring was in the jug, there was immediately only a little water left; Shiva asked for a drink, the old woman began to pour from the jug, the ring fell, the old woman handed it to Shiva; he ordered the boy to be brought to him, raised him to the sky; but he wanted to go to his mother - after all, she was starving; Shiva gave him a box, ordered him not to open it on the way; but the boy opened it, valuables, houses, lands, cattle fell out; the snake promises to collect everything back, but then it will bite on the wedding day; the boy agrees; now he and his mother are happy; the young man has grown up, but postpones the wedding day; finally, the day has come, the snake is ready to bite the groom; this is the snake that Shiva wears as a necklace; he cannot allow it to bite his son, he puts his foot out and the snake bites him; this is an eclipse of the sun]: Blackburn 2005, № 50.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [the king has sons Yesen and Usen from his eldest wife, and Asan from his youngest; he wants to find the king with three daughters; he goes to see an old woman, meets the king there, who is about to give away his daughters, but manages to give his youngest, A., to the old woman; A. comes to see the old woman; asks her to give him an assignment; the old woman offers to bring the daughter of the Rum king, Myskal ("zolotnik", this is her weight; if she meets a man, she will become heavier, so her father weighs her regularly); along the way, A. helps the queen of mice, ants, and a tiger, who promise to help in return; A. lives with another old woman, gold pours out of his hair, the old woman gets rich; in the morning he sees two suns - in the east and the west; the old woman: in the west the sun is reflected from the forehead of Myskal, the daughter of the king; The mice make an underground passage, the king weighs M., his weight has increased, he executes the guards; M. gives A. a magic ring, it will help him fulfill his father’s tasks; 1) make gold and silver melt in two holes (the ring melts); 2) collect scattered millet down to the last grain (ants collect); 3) kill a dragon that is ready to exterminate all the townspeople (tigers tore the dragon to pieces, A. brought the carcass to the city); A. married M., they have a son; they go to the old woman who sent A. for M., on the way thieves kidnap M. and the boy; A. returns to his father-in-law’s city, he dies, a bird lands on A’s head, he is elected king; he promises the thieves to reward them if they tell about their crimes; through them he learns about the cave where M. and his son are, returns them; M. says that the old woman is Baba Yaga, you have to tear off the head of the dove sitting on the stepladder, otherwise she will eat them; she is taking revenge for her giant sons, who wooed M., but were executed (they did not complete the tasks); A. did everything just like that, brought his wife and son to their father]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959: 177-186.