K2B. Gorynya and Dubynya. .14.-.16.21.-.23.27.-.32.

The occupation or even the names of the hero's companions are unusual and different for each, but their specific abilities, the presence of which follows from these names, are not essential for the development of the action. Cf. motive K66, "Bogatyrs with different abilities."

Arabs of Tunisia, Portuguese, Basques, Germans (Hanover, Switzerland), French (Upper Brittany, Normandy, Ardennes, Marne, Vendée, Poitou, Lorraine, Gascony, Toulouse, Aveyron, Limousin, Pyrenees, Ariege, Dauphiné, Provence), Bretons, Walloons, Bodo, Koireng, Cham, Karen, Santal, Baiga, Sinhalese, Slovenes, Hungarians, Albanians, Russians (Arkhangelsk {Leshukonsky district}, Olonetsk, Vologda, Moscow, Tula), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Kiev), Belarusians, Slovaks, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Ingush, Avars, Nogais, Lezgins, Georgians, Baluchis, Yagnobis, Uzbeks, Pashais, Danes, Swedes, Western Sami, Finns, Karelians, Latvians, Lutsi, Kazan Tatars, Chuvash, Udmurts.

North Africa. Tunis [after the death of the king, the widow] gave birth to Mohammed; he is incredibly strong; kills the ruler's warriors; goes on a journey; meets and takes as companions Mountain Turner and Fettäl Elhebäl (Rope Turner {? Seildreher}); they enter the castle where the treasures are, stay in turns to cook; each time an old woman comes, ties up and beats the one who remains; when it is M.'s turn, he cuts off the old woman's head; the head rolls away, disappears into the well; the companions lower M. down; there are three kidnapped princesses; M. killed the demon-kidnapper, sends the princesses up, each gave him 2 nuts; while lifting M., the companions cut the rope, took a princess for themselves, and gave the third to the sultan; he appointed them viziers; M. cracked one nut, there is a helping spirit, brought M. to the sultan's city; M. hired himself out to a tailor; the princesses demand dresses without seams or pins, otherwise they will not marry; the sultan orders the tailor to make them, M. calls on a spirit assistant, who brings the dresses; the princesses realized that M. had returned; M. demands a black horse and a black outfit from the spirit; he showed up at the games, grabbed the bride, flew away with her on horseback; the same thing happens to two other princesses in the next two days - M. on a red horse, M. on a white horse; the last time he is wounded in the arm by an arrow; thanks to this, he is found; he appears before the sultan, himself wearing the sultan's attire; the deceivers are executed, M. gets one princess, the sultan gets the second, the sultan allows the third to be given to whomever M. wants; he makes him vizier]: Spiess 1893, no. 1: 3-13.

Southern Europe. Portuguese [the son of a bear and a woman he kidnapped grows up quickly, feeding on ass's milk; setting out on a journey, takes an iron club; meets and takes as companions the Pine-Tearer, the Mountain-Comparer (etc.); they come to a house in the forest, each in turn remaining to keep house; the monster comes, defeats the cook, throws ashes into the food; the hero defeats him, goes down into the abyss after him; in the lower world defeats monsters, choosing a rusty sword instead of a new one, frees three kidnapped princesses, sends them up; the companions leave the hero below; he rises to the ground, biting the monster on the ear, thanks to which it is forced to obey and flies upward, or on the back of a bird, to which he gives a piece of his own flesh; the princesses are to be married, at this time the hero comes and shows the rings or other objects that the princesses gave him; or he lifts a sword that no one else can lift; [the hero marries one of the princesses, the companions are punished]: Cardigos 2006, no. 301: 56; (Braga 2002 []: 214-220 – check); Basques [a girl was kidnapped by a bear, she gave birth to a son; he moved a rock blocking the entrance to a cave, killed the bear, to the village; too strong; asks to make him a hammer, smashes it; another, heavier one – good; goes wandering; meets, takes as a companion a man who propped up a rock so that it would not fall on a church; who leveled mountains; they see a crack in the ground; one is lowered, he orders to be raised back; then Juan Oso (XO), breaks down the door below, the princess is behind her; she orders to choose a rusty sword, if the devil offers a choice; XO takes the rusty one, cuts off the devil's ear; the companions leave, there is no rope; XO bites the ear of the devil, he appears, takes them to the ground; XO forgot his hammer downstairs, the devil brings it; they come to the village of the princess; she says that she is cursed, because she dropped the icon (? habiendo recibido al Señor y llevado en la boca del portico de la iglesia, lo lancé fuera); XO says that under the stone of the portico there is a toad, in its mouth there was something thrown; the princess got it, married XO]: Barandiaran 1962a, no. 29: 108-112;

Western Europe. Germans (Hanover) [a shepherd's wife was looking for a cow, got lost, spent the night in a cave; a bear came there; when leaving, he blocked the exit with a stone; she gave birth to a boy, at 9 months he had already grown up, was incredibly strong; they went down to the village, people chased the bear away; the boy was christened Peter - Peter Ber ("bear", PM); he forged himself a huge iron club, went wandering; the one throwing boulders replies that he is weak compared to PB; he says that he is PB, takes him as a companion; another strongman ties and unties an iron stake with a knot (ditto); a third one uproots trees (ditto); they settled in a house in the forest, stay in turns to cook; a long-bearded dwarf asks for food, eats everything and beats the cook; when it is PB's turn, he ties him to the bed with his beard; companions came, everyone began to eat; the dwarf tore off his beard, ran, hid in the well; PB ordered to lower him down in a basket; there is an old woman; a castle is visible through the window; the old woman: in it is a princess kidnapped by four giants; PB killed them with his club; the princess gave a handkerchief and a ring; another castle is visible through the window, there is the sister of the first princess, with her 8 giants; (all the same); through the window you can see a castle where the younger sister is, she is guarded by a fire-breathing seven-headed dragon; PB killed 4 giant guards, then a dragon, then 12 more giants sitting at the table in the hall; he cured the wounds with an ointment that the old woman gave; the companions pulled out the princesses; the fourth time PB put a stone in his place, just in case; the companions dropped a stone from above and broke the rope; PB makes the old woman tell her how to get out; she has a dragon, but he needs to be fed in flight; he cut off the last piece from his leg; healed the wound with an old woman's ointment; the king promises a thousand ducats to anyone who brings the rings the rescued princesses had when they were kidnapped; PB hired himself out to a jeweler, drank and ate all night, and gave them the rings in the morning, as if he had made them; the princesses learned from them that their savior was nearby; then he appeared disguised as a beggar, showed the handkerchiefs; the king married him to his youngest daughter, and after his death PB inherited the throne]: Colshorn, Colshorn 1854, No. 5: 18-30; Germans(Switzerland) [robbers kidnap a woman with a small child; keep her in a cave as a servant; the boy grows up, beats the robbers with a spruce club, takes a sack of gold, they return to the woman's husband and Hans's father; G. orders a pood-weight staff to be made for himself, sets off on a journey; meets Spruce Twist and Rock Cutter, takes them as companions; they cook in turns; a dwarf comes, eats everything and beats the cook; when it is G.'s turn, he beats the dwarf, who runs away into a cave; G. asks to be lowered; there is a beauty in chains and a dwarf nearby; G. killed the dwarf, the chains fell off, G. sent the girl up; then he puts his club in the basket, the companions cut the rope; takes the ring off the dwarf's finger, calls upon the spirits of the air to help them; they lift him to the ground, carry him to the ship on which the companions took the girl away; G. killed his companions, took the girl as a wife]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 166: 493-498 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 387-392); Bretons [when the strongman was 10 years old, he tried to pull out an oak tree: the roots trembled; at 15 - he almost pulled it out, at 18 - he pulled it out like a straw; he ordered a huge iron club from a blacksmith; he threw it up and put his knee under it - it broke; he forged a heavier one - the same; even heavier - only it bent; he meets, takes as a companion a woodcutter carrying an armful of trees; throwing millstones; they began to live in a forest castle, they cook in turns; an old man with a beard 7 times longer than his body comes down the chimney, throws the cook under a stone slab, pours out the soup; when it is the strongman's turn, he hits the old man with a club, nails him by the beard, goes to call his comrades, but the old man rips off his beard and leaves; they follow the bloody trail to the cave; only the strongman can climb down on a rope; there is a castle; the strongman throws aside the guards, enters; the old man is in bed, three beautiful daughters of the captured baron wipe his face; the strongman sends two up, the companions do not lower the rope any further; for a promise not to kill the old man, he gives a key: if you point it up, you will find yourself on the ground; the strongman rises together with the baron and his youngest daughter; beats up the traitors, marries the baron's daughter; the storyteller was at the wedding]: Postic 1998: 185-191; French(Dauphiné) [a pregnant wife and her husband went into the forest to get firewood, a bear carried off the woman, closed the exit from the cave with a stone; the woman gave birth to a son, when he was seven years old, he rolled away the stone, he and his mother ran home; the children tease him Bear Jean (MB, Jean de l'Ours), he beats them; tells his father to order a 10-ton iron rod from the blacksmiths, goes off on a journey; meets and takes as companions 1) one who fells trees with one blow of an axe (Jean the Woodcutter, JB), 2) Jean the Fearless (JF); only MF can climb a huge tree, from which an iron castle is visible, they break through its wall, eat and drink; the next morning JF stays to cook, a seven-headed cannibal (Mâgou) comes, beats JF, the cannibal's sister serves him food; the same with JF; MZh cuts off the ogre's heads and takes his healing ointment; the sworn brothers find the ogre's sister, learn about the three kidnapped princesses, kill the sister; only MZh can descend through the hole leading to the underworld (ZhB and ZhD tell them to lift them up, it is too hot or cold there); the old woman advises to save the princesses, they lift them up, when MZh is lifted, the sworn brothers cut the rope; MZh crashed, but was healed by the ogre's ointment; the old woman says that the ogre was raised on an eagle; MZh prepares meat, throws it into the eagle's beak while she carries it; the meat is gone, he cuts off his buttocks, heals himself with ointment; MZh prepares meat for the eagle again, she brings it to the mountain, from where the city with the princesses is visible; MZ manages to take his place at the altar instead of JD, beats him, marries the princess]: Joisten 1991, no. 3: 58-64; French (Upper Brittany, Normandy, Ardennes, Marne, Vendée, Poitou, Lorraine, Gascony, Toulouse, Aveyron, Limousin, Pyrenees, Ariège, Provence), Flemings [episode IIIB of the ATU 301B plot]: Delarue 1957: 116-130.

Tibet - Northeast India. Bodo (kachari) [the son of the widow of Gilá Charan hired himself out as a shepherd; other shepherds bullied him and he left; met and took as a companion a man carrying a banyan tree (he said that he was not a strong man, but a strong man is the MC; the MC replies that he is the MC); a man carrying a dhop tree (same dialogue); the same with those he met named Mustard, Monkey, Sea, Fire; one of the companions came to the rakshasi for fire (Rakshashani), she pushed him into a pit; the same with the second; then the MC came, began to strangle the rakshasi, she released the captives; they came to where the rakshasas lived, but the friends did not know about it; the man stayed to cook the banyan tree; the rakshasa comes and eats everything; then the MC stayed; killed two rakshasas, his companions killed him too, all took the beautiful daughters of the rakshasas as wives]: Anderson 1896: 9-14; koireng [Yamlut is powerful; one day, in his absence, his daughter danced with a spirit; he forbade her to respond to her father's call; she told her father and immediately disappeared; Yamlut went in search; he meets, takes as companions 1) singeing a pig, holding the carcass on one finger; 2) killing a deer with his hands; 3) putting the trunk of a banyan tree in his ear; each, not knowing who is in front of him, says that his strength is nothing compared to the strength of Ya.; at a halt, Yamlut sent his companions out hunting; they brought a deer, but there is no fire; in the distance there is a hut; one went, there a woman was weaving; she told him to take coal; the man immediately put it in a pot and ended up there himself; the corpse became tiny; so with all three companions; I tore the straw from the roof and made a torch; I began to wrestle with the old woman and defeated her; I took my comrades out of the pot, they came to life; I came to my place and roasted the deer; Omlai is the husband of this old woman; four of them grabbed him, tied him up, but he easily broke the bonds; he told me what plants to make ropes from; they tied him up; O: the girl under my wife's pillow; she gave the girl up - an emaciated corpse; the old woman gave a bone to revive the girl; I threw it away, deciding that there were too many bones, but I couldn't revive my daughter with other bones; I had to go back and take that bone; the girl was reborn even more beautiful]: Oinam et al. sa

Burma - Indochina. Cham [astrologers promise a childless king that he will have a son if he makes sacrifices at the mouth of a river, but this son will ruin the kingdom; the king makes sacrifices; the boy eats a lot, the king is ruined; when the son is 15, his father calls him into the forest, cuts down a tree on him; in the evening the son brings the tree to his father; orders him to forge a heavy axe, leaves, his name is Strong; meets Cart Puller (without oxen), Reed (cuts reeds on five mountains); both cannot lift Strong's axe, become his younger brothers; giants Sharp Butt, Snotty, Big Foot are fishing; Strong asks for fish, each of the giants tells the other to give some, finally Big Foot gives it, Sharp Butt in anger hits the ship, Snotty plugs the hole with snot; the portion of fish is so large that there is no wood in the village to roast it; the brothers go into the forest, they have no fire; the Cart Puller comes to the old woman, she throws him into the cauldron; the same with Reed; the Strong One forces the old woman to give up the plant of immortality, revives the brothers, sews up the old woman's eyes and mouth, orders her to send her husband in their footsteps; the giant husband defeats the Cart Puller and Reed, the Strong One hammers him into the ground; the old woman goes to look for her husband, urinates where he is in the ground, hears his voice, digs him out; the Strong One throws the head of the fish into China; the emperor promises a daughter to whoever removes the stinking head; the Strong One removes it, marries the Cart Puller to the princess, leaves him the tree of immortality, orders him to make sure no one enters the garden; throws the fish head into Siam; having thrown it into the sea, receives the princess of Siam, gives it to Reed; returns to the country of the Cham; The cart puller let people into the garden, the tree of immortality flew to heaven, the Strong One died right there; the cart puller and the Reed followed him into the country of the Cham, they also died]: Landes 1887, No. 8: 67-76; Cham[a childless king calls fortune tellers, they advise to give alms to the people; a son will be born, but will bring poverty and grief; the king agrees, the born boy is gluttonous, grows up to be a hero; the father wants to destroy him, brings him to the mango tree, promises to shed the fruits, cuts down the tree, leaves; the son drags the tree to the palace, orders to plant it, it takes root; the prince wanders, meets, takes as companions the heroes Tas (pulls a huge cart), Havihava (cuts mountains of reeds), but they cannot lift his axe; three strange people (one with a long nose, another with a tail, the third with duck feet) catch fish, give it to their sworn brothers, there is so much of it that the village does not have enough firewood to roast it; the sworn brothers go into the forest, look for fire; they see a fire, T. goes after it, there the sorceress kills him, throwing an iron weaving shuttle, throws it into the cauldron; the same with H.; the prince catches the shuttle, forces the sorceress to revive T. and H., ties her up; her husband comes, eats the elephant, chases after the sworn brothers, defeats T. and H., the prince tears off his head, it rolls away to China; because the prince threw her into Siam, the emperor gives him a daughter; the prince marries T. to her, plants a life-restoring herb in the imperial garden, orders no one to be allowed near it; removes the sorcerer's head from Siam, marries H. to a Siamese princess; strangers approached the herb of immortality, the prince died; T. and H. return to Champa]: Nikulin 1990: 202-207; Karens[as soon as a pregnant woman hung up her laundry to dry, the sun hid behind the clouds; she became angry with the Sun and he cursed her; she remained pregnant for three years and gave birth to a son, Ta-ywa, the size of a jujube fruit; he is gluttonous; becomes monstrously strong; makes a bow; comes to the source from which the children of the Sun take water, threatens them, they have to ask their father to make T. larger in size; the Sun sends various animals against T., but in the end is forced to fulfill the demand; people are afraid of the strongman, try to get rid of him; he leaves, meets and takes Long-Legged as his companions, then Long-Armed, Big-Eared, Three-Toothed, With an Empty Chest; they quarreled over the division of fish; T. with Long-Armed and Long-Legged went one way, and the others in another; T. and his companions decided to cook rice, there is no fire; they came to Shie-oo for fire; he proposes to wrestle: the loser will support the earth; they knocked him down and drove him into the ground; when Shie-oo moves, earthquakes occur; they come to an empty house; under the floor where T. lies down, there is a girl; she pricks him with a needle; he thinks that someone is biting, lifts the floorboard; the girl says that the eagle ate her parents, brothers and sisters, and her parents managed to hide her; T. hid the iron roof with a bamboo one, the eagle could not break through the roof; T. asked permission to shoot from it with an old bamboo bow, but shot with an iron one and killed; then he killed the other two eagles; T. took the bones of the swallowed ones from the eagle’s belly, laid them out in piles (men, women, buffalo, pigs, etc.), hit each one with a rope and revived them; he also revived the girl’s parents; left Long-legged there, telling him to watch the planted plants: if they wither, trouble will happen to him; he goes further; the same episode with another girl, where instead of an eagle there are tigers; T. kills them, leaves Long-armed there; with the third girl - three snakes; T. killed two, the third swallowed him; the plants planted by T. withered, Long-legged and Long-armed understand that trouble has happened to T., they come, kill the snake, revive T.; he returned home and saw his brother cooking live fish; he shot him in anger; repented; shot an arrow into the sky so that it would hit him; the tenth arrow hit; he weakened; sent monkey-tiger (?) to bring him the Karens and the tree shrew – to bring the Burmese; he gave the first a tinderbox so that he could quickly boil a shrimp; he gave the tree shrew two pieces of bamboo: it is difficult to get fire with them, let him wait; but monkey-tiger decided that the shrimp was still raw since it was red, began to wait, and the tree shrew quickly came to the Burmese, they came first to T., asked him for elephants, horses, oxen, and their dogs asked for ears of rice the size of the ends of their bushy tails and for three crops a year; the Karens came when T. had already died and was burned, and with him baskets and wicker fans; only a trace of the patterns remained on the ashes, the Karens remembered it; the Karens could not catch buffaloes and elephants, they only caught a pig; that is why the Karens have pigs]: Mason 1865: 178-187.

South Asia. Santals [Gumda is tending the raja's goats; every time the raja's elephant passes along the street, it rubs against the wall of G.'s house; G. promises to take it by the trunk and throw it over the sea; keeps his promise; the raja orders the elephant bones to be found; G. goes, meets, takes as a companion a man fishing with a rod made of a tree trunk, the elephant is bait; holding a banyan tree in his hand to shade workers in the field from the sun; two men who raised water from a pond into a ditch by the power of singing; each one, when they meet, says that it is not he who is strong, but G.; they cross the sea, live in the forest, cook in turns; each time the demon defeats the cook, hangs a stone on his neck, eats everything; when it is G.'s turn, he kills the demon with the same stone, marries his wife, takes the property, becomes the raja; calls his mother to live with him; [the former raja decides to be friends with G., not to demand the elephant bone]: Campbell 1891: 57-62; baiga [a potter has 12 married sons who are potters and a 13th youngest, a bachelor, sits at home; his brothers tell him to haul 12 cartloads of clay without harnessing animals; he does it; his brothers get scared and drive him away; he meets and takes as his companions 1) a baiga who ploughed with a tiger, 2) a lohara who bent hot iron with his bare hands, 3) an akhira who twisted a rope from dust, 4) a teli who squeezed out 12 measures of oil with his hands; the potter's son (SG) tells everyone that he has never seen such a strong (dexterous) person, and they answer that the real strongman (dexterous) is SG; the friends hunt and cook in turns; when it is the teli's turn, a rakshasa comes in the form of a boy, eats all the rice and beats the cook; beats Ahir, Lohar, Baiga who came to help, but SG killed him; the rakshasa has 5 beautiful daughters, SG married one, and his companions could also sleep with her; but she liked only Baiga; then SG gave each of them a wife; Baiga and his wife remained to live in that place, and Dharti Mata gave them everything they needed; the wife washed her hair, some hair floated away, the son of the Gond raja picked it up; the raja sent Malin, she introduced herself as the sister of the young woman's mother; asked what her husband's life was; in an arrow; M. burned the arrow; Baiga rushed home, managed to kick his wife in the chest, a mark remained; Baiga died; the woman was dragged to the king of the Gonds, but four friends came out to meet them, killed M. and the servants, returned the woman, found a piece of the unburned arrow, the lohar revived the baiga and they all lived under the protection of Dharti Mata]: Elwin 1939: 489-491; Sinhalese[the youngest of the seven giants (MB) does not work, lies in the ashes; his brothers send him to the plot, he grows a giant field of rice; the brothers lie that there is no field, he leaves; takes as a companion a man who picked his teeth with a banyan tree, who caught fish with bait made from an elephant who blocked the river with his foot; the companions are killed in turn by a woman, to whom they come to ask for coals; MB threatens to kill her, she revives the companions; they throw a fish bone, blocking the river; the river dries up; they themselves take out the bone; someone brings a piece of the bone to the king, receives the princess promised by the king; MB exposes the impostor, gives the princess to the first companion; similar episodes with other kings, each companion gets a wife; MB marries the daughter of the cannibal king he killed; her hair is swallowed by a fish, goes to the king; the old woman promises to bring a woman; asks MB's wife to find out where his life is; in the sword; the old woman puts the sword in the fire, takes the woman away; MB's companions see that the lemon trees and lotus flowers have withered; they find and clean the sword; the revived MB finds his wife, kills the kidnapper, takes his kingdom]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 92: 222-225.

Balkans. Slovenes [a young hero is unable to study with a shoemaker or a blacksmith, goes on a journey; meets and takes as his companions 1) a pine-uprooting man, 2) a millstone-thrower; the sworn brothers stop at a castle, cook in turns, a beggar takes away the food, beats the miller, the pine-uprooting man; the blacksmith himself beats him, the old man disappears into the abyss; the miller, the pine-uprooting man order them to be immediately raised back, the companions lower the blacksmith, he kills three snakes guarding a gold, silver, sparkling lock, frees three girls, they give him a ring, a sword, the companions raise the girls, leave the blacksmith; he makes the brownie ring the bell, the locks fall through, the blacksmith comes out to the ground; forgives the companions, gives them each a wife, takes the third maiden for himself; the strength of the heroes disappeared, but a glorious lineage came from each one]: Arkhipova 1962: 45-49; Hungarians [a boy is born to a white horse, goes off to wander; meets Koroder, Stonebreaker, Ironbender; each replies that he would like to measure his strength with the Son of the White Horse (SWH), is defeated, taken as a comrade; each in turn cooks porridge, Bakarast (a small man with a big beard takes it away); SWH ties him by the beard to a tree, he pulls out the tree, hides in a hole; only SWH dares to descend on a rope; pours porridge on B.'s belly, eats him, leaves him tied up; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of the copper, silver, gold castle; the companions raise the princesses, leave SWH underground; SBO covers the chicks of a vulture from the rain with his fur coat; their mother carries him to the ground; the food he takes is not enough, SBO feeds her his right hand, his right leg; on the ground she gives him wine to drink, his hand and leg grow back; SBO kills traitors, takes the girls to their father, marries the youngest]: Gidaš 1953: 81-89; Albanians [who threw a stone so high that it flies down for three days, goes to look for his equals, meets and takes as a companion the one who lifts a team of oxen, who holds a village in the palm of his hand; the sworn brothers cook in turns, the bearded dwarf outeats the cook, hides in the mountain; The one who threw the stone learns from the shepherd that the dwarf's strength lies in the wild boar he herds; is hired as a shepherd, kills a boar when another shepherd gives him a cheese pie to refresh himself with during a battle]: Serkova 1989: 36-42.

Central Europe. Russians(Arkhangelskaya: Leshukonsky district, village of Vozhgory, 1928) [The priest got lost, met a she-bear, helped her make a den, and wintered in it. The she-bear gave birth to Palfil Popovich (PP). In the spring, the priest returns to the village with his son. The priest's wife does not immediately recognize her husband, and is happy. PP is large, eats a lot, and his parents have a hard time feeding him, so they send him into the forest to graze the cows. PP catches a bear that wants to tear a cow to pieces, brings him to the village, and locks him in the barn. The servant enters when the bear has finished eating the last cow. The priest sends PP to the king for tribute, who rides on the bear and meets a bewitched man. In order to free himself from the spell, he must "bring the mountains together into one place." PP helps him, and they ride together. The same with the man who is obliged to uproot an oak tree. The three of them with the bear come to the king, PP demands tribute, the king pays him to leave quickly. PP gave one bag of gold to the priest, and left with the other four. The three of them stopped in a hut, catching bulls. Two of them go to the city for food, Gornik stays to cook, an old man appears from under the floorboard, demands to treat him, the man refuses, the old man beats him, eats everything. The same thing happens when Dubnik stays to cook. PP defeats the old man, scolds his comrades for not admitting why the food was not ready. PP wants to know if there is other earth under the floor. He cuts the bulls, makes belts, his comrades lower him down. PP gets into the copper, silver and gold towers, meets three girls, reports that the old man who stole them is dead. The girls rejoice and ask to take them with them. PP feels sorry to leave the towers. Each throws a ring from her hand onto the roof, the towers turn into rings, they are given to PP. The companions lift the girls, but PP is too heavy, the companions cut the belts, PP falls, goes waist-deep into the ground. She is hired by a blind old man to graze cows. He shows the border of Baba Yaga's clearing, forbids grazing cows there. PP observes the ban three times, the fourth time he drives the cows to Baba Yaga's land, she gets angry, he promises not to bring cattle to her anymore. The cows have eaten their fill and are roaring. PP again leads the herd to Baba Yaga's clearing. She says that she would fight the hero PP, she has heard of his strength. They agree to beat him three times. Two blows of PP do not harm Baba Yaga, then PP hits the mortar, Yaga becomes a woman, he puts her in a sack and tramples, at home lets the old man touch her, he is convinced that Yaga is killed. PP kills one of the bulls, climbs into its skin, catches a chick that flies up, sends another for living and dead water. Having received the water, he tests it: he tears the bird apart, then revives it. He offers to cure the old man's eyes, sprinkles dead and living water, he regains his sight, in gratitude promises to take PP to the ground. This is done by his daughter, a sorceress, she eats people and can turn into a bird. He orders to forge an iron spear and prepare 40 barrels of meat and 40 of water. There was not enough meat, PP cut off some from his calves. The bird says that his meat is sweet and would eat it, but her father's request does not allow it. Spitting out what he swallowed, PP's legs are whole again. After 10 years of absence, PP returns to his kingdom,the maiden from the golden hut is waiting for him, he marries her. PP punishes his comrades: he cuts off one's hand, another's leg. He builds silver and golden towers, lives in them]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 109, 272-278;Russians (former Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye) [the widow became pregnant, gave birth to a son, Okati-Goroshok; rumors of his mischief reached the tsar, OG asked the tsar not to execute him, he would find his three missing daughters; the tsar agreed; OG meets and takes the heroes Roznigor as his companions, then Usynya; they came to the house, R. and U. could not loosen the gate, OG opened the gate; R. cooked dinner, but Sam-s-a-nail, with a beard as long as an elbow, came and ate everything; the next day the same thing happened to U.; on the third day OG carried Sam-s-a-nail out into the yard, pinched his beard; the heroes went to the mountain to drop the anchor, R. and U. did not throw the anchor far enough, OG climbed up the chain and came to the copper kingdom; the eldest princess hid it, her husband arrived, smelled the Russian spirit, the princess began to caress him, he fell asleep, OG cut off his head and went for the second princess (the same, a silver palace); the third in gold; each collected her palace in a box; the princesses went down, the heroes pulled the chain together and OG was left alone at the top; he came to a house by the lake; there an old man asks to graze his cattle, but on the road, not on the grass; OG disobeyed and snakes began to sting the cattle; OG killed them with a sword; on the third day a 12-headed snake, the mother of the dead, flew in, tried to eat OG, he cut off 6 of her heads, she brought living and dead water for leaving the other 6; he smeared the old man's eyes with them, he regained his sight; the grateful old man sent OG to his homeland, putting him on an eagle; there was not enough meat, he had to cut off his own calves; the shoemaker said that the first princess would marry R., the second U., and the third the one who would make her shoes like those in the golden kingdom; OG opened the box containing the golden palace and took out the golden boots, sent the shoemaker with the shoes to the princess, she understood everything and asked for the same dress; then the whole palace; in the morning the shoemaker was asked who the builder of the palace was, he pointed to OG; OG married the princess, R. and U. married the other two princesses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 41: 119-123; Russian(Moscow) [an old man wove bast shoes, sold them; 12 brothers are dragging a mare; the old man gave for her what he took for the bast shoes; the mare's tail became pearly, her mane golden; he tells them to mount her, but not to cling to the clouds with their heads; at home the mare immediately foaled and gave birth to a foal; the landowner bought it for 500 rubles; the mare to the old man: but forgot about me; he fed her, she flew away to the steppe and gave birth to Ivan-Kobylin's son (IK); he went to rescue the princess, she was carried away by a 12-headed snake; he met and took Gorynya and Dubynya as companions; they were afraid to go down into the snake kennel, IK went down; the snake is on the princess's lap, she is looking for lice in his heads; he tells her to swap strength with weakness; the snake drank the weakness; they fight with sabres; IK: Serpent, look back, your kingdom is burning" the serpent looked back, IK chopped off all the heads; the princess gave her ring; her companions lifted her; IK tied a stone, they cut the rope, thinking that they were lifting IK; 12 doves promise to carry IK to the ground, they order to prepare water and meat; the last portion was not enough, he cut off the caviar from his right leg, divided it into 12 parts, gave it to the doves; on the ground the birds coughed up the pieces, put them back; the mother mare came running, hit herself against a stone, the crows began to peck her; IK grabbed the chick, ordered the crow to bring living and dead water, revived the mother; dressed as a beggar, he came to the wedding of the princess with Dubynya; the bride recognized her ring; [They were spreading Dubynya across the field, IK received the kingdom]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 23: 58-61; Russian (Moscow) [three princesses went into the garden, a whirlwind carried them away; the king promises one of his daughters and half the kingdom; the peasant's son went in search; he meets and takes Ivan the Stonebreaker, Ivan the Oak-Plucker, as his companions; they cook in the hut in turns; a peasant with a fingernail-sized beard and an elbow-length beard comes in, eats everything, cuts a belt from the cook's back; when Ivan the peasant's son (I.) remained, he pinched his beard in a stump; he broke free, they followed the tracks, there was a hole under the stone; first there was cold, then heat; only I. endures and goes down; I. killed the three-headed snake near the copper palace, saved the princess; the same with the silver (six-headed), golden (nine-headed); each princess turned her palace into an apple; the princesses were lifted up, the youngest gave the golden apple to Ivan; the brothers began to lift it, cut the rope; Ivan did not break; in the nest on the oak tree there are three chicks, a snake is crawling towards them, Ivan killed it; for this the bird carried him to the earth; the king promises the youngest daughter to the one who will get the golden rings that she had in the lower world; Ivan turned the palace, and the rings were in it; the brothers were forgiven]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 24: 61-65; Russian(Vologda, Belozersky region, Kirillovsky district) [a bear took away a priest's wife; a son, Medvezhye Ushko, was born; he grew up, they went with his mother, the bear followed, MU tore off his skin; living with a priest, he maims his peers in games; asks for an iron club weighing 30 poods; he threw it up, it broke; 60 poods - the same; he forged one weighing 90 poods, went wandering; meets and takes Gorynya (he rolls mountains) and Dubina as companions; when they meet, both say that they are not heroes, but the hero is MU; they live in a house in the forest, they cook in turns; an old man the size of a fingernail, a beard the size of an elbow, eats everything, pushes the cook; when MU is left, he pinches his beard in a split stump; all three beat the old man, he leaves, dragging the stump under the stove; there is a hole there; IM came down; the maiden in the copper house asks to marry her; sends to her sister in the silver house (the same); she to her sister in the golden house; the dwarf is their father; the maiden from the golden house sends to the oak: the father is sleeping in the hollow; IM beat the old man until only his beard remained; each maiden rolled her house into a ball, gave it to MU; the sworn brothers lifted the maidens, and MU began to lift and threw them; he went, met a shepherd; he says that people eat snakes, the princess must be brought to him to the sea; MU cut off three heads of the snake; the Nagai bird's nest is by the sea; bad weather, the chicks began to roar in the nest, MU covered them with his robe; the grateful mother orders to prepare meat, promises to bring it to land; there is not enough meat, MU cuts off his from the calves of his legs; the bird regurgitated pieces and put them back; MU came to his sworn brothers; his wife was there as a servant; he tore them apart, stepping on one leg and tearing the other; he married their wives; he married his own; I drank beer there, it ran down my mustache, but did not get into my mouth”]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54: 204-209; Russians (Tula) [Gorynia, Dubynia, Usynya]: Erlenwein 1882: 125-129; Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia) [a son sucks his mother’s breast until he is 16, becomes a hero, single-handedly uproots and drags a beech tree, goes off to wander; he meets and takes as his companions 1) He who uproots oak trees, 2) He who kneads iron; they are given work, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they stay in the forest to cook in turns, the devil comes, eats everything, beats the cook; Mesizhelezo asks the devil to help split a log, knocks out a wedge, the devil's hands are clenched; M. beats him, forcing him to say where the three kidnapped princesses are; the devil runs into a hole, Vyrvibuk, Vyrvidub are afraid, M. comes down, the devil says that the princesses are with the 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; the 6-headed one smells a person, the youngest princess says that her brother has come; they fight, M. drives the dragon into the ground, chops off heads, cuts off tongues; thus he frees all the princesses, Vyrvibuk and Vyrvidub pull them out, throw M.; he covers the chicks from the fiery rain, their mother carries him to the ground; to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the king gives away his daughters, M. shows the tongues of dragons, the rings given by the princesses, takes the eldest]: Giryak 1978: 215-237; Ukrainians(Kyiv, Tarashcha uyezd, Bugayevka village) [Pokotigoroshek to his father: I will go and seek my fortune; he meets him, wins, takes Vyrvygora and Vyrvydub as his companions; they come to the hut, cook in turns; a long-bearded dwarf, beats the cook, eats everything; when it is P.'s turn, he splits an aspen tree and sticks the dwarf's beard into the crack; all three come: the beard remains; the three follow the bloody trail to the pit; the companions do not want to, P. climbed down the rope; there is a palace below, a beauty is in it; the dwarf is recovering from yesterday; P. began to fight with him and killed him; he went on; there are eaglets in a nest on an oak tree, a storm is approaching, P. covered them with his clothes; the grateful eagle agrees to carry P. to the ground, ordered to prepare water and meat; there was not enough meat, P. cut off his leg, threw it in his beak; on the ground the eagle regurgitated it and put it back; P. found companions in that hut, beat them; returned to his father; feast; and I was there, drank honey and wine, it flowed down my beard, but did not get into my mouth]: Rudchenko 1878, No. 62: 231-235; Ukrainians(SE Kievskaya, Cherkassky district, village of Mliev) [a peasant and his wife prayed for a son, named them Ivan Bogodavets (IB); he grew up quickly, came to his uncle the blacksmith, asked him to forge a finger from a hundred pounds of iron; threw it up, went to bed, a day later there was thunder, rain, the club fell on his shoulder, broke; another hundred pounds, two days - bent; another hundred, three days - intact; with it he went to fight a cancer named Vir, who lives overseas; another cancer transported him; during the fight Vir drinks strong water, and IB weak, the cancer wins; goes to bed; the other cancer suggested swapping barrels with strong and weak water; IB drove Vir into the ground up to his neck; he asks to spare his life, gives a self-propelled bull, a rolling pea apple and living and dead water; IB took everything, but still killed Vir; the old crayfish carried him across the sea; IB left the magic gifts to his mother: the apple will roll to the place where it was killed, and the water will revive it from the seed; IB sees a mustachioed man who alternately sets 6 windmills in motion on one side and then on the other; then Vernigora (changes valleys and mountains); Vernidub; an inscription at the crossroads: you will be healthy; you will be full, but you will also be beaten; they are walking along the second one; they began to live in a three-story house, they cook in turns; 4 ducks flew in, became girls, took off their dresses, went to the bathhouse; Ustaty propped the door with a windmill; the girls knocked down the door and piled the windmill on Ustaty, and stuffed their mustaches into his mouth; the same with Vernigora and Vernidub; IB propped the door with his club; the girls have to promise that they will become faithful wives; they are the daughters of Kashchei (Kostiy), who has no soul; he sent a fleet; IB sent Usatiy; he turned one mustache, the other - all the ships sank; Kashchei sent an army along the valley, Vyrvygor killed them all; through the forest, Vyrvydub killed them all; along the road; now IB himself is coming; Kashchei killed him, buried him, took his daughters; IB's mother releases a self-propelled bull, an apple and goes with living water; IB came to life, came to Kashchei's daughters, asks to find out where Kashchei's soul is; Kashchei: in freedom; IB: gild the ox's horns; in the drake (they gilded them and pray to him); there is an island by the sea, there is a stone, an oak tree nearby, a nest on the oak, in it a seagull, she has an egg, the egg has a soul; IB goes, spends the night in succession with three old men, each one tells him to pray for him later, directs him to the goal; when he prays, one of the wishes comes true: the sea is frozen, you can go to the island; it got hot, a seagull came down to drink, IB grabbed it, tore it apart, the egg rolled into the sea, but a storm started, the waves threw the egg onto the shore; he remembered the first old man again, the sea froze again, you can cross; he broke the egg, Kashchei died; the brothers-in-arms returned their wives; the narrator was shot from a cannon and he flew here]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 64: 239-250; Belarusians(Mogilevskaya, zap. 1888-1891, v. Novaya Bych, Bykhov district, from the family of Pavel Ivanov, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, a bear carries her off, 3 years later she gives birth to a son, Ivashka, bear's ear; 3 years later he grows up and leaves, they meet Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik, the three of them go; they find a house, leave Gora-Gorovik to cook dinner, they themselves go hunting, Kashchei ("Koschei") appears, demands that he be brought into the house, seated at the table and served food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik slaughters another ox, puts it on to cook, his comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovik does not tell about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dub-Dubovik; On the third day, Ivashka remains to cook dinner, Kashchei flies in, Ivashka refuses to follow his orders (does not bring him into the house or seat him at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashchei's beard in a crevice in an oak tree, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds them, they go after Kashchei, but he has flown away; the three of them set off after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the way, Gora-Gorovik digs up the mountain, finds a huge stone and a hole under it, they make a belt from ox hides, Ivashka goes down, they agree that in a year the comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, there a girl says that they have never seen a Russian here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; he reaches the silver house, a girl is also sitting there, history repeats itself; Ivashka reaches the golden house, where the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei flies in, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashchei's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in the hare, an egg in the duck, hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite on the way (and eat them), but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees a crayfish on the shore, does not kill it, but helps it swim out to sea; in gratitude, the crayfish brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it apart, the duck flies away, the kite catches it and tears it apart, Ivashka carries the egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the crayfish returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits him in the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving the golden house, the girl takes the egg, rolls it around and the house assembles in the egg, Ivashka puts the egg in his pocket, the second girl assembles the silver house in the same way, the third - the copper house; they come to the exit upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades lift the girl from the copper house, argue who will get her as a wife, she assures that there is "more beautiful" than her, they lift the girls from the silver and golden houses, decide to take them as wives, and the first - as a servant, and on the rise to cut Ivashka's belt so that it breaks; Ivashka ties a stone in his place, comrades cut the belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak, birds are screaming, he climbs the oak,covers the chicks from the rain, then gets down and hides, the bird Polugritsa flies in, in gratitude for saving her chicks, promises to deliver him up, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under the wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from the barrels into the bird's mouth, the meat runs out, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird carries it out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, coughs it up, the caviar grows back; Ivashka comes to the city, announces himself as a shoemaker ("Ivanichka the Drunkard"), does not know how to sew, lodges with a Jew; the girl from the golden house promises to marry the one who will sew the same slippers that she had in the golden house, Ivashka accepts the order through the Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day rolls out a golden house from an egg, takes out the slippers, the Jew takes the slippers; the girl asks for the same dress - history repeats itself, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to the blacksmith, gets a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each lives in her own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36: 340-347;Belarusians [Vasily Pepelyshka (VP) asks his father to order him an iron club; threw it up above the clouds, put his knee under it, the club crumbled into pieces; VP orders a club to be made from his iron, is satisfied; leaves, meets Goryn-bogatyr (scatters mountains with a pitchfork), Dubovik-bogatyr (pulls out oaks), Valun-bogatyr (throws boulders), takes him as companions; they live in a hut, opposite a bathhouse; 4 doves fly there, throw in girls; each of the heroes in turn tries to prop up the door; the girls easily kill each one; VP found the dead in the corner of the bathhouse, blew on them, revived them, beat the girls with a wire whip, they agreed to become wives; their father was born of Tsmok, is immortal; Tsmok sends out an army, the heroes beat him three times, fell asleep; VP fights with Tsmok himself, the severed part grows back, Tsmok killed everyone, took the daughters home in chains; a mare, golden on top, silver on the bottom, revived VP, and he revived his companions; VP came to his wife, ordered to find out what caused her father's death; at first he answers that it was in a goat; in a pig; she decorates and dresses them up; Tsmok confesses that there is a mortar in the mountain, under it a hare, under the hare a duck, under the duck an egg, in it death; VP broke the egg, married that princess]: Vasilenok et al. 1958: 154-162; Belarusians (Mogilev, Gomel uyezd, Staro-Yurovichskaya volost) [someone is poisoning oats at the priest's; the son went, spent the night at the neighbors'; the priest himself - fell asleep; the priest's wife; the bear carried her off and she gave birth to a son, Ivashka-Barashka Bear's Ear (MU); after a year and a half they left; the bear chases: smoke comes out of his ears, ashes pour out of his mouth; MU pulled the bear out of his skin; they began to live with the priest; MU hired himself out to thresh for the master, did everything in a day; asks the priest to stock up on iron; threw up the club, put his knees under it, it crumbled; the next time it only bent; MU leaves, meets, takes as companions Vyarni-Mountain, Vyarni-Stone and Vyarni-Oak; they live, cook in turns; the bearded dwarf beats and outeats the cook each time, tears the belt off his back; when it is MU's turn, he pinches the dwarf's beard in a split stump; he reattached the torn skin; the dwarf tore off his beard, went into a hole; MU went down; there are 4 maidens there; in the bathhouse there are two springs with strong and weak water; MU and the snake are driving each other into the ground; MU killed the snake, sent the girls up; MU goes to meet the snake; promises to deliver it up, let him get her 20 pairs of birds; she took him across the sea; there was not enough meat, he cut off his calves; on the other bank the snake regurgitated them and replanted them; MU came to the companions, killed them with a mace, made their wives servants, and married the best girl]: Shein 1893, No. 54: 110-116; Slovaks[an old woman at 90 gives birth to a son Lomidrevo (=Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until he is 7 years old, then, at his request, for another three years; he is incredibly strong, easily uproots oak trees, at 17 he goes wandering; meets, defeats, takes as a companion 1) a mountain mover named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Skalilamai; Studnyak - digs wells), Myasizhelezo; they contracted to thresh grain; payment - as much as they could carry; they carried the grain to the bin and carried away the bin; the rich man sent a bull after them, then a boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased with servants in a cart, but L. piled oak trees on the road; ordered M. to make him an iron club; threw him up, put his back under him, the club fell apart; ordered another to be made; The king's three daughters have disappeared, dragons have dragged them into a hole in the ground; the three of them promised to return the princesses; they settled in a hut in the forest, and took turns cooking; a dwarf with a beard as long as his elbow comes out of the chimney, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on his stomach and eats it; when it was L.'s turn, he pinched the dwarf's beard in a log, beat him with an iron club until he gave up his beard, which was his strength; the dwarf hid in a hole under a stone; L.'s companions envy him; V. and M. try to go down, but are ordered to be lifted back - there are frogs and snakes there; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, in exchange for which he orders him to show the way to the eldest princess; there is a copper lock on a magpie's leg; L. stamped his feet, and he stopped shaking; the six-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; The dragon eats lead bread, calls to the lead threshing floor, offers to drive each other into lead; they drove each other waist-deep; then L. drove the dragon to the neck, cut off the heads with a club; the princess rolled the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent her to the ground; the same in the silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in the gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking to lift himself, L. sent a stone up, the companions cut the rope; L. came to the nest of the Knochta birds (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed the snake, which always devoured the chicks; or covered the chicks from the rain, one drop of which always killed them; the chicks told the mother who flew in about L., she did not swallow him, but promised to help; orders to stock up on a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flies with L. to the ground, there was not enough mutton, L. cut off a piece from the thigh; the bird: if it had known that human flesh was so tasty, it would have eaten you; but it regurgitated the piece and put it back; weddings are being prepared in the city, but the princesses demand the same dresses that they had underground; L. hired himself out to a tailor; at night he got copper, silver, and gold apples, took the dresses out of them; let the princesses come for them themselves; he called the older L. ugly and drove them away, gave the youngest a gold dress, and married her; he took the locks out of the apples; he gave the two older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, no. 10: 50-66.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [a woman in India gave birth to Massang - a man with bull's horns and a bull's tail; the father wants to kill him, he leaves; meets and takes as companions Idder (black, born in the forest thicket), Geser (green, born of grass), Adder (white, born of reeds); they hunt, cook in turns; each time a tiny old woman comes, eats everything; each explains that a hundred horsemen attacked; when M. remains, he sends the old woman to fetch water with a leaky tub, replaces the sinew rope, iron hammer and tongs in the old woman's knapsack with bast and wooden ones; the old woman suggests wrestling, M. ties her up with a sinew rope, beats her with a red-hot hammer; the wounded old woman flies away; together with his companions he follows a bloody trail, descends into an abyss, sends treasures up, they remove the rope; M. plants a piece of bast, falls asleep, and in a few years three trees have grown from the bast to the edge of the abyss; M. climbs up, forgives his companions, meets a girl, and comes with her to Khurmust, who asks him to help defeat Humnus; M. wounds him in the eye, and Khurmust's army flees; he goes to Khurmust's cave, pretends to be a doctor, does not pull out his arrow, but drives it deeper and, as Khurmust had taught him, throws 7 grains; M. hits Khusona with an iron hammer, M. rises into the air on chains, and 7 stars appear in the sky; M. comes with his wife to his father, his tail and horns have fallen off, and all is well]: Dzhimbinov 1962: 87-92; Abkhazians [an adauy son learns that his mother is a kidnapped girl; demands that his father allow them to see their relatives; in order not to quarrel with his son, the father throws himself into the abyss; the mother is horrified: the other adaus will take revenge; then the son leaves, hires himself out to the mullah, brings a pile of trees on his shoulders, drags an elephant by the ear; the people ask the mullah to dismiss the worker, he gives money, the adaus buys out the prisoner with it; he takes as his companions an adaus who has a mill on his big toe; another who turns a trough on his big toe; they cook in turns; the bearded man arrives on a rooster, ties up the cook, eats everything; when the adaus's son remains, he pinches the dwarf's beard with a tree; however, he tore out the tree, went into the abyss; the companions lowered the adaus's son there; three girls say that the dwarf is dying; the adaus's son sends them up; the youngest warns that if the companions do not lift him up, he must jump on a white ram, which will carry him to the ground, and the black one will lower him even lower; the companions left the son of adaua below; he accidentally jumped on a black ram; the old woman: an elephant guards the water, once a week allows the girl brought to him to take; the son of adaua overpowered the elephant, brought him by the ear; only a kite can carry him to the ground; an elephant attacks the chicks, the son of adaua killed him, the grateful kite promises to carry him up, orders to stock up on meat and water; the meat ran out, the son of adaua tore the last piece from his hand; on the ground the kite healed the wound; the son of adaua killed the companions, and made their wives slaves of his wife]: Shakryl 1975, No. 78: 353-361; Ingush[a she-bear forces a plowman to come together with her; on the same day his son, immediately born and raised, approaches him; the son has become an abrek, takes a tree-puller and another as a comrade; each in turn remains to guard the hut; the man himself is six quarters, the beard of seven ties up the guard, takes what he needs; the guards say they are sick; the bear's son drives the bearded man into a tree like an axe; he breaks free, they follow a bloody trail to the tower, the woman lifts them up; the bearded man comes, they kill him; the bear's son unleashes his comrades on chains, he himself cannot; the woman warns that three rams will come; if he jumps on the black one, he will fall into the third underworld, on the red one - into the second, on the white one - he will end up on the ground; he lands on the black one; in the lower world, the woman is going to knead dough with urine; the snake Sarmyg lay down by the spring, gives out water in exchange for the girl; The Bear's Son takes water twice, the third time S. swallows it, he chops it up from the inside with his saber, comes out; tells the saber that no one except him can take it out of the snake's body; the king, whose daughter was to be eaten, tells him to turn to the eagle on a tree in the middle of the sea; the chicks ask their father for a man; on the way the Bear's Son throws buffaloes and rams to the eagle, at the end he cuts off flesh from his thigh; on the ground he regurgitates a piece back; The Bear's Son finds comrades, marries a woman from the tower, marries his comrades]: Potanin 1883: 782-784; Nogais [the woman rolled out the dough ( kamyr ), covered it with a tablecloth, and when she removed it, there was a boy Kamyr-batyr; he grew up, took a horse from his father, and went wandering; meets, takes several dhows as companions, each says that it is not he who is amazing, but K.; one pulls out trees, another throws up rocks, the third drinks up the sea; they put up a hut, cook in turns; a horseman a span tall, a beard of 40 spans eats everything, ties up the cook with his hair; when it is K.'s turn, he tied a dwarf between the trees; he pulled them out by the roots, the trail led to a well, K. descended on a silk rope; there are three daughters of the dwarf, one gave K. strong water, he killed the dwarf, sent the girls up, his companions threw a rope; K. came to an old man; he teaches him to sit on a white ram, but K. accidentally sat on a black one, he threw him even lower; below, the old man advises to kill azdag, which eats the chicks of the Karakus bird, it will carry them to the ground; K. killed azdag, the chicks hid it; the wind rose (from the wings of the mother bird), icy crumbs fell from the sky (her tears); the bird ordered to prepare meat and water for 9 months of travel; K. cut off the last piece from his thigh; the bird swallowed it and spat it out healthy; K. executed the treacherous companions, took the girls]: Kapaev 2012: 209-218; Avars[a bear stole a pachakh's daughter, his son Bear's Ear grew up, killed the bear, hired himself out to a pachakh as a worker, dragged in a hundred trees, breaking down walls in houses; pachakh sends him to a hart, supposedly for an unpaid debt; a hart tries to stuff MU into a chest, he stuffs it himself, brings it to a pachakh, who orders it to be taken back; the same thing - azhdakha owes a bull; pachakh orders it to be taken back, on the way azhdakha swallowed a herd of horses; pachakh went to war against MU, who destroyed his army, went off to wander; he meets and takes as a companion the Tree-Bearer, the Millstone-Turner; they cook in turns, a bearded dwarf riding a hare ties him with hair, eats out of the cook; MU clamps his beard in the trunk of a tree, he tore out a plane tree by the roots, went into a hole in the ground; MU descends, kills the dwarf, sends the kidnapped princess up; she warns that his companions will abandon him, he must jump on a white ram, and the black one will carry him even deeper; MU accidentally sits on the black one, finds himself in a village where a nine-headed azhdakha has blocked the water; MU cuts off his heads, brings his ears to the pachakhu of the underworld; he offers his daughter, but MU wants to go to earth; there is an eagle in the forest, MU kills a three-headed snake that was devouring chicks, the eagle carries him up; there is not enough meat, MU cuts it off from his leg, the eagle puts the piece back; MU kills the traitorous companions, marries the rescued princess]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 2: 50-57; Lezgins [Zulum-Magoma eats and works like a giant; fellow villagers are afraid of him; mother pretends to be ill, asks to bring lion meat; he easily completes the task, leaves to fight dragons; on the way he meets a tree-puller and mountain-leveler; the companions prepare food; the long-bearded dwarf ties the cook with his hair each time, eats everything; Z. throws him up to the sky, the dwarf falls, hides underground; the companions cannot descend, it is hot there; Z. descends, kills three dragons (3, 5, 7-headed), sleeping on the laps of three girls; the companions lift the girls to the ground, leave M. below; the youngest manages to say that he should grab the white gazelle by the leg, it will carry him to the upper world; M. mistakenly grabs the black one, it carries him to the black world; the seven-headed dragon closed the water, gives in exchange for the girls; Z. kills him; the king advises to go to the plane tree, where the parrot's nest is; Z. kills a snake about to eat the chicks; the parrot carries him to the upper world; Z. cuts off the last piece of meat from his leg, and the bird puts it back on the ground; Z. comes to the wedding, kills the traitors, marries, and gives the other two girls to farm laborers]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997(2): 79-91 (=Khalilov 1965, no. 34: 54-68; apparently, another more accurate translation of the same text is in Ganieva 2011b, no. 1: 33-43); Georgians[Lom-Katsi is conceived from an apple peel; meets and takes as a companion a hare that is chasing him, tying millstones to his feet; steals eggs from a nest so that a dove does not notice; the companions live in the forest, cook in turns; the giant overcomes the cook, eats the dinner; LK hits him with an arrow, goes down after him into a crevice where a girl kidnapped by the giant is; the companions lift the girl, leave LK below; he comes to the old woman, where the gveleshapi gives water in exchange for people; LK kills the gveleshapi, rises to the ground on the back of a bird; kills the traitor, marries the rescued girl]: Mashurko 1894: 400.

Iran - Central Asia. Baluchi : Zarubin 1932, #10 [a dervish gives an apple to a childless king, his wife ate it and gave birth to a boy, Djanteg; Azrael carried him off but revived him; sent him to his father; meets him and takes the Astrologer and the Water-Vehicle as companions; all three go after the girl Hair-in-Forty-Arshin; at night the Astrologer, then the Water-Vehicle go to look for fire, come to the buzlangi of Ded-gargashang, who puts them in his boot; when D. arrives, he returns his companions and goes with them as the fourth; the dragon gives water in exchange for the girls; D. puts forward his sword, the dragon tries to swallow D., is cut in half, Ded-gargashang eats him; D. receives the princess, gives her to the Astrologer; having defeated the enemies of another king, receives another princess, gives her to the Water-Vehicle; The girl Hair-in-forty-arshin lives on an island in the middle of the river; Ded-gargashang carries J. there, he meets the girl; the old woman persuades the girl to ask J. where his soul is; in the sword; the old woman throws the sword into the river, lures the girl into a box, delivers it to a strange king; Astrologer and Water-guide get the sword out of the fish's mouth, J. comes to life; Ded-gargashang eats the old woman, returns the girl to J.; he finds her father], 11 [41 sons of one king are going to marry 41 daughters of another; the younger Amat-sha agrees to send the sword in his place, to stay and watch over the house; on the way back the buzlangi (white div) takes his wife; A. learns about this from a conversation between dervishes; A. goes off to look for a wife; on the way he wins, takes as comrades the buzlangi-Plowman and the One Who Grinds Grain, hitting stones; at the overnight stay, first the Ploughman, then the Miller go to look for fire; the Forty-Bagman, who wields the buzlangs, puts them under his knee; A. defeats him, takes him as the fourth companion; S. brings A. to the border of the country of the white div; A. kills him with a club, takes his wife; S. in the clothes of the two kings fulfills the condition (to carry a heavy stone, to eat a lot), receives the princesses, A. gives them to the Ploughman and the Miller; a hair of A.'s wife falls into the river, the king's son finds it; he sends an old woman, she persuades the wife to find out where her husband's soul is - in the sword; he throws the sword into the well, lures the woman into the box, brings it to the prince; the Ploughman and the Miller see blood instead of milk, fly in as doves, wake up S., he pulls the sword out of the well, A. comes to life, S. returns his wife; A. comes to his father]: 121-133, 134-150; Yagnobis[a bear stole a princess, she spun some thread, threw a ball of yarn out of a cave, Grandfather the Thorn Collector found it, reported to the king, the princess was returned, she gave birth to a strong man; people complain about him because he cripples other children in games; he goes off to wander, his name is Khirs-ed-Din ("hirs" - bear); he meets, defeats, takes as companions Chanor-ed-Din (wears plane trees), Sang-ed-Din (turns a millstone on his finger); they stole the girl, made her a servant, ordered to always feed the cat, otherwise it would extinguish the fire; the cat was late for food, doused the fire with urine, the girl saw smoke, came to the barzangi, she gave fire and a handful of grains; she followed the trail of grains of the barzangi, sucked the blood of the girl; Ch., S. remained to guard, were frightened, hid; H. cut off the head of the barzanga, but the head disappeared into the abyss, promised to harm; H. descends on a rope, there is a captive peri; she learns that the soul of each div is in a locked room, in a pair of pigeons, in two worms; she gave the divs a drink, H. took the keys, H. unlocked the rooms, killed the worms, the divs died; the peri warns that the companions will cut the rope; the peri agrees to marry the one who lifts H.'s knife, gun and purse, no one can; in the lower world, H. tells the tigers not to touch the peasant's bulls, kills the fox that was strangling the old woman's chickens; the old woman advises to kill the dragon that was devouring the chicks of the Simurgh bird; in flight, H. feeds the Simurgh with the eggs that the old woman gave, the lambs that the peasant gave; the Simurgh bites off the last piece from H.'s leg, burps it, puts it back; gives a white and black feather to become an old man or a young man; only H. raises a knife, etc.; the brothers were tied to the tails of horses; a feast, the king rewarded Grandfather-Collector of thorns]: Andreev, Peshchereva 1957, No. 27: 131-138; Uzbeks[the king has daughters Mukhliyo, Mukhabbat and the youngest Ikbal; the king wants to give them in marriage to those who are richer than him; the sisters flee, wearing men's clothing; at the fork, I. chooses the road to the right with the sign "if you go, you will not return"; the sisters go straight and left ("you are unlikely to return" and "you will return"); the sisters promise to marry the one they meet; I. meets a bear; gives birth to a son with the legs and body of a bear; at the age of 14, the son moved the millstone that was closing the cave, defeated and killed the bear; I. ​​returns with her son to her father, who throws a celebration, gives his grandson the name Aikpalvan ("bear hero"); while playing, A. wounds his peers; the vizier advises I. to pretend to be sick, and A. to go to the land of the divines for leaves and roots of the tree of life; A. meets a man playing with millstones; He trains to overcome A. (whom he does not recognize); A. defeats him, makes him his companion; the same with the man who moves mountains; they come to an old man; he explains that the country of the divas can only be reached by riding a diva; the sworn brothers hunt, take turns cooking; a dwarf emerges from a plane tree by himself, with a beard of 40 quarters, ties the cook with his hair, eats everything; when it is A.'s turn, he kills the dwarf; the sworn brothers find a hole in the ground; each tries to go down, but orders him to be pulled out immediately; A. goes down to the end; comes to a castle, there is a princess kidnapped by a diva; A. sends her up in a chest; when he begins to climb up himself, the sworn brothers cut the rope; the old man advises to kill the dragon, which annually eats two chicks of the Simurg bird, she will thank him for this; Simurg brings him to the ground, orders him to go to the tree whose top reaches to the sky; asks the plowmen to bring food; harnesses two divs that tried to attack, plows on them; the old man explains that the tree reaching to the sky is the tree of life; meets former sworn brothers, they fight over a chest, believing that it contains gold; A. throws them into the abyss; brings the tree to his mother, kills the viziers, finds and marries off his mother's sisters, plows on the divs]: Afzalov et al. 1972(1): 434-444; Uzbeks[King Iron tells his son to hunt only in the west; he finds no game there, goes east; a she-bear carries him off and locks him in a cave; Lekova's son is born with hairy legs; tells the traveler to tell King I. that his son and grandson will soon return, to trace a trail on the ground with a saber so that he knows where to go; after 7 years he throws away the stone blocking the entrance, leads and then carries his father, kills the she-bear that gave chase; I. is afraid of him, moves him to a distant dacha; tells them to bring firewood from the swamp where there are shaitans and predators; D. loaded the firewood onto them and arrived riding on a tiger; I. ​​ordered all the firewood to be unloaded at the dacha; D. went on a wandering; meets Takh-palvan, then Hyrs-palvan, Chinar-palvan; one threw up mountains, another - huge stones, the third - plane trees; everyone went to Chimkent to wrestle with D.; D. called himself D.'s disciple, easily defeated the palvans, took him as a companion; on the edge of the city there are 7 Baba Yagas sitting in a row, in front of each one there is a cauldron with 40 ears, in each cauldron there are 40 rams; D. hit one, her head flew off and knocked off the head of the neighboring one, so all 7 heads flew off; in another place D. killed four Baba Yagas; the companions arrived in another place; they agreed to cook in turns; the first is T.; a dwarf arrives on a goat, a beard of 40 vershoks, bells on each hair of the goat; he asks for fire, empties the cauldron in one gulp, leaves; now D. is left, he knocked the dwarf's head off his shoulders with a hot stone, it rolled, disappeared into the pit; everyone tries to get down, but immediately screams to be pulled out; D. went down; Two peris in an iron cage say that Raznun-div rules here, he has 70 thousand divs, from every drop of blood spilled another 70 thousand appear; divs sleep and stay awake for 40 days; D. killed them, sent the girls and treasures up; lifting D., the companions let go of the rope; D. came to his senses, met a plowman, asked for food; while the plowman went for food, D. ordered the animals and birds to plow the field, and then obey the plowman; he came to an empty city; there everyone hid underground from a snake named Mundurha-adjar; D. killed him; in another city, two idroim-azhdargs come out of a lake and devour everyone; D. to the old man: if blood appears above the water, then I am dead, and if pus, then I have killed me; D. went down into the lake and killed the snakes; goes further, kills several Baba Yagas; defeated the last one; she asks D. to become her son - she had the same hero, but he died; after him a powerful bow was left; D. asks how to get to the land; the old woman tells him to go to the sea, there is a plane tree with a nest of the Sirug bird; her cubs are eaten by the alpan-azhdarga; D. took the bow of the old woman's son, struck the azhdarga in the heart, fed it to two chicks, they hid it under their wings from their mother; Simrug smelled the smell of a person, but the chicks told her everything; she ordered to prepare 80 ram carcasses and 80 vessels with water; there was not enough meat, D. cut off his leg; on the ground Simrug regurgitated it and put it back; she said that if she knew how delicious D.'s meat was, she would have eaten it; D. came to the house where his companions and peri were, killed the companions, began to live with the peri; one day he heard,that the Bukhara Khan attacked Iron; he came and scattered the Bukhara army, and then returned to himself]: Ostroumov 1906, No. 1: 157-182;pashai [Jan Bahādur ("barley hero"; YB) at the age of three is so strong that he beats his father, threatens to beat his mother, goes off on a journey; meets and takes as his companion 1) one who pushes two houses together with his hands (he, like the following ones, says, not knowing who is in front of him, that he is stronger than all YB; does not believe that YB is in front of him, is defeated by him, promises to serve faithfully); 2) one who pushes mountains (at first the one who pushes houses fought with him, but was defeated); 3) one who pushes rivers; 4) one who pushes rocks; behind Mount Kaf they meet a fairy; the companions are going to kill YB in order to take possession of her; YB offers: he will shoot an arrow, let them run after it, the first one to run will get the woman; he kills them (with arrows?), takes the fairy as his wife]: Morgenstierne 1944, no. 8: 60-65.

Baltoscandia. Danes [a husband ordered his wife to breastfeed their son Hans for 10 years; he was unable to uproot a tree; after another 10 years he was able; H. is too strong to work properly; the pastor sent him into the forest to fetch firewood, where there are demons, H. scattered it all, dragged a cart with a mountain of firewood and horses; the pastor sent H. to fetch paper from hell; the devil offers: who can throw a rim higher; H. pretends to be going to throw it to God the Father, the devil asks him not to do this, gives the paper; the pastor is forced to pay a cartload of money; H. orders a blacksmith to forge an iron club for him; he meets and takes a stonemason and a woodcutter as companions; they come to the castle, cook in turns; each time the witch comes, beats the cook and throws him into the cellar, eats everything; H. takes the magic ointment from her, saves his friends, the witch is gone; H. finds a hole in the ground, orders him to be lowered into it; beats the witch, sends two princesses up; then puts down his staff; the companions think it is H., cut the rope so that they can get both princesses; H. killed the seven-headed troll, freed the third princess; forced the witch to carry them to the earth; the princess gave him one thing as half the sun, the other as half the moon; the king demands exactly these things; H. hired himself out to a jeweler, pretended to have forged the things himself, came to the palace, married the youngest princess, who recognized him as her savior]: Surits 1991: 14-19; Swedes [when a peasant's son is 16, he takes him into town, he sees a cannon, easily lifts it with one finger, carries it on his shoulder; orders him to be called Bären-Öra; at the age of 20 takes an iron club, goes on a journey; defeats in single combat, takes as a companion 1) a man who dams a river with his beard, 2) a man who pulls out spruce trees; the companions live in a forest hut, cook in turns; the troll comes twice, eats everything; when BÖ is left, he hits the troll with a club, the troll leaves, out of anger pulling out an oak tree and dragging it behind him; the friends follow the trail to a hole in the mountains; the sea is nearby, the friends take all the ropes from the locals, lower BÖ down the rope; there is a castle and a pulled out oak tree; the princess gives BÖ a drink of strength, not a drink of weakness; BÖ kills the troll who grabbed the sword with a club, the troll's mother kills him with his sword; the princess was kidnapped from Arabia 10 years ago; BÖ sends the princess up; then puts a stone in the basket; the companions think they are lifting BÖ, cut the rope; a princess is brought to Arabia, in a year she is to marry one of her supposed saviors; BÖ finds a whistle, a servant comes out at the sound, brings food, royal attire, fast horses; they gallop to Arabia, BÖ marries the princess, the companions flee]: Stier 1971, no. 1: 5-11; Western Sami[Akubermu – an old woman’s adopted son; grew up and went wandering; meets and takes as his companion a man dragging a tree behind him; playing with an iron rod; throwing up a mountain; they stopped by a river, taking turns cooking; each time a dwarf with a beard comes out of the mountain, pins the cook down with his knee, eats everything; when it is A.’s turn, he burns the dwarf over a fire, tears off his beard, the dwarf hides in a rock; A. and his companions broke down four doors, took the treasure]: Kohl-Larsen 1982: 28-38; Finns [a man cut a boy out of alder and rocked him to sleep for three years; he came back to life, eats a lot; the man sent him to work; he is so strong that they try to destroy him, but it’s useless; they asked him to go down into a well and threw a millstone from above – he threw it back; finally, he left; met and took as companion a fisherman (he threw his huge hook into the sea), a boulder-tosser; they reached a hole in the ground; the companions tried to go down, but at first it was cold, then hot; Alder went down, sent two girls back, but his companions did not lift them up; he saw an eagle's nest, covered the eaglets with a frock coat; the grateful eagle brought him to the surface; he cut off the heads of his companions]: Löwis of Menar 1927, no. 32: 96-97; Finns [a blacksmith met a forest maiden (metshaldja), took her as a wife; Matti's son is immensely strong, the parents of the other children complain about him; To get rid of M., his father tells him to 1) bring firewood from the forest where there are bears and wolves (he easily chased away the animals), 2) fish from the lake where the monster is (M. beat it with a fishing rod), 3) money lent to the king (he beat the king's soldiers and brought the money); M. goes wandering, meets and takes as his companions 1) a fisherman trying to catch that same water monster with a cow, 2) one who slams boulders against each other (he replies that he is waiting for M. to fight him; having learned who is in front of him, he refuses to fight and submits), 3) one who dammed up a river; in the cow's pen, the companions slaughter one and leave the fisherman to cook the meat; the old woman Iron Tooth ties him up and eats it all; the same with the others; M. himself throws her into a crevice, the companions confess what happened to them; the old woman frees herself, hides in the abyss, the companions lower M. down there; the kidnapped princess orders the bottles with strong and weak water to be replaced; M. defeats the old woman, she drinks the weak water, dies; the companions lift the princess and the treasures up, cut the rope, lifting M.; the eagle carries M. up on its back; for this M. promises to leave a tree for the birds after burning a field; M. throws the companions into the abyss, marries the princess]: Viiding 1980: 9-20; Finns(Aunus) [a hunter met Tapio's (the owner of the forest) daughter Tapiotar; she told him to marry her or she would kill him; a son Mikko Miehiläinen was born, he took his father home; T. caught up with her, but her son easily threw her off; at home MM plays ball with the children; he injured the girl three times, breaking her arm, leg, and ribs with the ball; each time the father gives MM work; 1) bring firewood (MM ordered the beasts of prey to load the sleigh with spruce trees, harnessed them and brought the cart; 2) two barrels of fish (MM fished the water spirit out of the trunk of a spruce tree with a fishing rod, forced him to get the fish, load it, and bring it; 3) return gold, supposedly lent to a foreign king; MM arrived on a cart harnessed by beasts of prey, the water spirit drives him on, receives the gold; went off to wander; met, took as a companion 1) throwing rocks, 2) directing rivers with his hands; they came to an empty house, cows nearby; they decide to slaughter them one by one, cook in turns; a witch came, stuck the cook's head under the beam, ate everything; the cook freed himself, boiled the bones, said that the soup leaked out through the cracks; the same a second time; the third time MM cooks, he stuck the witch under the trough; the friends came to a hole in the ground; they made belts from cowhides, lowered MM down; there is a house on the seashore, a silver-golden beauty tells them to be wary of her mother; the witch came, MM defeated and killed her; the companions raised the treasures and the beauty, cut the belt; the bird brought MM up; there his two companions fight, dividing the treasures and the girl; MM threw both into the hole; MM and his wife began to live in the witch's house]: Schreck 1887, no. 3: 14-27 (=Goldman 1953: 12-30); Karelians (Kalevala district) [an old man and an old woman have no children; the old woman asks her husband to cut down an alder block, so that there would be something to rock in the cradle; the block became a boy, he grew up quickly, incredibly strong; he plows so much that he ruins the horse and breaks the plow; while chopping down the forest, he breaks the axe; he leaves, meets, takes as a companion a man who pulls out trees and strikes one rock against another; they come to the house, cook in turns; a dwarf with a long beard eats everything, beats the cook; when it is the turn of the Alder Block (OC), he splits the stump, pinches the dwarf's beard, begins to beat; he tore off his beard, disappears into a hole in the rock; OCH went down on a rope; the kidnapped princess is there; he says that the dwarf is sick now; he teaches how to swap the bottles with living and dead water; the dwarf died; the princess gave OCH her ring; OCH's companions lifted it up, but OCH was left behind; the dwarf's wife agreed to lift OCH to the ground: she became a raven and carried it up; OCH came to the king, the princess recognized the ring, the deceivers were shot]: Onegina 2010, No. 42: 379-384; Latvians[the blacksmith forged himself a son - Iron Martyn; he ordered to forge him a giant club, went on a journey; met, took as companions Mountain Overturner and Oak Overturner; they climb into a hole, there is a palace, each one cooks in turn; Copper Beard asks for food every time, drinks all the soup; JM pinched his claws in a log; he broke the log, went into a cave; only JM agreed to go down; killed Copper Beard and other devils, sent the kidnapped princess and gold up; the companions wanted them for themselves, did not pull JM out; he killed the pigs, cows, horses of the devil; the girl: the devils are muddying the water in the lake, they do not let me wash my shirt; JM killed the devils; covered the eaglets from the rain; the eaglet orders to prepare meat, carries it across the sea; JM cut off the last piece from his leg; the eagle burped, put it back; JM took the girl and gold from the companions, found the king whose daughter was stolen, reigned after his death]: Niedre 1952: 147-156; Lutsi(1893; the informant heard the tale from those who did not know Estonian) [a married couple is childless, the husband died, the widow cried, peas grew from her tears, there was only one pea in the pod; she ate it, and gave birth nine months later; the boy is a strong man; to his mother: if she had waited to eat, he would have been even stronger; he ordered a five-pood iron club from a blacksmith, threw it up, a day later it fell, he put his finger under it, the club split; the 10-pood one bent; the 15-pood one remained whole, good for nothing; The pea meets and takes as his companions 1) someone who pulls out oak trees; 2) someone who moves mountains; they hired themselves out to the owner for the right to carry away whatever they could; he ordered the mountains to be leveled; they began to make ropes out of sand, throw them on the mountains, drag them from their place, now it is a level field; One took all the flour from the owner, another all the grain, the third all the cows; they set up a farm for themselves in the forest; a demoness (mustabaaba) began to visit them, eating everything; the tree-puller remained to guard; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the mountain-mover - the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he continued to beat, she shrank again, he tied her to an oak tree; she pulled out the oak and went to the lower world; only G. decided to go down; killed the five-headed son of a woman; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, they both lifted her up, he gave her to the oak-puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed man, gave the second girl to the mountain-mover; the third time he fights with the 15-headed man; he drove him into the ground up to his waist, and he drove him up to his neck; they agreed to take a rest; G. drank strong water, and gave his enemy weak water, killed; They went up, but G. came down for the fourth time; the companions were offended that G. took the most beautiful girl for himself, they threw the rope down; a thunderstorm, the eaglets on the tree say that whoever protects them from bad weather, their mother will help him; he covered them; the chicks: do not leave until their mother arrives; the eagle: I know G., when he was born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to carry him across the fiery sea, but let him fill three barrels with forest birds; he filled them with spit; there was not enough meat in flight, the eagle orders first to cut off and throw her a little finger, then a leg calf; then a little finger; they flew; G. caught a jackdaw, began to spin; he ordered the jackdaw to bring living water from the island in the fiery sea; he healed his body with this water; he came to his wife, forgave his companions, but drove them away; began to live, and probably still live now]: Annom et al. 2018: 93-100.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [a whirlwind carries away three daughters of the padishah; brothers Kich-batyr ( kich - evening), Ten-batyr (night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) are playing; the old man advises them to better look for the daughters of the padishah; they come to the cave where the div hid; only Tan-b. moves the stone; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-b. cuts the rope, jumps; the mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-b. through the passage to the copper palace; Tan-b. kills the div, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with the silver, gold palaces, the middle and eldest daughters, two other divs; the younger sister puts the palaces in a copper, silver, gold egg, gives it to Tan-b.; the brothers pull out the girls, cut the rope, raising Tan-b.; The Mouse-man orders to sit on a white, not a black goat; Tan-b. mounts the white one, is carried out to the upper world; the brothers tie a sword in front of the tent, cuts off Tan-batyr's legs; a blind and an armless man come to him; they kidnap the padishah's daughter, make her their sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubyrly Karchyk; she orders to sprinkle ashes after her, so that she can come to visit; having arrived, orders to search in her hair, drinks the girl's blood; three sworn brothers guard in turns, Tan-b. ties up the witch, beats; she swallows each one, regurgitates healthy; Tan-b. does not regurgitate; the others chop her, see a running finger, they find Tan-b. in it; at home he hires himself out to a shoemaker; for the wedding of the padishah's youngest daughter, he creates boots, a dress, and palaces to order using copper and other eggs; reveals himself, marries; drives away brothers; gives his wife's sisters as his sworn brothers]: Bulatov, Sharipova 2000: 49-89; Kazan Tatars : Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 49 [40 brothers want to marry 40 sisters; on the way back, the azhdakha surrounded the newlyweds with his body, demanded the eldest brother to himself; orders him to get the padishah's daughter; the young man meets and takes as companions Imyan-batyr (pulls out oak trees) and Tash-batyr (throws boulders); they cannot cross the lake; the girl drank it, they crossed, she burped the water back, went with them; the padishah offers a competition; I. defeats the wrestler, T. defeats the runners (throws sand in their eyes), the girl drank 40 barrels of turpentine; the young man receives the princess, his companions say goodbye to him, T. gives him a sword, with which he cuts down the azhdakha]: 217-222; Chuvash[the serpent knocked the sun and the moon out of the sky with its tail and captured them, swallowed up peoples and tribes; three babies remained, and with each a foal - white, black, dun; one in the steppe, another in the forest, the third in a crevice of the rocks; grew up, became Ser-pattar, Yuman-pattar, Tu-pattar ("earth-, oak-, mountain-heroes"); S. met first Y., then T., they rode together; stopped in a house, next to a bridge over a river; at midnight S. woke up: a wave carries a snake sitting on a copper throne with three crowns on three heads; S. fights with him on the bridge, killed him, hid the heads and pieces of the body under the bridge, did not tell the brothers anything; they drove up to the village; S. peeks through the window of the hut: there a woman is rocking a baby, she has a star on her forehead, stars in her ears; she tells the baby that to avenge the death of his father, he will become a raspberry bush, the heroes will eat the berries and die; S. cut the bush, black blood flowed; the brothers stop in another house near the bridge over Shura-Shyv ("white river"); Y. must to guard, but falls asleep, S. sees how the ninth wave carries out a serpent on a silver throne, silver crowns on 9 heads; he drove S. waist-deep into the ground, but S. chopped off all the heads, hid them under the bridge; S. again peeps into the hut; the same episode, there are even more stars on the woman, she sits on a silver chair, promises to turn into a spring; S. chops the spring, black blood began to flow; the brothers spend the night at the bridge over the Black River, T. goes to guard, falls asleep; the twelfth wave carries out a 12-headed serpent, golden crowns on their heads; he drives S. into the ground, but S. came out, chopped off 11 heads; to save the last one, the serpent took the sun out of one ear, the moon from the other, gave it; S. cut off his head anyway; in the hut, a woman with stars on her body sits on a golden chair, promises to turn into a bed with a feather bed; S. chops, black blood flowed; the mother of snakes surrounded the heroes with her body, swallowed Y. and T., S. jumped over on his horse, galloped away, the snake pursued; S. locked himself in the forge, offered the snake to lick the iron door, grabbed her tongue with red-hot pincers, came out, began to chop from the tail, all the swallowed came out, each threw a handful of earth, a mountain was formed; S. took the sun and the moon out of his pockets, they returned to the sky]: Chuvash Tales 1937: 27-40; Udmurts[someone steals peas from a priest; the priest keeps watch, finds a child in the peas; Mikhail Popov grows unusually strong, cripples other children; the priest sent him to drive rams out of the forest with wolves and lock them up with the sheep; M. drove the wolves, they ate the sheep; the same - to drive bulls (drove bears); the men advise sending M. to the lake, to collect tribute from the devils; the devil suggests running a race, M. sent a hare in his place; throw weights; M.: I'll throw it on a cloud; the devil asks not to throw; the devils give money; M. orders to pour it into a hat, in which he made a hole, filled a large sack; the devil suggests wrestling, M. sends a bull in his place, i.e. a bear; M. harnessed a bear and a devil to a cart, brought the priest money; M. left them to work at the mill, went on, met and took as companions Usynya (twirls Kama with his mustache), Gorynya (rocks the mountain with his little finger); they cook in turns; a little peasant the size of a fingernail, with a beard the size of an elbow, beats the cook, goes underground again; when M. was left, he beat the little peasant, pinched his beard, he tore off his beard, went into a hole; only M. decided to go down on a rope; a girl sews a paper dress, goes with M., having rolled her hut into an egg; the same - a girl with a woolen; with a silk dress; that little peasant is their grandfather, went to grow a beard; Usynya and Gorynya lifted the girls, did not lift M.; M. wants to kill a cat; a duck; they ask not to kill; then they transport M., pretend that they want to throw him off; M.: I didn’t kill you; so three times; cat: I have no strength, I want to eat; M. cut off the meat from the caviar and gave it to the cat; on the ground M. swapped clothes with the old man; came to Usynya and Gorynya, drove them away, began to live with three girls]: Kralina 1960, No. 43: 108-118; Udmurts[a soldier's son bullies other boys as a child; when he is 12 years old, he orders the blacksmiths to forge a three-hundred-pood club, destroys an entire street with it, and leaves; he meets and takes Ivan Berezkin and Ivan Dubovkin as companions; they are the soldier's sons, whom she gave birth to when her husband was on duty, and threw into the water; that is, they are his brothers; one was carrying a thick birch, the other an oak; people are digging a mountain, looking for copper; the heroes turned the mountain over, from under it flew two blue doves - the mothers of copper; the same with a silver mountain (white doves - the mothers of silver); with a golden one (three red); they came to a house where there was a bull in the oven; they ate; the three sisters are surprised who it was; they went to the bathhouse; Berezkin and Dubovnik tried to prop up the door, the sisters easily knocked it down; when the younger brother propped it up, they did not knock it down; Three heroes married three heroines; the wife of the youngest disappeared; he came to the huts, there were old women - their girls were carried off by the wind demon; his soul is under 20 oak barks, in the oak there is a chest, in the chest a hare, in the hare a duck, in the duck three eggs, in them is the soul of the wind demon; the hero came to his wife, ordered to hang tassels on the doorframes and play, as if she thinks that the soul of the demon is in the doorframes; he says that there is a kid inside; the wife decorates the kid; without saying where the soul really is; along the way, the hero spares foxes, hawk chicks, and crayfish; the fox caught up with the hare, the hawk grabbed the duck, the crayfish got the eggs that fell into the water; the hero smashed three eggs on the floor, three heads of the demon fell; The hero burned the demon’s body and began to live in his house with his wife]: Aldan 1936: 35-44 (=Kralina 1976: 149-154).