K38f7. Wild beasts serve the hero.

.15.16.21.23.27.-.33.35.36.39.

The character receives wild animals (at least two different species) that serve him as dogs.

Ladins, Germans (Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Austria), Mustang, Baiga, Gagauz, Hungarians, Romanians, Russians (Tersky Coast, Karelian Pomorie, Onega uyezd, Arkhangelsk, Mezen, Olonetsk, Pskov, Vologda, Moscow, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Volyn, Chernigov, Poltava), Poles, Czechs, Ossetians, Balkars, Avars, Dardy, Lithuanians, Latvians, Setos, Veps, Finns, Mordvins, Mari, Kazan Tatars, northern and eastern Khanty, Evens, coastal Koryaks.

Southern Europe. Ladins [the son chose the profession of a hunter, his parents gave him hunting gear and a dog Curasch; one day he killed a fish, a duck and a hare with one shot; the old woman told him not to give them to his mother to cook, but to take them with him tomorrow; he went into the hut; the girl said that robbers were coming; there were two beds on the second floor - do not lie down in them; he told the robbers that he was giving shelter to a beggar, they pulled the rope, knives fell on the beds; he came to an agreement with the girl, they poured boiling water on the robbers, he finished them off with a knife; the old woman said that the leader had escaped and was now in league with the girl; the girl would pretend to be ill, ask for milk from the cows of the owner, who had 70 cows; a bear (to throw him a duck) and a lion (to throw a hare) were the guards there; they would serve him; the fish must be given to the dog; return to the girl, say that he brought nothing, hide the animals; the girl will say that her chest hurts, she will send for flour to the devil's mill; they will give the ladies stone to grind, they must set a bear, a lion, a dog on them, they will tear them all apart; the girl will say that her chest has healed, she will ask permission to tie her by the thumbs; a robber will burst in, the young man's animals will tear him apart; he will kill the girl himself; the young man forgot to give the dog fish, it almost died, but he fed the fish in pieces, the dog recovered; the young man did not take the robbers' money, but went to tell the king about them; there is mourning in the city: a seven-headed dragon demands a girl every year, it is the king's daughter's turn; the young man set his animals on the dragon, cut out their tongues, promised the princess to return in a year and 3 days; when he returned, he was told that tomorrow was the princess's wedding with the coachman: he, supposedly, killed the dragon; the young man sent the dog with a note to the servant; the princess told her father that it was the hunter who freed her, not the coachman; the youth showed his tongues, the coachman was torn to pieces by four horses]: Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, no. 56: 194-203 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, no. 1: 9-19).

Western Europe. Germans (from the Haxthausen family, Hesse) [the rich unkind brother was a goldsmith, the poor brother knitted a broom; he had two boys, twins; the poor man saw a golden bird, threw a stone, a golden feather fell, the brother, a jeweler, gave a lot of money for it; then the poor man found the bird's nest, brought back an egg; then he shot down the bird, sold it to his brother; he told his wife to roast it; whoever eats its heart and liver will find gold under his pillow in the morning; while the wife was away, the nephews ran in and ate the fallen pieces; the frightened wife roasted the heart and liver of a rooster for her husband, and the boys found gold under his pillow in the morning; when the rich brother learned of this, he advised the poor brother to take the boys into the forest - they got involved with the devil; a hunter found them, sheltered them, saved the morning gold; the brothers grew up and went wandering; the hunter gave each of them gold, a gun and a dog; let the knife be stuck at the crossroads; if it rusts, trouble will happen to the other brother; the brothers hunt, take pity on the animals, each gets a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear and a lion ; the brothers parted, the youngest came to the city, where all the girls were given to the dragon to eat, it was the princess's turn; on the Dragon Mountain, the young man sees three cups: whoever drinks will be able to get a sword from under the door threshold; the young man drank, became a strong man, got a sword; chopped off 7 heads of the snake, the animals tore the body to shreds; the young man cut out and hid the dragon's tongues; the princess gave him her handkerchief, divided the coral necklace between the animals, the lion got a golden lock; everyone fell asleep; the marshal cut off the hunter's head and took the princess away; she set a condition to have a wedding in a year and one day; the animals wanted to kill the hare, who did not wake them, but he promised to get the reviving root; first the lion put the youth's head back to front, then tore it off and put it back the right way; he made a bet with the owner of the tavern that he would eat bread from the king's table; the princess recognized the hare, he brought the baker to the tavern; the same with the fox (to bring meat); the wolf brought vegetables, the bear sweets, the lion - wine; after eating, the youth appeared with the animals in the castle and showed their tongues; the marshal was torn apart by four bulls, the youth became the young king; chased a white doe in the forest; spent the night by the fire; the old woman asked to let her warm up and hit the animals with her twig; they turned to stone, the old woman touched the king with the twig; there are many similar stones nearby; the elder brother saw that the knife was rusty; the queen took him for her husband, but he put the sword on the bed; in the forest he knocked an old woman down from a tree with a silver bullet; he made the petrified ones come to life, the brothers burned the old woman in a fire; the forest became transparent and bright; having learned that his brother had slept next to his wife, the king hacked him to death, repented, the hare revived the one killed with a root; the queen recognized her husband by the golden lock that she gave to his lion; the king learned about the sword put in the bed]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 60: 212-227 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 171-187); Germans (Baden-Württemberg) [a king sends his three sons out into the world; they part at an oak tree, having thrust their swords into it; the one whose sword rusts is dead; the youngest goes straight through the forest, meets, does not kill, takes a bear, a wolf, a lion as assistants ; a seven-headed dragon demands sacrifices, it is the king's daughter's turn; the prince and the animals kill the dragon; the prince cuts out their tongues, promises the princess to return in a year and a day; the coachman takes the dragon's heads, attributes the victory to himself; a year later the prince returns, the city is preparing for the wedding; the prince sticks out their tongues, the princess - the gold chains which she tied to the necks of the animals; the coachman is executed, the prince marries the princess]: Hubrich-Messow 1988, no. 2: 7-11; Germans (Austria) [a grinder with two sons went to the city; sent his sons for food; they saw a bird, caught it, brought it to their father, he saw an inscription on its head: whoever eats my head will find a bag of gold every day; the old man told the cook to cook the bird, left; the eldest brother ate it, giving the younger one the head; the old man beat his sons, found out everything, began to find gold under the youngest's pillow; the brothers left, hired themselves out to a miller; the servant thinks that they are throwing gold to her; the brothers parted, sticking knives into the oak; the eldest Hans does not kill, takes a fox, a wolf, a bear as companions ; in the city every year they give a girl to the seven-headed dragon, it's the princess's turn; G. kills him, cuts out his tongues, the princess gives him a ring, a chain, a scarf; the servant cut off G.'s head while he was sleeping, brought the dragon's heads, demands the princess for himself; the fox brought the grass of life (the white doe gave it to her); the bear first put his head back to front, the fox had to bring a new blade of grass; a fox, a wolf, a bear bring a ring, a chain, a scarf to the princess; everything is explained, G. marries the princess; he sees a roe deer, chases it, meets an old woman, she turns him and the animals into stones; the younger brother sees the elder's rusty knife, with him also a fox, a wolf and a bear; the princess takes him for her husband; he also sees a roe deer, chases it, but cuts off the old woman's hands and feet, smears her ointment on the stones, the animals tear the old woman to pieces; both brothers consider the princess theirs, she chooses the one who killed the dragon]: Tserf 1992: 193-203.

Tibet - Northeast India. Mustang [an old woman who gave shelter to the boy Lhawa Döndrub told him that a demon had killed his father and taken his mother; the boy goes off to take revenge; another old woman tells him to fall to the demoness's breast and call her mother; she tells him to put the demon's thumbs in his mouth, then he won't eat him; he tells him to go only during the day, the boy's mother is across the river; the demon senses that his wife's son has arrived, advises him to pretend to be ill, to send his son 1) for a tigress's milk; having shot the tiger, LD shot off its goiter, the grateful tiger gave him milk and a medium-sized tiger cub to boot; 2) for Garuda's feather; LD killed a snake that was about to devour Garuda's four chicks; she gives him the feather and one chick ; 3) a golden feather from the forehead of the demon's brother; the tiger jumped on his chest, Garuda grabbed the feather, the demon shouted that he would go himself; they brought him, LD killed the mother and her demon husband; went to look for a bride; the king had three daughters, LD chose the youngest when they came for water, but the king did not give her; Garuda found the house of the sky fairy, LD took her as his wife; they planted two trees: if trouble happens to someone, it will wither; while LD was hunting, an old woman came to the fairy to watch the dogs and cattle; guessed that LD's life was in the golden dagger, threw it into the fire, LD fell dead; then the old woman offered the fairy to feed rice to the fish, drowned them; Garuda saw that the trees had withered, a friendly demon (who had a feather on his forehead) threw the amulet, found out that the old woman was guilty; they tied her up, nailed her to a tree, the remains of the golden dagger were taken out of the hearth; all is well {without details}]: Kretschmar 1985, no. 28: 165-168.

South Asia. Baiga [a sadhu promises each of the raja's wives a son if the raja gives him one; the wives eat a mango each, give birth; first the raja sends away his adopted youth; the sadhu threatens to kill both sons; when the raja's real son comes to the sadhu, the severed heads in his house advise the youth to respond to each of his master's offers with a request to do everything himself; the youth cuts off the sadhu's head; on the way home he saves tiger cubs, the tigress gives him one; kills a snake that has been devouring the chicks of the Rai Gidal bird every night, it gives him one chick; he marries the princess; chasing a deer, together they kill the snake that has been devouring the chicks of the bird every night with a request to do it himself; with the tiger cub, the bird, he falls into a pit, breaks his neck; his brother is indistinguishable from him, comes to the raja, at night puts a sword between himself and his brother's wife; throwing his cut-off little finger into a pit, he revives the dead; thinking that the second brother slept with his wife, the first kills him; he learns the truth from his wife, she revives the second brother with living water]: Elwin 1944, No. 8: 34-36.

Balkans. Gagauz [while a brother was hunting, a giant came to his sister; advised her to pretend to be ill and ask for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gave the brother milk and a wolf cub ; also lion's and bear's milk - the lioness gave a lion cub , the she-bear a bear cub ; at home the boy found two giants; they wanted to execute him, but he called his animals, they broke the bonds and tore the giants to pieces; the brother stabbed his sister to death and left]: Moshkov 1904, No. 76: 138; Bulgarians [a brother and sister go to live in the mountains (from an evil stepmother, cannibal parents, etc.); the brother does good to the animals, they give him a lion cub, a wolf cub, a bear cub, a fox cub, a hare ; they grow up and help him; sister takes a snake (dragon, blackamoor) as a lover; the latter, wanting to destroy the young man, teaches his sister to ask her brother to lock up the animals; rushes after him; the young man climbs a tree, calls his animals with a song, they come running, the snake (and sometimes the sister); the young man saves the princess from the dragon; the sister puts the bones of a snake in her brother's bed, he lies down on them, dies; the animals revive him (take him out of the coffin, extract the snake bone from his body)]: Daskalova-Perkovská et al. 1994, no. 315: 116-117; Hungarians [the king placed his daughter in a tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers raised a stalk up to the window, from its smell the girl became pregnant; the father placed her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; a barrel washed up on an island, a girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, began to swim across the strait to the mainland, bringing apples from there to his mother; his mother herself christened him in the name of his father the sun, his godfather the month and his cousins ​​the stars; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar's suit and a sword fell to him from a tree; on the trunk of a tree he carried his mother across the strait; a giant came to meet him, S. hacked him to death; brought the mother to the castle of the giants; the king of the giants got together with S.'s mother, they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be ill: they had to bring a bear cub and eat its heart; the she-bear gave her the bear cub; seeing him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with the wolf cub ; the lion cub ; the mother suggests to S. as a joke to tie his thumbs - will he be able to break them; he cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put into his mouth three whistles given by a she-bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf - the woman, the bear broke the bonds; S. chopped up the giant, pieces of meat - into a trough, into a second - water, left the mother between the troughs; left with his animals; a bride is needed; the bear advises to ask the sun - S.'s father; the lion delivered them all to the sky; the sun does not know about brides, advises to turn to the moon; the moon - to the stars, more precisely to the Morning Star; neither one nor the other stars know, let him ask the winds, they blow everywhere; they answered that his betrothed is sleeping in a golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 devils; S. and the animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils gave chase; the lion threw a brush (the forest), a scarf (the sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils could not overcome them; the count took the girl; she will marry only the one who can milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she will marry the one who bathes in their milk, heated to boiling; the animals cooled him, S. bathed, became a handsome man; the count wanted to bathe too, the animals heated the milk, the count boiled; the girl was going to marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; the animals saw a snake, whose baby snake was cut in half with a scythe, she carries healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion with its tail, tearing off his fur, only the mane remained; at first the head was attached back to front, they had to redo it; at this time the count's brother is preparing a wedding; a lion and a wolf tore him apart; wedding; S. dug up his mother, she ate the flesh of a giant, took a sharp bone, put it in her son's bed, it pierced his heart; the animals revived him with the elixir taken from the snake, tore his mother apart; a son was born; when he is 7 years, months, days, hours and minutes, his blood must be sprinkled on 3 stones; S. did this, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die, they only took his blood; they are all alive, if they did not die]: Dégh 1965, no. 8: 109-126; Romanians [a stepmother has two children of her own, she demands that her husband rid her of the children of his first wife; the boy heard, told his sister; they took ashes and flour with them, sprinkled them on the ground along the way; the father tied an empty pumpkin to a tree, it knocked in the wind, and he did not chop wood, but left long ago; the children returned home following the tracks; the same thing the next time; the third time the father took the children further, and the rain wet the flour and the birds pecked it; the boy made a bow, the sister got fire by friction, they began to feed on birds; the fox told them not to shoot her, gave her fox cub ; then the same with the she-wolf and the bear ; the children came to the palace, there behind a steel door a giant chained to the wall; he asked for water; the boy did not give it to him and told his sister to unlock any doors except the steel one; the sister opened the door, brought the giant three mugs of water, he broke the chains; the sister is ready to be the giant's mistress and destroy her brother; for this it is necessary to eliminate his animals; for this she asked to leave them with her when he goes hunting - she is bored alone; they locked the animals in a room with a steel door; the giant chased the young man; he climbed a tree; he throws a hat to the giant, one sandal, the second, each time singing, calling his animals, while the giant devours what was thrown down; at first only the fox cub, then the wolf cub, finally the bear cub hears; the bear broke down the door; the animals decided to run like the wind, for if as a thought, they will be too tired and will not be able to fight; the giant threw himself down as a log, but the animals ate it, and the young man took the heart and liver for himself; he told his sister to cook them; left 9 barrels for her to fill with tears, and left]: Mawr 1881: 52-56; Romanians (Banat) [after leaving the service, the soldier Petru immediately gambled away all his money; in the forest he met someone shaking trees and playing with stones; they began to live in a hut, they cook in turns; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, beats the cook; when P. is left, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, pursues him to a crevice where he hid; P. orders him to be lowered on a rope; cut the dwarf into pieces, but cannot get up, because his companions removed the rope: they were afraid that the dwarf would crawl out; there is light in the distance, P. came out onto the ground; house, in it a blind old woman is eating mamalyga with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman sensed it; if a girl, you will be a daughter, if a boy, then a son; she asked P. to tend her sheep, but not to go to the land of dragons who stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flute; the dragons listened with rapture, asked him to teach them; P., playing, led them to an oak tree, split it, ordered them to stick their paws into the crack, knocked out a wedge; ordered them to tell how to restore the old woman's sight; dragons: there is a milk pond next to us, let him wash his eye sockets there three times; P. chopped off the dragons' heads, the old woman washed her eyes, began to see; P. left the old woman, a fox came towards him: don't shoot, I'll give you a fox cub ; then the same with the wolf and the bear ; P. came to the city, there is mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, it is the turn of the king's only daughter; the princess was left by the swamp; P. fell asleep, laying his head on the princess's lap; woke up from a dripping tear; the princess took one of P.'s arrows; he shot down 11 heads with the arrows, and the 12th with the princess's pin; cut out the tongues; the gypsy cut off P.'s head while he was sleeping, and brought the dragon's heads to the king; a snake is crawling with grass in its mouth; the fox: what is it for? snake: to reattach cut off heads, my son's were cut off; the fox took the grass, the head was reattached, but P. is still dead; the wolf met a woman: what are you talking about? woman: living water; the wolf took the water, P. came to life; he came to the palace, showed his tongues; the gypsy was put in a barrel with nails, lowered from the mountain; wedding; After the death of the king P. reigned, his animals always remained in high esteem]: Schott, Schott 1975, no. 10: 65-75.

Central Europe. Russians (Tersky Coast) [the wolf-shadr devoured everyone, only brother and sister remained: Ivan Tsarevich and Marfa Tsarevna; the bull offers to sit on his back, takes the children away; they throw a comb (the forest, the wolf gnawed through), flint (the mountains, ditto), "raft" - a fiery river; the wolf remained on the other bank; the bull orders to slaughter him; from the first blood the dog Tyazhelkó will jump out, from the second - Legko; make a hut from the bones; I. goes hunting, M. is at home; the wolf seduces her from the other bank, turning into a man; orders to throw a bull bone, there was a boat, he swam across in it; M. pretended to be ill, sent her brother for the she-wolf's milk; she gave milk and gave him a wolf cub ; then the same - a she-bear (gave a bear cub ); a lioness ( a lion cub ); the wolf to Marfa: you can't take him with the beasts; M. to his brother: send the beasts beyond nine seas to the faraway kingdom; there's a lake there, a duck on it, an egg in the duck - let them bring it; I. sent the dogs and the beasts; the wolf came out; I.: let me steam in the bathhouse, the meat will be softer; the wolf gave permission; the bird to Ivan: keep the swamp quieter, your dogs are just running there; they've just arrived; they've just started running back; it's not far anymore; close; the beasts tore the wolf to pieces; I. found himself a princess, and M. became a seamstress; she hid the wolf's tooth in the feathers of Ivan's pillow; the tooth entered I.'s head, he died and was buried; the beasts broke out of the barn, dug up the grave; It began to rub heavily against I.'s head, the tooth entered T., he died, and I. came to life; It began to rub easily against T., L. died, and T. came to life; then a wolf cub; a bear cub; a lion cub; they began to rub it on the ground: and the lion cub came to life; Marfa was burned at the stake, the ashes were shot from a cannon]: Balashov 1970, No. 64: 217-220; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [an old hunter bequeaths a towel and 7 dogs to his son; do not let the younger sister wash the towel; if you need to cross a river, wave it in that direction - a bridge will be made; one day the sister sees the devil on the other bank; he advises her to take the towel without asking and make a bridge; this is what she did; so that her brother would not notice him, the devil, entering the house, turned into a broom; the dogs rushed at the broom, but the sister persuaded them to call them off: there will be nothing to sweep the floor with; the next day the brother suspects something is wrong; he cannot find the towel; the devil advises her to pretend to be ill and ask for bear's milk; the she-bear herself gave milk and a bear cub to boot; the same with the lion's milk ( lion cub ); the devil suggests sending to an iron mill, where they grind in three minutes; the brother jumped out, and the dogs and animals remained behind the iron door; the sister asks her brother to heat the bathhouse (she and the devil are going to burn him in the bathhouse); the bird: don't hurry, your animals have only gnawed through two doors; when the brother went to the bathhouse, the hunt came running, tore the devil to pieces; the brother put three tubs of water and three stacks of hay for his sister: when you eat the hay, I will let you go; the brother went to the city, the people there were crying: the snake has taken to it, today he will eat the king's daughter; the hunt rushed, gnawed off the head of the three-headed snake, the brother cut off the tongues and hid them; the same with the 7- and 12-headed ones and snakes; the water carrier attributed everything to himself, but the guy showed the tongues; forgave his sister (she managed to eat two haystacks and drink two tubs of water)]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 86-90; Russian (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Pustynna, 1927) [An old man and an old woman have two sons. When there was nothing to eat, the old man took them into the forest to feed themselves there. The sons got lost, met a hunter, who took them to himself. When the hunter grew old, he decided to send his adopted sons "to find their destiny". Hunter: Shoot a goose, taking one arrow from each corner, I will bake pies from the goose, give you a knife, you stick it into a tree at the crossroads, whichever side rusts, that brother will die. Having brought the goose, the brothers went hunting. They caught a hare, it gave them two little hares in its place. After it they caught a fox, it gave them two little foxes in its place . It was the same with the wolf, the bear and the lion . After the hunt they came to a crossroads and stuck a knife in there. The elder (S.) went left, the younger (M.) went right, each accompanied by his animals. M. came to the city, there was mourning, a seven-headed serpent was kidnapping girls, they were going to bring the princess to him. M. drank three barrels of wine, beer and vodka and felt the power. M. told the princess to go to church and pray for his victory. The serpent flew in, M. (=Ivan) defeated it with the help of his animals, cut off its heads and tongues, wrapped it in the princess's personal kerchief, put it in his pocket, and ordered the princess to guard his sleep. At first she guarded, then she wanted to sleep and asked the lion to guard, then the bear, and so it was the hare's turn, who also fell asleep. Then a courtier who had been watching from the palace came, cut off M.'s head, and ordered the princess, under threat of death, to marry him and proclaim him the savior. The princess set the wedding for a year later. The awakened animals wanted to tear the hare to pieces, but he volunteered to revive M. and did so with the help of a miraculous "tracha". A year later, M. came to the same city to the old man who had told him about the reason for the mourning. Now the city was preparing for the wedding. M. sent a hare to the princess for vodka, a fox for beer, a bear for snacks, and a lion for food. The bear destroyed three regiments of the courtier's soldiers, and the lion - the rest of the soldiers. The king sent a servant to M., M. asked for the royal dress, carriage, horses, came to the palace, showing his tongues. The courtier was shot, and M. married the princess. After a while he got bored and wanted to visit S. He returned to the crossroads, met a deer there, chased it and drove it until nightfall. He lit a fire and saw a screaming old woman in a spruce tree, she refused to come down, afraid of the animals. The old woman threw down some twigs so that M. could hit the animals with them and they would turn to stone. M. did so. Then the old woman came down, hit M. with a twig herself, and he turned to stone. S. also got bored and went to look for M. Driving through the crossroads, he noticed that one side of the knife was rusty. He came to M.'s wife, she mistook him for her husband, he lived with her for 2 days and went to look for his brother. At the crossroads S. also chased a deer, chased it until nightfall, lit a fire and saw a screaming old woman in a spruce tree. She also refused to come down, because she was afraid of his animals, and suggested hitting them with a twig. S. hit the hare with a rod, it turned to stone, S. noticed many similar stones and guessed everything. He threatened the old woman, who turned out to be the mother of the seven-headed serpent, that he would shoot her, and she disenchanted M. and his animals. Her brothers shot her and brought the corpse to the city on their horses]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 133: 301-306; Russian(Arkhangelsk, Onega district) [the stepmother took a dislike to her stepsons: a girl and a boy; the father took them into the forest; they came to a river, on the other bank there was an old man, he waved a handkerchief, a bridge became; they began to live with him; the brother and sister grew up, the old man died; on the other bank there was a young man; he teaches the girl to wave that handkerchief, they crossed the bridge; before the brother’s arrival, the young man turned into a pin and ordered to stick it under the ceiling so that the brother’s dog wouldn’t get it; the next day the sister pretended to be ill: she goes to the Wolf Islands for the she-wolf’s milk; the she-wolf herself gives milk to the wolf (obviously, her own wolf cub ); milk of a she-bear ( ditto ); milk of a lioness (ditto); to the Sokolinye Islands, the egg of a female falcon (ditto); to bring flour from the devil’s mill; the animals entered, the iron doors closed, only the youth and the falcon remained outside; the devil was going to eat the young man, he asks permission to first heat the bathhouse and wash himself; the falcon: keep the fire quiet, your hunt has already gnawed through two doors, and is about to tackle the third; the animals came running and tore the devil to pieces; "As the lion and the bear grabbed him, as they began to meow at him, and the wolf and the bear tore him into the brushwood"; the sister put the devil's tooth under her brother's pillow, he died, she threw the body into the water; the falcon noticed it at the bottom, the wolf, the bear cannot pull it out, the lion pulled it out, but they themselves cannot extract the tooth; the wolf dragged in a hare, he does not understand what is wanted of him, they tore him apart; the wolf dragged in a fox, she understood, pulled out the tooth, the young man came to life; he buried his sister up to her chest, put two barrels: for tears for him and for the devil; if there are more tears in his barrel, he will let go; tears were only in the devil's; brother buried his sister with her head and the barrel with her]: Smirnov 2003(1), No. 7: 76-85; Russian (Olonetskaya) [a blacksmith made an iron wolf so that people would come to watch; the wolf swallowed the blacksmith's wife, then him; the blacksmith has a son, Ivan, and a younger daughter; the bull tells them to run; the wolf became a snake, came to the hut at midnight to eat the children; the spoons, bowl, and dough do not tell; the poker is offended that its owner first heated it in the stove and then put it in water; it says that the bull took the children; in the morning the bull puts the children in a cart, tells them to take a comb and a whetstone with them; the snake chases, the bull tells them to throw away the comb (dense forest); whetstone (mountain); At the sea of ​​fire, a bull orders to grab a handkerchief by the horn, a bridge has been made; they live in a hut; the bull orders to slaughter it: meat in the cauldron, horns under the hut; two dogs jumped out from under the cauldron; Ivan hunts with them; a snake from the other side of the sea orders the sister to find her brother's handkerchief and wave it - the snake will pass by her; became her lover; to destroy her brother, let him pretend to be sick: you need to bring milk from a she-wolf-hero; the she-wolf gives milk and one wolf cub ; he carried him on his back; then the same - a she-bear and a bear cub ; a lioness and a lion cub ; the snake lured Ivan's animals behind 12 iron doors; Ivan asks to be allowed to wash in a bathhouse before he dies; a raven flies in and reports how many doors the animals have already broken down; the animals came running and tore the snake apart; they burned it; but the sister collected the ashes and it was revived; he took out a poisonous tooth, put it under Ivan's pillow, he died, the snake buried him; the animals dug it up, told the hare to lick the tooth; Ivan came to life, but the hare died; the animals killed and burned the snake again, buried the ashes; the animals dug their sister into the ground up to her chest and put two cauldrons: let her cry; if there are more tears in the one for the snake, then we will leave it in the ground, and if according to Ivan, then we will dig it up; Ivan and the animals come to the crypt, where the horse is on a chain, a sword, a saddle, clothes; Ivan got dressed and came to the city; settled with an old woman; She tells how a six-headed serpent demands the tsar's eldest daughter to be eaten; the serpent came out of the sea, Ivan and the animals killed it; he hid the heads under a stone, cut out the tongues and took them; the princess gives a ring, tied a piece of a scarf to all the saviors; the gypsy attributed the victory to himself; in 3 days the 9-headed serpent demands the middle daughter (ditto); then the 12-headed one demands the youngest, otherwise he will burn the whole kingdom with fire; ditto; the gypsy is preparing for the wedding; Ivan sends animals to bring cooking, the princesses recognize their saviors; Ivan tells the tsar to come to him himself, and then they go to the palace together with the animals; the bear killed the gypsy; Ivan went to his sister, she filled the cauldron of snakes, Ivan left her buried; wedding; it did not get into his mouth, it ran down his beard]: Gospodarev 1937: 227-258; Russian: Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsk district) [an old man and an old woman had a mill with 12 gates; she took the flour herself, ground it, closed and opened it according to the hours; she was hysterical , the peasant was looking for a foreman; the golysh promises to do everything, but orders to give it back, which the peasant at home does not know; the wife gave birth to twins: Nastya and Vanya; the father gave them a needle without eyes and ordered to run; told the golysh that they ran to him; N. threw down the comb (the forest, the golysh returned for the axe, cut a passage); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; they came to a hut: turn your back there, your front here; an old man came with a gun and a dog; he ordered them to serve I. and died; N. came to the river, on the other side there is a golysh with an accordion, proposes to marry, orders to wave her handkerchief; she waved, he flew to her; advises to ask I. to get the hare's milk; the hare milked and gave a baby hare ; N. poured out the milk; the same with the fox, the wolf, the bear, the lioness ; Golysh: let him go to your father's mill, his animals will remain locked up; while he was walking, Golysh and N. wove three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests that I. break them; I. could not break the hair one; asks permission to heat the bathhouse before his death; a raven flies, reports how many doors the animals gnawed through; the animals came running, tore Golysh, N. tied two of Golysh's teeth in a scarf; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry tears in one for Golysh, and in the other - for him; not far away, an evil spirit with seven heads came out to the lake; the tsar's daughter had just been condemned to him; (further in square brackets: I. saves her, marries; the wife takes pity on N., asks him to forge it; N. throws a tooth at their heads - they die; animals revive with living and dead water; N. was torn apart, tied to the tails of horses)]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 43: 86-89; Russians (Vologda) [the poor brother has two sons, 7 and 8 years old, and the rich man is childless; the poor man shot an unusual bird; the rich man offered to buy it, the poor man gave it to him; the rich man told his wife to cook it, and the heart, liver and lungs separately; the nephews accidentally came in and ate it; the rich man's wife substituted rooster teeth; the rich man did not find gold under his pillow in the morning, but the nephews found it; the rich man tells the poor man that his children are evil spirits; the poor man did not kill them, but left them in the forest; They were picked up by a hunter and lived with him until they were 18 years old; then they left; they did not kill the hare, fox, wolf, bear, or lioness ; each gave them her two cubs; at the fork in the road, the elder went left and the younger went right; the elder came to the city, there was mourning: the 12-headed serpent takes the king's daughter; the guy cut off the snake's heads, cut out its tongues, wrapped them in a scarf, the princess gave him her necklace; the servant cut off the head of the sleeping man, made the princess say that he was the savior; the hare ran off for a reviving root, the animals revived the owner; he sent a letter to the princess with the hares; he came to the wedding feast, showed the princess's necklace and snake tongues; the deceitful groom was shot; one day the elder brother went hunting; the old woman in the tree: it's cold; he is afraid of animals; she gave him a rod; after that he and the animals turned to stone; the younger brother sees that the elder's dagger has rusted; follows in his footsteps; realizing that he is mistaken for the elder brother, refuses to lie with the princess, citing fatigue; did not take the rod, forced the old woman to revive the petrified ones, then the animals tore her apart; learning that the younger brother was with the princess, the elder, her husband, cut off his brother's head; repented; revived his brother with the same root with which he was revived; the wife only recognized her husband by the necklace; I was there, drank honey and beer, but none of it got into my mouth]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 36: 79-86; Russian (Moscow) [a brother and sister entered a rich house; no one; robbers arrived; the brother killed them one by one; crippled, but did not kill, the chieftain, locked him in a room; gave the keys to his sister, told her not to enter one room; she went in, the chieftain showed where the medicine was, became safe and sound; the sister pretended to be ill, they needed wool and a she-wolf's milk; the she-wolf gave her another wolf cub ; the same with a she-bear ; a lioness ; the chieftain teaches him to send his brother to the mill, the iron doors will close; the hare and the fox are also with the animals; they broke down the doors, tore the chieftain to pieces; the brother left his sister a pound of bread and a pound of water, locked him in; he came to the tsar, the princess fell in love; a wedding; they told him to bring his sister; she put a magic tooth in his bed; the tooth stuck in his forehead, the young man died; sister orders to bury in an oak coffin with three iron hoops; throw a pit of fried chickens to the animals, they will rush, and fill in the pit; the animals, led by the fox, climbed out, lowered the coffin from the oak, the wolf stole the pincers and the hammer; the tooth fell out, hit the hare; the wolf; the bear; the lion; the fox covered her forehead with a frying pan, remained alive and all the animals too; Ivan Tsarevich went to his wife]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 27: 69-73; Russian (Voronezh, Bobrovsky u.) [The girl comes across a forest dwelling, goes into the rooms, in the third she sees the Monster on a chain. It asks to move two vats of blood, drinks, gains strength, frees itself and forces the girl to live with it ("or else I will eat you"). Ivan is hunting in the dense forest. He does not kill animals, but replenishes his hunt - each animal gives its cub. I. collects a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub, a raven cub, a falcon cub . I. enters the hut, meets the girl, learns about the Monster. He sees the hunt and decides to make peace. The three of them live together. I. takes care of the girl like a sister. The Monster persuades her to pretend to be ill and send I. with the hunt to the mill for water and supplies so that the Monster could lock I.'s faithful animals there. I. collects water, calls the animals, but they are locked behind 12 doors. I. thinks that the animals will catch up with him, returns home. The Monster asks I. to heat the stove. A crow, a falcon, and an eagle fly to I., tell her not to hurry, and tell her how many doors the hunt has gnawed through. The Monster sends the girl several times to find out if the bathhouse is ready. I. replies that one, two, three corners are heated, delaying the moment when the Monster will appear. It comes to the bathhouse, is going to grab I., a hunt appears, pushes the monster into the oven. I. leaves the girl on a chain, promises to forgive her when she cries a vat of tears. He leaves for another state, stays with an old woman. She is afraid of the hunt, tells about a princess who cannot get married: a giant defeats the suitors, but she does not want to marry the giant. I. leaves the hunt with the old woman, tells her to watch his knife: if it is covered in blood, it is time to release the animals. He arrives in the capital city, offers the princess ("her height was heroic, her face white as snow, her eyebrows black as velvet, her cheeks scarlet like cherry blossom, her high chest rises") to marry him, she agrees. I. fights with the giant, he grabs his hand, blood flows, the old woman releases the hunt. The animals come running and tear the giant apart, I. cuts off his head, marries the princess. He goes to visit his adopted sister (she had been chained up for a year), finds an empty vat, lets her go, and offers her to be his maid. The girl finds the Giant's tooth in the oven, sews it into a pillow, and puts it under Ivan's pillow. The tooth gets into his ear, and he dies. The princess buries him in a high tower (with the inscription "There is no one stronger or braver than the Russian hero Ivan"). The hunt climbs into the tower, the bear removes the lid of the coffin, the hare takes the tooth out of Ivan's ear, Ivan comes to life, plays the pipe, the animals dance, the princess rejoices]: Korolkova 1941, no. 8: 45-49; Russian (Voronezh) [an elderly priest's daughter drinks two vials from a well, and 40 hours later gives birth to twins: Ivan and Fyodor Vodycha; in three weeks they grow up, go hunting, want to shoot a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear, a lion, a tiger, a falcon and others, but the animals ask to spare them, promising that they will be useful to the brothers; after 12 days the brothers go hunting again, gather the animals, cast lots at a crossroads: Ivan goes along the road where "death will be", Mikhail, where "the rich will be"; the brothers divide the animals and guns, agree that they will come to rescue each other; if one's gun turns black, then the other brother is dead; Ivan goes into a tavern in the field, learns that the Serpent Gorynych eats all the people in the kingdom, that today is the turn of the eldest royal daughter; sends her to the tower, where she is waiting for the Serpent; the Serpent flies in, asks whether Ivan has come to make peace or to fight; the opponents fight on the bridge, in 2 blows Ivan cuts off three heads, buries the bones, receives a personalized scarf from the princess; Chugunkin the gypsy sees the princess, learns how she escaped, makes her imagine him as a savior; the same with the middle daughter; on the third day Ivan asks the kisser, where he is staying, to release the animals when the water in the glass boils; comes to the youngest daughter, asks to search in his head, hangs a three-pood stone above himself on a rope, orders to cut the rope if he does not wake up when the Serpent appears; the princess cannot wake up Ivan, she feels sorry to cut the rope, she cries, a tear wakes up the young man; with three blows he chops off 6 heads of the Serpent, he wags his tail, new heads grow three times, he grabs Ivan's hand in his mouth; the kisser wakes up (the glass breaks from boiling water, a splinter hits the kisser in the face), sees that the water in the glass has boiled, releases the animals from behind 12 doors (6 have already gnawed through), they tear the Serpent apart; The youngest princess bandages Ivan's hand with her towel, gives him a ring with his name on it, he hides the Serpent's bones under a stone; Ivan returns to the tavern, drinks vodka, orders the tsarevna to sell vodka to no one; the princess meets the gypsy Chugunkin, he makes her introduce him as her savior and marry him; the tsar is preparing for his daughter's wedding, but cannot buy vodka from the tsar's tsar, he says that he "has his own tsar" (Ivan), the tsar's daughters guess who he is talking about; the tsar goes for Ivan, but he is asleep, the tsar's daughters recognize their savior, see the towel, scarf and rings; they bring a "weapon" (military and wind musical instruments), "beat from it", the young man wakes up; he learns that they have come to him for vodka for the gypsy Chugunkin's wedding, asks the gypsy to lift the stone under which the Serpent's bones lie, he cannot. Ivan picks up the gypsy, throws him to the bones, covers him with a stone; marries the youngest princess, after some time goes hunting with his animals, catches and releases a golden hare (he chases the golden hare all day, gets lost, loses his way, spends the night in the forest; an old woman comes to him, asks to tie the animals, because she is afraid of them, he ties them, she turns him and the animals into stones; the old woman turns out to be the mother of the Serpent, "Yaga-sorceress"; Mikhail Vodovich sees that his sword has turned black, goes after his brother, the kisser, the king and the princess take him for Ivan; he goes hunting,meets the same old woman, she gives him a belt and asks Mikhail to tie him to the hunt; he throws the belt into the fire, the witch Yaga rushes at him, the lion and the bear stop her; she brings Mikhail to his petrified brother, he takes a bottle from the old woman, sprinkles the animals, they come to life; then he digs up his brother, the animals lick his wounds, on the advice of the old woman he catches a magpie, tears it apart and sprinkles it with Ivan's blood, he comes to life; he kills the old woman, buries her; Mikhail Vodovich boasts that in the kingdom he was taken for his brother, that he spent the night with the youngest princess; Ivan is jealous, cuts off his brother's head; returning, he learns from the princess that his brother cried all night and did not speak to her, regrets what he did, digs up his brother, brings him to life; orders the falcon to catch the raven, but the latter persuades him to spare him and in return brings an oak apple, from the juice of which Mikhail comes to life; marries the eldest princess, each brother receives his own state]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 1: 31-42;Russian: Russian (Kursk, Valuysky district) [The rich brother does not like his poor brother's family, but his wife loves her nephews and secretly feeds them. The poor brother kills a firebird in the forest, his children show the feathers to the rich brother, who tells the priest, who demands that the bird be cooked for him. The poor children accidentally eat it, the rich brother's wife exchanges the bird for a chicken, putting in the heart and liver of the firebird. The rich brother eats it, tells the priest that dogs ate the bird. The priest demands that dogs be cooked for him. The mother finds money on the poor children's pillows, thinking that they are stealing from their rich uncle. The poor brother tells the rich brother what happened, who tells the priest. The priest says that a demon has entered the children and they must be killed. The father takes the children into the forest and leaves them there, they come to a dugout and stay to live with the old woman who owns them, her husband adopts them, teaches them science. After 20 years, he wants to test the brothers, asks them to hit the first and last bird in a flying flock, gives them a gun and a silver dagger - in case of separation, rust on the blade will indicate that misfortune has happened to one of them. The brothers bury their grandfather, go hunting, the animals ask to spare them and give the brothers their children for "hunting" - hares, foxes, bears, lions etc. Animals bring food and water. The brothers separate and leave a silver dagger in an oak tree at a crossroads. The first brother finds himself in a city (not allowed in right away), decorated with black cloth; tomorrow the princess is to be given to the 5-headed dragon. The hunter surprises the whole city with his wealth (orders an expensive dinner). In the morning he sees the princess on the mountain, cuts off the dragon's heads with a saber, the animals help to defeat the enemy. He hides the dragon's tongues, the princess gives him a scarf and ties ribbons to the animals. The hunter asks her to look after the animals and falls asleep. The butler cuts off the hunter's head, forces the princess to recognize him as the winner of the dragon in order to marry her and receive half the kingdom. The animals discover that their master is dead, blame the hare for their death, he brings grass from the forest, chews it, smears the hunter's neck with it, he comes to life. The hunter sees that the city is decorated with red cloth, learns about the princess's wedding (a year has passed) and remembers her. He writes her a note, she invites him to a feast, explains to the king that his animals are learned. He asks for royal clothes and a carriage, she sends them. The hunter invites everyone to look at the snake's heads at the feast, shows his tongues to those who are absent, proves that he is the true savior. The butler is executed, the princess is married to the hunter, he becomes king. His wife does not let him hunt, he falls ill, she agrees. In the forest he chases a white deer, finds himself in an impassable thicket. He sees an old woman, the snake's mother, on a tree at the edge, asks her to come down, she says that she is afraid of animals, gives him a twig. He hits the animals with it, they turn to stone, the old woman hits him and turns him to stone. The queen decides that her husband is missing, falls ill. The second brother lives unhappily and wants to find his brother, sees a rusty knife in an oak tree, comes to the state, where he is taken for the king. He finds out what happened to his brother, sets out to hunt in his footsteps, chases a deer, meets an old woman, shoots her, forces her to revive her brother and the animals. She does this, he kills and burns her, scatters the ashes to the wind. The brothers go to the queen from both sides, she recognizes her husband by the ribbons tied to his hunt. The brothers throw a feast, the second brother marries]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939: 76-84; Russian(Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [a bear with iron wool eats people; the king ordered to build a high pillar; placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful on top with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, out of annoyance began to gnaw a broom; he ordered to go to the field, there was a pillar; the bear began to swing the pillar, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, mounted a horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore him apart, brought him in the mouth of I. and E. to the pillar; the same a second time (the geese carried away, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third bull; three times he covered the bear's eyes with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the bull orders him to be slaughtered, the bones to be collected, beaten, and a little fist-sized peasant will emerge from them - himself as small as a fingernail, with a beard as long as an elbow; the little peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, killed them all and locked them in one room, not allowing E. to go in there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; in order to destroy I., she sent him for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives it to her with a wolf cub to boot; the same with the bear; the lioness ; E. sends for the firebird's eggs; it swallowed the little fist-sized peasant; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the little fist-sized peasant had escaped; he ordered the beasts to tear the ataman apart, and tied E. naked to a tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; he brought E. to the heroine; E. conquered her with difficulty, took her as his wife; at night she put her hand on E.'s chest, he felt ill, he called a peasant; the peasant beat the girl until he tamed her; the wife persuaded E. to free E.; she began to look in E.'s head and threw a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw it, pulled it out, and began to die himself; then the bear cub; then the fox, but she threw the tooth into the frying pan and it crumbled; E. ordered to tie E. to the tail of a horse and scatter it across the field]: Afanasyev 1958 (2), No. 202: 94-97; Belarusians [the Tsar and Tsarina died, the children went out into the world, came to a hut on chicken legs, in it was Baba Yuga, an iron leg; in the morning she told the girl to weave crochets, and the boy to chop wood, ordered the cat to guard; they gave the cat meat, he gave them a ball of yarn and a hutka (kerchief), and sat down at the crochets himself; when Baba Yuga understood this, she sat down in a mortar and drove the poker; the brother and sister came to the fiery sea for the ball of yarn, waved the hutka - a bridge; on the other bank they waved again - the bridge disappeared; they saw the hut, began to live; while Ivan Tsarevich was away, Kashchei the Immortal came to the sister; he taught her to pretend to be sick - let the brother bring animal milk; the hare gave milk and a baby hare; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, the bear, the elk, the lioness, the tar (?); the sister pours out the milk every time; now I. has 7 animals; the sister sent her to the devil's mill; I. went out, and the animals remained behind 12 doors; at home I. asks Koshchei to let him wash in the bathhouse, and then eat; the animals came running, heated up the bathhouse, the lion threw Koshchei into the fire; the sister found his fang, put it in her brother's bed; the fang sank into his head; the fox ran for flammable and life-giving water, and the hare noticed a fang in his head; he pulled it out - the fang into the hare, now he is dead; so from one animal to another, but only the fox by the tail; the lion threw his sister into the oven; Marya Tsarevna was given to the serpent with 6 heads; I. and the animals killed him; the wedding of I. and M.; and I was there, it was running down my mustache, but not in my mouth]: Romanov 1887, No. 3: 45-49; Belarusians [the tsar's most beautiful ship sank; he promises half the kingdom to whoever returns the ship; evil spirits: you don't need half the kingdom, give up what you don't know at home; it turned out that at home the wife gave birth to a son and a daughter; they grew up, the snake flew for them, brought them to the forest; the boy talks about barrels, the girl about watermelons; the snake realized that these were not the tsar's children; had to give them up; one day the snake told the boy to separate poppy seeds from the ashes, and the girl to embroider a towel; a raven took them under his wings, carried them away from the snake; he caught up with them, took them away; the next day the ox tells the girl to take a brush and a comb, and the boy - a whetstone and a scarf, to sit in the left and right ears; the snake catches up, they throw a brush (forest), a comb (earthen mountain), a bar (stone mountain); wave a handkerchief at the sea - a bridge, on the other bank - no bridge; the ox orders to cut it into 12 parts, they turned into 12 dogs; began to live; the brother does not know that a snake began to fly to his sister; the sister asks for bear's milk; the she-bear gave milk and a bear cub ; the same with the she-wolf ; the dogs remained behind 12 doors; the sister tells her brother to heat water; the raven: do not hurry, the dogs have gnawed through 9 doors; the brother asks to be allowed to blow the trumpet before death; the dogs heard, tore the snake apart; the sister took the snake's tooth; the brother and sister began to live with their parents; the sister put the tooth in her brother's bed; he died, the sister put her body in a barrel and into the sea; the wolf got the barrel, the bear knocked out the bottom, they found the tooth, took it out; [began to live and prosper]: Romanov 1887, No. 7: 63-65; Belarusians [the princess drank from a crystal well in the garden and became pregnant, gave birth to twins named Avdon Avdonovich and Vadavon Vadavonovich; all the horses bend under them; an old man shows the king where the horses for the twins are; at the crossroads there is a post with an inscription: if you go to the right, you will be married, if you go to the left, you will be killed; AA went to the right, and the stronger BB went to the left; AA married the king's daughter; BB began to live with the old woman, with him a tiger and a lion; the old woman says that a three-headed serpent ordered the king to bring his daughter to the seashore; BB went there, the serpent crawled out of the sea, BB cut off his heads; the next time - a 6-headed serpent; his heads grow back; BB told the princess to throw sand, but the serpent threw it away with his tail; the old woman woke up, saw that the water in the glass left by BB was stained with blood; released a tiger and a lion, they came and started tearing apart the severed heads; VV married the princess, the king died, VV became the king; flames were visible in the forest; the wife said that no one comes back from there; an old woman touched the forest with her stick and turned the lion and the tiger into a hummock, VV into a stump, and the horse into an uprooted tree; AA rode up to a pole and saw that his knife was rusty, and that he also had a tiger and a lion; AA told the princess that he was not her husband but her husband's brother; his tiger and lion tore the old woman apart, and AA revived everyone with her stick; both brothers began to reign]: Vasilenok et al. 1958: 143-147; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [a widower marries a neighbor; she makes it a condition that he get rid of their children, Ivan and Marika; he takes them into the forest, leaving the log to beat against a tree in the wind, as if he were chopping wood; they returned home; next time father takes further, children stay in the forest; bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; bear, wolf come, are surprised by the strange beast, leave; in the morning there is good bread in the ashes; a magic shirt, gun, sabre on the sycamore; I. gets them, becomes a strongman; breaks into a robber's den, the princess is there; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. leaves the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. to bring living water, pour it into the keyhole; opens the door, the robber's severed ear grows back, M. takes the robber as a husband; in order to destroy his brother, pretends to be sick, asks for wolf, then bear and other meat; a she-wolf, then a bear and other animals they ask not to kill them, gives a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests M. to send his brother for water from a spring between the crushed mountains; at noon they stop, I. got water; bring flour from the mills that grind human bones, open once every 12 years; I. collects flour, manages to jump out, the doors slam shut, his animals remain inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he grew languid, she tied him with horse hair, the robber took the shirt in which there is strength; they gouged out I.'s eyes, threw them into a well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell head first into a swamp, there is living water there, he regained his sight; bought good clothes, swapped clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, one makes you younger, the other makes you older; came to M. and the robber disguised as a beggar; when they fell asleep, took his shirt, sabre, gun; ordered to give him his flute; began to play, the animals broke out of the mill, came running, tore the robber to pieces; left M. two barrels for tears, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom a snake locked up the water; I. ​​killed him, freed the princess whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off the snake's tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded the princess as a wife from the tsar; at home almost all the tears were cried for the robber; I. ​​shows the tsar not the tips of the tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy to pieces, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; they broke free, the Fox brought living water; the next time M. locked the gate again, put a pitchfork in I.'s bed; the same; [the animals tore M.]: Fairy Tales of Verkhovyna 1970: 232-243; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Mukachevo) [a childless woman asks to give her at least some boy; gave birth to a little one, christened Alamik; he grew up, made a cannon and a sabre out of wood, brought animals from hunting every day; came to a castle where there were 12 robbers; beat them at cards, chopped up 11, and put the 12th on bread and water; brought his mother to the castle; forbade opening one door; she came to the door, the robber said where the key was, she let him out; in order to ruin her son and stay with her lover, the mother pretends to be ill, asks to bring her wolf, bear, lion's milk; the she-wolf, bear, lioness give milk and a cub each ; sends for flour to the devil's mill; then for the piglet of God's pig; he comes to Friday; she orders him to leave the animals with her, gives him a horse, teaches him to grab the piglet without taking his foot out of the stirrup; on the way there, promise the drowned ferrywoman to find out how long it will take her to ferry him across the river; on the way back, when she has ferryed him, say that until she drowns the animal; this animal turned out to be God's pig, it drowned; Friday kept God's piglet for herself, replacing it with another; the mother asks for God's wine; Friday: you will reach two crushing fiery mountains, wave a towel, they will let you through; they will ask you to find out how long they will fight; 12 women will be sleeping, grab one formidable, without taking his foot out of the stirrup; having passed the crushing mountains, to say that they should fight until someone was crushed; they crushed 12 women; Friday replaced the wine; the mother suggested that A. should bathe him and tie his little fingers together to test his strength; when she tied them with a silk thread, A. could not break them; a robber jumped out; A. asks before he dies to be allowed to squeak his pipe three times, and to give the pieces of his body to the animals; the animals came running to the sound of the pipe; the robber chopped up A., hid his heart, and the animals brought the sacks with the remains to Friday; she ordered the animals to wash them, folded them, put in the heart of God's piglet, washed them with God's wine and A. came to life; he chopped up the robber; put 12 barrels in front of his mother: until he cries enough, he will not free her; A. came to a city where there was mourning; the dragon blocked the water, gives them in marriage to girls, it was the princess's turn; the tsar will give his daughter and half the kingdom to the savior; A. sent a woman for water: let her tell the dragon that it was for A.; the dragon gave it; on the way the woman drank the water; but the dragon gave it again; when A. fell asleep at the well, the princess attached her ring to his hair; at first the princess did not move from fear, then she shuddered, A. woke up, cut off 20 heads of the dragon; this was seen by a gypsy who climbed a willow; A. sent the princess to her father, cut out the tongues from the heads; as soon as the dragon was killed, water flowed throughout the city; the gypsy picked up the heads, brought them to the tsar; first a wolf, then a bear, a lion run to the princess, she recognized them and fed them; A. came, put the princess's ring on a plate, she recognized it; A. showed tongues, the gypsy was torn apart by horses; wedding; A.'s mother came, put a robber's bone in his bed, he died, they buried him; animals dug up and brought it to Friday, she revived him with God's wine; A. returned, the bone was found in the bed; his mother was torn apart by four horses; A. inherited the kingdom; maybe they are still alive, if they did not die]: Dey 198: 19-31; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Zaslavsky district, village of M. Slovuta) [parents died, brother and sister remained; went into the world; found a house in the forest, food and drink there; in the morning the brother left his sister at home, went hunting; the fox asks not to shoot at her, goes with the guy; then the same boar, wolf, bear, lion, falcon ; the next day the boy goes hunting, taking his sister; they climbed a tree for the night, the animals are under the tree; light is visible; the bear goes to scout; there is a snake, he killed it; behind the second door is a snake with two heads; etc.; the one with 12 heads hid in the cellar; a brother and sister came to live in this house; the brother is hunting, and a snake came out to his sister: either I will take her as a wife, and she will destroy my brother, or I will eat her; the sister is ready to destroy her brother; pretend to be sick and send your brother for a cockerel, which is standing on a snake cross; the horse brought, the brother brought a cockerel; get a piglet of a wild boar; they got it; get flour from the mill, which is behind 12 iron doors - if the brother himself returns, then his hunt will remain behind the doors; from the neighing of the horse the doors opened; having taken the flour, quickly back, the doors slam behind your back; but the hunt remained outside the door; the guy asks to be allowed to steam in the bathhouse before dying, otherwise it is bad to eat dirty food; the falcon flies and reports how many doors the hunt has gnawed through; the snake hurries; the guy asks the snake to put up a post; he will climb it and throw himself into the snake's mouth; at the last moment the lion came running, and after him the others, they tore the snake to pieces; the sister ran away and hired herself out to a king as a housekeeper; she says that her brother can get anything; they brought the brother; the sister was afraid that he would marry the princess; the fortune teller gave her brother a handkerchief to put under his pillow - he will not wake up; the bear sensed it, pulled out and threw away the handkerchief; the fortune teller fired a bullet; it pierced the brother's head; by that time he had married; the king's son-in-law was buried, and so that the hunt would not interfere, the animals were given water; they woke up, opened the coffin; the same again; then they put the body in a tarred barrel, threw it into the sea; it washed up on the shore, animals broke it, a lion ran his paw over the owner's head, a bullet jumped out and killed the lion, and the owner came back to life; then the same thing: a bear revived a lion, he himself died; a wolf a bear; lastly a falcon, but the bullet was washed out of his head by a wave, so everyone is alive; the tsar gave the kingdom to his son-in-law; the sister and the fortune teller were torn apart by two stallions]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 50: 157-167; northern Ukrainians(Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky district) [the king, queen and one daughter died, leaving behind a second daughter and a son; when the father was dying, he buried them to hide them from the dragon; the dragon flew in and asked the broom, poker, oven forks, axe and shelf where the king had hidden the children; each answered that the king or queen had been kind to them; he would sweep (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop, etc.) and put (lay), and so I stand (lie); but the dragon insists that there are traces of work (wrinkles) visible on the chisel; it agrees and orders him to go out, throw it behind him and dig where it falls; the dragon dug up the children and carried them off to his hole; along the way, Olenka suggests that the dragon look for lice on him; the dragon fell asleep, Ivan cries; The bumblebee puts the children on his back and carries them away, but the snake catches up with him and returns them; the bull offers to help next time; he carries the children, the snake catches up; the bull tells I. to climb into his right ear and climb out of his left, he has a comb and a scarf in his head; I. waved his comb - a thicket, his scarf - the sea parted and the bull ran on dry land; the snake was afraid, built himself a house and stayed to live in it; the brother and sister came to another house; the bull tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning the dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword-kladenets and a gun appeared from them; the sister went to the river to wash, the snake from the other bank asks her to get a scarf and wave it so that he can cross; O. told I. that she wanted to wash her scarf, she waved it, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be ill and ask for animal milk; when I. approaches, the snake turns into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall or the dogs will tear it apart; the dogs catch up with the hare , she lets them milk her and gives them a baby hare; the same with the fox, wolf, bear, lioness, tigress ; the snake suggests sending I. to the mill so that the animals can remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. leaves the mill, the doors close; at home, I. asks permission to climb an ash tree before dying; the magpie: don't come down, the dogs have already gnawed through three doors; the dogs come running and tear O. and the snake apart]: Malinka 1902, no. 16: 277-282; Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Konotop districts) {the end is crumpled, with obvious omissions} [the queen was left a widow, she had a son Mytuta; they went into the forest, M. noticed a light, there was a house of 8,000 robbers; M. killed them all, began to live with his mother; a snake visited the mother, they gave birth to a child, left them under an oak tree, M. found it, brought it to his mother; said that he would be his brother, his name was Netuta; the king will give his daughter to the one who defeats the snake; the snake whistled - a silver bridge was built for 12 miles, and M. whistled - a golden bridge; M. cut off the snake's head and tongue, received the princess; they began to live in the house of robbers, and N. became a prince because he taught (?) M. to kill the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 18: 277-282; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava) [after reviewing the troops, the tsar went home; it was hot, he decided to get a drink at least from the swamp; got stuck; "If only the devil would help"; an evil spirit flew in, demanded to give back what the tsar did not know at home; pulled him out of the swamp; at that time his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter; offers to hide the children under the floor; they grew up in a year; the devil flew in; the tsar: I don’t know where the children are; the devil asks for a poker, a poker, an axe; he tells about a chisel; let the devil throw it and look where it stuck; the devil carried the children away, sat down to rest, told the girl to look in his head, and the boy to scratch his heels; a horse flew in, told her to mount it, and flew away; the snake noticed the loss, breathed fire, did not reach them; but the horse realized that the snake would catch up, left the children in the field and flew away; the children persuaded the snake not to eat them; the bird tells her to mount it and carries it (ditto); the third time the bull carries him away; feeling the fiery breath of the serpent, the bull did not leave the children, but ordered to climb into the left ear, climb out of the right and get the harness; it did not help; the bull: climb into the right, climb out of the left, get the comb and throw - there will be a forest; the serpent got through; next time get a white scarf, wave it back, there will be a sea; the sea serpent cannot be overcome; the bull brought it to the hut; orders to slaughter it, eat the meat, and put the bones behind the eaves, from them the dogs Chuiko and Buiko will grow; the serpent pretended to be a handsome guy on the other side of the sea; tells the sister to ask her brother to wash the scarf, wave it; the sea disappeared, the serpent came; advised to pretend to be ill, send for hare's milk; just then the brother comes, the serpent hides in the chest, the dogs bark, the sister asks to drive them out into the yard; the hare scolds her milk, gives a son; all the same with fox's milk (the fox gives a fox cub), wolf's, bear's ; the snake advises to send his brother for pears and apples; they are in the snake's garden; the snake shoots fire, but Ivan is baked, and the dogs tore the snake to pieces, I. brought pears and apples; bring a watermelon; in the melon field another snake shoots fire (same); send to the mill, the doors of which will slam shut themselves; snake: if I. kills me, then bake pies with my meat and my tooth inside; I. goes to the mill, a person he meets teaches: you must not look back, otherwise the 12 doors of the mill will lock; but having collected flour, I. looked back and the dogs remained locked; the same man told about his sister and the snake and taught: go slowly so that the dogs have time to break down the doors; at home I. asks permission to steam out in the bathhouse; the magpie teaches how to put out the fire so that the bathhouse does not heat up longer; I. ​​asks permission to climb a sycamore to say goodbye to the white light; whistled; dogs, hare, fox, wolf, bear they came running, tore the snake apart; the sister managed to snatch a piece of meat and a tooth; as soon as I. bit off the pie, the tooth jumped out into his forehead, I. died; Chuiko pulled out the tooth, but it sank into him, Chuiko died; so did all the animals in succession; the hare managed to pull the tooth out of the fox so that it sank into a log; climbed into a dead cow; eagles flew in; the hare grabbed the eagle and ordered to bring healing and living water, and the eaglet was left as a pledge; the eagle brought it, the hare tore the eaglet apart, washed it with healing water, the eaglet grew together, and then with living water - came to life; after this the hare revived everyone into whom the tooth sank; I. tied his sister to a sycamore tree and put two buckets in front of her so that she would cry, and he himself went to his father]: Chubinsky 1978, no. 48: 138-152; Poles [{not everything is clear}; the father leaves his son and daughter in the forest; the sister becomes the mistress of an iron wolf; the brother receives the cubs of various animals , they become his assistants; they bring a medicine that brings him back to life; he marries the princess; the sister was torn apart by horses]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 315: 99-100; Poles [after eating a fish or an apple (swallowing a pearl, drinking water), a barren woman gives birth to a son or twins; also: after eating one food, the mistress and the maid conceive and give birth at the same time; a woman gives birth to two sons, a mare two foals, a dog two puppies; brothers (or the mistress's son and the servant's son) go on a journey; having gone their separate ways, they leave signs (stick knives in, etc.) by which it will be possible to understand whether misfortune has befallen them; one of the youths kills the dragon with the help of his animals , cuts out their tongues, promises to return in a year and a day; the impostor takes the victory for himself; the hero (after his animals revive him with living water) returns when the wedding takes place, produces the tongues or gifts from the princess, and takes her as his wife; the impostor is executed; the hero meets the witch, who turns him into stone; the brother sees blood on the knife (or another sign), goes to help; the princess takes him for her husband, but he places a sword between her and himself on the bed; kills the witch, revives the brother and his animals]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 300: 81; Poles [translated in Bogatyrev 1955: 37-47; two sons of a widow are as alike as drops of water; they have grown up, are preparing to go wandering; the mother asks them to go hunting and bring meat; they hunt three times, but find no game; instead they give bacon and bread to a pair of wolves, bears, lions ; they bring home; the predators have muzzles on their faces; the brothers parted at the linden tree, having stuck a knife into it; the one from which blood flows, trouble will come; the eldest comes to the city, where a fire-breathing 12-headed snake demands a girl to eat every day, otherwise he will not let her approach the well; the princess's turn; her savior will get her; the young man, with the help of his animals, cut off the snake's heads, but they grew again until the lion tore its neck; the young man cut off the tongues, came to the princess, she gave him half of the ring; when he fell asleep, the coachman ran up, cut off the young man's head, made the princess call him her savior; the lion tells the wolf to run to the snake, which was just about to revive another one with grass, crushed by the cart; but the wolf himself ran into the cart, was afraid of people; then the lion sent a bear, who took the potion from the snake, the young man came to life, but his head was put back together; the bear tore his head off again and put it back together correctly; when the young man came to the city, they were preparing for the wedding of the princess and the coachman; the young man sent the princess a letter and half a ring with the bear; the princess sent back food, wine and her half of the ring, the halves grew together; the young man showed the snake's tongues; the coachman was given over to be torn apart by the animals; one day the young man saw an enchanted yellow forest from the window; a fox appeared, the young man chased it, found himself in a dark forest; he began to fry bacon; an old woman was on a tree, screaming that she was cold, gave a stick to touch the animals, because she was afraid of them; the animals turned to stone; the old woman began to fry a frog, not bacon; she touched the young man with a stick, he also turned to stone; the younger brother saw blood on the knife, went to look for the older one; his wife mistook him for her husband, but at night he placed a sword between them; he did not touch the animals with the old woman's wand, but let them loose on her; he forced her to give him a golden wand to revive his brother's animals and an ointment to revive him; then the animals tore the old woman to pieces; first the elder brother's animals turned into knights, then they killed the younger brother's animals and they also became knights; they, six brothers, quarreled, for this they became predators; the elder brother returned to his wife, and the youngest with six knights came to their lands and became king there]: Dobšinský 1970: 3-10; Czechs [a soldier returns, his father has died, his sister is dissolute, he beats her, ties her up, rides through the forest to the castle, the captive princess shows where the treasure is, a self-cutting sword for cannibal robbers, he kills them; the sister pours water on the ataman's head, it grows to his body, they decide to kill his brother; the sister pretends to be sick, demands to get a wolf cub (the she-wolf gives it), the same bear cub, lion cub ; the ogre advises to invite his brother to swim, to take his sword; the soldier managed to jump out of the water, call the animals, killed the ogre, tied his sister to a tree, to another - the carcass of a horse, so that she would eat and suffer longer; the soldier kills the dragon to whom the princess was given, cuts off their tongues, the princess hangs chains on his animals, gives him a ring; the servant takes the heads, says that he killed the dragon; the soldier returns a year later, sticks out his tongues; the servant was executed on an iron mare; the queen returns her husband's sister, she sets a poisonous trap for her brother, the animals revive him, the brother orders to cover his sister with sand; the animals' heads are cut off, they become knights]: Bogolyubova, Talova 2000: 195-217.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Ossetians : Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [twins Saui and Budzi run away from their stepmother; each spares a pair of hares, foxes, wolves, bears, and tigers ; they promise to help; they divide the animals, and part ways, having stuck a knife into a pole; whichever side rusts will bring trouble; Aldar takes the girls, and feeds the disobedient ones to Zaliag-snake; S. kills the snake, Aldar, and marries the saved girl; in the forest, an old woman turns him and his animals into stones; B. goes to look for him, is mistaken for S., and places a dagger between himself and S.'s wife; he turns the old woman into stone with an oak leaf, disenchants the petrified people and animals; the animals tear the petrified woman to pieces; S. cuts off B.'s head, for he was lying next to his wife; The hare revives B. with oak roots]: 99-106; Balkars (west 1960) [robbers kidnapped the khan's daughter; a young man named Askhat and his sister lived not far from their house; the sister did not like her brother; they came to this house; A. untied the kidnapped girl; with swings of his self-cutting sword he killed 24 robbers, cutting off 8 heads with one blow; the head of the robber chieftain asked A.'s sister for water, grew attached to the body; gives advice to A.'s sister on how to get rid of her brother; the sister pretended to be ill, asks to bring 1) wolf meat (the she-wolf gives her wolf cub and a flute to call the wolf); the sister does not want wolf meat, 2) asks for bear meat (ditto); 3) lion meat (ditto); 4) undress and bathe, and at this time the robber steals the self-cutting sword; but A. took away the sword, wounded the robber, the animals tore him apart; A. tied his sister to a tree, hanging a horse carcass nearby for her to eat; came to the city; the dragon eats a girl every day, the khan's daughter's turn; he promises his daughter to the savior; A. chopped off 8 heads of the dragon, tore out and hid the tongues, the animals destroyed the remains; the girl put her ring on A.'s finger, hung gold chains on the necks of the animals; the khan's servant killed the sleeping A., called himself the savior of the girl; the animals brought herbs and revived A.; A. came a year later; he was told that today the savior of the khan's daughter would marry her; A. gave the bride a note with a plate of soup, then the animals carried the notes; A. appeared and stuck out his tongues; the impostor was beheaded; A.'s wife sent for his sister, she was cured; she put a trap under A.'s bed, A. died; the animals brought herbs and revived him; A. ordered to hang his sister; all is well]: Malkonduev 2017: 478-484; Avars [a beggar gives a childless man two beans, orders him to give one of the two sons that will be born; when Arslan and Batyr grow up, the father gives A.; on the way he drinks from a stream, a skull at the bottom says that the beggar is a Black Dev, teaches him to pretend that he does not know how to sweep the floor, heat the stove; pushes the Dev into the fire; pulls out a splinter from a lioness, returns the eaglet to the nest, receives a lion cub, an eaglet ; dips his finger in a stream, it turns golden; washes his hair, mane and horse's tail in a stream; releases animals, they will return when he burns a feather; smears his face with mud, hires himself out to a gardener; the khan's youngest daughter sees his golden hair; the khan invites his three daughters to throw an apple at those they want to marry; the youngest throws it at A.; the khan drives her away, she and A. live in a hut on the outskirts; the sick khan will be cured by deer meat; he calls an eagle, the eagle - a horse and a lioness; A. hunts a deer, gives the meat smeared with bile to the eldest sons-in-law, for this he puts a brand on their backs; the venison is bitter, the khan is angry, and the meat given by the youngest daughter is tasty; but he is worse, he needs the milk of a lioness; the lioness gives it; A. brands his eldest son-in-law, gives him milk in a jug where there was vinegar, it has soured; from the milk brought by A., the khan recovered; as a reward he asks for his two slaves, everyone sees the seals on the backs of the eldest sons-in-law; A. takes on his true form; A.'s brother Batyr follows in his footsteps, the lioness and eagle give him brothers, those lion cubs, eaglets, which A. received; A.'s wife takes B. for her husband, is rejected, cries; reproaches A. who has returned from hunting; he catches up with B., kills him with an arrow; repents; one mouse kills another, revives it with grass; A. revives B. with her; feast]: Kapiev 1974: 72-80.

Iran - Central Asia . Dardy (Kalash) [the king is getting old, but childless; the fakir gives two apples; let him eat one with his wife, she will give birth to twins, give the elder one to him; give the second apple to the mare, she will give birth to a foal; when the brothers became teenagers, the fakir took the elder one; the king tried to give the younger one, but you can't fool a fakir; the elder one took the horse and the sword; warned his brother that if blood appeared on his sword, trouble would befall him; in his house the fakir gives the keys to 6 rooms, and forbids entry into the 7th; but the young man forgot about the ban and went in; there is a weakened old woman there; she asks to come to her tomorrow: the fakir will leave for 5 days; in the morning she tells that the fakir fattens up teenagers and eats them; but she refused to eat with him, so she became weak; feeds on birds; the fakir will ask to look in and dance by the boiling cauldron with 7 ears; you have to ask him to show you; and push him into the cauldron; then crush his bones and sprinkle them on the bones of those eaten: they will come to life; and so it happened; 60-80 young men and women came to life; the young man told them to go where they came from; the old woman became young; the young man promised to marry her, but first he went wandering; he saw a falcon's nest; the falcon hatched chicks every year, but under the tree there was an ocean, from which a dragon came out and devoured them; the chicks were crying; the dragon appeared, the young man hacked him to death with a sword; the falcon wanted to eat the young man, but the chicks called him a savior; the falcon gave him one falcon as an assistant; then he freed the lioness crushed by the tree - gave the lion cub ; a young man came to the city; the king offers his three daughters to touch with a flower the one of those gathered whom they want as a husband; the young man put on clothes in which he looked like he was sick with a skin disease; but the youngest princess saw him in his true form; and touched the imaginary patient with a flower; the king settled them in a barn, and the elder daughters with their chosen ones - in the mihman-khan; he sends a servant to eavesdrop on what the sons-in-law are talking about; the elders - about nothing, the youngest would like to be sent hunting; the young man gave pheasants to the elder sons-in-law, branding them with a hot ring on their buttocks for this; he kept the giblets for himself; the soup made from them turned out to be the most delicious; but the daughter threw a piece of dung there: they live in a barn; the servant overhears that the youngest son-in-law dreams of a new hunt; he orders the lion and the falcon to get mountain goats, and to drive away all the game from the elder sons-in-law; (the same episode: a brand from a ring on the buttocks); the third day: the younger son-in-law dreams that the king will offer to play polo; the younger son-in-law appeared as a handsome man on his horse; he warned his wife that he would throw the ball to her elder sister and she would return it to him; then to the middle one; then to the wife, but she must throw the ball away; the elder sons-in-law could not play, it hurt them to sit on horses; the younger one won; the king promoted him, and humiliated the elder sons-in-law; in the back room there was a woman who turned people into stones, beating them at dice; the wife does not allow him to go in there, the husband went and disappeared; the younger brother saw blood on the sword; the falcon and lioness took him for the elder brother and again gave him a falcon and a lion cub; the wife mistook him for her husband, but he placed the sword across the dish of rice she had brought to eat, and then in bed between them; when he came to play with the woman, a mouse knocked over the board and the young man won; ordered the petrified men to be revived; the elder brother decided that the younger had communicated with his wife and killed him; having learned from his wife about the sword, the elder returned to the body of his younger brother; a fakir approached; the elder asked how many years he was destined to live; having learned that 50, he asked to divide it in half and give 25 years to the younger brother; the king allowed the brothers to return to their parents; the younger married the woman who had become younger thanks to the elder brother; seeing their sons, the parents became younger; a holiday and a feast]: Petersen 2015: 197-205.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [two sons of a fisherman go on a journey, each stick a knife into a pine tree, whose knife rusts, that one will have trouble; the eldest does not kill a hare, a wolf, a lion, a bear , they promise to help; in the city, the princess is given to a nine-headed serpent; the elder brother's animals kill the serpent, the prince cuts out their tongues; while he sleeps, a tar-digger makes the princess say that he killed the serpent; at the wedding, a young man sticks out his tongues, marries the princess, the tar-digger is burned; a witch blocked out the sun with a broom; the young man goes to her, she sprinkles water on him and his animals, they turn into stones; the younger brother follows, also does not kill the animals, takes him as an assistant; the younger brother is mistaken for the elder, he puts a sword between himself and the queen; [comes to the witch, snatches the cauldron from her, splashes it on the stones, they again become animals and people; the eldest returns to his wife, the sun shines]: Lëbīte 1965: 163-167; Latvians [ The evil sister (mother) . The sister (mother) becomes the mistress of the devil (robber). He incites her to destroy her brother. The sister pretends to be ill, sends her brother for animal milk. The brother gets the milk and receives animal cubs . The sister sends her brother to the devil's mill. The animals remain locked in the mill and cannot help her brother. The devil wants to destroy his brother, but he asks permission to heat the bathhouse. He heats the bathhouse very slowly, the animals break out of the mill, run up and tease the devil. With the help of the animals, the brother frees the princess. He forgives his sister, but she puts the devil's tooth at his pillow. Brother dies, animals save him]: Arijs, Medne 1977, #315:275; Seto : Mälk et al. 1967, #52 [mother died; brother and sister went into the forest, came across a house, there was an old man there; they began to live with him; when he was dying, he gave them each a scarf, they tied together in a knot; if they untied it, trouble would happen; one day the sister alone decided to untie the knot; a nice guy in white came, it was the devil; he suggested to the girl to kill her brother; let him pretend to be sick, ask for wolf's milk; the brother went to look for the she-wolf , she asked him not to kill her, allowed herself to be milked and went with him; the same with the she-bear ; bring water from the lake in which there is a huge snake; the young man, together with the she-wolf, the bear and his dog defeated the snake, the young man brought water; bring flour from the devil's mill; when the young man took the flour, 12 iron doors closed behind him and the animals remained behind them; at home the devil was going to kill the young man; he asks permission to wash in the bathhouse before death; he stokes the fire for a long time, drags out time; the animals broke down the doors, ran up, tore the devil apart; only one tooth remained; the young man left his sister in the bathhouse with two barrels; let one contain tears for his brother, the other for the devil; he will look where there are more; taught the animals to dance, went with them, showing for money; the king will give his daughter to the one who makes her laugh; seeing the dancing animals, the princess laughed; a wedding; the young man is ordered to bring his sister; he went after her - the barrel with tears for the devil is full; on the way back, sitting in the carriage, the sister stuck the devil's tooth in her brother's ear, the brother died; the wife placed the body in an iron coffin on a pole; animals howl at the foot; a passing foreign king saw this, ordered the coffin to be removed; the tooth fell out, the young man came to life, drove out his sister, inherited the throne from his father-in-law]: 127-132; Sandra 2004 [dying, the king ordered his daughter to rule until her brother grew up; she decided to destroy her brother; pretended to be ill, ordered hare's milk to be brought; the hare gave milk; next time - a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness ; the sister sent her brother to bring bread from the mill where the witch was; he went, with him all his animals that had given milk; he took the bread, and when he sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors; the sister put her brother in the cellar, the witch must eat him; at this time the animals break down the doors one after another; this is reported by a raven, a dove, a swallow; each time the young man asks the cannibal to give him more time; the last time he asks to be allowed to light his pipe; the animals burst in, kill the witch; the young man, having told his sister to cry a bucket of bloody tears before his return, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where there is mourning; a man explains that every year the sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise he will flood the city, it is the turn of the king's daughter; the animals tore the serpent apart, the princess gave the savior her handkerchief; The coachman crept up, cut off the youth's head, made the princess swear that she would declare him the conqueror of the dragon; the animals mourn, the fox orders them to pretend to be dead, a raven with a young raven comes down, the fox grabs the young raven, orders the raven to bring water that unites the limbs, and living water; he brings it; the fox tore the young raven apart as a test, glued it back together, revived it; then the youth; the animals cast lots, the lot falls on the bear, he brings the handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; he meets the savior; the king orders the coachman to be torn apart by four bulls; the youth receives the princess; goes to visit his sister; she cried a bucket of blood; sticks a witch's tooth into his brother's head, he falls dead; they put him in a tower; the hare comes, the tooth sticks into him, he dies, the youth comes to life; the fox takes a tooth out of a hare, throws it into a bush, the bush withers; the animals tore his sister to pieces; the young man became the ruler of both kingdoms]: 192-202; Setu [after the death of his parents, Ivan stayed with his sister; they came to the manor where the devils were (halbad); the sister became friends with them, changed; I. does not shoot the she-wolf, the hare, the bear, the lioness; each gives her milk and the youngest son; the sister pretended to be ill, asks for the hare's milk, etc. , I. brings it - he already has it; the sister lured I. into the bathhouse where the devils were, but his animals broke down the doors and I. destroyed the devils; left his sister; the princess is in the hands of the devils; I. waits on the bridge, the animals help him kill the dragon with 3 heads; then with 6; with 9; each time I. cuts out and keeps the tongues; the princess is given in marriage; I. boasts that he will now have the wine that the young drink, sends a hare, the princess recognized him, gave him wine; the same with other animals, with food; I. showed his tongues, married the princess, received half the kingdom]: Säärits 2022: 171-173; Vepsians [the rich brother made gold things, and the poor brother made brooms; the poor man saw a bird in the forest, threw an axe, killed it, sold it to the rich man; the latter saw that on the bird's right wing it was written "Whoever eats it will become strong", and under the left - "Whoever eats it will have a gold coin under his pillow in the morning"; he told his wife to roast the bird; the poor brother's children came in and ate everything; the housewife got scared and roasted an ordinary rooster; the rich man did not gain strength, the coins did not appear; but the poor man got rich; the rich man demands that he kill his children - they are devils; the parents left the children in the forest; one went to get game; the she-bear asks her not to kill her, gave her two cubs ; the same with the hare ; at the fork in the road the brothers parted, leaving a glass of water; if the water goes bad, one of the brothers is ill; the younger brother came to the city; There the snake ate all the girls, it was the turn of the king's daughter; the young man saw a slab: "Whoever lifts it will find wine and a saber underneath, whoever drinks the wine will take possession of the saber"; the young man chopped off 10 heads of the snake, the saber broke, the dog, bear and hare tore off the remaining two; the young man burned the snake and hid the tongues; the princess gave her a gold ring and a scarf, and also tied scarves to the animals; the young man and his animals fell asleep; the king's servant chopped off the sleeping man's head and told the princess to tell him that he had defeated the dragon; the animals woke up, the hare brought living and dead water, and revived the owner; at first they had put the head wrong; they redid it; they all came to the wedding of the king's daughter; the bride recognized the animals by the ribbon; the king asks where the ring came from, the young man showed the tongues; the servant's head was chopped off, the young man married the princess; he went hunting; the wizard turned him and the animals into stones; the brother saw that the water had become cloudy; he came to the forest, put a cross on the bullet, shot the wizard, forcing him to revive his brother, the horse and the animals; it ran down his lips, but did not get into his mouth]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 18: 94-100; Finns [a childless king sets sail, a water sprite stops the ship, releases it for a promise to give the one who was born at home in the absence of the king; these are his son and daughter; the king secretly dug an underground shelter for them; he tried to give the water sprite a foal, a calf, a lamb when he arrived; he himself began to look for children; in the smithy, he ordered a hammer to take it and walk; it fell where the shelter was, the water sprite took the children; they grew up with him, the girl married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, ordered her to sit on him and run; the young man enters the room where the water sprite and his sister are sleeping, grabs his sister, sits on the wolf; at the wolf's direction, he takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, a mountain grows to the sky; the water sprite returns for a hammer and a chisel, breaks a passage; he wants to leave the tools, but the magpie begins to cry about them; the water sprite takes them home, returns, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man cries again, a bear comes, everything repeats itself; the young man throws away the bear's bristles, forested mountains appear up to the sky; then the same episodes; the third time the brother and sister run away on a fox, she orders to throw away the flint; the water spirit cannot overcome the sea of ​​fire, he stops pursuing; the brother and sister build themselves a house beyond the seething river; the wolf, the bear and the fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water spirit crosses the river, lives with the girl; during the day he turns into a pin, the girl hides it in a crack in the wall; the animals sense this; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; the water spirit grabs the young man, throws him into a red-hot bathhouse; the animals rush, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man to hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals burst in, tear the water spirit to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; She found a water spirit's bone in the ashes and put it under her brother's pillow; the bone stuck in his head, the sister buried the dead man; the animals dug up the body; the bear put his head to it, the water spirit's bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from the bear into the wolf; the fox put her head under it, managed to pull it away, the bone got stuck in a pine tree; they all came to the parents of the brother and sister, the young man rejuvenated them with living water; the father drove out the traitorous daughter, his son became king]: Goldberg 1953: 170-186.

Volga - Perm. Mordvins (Erzya) [an old woman gave birth to three sons in the evening, at midnight and at dawn; they were named Evening, Midnight, Zarya; they went wandering, met three wolves, bears, lions , each took one animal of each kind; one made a fire in the forest, the old woman died, suggested searching in her hair, killed him and his animals; the same with the second; the third began to hold the old woman over the fire, forcing her to revive the dead; then the three brothers burned the old woman; the brothers parted again; the dragon demands the girls, the first brother stayed with the girl in the house on the shore; the girl persuaded the dragon to stick his head in the window, the young man and his animals killed him; the same with the second, with the third dragon; the young man ordered the animals to hide the bodies of the dragons under a stone; the soldier said that it was he who saved the princess; could not lift the stone, the princess cut off his head, married the young man]: Paasonen 1941: 217-224; Mari [a man has a wife, she has a lover; he died; the devil took his form and began to come to the woman; she decides to get rid of her husband; pretends to be ill, successively asks him to bring milk from a wild dog, a hare, a she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress ; an old man in the forest gives him a horn; if he blows the horn, the animals come; each female gives milk and a cub; the animals grew up, entered the house, sniffed out the devil under the floor in the entryway, tore him apart; the man ordered them to tear his wife apart too]: Beke 1938, no. 7: 20-30; Kazan Tatars : Zamaletdinov 2008b, no. 2 [a hunter caught and tamed a bear, a wolf, and a hare ; came to four divs; defeated three, the fourth defeated him, the animals came running, killed three, the fourth was thrown into a well; the hunter's sister pulled him out, took him as her husband; the brother saw, killed the div, the sister hid two shin bones, put them in her brother's bed when he got married; the animals tore half the skin off the hare, the magpie came down to peck, the hare grabbed it, let it go for a promise to bring living and dead water; the young man came to life; chopped off his sister's head], 15 [the padishah has a son and two daughters; the suitors are refused; the eldest was kidnapped; the mother died of grief; the padishah married a young woman; the stepmother orders to drive away the stepson and stepdaughter; they came to a house in the forest; nearby is a dugout, where 12 robbers and the eldest sister; she gave them drink, the brother killed; the sister regrets living with the robbers; one is still alive, she nursed him back to health; they agree to get rid of her brother; she pretends to be ill, sends for hare, fox, wolf, bear, lion, tiger milk ; all the animals give milk and a cub; the younger sister takes care of them; the elder suggests playing cards, the loser will be tied up; tied up her brother, the robber is ready to kill him, but the animals tore him apart; the brother and the younger sister come to another country; there the azhdaha devours girls, it is the turn of the padishah's daughters; the brother kills him with the help of animals; the blind man says that he killed the two-headed azhdaha with a bucket, demands the princess as his wife; the next day the same thing (the three-headed azhdaha, the middle princess, the imaginary savior is one-armed); then the fire-breathing azhdaha, the younger princess, the lame man; the horseman comes to the wedding, shows the heads crushed by a stone and the rings given to him by the princesses; crushed the impostors with stones, married the younger princess; returned the elder sister; she put the robber's tooth in her brother's bed, the brother died; the animals pulled out the tooth, the owner came to life; [The animals tore apart the older sister]: 33-37, 133-153.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty : Shteinitz 2014, No. 28 (Sherkal dialect) [a husband and wife bought a toy for their son and daughter – an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed the spouses; the children hid under the floor; the horse asks where they are; the comb, flint, and skin scraper do not answer, she breaks them; leaves; the cow tells him to mount her, takes her to the sea, tells him to slaughter her there, wrap her in intestines, climb into her belly; the horse pursues, the sister throws flint (fire), comb (forest), whetstone (mountain), flint again (the horse burned); the brother and sister killed the cow, woke up in a house, there was a lot of food; they live on an island; a dog jumps out of a foam ball; she tells her brother that her sister will send him for fox milk; the sister sends - the milk will make him well; the fox gave milk: if the sister does not drink it, give it to my cub; the sister did not drink it, the fox cub drank it; the same with the blue fox ; the dog to the youth: the sister hid the iron horse under your sleeping place, lie down on your side; next time - milk and a wolverine cub , you need to lie back on your sleeping place, and there will be an iron horse under the bunk; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold; in front of the threshold; the sister sends into the house for seven-fold locks; there the old man lets the animals through, closes the door; the youth returns alone; the sister orders him to wash in the bathhouse, and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird three times reports that the animals are digging an underground passage; the animals came, killed the iron horse; the brother nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near her eyes: if the brother is needed, his vessel must be filled with tears, and if the iron horse - then hers; the brother married the king's daughter; took his sister to himself; she put a tooth of an iron horse in his bed, the brother died; he was buried in an iron coffin; animals dug up, broke it; the dog found a crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise I will eat the eggs; the crow brought it, the dog crushed one egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he released the animals, leaving only the dog; tied his sister to two sleds, tore apart by the horses; threw one leg into the forest, a swamp willow grew from it, the other on a hill, a forest tree grew; the brother lives well (with his wife)], 29 (son's dialect) [the king made an iron toy horse for his son and daughter; it devoured the city and the king and queen; he tells the brother and sister not to be afraid of it; they filled a trough with wine, the horse got drunk, they mounted the donkey, the horse pursues; across the river the donkey orders him to be killed, a dog jumped out of his belly; they came to the cannibals, hid in the barn; the cannibals climbed in, the prince killed them; one robber remained under the floor; suggests the prince's sister to pretend to be ill, to send her brother for milk from the iron she-wolf ; the she-wolf gave milk and a cub; the same - the bear; the lion ; now the prince has a dog, a wolf, a bear, a lion; the sister asks to bring flour from a barn with seven compartments; the prince went out, the animals remained in the barn; the cannibal robber orders to wash in the bathhouse; the birdie reports three times that the animals are about to get out; the animals tore the robber to pieces; the prince: when the age of doll-faced (people) comes, let there be nothing so terrible {in the sense of monsters}; he tied his sister to a hitching post: if she needs him, let her drink a barrel of clean water, if she does not need him - a barrel of lye; the prince put one boot on the road, then the other; the coachman stopped, went for the first boot, the prince took the king's daughter to himself; he freed his sister, she drank a barrel of lye; she prepared a bed for her brother, stuck a needle into his ear, the brother died; the animals dug up the body, pulled out the needle, the wife is happy; [the sister was put on a pole and shot with guns]: 169-185, 185-196; Eastern Khanty (Vasyugan River) [the son left, a daughter was born; the old woman gave birth to a girl with golden hair; the old man ordered her to be taken to where people's heads were cut off; the old woman carried the girl, the son came to meet her, he ordered not to kill her, to bring his father a spoonful of dog's blood; the son's wife does not want his sister, he built his sister a separate house; the sister hears a noise in the cellar, Savs-iki came out, she began to live with him, he offers to kill her brother; let him pretend to be ill, send for bear's milk; the she-bear gives milk and a button from her ear; the same with the moose; the buttons turned into a bear cub and a moose calf ; brother overheard S. talking to his sister, shot both his heads, burned the body, the ashes turned into midges and mosquitoes; sister found S.'s teeth, put them in her brother's pillow, at night the teeth crawled into his ear, he died; the coffin was placed in the seventh room behind seven doors; a dog, a bear cub and an elk calf broke down the doors, the dog pulled the teeth out of the ear, the young man came back to life; sister died of fear]: Lukina 1990, No. 89: 237-239.

Eastern Siberia. Evens (Ola district of Magadan region) [a man does not kill a duck, it promises to help; his dog tells him to look at what is crawling on it; cut it into six pieces; the man crushes a flea, the dog dies immediately, he cuts it up, these pieces are eaten by two bears, two wolves, two foxes , they become helpers; Cholere with one arm, one leg, one eye in his forehead asks a man's sister how she crosses a river; the girl: her brother has a scarf, he waves it - dry land appears; Ch. asks her to steal the scarf; she steals it, Ch. crosses, takes her as a wife; persuades her to send her brother to the barns for yukola; the barn doors cannot be opened, bears, wolves, foxes are sitting in the barns; upon returning, the man sees Ch.; he tells him to first wash in the bathhouse, then he will eat him; the animals order to call Ch. himself to the bathhouse; they tear him to pieces, the man burns the remains, leaves his sister tied to a tree, two cauldrons under her eyes; if the right one fills up, it means she is mourning her brother, if the left one – Ch.; he leaves, gets married; when the ropes have rotted, the sister picks up Ch.’s teeth, comes to her brother, puts the teeth in his bed; he dies; the sister suggests burning the deceased, the wife suggests leaving the coffin on the tree, burying the animals nearby; foxes and a bear dig an exit, a duck pushes the coffin off the tree, a wolf brings living water, the others lick the owner’s wound, he comes back to life]: Novikova 1987: 66-69 (=1958: 60-65).

NE Asia. Coastal Koryaks (village of Palana, west. 1958 by A.N. Zhukova) [an old man sets up a chiruch (fishing tackle), falls to the water to drink, is pressed to the sand; released when he promised to give up the children; at home he sent his son and daughter to the chiruch; they ended up with a kele; they try to leave on their own; they ask for a deer, he takes them away; the same with a bear; each time the kele catches up, returns; a pot-bellied calf offers to take them, the kele kicks him sleepily, the calf flies up to the sky, lands over the sea; turns into a house; two dogs are in one room, they become comrades to the brother; the sister sees a kele on the other bank, throws a comb, it turns into a bridge, the kele crosses, becomes the girl's lover; on his advice, she serves poisoned food to her brother, the dogs spill the bowl; the wolf gives the young man two wolf cubs as companions, the bear gives him two bear cubs , the fox himself goes with the young man; kele asks to heat up the iron bathhouse, the fox orders not to heat it too hot; the young man manages to get out of it, the dogs remain inside, but break through the iron door; kele has washed himself, comes out, the dogs, wolves, bears tore him apart; the corpse is burned together with the bathhouse; the sister finds kele's fang, puts it in her brother's bed, he dies; the fox, wolves, bears pull the fang out of the young man's body, he comes back to life; the brother hooked his sister with his fang, burns her in the house]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 137: 422-430.