K37E. Three-legged cast iron bird. .29.34.
The clairvoyant cannot point out the one who has revealed the secret, since he does so by hiding among objects that are never found together in ordinary life.
Kalmyks, Transbaikal Buryats, Khalkha(?)-Mongols, Ordos Mongols.
Caucasus – Asia Minor. Kalmyks [zaisang will give his daughter to the one who recognizes her among 12 girls; the son of a rich man traveled from afar to try his luck; he stayed with an old woman; she filled a cauldron with water, climbed into it, poured goose feathers on the water and through a pipe from under the water suggested signs; according to them, the young man easily found the girl; zurkhachi asked his book, who suggested the answer to the young man; according to the book, it turned out that it was a man living in the water, having bird wings and an iron neck; zaisang gave his daughter to the young man, and tore up the book and scattered it across the steppe; the scattered sheets were eaten by sheep; that is why mutton meat became healing]: Basangova 2017, No. 86: 165-167.
Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Transbaikal Buryats (Selenginsky, Dzhidinsky district of Buryatia) [the Khan of Tibet gives his daughter Yunzu Erdene in marriage to a man who has passed the test; Suranzan Gombo Khan sends Uran Tangarig-tushemel as a matchmaker; 1) in one herd there are a hundred mares, in another a hundred foals, it is necessary to find a mother for each foal; UT put them in one pen, the foals found their mothers; 2) the same with the chickens; 3) in 24 hours, slaughter a hundred sheep, eat the meat, and tan the skins (UT invited guests, they did everything); 4) to recognize the bride among a hundred identical girls (the servant said that the first word of the prayer would be written on the bride's cheek; the servant hid in a cauldron under a pile of wool and spoke through a copper tube; the astrologer said that the secret was revealed by a three-legged cast-iron bird, and the khan burned him); UT tells SG that his bride has no nose, and YE that the groom has an abscess on her head; he marries YE himself; SG learned the truth, blinded UT, and married YE himself; began to build a subargan; sent servants to find out from UT how to build; he told; sent his sons to rip out the tongues of the messengers; they decided that their legs should be torn off, they tore off their high boots; the subargan is completed; UT broke it; SG forgave UT, and he cured his eyes]: Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, no. 16: 63-68; Khalkha(?) - Mongols [a man asks the shaman Tevne to marry off the khan's daughter Altan; T. asks the servant how the khan's daughter differs from 80 beauties; the servant says that the khan has a magic mirror; if she lets it slip, the khan will immediately recognize and execute her; T. put the servant in a pit, put a cauldron of water on top, a fire under it, and an iron pipe wrapped in cotton wool in the cauldron; the servant says that if you make the princess laugh, a golden light comes from her teeth; T. made the girls laugh, identified A., put a mark on her; when the khan brought the girls out, she identified A.; the mirror told the khan that the secret was revealed by a man with a clay back, a fiery soul, a watery chest, an iron skeleton, a cotton head; the khan, in anger, threw the mirror into the fire; the sheep licked the ashes; since then, the past and future can be determined by the shoulder blade of a sheep]: Skorodumova 2003: 32-34; MongolsOrdos [Sorondzon Gümbü Khān sent Mergen Tengei to the emperor to woo his daughter in marriage; emperor: I will give her to you if you recognize her from 9 girls; old woman: I know a way to recognize her, but the emperor has a red thread by which he will immediately know who revealed the secret; MT: do not be afraid, he will not recognize; sit in a deep hole, cover yourself with a cast-iron cauldron and speak through a pipe; old woman: she will be in the third cart, and in front of her are butterflies; MT made the right choice, and the emperor asked the red thread who betrayed him; thread: the one who is 3 fathoms tall with a beak made of red copper and a cast-iron head; the angry emperor threw the thread "towards the sea"; it fell on the right shoulder of a ram; since then they tell fortunes by a ram's shoulder blade; Having generously presented silver to the emperor and the old woman, MT took the princess to the khan, but fell in love with her on the way; MT told the princess that his khan was good in every way, but had no nose; and having arrived at the khan, he told him that the princess was good in every way, but smelled bad; but the khan still wanted to look at her; fearing the bad smell, he covered his nose with his hand; the princess was convinced that the khan had no nose; as a result, MT married the princess; the khan found out about the deception, blinded MT and took the princess; decided to build Lhasa, but did not know how; dressed up two lamas as wandering lamas, they came to MT to beg for alms, started a conversation, and MT told them everything in detail; when they, leaving, slammed their books, MT realized that he had been deceived, sent his son to tear out their tongues; "tongue" sounds almost the same as "buckle pin"; learning that the young man needed their languages, the lamas gave him the pins of the buckles; MT decided that when Lhasa was built, he would destroy it; he came with an ox and his son to the spring, tied ropes to a large stone, pulled them, the stone rolled away, a stream of water gushed from the mountain; it would have washed away Lhasa, but the Dalai Lama gathered the people, and they again closed the hole; after this MT died and became the king of Tibet, who persecuted the Buddhists; but did not take Lhasa; the king died, was buried in the mountain, and it began to grow to crush the city; but the Dalai Lama averted the disaster]: Mostaert 1947, No. 41: 198-201.