K33a7. The widower, his daughter and the teacher. .14.-.17.27.-.32.

After her mother's death, the girl advises her father to marry a neighbor, teacher, etc., who usually persuades the girl to give such advice. Having married a widower, the new wife begins to tyrannize over her stepdaughter.

Arabs of Morocco, Portuguese, Spaniards, Italians (Abruzzo), Sicilians, Sardinians, Maltese, French (Provence), Irish, Germans (Hesse, Harz, East Prussia), Arabs of Iraq, Jibbali, Transylvanian Saxons, Greeks, Laks, Persians, Bakhtiaris, Finns, Vepsians, Estonians, Mordvins.

North Africa. Arabs of Morocco [a dying mother asks her husband not to marry again until her daughter takes the box with her jewelry herself (i.e. grows up to reach it); the mother's sister, who has a blind daughter of her own, is kind to the girl, who persuades the father to marry; the aunt helps her niece get the box, the father marries her; now she tyrannizes the niece; she goes to the river to clean the fish caught by her father, the fish asks to let her go, turns into a siren; having learned about the released fish, the stepmother beats the girl, throws her into the dungeon; when the father opens it, the daughter is sitting there all in gold; at first the siren does not let her go, then allows her to go out; the father places her in a separate room, the siren brings her everything she needs; the sultan has a holiday, the girl secretly goes there, loses a slipper; the sultan's messengers find the owner, the sultan's son takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a son; the stepmother comes to her, offers to comb her hair, sticks seven pins in it, it flies away as a dove, the stepmother replaces her with her daughter; the husband immediately understands the deception, chops the imaginary wife into pieces, sends her to the mother as a gift; she thinks it is food, gives the pieces of meat to the neighbors, finds the head of the daughter at the bottom; the dove visits each son, sits on his shoulders; the beggar tells the sultan's son about this, he smears his son's shoulders with glue, catches the dove, takes out the pins, the dove turns back into a woman; the stepmother is burned alive]: El Koudia 2003, no. 4: 19-26

Southern Europe. Portuguese [a widowed teacher wants to marry the heroine's father; let the iron shoes rust first; the heroine wants her father to marry, pours water into the shoes; a stepmother and her daughter tyrannize over her stepdaughter; she is given bread for the day, which she must bring back in the evening; a cow touches the bitten places with its horn and the loaf becomes whole again; the cow is slaughtered; a golden ball falls out of its entrails, falls into the water; the heroine goes to look for it, ends up with the fairies, cleans up their house; they reward her: pearls and gold will pour from her lips, they give her a magic wand that fulfills wishes; the stepmother's own daughter also comes to the fairies, brings their house into disarray; the fairies make dirt drip from her lips; the heroine comes to the festival three times in magic dresses; runs away; loses a shoe; the shoe is tried on girls; [wedding]: Cox 1893, no. 89: 35-36; Portuguese (Algarve) {text rather difficult to understand} [mother died; schoolmother persuaded girl to persuade father to marry her, schoolmother; stepmother treats stepdaughter worse and worse; sends her to wash huge pile of laundry; girl throws laundry into river and wanders wherever her eyes look; in evening came to castle; there were 7 cutlery, beds, etc.; she put everything in order and hid; man entered with 6 sons; they decide to do only good to the one who came to them; girl came out of hiding; brothers' father demands that she not go out in the sun for a year; she promises; after a year opens window; sees young man fighting with 9-headed serpent; defeats him; from then on goes to window every day; they want to get married; father {6 brothers and now her adoptive father} permits the marriage, but on condition that she remain silent; after the wedding, the husband leaves the wife who is urinating in her tower and takes another; she does not know that the woman in the tower is the first wife; he goes up to look at her; she forgot her ring downstairs; the first wife tears off her finger, he brings the ring and grows back; returning to herself, the new wife also tears off her finger and dies of blood loss; adoptive father: now kill me and my sons; she refuses; then I will kill you; he kills her, she comes back to life, her husband embraces her]: Cardigos, Correia 2015(2), no. 898: 505-510; Spaniards(Extremadura) [a widower's daughter insisted that he marry a widow, who also had a daughter; the stepdaughter goes in paper shoes to pick strawberries in winter, comes to three dwarfs, shares her black bread with them; they give her strawberries, tell her to let gold coins fall from her lips, so that she will marry the king and become more beautiful day by day; the real daughter goes in warm clothes, does not share her food with the dwarfs, refuses to shovel the snow to pick strawberries; they tell her to let toads fall from her lips, so that she will marry the devil and become more and more ugly; the king saw the stepdaughter, married her, she gave birth to a son, the stepmother pushed her into the water, she became Galopín de agua, the stepmother replaced her with her own daughter; the real queen came out of the water every day, came to the baby; the king pinched her, she regained her former appearance; [the impostor was tied to the tail of a horse and scattered throughout the village]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, no. 480A: 358-362; Italians (Abruzzo) [Domenica and Pantaolone attended school; their teacher persuaded them to advise their widowed father to marry her; upon becoming a stepmother, she tells her husband to take the children into the forest; the children scatter bran after themselves and return; the next time the sheep ate the bran; the sister marries a prince, and her brother drank some water and became a lamb; the stepmother finds out about this and tries to harm her, but is exposed and killed]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971, no. 451-c: 34; Sicilians [the teacher gives Caterina sweets; asks if she wants her to be her mother; teaches to ask mother to get a date from the chest, to drop the lid on her neck, to put a date in her mouth; everyone thinks that K.'s mother is to blame; K.'s father reluctantly agrees to her request to marry the teacher; she has an ugly daughter of her own; the stepmother tells K. to spin all the wool in a day; the ram tells her to go to bed, by evening the yarn is ready; the stepmother tells her to slaughter the ram; he tells K. to ask for the intestines, take three golden balls from them, run away with his brother Giovanni, stay away from the sea, otherwise he will turn into a snake; the golden balls turn into a rich castle; he is by the sea, K. does not go anywhere; the king sees J., makes him close; he advises him to take K. as a wife; K. demands that the road from the royal castle to hers be paved; J. and the workers do it; the stepmother with her daughter arrive; he tells K. to step to the window overlooking the sea, K. disappears; the stepmother's daughter takes her place; the king is angry with J., sends the ugly woman with her mother into the forest; J. tells everything; the stepmother persuades the king to tell J. to make overnight 1) a fountain of water, a fountain of oil, a fountain of wine; J. goes to the sea, the snake-K. gives a magic wand to fulfill everything; 2) a crystal palace (ditto); 3) an oven into which all the fish from the sea will throw themselves; K. teaches that he must seize her, throw her into a vat of milk; is reborn as a girl; the king takes her as his wife, the stepmother and her daughter are left alone in the forest]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 25: 166-173; Sicilians[a widower has three daughters; his dying wife told him to marry again after his shoes were worn out; a schoolteacher persuades the eldest daughter, Rosina, to persuade her father to marry her; and the shoes must be wetted and hung up to dry; the father took the schoolteacher; at this time the queen's pregnancy ends; the midwife puts in her hand - the hand is bitten off; the same with the second, the third; the stepmother says that R. can do it; she goes to her mother's grave; mother: put your hand in, say: my boy comes out; then wash him in water and throw him into the milk; instead of a boy, a little snake; bites off the nurses' nipples; mother Rosina: attach a vessel of milk to your breast, there is a tube in the vessel; in two years R. has nursed a snake; now the snake wants to marry; mother teaches: when he says, "Take off your shirt!" answer: you undress" only his skin will fall off; so 7 times, he will become a beautiful young man; all night he will ask what time it is; you must answer: this is the time when my father does this and that; in the morning he will call you wife and order you not to tell anyone; one day R. asked to show herself to her during the day in the guise of a man; passed under the window; she smiled in response; the queen decided that her daughter-in-law had a lover; she had to tell everything and her husband never showed up again; R. came to a house where they give three days of food and lodging for free for telling stories; one woman: a young man came out of a crack in the mountain, went down to the river with a pile of clothes; "Oh, if only my wife could be here and wash the fairies' clothes"; she came, brought the fairies the washed clothes; to the question, "What do you want?", she answers, "What will you give"; so the whole day; finally, the fairies let her husband go; the couple returned to the palace]: Pitré 2009, no. 56: 255-260 (=Herreros 2007, no. 28: 76-78) ; Sardinians [after the death of her mother, the daughter asks her father to marry the teacher (the latter persuades the girl to persuade her father); first the iron shoes have to wear out, the heroine pours water on them, the shoes rust; after the wedding, the stepmother tyrannizes her stepdaughter and orders her husband to take her to a deserted place; there she is eaten by wild animals]: Cox 1893, no. 308: 466; Maltese [the teacher, having designs on the girl's father, persuades her to kill her mother by dropping something heavy on her; having become a stepmother, she hates her stepdaughters; the cow feeds them, giving them honey cakes from her horn and milk from her udder; the stepmother sends her own daughter to spy on what is going on, the cow maims her (deprives her of an eye, makes her lame); the stepmother kills the cow, it turns into a golden plate; the youngest of the stepdaughters marries the prince]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 511A: 149-151.

Western Europe. French (Provence) [a witch godmother persuaded Katherine to talk her father into marrying her; having given birth to two daughters of her own, began to tyrannize over her stepdaughter; sends her to tend the goats and have her spin a pound of yarn in a day; goat: put the yarn on my head; soon the work is done; the father decided to slaughter the goat; goat: don't eat my meat, bury the bones; if you want something, come to this place and wish for it - it will come true; one day the father sailed to Genoa, asks K. what to bring her; K.: nothing, but give my regards to my aunt who lives there; the aunt asks to give K. a nut; there is a luxurious dress in it; when the stepmother and her daughters go to mass, K. asks the goat's bones to make her more beautiful than everyone else; the prince noticed her in the church; on his return, K. asks the bones to restore her to her former appearance; the next time K. threw bran in the guards' faces, they didn't have time to grab her; her father went to Genoa again, her aunt gave her an almond; it contained golden shoes; this time K. threw small change to the guards, but lost the shoe; the prince tells everyone to try it on; the shoe is too small for the stepmother's daughters; K. turns out that she has the same shoe; a wedding]: Soupault 1963, no. 31: 148-151; the Irish [dying, the queen tells her daughter to vigilantly keep the belt she tied on her arm near the shoulder; if another woman takes possession of it, she will change appearance with the princess; the maid of honor has an ugly daughter; she began to court the princess so that she would persuade her father to marry her, the maid of honor; having become queen, she began to harass her stepdaughter; one day she was embroidering a scarf, she heard a voice: for whom? She answered jokingly that it was for the Norwegian king's son; looked around: a man; said that he was the Norwegian king's son; asked her father for her hand; went away to prepare the wedding; the princess was sailing to him on a ship, with her stepmother's daughter; they went swimming on vacation; the stepmother's daughter ordered him to give up the belt on his hand, otherwise she would drown him with the help of her maid; having changed appearance, she made the princess swear not to tell anyone about what had happened; {page missing in pdf}; but in the end the princess told her little dog; a boy overheard this, told the king; he called for his son and his bride; the guards held the resisting deceiver, and the princess took off her belt and became beautiful; the deceiver was chained and sent home; the king ordered her and her wife to be torn apart by horses]: Kennedy 1875, No. 4: 21-24; Germans(from Dorthen Wild, Hesse) [after the death of a woman, a neighbor persuaded her daughter to advise her father to marry her, the neighbor; she has a daughter of her own; the father promises to marry her if water poured into a leaky boot does not leak; but the boot became wet and the water did not leak; in winter, a stepmother sends her stepdaughter for strawberries; she comes to the hut of three gnomes; she is polite to them, does not complain, sweeps in front of the entrance, shares bread; one bestows beauty on her, another makes it so that with every word gold coins will fall from her lips, the third promises to marry her to the king; sweeping the snow, the girl found strawberries; the stepmother's own daughter goes into the forest; she is rude, unfriendly; the gnomes make her become uglier and uglier, toads fall from her lips, she will die a cruel death; a stepmother sends her stepdaughter to an ice-hole to spin yarn, but the king comes and takes her away; she gives birth to a son, the king leaves; the stepmother and her daughter throw her into the river, the stepmother's daughter goes to bed with her; the king is surprised why his wife has changed; during the night a duck swims in, turns into a queen, and feeds the baby; the same thing happens on the second night; on the third night she tells the cook to call the king and let him swing his sword; the spell is broken; the king asks the old woman what to do with someone who drags another out of bed and throws him into the water; the old woman: to throw him down the mountain in a barrel studded with nails; that is what they did to the stepmother and her daughter; (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 42-46)]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, no. 13: 45-50; Germans(Hartz) [A widower has a 14-year-old daughter, an ugly neighbor has her own; the neighbor asks the girl to persuade her father to marry her; she begins to tyrannize over her stepdaughter; she dreams twice that she must leave; she comes to the house of 7 giants, the old woman hides her, then shows her; the giants do no harm, they send her to others; they send to 7 dwarfs, tell her to mend a jug by the well, tidy up the beds; the girl does so, the dwarfs make her golden-haired; she returns home; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she does not help the old woman in the giants' house, they tell her to break the jug, throw the beds around; the dwarfs tell her to be lousy; the stepmother wants her stepdaughter to become ill too; she pretended to be ill, sent for strawberries in winter; three men are sitting by a fire in the forest; they allowed the newcomer to warm herself, and she shared her meager breakfast; these were God, Christ and the Holy Spirit; after eating, Christ filled the girl's basket with strawberries, God made her even more beautiful, and let gold coins fall from her lips when she spoke; seeing the gold, the stepmother sent her own daughter for strawberries; but the three at the fire did not give up their place to her, and she did not share her food with them; when she asked for strawberries, the three answered that it was winter; God commanded that horns should grow on the girl's head; the count saw the stepdaughter and took him as his wife; having given birth to a child, she wrote a letter to the father, but it fell into the hands of the stepmother; she appeared in the count's absence, pushed the stepdaughter into the lake and replaced her with her own daughter; seeing his wife with horns, the count wished to die; at night the real wife appeared and asked the poodle to bring her the child to feed; she had a chain on her leg; says that she will come twice more and if she is not freed with a golden sword, she will be drowned forever; while she was speaking, gold coins fell from her lips; the servant heard this and told the count; the next night he himself saw and heard everything; he collected the fallen gold coins and ordered the blacksmith to forge a sword from them; on the third night he cut the chain with the sword; he ordered the stepmother and her daughter to be burned, and settled the wife's father in the palace]: Pröhle 1854, No. 5: 13-20; Germans(East Prussia) [a widow began to court the daughter of a rich widower, so that she would persuade her father to marry her; soon after the wedding, she began to tyrannize over her husband and stepdaughter; he went into the forest to hang himself; the old man gave him a rope to tie to a stump of fallen trees - they would cut themselves into firewood; returning, the man remembered that he had forgotten his mitten and sent his daughter for it; she saw three doves in that place, was friendly with them; one wished that ducats would fall from her lips with every word; the second, that she would become more beautiful every day; the third, that an apple tree with golden apples would grow in front of her window; the next time the man sent his wife's daughter for the mitten; she drove the doves away; one wished that toads would fall from her lips, the second - that she would grow ugly every day, the third - that she would come to a bad end; a king was riding, saw the apple tree, sent a servant to pick an apple, the branches rose up; the stepmother's daughter - the same; a beautiful girl - easily plucked; the king took her to the palace and married; and the tree ran after her and grew near the castle; a year later the queen gave birth to a son; the stepmother and her daughter came to her; at night they threw the queen into a well, the stepmother replaced her with her daughter; at night the servant hears a voice and answers the questions: what is my son doing? - Screams. - And the ugly stepsister? - Lies in bed and spit out toads. - And the stepmother? - Snores. The queen came, fed the child and said that she could come only twice more; the same the next night; after this the servant told the king; the king lay in wait and seized his wife; she took all sorts of forms, including a snake, but he did not let her go; and when she turned into a straw, the king broke it in half and the wife was reborn; the stepmother and her daughter were burned at the stake; the wedding was celebrated again; I was there, but nothing got into my throat and I remained hungry]: Lemke 1887, No. 33: 160-166.

Western Asia. Arabs of Iraq [a wife drowned, leaving a small daughter; a widowed neighbor comes to look after her; the girl grew up, persuaded her father to marry the neighbor; she has a daughter of her own; the stepmother dumped all the work on her stepdaughter; a red fish caught by the father asks the girl to throw it back into the river; the stepmother demands the fish back; the fish gives the girl a piece of gold; the girls grew up; the stepmother took her own daughter to the wedding (or rather, to the bride's house, where the visiting young men and women meet); the stepdaughter went to the fish, who gave her everything she needed to go too; she was mistaken for the governor's daughter; on the way home, the stepdaughter dropped a slipper in the canal; the prince found it, his mother went to look for the owner; the stepmother put her daughter out, hid the stepdaughter in the tandoor; the rooster crows about this; the stepdaughter is chosen as the bride; the stepmother gave her a laxative to drink, washed her hair with lime and arsenic, smeared her with an ointment with a disgusting smell; but when she arrived at the palace, she was fragrant; and the stepmother's own daughter arrived there in a disgusting state, she was driven away; the prince is happy with his stepdaughter, they have seven children]: Bushnaq 1987: 181-187; jibbali [the mother died, the neighbor pretends to be kind to the orphan Begelut, persuades him to advise his father to marry her; decides to get rid of B.; when he was at his mother's grave, a mare appeared; she warns that the stepmother will try to poison him, B. throws away the poisoned drink; the old woman advises him to pretend to be ill, ask to slaughter the mare; B. asks to be allowed to ride three times, gallops away; killed a hyena, took its skin, came to the sultan, hid the mare, covering it with the hyena skin; the sultan gives him a donkey to ride; the youngest of the sultan's daughters throws lemon at B. three times; the sultan gives her to him in marriage, but settles them in a sheepfold; the sultan falls ill, the medicine is gazelle milk, the six eldest sons-in-law leave, cannot get it; B. catches up with his mare, kills two gazelles, takes good milk from one, bad milk from the other; agrees to sell the milk to the six sons-in-law for branding them in the crotch with his seal; gives bad milk; (text breaks off)]: Müller 1907, No. 26: 114-117

The Balkans. Transylvanian Saxons [the father died, the girl plays with the daughter of the neighbor's widow; she persuades her to advise her father to marry her; promises to feed her porridge in the morning - this is "birch porridge"; sends her to the lake where the water maidens bathe - no one will return from them alive; the maidens feel sorry for the girl, they endow her with gifts; where we are dull, flowers bloom; when she speaks, a fragrance spreads; when she washes, gold remains in the basin; the stepmother sends her own daughter to the lake; she demanded even better gifts; the maidens doused her with shit; where she steps, thorns grow; her breath is foul; when she washes, a toad is in the basin; the stepmother hated her stepdaughter even more; the young king learned about her, decided to marry and sent a carriage; the stepmother and her daughter also got into it; the stepmother gouged out the eyes of her stepdaughter and pushed her into the swamp, dressed up her daughter as a bride; the king is amazed; the stepmother: it is because of the long journey, let her be alone; blinded, she got out of the swamp and fell asleep under a tree; three swans: wash your eyes with the morning dew; the girl regained her sight; came to the castle, flowers grow behind her; the king understood everything; lowered the stepmother and her daughter in a barrel of nails from the mountain into the sea; wedding]: Haltrich 1882, No. 40: 39-40; Greeks(Chios) [a man has a wife and a daughter, Marietta; a teacher M. is his lover; she persuades M. to arrange for her mother to lie in a marble coffin and for the lid to fall on her; M. believes that this is a game; after the death of his wife, M.'s father marries the teacher; she spoils food and things, blaming her stepdaughter, but the father was not angry with M.; then he demands that M. be taken to the mountains; the father left his daughter a chest of food; when the food ran out, M. came to the castle of the 40 giant brothers; she cooked food for them and returned to the mountains; the brothers guarded it in turns, but only the youngest finds M.; she became a sister; the stepmother asks the sun if she is more beautiful than other women; Sun: you are beautiful, but M. is more beautiful; the stepmother took the form of a merchant, came to M. and sold her a ring; M. put it on and lost consciousness; the brothers take off the 40 rings that they had given the girl; and when the 41st was removed, she came to life; the stepmother again questions the Sun; comes to M., throws a bunch of grapes out the window; M. took a grape in her mouth and lost consciousness; the brothers carried the coffin with her to the top of the mountain; the prince saw and ordered it to be carried to his palace; the king went to war; called his son for help, although immediately after that he won a victory; leaving, the son did not close the door; the king arrived, saw the girl, pressed on her chest, the grape jumped out, the girl came to life; a wedding; the stepmother came to the city in the guise of a sorceress; M. gives birth; the stepmother stuck a fork into her head; M. flew away as a dove, and the stepmother took her place; every day a dove flies to the gardener; wishes a good dream to the prince and a bad one to his wife; the gardener told the prince about this; he orders to put the dove in a golden cage; the stepmother pretended to be ill: boil the dove and give me the broth to drink; threw the bones into the garden; three pine trees grew from them; the stepmother ordered them to be cut down; the bark was thrown from the roots, the dove grew from her again; the prince noticed a fork in her head; he pulled it out, M. was revived; the stepmother was put in the cellar and starved to death, giving her only damp flour and water; M. and the prince have many children]: Carnoy, Nicolaides 1889, No. 5: 91-106.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lucky [mother died; neighbor persuades daughter to ask her father to marry her; he puts it off, but then agrees; stepmother makes a pie with sand and ashes for stepdaughter; persuaded husband to leave daughter in the forest; she climbed a tree; wolves, bears, foxes pass by one after another, promise not to eat her; and here comes Zaza - a white cow, digging the sky with one horn, the earth with the other; girl's tears drip on her, Z. orders to jump on her chest; takes to the dungeon; allows to eat everything, but not to touch jugs; girl stuck her finger in, it turned silver; then Z. orders her to bathe in jugs; girl turned silver, gold; from the cow's right ear girl pulled out expensive jugs and other dishes, clothes and jewelry; Z. gave her in marriage to the khan’s son]: Omar-oglu 1868: 51-52

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the teacher Mollabadzhi persuades the girl Shahrbanu to push her mother into a barrel of vinegar, and then persuade her father to marry her; he married, she brought her ugly daughter; she opened the barrel of vinegar, a red cow came out; M. gives Sh. more and more work, sends her to graze the cow and spin; the cow chews the cotton, turning it into yarn; the next day the wind picks up the cotton, throws it into a well; the cow calls Sh. daughter, tells her to climb into the well, to do everything the other way around when asked; div tells her to hit him with a stone, Sh. looks in his head; replies that his head is cleaner than his stepmother's; does not break the house with a pickaxe, but sweeps the yard; replies that the estate, the div's dishes are better than her father's; takes cotton, not gold; div tells her to wash her hair in black water, her face and hands in white; At home, the stepmother sees that there is a moon on Sh.'s forehead and a star on her chin; M. sends her own daughter, but she does everything wrong; the prince orders her to wash in yellow water; a snake appears on the girl's forehead and a scorpion on her chin; the gold she grabbed turns out to be bricks; M. goes to the wedding with her daughter, wrapping her face in a scarf, and orders Sh. to sort out the mixture of peas, beans and legumes and fill the cup with tears; Sh. goes to the prince, who gives her salt (the water will be like tears), a rooster (to separate the beans, etc.), a luxurious outfit, ashes (to pour on M. and her daughter), flowers (to throw on the bride and guests); the prince sees Sh., she runs away and loses her slipper; returning home, M. pretends to be ill and let her husband slaughter the cow; the prince replaces the cows and orders Sh. to bury the bones of the slaughtered one in the barn; the prince's servants are looking for the owner of the slipper; M. hides Sh. in the oven, but the rooster crows where she is; M. feeds Sh. onions and garlic so that she smells bad and disgraces herself; the div helps her out of the situation, and M.'s daughter, whom she foisted on the vizier, dirty the room; M. and her daughter were thrown into a ditch, the div cut the cow's skin, and Sh.'s mother came out of it]: Rosenfeld 1956: 130-149; Bakhtiyars[a woman gives girls a tattoo; when Fatima comes, she tells her to kill her mother - then she will do it; you need to ask your mother to climb a pomegranate tree and pick a fruit, and then say that her younger brother has died; the mother will fall and crash to her death; F. does so; the woman tells her to sprinkle salt on her clothes, go to her father and say that she is not well-groomed - let him marry the tattoo artist; after this F. asks her stepmother to give her a tattoo, but she refuses; in a dream, F.'s mother tells her to go to her uncle and ask for a yellow calf; if you hit him on the ear, any food will appear; the stepmother gives birth to daughters Four-Eyes and Four Stumps, feeds them well, and gives Fatima bran; wonders why F. is fatter than her daughters; sends Four-Eyes to spy; she eats with F., does not reveal the secret; the stepmother sent Four Stumps; she brings the food she got from the calf to her mother, tells her everything; the stepmother pretends to be ill, puts dry cakes on her back and chest, as if she has a fever; bribes the mullah, who advises to treat her with calf meat; F. to her father: the stepmother is pretending; the father beats F.; tries to cut the calf; F.: “Let the blade of the knife be like the back!”; the father beats F. again, she has to remove the spell; F. to the cauldrons: “Don’t cook”; the meat won’t cook; the father beats her again; F.; collects the calf’s bones, brings them to her mother’s grave; the mother appears in a dream: let the daughter throw cotton wool on the road and follow, come to the diva of Alla Xingi, put his head on her lap and start combing his hair; she will answer that his comb, wineskin tie and everything else are better than her mother F.’s; AZ falls asleep; F. sheds tears; AZ wakes up, calls her daughter, places the moon on her chin and the sun on her forehead, slippers strewn with jewels; on the way back F. loses one, the prince finds it, orders to find the owner, marries F.; F. gives birth to a son; the sisters repeat F.'s path, but they praise the things not of the div, but of their mother; the div rewards the sisters with donkey ears and a bull's tail hanging from his chin; the sisters bathe with F.; Four Stumps ties her by her braids to a willow, a tiger eats her; a reed grows from a drop of blood, a shepherd makes a pipe out of it; Four Stumps puts on F.'s clothes; the prince is surprised that his wife's face no longer shines; a grinding sound is heard at night: this is the wife gnawing off her ears and tail; F. feeds the baby cow's milk, he cries; the prince tells his mother that his wife has changed; while hunting, the prince hears a shepherd playing the flute and she tells him about F.; takes the flute, plays it himself, and lets his son play it; Four Stumps throws the flute into a grain jar; the prince and his son take bouquets of flowers out of the grain jar; Four Stumps put her hand in and pricks herself with a needle; one night F. comes out of the grain jar, the prince sees the light, F. hides; says she cannot go out naked; the prince goes for clothes; Four Stumps tries to escape, F. orders the door to be locked; breastfeeds her son; tells her husband everything; the sisters are tied by their braids to mules and they go to hell]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, no. 39: 256–268.

Baltoscandia. Finns [mother died; a widow neighbor, who had a daughter of her own, persuaded the girl to advise her father to marry her; began to tyrannize; sent in winter in a shirt for strawberries; the girl asked Frost to give her warm clothes, he gave them; she came to the house, there were three little men, the girl shared her bread with them; they sent her to sweep the snow, under it were strawberries; one endowed the girl with even greater beauty, another made gold coins fall from her lips, the third promised that she would marry the prince; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she refuses to sweep the snow; the little men make her even uglier, toads fall from her lips, she is destined for a miserable death; one day the stepmother gave her stepdaughter a piece of bread; it rolled, the girl after it; the ram asks to shear it, the cow - to milk it, the sheaf - to tie; the girl does everything; comes to the estate of Hiisi; his wife is at home, she orders to heat the bathhouse and at the same time weave material from wool; while the girl was heating, the mice spun and wove everything; H. orders to milk the cows, these are she-wolves and bears, the cat milks; strain the milk - sparrows do it; Hiisi himself came, gives a bell, puts out the torch - he will catch by the ringing of the bell; the mouse runs with a bell; in the morning H. gave the girl gifts, put her on a cart and sent her home; old woman H. orders the cow, the ram to detain her, they refuse; orders the oak tree to beat with branches, he protected her sheaf; the stepmother sent her own daughter to H.; she refuses to shear the ram, milk the cow, tie the sheaf; drives away the mice, the cat, the sparrows; the mouse did not run with a bell, H. caught the girl and beat her up badly; on the way back an oak tree whipped her, a cow kicked her, a ram butted her; the girl returned barely alive; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to wash skeins of wool in an ice hole; the prince saw her and took her as his wife; she gave birth to a son; the stepmother came, cut off her golden hair, tied it to her daughter's head, pushed the prince's wife into the water; the horse pulled her out, hid her in the stall; the king found her there; asks the old woman what to do with the one who replaces his wife and pushes the real one into the water; the old woman: put her in a barrel with thorns, throw her into the water; this is what they did with the old woman and her daughter; all is well]: Konkka 1993: 94-104; Veps[after her mother died, the girl persuaded her father to marry Baba Yaga, who promised to give her milk to drink and wash her with milk; when the old man left, the stepmother took the girl to a cold hut, gave her ash instead of oatmeal, sand instead of cereals, bricks instead of bread; in the evening the girl cooks porridge, the mouse asks to let her lick the whisk, the girl gives it; the mouse tells her not to be afraid of anything, promises to hide; the old people come, the girl feeds them dinner, they invite her to sleep with them, she replies that she must clear the table, wash the dishes; the mouse turns her into a rolling pin, puts her on a shelf; the old people fall asleep; the rooster crowed and they fell through the ground, the goods remained; the same thing the next evening (the mouse turns the girl into a needle, sticks it into the wall); in the morning many girls come, the girl in the hut asks them to give her to her father so that he can take her; the father arrives, the girl has a chest with silver and gold, the dog barks about it; Baba Yaga takes her own daughter to the hut; she hits a mouse, is rude to the old people (a toad in your mouth!), they killed her, put the bones in the corner; a man arrived, took the bones, the dog barks about it, Baba Yaga hits her; seeing her daughter's bones, she dies]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 48: 169-171; Estonians (southern Estonia; also Saaremaa, central part of northern Estonia) [a widow asks a girl to persuade her father, also a widower, to marry her; he sets a condition: to bring water in a leaky boot; but the water does not flow out, because the widow is a witch; now the stepmother tyrannizes her stepdaughter, pampers her own daughter; in winter she sends for strawberries; she comes to the house where the old people are; shares the dry crust that the stepmother gave her; the old people tell her to take a shovel and a broom, clear some of the earth from snow, there are strawberries there; at parting, one of the old men wishes that gold would fall from the girl's lips; others: that she would become more beautiful every day; marry the king; that every day would be better than yesterday; that she would wear warm clothes; the stepmother kindly asked about everything, sent her own daughter; she is rude to the old people, she herself grabs what they eat, refuses to clear away the snow; they make toads fall from her lips, so that she would become uglier every day, and would not get married; the girl with gold on her lips was seen by the king, he married her; she gave birth to a boy; the stepmother hired herself as a servant, turned the queen into a duck, replaced her with her own daughter; the servant noticed how the duck flies in at night, becomes a woman and feeds the child; she teaches the servant to tell the king: when a duck flies in, the duck's head must be cut off; this can only be done on the following night, there is no salvation after that; the king did so, returned his wife, and lowered the stepmother and her daughter down the mountain in a barrel of nails]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 61: 160-164.

Volga - Perm. Mordvins (Erzya) [the wife died; the boy and girl ask their father to take the stepmother; she asks her husband to kill the children; he only agrees to lock them in a barn; the cow feeds them milk, butter and cottage cheese; the stepmother sends the seven-eyed daughter, the children put her to sleep; then the six-eyed one; etc.; the one-eyed one has a big eye, does not sleep, she told the stepmother, she asks her husband to slaughter the cow; she tells the children to tie her with a rotten rope, open the gate, grab her horns, carries the children away; runs through a forest of copper (do not touch copper buttons), silver (silver rings), gold (earrings), tin (coins); the boy each time picks one as a gift for his sister; they live in a house with a door made of bark; a copper, silver and tin bull come in succession, each one orders a cow to be called to butt him, since her children took a button, a ring and an earring; the cow kills the copper, silver and gold ones; she knows that the tin one will kill her; she orders three belts to be made from her skin, three dogs to be called and belt loops to be put on them; their names are Skakun, Gryzun, Lovun; they bring food to the brother and sister; a lion and a tiger join them, 30 animals in all; they killed a 12-headed snake; they buried 11 heads and forgot the 12th; the brother comes to his sister, there are rich storerooms in the house; there are robbers in one; the lion and the tiger killed them; when leaving, the brother does not order his sister to open one room; she found a robber there; they came to an agreement; they agreed to kill the brother in a hot bath; the brother blows the horn, the animals hear, break down the door; they tore the robber apart; the brother left his sister at the millstone; when she dries like a torch, the millstone becomes as big as a pear, and two troughs fill with blood and pus, he will come to him; the king's daughter has disappeared; the guy with the animals comes to the witch; the sorcerer came to her at night; the lion squeezes him in his paws; he confesses that the princess has been turned into a ring on the old woman's finger; disenchanted; in her place the king has an imaginary daughter - she seems to be ill; the guy poured pitch on her, she turned into clay; the guy received the princess and the kingdom; he goes to his sister; everything came true there (a trough of blood, etc.); the old woman gives her sister hemp seeds (in fact, these are the teeth of a poisonous snake) to put in the ear of her sleeping brother and his wife - they will die; the animals began to shake their bodies, the seeds fell out; the lion tore the old woman to pieces, and the tiger tore his sister apart; the wife gave birth to a son – an iron heel, a stone crown, knees wrapped in wire]: Maskaev 1967, No. 10: 82-93.