K33a8. The heroine is transformed into a dove.

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A woman turned into a dove by the machinations of her rival tries to establish contact with her children or her husband.

Berbers of Morocco, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Arabs of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Portuguese, Spaniards, Basques, Aragon, Catalans, Italians (Tyrol, Ticino, Tuscany, Abruzzo), Maltese, French (Nivernais, Dauphiné), Palestinians, Arabs of Iraq, Qatar, Yemen, Meiteis, Ifugao, Greeks (Chios), Slovaks, Russians (Voronezh), Laks, Lezgins, Tabasarans, Mountain Tajiks, Latvians, Setos, Mordvins, Kazan Tatars.

North Africa. Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [someone sells conception apples; a woman bought two apples, ate one, put the other aside, her husband accidentally ate them, his leg (jambe) swelled; a month later he went into the desert, cut the swelling with a knife, a charming girl came out; he abandoned her and returned home; she was raised by a gazelle; the prince saw her, but could not catch up with her, she herself ran like a gazelle; the old woman advised him to leave two plates of couscous, one with salt and one without (jinn are afraid of salt); the girl began to eat the salty couscous, after that she could not run fast and was caught; on the advice of a Jew, the prince's former wife stuck a pin in the hair of the new one and she flew away as a dove; she flew back every evening and sang, telling her story; the gardener informed the prince; on the advice of another Jew, the prince caught the dove and put her in a cage; felt, took out the pin, the wife was reborn; the first was burned]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928: 81-87; Arabs of Morocco [dying, a 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, she persuades the father to marry; the aunt helps the 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 it 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 come out; her father puts her in a separate room, a siren brings her everything she needs; the sultan is celebrating a holiday, the girl goes there secretly, 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 her hair, it flies away as a dove, the stepmother replaces her with her daughter; the husband immediately realizes 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 her daughter's head 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 into a woman again; the stepmother is burned alive]: El Koudia 2003, no. 4: 19-26; Arabs of Algeria[a Jew sells conception apples; a childless king is interested; his youngest wife heard and bought an apple, cut it in half, ate half; when she wanted to eat the other half, it turned out that the king himself had eaten it; the wife gave birth to a boy, and the husband developed a swell on his leg; they cut him open, took out something alive, but a female peacock that climbed into the room grabbed it and carried it to a nest in a tree; raised a girl; the prince also grew up, went to find out what the goats were afraid of; saw a girl's reflection in a spring; fell ill with love; they told the Jew; he turned the girl into a dove; the dove flies away; but on the seventh day the Jew managed to make the dove come down to the prince under the tree and again became a girl; the prince was already married to the daughter of his mother's sister; his father married him to a girl who was taken for a genie; the prince's first wife and mother asked the Jew to turn her into a dove again; he gave a pin, the prince's mother stuck it into the daughter-in-law's head and she flew away as a dove; the gardeners hear a voice: I was born from an apple, a peahen raised me, your mother and your first wife turned me into a dove; a rainstorm begins, but as soon as the people hide under a tree, the sun comes out again; this happens many times; when the prince learned of this, he asked the old woman for help; she came under the tree, put the hand mill upside down and began to grind; the dove-girl began to explain that this was not how to do it; the old woman asked her to come down and show her how to do it; then she began to sift flour, putting the sieve upside down; then she baked cakes on the convex side of the bowl; in the end the dove came down and the old woman caught her; the prince kept the dove in a cage in his room; the mother picked up the key, pulled the dove out and threw her on a pile of coals; the prince began to wash the dove, felt the pin and pulled it out; the dove became a girl again; the prince executed his mother and first wife; the prince and his wife were visited by a woman in a luxurious outfit – it was she who took the form of a peacock]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951: 11-23; Tunisia[a merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to give them in marriage; having overheard their conversations, he married them off at their request: the eldest - to a bald rich man, the middle one - to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; later her name is Lyulya) to a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter, to whom it was predicted that when she laughs, precious stones will pour out of her mouth, and when she cries - emeralds; so her father became rich; she grew up, the sultan's son proposed to her; his aunt went with her to the prince in the carriage, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her out of the carriage, dressed her daughter in her clothes, sat her in Lyulya's place; A bird flew past Lulu in the forest and said that if she chewed a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lulu did so; while hunting, the prince caught a dove, put it in a golden cage, and began to spend a lot of time with it; his wife pretended to be sick so that he would roast the dove for her; a palm tree grew in the place where her bones were buried; the prince began to spend time near the palm tree, and his wife began to demand that he cut it down, otherwise she would get sick again; the prince cut down the palm tree, and threw it into the forest; an old woman picked up the firewood and brought it home; when she left the house and returned, she found that everything in the house had been tidied up; the neighbors said that it was not them; the old woman began to spy, and saw a girl coming out of the firewood; Lulu told what had happened to her; she made a necklace out of precious stones, which fell out of her mouth while she was speaking, and gave it to the old woman to take to the market, but did not sell it to the prince's wife; she sold it; when the prince saw the necklace, he asked the old woman, she told him about Lyulya; he went to her and returned from her with his son, and told his wife that this was the son of his suddenly deceased friend; Lyulya told her son to ask the prince's wife for the necklace from her neck; the wife took off the necklace and died immediately; Lyulya entered the palace and took her place]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 68; Arabs of Libya[a woman has 7 sons; she asks the midwife: if a girl is born, raise a red sign, and if a boy, then a white one; a daughter is born, but the midwife raised a white sign and the brothers left; the daughter grew up; she hears her mother say: "Oh, my seven"; she had to tell; she came to the house where the old woman was a worker; she starts cooking instead of her; the brothers came and felt that the food had become better; the old woman denies everything, but the brothers take turns peeping, on the 7th day they grab the girl; she tells her story; stays with the brothers; one day a man asked for the girl's hand; and the old woman turned the brothers into bulls; the girl agreed to marry on the condition that her husband would take care of her bulls; he promised; now the old woman turned the young wife into a dove; the son grew up and complained to the dove: where is my mother; one day he found a pin stuck in her body; the dove became a woman; found pins in the bulls' bodies, pulled them out, the bulls became young men again]: Ali Lateef: Two Libyan folktales, https://sultansseal.com/2021/09/18/ali-lateef-two-libyan-folktales/; Arabs of Egypt [the ruler is childless; the old woman gave his wife a pomegranate to eat half with her husband; a daughter, Pomegranate Apple (PA), was born; the mother died, the ruler took another wife, who had her own daughter and a sorcerer friend; the woman asks him who is the most beautiful of all, he answers that PA; to get rid of PA, let the stepmother send her to the cellar, give her dirty cotton and tell her to knit stockings from it; the old woman teaches: the blue, red, black sea will pass by; when the white one appears, you need to dip the cotton in it, wash your hands and face; stockings appeared, PA became even more beautiful; the stepmother sent her own daughter; An old woman tells her to wash herself in the Black Sea, the girl becomes ugly; A stepmother tells her husband that his daughter is fooling around with guys; He sends a vizier to kill the girl; The vizier lets her go, brings a dog's blood; GYA came to 40 robbers, tidied everything up; The next day one robber stayed to watch; The robbers left GYA as their mistress; The stepmother asks the sorcerer if she is the most beautiful of all; The sorcerer: No, GYA, who is with the 40 robbers; The stepmother came, gave GYA a poisoned ring; The robbers put the body in a glass coffin; The prince saw, asked to give the coffin to him, decided to bury the girl; The servants took off the ring, she came back to life; They put it back on and asked the prince how he would reward them; When GYA came back to life, the prince generously rewarded the servants; GYA invited 40 robbers to the wedding, asking them for permission to marry the prince; the mirror answers again that the GH is more beautiful; the sorcerer gave a pin to stick into the GH's head; she will become a dove, she must be replaced by the woman's own daughter; she is ugly: it means she is ill; the dove puts the gardener to sleep, he forgets to water the trees, they wither; the prince caught the dove, takes care of her; the sorcerer teaches the woman to ask to kill the dove in order to rub her daughter with its blood - she will recover; but the prince accidentally removed the pin, the wife returned to her appearance; the woman and the sorcerer were burned at the stake]: Ildan Dan 1977: 25-28 in Sutrop 2018: 679-682.

Southern Europe. Portuguese : Braga 2002 [near a forest lived three sisters, they loved each other; nearby lived a witch and her daughter; the witch persuaded the youngest to give the elder ones coriander and they turned into bulls; the king saw the youngest and married; the witch stuck two pins into her head, the queen turned into a dove, the witch replaced her with her daughter; the latter told the king that she had become ugly due to illness; the dove flies in and asks the dog how her baby is; the dog: is silent at night and cries during the day; this was heard, reported to the king, who caught the dove, took out the pins; the witch and her daughter were lowered down a mountain in barrels of nails]: 183-184; Pedroso 1882, no. 2 [a girl is imprisoned in a tower; she lets down her hair, the prince uses it to climb up to her room; one day the witch saw this; She called the girl, imitating the prince's voice; the girl let down her hair; the witch climbed up and began to persuade her not to hang out with the prince; she went down and left; when the prince got up and the girl told him everything, he ordered her to run away at once; the girl said goodbye to all the things, but forgot about the broom and the whisk; she took with her a glass of water and bags of pebbles and sand; when the witch came, the table and chairs answered that the girl was ill, but the broom and the whisk said that she had run away with the prince; the witch set off in pursuit; the girl threw sand (sandy wasteland), pebbles (wall), poured out water (river, the witch stopped chasing); the prince told the girl to wait for him on the tree, and he would go and prepare their ceremonial arrival; a black maid came to fetch water, saw a girl's reflection in the spring, took it for her own, broke the jug - why would such a beauty need it; came a second time - same thing; the third time with a brass jug, it did not break, she looked up, saw the girl, climbed up to her, offered to comb her hair, stuck a pin into her head, turning the girl into a dove; when the prince returned, the black woman said that she had darkened from sunburn, sitting in the sun; each time the dove flies to the gardener and asks how the prince is doing with black Maria; the gardener told the prince, he ordered to catch the dove in a snare made of ribbon; dove: you can't catch me in such a snare; the same made of silver; when the snare was golden, the dove was caught; the imaginary wife asked to kill the dove, but the prince refused; one day he felt and pulled out the pin, the girl was reborn; replied that she would like to make steps to climb into bed from the maid's bones and stretch the skin over a drum]: 6-9; Spaniards[when a daughter, Mariquita, is born, the parents forget about their seven sons, who leave; M. gets lost, ends up in her brothers' house, secretly cleans up; the brothers lie in wait for her, recognize their sister by her ring; M. forgets to feed the dog, who puts out the fire with urine, M. goes to the dragoness for fire; she gives him a firebrand; the dragon comes after, each one sucks M.'s blood from his finger; the brothers kill him, parsley grows on his grave, whoever eats it becomes a black bull; M. forgets about it, puts it in soup, the brothers become bulls; the prince takes M. as his wife, the bulls with her; leaves; the servant turns M. into a dove by sticking a pin into her head, takes her place, makes the bulls work; the dove flies to the prince, he accidentally takes out the pin, M. takes on human form; the same pin is used to disenchant the brothers; the maid is executed]: Malinovskaya 2002: 210-214; Basques [a witch approaches a young woman with a baby, asks permission to search her head, sticks a pin in, the woman flies away as a white dove; the witch is taken for her real wife; the dove flies in, the false wife drives her away, the husband welcomes her; notices the pin, takes it out, the wife reappears; the witch is burned in the square]: 97-99; Webster 1879 (recorded in French) [seven brothers leave home; after this the mother gives birth to a girl; while playing, the other children tell her that she should be as good as her brothers; the mother confesses that her daughter has brothers, she goes to look for them; finds the brothers' house, cleans, cooks, hides; every night when the brothers fall asleep, she sews a shirt for one of them; the youngest wakes up; her brothers do not tell her to go to the neighbor; her sister goes to look for fire to cook food; the witch gives fire and put herbs in a basin for washing feet; having immersed their feet in it, the brothers turn into cows, the youngest - into a Breton cow; her girl loves more than others; the king sees her, she agrees to become his wife on the condition that he will allow her to take care of the cows, especially the Breton cow; she gives birth in the absence of her husband; the witch throws her into the abyss, goes to bed in her place; tells the king that she will recover if he slaughters the Breton cow; the servant goes for the cows, they are at the abyss; he hears the queen's voice; she says that she suffers not because of herself, but because of the child, husband and cows; the king pulls his wife out of the abyss; threatens the witch to burn her in the oven if she does not return the youths to human form; she returns, but is still burned; the ashes were scattered, the brothers took the ladies of the court as wives]: Barandiaran 1962a, no. 25: 187-191; Aragon [the prince marries one of the princesses emerging from the magic oranges; the sorceress (Moorish) sticks a pin into her head, turning her into a dove, takes her place]: González Sanz 1996, no. 408: 80; Catalans(including Mallorca) [a prince goes in search of the three oranges of love; a man shows the way; the prince picks oranges; he opened the first one, a girl came out, asked for a drink, there was no water, she died; the same with the second; he gave the third one a drink and went to fetch a carriage; an ugly dark-skinned girl offers to comb her hair, she pricks it with a comb, she turns into a bird; a deceiver explains why she has become ugly; a dove flies into the palace, the prince finds a tooth of the comb stuck in her head, takes it out, she turns into a girl; a wedding; the deceiver is executed]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 408: 90-91; Italians (South Tyrol) [the prince was playing with a ball, it flew out of the window and broke an old woman's jug; old woman: you will find no peace until you get the princess of the three oranges; the prince lost his peace and went wandering; he met an old woman; She shows the way to the castle, in which there is a chest with three oranges; gave meat, bread, a broom and a bottle of oil; in front of the castle there is a dog, then evil cats; she gave the dog bread, and the cats meat; swept the littered stairs; oiled the door of the tower; took oranges; on the way back decided to eat one; a girl came out of it, begged to give her water, died; he opened the second near the spring, but did not have time to run to it and this girl also died; he gave the third a drink right away; told her to climb a tree, and he would go for the carriage; the witch's daughter came up, saw her reflection in the spring and decided that she was beautiful; but then she saw her own, and then the beauty in the tree; the ugly woman's mother came and persuaded the girl to go down, and then allow her to comb her hair; she stuck a pin, the girl flew away as a dove; when the prince returned, the false bride said that she had grown ugly from the rays of the sun; When the cook was preparing food for a wedding feast, a dove flew up, put him to sleep, everything was burnt; the dove flew in through the window, the prince took her, began to stroke her, felt something hard and took out the pin; the princess was revived, the deceiver ran away; but she and the witch were caught and burned at the stake; all is well]: Schneller 1861, No. 19: 38-42; Italians (Ticino) [the prince decided to find the fairy of the three golden apples; the old woman told him to take with him a rope, a broom, a strong pole, a sack of bread, a sack of millet; he threw the millet to the eagle, the bread to the wolves, gave the pole to the people who supported the stone with their shoulders, a broom to the one wiping under the stove with his hands, a rope to the one getting water from the well with a bucket; he took the apples, the witch chased him, shouting for everyone to whom the prince had given gifts to detain him, but they refused; the prince opened one apple, a girl came out, she needed to drink some water, there was no water, she died and disappeared; the prince opened the second apple by the stream, but it dried up – the same thing; the third – by the well, the fairy drank some water, stayed with the prince; he went to prepare everything for the meeting; the witch offered to comb the fairy’s hair, stuck a pin in it, the fairy turned into a dove; the witch took her place, said that she had become ugly because of hunger; the dove flies around the palace, interferes with the preparation of food; the prince takes the dove in his hands, takes out the pin, the fairy regains her former appearance; the witch runs away]: Keller 1981: 272-275;Italians (Tuscany: Montale) [when an old woman was carrying a jug of oil under the palace window, the prince, out of mischief, dropped a stone on it; old woman: so that he would not rest until he found three Oranges of Love; in one house a woman says that the AL is with an ogre and it is better not to go there, and if you go, then put a whole sheep and the same amount of macaroni on the table; the prince did so, and the ogre's wife hid it and began to question her husband; ogre: the oranges are with the fairy Morgana; on the way you must throw bread to the fierce dogs; further on a shoemaker who works continuously without an awl and setole, and if you do not give them to him, he will tear out his eyes; a woman who draws water from a well with her hair; if you do not give her a rope, she will tear out your intestines; another woman cleans the oven with her bare hands, you must give her a broom, otherwise she will throw anyone who comes up into the oven; etc. the prince did everything; when Morgana went to sharpen her teeth, he took away the box with oranges; the guards refused to seize the prince, for he had done them a favor; the prince opened the box, the girl appeared, asked for water, but there was no water and she returned to Morgana; the same with the second; the prince kept the ipeityu; left her in one house, and he himself went to the palace to make preparations for the wedding; the ugly daughter of the master took the reflection of the fairy in the well for her own; then she tore off her clothes, and the fairy flew away as a dove; the deceiver is pregnant; the dove flies in and asks the servant how the prince is; the deceiver says that she needs to eat a roast turtledove; the prince grabs her, pulls the pin out of her head, the turtledove becomes his former wife; the prince drove away the deceiver]: Comparetti 1875, No. 68: 292-301; Italians (Abruzzo) [a prince goes to look for a wife white as milk and ruddy as blood; an old man gives three pomegranates, tells them to break them by a stream; in each there is a naked girl, the first two immediately die of thirst, he immediately sprinkles water on the third, she remains alive; he tells her to climb a tree, goes for clothes; a filthy Saracen woman comes to get water, takes the girl's reflection for her own, breaks the jug, leaves; the landlady scolds her; this happens twice; on the third day the girl laughs, the Saracen woman asks her to come down, she will comb her hair; killed her by pricking her in the ear with a hairpin; a drop of blood turned into a dove; the Saracen woman explains to the prince that while he was walking, the sun and the wind changed her appearance and voice; the prince marries her; the dove pecks crumbs, leaves golden feathers for the cook; he wants to take it to the prince, the Saracen kills her, a pomegranate tree grows from a drop of blood; the dying who ate the pomegranate recovered; the Saracen wants to keep the last pomegranate for herself, the prince orders it to be given to a woman whose husband is dying; the woman's husband has already died, she keeps the pomegranate for herself; returning, he sees that the house is cleaned; the confessor tells the old woman to see to what will happen to the pomegranate; she finds the girl; the prince recognizes her; the Saracen herself says that she should be smeared with resin and burned in the square]: Kotrelev 1991: 118-122; Maltese[a childless king promises to build a spring of oil (or also a spring of wine) from which it will flow until his son reaches a certain age; the son is born and grows up; he breaks the jug of an old woman who came for oil with a stone; she tells him to marry the girls from seven lemons; the old men he meets help him find seven lemons; he opens six, there is a girl in each one, she dies of hunger and thirst, because the young man has nothing to give her right away; he has prepared food and drink for the seventh in advance, she survives; the prince takes her to his country, leaves her on a tree while he goes off to prepare everything for the meeting; the Moorish woman climbs the tree, offers to search the girl's head, sticks a pin in, the girl turns into a dove; the returning prince marries the deceiver, although he is surprised that the bride has become ugly; the bird flies in, tells about itself, the false wife kills her; a tree grows from the bones in the old woman's yard; then the girl is reborn; the prince finds her, the deceiver is executed]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, no. 408: 99-101.

Western Europe. French (Nivernais: Nievre) [a prince broke a jug of oil carried by an old woman with a ball; she wished him love for three oranges; the prince fell ill with love and went in search with two companions; they come to the south, east, north wind; the mother of the winds hides them each time and teaches them what to do next; they come to a castle; they oil a rusty door and it opens; they throw acorns to predatory pigs, give giantesses ropes to get water from a well (they got it using their hair instead of ropes); give other women a broom to sweep the heat from the stove (they did it with their bare hands); sweep the dusty dirty stairs; comb the lousy old woman's hair, she falls asleep for the first time in many years; the prince sees and takes the three oranges, runs away with his companions; the old woman orders the ladder, etc., to detain the fugitives, but they refuse, because those who came cleaned them, fed them, etc.; on the way back the prince opens one orange, a beauty comes out, asks for a drink, dies; the same with the second; he opens the third at a spring; he brings the beauty to the king, who is acquainted with the prince's father and dreamed of marrying the prince to his daughter; he sends the prince for jewelry and clothes for the brought beauty, and his daughter sticks a pin into her head and the girl flies away as a dove; the deceiver says that she has darkened from the sun and wind; the prince's father and the courtiers are surprised that his bride is not beautiful; on the eve of the wedding, the dove talks to the cook; sits on the prince's hand; he felt and took out the pin; the wedding; the deceiver was burned at the stake]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, no. 408: 59-63; French (Dauphiné) [the prince refuses to marry, cuts his finger, blood drips on the cream, he promises to marry the one who is like blood and milk; his father sends him to look for a wife; he sails to a barren island, a woman named Death lives there, sends him to another, with rich vegetation, Life lives there, she sends him to Youth, she gives three lemons and a knife; you need to cut a lemon at a spring, a girl will come out, you need to give her water right away; having cut the first two lemons, the prince is so enchanted by the beauty of the girls that he does not have time to give them a drink before they disappear; he gives the third one a drink; he goes to tell his father about this, in his absence the girl climbs a tree; a black woman sees her reflection in the spring, thinks that she herself is so beautiful; having broken a jug, he notices the beauty; he sticks a pin in her head, she flies away as a dove; a black woman tells the prince that an evil fairy turned her into a black woman; a wedding is being prepared; a dove flies in, sings, a servant grabs her, cuts her, from three drops of blood a lemon with three lemons grows; the prince cuts the lemons, the girls from the first two disappear, in the third his bride; they want to burn the black woman, the bride asks to simply banish her]: Joisten 1991, No. 16.1.: 137-139.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one stream with honey, another with melted butter; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents of the promise, otherwise she threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds them, he remembers, the king builds streams, fills them with honey and butter; the old woman comes when almost everything has been taken; she collects the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe - Lolabe's daughter; he goes to look for L., she lets her hair down from the window, he climbs up it; when her witch mother rises, the daughter turns the youth into a pin, the pin senses the spirit of a man, orders him to give her the pin to take out a splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the youth into a melon, the mother orders him to give the melon, the daughter hides one seed, revives the youth from it, orders him to run away, sprinkling all objects with henna except for the mortar and pestle; everyone answers the mother that the daughter is here, the mortar and pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog gnaw), a brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish with urine), a mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house the youth orders L. to wait while he prepares everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws the jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to come down, sticks pins into her, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried waiting for her, that is why she changed; the dove cries in the kitchen of the palace, her tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, learns about the dove, catches him, takes out the pins; the maid from behind now sticks them into him, turning him into a dove; the third time L. catches him, takes out the pins; wedding; the maid is burned]ё: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, № 18: 159-166; Arabs of Iraq[the king's childless wife promises to fill one irrigation canal with fat and another with honey; gives birth to a handsome and intelligent son; but forgets her vow; at night someone says to the young man: if the mother does not keep her word, her son will go to a place where no one will find him; this goes on for three nights; the young man forgot about the dream, but the third time he woke up and told; the prince's mother did everything in a hurry; by evening the irrigation ditches were empty and only an old woman was scraping out the remains; the prince, out of mischief, shot an arrow at her pot and broke it; the old woman: as you broke my pot, so let your heart be broken because of love for the girl of the Raranj and Taranj trees; the prince went in search; at the fork, one road is of Reliability, the other is of Obscurity (security and obscurity); the old man advises to turn back; having learned of the prince's firm intention, gives a ring and orders to travel 7 days along the road of Obscurity to the palm grove; there rub the ring: the horse of the genies will come out; ride it, not paying attention to the wild animals; a tree in the center of the grove; on the sides there are lions and wild goats; in front of the goats there is meat, in front of the lions there is hay, it is necessary to change; while the animals are eating, it is necessary to climb the tree and pick the fruits; having taken three, the prince went down and galloped back; on the way he opened one, then; from each one a beauty came out, asked for water and, not receiving it immediately, died; the prince opened the third fruit at the river on the border of his father's kingdom; the prince left the beauty and went for clothes and a retinue; the girl climbed the tree; a dark-skinned slave came to the river for water, took the reflection of the beauty for her own; seeing the beauty, she offered to take insects from her, but stuck a pin into her, turning her into a dove; the servant told the prince that the evil genie changed her appearance; every day a dove flies into the kitchen and the cook replies that the prince sleeps with the ugliest woman; the dove's tears turn into pearls and corals; the cook tells the prince, he catches the dove, pulls out the pin, the beauty is reborn; the deceiver is burned]: Bushnaq 1987: 109-114; Qatar[father and mother died; sister heard of a man named Al-Khadrabouna (Kh.) and fell in love without seeing him; brother hears her pronounce his name, goes off to look for him; coming to K., she tells him that whenever his sister steps, a stuffed chicken falls {to the ground}, when she laughs, pearls fall from her lips, and when she cries, it begins to rain; K. gives her brother a cloth to give to his sister; she must wash it, pour the water out in front of the house and a tree will grow in that place; when K. comes and sees the tree, he will know that the bride is here; a neighbor overheard the conversation between brother and sister; changed the water, poured out the one from K.'s washing the cloth in front of her own house; K. marries a deceiver; sister sends her brother to him, but K. puts him in prison; sister turns into a turtledove; flies to the guard guarding her brother, tells everything; a stuffed chicken falls, pearls spill, a storm with rain begins; H. notices strange behavior of the guard, eavesdrops and spies, catches a turtledove, {it turns into a girl again}; H. divorced the deceiver, took his betrothed as a wife]: Abu Shehab 2019: 59-62; Yemen : Daum 1992, no. 17 [the sultan's wife became pregnant after eating a potion sold by a sweets merchant; the girl was named Wasīla ("rain stream"); ​​they settled in a glass palace; one day she threw a bone, the glass broke, she went outside, the son of another sultan saw her, they fell in love, they were married; two days later the husband left; the wife, disguised as a beggar, went in search; she was taken in by an elderly couple; the son of another sultan saw her, took her away, made her his favorite wife; but the mother-in-law took a dislike to her daughter-in-law; while combing her golden hair, she stuck seven thorns into her head, the woman flew away as a dove; she saw her first husband, flew down to him; he plucked the thorns from her feathers, she became a woman again, stayed with her first husband; everyone is happy]: 156-163; Han, al-Hegri 2004 [the sultan's daughters invited all the women of the village to the wedding; the stepmother tells her stepdaughter named Henna Leaf (HH) to sort out three kinds of grain mixed together, leaves with her daughter Ekram; an old woman gives HH clothes and jewelry, brings him to the palace; dances with other women; Ali, the son of the sultan, accidentally enters; before the women covered their faces, he saw HH; she ran away, dropping her slipper; the grain is sorted out; Ali tells everyone to try on the slipper; only suitable for LH, she has a second one; the stepmother sends E., but she goes into the palace kitchen, knocks over a stone pot on herself, the whisk remains on her neck; at this time LH is brought to the sultan's son; the stepmother sends a witch, she comes disguised as a servant, sticks 7 thorns into the back of LH's head, she flies away as a dove; the sultan's wife says that LH has left; the servant sees the dove, she cries, it begins to rain; Ali finds her, takes out the thorns, LH becomes a woman; the sultan drove away his jealous wife, handed over the throne to Ali]: 92-97.

Tibet - Northeast India. Meiteis (Chins) [two wives, each with a boy and a girl; husband died; younger wife is angry; both went to get fish; the elder caught fish, the younger oysters, eels and snakes; climbed a tree; the elder asks her to throw down some fruit for her too; she threw snakes and eels into her mouth, the elder turned into a turtle and swam away; the younger took her fish; the daughter of the elder, Shandrembi, saw her mother in a dream; she told her what had happened; let Sh. catch her, keep her where the rays of the sun and moon do not fall on her, and in 7 days she will be reborn as a human; but the son of the younger wife noticed the turtle and began to demand that it be cooked for him; in the dream the mother again appeared to Sh.: put my bones in a basket, in 7 days I will become a woman; but Sh. opened the basket on the 6th day, a swallow flew out of it; Sh. and the daughter of the younger sister, Chaisra, went to fetch water; Sh. in rags, Ch. in beautiful clothes; the king turns to Sh.; they exchanged clothes, but the king turns to Sh. again; took her away, made her queen; the younger wife invited Sh. to a celebration, offered to wash her, poured boiling water on her, she flew away as a dove; Ch. put on her clothes, took her place; the dove flies to the mower, tells that the king forgot his wife, that Sh. is on a branch, and Ch. on the throne; the mower told the king; he brought the dove to the palace; Ch. killed her, fried her; where the curry was spilled, a plant grew and had fruit on it; the mower wanted to cut it off; but there is a knife - no fruit, there is fruit - no knife; the fruit turned into Sh., she began to cook for the mower when he is not at home; he lay in wait for her, seized her, brought her to the king; he gave Ch. a beautiful but blunt sword, and Sh. an ugly but sharp one, and ordered them to fight; Sh. cut Ch. down]: Singh 1985: 278-285.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao [Bugan have a child Dulnuwan; B. went to the granary for rice; Magapid offered to help her understand the basket and fasten the belt on her forehead; but first she suggested that they swing on a swing; let B. take off her jewelry; M. swings B., she falls, breaks herself, M. puts on her jewelry, comes to B.'s husband Aliguyun in the guise of his wife; black turtledoves revive B., give her feathers, she flies with them; in the guise of a turtledove she flies to the field where A. and M. (in the guise of B.) are working; the turtledove-B. says that M. is working in her field, wearing her jewelry; B.'s son sees the turtledove, his father catches her for him in a snare; in the granary B. takes off her feathers, takes on her former form; reveals herself to her son, who secretly brings her food; A. watches, sees how hungry B. eats greedily, and her son sucks her breast; then B. flies away again as a turtledove; the next time A. grabs her; rolls M. over the thorns until she dies; gives the stolen jewelry to his wife, throws M.'s corpse somewhere down]: Lambrecht 1955, no. 15: 186-189.

The Balkans. 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 his wife’s death, M.’s father marries the teacher; she spoils food and things, blaming her stepdaughter, but the father is not mad at M.; then he demands that M. be taken to the mountains; the father leaves his daughter a chest of food; when the food runs out, M. comes to the castle of 40 giant brothers; prepares food for them and returns to the mountains; the brothers guard M. in turns, but only the youngest finds her; she becomes 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 takes the form of a merchant, comes to M. and sells her a ring; M. puts it on and loses consciousness; The brothers take off the 40 rings they had given the girl; and when they took off the 41st, she came back to life; The stepmother again inquires of the Sun; She 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; He called his son for help, although immediately after that he won the victory; When 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 back to life; The wedding; The stepmother came to the city in the guise of a healer; 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; She wishes a good dream to the prince and a bad one to his wife; The gardener told the prince about this; he orders the dove to be placed in a golden cage; the stepmother pretended to be ill: boil the dove and give me the broth to drink; she threw the bones into the garden; three pine trees grew from them; the stepmother orders them to be cut down; the bark was thrown from the roots, the dove arose from her again; the prince noticed a fork in her head; he pulled her out, M. was revived; the stepmother was put in a 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.

Central Europe. Slovaks [an elderly king asks his son to marry him; an old woman tells the prince to go to a glass mountain and pick three lemons; the prince comes to a lead castle, in front of the castle is Jezibaba (the embodiment of winter), leaning on a lead staff; she does not know the way to the glass mountain, hides the youth; his son J. did not eat him, advises him to go to his brother in a silver castle; he eats lead pies at dinner; the youth comes to a silver castle, there is another Jezibaba (all the same, but the objects are silver); further on - a golden castle; its owner shows the way to the mountain, on it is a tree, on it are three lemons; only the one for whom the fruits are intended will be able to pick them; at first the prince cannot climb the glass, but decides to throw away the metal pies that each of the cannibals gave him with him; they turned into steps; he picked the lemons, after which the tree and the mountain disappeared, he found himself in the middle of a plain; On the way home he cut a lemon; a girl appeared, but when she learned that the prince had not prepared food, drink, or clothing for her, she disappeared; the same with the second; the third allowed it at home, the girl received everything, the prince married her and on the death of his father he reigned; leaving for war, he left his wife on the throne, which others could ascend only if the wife lowered them a silk rope; under the throne in the garden there is a pond; a gypsy servant came for water, saw her reflection, decided that she was so beautiful, broke the jug; then she realized her mistake; the old woman advises the gypsy to ask the queen to lower a rope so that she can comb her hair; stick a pin into her head, it will turn into a white dove, and let the gypsy put on her clothes and sit on the throne; so it happened; when the king returned, the fake wife explained that she had changed from suffering, waiting for his return; a dove flew in, the king stroked her, felt her and took out the pin, the wife was reborn; the maid and the old woman were burned; the king is still reigning happily, if he is still alive]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 10: 63-74; Russian(Voronezh) [a dying wife predicts that her husband will soon marry again and forget about his daughter. She leaves her a cow as a dowry, forbids her to eat it, and if she is slaughtered, orders that the bones be collected and buried. The father marries again, the new wife brings her three daughters. They offend the stepdaughter. The stepmother sends her with the eldest daughter, the one-eyed one, to pasture the cows and comb flax, the stepdaughter puts her stepsister's eye to sleep and gives the cow flax, which chews and spits out the yarn. She wakes up her sister, and they return home. The stepmother scolds her own daughter for not spinning anything. The next day she sends the two-eyed one with the stepdaughter, everything is repeated. On the third day, the stepdaughter goes with the three-eyed one, puts two of her eyes to sleep, and forgets about the third. The three-eyed one tells her mother what she saw, and she convinces her husband to slaughter the cow. The stepdaughter does not eat cow meat, collects bones, buries them in a place where an apple tree later grows. The daughter asks her father to bring a golden saucer from the city. The apple on the saucer shows distant cities. The master asks to pick an apple for him, the branches of the tree droop when the stepdaughter approaches, the sisters do not give in. The master takes the stepdaughter as his wife and takes her away. She comes to visit her father and stepmother with a child. The stepmother turns her into a dove, sends Two-Eyes together with the stepdaughter's child to the master, passing her off as his wife. Two-Eyes lives with the master, regularly goes out into the field with the child, calls his mother (addresses a flock of pigeons, "The lynx is young, the lynx is good, feed your child"). The master watches his wife, sees how the dove descends, takes off its wings and feeds his child, the husband burns the wings, the bird cannot fly away. She turns into a stake – he chops her, into a spindle – he breaks her, into a fine fellow – he dips her in water. The stepdaughter acquires her appearance]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 16: 93-96.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lucky [a stepmother tyrannizes her stepdaughter; the red-headed cow Zaza gives her honey from her right horn, butter from her left; the stepmother gives her stepdaughter wool to spin, a whirlwind carried away the wool, Z. tells her where to find what was carried away; greet people who are harvesting corals, gold, pearls, they will show the way to the mistress of the winds Chassage; take bones from horses, give them to dogs, from dogs to horses hay; drink from the river, praise the sweetness of the water, the waters will part; Ch. will offer to shake up her house, it is necessary to tidy up; tear her dress, dishevel her hair - it is necessary to darn, comb; Ch. pours water on the girl from a jug, her hair becomes golden; the girl pulls wool from under Ch.'s pillow, runs away; everyone lets her pass, the river gives her shoes with golden heels; the stepmother sends her own daughter to graze the cow, she is rude to everyone, calls the water dirty, gives bones to the cows, hay to the dogs, turned everything upside down in Ch.'s house, she splashes water in her face, it becomes covered in warts; the stepmother orders Z. to be slaughtered, she orders her bones to be buried under an apple tree; the buried bones provide a beautiful outfit for the wedding; one shoe fell into the stream, the khan picked it up, ordered her to try it on, found the owner, ordered her to be brought to the palace to marry; on the way, the stepmother does not give her water, pushes her into a well, gives her shoes to her own daughter, the khan had to marry her; the merchants pulled the girl out, she became a turtledove; the gardener hears how she orders the trees in the khan's garden to dry up; the khan catches her, she turns into a true bride; [the khan drives out the stepmother and her daughter]: Kapiev 1974: 24-35; Lezgins [the poor man's daughter dreams of being loved by the handsome Chigali; wearing iron shoes and carrying an iron stick, her father goes to look for a man with that name; the merchant Ch. gives him a handkerchief; if his daughter washes it, she must pour the first water onto the roof of her house (roses will grow), the second - onto the roof of her neighbor (a gooseberry will grow); Ch. will take girls from the house where the roses are; the father explains all this to his daughter, a bald neighbor eavesdrops, changes the water; the poor man's daughter asks God to make her father a snake, and her - a dove; the bald woman tells Ch. to slaughter the dove, a drop of blood turns into a plane tree; the bald woman tells him to cut it down, a splinter falls on the neighbor's yard; the old woman picked it up; someone cooks in her house, she hides, grabs the girl; Ch. gives horses to fatten, the old woman gets a nag, the girl turns it into a beautiful horse; the girls gather in Ch.'s house, the chipped girl tells her story, Ch. takes her as his wife, drives away the bald woman with her child]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 43: 386-389 (=Mazaev, Kasumov 1997(2): 102-109, =Khalilov 1965, No. 71: 218-222); Tabasarans[the stepmother tells Perikhanum to graze the red cow and spin wool; the wind carries away the wool, the cow tells her to follow the wind; P. goes through the gold and silver threshing floor to the azhdah cave; there are snakes and lizards in his hair, P. says that his hair is clean; the dough is dirty, P. says that it is clean, like her mother's; he cleans the house, does not take treasures, the azhdah swings her on a swing, the gold does not fall out of her dress; he tells her to bathe in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives her gold, dresses and a horse that can be turned into anything; seeing the beauty, the stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls the azhdah dirty, hides the gold, it falls out on the swing; she is told to bathe in a black lake, wash her hair in white, a horn grows on her forehead; the stepmother goes with A. to a celebration, tells P. to separate the ashes and millet, fill a vessel with tears; the mother from the grave teaches how to sift the millet through a sieve, fill a vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take a horse given by azhdaha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; the bek's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; the stepmother palmed off her ugly daughter on him instead of P.; P. flew in as a dove, A. ordered to slaughter it, they threw out the entrails, a pine tree grew, A. ordered to make a cradle out of it, the old woman picked up the shavings; someone is cooking in her house, she finds a girl; takes a skinny horse for fattening, it becomes prettier; the bek's son calls the women to spin and tell stories; P. tells; everything is explained, the stepmother and A. were put on horses and driven with whips]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 49: 444-450.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks [a snake puts edible berries on the kerchief of the shah's youngest bathing daughter, pays a rich bride price, takes her away; in the room he sheds his skin, becomes a prince; while he is hunting on Mount Kof, an old woman burns her skin; the prince and his wife go to seek their fortune; while the husband is hunting, the wife sits in a tree above the pond; the old woman sends her three daughters for water, each sees a reflection, thinks that she herself has become beautiful; the old woman locks the prince's wife in a dungeon, replaces her with her eldest daughter; makes the captive dance on needles; she flies away as a dove; the old woman asks the prince to kill the dove, a willow grows from the drops of blood; the old woman orders it to be split into firewood, a splinter bounces off, a poplar grows; the old woman orders a cradle to be made from it for her daughter's newborn; a splinter gets into the master's throat, tells its story in his voice; an old woman killed the master with a ladle, a splinter fell into the hearth; a neighbor took the hot coals; when the prince came to her, his wife jumped out of the hearth; the spouses returned home]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 4: 41-44.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [ Three oranges . A prince receives three oranges from a woman. When he cuts the first two, two girls come out of them, but both die of thirst; the third remains alive. Having put her on a tree, the prince promises to return and bring her clothes, but forgets her. Her rival pushes the girl into the water and takes her place. The girl turns into a dove (fish)]: Arijs, Medne 1977, No. 408: 282; Setu [a brother was taken into the army, the king noticed him in church, took him to his place; the brother praises the beauty of his sister; the king tells him to bring her; he took her across the sea, asked her something; she asks again from the stern; the witch says for him: become a dove and jump into the sea; takes her place; the king sees the ugly woman, throws the brother in prison; a turtledove flew to the brewer, shed her feathers, asks how her brother is; brewer: he is fed bones and crusts; she made a shirt for the king, flew away; the false wife says that she made the shirt; the next night the same (a pair of shoes); the third night – a pair of mittens; the brewer tells the king; he seizes the girl; she turns into different animals; then into a spindle; as the brewer taught, the king broke it, threw one half away, brought the other to bed, the wife was reborn; the witch was pushed into a beer barrel and covered with hot stones; the king gave half his kingdom to the wife's brother]: Säärits 2022: 309-311.

Volga – Perm. Mordvins (Erzya) [mother died, Kevganya asks her father to marry again; matchmakers liked K.; stepmother dressed her daughter in K.’s clothes, hid K. under a trough; best man understands the conversation of hens, got K., she got married; two years later she goes to visit; when she returns, stepmother calls her, she became a dove; grandmother brings a baby, K. flies in, throws off her dove clothes, feeds him; next time K.’s husband hid, grabbed her, she remained human]: Evseviev 1964, no. 20: 164-167; Kazan Tatars [leaving for a wedding to the padishah, the stepmother orders her stepdaughter to do many different jobs; the cow shakes her horns – everything is done, expensive outfits have appeared; the stepdaughter comes to the wedding; the middle son smeared a step with tar, the shoe stuck; found the owner, married her; the stepmother invites them to visit, wants to add poison, the old woman warned; after the birth, the stepmother began to steam her stepdaughter in a bathhouse, she turned into a dove and flew away; the old woman orders to take the baby, to turn to flying wild geese; each jamb answers that the boy's mother is in the next one; she went down, fed the child and flew away again; the old woman orders to pluck the feather next time; the wife stayed with her husband, her father hacked her stepmother to death]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 23: 199-202.