K30B. Went out for a walk and disappeared. .15.16.27.-.32.

The woman or girl is forbidden to go outside. As soon as she does, the flying creature abducts her.

Ladins, Germans (Austria), Serbs, Romanians, Greeks, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Yekaterinoslav), Slovaks (?), Russians (Tersky Coast, Arkhangelsk {Pinega}, Zaonezhye, Tula, Ryazan), Swedes, Komi.

Southern Europe. Ladins [three princesses begged their father to let them out for a walk and disappeared; the king promises his daughters to their saviors; three poor youths come to an uninhabited castle; when the eldest is cooking, an old man comes, the cook is terrified; tells his returning comrades that he has a heart attack; the same with the second youth; the third threatens the old man with a sword, he leaves; the companions came to a hole in the ground, lowered the third on a rope; he killed dragons with three, five, seven heads, cut out and took with him the tongues, freed the three princesses; the youngest gave him a ring; he sent them up; the companions did not lower him a rope, decided to say that they freed the princesses; a certain old man led the youngest to the ground; he hired himself out to a baker, put the ring in a pie; the princess found it, everything was explained; [The young man's companions had their heads cut off]: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, no. 68: 187-193.

Western Europe. Germans (Lower Austria) [a queen gave birth to a daughter; her godmother ordered that the girl should not be allowed to leave the house until she was 12 years old; shortly before the expiration of the term, the princess begged to be let out of the palace; at that very moment a horseman descended from the sky and carried her away; the godmother came and said that the kidnapped woman could be saved by a young man under 20 years old who could obtain the water of life, the water of beauty, and the water of love; a peasant boy volunteered; he goes to hell; an old woman gave a rod to scare off the monsters at the gates of hell; a rooster gave three feathers to scare off the monsters in hell; another old woman gave a sword; in hell, the young man came to a clearing; in the middle of it, a palace; in it, three girls, kidnapped by the devil; they hid the young man under the mattress of one of them; the next night, of the second; then of the third; the dragon returns in the evening, and flies away in the morning; the princesses gave the young man vessels with the water of life, beauty, and love; they came to a house in the forest where the devil was, the young man cut him down; they got to the second old woman, gave her some magic water and she turned into a girl; the rooster turned into a prince, a castle arose; the same with the first old woman (she became a beauty, her hut – a palace); the young man marries the rescued princess, and the other two returned to their parents]: Vernaleken 1980, No. 24: 107-113.

The Balkans. The Serbs [a king keeps his three daughters locked up; when they grew up and went to a feast for the first time, a whirlwind carried them away; the king died of grief, the queen gave birth to a boy, Stoysha; when he was 18, he S. began to question his mother; she had to tell; S. ordered her to tell him where his father's horse and weapons were; everything was rusty, S. polished it until it shined; the horse was deep in the manure, S. cleaned and fattened it, it had winged; so that S.'s sisters would recognize him, she gave him three handkerchiefs they had embroidered; S. lay down to take a nap by a well, covering himself with a handkerchief; his sister came up and recognized the handkerchief; they were stolen by three dragon brothers; S. ate all the food prepared for the dragon; approaching the house, the dragon throws his club; S. caught it and threw it back a greater distance; S. defeated the dragon, but did not kill him; a feast; the dragon showed the way to the city of the second dragon; (all the same); the second – to the third (ditto); in the courtyard of the third there is a pit; the dragon king often comes to fight with the three dragon brothers, always wins, they hide in this pit; S. went to look for the dragon king; there is a hare on the roof; people explain that when the dragon king comes, the hare skins, cuts and roasts himself; this time the hare roasted himself for S.; the dragon king came, S. defeated him; he said that his name was Mladen; S. replied that he, too, was the youngest son; they became brothers; they defeated the army of the dragon brothers, they hid in a pit, they threw straw into it and burned those who were hiding; S. returned to his mother with his sisters and wealth, and the dragon king took possession of the country of the dragon brothers]: Eschker 1992, no. 3: 22-34; Serbs [the king has three sons and a daughter; he keeps her in the upper room; the daughter grew up, begged permission to go for a walk with her brothers, a whirlwind immediately carried her away; the brothers galloped off in search; they see a tower between the earth and the sky; the elders refused to slaughter their horses; the youngest slaughtered them, made a belt from the skin, tied it to an arrow, shot the arrow, it stuck into the tower; the elders refused to climb, the youngest climbed in; the sister is in the room, the head of a snake is on her lap; the brother hits her on the head twice with a club, the snake says that someone is biting him; the sister shows that you have to hit her on the scrotum; the brother hit and killed the snake; the sister shows three rooms; in the first there is a black horse, silver harness, in the second - a white one, gold harness, in the third - a bay horse, harness made of precious stones; three more rooms; in the first a girl is embroidering with gold thread on a gold frame; in the second, she spins a golden thread, in the third, she strings pearls, and in front of her, a golden hen with her chicks pecks the pearls; after the young man had let the girls down, the brothers cut the belt, dressed the shepherd in the clothes of the younger brother and gave him to their father in marriage; when the eldest brother marries, the younger one flies down on a black horse and beats him; when the middle one - on a white one; when the shepherd - on a dun horse, kills the shepherd, reveals himself; the king drove out the eldest sons, handed the throne to the youngest, married him to the princess who stringed pearls]: Karadzic 1987: 367-369 (=Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956: 15-18, =Eschker 1992, No. 11: 65-68); Greeks(Epirus) [a king has three sons and a daughter; the daughter never goes into the garden; one day her younger brother takes her away, and a dragon comes and carries her off; the brother goes in search; he cannot climb the mountain; he sees a black snake about to defeat and kill the white one; he kills the black one; in return the white one takes him up the mountain; he hires himself out to a shepherd who tends the dragon's sheep; he tells his sister to ask the dragon what his life is; the dragon: I have three golden hairs on my head; they must be used to open the room where the three doves are; if they are killed, he will die; the sister cuts off the hair, kills the doves; immediately the dungeons collapsed, the prisoners were released; among them are three princesses; on the dragon's hair he lowered the first for the eldest brother, then the second for the middle one; then the youngest for himself; the brothers liked her more than the others and they cut the hair rope; the youth returned to the palace; on the carpets a hound chasing a hare; a golden jug pouring water into a golden basin; a golden hen with chickens; he opened the door to another hall, there were three horses with golden, red and green wings; for freeing them, they let him down the mountain, gave him a hair to call them; the brothers brought princesses; each one demands that he get her one of those objects that the younger brother saw in the dragon's palace; he pulled a verija over his head, as if he had a scab, hired himself out to a jeweler; he consistently promises to get such objects, and one of the horses brings them; each time in his true form he appears at the festival; leaving, he scatters money behind him, the pursuers pick it up, and the youth, and the youth hides and again pretends to be a scab; the king's brother laid claim to the youngest princess; the youth galloped up and killed him; the king ordered the execution of the elder sons, and married the younger one to the younger princess]: Pio 2017: 77-81; Romanians [the queen has three daughters: with the sun on her forehead; with the moon on her back; with the Morning Star above her eyebrows; went swimming, a whirlwind carried them away ; the queen swallowed a grain of pepper, Fat-Frumos was born; grew up quickly; out of mischief, he pierced two pumpkins of water that an old woman was carrying with an arrow; she wishes that the same whirlwind would carry him away; FF forced his mother to tell about his sisters; and about his father: he fought for 9 years with the Fire-breathing Serpent; his weapon is buried under a poplar, his horse is grazing somewhere; the sorcerer orders to swing the bridle in the meadow; a nag dragged herself along, orders to give her milk from 300 cows to drink: the fire-horse galloped; then 600; snakes ahead; the horse orders to pull the arrow out of his ear, to launch it at the snakes; they missed; FF arrived to the first sister; the club of her husband-snake flew in; FF threw her back, waits under the bridge, drove the snake into the ground; turned the silver palace into a nut, took it with him; then the golden palace (the snake, the nut - the same); the topaz palace; the snake turned into a yellow flame, FF - into scarlet; both ask the raven to sprinkle them with fat, the enemy - with water; the raven sprinkled FF with fat, because he promised him the bodies of three snakes; the horse warned not to eat fruits, grapes, not to drink from the spring, but to hit them with a saber - these are the transformed wives of the snakes; the mother of the snakes is chasing; the horse with FF manages to fly to Tsvetovik-Silkbeard (TSSh); the snake made a hole, FF threw a red-hot club into its mouth; FF fell in love with the daughter of TSSh; he asks for living water for her from behind the crushing mountains; FF meets, takes with him the Drinker, the glutton, the jumper with millstones on his legs; the horse slipped between the mountains, FF got water; TS commands to drink a lot; to eat (the drunkard and the eater fulfill it); to get a carnation that smells fragrant for 9 kingdoms; FF takes a carnation from the glass palace of the snake, it pursues, FF takes it out of the horse's ear and throws soap (slippery road), a brush (forest), a whetstone (mountain); the snake overcame the obstacles; the horse took off and trampled the snake; wedding; the jumper spent the night in the bedroom; at night a snake crawled out of the mouth of TS's daughter, then two more; the jumper killed them; all the other husbands died; the jumper demands half of the wife, swings his sword, the fourth dragon crawls out of his mouth; the jumper: take your wife, leave only one imp in her, there should be one in every woman; at home FF turned three nuts into palaces, the father married off his daughters]: Sadetsky 1972: 105-116.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the king has three daughters and three sons, the youngest is Faralampas; the king does not let his daughters out of the house, but F. persuaded him to let them out; a whirlwind immediately carried them away; the king banished F., but his mother gave him a watch; if you open it, a little man will jump out and do everything; F. came to the old woman, greeted her; she: if he had not greeted her, she would have eaten her; go to the city and make sure that the watch is not stolen; in the city F. began to serve the king, who promised him a daughter; another of the king's son-in-law decided to ruin F.; he tells the king that F. boasted of getting a luminous rose; the little man in the watch immediately gave it to him; son-in-law: boasted of building such a wall that neither the sun nor the wind penetrates (ditto); sandalwood with birds (ditto); this time the son-in-law spied on who was helping F.; at night he stole the watch and ordered to carry it with the castle to a place where neither the sun, nor the wind, nor the crow of a rooster can reach; F. came to the mother of the moon; the Moon (he is married to F.'s elder sister) appeared, does not know, sent to the Wind; he is married to the middle sister; the Wind sent to the Sun, he is married to the younger sister; the Sun sent mice to the king, he will collect the mice, ask; the last to appear was a lame mouse - her leg was broken in that castle; she led to the castle, F. took the watch, ordered to return everything, and the son-in-law to hit him against a stone so that he would turn to dust; the king threw a feast]: Dey 1981: 64-69; Ukrainians (Ekaterinoslavskaya) [children laugh at the three princes, that their mother does not leave the house; the mother went out, a black raven carried her away from the black kingdom (ЧЧ); the princes come one after another to three huts, with an old woman in each; the first calls for animals, the second for reptiles, the third for birds; only a one-winged tattered bird knew the way to ChCh; he leads them to a fiery shield; the elder brothers hesitate, the youngest Ivan steps on the shield, which disperses; in three palaces he gives thirsty guard lions something to drink; he talks to three beauties, the daughters of ChCh; the last one gives an apple, which leads to the kidnapped mother; he kills ChCh with a mace; he sends his mother and three maidens in a fiery carriage, and decides to go on foot himself; Ivan the Stretch gives food, shows where the horses are, and they carry them across the fiery shield; the brothers attributed their mother's salvation to themselves, although they wanted to take the maidens; they demand the same clothes that they had at ChCh; IS flew down and brought them; the same - slippers, kerchiefs; Ivan married the youngest princess, the brothers were torn apart by horses]: Pankejev 1992: 340-346; Slovaks {the motive is most likely present, although it is not noted in the summary} [The whirlwind carried away three princesses; their brother went in search; on the way he helped ants, bees and wild ducks; they promised to help him; the whirlwind promises to return the abducted if the young man completes three tasks: get a ring from a deep hole; extract three sacks of poppy seeds scattered in a heap of dust; recognize the sisters among 24 identical girls; ants, bees and ducks helped to complete the tasks; the young man returned the sisters]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 210: 142; Russian(Tersky Coast) [Princess Elena went for a walk in the garden with her nannies; she was carried away by Voronovich Voronovich, Klyokot Klyokotovich, Semigorodovich (VV); three brothers remained; the eldest shot through the window of the backwoods grandmother; she began to swear - VV himself carried off his sister; he came to the hut on chicken legs: turn your eyes to the forest, and the gate to me; Baba Yaga tells him to leave the horse and go get the ball of yarn; the second Baba Yaga gives an egg: it rolls, follow it; the third - a ring, rolled to her sister's house; VV eats much more than brother E., calls him to the bathhouse, beats him to death with an iron rod; the same with the middle brother Ivan; the youngest Arapulko took a sip from the bottle given by Baba Yaga, after which he ate more than VV; in the bathhouse he grabbed VV and cut off his head; the sister sent a raven for living and dead water, revived the brothers from their bones; the same water restored sight to the blind parents]: Balashov 1970, No. 7: 56-64; Russian(Arkhangelskaya: Pinega) [The three princes and their sister enter the twelfth garden, where they are forbidden to walk. It suddenly gets dark around, the brothers do not see how Voronovich Voronovich, Kogot Kogotovich carries away their sister. They tell their father about what happened. The eldest brother Stepan asks to let him go for a walk in the field, the father allows him, at a crossroads he chooses neither the right nor the left road, but "go wherever you want". He meets Kalagir the hero, together they cannot lift the iron ladder. The middle brother goes to the field, gets to his brother and the hero, but even the three of them cannot lift the ladder. The father does not want to let the youngest son Ivan go to the field, but he rides away. He does not find the horse right away - they bend under his hand. Ivan gets to the brothers and the hero, mocks them. One lifts the ladder, climbs it, finds himself at a crossroads, goes along the right road. He enters a copper hut, it spins on chicken legs, a beautiful girl feeds him, asks about the way, says that his sister is married to her brother, promises to help if Ivan takes her as his wife. She gives him an egg, which leads Ivan to a silver hut, where an even more beautiful girl sits, everything is repeated, the egg leads him to a golden hut to the most beautiful girl, he promises to marry her and receives 2 pieces of meat and a key. She advises him to go visit Raven Voronovich, and when he leads him through the ford, to let Raven go first and hit the key only once ("a hero's hand hits once"). Ivan does so, throws meat to the lions at the gates of the golden courtyard, goes into the house, finds the sister of the hero Kalagir and his sister among the cooks. She is sorry to give up the "good life", but Ivan insists, she collects her life in a chicken egg. On the way back, three girls are taken, each of them rolls up her life in a chicken egg. They lowered the sister of Kalagir the hero - he takes her away, the girls from the golden and silver kingdoms are taken by Ivan's brothers. The girl from the golden kingdom persuades Ivan to go down first, but he sends her away. The brothers argue about who will get her, they remove the ladder and Ivan cannot go down. The brothers tell their father that they saved their sister and the girls. Ivan finds himself under an oak tree where firebirds live, he sits on one of them, and it brings Ivan to his native kingdom. He does not let go of the bird until he takes the crutch from under its right wing. Ivan touches the stone, Ermoshka jumps out, asks what Ivan wants, at first he does not ask for anything, then orders to take him home. He stops at an old soldier and an old woman, learns that the Tsar has given the task of sewing stockings and wedding boots for the bride of the eldest Tsarevich without measurements, orders the old soldier to undertake the task. He receives money for the stockings and boots, and together with the old woman they eat and drink their fill. Ivan orders Ermoshka to bring unworn stockings and shoes from the Tsar's chest. He gives them to the soldier, who gives them to the Tsar. He gives the soldier the rank of ladle. The bride asks to sew a wedding dress without measurements - Ivan carries out the task in the same way, the Tsar gives the soldier the rank of general. The bride refuses to get married,if a silver bridge with crystal railings, a pond and birds is not built. Ivan fulfills this too (Yermoshka calls the 12 Ermoshka brothers, and together they cope with the construction). The Tsar invites the soldier and his wife to move to live in the palace. Ivan comes to an empty house by the bridge, when the bride's carriage passes by, Yermoshka and his brothers throw stones at it, she brings Ivan to the Tsar, calls him a true groom, and they get married]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 124: 230-236;Russian : Russian (Arkhangelsk: Pinega) [Tsar Dalmat has not allowed his wife to go out for fun for 30 years; three sons, Fyodor, Vasily, and Ivan the Blockhead, persuaded her to allow it; Vikhor Vikhorevich carried her off; F. and V. went looking for her, but disappeared; the Tsar let I. go; he could not find the horse: if he put his hand on its back, it would go knee-deep into the ground; he answers the backwoods grandmother rudely twice; the third time he listens to the advice: D. has a 30-year-old horse in the cellar on chains; he still needs to find a craftsman to make a 300-fathom chain weighing 30 poods and throw it over the Vikhorev Mountains; the horse orders that he be let go first for three dawns to spray his nostrils; I. went, found his brothers, and began to throw the chain over the mountains; I. got up and came to the hut on the chicken leg; "Turn your balls to the goblin, and your gates to me." He prayed for her and began to beat himself up. Now a maiden came out to him, the most beautiful in the world, Elena the Beautiful. She led him into the warmth of the bedroom to a kitten-shaped crib - on it a feather bed, a silk pillow, a black sable blanket. ... She agreed, fell on the bed. However, he grabbed her by the sarafan. And wanted to fuck her. .. (she asks to wait) Go to Vikhor Vikhorevich first. As soon as you return, I'm all yours. He is all his, he does not calm down. She grabbed him in her arms, pressed him to her obesity, to her white breast. Ivan Tsarevich immediately fell asleep, snored, wheezed like a cart; EP does not know about the kidnapped queen, in the morning he sends to Marfa the Beautiful; she is even more beautiful (same episode), he sends to Alexandra the Beautiful, she is even more beautiful (same); in the morning he gives a kotka-bayunka, he leads to Vihorev's house; there are 0 pegs, eight of them with a human head; the mother shows where the sword-kladenets is, he hides I. in a chest; he looks for Vikhr's head; when he fell asleep, I. cut off his head and put it on the ninth peg; they took the gold, burned the house; on the way back, each of the three beauties rolled up her hut into an egg, gives it to I., goes with him; I. lowers his mother and the beauties down the mountain; Alexandra: if you stay, then hide in the hollow of an oak tree; Vihorev's sister will fly in on a flying carpet, will start crying, and then fall asleep; you need to "get tangled up with the carpet"; when she comes down from the mountains, cut off her head; the brothers pulled off the chain; they fight over the women; they tell their mother to tell her that they are the saviors; I.'s horse ran away; I. went down, as advised, killed Vikhoreva's sister, the horse brought him to the house; he ran into the reeds, and I. stayed with the old man and the old woman; she says that F. wants to get married, but the bride demands a special ring, shoes and dress; I. sends the old man to say that he will undertake to do everything; I. went out as if to urinate, clicked an egg against an egg - the desired ring became; the same dress and shoes; at the wedding Alexandra recognized I.; "and made the brothers princes"]: Ozarovskaya 1931, No. 26: 218-238; Russian(Zaonezhie) [after the birth of the third son, an evil spirit began to haunt the queen; the tsar left, ordered the eldest son to take care of his mother; she asks her son to take her for a ride through the green meadows; a whirlwind carried her away; the tsar returned, the eldest son went to look for his mother; {nothing is said about the middle one}; three years later the youngest, Ivan Tsarevich, came; the backwoods grandmother orders three iron hats, three pairs of iron shoes and three iron crutches to be forged, gives a tablecloth; teaches to walk along the right path to the left; Baba Yaga sits with a bone leg, a clay muzzle, plugging the stove with her chest; I. unfolded the tablecloth, Baba Yaga recognized his sister's tablecloth, gave her a spoon, he came to the second Baba Yaga {and the third of the sisters}; she recognized the tablecloth and spoon, gave a mug and a ball of yarn; I. followed the ball to the mountain, put nails on his hands and feet, climbed up; there is a small kingdom; he gave the lions something to drink from the mug, they let him pass; Whirlwind flew in and flew away; while he was there, the maiden hid the prince in a chest; then the silver kingdom (the same, guarded by tigers); the golden one, that's where his mother was; she gave him strong water and Whirlwind's club, and told him not to hit him twice; I. killed Whirlwind; the mother and both princesses rolled their kingdoms into eggs; I. lowered the women onto a towel; the brothers cut the towel and are preparing weddings with the two princesses; the silver princess demands a dress without material or measure; I. threw his club over, two people appeared, carried them to their hometown; the princess found out, a silver palace arose, a golden bridge from it, a dove with a dove on the pillars: do you remember that I saved you? I remember - I. wedding]: Karnaukhova 2009, No. 14: 75-79; Russian(Tula) [the tsar has three daughters; a sorcerer: when they go to mass across the river, they disappear on the bridge; the tsar put him in prison, but that's what happened: a whirlwind carried away the princesses; one woman gave birth to three sons: in the evening, at night, in the morning; they were named Vechernik, Polunochnik, Svetozor; they immediately grew up, came to the tsar to look for the princesses; S. ordered a club weighing 12 poods, threw it up, put his hand under it, the club broke; at 20 - put his foot under it, the same; at 30 - put his forehead under it, only it bent; took it; P.'s club weighs 6 poods, V. - 3 poods; they pitched a tent by the river; S. left his brothers to play cards; when blood drips into the glass, let his horse be untied; he himself threw the chain over and walked along it to the other bank; there is a copper palace and the first princess; a three-headed serpent flew in and ate; S. cut them down; in the silver palace there was the second princess, a six-headed serpent; S. cut them down; in the gold palace there was the third princess, a 9-headed serpent; the princess ordered to swap the vats with strong and weak water; the heads surrounded S.; the brothers were sleeping, although there was blood in the glass; the horse broke free and ran along the chain; S. grabbed his leg and got out; S. waved his handkerchief and rolled the golden palace into a golden egg (same with the silver and copper palaces); the horse and the princesses crossed the river along the chain; the brothers began to argue over who would get the princesses; they pulled out the chain; S. with a heavy club fell into the lower world; there Kashchei the Deathless eats people; S. tore him apart, crushed him with a stone; the soldier says that he defeated Kashchei, but cannot roll away the stone; the tsar ordered the soldier to be shot; in the forest a raven pecks everyone; asks S. not to shoot, promises to take them to Russia; orders to take 7 vats of ham; there wasn't enough, S. cut off pieces from the calves of his legs; on the ground the raven burped them up and put them back; the brothers want to marry the older sisters, and the gypsy takes the younger one; but one princess demands her ring, the second her shoes, the third her dress; S. unwraps the eggs in the palaces, takes out what he needs; showed the tsar the palaces, the bride recognized him; he forgave the brothers]: Erlenwein 1882: 129-139; Russian(Ryazan) [the queen was walking in the garden, a whirlwind carried her away; her three sons set out to search; the two eldest cannot, the youngest Ivan Tsarevich lifted the stone that covered a hole in the ground; he orders it to be lowered on a rope; a girl is in the garden, a snake flies in, I. knocks off all three of its heads; the princess calls her brothers, they are the Wind, the Whirlwind, the Storm; they answer that the kidnapped queen is overseas with Koshshey the Deathless; she gives a horn to call her brothers, they carry her across the sea; a cancer, a wolf, a kite ask not to eat them, promise to help; Ivan's mother turns him into a spider, hides him in a crack; tells K. that she saw his death in a dream; K.: my death is in an oak tree in the forest, under it is a chest, in it is a hare, in the hare is a duck, in the duck is an egg, in the egg is a needle, in the eye of a needle is his death; I. found and opened the chest, the wolf caught up with the hare, the kite – with the duck, the crayfish got the egg that had fallen into the sea; K. died; I. and his mother flew to the exit to the land on winged horses, the princess was there too; the brothers pulled the women out, but I. was left; he blew into the horn, the Whirlwind carried him to the land; he began to live in the city with an old woman; she says that the brothers brought the mother and the girl; the girl demands a dress like the one she had; the Whirlwind, the Wind, the Storm get them; the same – shoes; the girl came to the old woman, recognized I.; the brothers were forgiven]: Samodelova 2013, No. 64: 71-74.

Baltoscandia. Swedes (western Gotaland) [at the birth of each of the three princesses, the old woman warns that the girl should not go outside until she is 15; the king went to war, the sisters persuaded the guards to let them out for a walk; a cloud immediately descended and carried them away; the king promises the savior the hand of any of his daughters and half the kingdom; the old man offers the young man, who is herding three pigs, to exchange one of them for his dog; the dog's name is Hold, she won't even let out a troll; the same with the other two pigs (the dogs Rvi and Bud' na sveta {B.}); the youth began to hunt, and then went wandering; the old man: go to the king's castle, there is your happiness; in the city the youth learned of the king's promise; began to play the flute, the dogs danced; the king was cheerful; they came to the troll's dwelling; B. sensed his approach; the giant troll rode up, the dogs tore him to pieces, the princess was happy; the same with the second princess and the second troll; the third troll pretended to be a friend; let the youth send the dogs to the top of the mountain for wine, where it flows from springs; having got there, the dogs found themselves surrounded by a wall; but the youth asked permission to pray before he died, played the flute, the dogs broke down the wall and tore the troll to pieces; the youth and the youngest princess fell in love with each other; on the way back they met two princes; they strangled the youth and told the princesses to say that it was they they were saved; the dogs began to lick their master and revived him; he appeared before the king, the princesses recognized him, the princes were expelled, the young man received the youngest princess and reigned]: Stroebe 1921, no. 20: 167-186.

Volga - Perm. Komi -Permyaks (northern dialect) [the tsar allowed his three daughters to walk in the garden; a whirlwind immediately carried them away; the tsar promises one of them as a wife and a rank to the one who returns the daughters; the soldier Foolish Ivanushka (I.) promised to find them; the tsar gave him two soldiers as companions; I. began to play the accordion; a long-bearded little man appeared and began to dance; I. stopped playing on the condition that the dwarf would tell him where the kidnapped princesses were; he only said that they were with the snakes; I. pinched his beard, splitting the stump, but he broke free at night, leaving a tuft of his beard; I. and his companions followed the bloody trail to a hole in the ground; Ivan was lowered on a rope; it was light there, the princess was rinsing laundry in the river; she lives with a three-headed snake; her sisters are further away; orders to change the barrels with strong and weak water; the snake breathes fire, but weakens, I. cuts off its heads, the princess gave her a crystal palace; the next princess had a six-headed snake for a husband (also, a silver palace); the third had a 12-headed snake (also, a golden palace, I. and the princess decided to get married); the companions pulled out the princesses, began to argue over them, but I. did not pull them out; I. began to play, the dwarf began to dance; I. stopped playing when the dwarf carried him to the ground; the princesses to their father: we will marry the soldiers if they bring us palaces and the clothes that we had; I. plays again, forcing the dwarf to bring the palaces and place them opposite the tsar's palace; I. showed the princesses' clothes and the tongues cut out of the mouths of the snakes; the tsar put the deceivers in prison, married his youngest daughter to Ivan; I was there, I drank beer, and not a drop got into my mouth]: Rédei 1978, no. 188: 425-431.