K38b3b. The hero shelters the chicks. .27.-.29.31.32.40.

A powerful bird (rarely another creature) helps a person because he (rarely: she) sheltered (warmed) her chicks (babies, children).

Moldovans [shelters the fallen], Hungarians [shelters from bad weather], Slovaks [shelters from deadly rain], Russians (Tersky Coast [shelters from bad weather], Karelian Pomorie [feeds and warms], Olonetskaya [warms], Vologda [shelters the fallen; shelters from bad weather], Belgorodskaya [shelters from bad weather], Belarusians [shelters from bad weather], Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia [shelters from fiery rain], Transcarpathia [shelters from fiery rain], Pokuttya [shelters snakes from the sun], Volyn [shelters from bad weather], Kyiv [shelters from bad weather], Yekaterinoslavskaya [shelters from bad weather], Terek Cossacks [shelters and warms], Lutsi [shelters from bad weather], Estonians [feeds and shelters from bad weather], Vepsians [shelters from bad weather], Karelians [shelters from bad weather], Finns [shelters from bad weather], Swedes [shelters the children of the sea queen from the sun], Mari [shelters from bad weather], Bashkirs [shelters from bad weather], Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [warms and feeds].

North Africa. Kabyles [a sick father orders his seven sons to bring him the hearts of their wives - he will eat them and recover; only the youngest refuses, leaves with his wife; going for fire, he comes to 99 Wuarssen (devas), they boil 99 dead people in a cauldron, offer to remove the cauldron from the fire; the young man lifts and overturns the cauldron, kills the devas, throws it into a pit; brings his wife to the devas' house, orders them not to enter one room, goes hunting; the wife comes in, sees that only one dev is wounded, heals him, gets together with him; the young man comes to the cannibal Teriel, kisses her breast, now she is his mother, promises to help; in order to get rid of the woman's husband, the dev advises her to ask him to bring rejuvenating apples from overseas; T.: meat before an ox, straw before a dog - change; there is a black bull nearby, he will throw you up with his horns in a rage, you will fly over seven seas, you will fall on an apple tree, pick some apples; there is an eagle's nest on the apple tree, give some meat to the chicks, the eagle will bring it back ; returning, the young man gave 4 apples to T. and 4 to his wife; the dev to the woman: tell your husband that you are afraid, have you grown weak, let him let himself be tied up; when he cannot break the bonds, I will climb out and kill him; he breaks all the bonds; T. to the young man: they will kill you, ask them to put your bones in a sack, load it onto a donkey, he will come, I will revive you; when he returned to his wife, she offered to tie him up with her hair, he could not break free, the dev killed and ate him, but the bones were sent on a donkey; T. folded the bones, covered them with wool and silk, poured milk over them, the body was restored, she revived him with a rejuvenating apple; she allowed him to return home when he could easily lift a sack of salt and a sack of iron; he comes disguised as a beggar, the dev lets him in; offered to tell a story; While he is telling his story, the dev and his wife descend into the ground, he cuts off their heads; kills their dev son; wants to return to his father, T. gives a box (not to open on the way) and a Negro; he opens it at the house, there is T.'s beautiful daughter, she has a ring that creates a palace; the young man's father sees his wife, wants her for himself, promises the Jew a reward for killing his son; he takes the young man hunting, feeds him salted meat, gives water in exchange for his eyes, brings them to the young man's father; he goes with the warriors to take his wife, but the Negro does not let him, kills them all; the young man hears the conversation of an old eagle with his chicks; the old one has lost his feathers, asks to cover him; the chicks: suddenly our father will do to us as a man did to his son, who is under a tree; the eagle: let the young man rub his eyes with the leaves of the tree; the young man received his sight, the chicks covered the eagle; A young man came to an old woman, changed his clothes, his father did not recognize him, promised to give him his power as an elder if he would kill a black man alone; the young man agreed with his wife that they would tie a bloody intestine to the black man, the blood would spill, he would fall; witnesses: this man killed the black man; the father transfers power to his son, not knowing who he is; before this he asks the wise men whether the father can marry his daughter-in-law; six say yes, the seventh says no; the father orders him to be killed, the young man kills him himself, orders the Jew to be killed and the six wise men to be punished]: Frobenius 1922a, no. 2: 11-24.

Southern Europe. Maltese (many variations; it is difficult to reconstruct specific texts in detail from retelling) [someone steals golden apples; the eldest and middle princes fall asleep (or for some other reason cannot catch the thief), the youngest wounds a many-headed monster, follows a bloody trail to a cave, a hole, etc.; the brothers lower him down on a rope; the brothers leave and take the rope; or the companions, not the brothers, they throw the rope, but the hero, just in case, ties a stone in his place; each of the three rescued princesses gives the hero a small object in which her luxurious dress is, an almond, a nut and a chestnut; the hero defeats the many-headed serpent, it glows because it eats gold; the last princess advises him to get up first himself, and then to lift her, but the hero does not listen; the companions cut the rope; the shepherd tells the hero to jump on a white ram, but he accidentally jumps on a black one, falls even lower; he feeds the hungry chicks of a mighty eagle , they explain how to open a heavy iron door; or their grateful mother explains everything; this eagle is the guardian of three girls; one of them tells him to choose the rustiest sword to fight the monster; his body shines because he eats gold; the eagle carries the hero and the girl to the ground, he feeds and waters her, cuts off the last piece from his leg, the eagle puts it back; the eldest prince wants to marry the youngest of the rescued girls; she demands from the groom a seamless dress, etc. (the hero has it); the king asks the youngest son to punish the elders; they are boiled alive or their skin is torn off and used as a doormat or napkin]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, no. 301: 33-41.

Western Europe. Germans(Pomerania) [a farm laborer has 23 sons; when another one is born, he cannot find a godfather; the farm laborer goes looking; soon he meets a girl; she says that she is God and is ready to be a godmother; the farm laborer refuses: God is unfair; he meets the devil - the same thing; then an old man; this is Death; the farm laborer is glad; the son is named Hans; the godfather gave the pastor a key and told him to give it to G. when he grows up; G., having received the key, went wandering; there is a castle in the forest; the key fits the gate; there is much light in the palace; the godfather comes out - an old man - Death; the light from the lamps, each burns as long as a person lives; G. sees that his father has a couple of days left to live; he asks to light a new lamp for him; G.'s own lamp should burn for a long time; G. went on; again the house, the key fits again, a white horse is behind the door; the horse: if you opened the door, then are you Death? G. asked him to feed him; horse: here is food and wine, and then let's run, this is a den of robbers; G. mounted the horse, it rose to the clouds and flew away; G. sees a bird with shining plumage; the horse advises not to touch it; but G. turned the key into a gun, fired, the bullet hit the bird and G., contrary to the horse's advice, picked up a feather; near the city, the horse orders that the bridle be taken off him: if you shake it, he will appear; and let G. hire himself out as a groom; the king has forbidden lighting a fire at night; G. lives in a stable; at night he took out a feather and the stable was illuminated; servants came running, found the feather, brought G. to the king; he demands that the bird itself be obtained in three days; horse: ask the ship for three ships with provisions to sail to the princess, on whose table the bird is; Six months later they swam to the shore and G. released three carps that had found themselves on the sand into the sea; they promised to help; in another place three giants were fighting; a storm had destroyed all their property, only an ox remained; the one who killed the other two would eat the ox, and then die himself; G. gave the giants cattle and grain seeds, etc., which he had brought with him; the giants promised to help; on another island there was a storks' nest in a pine tree; a black cloud with hail was approaching; G. covered the storks with branches; adult storks arrived, the chicks told them everything; for the first time they would be able to raise the chicks; the storks promised to help G.; they swam to the castle, the key unlocked the door; the princess was sleeping in the bedroom; there was a golden and an iron cage on the table; as the horse had taught, G. put the golden bird in an iron cage and carried it away; he brought it to the king; having learned how everything had happened, he ordered to get the princess; The horse teaches how to swim to the princess, taking a hundred trumpets; at 50, blow under the window of the castle; if she wants to hear another 50, let her go up on the ship; when she got up, G. took her away; she threw all the keys to the rooms of her palace into the sea; tells the king that she will not marry him until she has a palace better than her previous one; The horse: the giants will help you; the giants gave you an iron ring, it created a palace; The princess: let them bring my keys from the sea; The horse: ask for carp; carp are the kings of the sea, they called all the fish; the last to arrive was an old pike; she found the golden keys, decided to deliver them; but since they are heavy, she was delayed; The princess demands the water of life, the water of beauty and the water of death; The horse: ask the storks; G.swam to them; these are blue storks; they say that the water of life and the water of beauty are with them, and the water of death must be asked from the white storks; they flew to them, defeated them, brought a vessel with the water of death; G. gave all three vessels to the princess; she pierced him with a dagger, sprinkled him with the water of beauty and revived him with the water of life; the king wanted the same, but she sprinkled him with the water of death; G. became king and married the princess; the horse orders to slaughter him, and then wash him with the water of beauty and the water of life; the horse became a princess; G.: I already have a wife, but become the wife of one of my brothers; she chose the youngest; from among the remaining 22, 11 began to serve G., and the others - the brother who married the princess; and if G. did not die, then he is still alive]: Jahn 1891, No. 9: 48-61;Germans (Pomerania) [a son born to a peasant immediately walks and talks; tells the pastor to name him Sonderbar ("extraordinary", Z.); his parents give him provisions and send him on a journey; carries loaded carts across water; orders a huge iron club from a blacksmith; bends it by hitting it on a rock; orders a new one - even heavier; meets and takes as a companion 1) someone who stacks mountains one on top of another; 2) someone who uproots trees; someone who juggles millstones; gives everyone his club to hold: it is beyond their strength; noticing a light from a tree, the strongmen come to a house; it contains a kitchen and a room; they hunt and take turns staying to cook; a dwarf comes, asks for food, hits the cook and eats everything; Z. pinches the dwarf's beard, splitting the tree and knocking out a wedge; he tore off his beard and left; a bloody trail leads to a hole in the ground; there is also a rope with a basket; the companions cannot, Z. descends; he descended for so long that winter and summer changed; to check the companions, Z. sent a stone up in the basket; they cut the rope, the stone fell and smashed to pieces; the princess is in the castle, there are three bridges leading to it, along them are three-, six-, nine-headed dragons; Z. easily killed the three-headed one and with difficulty - the six-headed one; the princess gave him some strong water to drink, Z. managed to lift the sword that hung over the well; Z. waited until the 9-headed one fell asleep, putting his heads on the princess's lap, threw it away and cut off the heads; dwarf: in order to return to earth, you need to feed the chicks of a huge bird ; its flight to the upper world lasts so long that the chicks die of hunger every time; Z. fed the chicks, they hid him and he opened after the father bird promised that he would not eat him; he took Z. and the princess in his claws and flew away; Z. threw him food, a piece was missing, cut off the legs from the calf; this piece is especially tasty; having learned what was going on, the bird regurgitated it and put it back; Z. killed the traitorous companions with a club, brought the princess to her father and married her; they are alive, if not dead]: Jahn 1891, No. 19: 120-128; Germans (Austria or Bohemia) [the king's three daughters have disappeared; he promises their hand to their saviors; two travelling tailors and the soldier Hans set off; they agreed to meet at a designated place; the old woman led G. to the well: the princesses are below; she warned him to get out himself first, and the princesses after him, for the tailors would betray him; but he did not listen; he called the tailors, they lowered him down on a rope; he killed the dragon, freeing one princess; then the second seven-headed (the second); nine-headed (the youngest); sent the princesses up, the tailors cut the rope; he walked through the underworld and saw a nest with eaglets; he fed them; for this the eagle king promised to carry him up - let him prepare some meat; {pdf is blurred; it is not clear whether there is an episode with cutting meat from his own leg}; finding himself on earth, G. pretended to be a wandering singer, came to the tailors' wedding, showed the ring that the youngest princess had given him; received the princess and the whole kingdom; the tailors were lowered down the mountain in barrels with nails; G. found that old witch, hacked her to death, various animals came together and turned into gentlemen and ladies; it was the old woman who had bewitched them]: Vernaleken 1889, No. 54: 316-321.

Western Asia. Sumer[two Sumerian poems connected by a common plot, in modern scholarship, as a rule, bear the names "Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave" and "Lugalbanda and the Bird Anzu"; both poems are known primarily from tablets of the Old Babylonian period, mostly from Nippur; in addition, fragments of the version of the era of the Third Dynasty of Ur (Nippur) and the bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) version of the 1st millennium BC (Nineveh) have survived; the overwhelming majority of tablets with the text of the poems about L. are kept in the following museums and collections: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, Hilprecht Collection (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena), Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, National Museum of Iraq (Baghdad); 1) the text of the poem "L. "In a Mountain Cave" opens with a mythical introduction: in ancient times, when the sky separated from the earth, when the first harvests rose and people began to eat barley, when boundaries were drawn and boundary stones were installed, when canals were dug and wells were constructed, when the Euphrates broke through the earth, when royal power appeared in Uruk, when the weapons of Uruk were raised in battle, when people enjoyed a long life, then Enmerkar, the son of the sun god Utu, decided to go to war against Aratta (a legendary city, conventionally localized in the territory of modern Iran); the population of Uruk is called to war; Enmerkar's army goes through the mountains; at the head of the army are seven brothers, born of the goddess of the earth Urash; they were fed with the milk of a wild cow (probably referring to one of the goddesses of the Sumerian pantheon) and grew up at the table of the sky god An; their eighth brother L. sets out on the campaign with them. In the middle of the journey L. falls seriously ill; the brothers are unable to return L. to Uruk and decide to take him to a mountain cave; they leave L. with abundant supplies of food, drink and incense: if L. recovers, he will be able to return to Uruk, and if he dies, the brothers will take his body on the way back; the army moves on; L. remains in the cave; three days later, when the rays of the evening sun illuminate the cave, L. prays to the sun god Utu for healing; Utu accepts L.'s prayer and gives him vitality; the goddess Inanna appears in the night sky (meaning her astral incarnation, the planet Venus); L. offers her a prayer and asks her for salvation; Inanna accepts his prayer; she plunges L. into sleep and fills his heart with joy; the moon appears in the night sky; moonlight penetrates into the cave; L. prays to the moon god Nanna-Suen; The moon god accepts L.'s prayer and gives him the strength to rise to his feet; the morning sun illuminates the cave; L. is surrounded by protective deities; the deity that sent L.'s illness (probably a demon) retreats; having prayed to the rising sun, L. leaves the cave; "the righteous man consulting with the god Enlil" (possibly the sun god Utu) grows the "grass of life"; the mountain river brings the "water of life"; L. eats the "grass of life" and drinks the "water of life"; his strength returns to him; like a wild ass's stallion, he tirelessly rushes through the mountains; having carried out of the cave the supplies that his brothers left for him, L.prepares food; he strikes sparks from stones and lights a fire; L. catches a wild bull; he makes a leash for it by weaving a rope from plants growing in the mountains; L. catches two wild goats, a male and a female; he also weaves a leash for them; L. is overcome by sleep; he makes himself a bed of grass and clothes; in a dream L. sees the god of dreams Zangara; he orders the bull and goats caught by L. to be sacrificed to the gods; the entrails of the bull should be presented to the rising sun; the goats should be beheaded; their blood should be poured into a pit so that the snakes living in the mountains can smell it; having awakened, L. does what Zangara ordered him; he invites An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursangu, the supreme gods of the Sumerian pantheon, to a feast, makes libations for them and brings them food sacrifices; L. erects altars for the moon god Nanna and the sun god Utu and decorates them with lapis lazuli statuettes(?) of the goddess Inanna; the passage that follows is largely unclear; it may be about understanding the movements of the heavenly bodies in a mythological key: some demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen... they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they ruin(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; it tells about some actions of the moon god and the sun god (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) mentioned earlier are now described as "torches of battle", "those that gladden the heart of Inanna"; the sun rises over the mythical juniper (?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem "L. in the mountain cave" is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem "L. and the bird Anzu" begins with the fact that the healed L. is alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to catch up with the army of Uruk with his help; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers onlySome demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen… they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they destroy(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; some actions of the moon god and the sun god are described (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) that were mentioned earlier are now described as “torches of battle”, “those that gladden the heart of Inanna”; the sun rises over the mythical juniper(?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem “L. in the Mountain Cave” is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem “L. and the Anzu Bird” begins with the healed L. alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to use it to catch up with the army of Uruk; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers onlySome demonic creatures are described (possibly a constellation is meant): “they are the racing(?) gazelles of the moon god Suen… they are the assistants of the thunder god Ishkur; they destroy(?) the flax and barley harvests and destroy the steppe animals”; some actions of the moon god and the sun god are described (the text is partially damaged); the goddess Inanna is mentioned in an unclear context; apparently, the same demonic creatures (heavenly bodies?) that were mentioned earlier are now described as “torches of battle”, “those that gladden the heart of Inanna”; the sun rises over the mythical juniper(?) mountain; then the text breaks off; the end of the poem “L. in the Mountain Cave” is practically not preserved; 2) the action of the poem “L. and the Anzu Bird” begins with the healed L. alone among the mountains; he decides to find the lion-headed eagle Anzu in order to use it to catch up with the army of Uruk; L. prepares a feast for Anzu, his wife and their chick; in Anzu's nest, located on a huge tree, L. discovers only Anzu's chick; L. feeds and decorates it; after that he hides and waits for the return of Anzu and his wife; Anzu returns from hunting; in his claws he carries wild bulls; flying up to the nest, Anzu calls out to his chick, but it does not answer him; Anzu is seized with fear for his chick; from Anzu's mournful cry the mountain gods hide in the gorges, like ants; having flown up to the nest, Anzu sees that it is richly decorated, and his chick is fed and well-groomed; Anzu calls out to the one who decorated his nest and fed the chick : “I am the prince who commands the stormy rivers; I am the blinkers on the eyes of the righteous man who follows the will of the god Enlil; my father Enlil brought me here; like a huge door, he blocked the way through the mountains with me; if I determine fate, no one can change it; if I say a word, no one dares to contradict; he who has so decorated my nest, if you are a god, I want to talk to you, I want to make you my friend ; if you are a man, I will assign you a destiny; there will be no rival equal to you in the mountains; you will become the one whom Anzu has endowed with strength"; L. comes out of his hiding place and delivers a eulogy to the bird Anzu: "Your grandfather (presumably one of the supreme gods of the Sumerian pantheon) ... gave the sky into your hands, placed the earth at your feet; your wings, like a net, spread across the sky, on the earth your claws are like a trap for mountain buffalo and buffaloes, with your back you are like a scribe who tirelessly writes on tablets, with your chest you are like the colorful (mythical) snake Nirakh, with your plumage (?) you are like a green garden, delighting the eye"; L. asks Anzu to assign him a destiny; Anzu intends to help L. solemnly (like a boat slowly carrying a rich harvest) return to Uruk; L. refuses; Then Anzu wants to make L. a great archer, like Shara, the son of the goddess Inanna; L. refuses; Anzu offers L. powerful armor; L. refuses this gift as well; Anzu offers L. the churn of the shepherd god Dumuzi, in which butter and cream never run out; L. does not accept this gift; the annoyed Anzu reproaches L. for his waywardness, but still agrees to appoint for him the fate that he himself wishes for himself; L. asks Anzu to endow him with the ability to move with great speed and reach any place; L. also asks Anzu that no one dare to start a quarrel with him in his hometown; in gratitude for this, L. promises Anzu to glorify his name throughout Sumer; the inhabitants of Sumer will make statues of Anzu and decorate temples with them (apparently, we are talking about the etiological explanation of the practice that existed in Mesopotamia of placing sculptural images of the Anzu bird in temples); Anzu fulfills L.'s wish; L. arms himself and takes the remains of the provisions left for him by his brothers; together with Anzu he sets off to catch up with the army of Uruk; Anzu spies out the army from the height of his flight; L. from the ground tries to make out the dust raised by the army; when L. and Anzu catch up with the army, Anzu goes home; as a farewell, the bird advises L. not to tell anyone about the gift he received; L. suddenly appears among the army; friends and brothers try to find out from L. what he ate during the journey, how he managed to cross the mountains, where no one walks alone, and how he managed to cross the mountain rivers; L. answers: “Having pressed close to the ground and having drunk, as if from a wineskin, water from the mountain rivers, sources of abundance, whose banks are far apart from each other, I growled like a wolf and ate grass in the meadow; like a turtledove (?), I pecked mountain acorns from the ground and ate them”; brothers and friends embrace and kiss L., feed and water him; the army continues on its way to Aratta; having reached Aratta, the army is unable to take the city; the defenders of Aratta shower the warriors of Uruk with a hail of stones from a sling, shoot countless arrows at them; the unsuccessful siege of Aratta lasts a year; the army of Uruk cannot retreat, since the way home is now blocked by thickets of thorny bushes; Enmerkar, the king of Uruk, is looking for a messenger,who would deliver a message to the goddess Inanna in Uruk; no one dares to carry out this task; L. volunteers to deliver Enmerkar's message; L. demands that no one accompany him on the way to Uruk; Enmerkar accepts this demand; in his message, Enmerkar reminds Inanna of how she once chose him and brought him to Kulaba (part of Uruk, originally, apparently, a separate village); in those days, on the site of Uruk there were swamps, poplar groves and reed thickets; the god Enki tore out the reeds for Enmerkar and diverted (?) the water; Enmerkar built for fifty years; then the Amorite nomads invaded Sumer and Akkad, but Enmerkar built a wall against them; now Inanna abandoned Enmerkar with his army and returned to Kulaba; if Inanna will no longer help Enmerkar, let her allow him to return to Kulaba, where his spear will be put away and his shield broken; leaving Enmerkar, L. meets his worried brothers and friends; they want someone to accompany L. on the way to Uruk; L. insists that he go alone; L. crosses seven mountains; by midnight he reaches Inanna's temple at Kulaba; he prostrates himself before Inanna; Inanna receives L. graciously, and he gives her Enmerkar's message; the poem "L. and the Anzu Bird" ends with Inanna's reply, the meaning of which is largely unclear (probably it should be interpreted in an allegorical key): on the banks of Inanna's sacred river, the fishsuhurmash eats honey herbs; a toad eats mountain acorns there; the gishshesh fish , the deity of the suhurmash fish , frolics in the river and stretches out(?) its tail; with its scaly(?) tail it touches the old reed growing in this sacred place; all the tamarisks of the country drink water from this pool; one tamarisk stands apart from the others; Enmerkar must cut down this tamarisk and make a bucket from its wood, tear out the old reed by the roots, catch the gishshesh fish , the deity of the suhurmash fish , cook this fish and sacrifice it to the weapon of the goddess Inanna; then Enmerkar’s army will be accompanied by luck, and Aratta will be taken” (compiled summary, translation of fragments and comments by R.M. Nurullin)]: Alster 2005b; Black et al. 1998-2006, 1.8.2.1, 1.8.2.2; Wilcke 1969; Wilcke 2015 (briefly in Afanasieva 1997: 192-203).

Tibet - Northeast India. Mustang [the elder queen is childless, the younger is pregnant; when the king returned, the elder said that the younger had given birth to a puppy to lick the king's brains and smash his head with a pestle; the king ordered the younger to be sent away, the elder banished her from the country, threw the baby to the guard dog to be eaten; the guard dog raises the baby for three years, and grows thin; the dogkeeper tells the king that some child is eating everything; the king orders the dog to be killed; the dog managed to pass the baby to a cow; the dog is losing weight, the shepherd made sure that the child was eating everything Otrung Gepo with a gold top, silver bottom, mother-of-pearl belt; the king orders the cow to be killed, the cow managed to pass the OG to a horse; the same thing happened to her; she orders the OG to bring a saddle, reins, bow and arrows, he mounted the horse and rode away; killed with an arrow a snake that was about to eat three tiger cubs; adult tigers came, saw the sleeping tiger cubs, decided that a man had killed them; the tiger cubs woke up, told everything, the tigers gave OG one tiger cub; the eyes of three Garuda chicks stuck together, OG washed them, the chicks fell asleep (same as with the tiger cubs - the adults gave one chick); an old man is grazing a herd, says that in three days an elephant will choose a groom for the king's daughter; OG killed the shepherd, put on his wrinkles, the elephant chose him; the king banished the young people to live in the forest; OG tells his wife to bring a copper cauldron, benches with tables from her mother, invites the king and the people to the holiday; the king tells his daughter to keep an eye on her husband; in the evening she pretends to fall asleep; when OG removed the old man's skin, she threw it into the fire; the father-in-law and everyone is happy; OG comes to his father, who says that he has no son; OG demands that his mother be returned; she is covered in fur like a tiger, and calls for her son every time; they slip her food with alcohol, she falls asleep, they smear her with flour and oil, and the fur comes off; OG orders both queens to be seated on mats, each with an egg on her head; he kills the elder queen with an arrow, and begins to rule two kingdoms]: Kretschmar 1985, no. 27: 158-164.

South Asia. Bengalis [the king had a rakshasi wife and the other women had a son each; the rakshasi ate the woman; the rakshasi invited the rakshasi and swallowed her son, and the rakshasi herself swallowed her own son; the rakshasa regurgitated a golden ball, and the rakshasi an iron one; she buried them, bamboo grew, a peasant cut it down, found a red and a blue egg; from the blue egg came the woman's son Neelkamal, and from the red one came the rakshasi's son Lalkamal; they came to a city where demons were destroying people; while L. was sleeping, the demons approached the house; N. replied that L. was with him, the demons were frightened, since he was a rakshasa himself; they suggested that L. show his nose; N. showed them a knife; to spit - N. threw burning fat from a lamp at them; showed his tongue - a sword; when the demons came the second time, N. said that he was waiting for them alone; they rushed at him, but L. woke up and chopped them up; The king gave two daughters to the brothers; in order to destroy the brothers, the rakshasi sends a message that their father has fallen ill and will be cured with the brains of the rakshasi; the brothers go in search; under the tree they hear a conversation between two birds, Bangoma and Bangami: if L. touches their chicks, they will be cured of blindness; for this the birds will do a favor ; L. healed the chicks; B. told the chicks to take the brothers to the land of the rakshasi, giving them peas with them; they will have to chew it when the rakshasas ask to chew iron peas; the old rakshasi suspects that N. is a man, but he successfully pretends to chew iron peas; L. got a box with two hornets from the well; in one are the souls of all the local rakshasas, in the other is the soul of L.'s mother; they immediately killed the first, brought the head of the rakshasi to L.'s mother, killed the second; inherited both kingdoms]: Bradley-Birt 1920: 168-173.

Balkans. Moldavians [dying mother tells daughter to marry the one who fits the ring; monster Little Peasant finds out the size of the ring, forges his grandson's finger to match; girl complains at her mother's grave that she must marry the Serpent; she advises to demand from the groom a dress like sunset, midday, dawn; like morning; like night; Serpent brings three times; on mother's advice, after the wedding girl says, Light ahead, darkness behind and, disappears; spends the night in the forest; Serpents find her with dogs, cut off her hands, give them to dogs; girl tries to cover fallen chicks , grateful bird turns her into a chick, raises her with others; chicks peck apples of Green Tsar; eldest, middle sons fall asleep, armless beauty appears to youngest; prince goes for water from under dragon rock; three devils fight over boots that can walk on water, a cap of invisibility, and a musical instrument (it can transport them to any place); the prince invites them to run a race, takes away the magical objects; at the spring the invisible prince beats the snakes, they think of each other, fight; the prince puts the last one in prison, brings water to the girl, her arms grow; the prince finishes off the snake, the girl manages to tear her ring off his finger, the snake turns to dust]: Botezatu 1981: 200-210 (=Moldavian Tales 1968: 266-275); Hungarian : Gidas 1953 [a white horse gives birth to a boy, goes wandering; meets Koroder, Stonebreaker, Ironbender; each replies that he would like to measure strength with the Son of the White Horse (SBL), is defeated, taken as a comrade; each in turn cooks porridge, Bakarast (a small man with a big beard takes it away); SBL ties him by the beard to a tree, he pulls out the tree, hides in a hole; only SBL dares to go down on a rope; pours porridge on B.'s stomach, eats it, leaves him tied up; kills three-, six-, twelve-headed dragons, freeing the princesses of the copper, silver, gold castle; the companions raise the princesses, leave SBO underground; SBO covers the vulture chicks from the rain with his fur coat ; their mother carries him to the ground; the food they took is not enough, SBO feeds her his right hand and right leg; on the ground she gives him wine to drink, the hand and leg grow back; SBO kills the traitors, takes the girls to their father, marries the youngest]: 81-89; Ortutai 1974, No. 5 [an old woman advised a childless woman to swallow bean grains that she would sweep out of the house; the woman found and swallowed three grains, gave birth to sons named Evening, Midnight, Dawn; they grew up, went to look for a job; the king asks to clean out a well, promises three daughters; the brothers did the job, but the king admitted that dragons were watching his daughters; the brothers saw a hole in the forest, stopped, and began to cook in turns; each time the little man knocks down the cook, eats everything; when Dawn was left, he pinched the little man's beard with a tree; his brothers let him go for his promise to show him how to get down the hole; Dawn came down, the princess gave him a power-multiplying ring, Dawn knocked off 9 heads of the dragon; hitting the table with the royal stick, turned the palace into a silver apple; the same with the other two princesses (12-headed dragon, golden apple; 18-headed, diamond apple); sent the princesses up; tied a stone in his place, the brothers cut the rope; Dawn sees a blind spouses passing food to each other; their eyes were torn out by the 24-headed dragon; Dawn quietly took the meat; then he opened himself; the spouses order them not to graze sheep in the dragon's domain; Dawn killed the dragon, returned the eyes of the blinded; one eye of the woman was swallowed by a cat, Dawn inserted a cat's eye into the woman, she began to catch mice at night; Dawn hid the chicks of a vulture from the hail ; the mother bird orders to prepare meat and wine, carries Dawn to the ground, there is not enough meat, he cuts off the meat from the calf of the leg; bird: it was delicious, if I had known, I would have eaten you; disguised as a beggar, Dawn came to the king, his brothers did not recognize him; they answer that the one who destroys his brother must be tied to the tail of a horse, and the one who saved the princess must be married to her; the princesses recognized their rings; Dawn forgave his brothers, married the youngest princess]: 141-150; Hungarians [a shepherd found a newborn boy, gave him to a sheep to feed, his name is Paul; after 14 years of such feeding, P. becomes a hero; goes wandering; meets a man combing a forest with a comb, as if it were flax; crushing stones with his hands; kneading iron like dough; everyone does not know who is in front of him, says that P. is stronger than all, P. defeats everyone, takes him as a companion; they live in the forest, cook in turns; each time a dwarf appears, eats everything, putting the plate on the cook's stomach; when it is P.'s turn, he ties the dwarf to a tree, he pulls it out and goes into a hole; Paul is lowered in a basket; below in the castle is a beauty, who was kidnapped by a 6-headed dragon; P. killed him; the beauty turned the castle into a golden apple; the same with the second beauty, who was kidnapped by a 12-headed dragon; with the third (24-headed); P. sent the girls up; but his companions did not lower the baskets to him; P. came to the griffin; a fiery hail began, P. covered the griffins with a cloak ; the griffin ordered wine and meat to be prepared, carried P. up to the earth; P. killed his companions, turned the golden apples back into palaces, married the youngest beauty, and gave the others in marriage; he is still alive, if he has not died]: Jones, Kropf 1889: 244-249.

Central Europe. Slovaks [an old woman at 90 gives birth to a son Lomidrevo (=Valibuk; Valigora), breastfeeds him until he is 7 years old, then, at his request, for another three years; he is incredibly strong, easily uproots oak trees, at 17 he goes wandering; meets, defeats, takes as a companion 1) a mountain mover named Valivrych (Kopivrych, Skalilamy; Studnjak - digs wells), Myasizhelezo; they contracted to thresh grain; payment - as much as they could carry; they carried the grain to the bin and carried away the bin; the rich man sent an ox after them, then a boar; L. killed them, carried them with him; he chased with servants in a cart, but L. piled oak trees on the road; ordered M. to make him an iron club; threw him up, put his back under him, the club fell apart; ordered another to be made; The king's three daughters have disappeared, dragons have dragged them into a hole in the ground; the three of them promised to return the princesses; they settled in a hut in the forest, and took turns cooking; a dwarf with a beard as long as his elbow comes out of the chimney, hits the cook, dumps hot porridge on his stomach and eats it; when it was L.'s turn, he pinched the dwarf's beard in a log, beat him with an iron club until he gave up his beard, which was his strength; the dwarf hid in a hole under a stone; L.'s companions envy him; V. and M. try to go down, but are ordered to be lifted back - there are frogs and snakes there; L. promises the dwarf to return his beard, in exchange for which he orders him to show the way to the eldest princess; there is a copper lock on a magpie's leg; L. stamped his feet, and he stopped shaking; the six-headed dragon throws his iron club, L. throws it back; The dragon eats lead bread, calls to the lead threshing floor, offers to drive each other into lead; they drove each other waist-deep; then L. drove the dragon to the neck, cut off the heads with a club; the princess rolled the castle and all the riches into a copper apple, L. sent her to the ground; the same in the silver castle (9-headed dragon, iron bread), in the gold (12-headed, steel bread); before asking to lift himself, L. sent a stone up, the companions cut the rope; L. came to the nest of the Knochta birds (Knofta; a giant mythical bird), killed the snake, which always devoured the chicks; or covered the chicks from the rain, one drop of which always killed them; the chicks told the mother who flew in about L., she did not swallow him, but promised to help; orders to stock up on a hundred rams and a hundred barrels of water; flies with L. to the ground , there was not enough mutton, L. cut off a piece from the thigh; the bird: if it had known that human flesh was so tasty, it would have eaten you; but it regurgitated the piece and put it back; weddings are being prepared in the city, but the princesses demand the same dresses that they had underground; L. hired himself out to a tailor; at night he got copper, silver, and gold apples, took the dresses out of them; let the princesses come for them themselves; L. called the older ones ugly and drove them away, gave the youngest a gold dress, and married her; took the locks out of the apples; gave the two older princesses to his companions (forgiving them)]: Dobšinský 1970, no. 10: 50-66; Russian (Tersky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 28 [a priest hired a worker; two months later the worker takes him to a copper mountain, sews the drunk up in an ox hide, a bird lifts the hide up the mountain, the worker wakes up, gets out, the priest orders him to throw copper, the man covers three chicks of the bird from a thunderstorm with a zipun; the chicks ask the mother not to kill the man, she agrees to lower him to the ground ; the man hires himself out to the priest (same thing, a silver mountain); the third time at the golden mountain the worker himself sews the priest up in an ox hide; he finds a nest, destroys it, the bird pecks it to pieces; the worker marries the priest's wife; I was at the wedding, drank mead and beer, it ran down my mustache, but didn't get into my mouth]: 94-97; 1991 [a childless king promises half his kingdom to anyone who hides from him; the tavern wretch (GK) fell asleep with the horses, the tsar found him by the book, executed him; another fell asleep on the tavern - the same; the third scattered in the field into 303 blades of grass; the tsar found (but did not execute); the next time GK gathered himself into a ball of grass, became a dove, then into the sky into 303 stars; the tsar found him again; then GK went where his head stood; the weather fell terribly, Noguy-auntie's chicks were on the oak tree, GK wanted to eat one; chick: you won't be full, but your mother will find you; then he took off the shell and covered them ; the chicks did not freeze, the grateful N. stuck a feather in GK's hat, which made him invisible; GK came to the tsar, who could not find him; brought GK closer to himself, and after his death handed over the kingdom to him]: 26-32; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [a doctor tells the tsar that there is a fish - if you eat it, a child will be born; the fish is delivered to the tsar, the tsarina ate it, the cook tried it, the swill was given to the cow; Ivan Tsarevich, Ivan the cook's son, Ivan the Korovich were born; they grew up and came to the kingdom where the miracle-yudo ate people; the brothers cut off the miracle's heads, who will take the princess? The tsarevich and the cook's son threw Korovich into the abyss; the eaglets are squeaking in the nest, he fed them crumbs and warmed them ; the eagle promises to help; Korovich came to the old man; he says that the most terrible Miracle-Yudo is here, the others are only his relatives, it is necessary to change the tubs with living and dead water; having drunk the dead water, the Miracle weakened, Korovich killed him; immediately the birds began to sing, the kidnapped princess is nearby; the eagle carries them up, they need to feed them with prepared meat, there wasn't enough, Korovich cut off meat from his leg, gave the eagle her own blood to drink; having reached the ground, the eagle regurgitated this piece, brought Korovich and the girl to their senses with living water; Korovich forgave the brothers, married the saved one; wedding; I was there, ate and drank, it flowed down my mustache, but didn't get into my mouth]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 104-108; Russian (Olonets bylina Vanka Udovkin son , Prionezhye, known in a single record) [Vanka Udovkin's son proposes to the daughter of Volshan Volshansky; if he manages to hide, he will receive Marya, if not, he will be executed; turns into an ermine, penetrates M., returns, sits behind an elm; VV learns everything from a book; the episode is repeated; the third time after visiting M., VU comes to the oak tree on the seashore, shelters the chicks of the Mogul bird from the cold ; the grateful bird gives three feathers, he must anoint VV with them, curse his books; VU does so, hides under the bed, VV does not find him; VU receives M., ascends the throne after VV's death]: Putilov 1957: 316-323; Russians (Olonetskaya, Petrozavodsk uyezd, s. Ilemskaya Selga) [the princess went out into the garden, the wind blew, she gave birth to Ivan Vetrovich; he grew up, crippled other children; the king sent him to fetch a bear; he brought him and locked him in the stable, the bear tore all the horses to pieces; sent him into the forest, where soldiers attacked him - killed him; sent to Koshchei for a sheepskin coat "it's cold in summer, hot in winter"; IV meets him, takes as a companion the one who pulls out trees, who levels mountains; they live in a hut, cook in turns; the three-headed snake ate everything, beat the cook; then the seven-headed; when IV was left - the nine-headed; IV began to play, the snake began to dance; IV pinched her legs, she tore them off, left; he went alone, fell into a hole; "the young men (snakes) almost pecked him to death there; but when his mother flew in, "the young men growled" so that she would not touch IV: he saved them, gathered them under his hat, warmed them, otherwise they would have frozen ; Their mother (snake?) agreed to carry IV to the land; they prepared 12 barrels of meat; when there was not enough, he cut off his fingers and toes and threw them into her mouth; she then put them back; IV came to Koschei, who chopped him into pieces; the mother's ring fell apart; she came, collected the pieces, grabbed the bird's chick, ordered to bring living and dead water - then she would release him; revived IV; he came to Koschei's daughter, ordered to tell where her father's death was; "in the cracks" a stone, in the stone a chest, in it a duck, in the duck an egg; on the way IV gave fish to the dog, tied a silk belt to a birch - they let him through; when the duck rushed into the water, the dog caught it; when the egg sank to the bottom, the whale-fish brought it; having killed Koschei, IV married his daughter; came to his grandfather; [he greeted him so kindly that his soul went out]: Onchukov 2008, No. 206: 370-372; Russian (Vologda) [Gorynia and Koromyslo set out on a journey and met Ivan the hero; I.: stir up the mountain; they couldn’t, I. destroyed it with his fist; open the gates! they couldn’t, I. tore it off the hinges with his finger; there the old man, the underground king, is eating sweets; he knocked Gorynya and Koromyslo off his feet, Ivan got scared, went under a stone; there’s a hole; they wove a rope for hundreds of miles, I. went down; around the crystal palace there was an army with fiery swords, I. pushed it apart, entered, grabbed the underground king by the beard and laid him on the floorboard; beauty: my husband is nearby in chains; I. freed him, but he died immediately; an eaglet fell out of the nest; I. covered it with his clothes ; eagle: what should I do to you for petting the chick? I.: carry it out into the light; I. and the beauty returned to earth on the eagle and began to live happily ever after and have children]: Burtsev 1895, no. 3: 13-16; Russians (Vologda, Belozersk region) [princes Fyodor, Vasily, Ivan; the tsar promises half his kingdom to the one who brings a jug with twelve spouts of living water from the girl Sineglazka; F. reached a crossroads, on a slab there was an inscription: to be hungry; he himself was full, but the horse was hungry; to sleep with the girl; he was traveling along the third road; the girl put him against the wall, he fell into a hole; the same with V.; I. turned onto the road where he himself was hungry; a hut on a chicken leg, on a dog's shin; turn your back to the forest, and your front to me; there is Baba Yaga, Sineglazka her niece, her brother's daughter; gives her horse, it is better than I.'s horse; I. comes to the second sister-Yaga, she gives an even better horse; to the third; she teaches him to jump over the wall, to get water; I. ​​sinned with S., therefore the horse, jumping back, touched the strings; S. follows from one Baba Yaga to another; "I am not sorry that I watered the horse, but it is dear that I did not cover the well"; S. caught up, they got engaged, she promised to come in three years; at the maiden I. pushed her down, led the brothers out; out of envy they threw him into a hole, he flew for three days and three nights; the chicks of the Nagai bird are chirping on the oak by the sea, I. covered them with a robe ; they tell their mother about it, the bird is ready to lift I. to the ground, let him prepare some meat; it was almost not enough, he cut off his fingers and toes; the bird: didn’t know it was so tasty; burped, I. put them back with the help of living water; S. arrived, demands the “guilty one”; F. comes, then V.; the sons think it’s their father, S. doesn’t; and when I. comes in the guise of a drunkard, it’s him; wedding; the older brothers were expelled]: Azadovsky 1934, No. 8: 186-199; Russians (Vologda, Belozersky region, Kirillovsky district) [a bear took away a priest's wife; a son, Medvezhye Ushko, was born; he grew up, they went with his mother, the bear followed, MU tore off his skin; living with a priest, he maims his peers in games; asks for an iron club weighing 30 poods; he threw it up, it broke; 60 poods - the same; he forged one weighing 90 poods, went wandering; meets and takes Gorynya (he rolls mountains) and Dubina as companions; when they meet, both say that they are not heroes, but the hero is MU; they live in a house in the forest, they cook in turns; an old man the size of a fingernail, a beard the size of an elbow, eats everything, pushes the cook; when MU is left, he pinches his beard in a split stump; all three beat the old man, he leaves, dragging the stump under the stove; there is a hole there; IM came down; the maiden in the copper house asks to marry her; sends to her sister in the silver house (the same); she to her sister in the golden house; the dwarf is their father; the maiden from the golden house sends to the oak: the father is sleeping in the hollow; IM beat the old man until only his beard remained; each maiden rolled her house into a ball, gave it to MU; the sworn brothers lifted the maidens, and MU began to lift and threw them; he went, met a shepherd; he says that people eat snakes, the princess must be brought to him to the sea; MU cut off three heads of the snake; the Nagai bird's nest is by the sea; bad weather, the chicks began to roar in the nest, MU covered them with his robe; the grateful mother orders to prepare meat, promises to bring it to land; there is not enough meat, MU cuts off his from the calves of his legs; the bird regurgitated pieces and put them back; MU came to his sworn brothers; his wife was there as a servant; he tore them apart, stepping on one leg and tearing the other; he married their wives; he married his own; I drank beer there, it ran down my mustache, but didn’t get into my mouth”]: Sokolov, Sokolov 1981, No. 54: 204-209; Russians (Belgorod, Valuysky district) [The only son of a poor widow is forced to beg for alms, then he hires himself out to a rich old man, promising that he can do the work of three. He grinds rye, agrees with two men to work together. At night in the field they look for fire, the grandfather at the fire agrees to give fire in exchange for a story, the men cannot tell, he cuts a belt out of each of their backs. The widow's son agrees to tell the story, on the condition that the old man will not interrupt him. He tells tall tales for a long time, then says that in the next world his grandfather rode on the old man's grandfather. The old man shouts "you're lying", the widow's son clamps his beard into a crack (in a stump), takes the fire. The men want to look at the old man, he runs away with the stump. They follow the tracks from the stump, which leads them to a bottomless pit, the widow's son goes down and gets to the other world. In the mansion, three beauties warn him about the evil old man, the youngest shows him kegs with weakness and strength, he swaps the contents. The grandfather returns, senses the Russian spirit, the widow's son goes out to fight him, then both drink from the kegs. The widow's son wins, takes the treasures and the three beauties, but the men pull out only the girls. He sees that the chicks are threatened by thunder and rain, covers them with a cloak . In gratitude, their mother promises to carry them back from the other world, he collects meat for her on the journey. On the way, the meat runs out, and the man is forced to cut off his thighs. When the bird lands and finds out what she ate, it spits it out and returns it to its place]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939: 73-76; Belarusians (Bryansk) [The mink beast destroys cattle; only the youngest third son of the king goes to guard, fights with the beast, it goes underground; the brothers lower the prince down on a rope; a horse awaits him there; he comes to the princesses in copper, silver, gold (the youngest) palaces, they teach him to cut off the head of their brother Mink; he sleeps on a stone in the middle of the sea, the prince kills him; the sisters put their palaces in three eggs, give them to the prince; the brothers raise the sisters, cut the rope; [the prince suspected this, tied a stone to it, did not break; during a storm, covers the chicks of a mighty bird from the rain ; their mother carries him to the ground, on the way he feeds the bird; hires himself out to a tailor; he says that princesses agree to marry only the one who will sew a dress that they had in their kingdoms; the prince takes everything out of the eggs; the youngest recognizes him among the beggars by the ring; three weddings]: Afanasyev 1958 (1), No. 132: 247-251; Belarusians (Minsk, Borisovsky district) [when a pike was cooked for the lady, the cook gave the pieces to his wife, and the dog ate the bones; the lady, the cook and the bitch each gave birth to a boy, the son of a bitch is the best of all; so that the SS would not be called names, he persuaded the brothers to go where they were not known; The SS threw up a mace, put his knee under it, it bent; did more - it didn't bend, only a leg went into the ground up to the knee; they came to a palace in the forest; only the SS was able to knock down the gates with a club; they began to live and cook in turns; a bearded long-nosed dwarf comes, ate everything, beat the master's son, disappeared; the same with the cook's son; the SS beats the dwarf with a mace, and he hits him with his head; snatched the mace from the SS and went into the ground; friends slaughtered bulls, made belts, lowered the SS in a basket; there are three daughters of the dwarf; he himself suggests going to the bathhouse, otherwise he will not give up the mace; the youngest daughter swapped barrels of living and dead water in the bathhouse; they began to fight in the bathhouse, but the dwarf became weaker from the water, and the SS became stronger; drowned the dwarf in dead water; buried him under the stove; the companions raised the girls, and left the SS; he came to a tree; it started to hail; the chicks of a huge bird were in trouble, the SS protected them from the hail; the grateful bird was ready to carry the SS to the ground, asking for water and meat; the SS cut off the last pieces from the calves of his legs; on the ground the bird regurgitated these pieces and implanted them; the companions married the older sisters, and made the younger one a servant; the SS did not kill them, but beat them with a mace]: Schein 1893, No. 53: 102-110; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, zap. 1888-1891, v. Novaya Bych, Bykhov district, from the family of Pavel Ivanov, 45 years old, illiterate) [The wife gets lost in the forest, a bear carries her off, 3 years later she gives birth to a son, Ivashka, bear's ear; 3 years later he grows up and leaves, they meet Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik, the three of them go; they find a house, leave Gora-Gorovik to cook dinner, they themselves go hunting, Kashchei ("Koschei") appears, demands that he be brought into the house, seated at the table and served food, eats the ox, flies away, Gora-Gorovik slaughters another ox, puts it on to cook, his comrades come, the meat is raw, Gora-Gorovik does not tell about Kashchei; the same is repeated with Dub-Dubovik; On the third day, Ivashka remains to cook dinner, Kashchei flies in, Ivashka refuses to follow his orders (does not bring him into the house or seat him at the table), drags Kashchei into the forest and pinches Kashchei's beard in a crevice in an oak tree, his comrades return, Ivashka feeds them, they go after Kashchei, but he has flown away; the three of them set off after Kashchei, come to the forest, Dub-Dubovik clears the way, Gora-Gorovik digs up the mountain, finds a huge stone and a hole under it, they make a belt from ox hides, Ivashka goes down, they agree that in a year the comrades will be in the same place; Ivashka goes underground, finds a copper house, there a girl says that they have never seen a Russian here, they live behind Kashchei the Immortal, the girl offers to marry, but Ivashka spends the night and goes to look for Kashchei; he reaches the silver house, a girl is also sitting there, history repeats itself; Ivashka reaches the golden house, where the girl warns Ivashka that Kashchei is stronger; Kashchei flies in, senses the Russian spirit, the girl calms him down and finds out where Kashchei's death is hidden (there is a casket in the sea, a hare in the casket, a duck in the hare, an egg in the duck, hit Kashchei on the forehead with that egg); Kashchei flies away, the girl tells Ivashka, he takes a gun, wants to kill a wolf and a kite on the way (and eat them), but the animals ask for mercy and promise that they will be useful, Ivashka sees a crayfish on the shore, does not kill it, but helps it swim out to sea; in gratitude, the crayfish brings Ivashka a casket from the sea, Ivashka breaks the lid, the hare runs away, the wolf catches the hare and tears it apart, the duck flies away, the kite catches it and tears it apart, Ivashka carries the egg to wash in the sea, but drops it, the crayfish returns the egg; Ivashka comes to Kashchei, hits him in the forehead with an egg, Kashchei dies; Ivashka takes the girl, regrets leaving the golden house, the girl takes the egg, rolls it around and the house assembles in the egg, Ivashka puts the egg in his pocket, the second girl assembles the silver house in the same way, the third - the copper house; they come to the exit upstairs (exactly a year has passed), comrades lift the girl from the copper house, argue who will get her as a wife, she assures that there is "more beautiful" than her, they lift the girls from the silver and golden houses, decide to take them as wives, and the first - as a servant, and on the rise to cut Ivashka's belt so that it breaks; Ivashka ties a stone in his place, comrades cut the belt, the stone falls back, Ivashka grieves and leaves; hides from the cloud under the oak, birds are screaming, he climbs the oak, covers the chicks from the rain , then gets down and hides, the bird Polugritsa flies in, in gratitude for saving her chicks, promises to deliver him upstairs, Ivashka must prepare 2 barrels of any meat; Ivashka collects 2 barrels of snakes, frogs, mice, ties the barrels under his wings, they fly, Ivashka throws meat from the barrels into the bird's mouth, the meat runs out, Ivashka cuts off his caviar; the bird carries it out into this world, finds out what kind of meat was at the end, coughs it up, the caviar grows back; Ivashka comes to the city, announces himself as a shoemaker ("Ivanichka the Drunkard"), does not know how to sew, lodges with a Jew; the girl from the golden house promises to marry the one who will sew the same slippers that she had in the golden house, Ivashka accepts the order through the Jew, drinks for two days, on the third day rolls out a golden house from an egg, takes out the slippers, the Jew takes the slippers; the girl asks for the same dress - history repeats itself, the third condition is the same crown; Ivashka goes into service to the blacksmith, gets a wreath in the same way; the girl comes to the blacksmith, finds out who made the wreath; they get married; Dub-Dubovik and Gora-Gorovik marry two other girls, each lives in her own house]: Romanov 1901, No. 36: 340-347; Romanov 1887, No. 14 (Bykhov district) []: 92-99; Belarusians (Minsk, Borisov city) []: Shein 1893? No. 45: 86-88; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [Ivan worked as a farm laborer, earned a heifer, she gave birth to a calf, I. himself began to suck milk, was nicknamed the Cow's Son; goes wandering, wins, takes Razotrikamen, Debriloma as companions; they hunt, cook in turns; an old man the size of a fingernail, a two-meter beard, asks for food, puts hot meat on the cook's stomach, cuts a belt from his back; I. pinches his grandfather's beard in a beech tree; he leaves, dragging the tree away; the companions lower I. into a well, he kills the grandfather, sends three captive princesses up; the companions want the youngest for themselves, cut the rope (I. suspects this, ties a stone in his place); I. protects three snakes on a tree from a fiery rain ; the grateful Serpent agrees to carry him to the ground; in flight I. feeds him, cuts off the last piece from his leg, the Serpent puts it back; I. hires himself out to a tailor, works with a magic needle, scissors, etc., received from the princesses; the princesses bring an order for the suitors, recognize I., invite him to the wedding; I. cuts off the heads of the traitors, marries the youngest princess]: Skazki Verkhovyna 1970: 181-188; Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia) [a son sucks his mother's breast until he is 16, becomes a strong man, single-handedly uproots and carries a beech tree, goes off on a journey; meets and takes as companions 1) Oak-Uprooter, 2) Iron-Kneader; they are given work, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they take turns staying in the forest to cook, the devil comes, eats everything, beats the cook; Iron-Kneader asks the devil to help him split a log, knocks out a wedge, the devil's hands are clenched; M. beats him, forcing him to tell where the three kidnapped princesses are; the devil runs into a hole, Vyrvybuk, Vyrvydub are afraid, M. comes down, the devil says that the princesses are with the 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; the 6-headed one smells a person, the youngest princess says that her brother has come; they fight, M. drives the dragon into the ground, chops off their heads, cuts off their tongues; thus he frees all the princesses, Vyrvybuk and Vyrvydub pull them out, throw M.; he protects the chicks from the fiery rain, their mother carries him to the ground ; in order to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the king gives away his daughters, M. shows the tongues of the dragons, the rings given by the princesses, takes the eldest]: Giryak 1978: 215-237; Ukrainians (Pokuttya) [left an orphan, Ivan sucks a cow for 15 years; received the name Cow's son; went wandering; meets, measures strength, wins, takes Vernigora and Vernidub as companions; they come to the city, there he stole three daughters from the king Lokotiborod; the companions left, settled in the house, cook in turns; Lokotiboroda enters, eats everything, beats the cook; when it is Ivan's turn, he splits a stump and squeezes L.'s beard into the crack; he pulls it out; the companions follow the trail to a well; Ivan is lowered in a box; he chops up L.; in three houses are three kidnapped princesses; I. takes from them their magic sewing machine, needle and scissors; I. sends the princesses up; when it is his turn, he puts a stone in his place; the companions cut the rope; I. came to the forest, there are three little snakes squeaking in a nest, I. sheltered them from the rain; they tell him to hide; they tell the father snake who took care of them; he agrees to carry I. out to the ground; with him are 12 barrels of water and meat; I. cut off the last piece from his leg; on the ground the snake regurgitated it and put it back; I. hired himself out to a tailor; sews, using a needle, etc., received from the princesses; I. came to the princesses' wedding; cut off the heads of his companions, married the youngest]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 1: 5-14; Ukrainians (Volyn, Starokostiantynovsky district, village of Chernelizka) [the king conquered a neighboring kingdom; in another, people had hands like sickles and feet like spears; but he set them on fire and conquered them too; in a third, half their body was like a dog's; they did not know music; in order to defeat them, the king ordered them to play at night; they woke up and began to rush about, devoured each other, and the king ordered the remaining couple dozen to be hacked to death; seeing that there were no unconquered countries left on earth, the king ordered a hole to be made and he was lowered into the lower world; if he pulls the chain, he will lift him up; there is a palace below, with a young lady in it; he orders the barrels with strong and weak water to be swapped; at first the snake won, but when they drank enough water, the king drove him into copper and cut off his head; the same with the girl's sister (he drove him into silver); with the help of special keys, the palaces were rolled into a tube; the king sent the girls to the ground; then he put a stone; they lifted him up and threw the chain; the tsar realized that he had been betrayed; he came to a huge tree, on it was a vulture's nest; a downpour began; the tsar protected the chicks from the weather ; the old vulture was ready to carry the tsar to the ground if he would feed him meat in flight; the tsar cut off the last piece from his leg; the snake on the ground regurgitated it and attached it back; at this time the general wants to marry the rescued young lady; she demands the shoes she had in the lower world; no one can make them, everyone's heads are chopped off; the tsar in simple clothes hired himself out to a shoemaker, and in the morning the shoes were ready - he turned the kingdom around and took them; the same with clothes; to build a palace overnight; the young lady saw her ring on the tsar's finger; the general was shot]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 57: 207-214; Ukrainians (Kievskaya, Tarashcha uyezd, Bugayevka village) [Pokotigoroshek to his father: I will go and seek my fortune; he meets him, wins, takes Vyrvygora and Vyrvydub as his companions; they come to the hut, cook in turns; a long-bearded dwarf, beats the cook, eats everything; when it is P.'s turn, he splits an aspen tree and sticks the dwarf's beard into the crack; all three come: the beard remains; the three follow the bloody trail to the pit; the companions do not want to, P. climbed down the rope; there is a palace below, a beauty is in it; the dwarf is recovering from yesterday; P. began to fight with him and killed him; he went on; there are eaglets in a nest on an oak tree, a storm is approaching, P. covered them with his clothes ; the grateful eagle agreed to carry P. to the ground, ordered to prepare water and meat; there wasn't enough meat, P. cut off his leg, threw it in his beak; on the ground the eagle regurgitated it and put it back; P. found companions in that hut, beat them; returned to his father; feast; and I was there, drank honey and wine, it flowed down my beard, but didn't get into my mouth]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 62: 231-235; Ukrainians (SE Kyiv, Cherkassy uyezd, Mliev village) [the king grew old; he sees in a dream that there is a queen beyond the fiery sea; the Orda River flows from her little finger; there are apples in the garden entwined with planers; whoever drinks that water and tastes the apples will be rejuvenated; the eldest son went away, could not bear the heat of the fiery sea, returned; the same with the middle one; they laugh at the youngest fool, they gave him a horse that carries homebrew, a saddle made of straw, a bridle and bast; horse: my dear sir, my beloved sir, how long have I waited for you! take the heroic ceremonial from your right ear, let me graze in the early dew; he returned as a heroic horse; at the sea he orders to take the handkerchief from his right ear and wave it three times; the sea froze for 20 arshins, and when they crossed, after a wave of the scarf, it began to flame again; they reached a hut, there Saint Monday gives the best horse to reach that queen; the same with Saint Sereda (gives an even better horse); in the third hut Saint Friday (same); there is a fence around the garden, look - the hat will fly off; the horse jumped over the third time; the horse: the girl sleeps for 12 days, wakes up on the 13th; the prince collected apples and water, but, contrary to the horse's prohibition, came together with the girl three times; the horse carried her out of the pit, jumped over the fence, but touched the strings; the alarm was raised; Friday, Sereda direct the pursuit along the wrong path; the girl sees from the mountain, chases again; the horse orders to get it out of his right ear. {skip page; it is clear that the prince ended up in the lower world and protected the chicks of the mighty bird from the bad weather}; she agrees to take him out to the ground, orders to take 12 barrels of water and 12 pieces of meat; the prince cut off the last piece from his leg; on the ground the bird burped him up and put him back; at home the prince again pretended to be a fool; the queen built a bridge and appeared with her three sons (the prince “kissed” her three times); orders the king to “give her the villain”№ the king sent the eldest son; the queen orders to break his ribs, put him on a horse and let him go; beat the middle one, but leave him alive and let him go home; the youngest came out, he was also beaten]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 81: 322-329; Ukrainians(Ekaterinoslavskaya, Aleksandrovsky u., Malo-Mikhailovka village) [three brothers, each Kondraty, went to plow, ask their sister Nastya to bring them dinner; they will throw shavings along the road; the snake carried them to the road to his house; the sister opened 12 doors, the snake was behind them: you will be my wife or I will eat you; the brothers went to take them away; the herdsman: if you kill my eldest stallion, you will defeat the snake; they could not; the same with the bull; with the ram; with the turkey; the snake killed them and hung them on hooks; N. rolled a pea to the well and ordered it to fall into her mother's bucket; she swallowed it, Katigoroshek was born; he ordered the blacksmith to forge a mace so that seven people could not lift it; he threw it up, caught it with his little finger, the mace broke; then he ordered one to be forged from an awl - it did not break; On the way he killed a stallion, a bull, a ram, a turkey; he ate each of them and drank a barrel of water; the snake eats lead peas, and K. twice as much; he drove the snake into the ground, ordered his brothers to be resurrected, then killed him; the brothers were jealous, they tied him to an oak tree, and he tore it out; they pushed him into a pit, K. fell into the lower world; he protected the chicks of a bird from the rain; the bird carried him to the ground; he cut off the last piece of meat from his leg, the bird put it back; he killed his brothers at home]: Novitsky 2007, No. 115: 71-73.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks(st. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar's eldest daughter asks to be let out into the "unfortunate" garden; a storm arises there and carries her away; the same with the middle daughter; when the youngest began to ask, she was chained to a bed, covered with an iron canopy and left in the garden in a room with 12 iron doors; a 12-headed serpent flies in and carries the girl away along with the bed; Ivan Tsarevich volunteers to find the kidnapped girls, takes three generals as his assistants; he sees 12-, 9- and 6-headed serpents flying out of the passage to the underworld one after another; Ivan orders the generals to lower him down to the underworld on a rope and wait at the top; he comes to a city where everyone is a tailor; they give Ivan a ball of thread and tell him to throw it ahead of him; he brings the ball to the palace; the princess says that her husband is a 6-headed serpent; hides I. in a room, in it there is a tub with strong and a tub with weak water; I. ​​tries both; swaps the tubs; takes the sword-kladenets from the king's daughter, hides; the 6-headed serpent that flies in drinks weak water instead of strong and falls asleep; I. cuts off his heads; the princess gives I. a ball of thread; it rolls to the palace where her sister is; I. drinks the strong water, rearranges the tubs of water, kills the 9-headed serpent; the princess gives the ball of thread; warns that the younger sister's husband is the 12-headed serpent, he chained his 12-headed father in the basement; with the help of the ball of thread I. finds the crystal palace; meets the princess there, drinks strong water, swaps the tubs; the serpent that flies in falls asleep; I. cuts off his 9 heads; the snake roars, his father hears, breaks 6 chains; And to the princess: "Run to your father-in-law quickly; if he asks what this noise is, you say that a strong storm arose, uprooted a large oak tree that stood by the window: this oak struck the palace and broke all the glass; and take an iron pitchfork, hot; when the father-in-law says: "Lift up my eyelids with a pitchfork - I will see what is happening", you prick him in the eyes with a pitchfork, and I will come and help you; the princess runs to the basement; I. chops off the remaining 3 heads of the snake; the princess tells her father-in-law what she was ordered; father-in-law: "Take a pitchfork, and lift up my eyelids - I will see what is happening"; the princess pricks his eyes with a hot pitchfork; I. runs up and kills him; regrets that he will not see such a palace on earth; the princess gives him a silk scarf with the words: "Wave it - I give you this palace"; I. waves the scarf, a golden egg appears in his hand; with the help of a ball of thread I. returns with the princess to her sister; she also gives him a silk scarf; I. waves it, receives a silver egg; throws a ball of thread in front of him, goes together with both princesses to their elder sister; waves the handkerchief she gave him, receives a copper egg; having reached the passage, I. ties the sisters to the rope one by one, the generals lift them up; saying goodbye to the third princess, I. takes the ring with her name off her hand; I. ties a stone to the rope; the generals lift it halfway and let it go; they tell the tsar that they saved his daughters; the youngest princess refuses to marry the general and tells the truth; the tsar does not believe her, but postpones the wedding; I.wanders; during the rain climbs into a huge nest on a tree; there are three chicks there; I. covers them with his last hem and warms them ; the chicks tell the arriving vulture about their savior; she offers I. help, orders to prepare 12 barrels of game and 12 barrels of water; during the flight I. feeds and waters her: "As the bird looks to the right, he splashes water for her; looks to the left - he throws a piece of meat"; there is not enough meat for the entire journey; I. cuts off the meat from both calves, feeds the vulture; she flies out into the light, lands on the ground; asks I. what kind of tasty meat they had last time: having found out, she coughs up both calves and applies them to I.'s feet; he is healed, goes to the king; the youngest princess recognizes I. by the ring on his hand; the king orders to tie the generals to horses' tails and let them go across the field, gives the youngest daughter in marriage to I.; I. waves silk scarves; three palaces appear; I. gives one of them to the eldest princess, another to the middle one, and lives in the third with his wife]: Butova 1889, No. 3: 128-141.

Baltoscandia. Latvians : Niedre 1952: 92-103 [an elderly couple in old age had a hairy son – Bear Jan; he asks his father three times to forge him an iron staff; each time he throws it up into the sky; he takes the one that is almost not bent, caught by a finger as it falls; he meets and takes as companions a mountain digger (Kalnuraceis) and a fisherman with a rod – a mast tree; they stopped in an empty castle; they cook in turns, each time the old woman beats the cook, takes away the food; when it is MJ's turn, the old man comes, MJ drives his beard into a log, hits the old woman with his staff; he guards the bloody river for three nights; he kills the three- and six-headed on a silver, gold horse; when he fights with the 12-headed on a diamond horse, help is needed; the companions are sleeping, MYA woke them up by throwing his staff into the castle; by this time the water left in the vessel turned red (a sign of danger); killed the 12-headed man; rolled away the stone, orders to lower it into the abyss; there is that old man, MYA killed him; in the silver, gold, diamond cities there are three girls, sewing clothes from silver, gold, diamonds; each one collects her city into an egg; the companions raised everyone; MYA returned for the devil's hat; the companions began to lift, decided that it was the devil, let go of the rope; MYA fell, breaking through three worlds; in the fourth there is a thunderstorm, he covered the eaglets ; the eagle promises to lift it to the ground - let MYA kill the monster and feed it with its meat in flight; at first there was not enough meat, they returned; the second time they almost flew, MYA cut out the last piece from the calf of the leg; MYA married a girl from the diamond city, the companions - two others, each began to live in his own city from the egg], 116-146 [the fish tells the childless widow to boil it and eat it; the maid ate a piece, the entrails - the mare; each gives birth to a son, the mare's son is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, on the second - a six-headed one; on the third night - a nine-headed one, his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then up to the armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see that the water in the ladle has turned into blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers came running and began to cauterize the severed heads; K. hears bugs talking in the cracks: you have killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second - a spring, the third - a man-eating snake; K. does not let him lie down, get a drink, chops up a bed, a spring; the king's three daughters disappeared when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched the devil in the door there, he gave him a pipe (10 dwarfs will come out to do the work), said that there is a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, there are the kidnapped; K. rolled away the stone, ordered the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers are afraid, K. went down, cut off the devil's head; in the silver, gold, diamond castles of the princess; they gave K. strong water, and the six-headed one drank weak water instead; the sisters roll up their castles into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give them to K.; K. sent the girls up; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut the rope and blocked the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, he tells that the ogre sucked out his eyes and beats the children of the giant bird with hail; K. killed the ogre, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he regained his sight; covered the chicks from the hail ; the bird promises to carry K. across the sea, orders to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. opens the eggs, lives with the youngest princess in a diamond castle; it is necessary to kill the wife of the 9-headed; K. came to the forge, there Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged a horse for K. to catch up with the witch, ordered not to look back; K. looked back, thunder and lightning, the horse disappeared; K. fell asleep, the witch swapped the vessels with strong and weak water, K. took a sip, lost his strength for a year; went to the devil as a worker, whoever gets angry will have three strips of meat cut from his back; 1) to graze hares, 2) cows; the dwarfs gathered everyone from the pipe; K. beat off a leg from each cow; the devil is forced to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow as much as a white bitch can run (beat the bitch, she lay down); 5) clean out the stable (the dwarfs cleaned it out); 6) bring firewood on a mare (the mare is the devil's mother, K. threatens to cut the straps off her sides, the mare carries it); 7) slaughter a sheep that is looking at you (everyone is looking, he slaughtered them all); 8) eat a pood of dumplings; K. puts the dumplings down his shirt, and the devil ate his pood, his stomach is bad; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) the devil takes K. to the forest to cut down an oak tree; K. brings a hare - his younger brother; the devil cannot catch up with him; they agree to carry the felled oak tree together; the devil carries, K. rides on the oak tree; killed the devil's children; gouged out the eyes of the mare; put a pot of sour cream in his place overnight, the devil and his mother think they have broken K.'s head; the devil and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, and was back again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, the devil drowned his mother; K. killed the devil; his strength returned, K. killed the witches, threw the cannibal into the fire, killed the cannibal eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the cannibal, but he himself died], 147-156 [the blacksmith forged himself a son, Iron Martyn; he ordered a giant club to be forged for him, and went off on a journey; he met and took as companions Mountain Overturner and Oak Overturner; they climb into a hole, there is a palace, each one cooks in turn; Copper Beard asks for food every time, drinks all the soup; JM pinched his claws in a log; he broke the log, went into the cave; only JM agreed to go down; killed Copper Beard and other devils, sent the kidnapped princess and gold up; the companions wanted them for themselves, did not pull JM out; he killed the pigs, cows, and horses of the devil; the maiden: the devils in the lake muddy the water, do not let me wash my shirt; JM killed the devils; covered the eaglets from the rain ; the eagle tells to prepare meat, carries it across the sea; JM cut off the last piece from her leg; the eagle burped, put it back; JM took the maiden and gold from the companions, found the king whose daughter was stolen, reigned after his death]; Lutsi (1893; the informant heard the tale from those who did not speak Estonian) [a married couple is childless, the husband died, the widow cried, peas grew from her tears, there was only one pea in the pod; she ate it, and gave birth nine months later; the boy is a strong man; to his mother: if she had waited to eat, he would have been even stronger; he ordered a five-pood iron club from a blacksmith, threw it up, a day later it fell, he put his finger under it, the club split; the 10-pood one bent; the 15-pood one remained whole, good for nothing; The pea meets and takes as his companions 1) a man who pulls out oak trees; 2) a man who moves mountains; they hired themselves out to the owner for the right to carry away whatever they could; he ordered the mountains to be leveled; they began to make ropes out of sand, throw them on the mountains, drag them from their place, now it is a level field; One took all the flour from the owner, another all the grain, the third all the cows; they set up a farm for themselves in the forest; a demoness (mustabaaba) began to visit them, eating everything; the tree-puller remained to guard; she spat in his eyes, ate everything; the mountain-mover - the same; G. beat her with a club, she grew to the clouds, he continued to beat, she shrank again, he tied her to an oak tree; she pulled out the oak and went to the lower world; only G. decided to go down; killed the five-headed son of a woman; the girl knits stockings, G. pulled the rope, they both lifted her up, he gave her to the oak-puller, went down again; killed the 1-headed man, gave the second girl to the mountain-mover; the third time he fights with the 15-headed man; he drove him into the ground up to his waist, and he drove him up to his neck; they agreed to take a rest; G. drank strong water, and gave his enemy weak water, killed; They went up, but G. came down for the fourth time; the companions were offended that G. took the most beautiful girl for himself, they threw the rope down; a thunderstorm, the eaglets on the tree say that whoever protects them from bad weather , their mother will help him; he covered them; the chicks: do not leave until their mother arrives; the eagle: I know G., when he was born, the earth trembled for three days; the eagle agrees to carry him across the fiery sea, but let him fill three barrels with a forest bird; he filled them with spit; there was not enough meat in flight, the eagle orders first to cut off and throw her a little finger, then a leg calf; then a little finger; they flew; G. caught a jackdaw, began to spin; he ordered the jackdaw to bring living water from the island in the fiery sea; he healed his body with this water; he came to his wife, forgave his companions, but drove them away; began to live, probably still live]: Annom et al. 2018: 93-100; Estonians (Yuri; recorded in Sukhum-Kale) [the king of the north (KS) saved the crows, the raven helps him; he says that the king of the south (KYu) has a beautiful daughter, but refuses everyone; KS went to woo her, and his three sisters were kidnapped by a lion (he is the king of beasts), an eagle (the king of birds) and a whale (the king of fish); KS's mother decided that it would be better for her son to die with her than to disappear in a distant land, got poisonous drops from a witch and dripped them on KS during their farewell; but the drops got on the horse; KS made 12 pies from this horse meat, mounted another horse and rode away; 12 robbers attacked, each ate a pie and died; KS came to his older sister, she is nursing the child; her husband is a lion for 3 days and a man for 3 days; gives her hairs: if you burn them, he will come to the rescue; his handkerchief will also show if there is trouble with the KS - it will blush; the sister herself gives a self-assembled tablecloth; the same with the middle sister (the eagle gives feathers); with the youngest (the whale gives scales); near the fiery sea there is a tree with a hawk's nest, chicks are squeaking there; the raven teaches: their mother will return in 3 days, they will die of hunger and will be beaten by hail; you need to slaughter a horse, feed the chicks with meat and cover them with skin ; let their mother carry them across the sea as a reward; the mother bird orders to prepare 12 barrels of bird meat and 12 barrels of water; KY's daughter puts KS in prison, where there are other contenders for her hand; he feeds them all, thanks to the magic tablecloth; sells the tablecloth to KY's daughter for the opportunity to look at her naked neck; says that there is nothing to look at; takes out the tablecloth received from the middle sister; ditto (KY's daughter shows her breasts); ditto; KY's daughter agrees to spend the night with KS; at first he turns away, then agrees to embrace her; wedding; the wife gives the keys, does not order to unlock the seventh room; one day he unlocks it; the sorcerer locked there asked three times to bring water, promised to forgive KS three times for this; flew away and carried away his wife; the raven said that the sorcerer has a flying horse that sees far and guards; KS carried off his wife, but the sorcerer easily caught up with her and took her away, said that one forgiveness had become less; this happened three times, and on the fourth time the sorcerer tore KS into pieces; the lion, the eagle and the whale collected the remains, brought living water; they tried it on the crow: they tore it apart and revived it; then they revived KS; he did no harm to the flies, horseflies, crayfish, they promised to help; KS met an old woman, she offered to graze her 12 horses; these are her 12 daughters; on the first evening the horses were driven by flies, on the second - by horseflies; on the third day the horses got into the water, but the crayfish drove them out; the witch agrees to give one horse as a reward; the raven: if you sit on it, you will die; demands the son of a toad; this toad is the mother of the sorcerer's flying horse, and the frog is his brother; the little frog-horse tells him to wait three days until he gains strength, another three to learn from his mother, the last three to take the invincible weapon; KS cut off the witch's head, but it grew back and he galloped away from her with difficulty; the wife learned that the sorcerer's soul was in an egg, the egg was in a duck, the duck was flying over the sea; KS called an eagle, it grabbed the duck, the whale got the egg that had fallen into the sea, KS crushed it, the sorcerer died; KS began to rule the north and the south]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 79: 246-264; Vepsians (told in Russian) [the priest's son Diy-popovich is too strong; he brings a log from the forest on a bear, collects taxes from the water spirits; he meets and takes Dubynya, Usynya, Gorynya as companions; they cook in turns, "himself with a fingernail, a beard with an elbow" each time he hits the cook, eats everything; D. wants to cut off his head, but cuts off only his beard, the dwarf fell into the dungeon, D. orders to lower him down on belts after him; killed the dwarf, freed the three princesses, each collects a palace in a kerchief; the companions lift the princesses, cut the rope; D. covered the chicks from the cold, fed them ; their mother kite carries D. to the ground, he throws her pieces of meat, the last piece of her eggs, the bird burps it, applies it; two princesses went out beyond the companions, Elena is waiting for D. from the golden palace, demands the same shoes, dress; D. unfolds the palaces, takes them out; Usynya was shot, Dubynya and Gorynya were demoted]: Vlasyev 1941, No. 2: 15-25; Karelians [a childless man carved a doll out of aspen, it came to life, it is Osinovich, very strong; he leaves his parents, meets and takes as a companion an angler (chain - forest, horse - bait), knocking a rock against a rock; they cook in turns; a dwarf with a beard two cubits long comes out of the ground each time, eats everything; when O. remains, he pinches the dwarf's beard between the logs of the hut; orders to lower him into the dwarf's hole; his daughter is there; he sends her up in a cradle; the companions cut the rope; O. sheltered the crows from the cold rain ; they ask their mother not to harm him; the crow carries him to the ground, he feeds her cow meat, it runs out, he cuts off the last piece from his leg; the crow heals his leg; O. takes the bride, drives away his comrades]: Konkka 1959: 23-26; Karelians (southern Karelia) [a priest rode through the forest on horseback; a she-bear ate the horse, carried the priest to her den; she bore him a son; his face was clear, his body was hairy; Ivan Medvedin (IM) grew up, suggests that his father leave; the she-bear caught up with him, he killed her; the priest and his wife are afraid that IM will destroy them - he works too much; they decided to destroy him; they order to bring a foal that had been behind the fence for three years; it opened its mouth, but IM pacified it and brought it; the priest orders to put it with the horses; the foal killed them all; they send for fish to a small lake, where a water spirit attracts fish from 30 fathoms away; IM makes a sleigh out of pine trees, harnesses the foal; beats the water spirit, forcing him to load the sleigh with fish; calls the water deacon (he has long hair) and brings it to his father: we have no deacon; people tell THEM that the priest wants to destroy him; he goes off on a journey, taking the foal and the sleigh; meets and takes a fisherman as a companion (a fishing rod is a pine tree, a bait is a horse); then a second; a third; they live in a house, cook in turns; a two-toothed old woman rose from the cellar, pinched the cook's beard between the floorboards, ate everything, went back; so every time; when it is THEM's turn, he puts a red-hot iron in the old woman's mouth, she loses the gift of speech, hides in the cellar; THEM is lowered down after her on a rope; below is the seashore, clouds from the sea, an eagle's nest, the eaglets are freezing; THEM plugged the cracks in the nest, the eaglets warmed up ; the eagle attacked IM, but the chicks explained that he saved them; she agreed to carry him out to land, but must rest; IM is walking along the shore, a girl is weaving in a hut; when he hits her with a reed, 12 shoes fall; she says that IM crippled her grandmother; IM says that IM is dead, proposes to marry her, she agrees; the same with the second girl (12 overcoats fall); with the third (12 rifles); in the fourth hut there is a grandmother (this is the old woman); they ask him to help: let the grandmother either recover or die; IM tells everyone to leave; puts a red-hot iron in the grandmother's mouth, pours boiling water; the old woman died; IM sent three girls to the ground; puts a stone in his place; the companions lift it halfway and throw it, thinking that it was IM; the eagle carried IM out to land; he forgave the companions; arrived in the city, there the princess is given to the snake; the first angler is coming; a three-headed snake; angler: there your hemp field was pecked to pieces by magpies; the snake turned around, the angler cut off two heads, the snake returned to the sea; the second angler; a 6-headed snake; "Smoke rises from the northeast, you don't see it"; the snake turned around, the angler cut off 5 heads; the third; a 9-headed snake; a 12-headed snake; HIM himself is coming; he made an iron woman who smiles; the snake put his hands in her mouth, she bit them off; HIM knocked down 11 votes; HIM took as his wife the princess whom he himself saved, the others received ranks from the king]: Konkka, Tupitsyn 1967, No. 29: 251-262; Finns [standing on guard, a sergeant hears a woman's scream from a swamp; crossing the girl, he pulls her out; she is an overseas princess, whom the devil carried off; let the sergeant come to the pier, she will take him away on a ship; but the devil, disguised as an officer, came up and quietly stuck a needle with a sleeping pill into the sergeant; this happens three times; after the third time, the princess sails away on a ship, and the sergeant must find her himself; not knowing what to do, the sergeant is going to hang himself on an oak tree; a thunderstorm began, he hears a squeak; these are the dragonets suffering from the downpour; the sergeant covered them with his overcoat; the dragon flew in, wanted to eat him, but having learned from the cubs how it happened, he ordered them to sit on his back and carried him to the princess ; there the sergeant hired himself out to a gardener; dug up the giant's bones and buried them in consecrated ground; the enemy attacked; the giant came to life, is grateful to the sergeant, teaches him to find a bottle of strong water, weapons and clothes in the dungeon; in the dungeon there is hay in front of the lion, and meat in front of the horse, the sergeant swaps them; jumps on the horse and defeats the enemy; he is given an order; returning, the sergeant drinks weak water and takes his former form; the enemy attacks again, this time the sergeant appears with a lion, defeats the enemy again; the princess recognizes him; wedding]: Konkka 1993: 111-122; Finns [a man carved a boy out of alder and rocked him to sleep for three years; he came back to life and ate a lot; the man sent him to work; he was so strong that they tried to kill him, but it was no use; they asked him to go down into a well and threw a millstone from above – he threw him back; finally he left; he met and took as his companion a fisherman (he threw his huge hook into the sea), a boulder thrower; they reached a hole in the ground; the companions tried to go down, but at first it was cold, then hot; the alder man went down, sent two girls back, but his companions did not pick him up; he saw an eagle’s nest, covered the eaglets with a frock coat ; the grateful eagle brought him to the surface; he cut off the heads of his companions]: Löwis of Menar 1927, no. 32: 96-97; Swedes [during a storm the king promised to give the sea queen the first male creature who would come out to meet him at home; the ships returned safely, the five-year-old son came out to meet him; the king tried to give the sea queen another boy, but his ships sank; the people grumbled; but when the prince reached 10 years old and went with his younger brother to the seashore, he was enveloped in a cloud and he disappeared; the younger brother grew up and was going to get married; but from the sea one could hear: let the firstborn get married! old woman: we must send a girl of 15-17 years old to the sea queen; they built a house near the shore and while the construction and finishing were in progress, no screams were heard; three girls were taken to the palace, they were treated like princesses; the eldest was the first to go into the house to spend the night; the old woman told her to go to bed, to be silent and not to turn around, but only to look in the mirror; at midnight someone entered and lay down next to her; the girl decided that the newcomer had fallen asleep and turned around; he tore off her right hand and stuck it under the bed; left in the morning; the same with the middle girl; the youngest did not turn around, in the morning she was found whole; since then it has been like this every night; the old woman taught her to say "Two girls will see me dead, or I will return their hands" (in rhyme); the prince returned the hands and gave magic water to engraft them; these two girls are jealous of the youngest and demand an apple, which the prince brings every time; he gives the apple to the youngest and tells her to follow it to the apple tree; the apple led to a castle with a beautiful garden; she picked apples, but the gates slammed shut; the apple led to a hearth where a bright fire was burning under a large cauldron of water, but not under a small one; she moved the fire under the small one, but the fire under the large one went out; then the apple led to a meadow where two small children were sleeping under the hot sun; the girl covered them with her apron ; the prince was sleeping under the tree, and the sea queen was sitting nearby; the prince saw her and dived into the sea; the queen explained that the fire under the large cauldron was the prince's love for her, and under the small one - for the girl; but since the girl showed compassion by covering the two children of the sea queen, she forgives her and gives her the prince ; gives the guiding apple and orders her to appear before her again in her wedding dress; the girl appears in the same dress as the bride of the prince's younger brother; the queen gives her her dress, the value of which exceeds all imaginable limits; promises a happy life if the girl is a good wife; the prince enters the church; wedding]: Stroebe 1921, no. 12: 93-111.

Volga - Perm. Marie (mountain) [the princess lowers a rope from the window to her lover at night; one day the evil spirit comes earlier, penetrates to her instead of the guy; the next time she thinks that the evil spirit is below again, and it is the guy, she cuts the rope; the guy is ill for a long time; the snake sits on the princess's clothes when she is bathing; she has to agree to marry him; the recovered lover with soldiers goes to look for the princess; three sisters successively show the way to the abyss, where the descent to the lower world is; the guy climbs down the rope, takes the princess while the snake is away; they lift her up; the officer orders to consider him the savior; the princess throws a letter down, promises to wait; the guy ties a stone to the rope, the officer cuts the rope; the guy hides the chicks of a huge bird from the rain ; she lifts him up; on the way he feeds her meat, cuts off the last piece from her leg; on the ground the bird regurgitates it, puts it back; the guy comes to the bride's wedding, exposes the officer, marries, reigns; the officer is tied by the legs to the horse's tail]: Aktsorin 1995: 142-147; Bashkirs [the vizier Urtan-Sultan goes to get married; the horse advises him to choose the most unsightly of three doves that the king-sorcerer will show him; she turns into a girl; takes with him a copper kumgan, the water from which can turn her into an ugly woman or a beauty at will; US lives with his wife in a bathhouse on the outskirts of the city, but the king saw his wife and decided to destroy him; the sages advise him to order him to get 1) three lions; the wife teaches how to bring the lions; 2) a music box from a cave (ditto); 3) an iron box; the wife gives a towel, the old woman, the mistress of the winds, learns from it that US is the husband of her elder sister's daughter; the winds do not know where the box is, the old woman sends birds to the mistress; the birds say that the lame frog knows; in the underworld, in a stone bathhouse, there is a cup of human milk; it must be poured out; in the evening, 60 pahlavans will return, decide that someone ate human flesh, and kill each other; you must kill the last guard, drink water from his bottle, you will become strong, lift the slab, and there is a box under it; US covered the chicks of the Samrigush bird from a thunderstorm, and in return she raised him to the earthly world ; there was not enough meat, US cut off a piece of his leg; S. burped, put it back; warriors came out of the box, killed the king, and threw the head to the wolves; [US and his wife went home]: Barag 1989, No. 30: 153-159.

Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Naukan) [a man goes to look for his missing son; he sees an eagles' nest on a mountain, warms and feeds the chicks ; they first hide him from their mother, then explain to her that the man saved them; the grateful eagle carries the hero to the "heavenly mountains" where the eagle that kidnapped his son lives; on the way, the man feeds the eagle whale meat, and when it runs out, he cuts off a piece of his own flesh]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 41: 97-101.