K33h1. Replace the old ring with a new one.

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The hero's wife (mother, servant) does not know about the magical properties of the object kept in the house, and exchanges it for something more attractive, but in fact not comparable to it in value.

Berbers of Algeria, Kabyles(?), Arabs of Morocco(?), Algeria(?), Tunisia, Egypt(?), Catalans, Spaniards, Basques, Corsicans, Italians (Lombardy, Abruzzo), Ladins, Maltese, French (Upper Brittany, Nivernais), Bretons, Arabic written tradition (A Thousand and One Nights), Arabs of Iraq, Bahrain(?), Qatar(?), Yemen(?), Santals, Greeks (Lesbos), Russians (Arkhangelsk), Poles, Slovaks, Balkars, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Komi, Japanese(?).

North Africa. Berbers of Algeria (Mzab) [a father died, leaving his son a dog, a cat, and a bird {apparently a hunting falcon}; he hunted with them; a Jew suggested to the young man that they go down somewhere, get money, and then divide it; the young man saw a ring there,

put it on; he offered to fulfill any wishes; the young man told the Jew that he had found nothing; he asked the ring for a horse and good clothes, and told his mother to woo the princess for him; the king demands a golden palace, 40 Negroes with loads of gold and silver; the young man creates everything and gets a wife; while he is hunting, a Jew comes with a bunch of rings, asks the princess to show her his, replaces it, and takes away the golden palace; the young man returns the wife to her father, and goes off in search of himself; he sends a bird to find the golden palace; then the bird brings a cat there, who tells the rats to get inside the palace; they tickle the Jew's nose, he sneezes, the ring falls out of his nostril, the rats bring it to the cat; on the way back, the bird and the cat argue about which of them will give the ring to its owner; the ring fell into the sea; near the shore, the cat rubs its tail on the sand; fish: what are you doing? cat: I want to dry up the sea to kill the fish; the fish found the one on which the ring fell, brought the ring to the cat; having received the ring, the young man returned the palace, his wife, and after the death of the king, he himself ascended the throne]: Basset 1897, No. 116: 138-144; Arabs of Tunisia (the same among the Arabs of Iraq) [childless parents finally have a son; they keep him locked up; he goes out, meets a dervish, who takes him to a hole with treasures, asks him to get them; notice what interest the dervish shows in an old lamp, the young man kills the dervish, takes the lamp; there are 7 wish-fulfilling spirits in it; the young man asks them for something valuable, for which he receives the princess; the wife, not knowing the value of the lamp, exchanges it for the one offered by the arriving dervish; he takes the palace and the princess to his place; the young man is left with the magic ring; he met his wife, made a deal with her, she got the dervish drunk, took the lamp, the young man killed the dervish; the lamp tells that a third dervish is hunting for it; he gets to the princess, but the young man kills him]: Nowak 1969, no. 217: 214; Kabyles , Arabs of Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Egypt {the texts themselves are needed, but there is a high probability that they contain the same thing as the Berbers of Algeria and the Arabs of Tunisia}: El-Shamy 2004, no. 561: 316-319.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Extremadura) [a mother sends her son to his rich sister with a basket of eggs to buy; on the way back the boy gives the money he got to some boys who wanted to kill a cat; next time he saves a dog in the same way; a snake; the snake regurgitates a ring that grants wishes; the young man gets rich, marries a princess; builds a palace better than the king's, and when leaving, tells his wife to take care of the ring, even though it is worn; a jeweler coaxes the ring out of her in exchange for another one, decorated with gems; moves the palace and the princess to the Armenian mountains; the king throws his son-in-law in prison; a cat and a dog take bread and ham to their owner, reach a palace in Armenia; the cat tickles the sleeping jeweler's nose with her tail, the ring falls out of his mouth, they bring the ring to the owner; he returns the palace and his wife; jeweler torn apart by four horses]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, no. 560: 548-551; Catalan (including Mallorca) [hero finds a magic lamp; when rubbed, a spirit appears who grants wishes; hero orders a castle to be created, receives a princess; one of the hero's relatives offers a servant to exchange the {clay} lamp for a golden one, transports the princess and the castle to a remote place; with the help of animal helpers and magic objects, the hero returns everything]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 561: 124; Basque [hero's mother gives away a ring]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, no. 560, episode III.A1-A2: 399; Corsicans [a widow and her son Juvanni live by collecting and selling brushwood, and their hen lays an egg every day; one day the son asks permission to sell the hen for a holiday; the priest buys it and orders it to be taken to him; on the way, J. cut off the hen's head and found a ring in the crop; he put it on his finger, it asks, what would you like? at home, J. orders the ring to bring the laid table; the priest: was there nothing in the crop? J.: she had no head; J. demanded a palace next to the royal one; the princess saw him, invited J. to visit, he married her; the priest comes disguised as a merchant, shouting, "I'm exchanging old rings for new ones"; not knowing what she was doing, the wife gave the ring away, the priest left her the whole box of jewelry; he built himself a palace in the middle of the sea, J.'s palace disappeared; the princess returned to her father, and J. went in search; the old woman sends to her sister, she sends to the eldest, she knows where the priest is; gives a cat, it will lead to the rats, only they can return the ring; J. to the rats: if you do not bring the ring, I will set the cat on you, but if you bring it, I will allow it to run everywhere; the rat asks for a ball of thread and a pumpkin in which to hide; the ring is in the priest's nose; the rat tickles, the priest sneezes in his sleep, the ring falls out, the rat carries it off; J. destroyed the priest and his palace, allowed the rats to be everywhere, demanded a ship, returned on it to his wife, giving the cat to the old woman]: Massignon 1984, no. 91: 199-202 (=Delarue, Tenèse 1964, no. 560: 393-398); Italians(Lombardy: Mantua) [When a father dies, he leaves his three sons the key to the cupboard: there is your happiness; there is a dead rooster in the cupboard; they sent a servant to sell it; a sorcerer bought it for a lot of money, told the boy to take it to the cook, and that he should not give the rooster to anyone; the brothers realized that they had sold the rooster in vain; the youngest went to return it; they cut the rooster open so that it would bake faster; the young man saw the ring, took it, and it asks: what should I do? At home, the young man demanded a room with gold and another with clothes; he went wandering; the king promises a daughter to the one who will build a golden palace in front of his palace; in the morning the palace is ready, the young man received the princess; he went hunting with his father-in-law; at this time, a sorcerer, disguised as a merchant, began to walk around and shout that he was exchanging old rings for new ones; the wife willingly exchanged them; the sorcerer moved the palace and the princess to a distant island; the young man promises the king to return his daughter in a month; he came to the king of fish - not a single fish knows; to the king of birds - the eagle knows; the youth sent a letter with him to his wife; let him get the ring, wish to move the palace to its former place, and let the sorcerer drown; all is well]: Vissentini 1879, No. 35: 167-170; Italians (Abruzzo) [a youth, on behalf of a sorcerer, gets a magic lamp; {does not give it to the sorcerer}; creates a palace better than the king's and marries the princess; the sorcerer exchanged {with the youth's wife} the magic old lamp for a new one; the youth returns his wife and the palace; the sorcerer appears again in the form of the crucified Christ, but is killed]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971, No. 561: 40; Ladins [a widow's son was herding goats, in the evening he found himself at the old man's hut; he offered to spend the night with him, and in the morning asked him to go down into the hole and get a lamp from there; demanded that the boy first send the lamp up and only then he would lift him up; the boy refused and the old man left him below; when he accidentally rubbed the lamp, three spirits appeared and asked what needed to be done; the boy wished to be in his mother's house again; the old man made a new lamp and went to offer it in exchange for the old one; the youth's mother gladly exchanged it; the son returned to the old man, who was not at home, found the lamp under the bed and told his mother not to touch it anymore; he grew up and told his mother to ask the king for his daughter as a wife; the king laughed; then the youth declared war on the king and brought an army; the king gave him his daughter; the youth created a castle; but the old man came and took the lamp, the young people woke up lying in a meadow, the king took them to his place; however, the youth also got the lamp again and created an even more luxurious palace; he told the king everything and advised him to hide the lamp; the king tied a stone to it and threw it into the water; the young man and the princess lived happily in their palace]: Uffer 1973, no. 25: 100-103 (=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, no. 82: 369-372); Maltese[in the house on the golden mountain, the young man kicks away the lamp and hears a voice: command! with the help of the spirit of the lamp, he creates a castle of gold and silver bricks, which appears opposite the king's; the young man marries the princess and receives the throne; his former worker comes in the guise of a beggar and exchanges the magic lamp for an ordinary one (the servant advised the young man's wife to do this); the young man goes in search; three giants fight for possession of the magic tablecloth, the seven-league shoes and the cloak of invisibility, the young man gets the items; invisible, the young man comes to the mother of the winds (southwest, west, northwest); their mother makes them promise not to harm the young man; the west wind brings the young man to his wife; she offers the kidnapper a competition to see who can drink more; they take the lamp, leaving the thief chained, and the petrel pecks at his flesh]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, no. 561: 194-195).

Western Europe. The French (Upper Brittany) [a shoemaker sent his son on a journey to earn a living; the son learned navigation and was given a ship, provisions, and the right to recruit a crew by the shipowner; let him bring gold from an island where there is plenty of it, but from which ships never return; having arrived in the land of gold nuggets, they sailed along a long bay; the roar of animals was heard from the shore; then, at the sound of a whistle, everything became quiet and the king of the animals appeared; he ordered them to be fed, otherwise they would devour those who had arrived; they had to give up the provisions, the animals ate their fill and left; the king of the animals allowed them to sail away with a load of gold, but one man had to be left behind; the lot fell on the captain himself; the man wandered through the forest, climbed a tree for the night, noticed a light; in the morning he came to a mountain sparkling like the sun, the gates in it were open; a large black cat was warming itself by the hearth; he said that a sorcerer lived here - the giant Big Eyelashes; he already knows about the guest's arrival; comes in the evening or in the morning, never during the day; has to prop up (écarter) his long eyelashes to eat or see anything; the giant came and began to pour himself wine, and the man drank it unnoticed; after the third glass, the giant realized that there was someone nearby; grabbed the man; he liked the way he told the story, and he did not eat him, but kept him; going to bed, he gave the man the keys, but forbade him to unlock one room; the man unlocked, there was a ring on the table; it offered to put it on his finger: it will fulfill any wishes; the man ordered it to be moved to Marseille and was there 2 hours later; orders the ring to create a palace and a household, gets married; noticing the loss of the ring, the giant cuts off his eyelashes (ends up in France) and walks around the cities, offering to exchange old rings for new ones; while the man went hunting, the maids told his wife that it would be good to exchange her worn-out ring for a new one; having seized the ring, the giant ordered the palace to be smashed into a thousand pieces; the man's wife was buried under the ruins; he himself again asked for a ship and sailed to the giant; having fed the animals, he told the sailors that there was no need to draw lots, he would stay voluntarily; the cat teaches: you have to hide under the table; he, the cat, will throw a piece of shit into the giant's plate; he holds the ring in his mouth and, when he vomits it, you must grab the ring and wish to be transported to France together with the cat; at home, the man rebuilt his palace and lived in it with the cat and his wife; if they did not die, then they are still alive]: Sébillot 1882b, no. 22: 208-215; French(Niverne) [a sorcerer comes to a poor young man, says that he is his uncle; takes him to the forest, there is a pit covered with a slab, at the bottom there are snakes; the sorcerer tells the young man to get an old lamp from the bottom, two new ones are not needed; he is afraid; the sorcerer threw him into the pit and rode away; the young man rubbed the old lamp, a spirit appeared, offers to fulfill everything; the king will give his daughter to the one who makes a cradle, a bed, a table, such as do not exist either on earth or in heaven; the spirit fulfilled everything, the young man received the princess, created a castle; the sorcerer came in the guise of an old woman to change the old lamps for new ones; the wife gave the lamp, the sorcerer moved the castle and the princess across the sea; the king ordered the son-in-law to be seized, but postponed the execution for a year and a day; (further episodes vary in different versions, but in the end the young man returns everything)]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964: No. 561: 402-407; Bretons [a fisherman died, the boat of his three sons was carried to an unfamiliar island; there was a castle there, no gate, Bihanik ("the youngest") climbed over the wall, ate his fill of fruit in the garden, there was a roast bull and fresh bread in the kitchen; a giant came in, began to eat, and with a terrible roar released gas; B. said that he was his son and flew out of his belly; at this time B.'s brothers left, deciding that the giant had eaten him; the giant goes off to hunt people, leaves B. the keys to 69 rooms, but there is no room for the 70th; a dog began to bark at the wall, B. noticed a keyhole, unlocked the door, in the chest there was a diamond and an inscription: he fulfills wishes; B. wished to be in Paris with his dog (she was the queen of dogs); ordered that an even more luxurious palace be built next to the royal one; the king sent a general to bring the owner; B.: let him come himself; the general ordered that the palace be destroyed with cannons, but they bounced off, hitting the king's men; the king came, asked B. to come and dine; B. married the princess, took his brothers with him; in order to get his diamond back, the giant began to go everywhere, offering two new diamonds for one old one; while B. was hunting, his wife, not knowing the value of the diamond, gave the magic diamond for two others; returning, B. woke up under a clear sky, the palace had disappeared; the princess returned to her father, who threw B. in prison; execution in the morning; the queen of dogs promised B. to fix everything by morning; asked the queen of cats for help, and she asked the queen of rats; the giant keeps the diamond in the hollow of his tooth; the rat tickled with its tail dipped in vinegar, pepper, etc., the giant sneezed, the diamond fell to the floor, the rat gave it to the dog, the dog ran to Paris; on the scaffold B. asked to be allowed to hug his dog; took the diamond, ordered that all those gathered should fall into the ground up to their necks; cut off the heads of ill-wishers; returned the palace; the dog turned into a princess, B. married her]: Luzel 1887(2), No. 11: 419-431.

Western Asia. Arabic written tradition(One Thousand and One Nights) [the tailor's son Ala Ad-din brings no money home; the tailor dies; a Moroccan sorcerer introduces himself as the deceased's brother, gives money to A.; promises wealth; takes A. to the mountain; casts a spell over fire; a door appears from the ground; according to the horoscope, the sorcerer will not be able to get the treasure without A.; the treasure is in A.'s name; A. says his name over the stove; the stove opens; the sorcerer forbids touching anything except the lamp in the last room; to take the lamp, it must be extinguished; gives a protective ring; in the dungeon, A. collects stones from the trees; cannot get out; the sorcerer demands a lamp; A. refuses to give it until he gets out; the sorcerer closes the exit; A. accidentally rubs the ring; an ifrit appears; A. asks to bring it to the surface; returns to her mother; there is no food in the house; the son decides to sell the lamp; the mother cleans it; the ifrit appears, brings a table and dishes with food; A. and his mother sell the dishes and the table to a Jew for a small price, spend the money; A. rubs the lamp again; repeats the request; the ifrit brings the same table with food, A. sells it to a Muslim for the real price; grows rich; learns of the value of his stones; all the shops in the city are closed, because the king's daughter Badr al-Budur is going to the bathhouse; A. hides and watches her, falls in love; he believed that all women are ugly like his mother; demands that his mother ask B.'s hand in marriage for precious stones from the trees; for six days the old woman does not dare to speak to the king; on the seventh day the king orders the vizier to bring her; accepts the gift; promises to marry A. to B. in three months; in two months he gives her in marriage to the vizier's son; on the night of their wedding, A. orders the ifrit from the lamp to bring the newlyweds as soon as they lie down in bed; the ifrit brings the girl to A.'s bed, and the young man to the outhouse; A. places a sword between himself and B.; in the morning the ifrit returns them to the palace; B. does not answer his father, tells everything to his mother, she does not believe, asks the vizier's son, he denies everything; the same thing the next night; the next morning B. tells his father; the king dissolves the marriage; agrees to the marriage of his daughter with A.; during the night the ifrit builds a palace for A.; the king points to the unfinished lattice, orders the jewelers to finish it, there are not enough stones; the ifrit finishes the work; A. defeats the enemy army; the sorcerer learns about A, comes to change the old lamps for new ones, B. knows nothing, changes the lamp with the ifrit; the sorcerer orders to move A.'s palace to Maghreb; the king orders to execute A.; A. rubs the ring; demands the palace be returned; the ifrit of the ring is unable to do this, but takes A. to his palace; B. lets her husband in; every night she refuses the sorcerer, gets him drunk; A. takes the lamp, returns it to King B.; the sorcerer's brother learns of what happened, kills the righteous woman, and in her guise demands the egg of the Rukh bird to the palace; A. demands the egg from the ifrit; the ifrit is outraged (Rukh is his mistress), but forgives A., for this was what the sorcerer's brother in the guise of the old woman asked for; A. invites the old woman to cure her headache, and kills her]: Salye 2010: 1111-1167; Arabs of Iraq: Nowak 1969, #217 [childless parents finally have a son; they keep him locked up; he finds an exit, meets a dervish, who leads him to a hole with treasures, asks him to get them; noticing the interest the dervish shows in an old lamp, the young man kills the dervish and takes the lamp; it contains 7 wish-fulfilling spirits; the young man asks them for something valuable, for which he receives the princess; the wife, not knowing the value of the lamp, exchanges it for the one offered by the arriving dervish; he takes the palace and the princess to his place; the young man is left with the magic ring; he meets the wife, makes a deal with her, she gets the dervish drunk, takes the lamp, the young man kills the dervish; the lamp tells that a third dervish is hunting for it; he gets to the princess, but the young man kills him]: 214; Stevens 2006, #32 [a dervish gives a childless merchant an apple to eat half and half with his wife, and gives the peel to a mare; the wife gives birth to a son, the mare to a foal; the merchant sent gifts to the dervish and his two brothers; a horoscope showed that the merchant's son would find treasure underground; the father died, the mother keeps the son locked up; one day the door was opened, he came to the market, the dervish introduced himself as his father's brother, gave him money, the youth opened his own business; the dervish led him to the desert, magically opened an entrance underground; there is a garden with gems on the trees, but the youth must get only an old lamp; and if he gets into trouble, here is a ring; because the youth tore off the jewels, the earth closed, but he rubbed the ring and found a way out; gave the jewels to the dervish, but he only wants the lamp; the youth said he had forgotten about it, the dervish died of grief; The young man became rich; his mother accidentally rubbed the lamp, the genies came out; the mother brought her son, he asked for a gold tray with jewelry, sent his mother to woo the princess; the sultan promised, but forgot and gave his daughter to another prince; however, the genies corrected the matter: the groom loses consciousness in the bedroom; the young man received the princess and created a palace; the brother of the dead dervish appeared as a lamp seller and exchanged the old lamp with the young man's wife for a new one; while the young man was hunting, the palace and the princess disappeared; the young man promised the sultan to find his daughter in 40 days; he accidentally rubbed the ring, a spirit appeared; the young man ordered it to be moved to the palace where the dervish was now; the spirits of the ring did this, but warned that the spirits of the lamp were stronger than them; the wife said that the dervish wears the lamp on his body; they agreed that the wife would give the dervish wine with a sleeping pill; the young man stabbed the dervish; returned his wife and the palace to Baghdad; the spirits of the lamp warned that in three days a third dervish would try to kill him; he killed a nun, a friend of his wife, and came wearing her clothes; the wife ran to meet him, but the young man got ahead of her and cut off the dervish's head; all is well]: 145-146; Bahrain , Qatar , Yemen {the texts themselves are needed, but it is highly likely that they are the same as those of the Arabs of Iraq}: El-Shamy 2004, no. 561: 316-319.

South Asia. Santals [a merchant came to a widow and called her brother; the widow said that her husband had died; then the merchant took her son to get golden flowers; the youth became terribly tired on the way; the merchant ordered to blow on the brushwood to light it; after many attempts the brushwood actually caught fire and at that place a door opened below; the merchant ordered the youth to go down, get a simple lamp and golden flowers; the youth cannot get up - his hands are busy; the merchant closed the door and left; the youth accidentally touched the lamp with the ring that he was wearing on his finger, a fairy appeared; he ordered to take him out to the ground, give him rice at home, then give him a horse; sent the mother to woo the princess; the king demanded gold, a palace - everything is done; wedding; while the youth is hunting with the king, a merchant came, exchanged the old lamp with the youth's wife for a new one, moved the palace and the princess to his place; the raja gave his son-in-law 13 days to find his wife, otherwise he would execute him; at the last moment the young man accidentally rubbed his ring on a stone, a fairy appeared and carried her to the merchant's palace; the young man became a dog and got inside; the wife said that the merchant was carrying a lamp with him; she poisoned him, the young man returned everything; the raja gave his son-in-law half the kingdom]: Campbell 1891: 1-5.

The Balkans. Greeks (Lesbos) [the king's garden is withering; he was advised to take a hereditary gardener; the garden blossomed; the gardener's son brings fruit to the king's table, and flowers to the princess; she fell in love with him; the king is furious: he wanted to give her in marriage to the vizier's son; ministers: to get rid of the young man, suggest that he and the vizier's son go on a long journey; whoever returns first will get the princess; the vizier's son (SV) galloped off, having received a lot of gold, and the gardener's son (SS) trudged on a nag; SV cursed an old woman who asked him for food; SS put her on his nag; in the city they stopped at an inn for beggars; the local king will reward whoever returns his health and youth; old woman: go south; you will see three puppies: white, black, red; kill them, burn them, collect the ashes in three bags of the same color as the puppies; in the palace, order a huge cauldron of water to boil; throw the king into it; when the meat separates from the bones, collect the bones, lay them out in order, pour ashes from the three bags on them; the king will be reborn at the age of 20; and so it happened; the young man asks for a wish-fulfilling bronze ring as a reward; having received it, SS orders the ring to create a ship from precious materials; sailed to the city, lives in the palace; in the same city, the impoverished SV; he did not recognize him; SS promised to give him a ship, but first lured him to his palace and ordered the slaves to brand him on the ass with a red-hot ring; the ship he gave was worthless with sailors-wheels; when SV arrived, the king was still happy, immediately arranged his wedding with the princess; At this time a luxurious ship entered the harbor; the king invites him to the wedding, and the SS says that the groom is his slave; everyone saw the brand; the princess recognized her lover; wedding; the Jewish sorcerer found out about the ring; when the SS sailed away on business, he caught some fish and offered them to the princess; in return he wants only a bronze ring; she was surprised that it was so cheap, but gave the ring; the Jew wished that the SS ship would become as pitiful as the SV ship was, and the sailors - cripples; the SS fell into despair, they drove him out from everywhere; his ship arrived at the island of mice; the cats that escaped from it began to exterminate them; the mouse queen sent an embassy with a request to leave the island; the SS demands his stolen ring in return; they called all the mice; the last to arrive were three crippled ones: blind, hunchbacked and with torn ears; they said that at night the Jew keeps the ring in his mouth; they were sent after him; the blind woman remained to guard the ship, and the other two sneaked into the bedroom; one dipped her tail in oil, then in pepper, and then began to tickle the Jew's nose; he sneezed, the ring fell out, and a humpbacked mouse carried it off; the mice began to argue about whose merit was greater, and dropped the ring into the sea; they decided to remain on the deserted island; the blind woman began to gnaw a dead fish and found the ring in its belly; the SS ordered the ship to become luxurious as before; he united with his wife, and the Jew was tied to the tail of a skinny mule]: Carnoy, Nicolaides 1889, No. 3: 57-74.

Central Europe. Russians (Pinega, 1927, village of Kholm) [A passing old man spends the night with a peasant family and asks to take the owners' son with him for a walk. They go out of town and the old man offers the boy to go down into a hole under a stone, lowers him down on a rope, forbids him to enter the first and second doors, tells him to go to the third. The boy sees a lamp in the third room, the old man says that he will lift the lamp first, the boy asks to be lifted first. The old man fills the hole with a stone. The boy sees women and men lying on their backs in the first and second rooms, and takes a ring from the hand of one of them. He cleans the lamp with sand, the Giant appears and asks what is needed. The boy answers, nothing. Then he asks to lift him up. Vasya returned to his mother, did not tell her anything. Three times, when life became especially hard, Vaska asked the Giant for a "semi-precious stone" the size of an egg, he sold it, bought bread and clothes. Vasya wants to marry the princess, receives a pile of precious stones from the Giant, and presents it to the king as an indicator of wealth along with other contenders for the groom. The king is pleased, invites Vaska to the palace to propose. The Giant brings a good shawl, coat, carriage and horses for Vaska's mother, she comes to propose to her son, gives the king a pile of precious stones. The bride asks for a day to think about it, the next day the mother arrives in an even more luxurious carriage. The bride promises to marry if Vasya builds a palace and a crystal bridge from it to the royal palace in a week. On Saturday, Vasya builds a palace and a bridge, the princess agrees to marry the peasant's son. Vasya goes hunting, the princess hears an old man offering to exchange old lamps for new ones and gives away her husband's lamp. The old man calls the Giant and orders that the palace with the princess be moved to a "secluded place". The tsar accuses Vasya of kidnapping the tsar's daughter. Vasya walks through the forest, leans his ring on the ground, and a small Giant jumps out of him and tells him that his palace, mother and wife are in the middle of the world, beyond nine lands and seas. The Giant carries Vasya to them, finds a lamp in the palace, and asks the big Giant to move the palace back. The wizard was unable to catch up with them after they flew over the border]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 126: 237-242; Poles [the hero finds two magic objects; the spirits coming out of them fulfill wishes; the hero marries the princess, having fulfilled her father's demands (to create a castle, a magical garden, etc.); the sorcerer steals or lures objects from the hero's wife , moves the castle and the princess to another place; with the help of a second magical object or animals, the hero returns the lost objects and his wife]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 561: 183; Slovaks [the boy is 7 years, 7 months, 7 days and 7 hours old; a Jew sent him to a castle to bring a magic lamp; he forgot about the lamp and spent 7 years in the castle; then with the help of the lamp he got the castle and married the princess; the Jew pretended to be a lamp seller and exchanged the magic old lamp for a new one with the boy's wife ; moved the castle with the queen to another place; the boy {found the castle}, hired himself out as a worker; he and his wife put the Jew to sleep and got the lamp back]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 130: 88-89.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Balkars (west 1968) [the king caught his wife with her lover twice, killed them both; his brother killed his; the king decided that all women were depraved; when bringing a girl, he cut off her head in the morning; one girl went in place of her older sister, told the khan about Aladdin and the khan did not kill her; she gave birth to a daughter; the story is as follows: an Arab sorcerer saw a boy named A. and called himself his father's brother; began to feed and dress him; brought him to a stone, A. pulled the ring, the door opened; the Arab told A. to go in and take only a rusty lamp, killing a lion and a dog, running away from the woman; having taken the lamp, A. refused to give it back, then the Arab closed the door; (gap in text); A. got out, the lamp created 5 golden dishes, A. told the mother to take one to the king and ask him to give up his daughter; the king took the dish, but demanded 10 dishes and 10 slaves; A. sent, received the princess; built a palace next to the king's; the Arab pretended to sell lamps, exchanged the old magic lamp with A.'s wife for a new one; moved the palace and the princess to the middle of the sea; the princess asks the Arab not to come near her for a month; she got the Arab drunk, A., who sailed to the palace, killed him; returned everything; the king handed over the throne to him]: Malkonduev 2017: 494-497; Georgians (Kakheti) [after the death of the merchant, the son squandered everything; the wizard pretended to be his father's brother, bought the guy clothes, brought him to the forest, ordered him to light a fire, a hole appeared under the fire, a staircase down; the wizard orders him to go down and get the lamp, but not to take the golden fruits, put a ring on the guy's finger; the guy took it, there is no ladder to the top, the wizard orders to send him a lamp (on a rope); the guy refused, the exit was closed; the guy accidentally rubbed the ring, the kaji carried it outside; the guy lives by selling golden fruits; they ran out, the mother decided to clean the lamp, the kaji appeared; the guy wants a princess, but she was already given to another; he orders the kaji to bring him the newlywed, and send the groom to another room; he refused the princess; the king demands 40 horsemen in different clothes on different horses, the guy did everything; wedding; the guy created a palace; the wizard pretended to be a lamp seller, exchanged the magic lamp with the princess for a new one; the house and the princess disappeared; the guy asks the king for 3 days; the kaji brought the rings to his wife, the guy took the lamp; he ordered the kaji to bring a potion that turns into a toothless wolf, the wife threw it to the wizard, the wolf was driven away with sticks; the guy returned his wife and the palace; the wizard's brother came, dressed in the clothes of the crazy Fatima; came to the boy's wife; advised to ask the spirits of the lamp for the egg of Roki; they were indignant - this is our elder brother; then the wizard's brother was also turned into a wolf; after the death of his father-in-law, the boy reigned]: Kurdovanidze 1988(2), No. 83: 77-86; Armenians: Ioannisian 1968 (Ararat Valley) [when dying, the king bequeathed the kingdom to his eldest son, and a cat and a rooster to his younger; the younger son came to the village, met Bezborodiy; he knew the rooster's secret; he agreed with his son that he would hit him during dinner, the boy would start crying and, in order to calm him down, it would be necessary to slaughter the rooster; but when the prince was leaving, Bezborodiy's wife, not knowing about her husband's plans to eat this particular boiled rooster, gave it to the prince; there was a ring in the rooster, with two Arabs in it; the prince ordered it to be moved to another kingdom, settled with an old woman; asked to woo the king's daughter; the king demands a palace for the night; then a carpet from the palace to the church with willows on the sides, with nightingales on them; the wedding dress is not sewn, not cut; wedding; Bezborodiy came, exchanged a rusty ring with the prince's wife for corals; ordered to move the palace and the princess to an island in the middle of the sea; the prince goes in search; in the country where mice were tormenting them, he set a cat on the mice; the king of cats agreed to get the ring if the prince would remove his cat; having returned the ring, the princess orders to drown Bezborodoy, to return the palace and the princess]: 99-109; Khachatryants 1933 (Turkish Armenia) [=Seklemian 1898: 103-110, =Karapetyan 1967: 151-154; the old woman teaches her son not to harm anyone; the son bought the cat, the dog, the snake; the snake turned into a young man, he said that he was an enchanted prince, ordered to ask his father for the ring as a reward; the old woman's son sends his mother to woo the princess; the king demands a golden treasury, a palace, a spread-out carpet, trees along the edges and horsemen; the youth created everything; the old man learned of the magic ring, received it from the youth's wife for three new rings, moved the palace and the princess to an island beyond the 7 seas; the cat made the king of mice send swimming mice, they ferried him and the dog across the sea; they gnawed a hole in the wall of the palace, tickled the sleeping old man, he sneezed, the ring fell out of his mouth; the cat and the dog returned it to its owner, he returned his wife and the palace]: 85-89; Turks (many different versions) [a sorcerer sends a youth into a cave for a lamp; he understands that the sorcerer wants to take possession of the lamp and leave him in the cave; he does not give up the lamp; the sorcerer closes the cave, leaves; with the help of the magic ring and the lamp, the youth goes out, becomes rich, marries the princess; an unrecognized sorcerer comes and exchanges a magic lamp for an ordinary one from the young man's wife; he takes the palace and the princess to his place; the young man finds the palace with the help of the ring, the wife poisons the sorcerer; the young man takes possession of the lamp again and takes the palace and his wife back]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, no. 180: 204-207.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [a wizard tells a boy to get a lantern from a cave; the boy does not give up the lantern, and the wizard does not let him out of the cave; by rubbing the lantern, the boy summons a spirit who fulfills his wishes; the youth carries out the king's tasks and marries the princess; the wizard coaxes the lantern from the princess , the castle with the princess are carried away to the ends of the earth; by rubbing the ring received from the spirit, the youth is transported to the princess; she takes the lantern from the wizard and kills him]: Arijs, Medne 1977, No. 561: 302; Lithuanians [a rich tailor died, the son squandered everything, he and his mother are starving; a man approached the youth and introduced himself as his father's brother; he led him to a stone in the forest; he ordered him to move it with a wave of his hand; there is a ladder leading down, the youth was afraid to go down; The man gave him a ring that could perform deeds; Downstairs he told him to take a lamp and an apple; Before going up, the young man hid the lamp and the apple in his pocket; The man decided that he had brought nothing and in a rage closed the exit; The young man asked the ring to help him get out; He came to his mother; He thought that 15 days had passed, but 15 years had passed; When the mother took the lamp, she asked what she needed; She asked for food; It was an angel; In the morning, the princess goes from the palace to the bathhouse; The king issued an order: at this time all windows and doors must be closed; The young man looked out from under the roof, fell in love; He asked the lamp to help; She dressed him well, endowed him with riches and told him to take with him a diamond apple, which he brought along with the lamp; 12 trotters; On one is the young man, on others the angel of the lamp and other angels; The king separated his daughter, the lamp created a palace for the young people; At this time the sorcerer (the one who called himself the uncle) dressed up as a small merchant and began to exchange old lamps for new ones; the youth's wife happily agreed; the palace was destroyed along with the princess; the king ordered that his daughter be found in 10 days, otherwise he would hang her; the ring directed the youth to the sorcerer's palace; the servant slipped a sleeping potion into the princess and the sorcerer; the youth cut open the sorcerer's back and took the lamp out of his body; the sorcerer woke up, but he had only 1 angel, and the youth had 12; when the sorcerer came to the palace, the youth cut off his head, chopped it into pieces and threw it into the sea for the fish to eat; the father-in-law handed over the throne to the youth]: Leskien, Brugman 1882, no. 26: 450-457.

Volga - Perm. Komi (Vishera dialect) [Ivan lives with his mother, they have a poor hut; he found an old lamp; if you rub it, two young men come out of it, they fulfill any wishes; Ivan asks first for food, then a house and clothes, sends his mother to woo the princess; the tsar orders to build a crystal bridge from his palace to his, and so that there is a pond, a church, etc.; then a carriage, horses, etc.; one day, while Ivan was hunting, his wife agreed to exchange the old lamp for a new one, not knowing its value; Ivan returned - no wife, no palace; the tsar orders to find him in three months; on the bridge an old man (this is Ivan's wife's godfather) tells Ivan that the devil took his wife away; the lamp belonged to him until it was stolen from him; gives a needle to give to his wife; gives a ball of yarn, Ivan follows; when he stops, under the moss is the entrance to the devil's house; the wife hid I., and the devil who came was glad that she spoke to him for the first time; Ivan's wife hid him in the needle given to her by her godfather; she poured the devil a sleeping potion, took the lamp out of his pocket, returned I. from the needle, and they returned everything]: Rédei 1978, no. 147: 345-353.

Japan. Japanese (all of Honshu and Kyushu) [from a rescued monkey or fish (grown to enormous size) or from a sea deity, the hero (usually an old man) receives a wish-fulfilling object (ring, bag, staff, coin, etc.); a neighbor, beggar, servant, wife steals the object; or the wife accidentally exchanges the object for sweets ; a dog and a cat return the object (by telling a mouse to tickle the one holding the object in its mouth); a dog drops the object in the water, but the cat finds it in a caught fish; this is why cats are at odds with dogs, or this is why cats are allowed into the house but dogs are not]: Ikeda 1971, no. 560: 148–149 (also Seki 1966, no. 172: 91–92).