K83A. Where the father never got to. .27.-.29.

To complete the task, the character's sons must travel to a place where he has never been (or has ever been).

Romanians, Slovaks, Russians (Nizovaya Pechora, Olonetskaya), Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Adygs, Ossetians, Karachais, Terek Cossacks, Kumyks, Avars, Lezgins, Armenians, Turks.

Balkans. Romanians(Eastern Banat) [an emperor has three grown-up sons. The eldest asks permission to marry; his father tells him to travel as much as he has first; the prince spends a year on the road; arrives at a city where his father's former lover lives, returns home; the father says that he reached that city in half a day, spent half the night with his lover, and returned in the morning; he refuses his son; the same with the second son (he was traveling in the other direction); when the youngest, Petru, asks permission, the emperor draws his sword, but the empress holds his hand, offers to let her son go: let him ride further than his father; an old dog advises him to ask his father for a horse, which has served him all his life; the emperor sends him to a horse herder; the dog advises him to light three fires in the pasture and put a kettle of wine over each to boil; then tell the herder to bring in all the horses; Among them there will be a horse that will swallow three fires and drink three kettles of wine - and take him; all the horses shy away and run away; P.: was anyone left behind? The herder: only an old mare; she fell into a puddle and remained lying; P. orders her to be brought; the mare swallowed the fire along with the coals, drank three cauldrons of hot wine, after which she gained the strength of youth; asks to bring milk from seven gypsies; after drinking, he orders her to be taken to the gypsy, ordering that 8 horseshoes be made; to shoe her with four now, and the other four on the way back; on the advice of the horse, P. asked his father for the bridle with which he rode in his youth; he rushes on the horse to the glass mountain; the horse orders to look back: does P. see anything? He replies that he sees a dark cloud; the horse: P.'s father rode as far as this place, but no further; now they will go to the father's mistress; She is going to kill P.; She must not let go of the horse, and after they have dined, the horse will be able to hide P.; The father's beloved comes out with her beautiful daughter, greets her very kindly; The daughter offers to take the horse from P., P. does not allow it; After dinner, the horse turns P. into a louse, puts it in his tooth; The mistress of the house looks for P. all night; Not finding him, she goes to her father, a soothsayer, who rules a neighboring kingdom; The father tells them to return quickly: P.'s horse has a louse in its teeth; but P. has already left; On the way, the horse invites P. to visit the ruler of a neighboring kingdom, the father of his father's beloved; He is wiser and richer and his daughter Juliana Koseshchana will be a good wife; YK sees P., falls in love; the king will give her up if P. hides from him, otherwise he will cut off her head; out of 20 stakes, 19 are narrower than heads; the horse bids him come to her stable immediately after supper; but P. talks to YK all night, comes in the morning; the horse scolds him and hides him behind the clouds; when the old king gets up, he cries out: "YK, my daughter, bring me my crutches, that I may prop up my eyes and find the worthless prince in his hiding place, for I am tired of many cries of an empty pillar about a head and a sword about blood!"; finds P. on a cloud; YK asks his father to allow P. to spend the next night with her; the king allows it, for then nothing wise will come to the prince's mind; after the night with YK, P. comes to the stable; the horse scolds him and hides him,turning him into a fish on the sea bed; the king finds him again; YK asks for another night; but P. after supper goes not to YK, but to the horse; he is glad; YK places him like a louse on the king's head, where he will certainly not find him; the cunning wizard will want to deceive him and will ask him to leave; one should not believe until he calls for the third time and says that he himself is ready to lay his head under the sword, and let the prince live with his daughter; and so it happened; P. cuts off the king's head, impales it on the twentieth stake; YK asks P. to invite his parents to the wedding; P. goes home, on the way he sees a crown lying with the letters Y and K on it; he asks the horse whether he should take it or not; the horse: if you take it, you will regret it, and if you don't take it, you will regret it; P. picked up the crown; in a foreign capital, the horse says that he needs rest; Let P. go to the king's service; one of the servants sees a golden crown, reports it to the king, who recognizes the crown of Princess YK, asks how P. got the jewel; P.: found it; the king orders YK to be brought to him; if P. is lying, he will cut off his head; the horse promises to quickly bring P. back to YK, but they must be careful: she will meet them with a whip, she must be quickly pulled towards him; P. grabs YK, puts her on the horse in front of him, hands her to the king; YK to the king: I will become his wife if the king bathes in the milk of wild mares; P can bring it; orders to ask the king for resin, flax, three buffalo skins and three garnets of oats; smear the horse's back with resin, then flax, then resin again, then buffalo skins so that they hang down; They go to the mares' cave, the horse neighs, a stallion runs out of the herd and starts fighting with the horse; he rips off three buffalo skins in succession, but loses his strength; after that, on the horse's advice, P. ties the stallion to him, followed by all the mares, to whom P. sprinkles barley; when the king asks who should milk them, YK answers that the one who brought them; she wants to ruin P. for handing her over to the king; the king orders P. to milk the mares; P.'s horse blows into one nostril, the whole yard turns into a swamp, the mares get stuck up to their bellies; blows into the other, the mares freeze into the ice, P. milks them; the horse blows again, the swamp thaws and dries up; P. releases the stallion and his herd back into the desert; boils the milk; JK: let the one who got the mares be the first to bathe; horse: ask permission for me to remain nearby; it blows, the milk is barely warm; P. comes out, JK calls the king to bathe, and she will be the last; the horse blows on the milk, turning it into boiling water, the king is boiled; P. and JK make peace; the people make P. king, the happy couple rules two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that he will remain strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, No. 17: 184-193.that he himself is ready to lay his head under the sword, and let the prince live with his daughter; and so it happened; P. cuts off the king's head, impales it on the twentieth stake; YK asks P. to invite his parents to the wedding; P. goes home, on the way he sees a crown lying with the letters Y and K on it; asks the horse whether he should take it or not; horse: if you take it, you will regret it, and if you don't take it, you will regret it; P. picked up the crown; in a foreign capital, the horse says that he needs rest; let P. go to serve the king; one of the servants sees a golden crown, reports to the king, who recognizes the crown of Princess YK, asks how P. got the jewel; P.: found it; the king orders YK to be brought to him; if P. is lying, he will cut off his head; the horse promises to quickly bring P. back to YK, but one must be careful: she will meet them with a whip, she must be quickly pulled towards oneself; P. grabs YK, puts him on his horse in front of him, hands him to the king; YK to the king: I will become his wife if the king bathes in the milk of wild mares; P can bring it; orders to ask the king for resin, flax, three buffalo skins and three garnets of oats; smear the horse's back with resin, then flax, then resin again, then buffalo skins so that they hang down; they ride to the mares' cave, the horse neighs, a stallion runs out of the herd, begins to fight with the horse; he successively tears off three buffalo skins, but loses strength; after this, on the horse's advice, P. ties the stallion to him, all the mares follow him, to whom P. sprinkles barley; to the king's question who should milk them, YK answers that the one who brought them; She wants to destroy P. for handing her over to the king; the king orders P. to milk the mares; P.'s horse blows into one nostril, the whole yard turns into a swamp, the mares get stuck up to their bellies; blows into the other, the mares freeze into the ice, P. milks them; the horse blows again, the swamp thaws and dries up; P. releases the stallion and his herd back into the desert; boils the milk; YK: let the one who got the mares be the first to bathe; horse: ask permission for me to be nearby; blows, the milk is barely warm; P. comes out, YK calls the king to bathe, and she will be the last; the horse blows on the milk, turning it into boiling water, the king is boiled; P. and YK make peace; the people make P. king, the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that it remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.that he himself is ready to lay his head under the sword, and let the prince live with his daughter; and so it happened; P. cuts off the king's head, impales it on the twentieth stake; YK asks P. to invite his parents to the wedding; P. goes home, on the way he sees a crown lying with the letters Y and K on it; asks the horse whether he should take it or not; horse: if you take it, you will regret it, and if you don't take it, you will regret it; P. picked up the crown; in a foreign capital, the horse says that he needs rest; let P. go to serve the king; one of the servants sees a golden crown, reports to the king, who recognizes the crown of Princess YK, asks how P. got the jewel; P.: found it; the king orders YK to be brought to him; if P. is lying, he will cut off his head; the horse promises to quickly bring P. back to YK, but one must be careful: she will meet them with a whip, she must be quickly pulled towards oneself; P. grabs YK, puts him on his horse in front of him, hands him to the king; YK to the king: I will become his wife if the king bathes in the milk of wild mares; P can bring it; orders to ask the king for resin, flax, three buffalo skins and three garnets of oats; smear the horse's back with resin, then flax, then resin again, then buffalo skins so that they hang down; they ride to the mares' cave, the horse neighs, a stallion runs out of the herd, begins to fight with the horse; he successively tears off three buffalo skins, but loses strength; after this, on the horse's advice, P. ties the stallion to him, all the mares follow him, to whom P. sprinkles barley; to the king's question who should milk them, YK answers that the one who brought them; She wants to destroy P. for handing her over to the king; the king orders P. to milk the mares; P.'s horse blows into one nostril, the whole yard turns into a swamp, the mares get stuck up to their bellies; blows into the other, the mares freeze into the ice, P. milks them; the horse blows again, the swamp thaws and dries up; P. releases the stallion and his herd back into the desert; boils the milk; YK: let the one who got the mares be the first to bathe; horse: ask permission for me to be nearby; blows, the milk is barely warm; P. comes out, YK calls the king to bathe, and she will be the last; the horse blows on the milk, turning it into boiling water, the king is boiled; P. and YK make peace; the people make P. king, the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that it remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.back to YK, but one must be careful: she will meet them with a whip, one must quickly pull her towards oneself; P. grabs YK, puts her on the horse in front of him, hands her to the king; YK to the king: I will become his wife if the king bathes in the milk of wild mares; P can bring it; orders to ask the king for resin, flax, three buffalo skins and three garnets of oats; smear the horse's back with resin, then flax, then resin again, then buffalo skins so that they hang down; they ride into the mares' cave, the horse neighs, a stallion runs out of the herd, begins to fight with the horse; successively tears off three buffalo skins, but loses strength; after this, on the advice of the horse, P. ties the stallion to him, all the mares follow him, to whom P. sprinkles barley; to the king's question who should milk them, YK answers, the one who brought them; she wants to ruin P. for handing her over to the king; the king orders P. to milk the mares; P.'s horse blows into one nostril, the whole yard turns into a swamp, the mares get stuck up to their bellies; blows into the other, the mares freeze into the ice, P. milks them; the horse blows again, the swamp thaws and dries up; P. releases the stallion and his herd back into the desert; boils the milk; YK: let the one who got the mares be the first to bathe; horse: ask permission for me to be nearby; blows, the milk is barely warm; P. went out, YK calls the king to bathe, and she will be the last; the horse blows on the milk, turning it into boiling water, the king is boiled; P. and YK make peace; the people make P. king, the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that he remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.back to YK, but one must be careful: she will meet them with a whip, one must quickly pull her towards oneself; P. grabs YK, puts her on the horse in front of him, hands her to the king; YK to the king: I will become his wife if the king bathes in the milk of wild mares; P can bring it; orders to ask the king for resin, flax, three buffalo skins and three garnets of oats; smear the horse's back with resin, then flax, then resin again, then buffalo skins so that they hang down; they ride into the mares' cave, the horse neighs, a stallion runs out of the herd, begins to fight with the horse; successively tears off three buffalo skins, but loses strength; after this, on the advice of the horse, P. ties the stallion to him, all the mares follow him, to whom P. sprinkles barley; to the king's question who should milk them, YK answers, the one who brought them; she wants to ruin P. for handing her over to the king; the king orders P. to milk the mares; P.'s horse blows into one nostril, the whole yard turns into a swamp, the mares get stuck up to their bellies; blows into the other, the mares freeze into the ice, P. milks them; the horse blows again, the swamp thaws and dries up; P. releases the stallion and his herd back into the desert; boils the milk; YK: let the one who got the mares be the first to bathe; horse: ask permission for me to be nearby; blows, the milk is barely warm; P. went out, YK calls the king to bathe, and she will be the last; the horse blows on the milk, turning it into boiling water, the king is boiled; P. and YK make peace; the people make P. king, the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that he remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that he remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.the happy couple rule two kingdoms, P.'s father is happy; P. leaves the horse three fires and three cauldrons of boiling wine every year so that he remains strong]: Schott, Schott 1845, no. 17: 184-193.

Central Europe. Slovaks [the king tells his three sons to see the world; the eldest reaches the copper forest in a year, brings a branch; the father says that he and his wife got there by morning; the middle one reaches the silver forest in two years, the father got there by noon; the youngest only digs in the ashes; an inconspicuous little horse on a dung heap tells him to take it, to take a rusty sword; the brothers laugh, the father knows that the choice is correct; the youngest feeds the little horse with grain and fire, it turns into a heroic horse, carries it through the copper, silver, gold forest to the friend of the father-king, they fought together with the witch; the youth's sword itself chops off the heads of the witch's warriors, but the heads grow back; when it kills the witch, all the warriors die; the triumphant youth returns to his father; he says that his friend's three daughters were kidnapped by the witch's three dragon sons; they have 4, 8, 12 heads; the young man drives each one into the ground up to the shoulders, the sword cuts off the heads; upon returning, the young man learns from his father that the Iron Monk has kidnapped the youngest of the freed girls; the horse says that the Iron Monk is the strongest in the world; in the Iron Monk’s house, the young man turns into a grain of wheat; the Iron Monk tells the rooster to swallow him; the wife makes him say with caresses how to return the transformed one to his former form (to place him between two swords hanging on the wall; she cuts the rooster, takes out the grain, puts it between the swords), what the Iron Monk’s power is (once every seven years, exactly today, a golden duck flies in, you have to take an egg out of it, swallow it, and you will become the strongest of all); the young man swallows the egg, the Iron Monk appears, he turns him into a boar; he returns with his wife to his father, inherits the throne]: Nĕmcová 1970: 164-185; Slovaks [King Lamrovic sent his sons into the world {apparently, to a place where he himself had never reached}; the two eldest reached only the iron gates; the youngest Janko gives money to an old woman; she advises him to ask his father for his sword and horse; on the way Janko killed two giants, reached the Lead Franciscan (SF); he turned him into a lead pillar and returned him to human form when Janko promised to serve him; he must herd three princesses, who are turned into mares; they advise him to promise the SF to get him a wife; Janko got a Turkish princess; she asks the SF what his strength is; he first answers that it is in the table {which the princess apparently decorates}; then in the camel, which is in the room with 9 locks; in the camel there is a duck, in the duck there is an egg; he defeated the SF; the princess gave him a ring, a tent and an egg; he married her and gave the other two to his brothers]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 256: 181-182; Russian(Arkhangelskaya, Ust-Tsilma, Nizovaya Pechora) [the tsar has sons Vasily, Fyodor and the youngest good-for-nothing Ivan; the tsar orders to ride across an open field, to get the wondrous miracle, to trample his father's tracks; V. reaches an oak tree, covered to the very top with human bones, returns; the tsar: not even half the miracle is there, the same F.; I. meets a backwoods grandmother, answers her rudely twice, on the third time he finds her himself and bows; the grandmother orders to find his father's horse, it is buried and chained in the cellar under an iron plate; I. beats him, the horse promises to serve faithfully; I. reaches a hut about a chicken leg, about one window; the grandmother is there, she remembers I.'s father; she calls the wolves; he orders the one who is the greatest and the smallest to take I. to his sister, and keeps his horse; the same thing happens with his sister, she calls the bears, orders the bear to take I. to her other sister; she calls the lions; gives her horse and the magic tablecloth, and the wolf, the bear and the lion run after her; they reach a river; from the other bank a maiden shouts that she will take her across if I. lets them cut off her arm and leg at an angle; I. agrees, takes her across, and on the other bank the wolf kills her and leaves, for his service is fulfilled; the same on two more rivers (the bear and the lion killed the maidens; the third demanded to be allowed to cut off her head); I. took out the magic tablecloth; the Pole offers to exchange it for a crutch, in which the soldiers are; I. exchanges, and then orders the soldiers to beat the Pole and return the tablecloth; the same with another Pole (rejuvenating apples and a reviving whip); with the third (a box with a city and a kingdom in it); further on a locked city, strings with bells are stretched, a horse jumped over; a naked woodpecker maiden sleeps on the bed; I. made love to her; jumping back, the horse touched the string; the maiden prepared a pursuit; the old woman replies that no one has passed by, calls him to the bathhouse so that I. could have time to gallop away; the same with the second old woman; then I. leaves a board with an inscription: the whore maiden has long hair, but a short mind: the wind can find him in the field; the maiden reads, stops the pursuit; I. opened the box near his father's city; the father sent an army, I. defeated it; then he revealed himself to his parents, revived the dead, rejuvenated the mother and father; the woodpecker maiden sailed with two twin sons; V. came out to her, she orders her sons to whip him on the ass; the same F.; I. came out, a wedding; they left for her maiden kingdom; “When they ordered the wedding, they spread out red, green, blue cloths, and behind them came the naked tavern workers, cut these cloths and carried them to the tavern”]: Onchukov 2008, No. 3: 77-84; Russian(Olonets, Zaonezhye, Sennogubsky Pogost) [the tsar's sons Fyodor, Dmitry and the youngest Ivan; the tsar is at a feast: who could pick my flowers and look for my tracks? F. rode; there is an inscription on a post: whoever goes to the right - he himself is full, but his horse is hungry; whoever goes to the left - his horse is full, but he himself is hungry; whoever takes the middle road - his head on the chopping block; F. rode to the right; he reached Copper Mountain, brought from there a copper reptile; the tsar is angry; D. rode; to the left from the fork; he arrived at the palace, a woman receives him, puts him to bed, he falls into the dungeon; I. rode; in the field he tore the skin off his horse: here is your dinner, magpies and crows; he whistled: the horse is running, the earth is shaking, flames are spitting from his mouth, sparks are pouring from his nostrils, fumes and smoke are pouring from his ears; I. reached the little house turning on a spindle heel, ordered them to stand with the porch facing him; in the house an old woman was cooking with her nose in the stove, herding geese in the field with her eyes, spinning silk with her hands; in the morning she sent him to her elder sister; the same thing happened there; the old woman let him ride her horse to the eldest sister herself; she sent him to the queen Marya-Krasa (=Tsar-Maiden); in her garden there was an apple tree of youth, living and dead water; I. ​​arrived, M. was sleeping, his body was visible through his shirt, and through his brain; he made love to her; collected water and apples; was riding back; M. was chasing; each of the old women was trying to detain her; I. ​​arrived to the maiden who had thrown D. into the dungeon, threw her down herself, the captives tore her apart; while I. slept, D. took the water and apples and left; M. arrived with an army, demanding the one who was with her; sent by F.; M. orders the twins born to her to cut three buckles from his thigh, three belts from his back; the same with D.; I. was found in the tavern; M. greets him, a wedding; they leave with M. for the sunflower kingdom]: Azadovsky 1947, No. 6: 56-67.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [the padishah went blind; a handful of earth from where no horse's hooves have gone before will cure him; the eldest son reached the milk spring in half a year and took some earth; padishah: I reached there before dawn and had breakfast; the middle son - to the honey spring; father: I got there by lunchtime; the youngest son, Matyuv the simpleton, did not receive a blessing and went himself; secretly led his father's duldul out of the cave and fattened him up; by morning he reached Sut-chashme, by noon - Bal-chashme; when they reached the place where the father lost his sight, the duldul ordered them to take earth here, but to beware of the flying makhlyuk; the makhlyuk began to pour boiling water on the youth, the duldul cooled him down; the youth grabbed him by the legs; the makhlyuk turned into a girl: I was waiting for you; They flew to the underworld and began to live in a palace there; one day M. found a sparkling feather at the bottom of the sea; the horse does not allow him to take it; the girl: it belongs to the girl Pamuk, she will separate us; the girl began to waste away; they decided to go to another place; at night the vizier of the underground padishah saw the glowing feather; M. gave him the feather; he brought it to the padishah, said that whoever found the feather would be able to get a bird, it can talk; duldul orders to slaughter the horse and climb into the belly; the bird came down to peck, M. grabbed it by the legs, duldul helped to catch it; but the bird does not talk; the vizier: will speak in the presence of its mistress Pamuk; the padishah sends M. to get it; those who tried to approach it were burned alive; but P. fell in love with M. and went with him; conveyed through the vizier that she was ready to marry the padishah if he became 25 years old; vizier: let M. go for a rejuvenating remedy; {two pages missing}; M. came out of the cauldron rejuvenated, the padishah was boiled; they arrived at the lands of M.'s father; he had already died, bequeathing the throne to M.]: Emirsuinova et al. 2013: 63-81; Kalmyks: Basangova 2002: 98-104 [near Arji-Burji, the horse of Aavin Aksak Ulana, a man with one eye in his forehead stole it, from grief AB went blind; will recover if the son sees the land that he saw; the eldest, the middle one quickly return; the lama teaches the youngest what to take with him (three lumps of cottage cheese from mother's milk, three pairs of shoes, three iron rods), how to cross the sea (cool a stone-butt on the shore, the sea will be covered with ice), behind which in the middle hole is the stolen horse, the thief must be hit with an iron rod, lumps of cottage cheese must be thrown into his mouth; having received the horse, the young man jumps back across the sea on it, on the way he gets the daughter of the Water Khan; she feeds only on the milk of black-bald mares, the horse lures a herd of them out of the sea, behind them is a golden palace and a well; the horse helps to catch the golden bird Toodyg (bustard); the khan regains his sight, the youngest son marries], 146-150 [the old man says that he will be cured if he reaches a country where no man has set foot, to bring a thing that no one has seen; the eldest, the middle one quickly return; the youngest saw a snake that swallowed a ram, but the horns got stuck; the young man pulled out the ram, saddled the snake, it became the khan; his daughter orders to ask for the horse Hamar-Khara as a reward, the black stone, in which the horse's strength is, and herself; the young man rides to XX, contrary to XX's advice, picks up the wings of the most beautiful bird; he comes to another khan; whoever wins at chess will kill the other; the young man wins three times, spares the khan; he offers to get the most beautiful girl; the young man brings her, the khan sends for horses from the kingdom of the water hads; the horse orders to smear him with sealing wax, rolls on the sand, becomes as if made of flint, defeats the water stallion, the young man catches him, other horses follow him; the woman demands that the groom bathe in boiling milk; the young man bathes, becomes a handsome man, the khan is boiled; the young man and his wife come to his father, the wife opens the chest, a palace appears; the young man is elected khan]; Vatagin 1964 [Khan Badamji left a chestnut horse named Salar on the other side of the ocean for the safekeeping of the shulmus; after this he went blind; says that he will see again if his sons bring something he has never seen; B. knows that this can only be found if you ride his horse; the eldest and middle sons returned empty-handed; the youngest Bemba met an old man, who orders B. to make a drink from his mother's milk and mix flatbread with it; if you give them to a shulmus, he will give you a horse; when B. gallops away on horseback, the shulmuses pursue, B. throws them food and drink, they fall behind; disguised as a poor shepherd, B. hires himself out to the khan; he orders the khan-maiden to be brought from overseas; the horse teaches him not to look back when B. leads the maiden; B. is about to look back, the horse manages to hit him; the next time B. takes the maiden away; she refuses to marry the khan - he is black-boned; in order for the khan to become white-boned, he must bathe in the hot milk of sea mares; the horse rolls in the sand, grapples with a sea stallion, the latter cannot bite through his skin under the stuck sand; first B. jumped into the milk, became a beauty; the khan was boiled; B. and his wife came to his father; he says that he has seen the light]:167-174;Adyghe (Shapsugs) [Nogai went blind; sends his three sons for a piece of land from a place where his horse's hooves have never stepped, then he will regain his sight; the eldest and middle sons soon return; the youngest finds a golden feather; Pshi adopts him, gives him seven pelyuans as workers; they ask a sorcerer to help them destroy him; he advises to tell Pshi that the young man bragged about completing difficult tasks; the horse helps to complete everything; 1) get a bird with golden feathers (lures with millet, catches); 2) get two lion cubs; 3) a wild boar; 4) the beauty Gegulez; the horse asks to smear him with resin and sand, defeats the guard horse, he helps, orders a hundred dogs to throw ram carcasses, a hundred eagles skins, to prevent G. from removing the whip, with which she turns into stone; the young man revives those who had been petrified with this whip; G. promises to take pshi if he dives into boiling milk, the pshi and seven pelyuans are boiled; the young man's father reports that he pretended to be blind so that his son could get G.]: Khut 1987: 235-248; Ossetians[in old age, Aslan decides to test his sons; the eldest and middle ones return from distant, dangerous places, but A. says that he got there in a day; the youngest, Kaurbek, gets a horse and heroic weapons from under a burial mound; meets his father's brother, who fought with the army of Donbettyr's daughter; K. wounds her, kills the horse, makes belts from its skin, and goes down to the sea; the old woman teaches her to change vessels with living and dead water; K. defeats D.'s daughter, gives her to her uncle, revives the horse with living water; takes out the sword stuck in his grandfather's skull; he teaches him to hit the khan with it, and not to strike a second time; K. kills the khan, takes his daughter; there is eternal night in the khan's country; K. comes to the sea, across it there is a whale-bridge; K. crosses it to the house of the Sun; his mother hides K., asks her son-Sun questions so that K. can overhear the answers; the Sun does not illuminate the khan's domain, because he tried to kidnap his daughter; the whale lies like a bridge, because it swallowed the ships; K. goes back, tells the whale the answer, he releases the ships, frees himself; K. takes the daughter of the Sun away, the light spreads throughout the khan's domain; the Sun sends fire-breathing man-eating mares with steel jaws to the kidnapper of his daughter, K.'s horse destroys them; the daughter of the Sun insidiously tells K. to milk the remaining mares, bathe in boiling milk; the horse advises K. not to throw herself into boiling water, but to walk along the crossbar on which the cauldron hangs; the daughter of the Sun believes, bathes herself, comes out unharmed, the darkness over the earth dissipates; Zaliag-kalm in the sea (!) does not give water for drinking, demands a boy and a girl per month; K. kills him, the blood colors the sea yellow, now the sea is called "Yellow"; the elder brothers kill the sleeping K. and his horse; the daughter of the Sun sends the daughter of Donbettyr to revive K. with living water; K. forgives the brothers, gives one the daughter of Donbettyr, another the daughter of the khan, washes his father with living water, he becomes younger; K. decides to get Khadija as a wife for him; he defeats the warrior with difficulty; the hawk reports that this is Kh., she will lose her heroic strength if she is kissed; K. kisses, brings Kh. as a wife to the father of sons; the eldest, the middle one return from distant, dangerous places, but A.]: Byazirov 1971, No. 15: 156-173; Karachays[a blind khan sends his three sons to fetch land where he himself has never set foot - that land will restore his sight; the two eldest sons soon return; the shepherd gives the youngest Aslan his horse; a diamond hen is on the road; the horse allows him to take it in order to give it to the owner of the house where they will stop; A. gave her to the khan; the khan will give his daughter to the one who can hit a thimble with a gun; A. hits the target; envious people suggest testing the groom; 1) bring a diamond rooster; the horse orders to fill a hundred cartloads of millet, the birds will flock, the diamond rooster is their king; A. brought the rooster; 2) an aurochs with diamond wool, golden horns and silver hooves; the horse drove the aurochs; 3) a golden horse with diamond hooves from the bottom of the sea; horse: we must fill a mountain of sand on the shore, bring a hundred cartloads of resin; the horse rolled in sand and resin, defeated the sea horse, taught the girl to defeat him; she went down with A. to the bottom of the sea, hid all the riches in a thimble, A. returned with her, with the horses, with the riches of the sea; the girl took the palaces, etc. out of the thimble; the khan decided to take possession of A.'s wife; he wanted to poison her, throw her into a pit, the sea queen sent a dog, but she did not allow it; the khan put his son to sleep with a potion and chained him; A. broke the chains; said that he could only be defeated by plucking a hair from his mustache; the father pulled it out, chained A. again, threw him into the abyss; grass: eat me and you will get well; A. returned, saw how the horse, his wife and the sea queen were fighting off the army of the khan-father in the palace; the horse killed the khan]: Rumyantseva 1981: 44-55; Terek Cossacks (Naur, Terek region) [the tsar goes blind, sends his sons to bring earth from the country where he has been, from which he will regain his sight; the eldest, middle son bring earth where it is covered with gold, where a tree exudes milk and water; the tsar says that he has been further; the youngest chooses a starved gelding, arrives at the right place; on the way back he picks up a golden feather; stops at the sultan's; wanting to take possession of the feather, the vizier suggests 1) sending the prince for a mermaid; at the bottom (all on the advice of the horse) the prince gives meat to the wolf, in front of whom there was hay; to the ram instead of meat - hay; they let into the palace; anoints 90 doors with oil; the queen orders the doors, the wolf, the ram to detain the prince, they refuse; the prince brings her to the sultan; 2) get the bird whose feather was golden; the horse orders to scatter the cereals, replace the water in the lake with wine, hide in the carcass of a camel, leave the other for the birds; the prince grabs the drunken king-bird pecking at the meat; 3) the milk of the goat of the sea king; at the bottom of the sea the horse fights with the goat, wins (the horse is protected from the goat's bites by camel skins); 4) bathe in the milk of the sea goat (it is boiling); the horse vomited water into the cauldron, cooling it; the sultan began to bathe - boiled; the prince puts the vizier in prison, marries the sea queen, cures his father of blindness]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 1: 66-74; Kumyks[a blind rich man sends his three sons to a place he has never been in his life to bring leaves that cure blindness; the two eldest return from places where their father has been; the youngest, Shamshud, comes to the palace, eats, hides; three turtledoves turn into girls, make him their brother; their deva brothers agree to help, take him to relatives, some to others, others to others; the devas direct him inside the mountain where azhdaha sleeps; Sh.nava directs him inside the mountain where azhdaha sleeps; Sh.retyatombyl to bring leaves that cure blindness; takes the leaves, kisses the sleeping beauty, puts a ring on her, heals his father at home; a beauty flies to Sh. on an azhdah, becomes his wife]: Bagriy 1930(2): 38 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 39: 84-88); Avars [the king regains his sight from the fruits from the shah-maiden's garden; the eldest and middle brothers do not listen to the old man's advice and are rude to him, the eldest reaches only the milk river, the middle one - to the oil river; the father replies that he has been there; the youngest greets the old man, who advises, having passed the honey river, to open the gates of the shah-maiden's castle with a stick with an iron end, to put on grass shoes, to pick fruits with a stick; the gates cry out that iron is beating them, the grass - that grass is crushing it, the fruits - that a tree is tearing them; the shah-maiden sleeps, the young man tasted the food and drink, put a ring on the maiden's finger, returned with fruits; the shah-maiden comes for him; does not believe the eldest, middle brothers that they picked the fruits; takes the youngest as a husband, makes his father healthy]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965: 288-294 (=Atayev 1972, no. 82: 121-124, =Kapieva 1974: 47-53, =Dirr 1920, no. 14: 80-85); Lezgins [=Ganieva 2011b, no. 18: 214-219; Jahan Shah sees a girl coming out of the sea, cannot catch her, goes blind; orders to get clay from a place where the hooves of his horse have not stepped, then he will regain his sight; the eldest, middle son soon return; the horse of the youngest carries him across the sea; On the way he grabs a pearl, the vizier notices its shine, suggests to the king to order the youth to get a second one (the horse gets it), to get their mistress; the youth catches the sea maiden, she teaches him to pour mare's milk on the khan's back, he turns into a dog; the youth becomes king, takes the sea maiden as a wife, brings clay to his father, he regains his sight; decides to kill his son in order to take his wife; they flee, the boatman takes the girl across the sea, she falls into the hands of robbers, puts them to sleep; puts on men's clothing; a bird sits on her head, the imaginary youth is elected king; the girl orders everyone to show her portrait, to bring those who recognize her; they bring Jahan Shah, his son, the robbers, the boatman; she releases the robbers and the boatman, gives the kingdom to her husband, puts D. on a mangy donkey, lets him go; and I was at that wedding and drank booze, but nothing got into my mouth, and I just wet my moustache]: Khalilov 1965, No. 40: 88-93; Armenians[=Khachatryants 1933: 217-228; the king has gone blind, he will be healed by a handful of earth from where the foot of his horse has never stepped; the eldest brings apples ripened on a tree that was dry the day before, the king replies that he went there to have lunch; the middle one brings treasures from the hill of precious stones (the king has been there too); the youngest hears in a dream an order to ask his father for his horse, sword, ring; the horse warns him not to pick up the golden feather; he picks it up, gives it to a strange king, who orders him to bring the whole bird; the horse brings it to where the feather bird flies to bathe, teaches him to catch it when it sheds its feathers; she explains to the king that she is a maiden, asks him to rescue her servant from the Red Dev; the king sends the prince; he parts the waters of the sea with his father's saber made of lightning, crosses it, kills the Dev, brings the girl; the bird tells the king to bring 40 mares from the Red Sea, to bathe in their milk, he sends the prince; the horse explains that the 39 mares are his mother and sisters, he is the 40th in the family, teaches how to tame the mother, the others follow her; teaches how to milk milk, put a ring in it, bathe, take out the ring; the king also bathes, gets boiled; the prince reigns in his place, marries the feather bird; she explains that his father went blind because he tried to catch her; the prince with his wife and mares come to his father, the wife anoints his eyes with her blood, he regains his sight, passes the throne to his son]: Harutyunyan 1986: 20-28; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 20 [the padishah went blind; dervish: the cure for your eyes is earth from where no foot of your horse has ever stepped; the eldest son brings earth from a hill beyond the seven mountains; the padishah: I hunted partridges there; the middle one - from the bottom of the abyss beyond the seven mountains (I went there to hunt ducks); the youngest; the youngest fattens the foal with barley and raisins; rides at night, sees the light, raises a shining wing; the horse: it will bring misfortune; the shahzade stayed with an old woman, he uses the wing instead of a lamp; the local padishah forbade lighting a fire; the servants came to the shahzade; he gladly gives the wing to the padishah; he orders to get the bird itself; this is the padishah of birds; one must hide in the remains of a mule; seize the padishah of birds when he arrives to peck at the carrion; The shahzade brings a bird; the vizier advises the padishah to order the youth to build a palace of ivory; the horse: we must pour raki into the pond, the elephants will get drunk; the shahzade brought tusks, built a palace; the vizier advises to send him for the Most Beautiful Woman in the World; the horse taught him to sneak up on her from behind and beat her with pink twigs; this maiden demands that the padishah bring her mares, bathe in their milk and then become younger; the horse teaches him to cover him with the skins of 40 buffaloes; at the seashore he will wrestle with a sea stallion and it will not gnaw through the last skin; he will take the mares to the island, we must take a red-bay and a dark bay; the girl began to wash the padishah with the milk of a dark bay mare and only a skeleton remained of him; began to wash the shahzade with milk of a red-bay horse, he gained eternal youth; the shahzade brought earth, his father regained his sight; they achieved their desires]: 62-69; Walker, Uysal 1966, #1 [the blind padishah will regain his sight if earth is taken from somewhere he has never been; the eldest, middle sons gallop for three, six months, return; the youngest Kerloglan ("bald") threatens his mother that he will kill her; she gives him a bridle to call his father's horse from the bottom of a reservoir; on it K. comes to one, then to a second old woman, woos their daughters for the eldest, middle brother; the first old woman: the earth untrodden by the father is under the head of a lying monster; the horse: the monster can burn everything down, the father is blinded by its fire; the Monster promises to give earth for the girl Khodja-Kyz; having seen her, K. goes blind; she heals him, but his eyes become dark, without whites; HK promises to go with K. if he brings a mare with six foals living in the river; these are K.'s horse's brothers; the horse rushes into the river; if red foam floats up, it means he is dead; a white one floats up; the mare comes out, followed by the foals; HK recognizes K.'s strength, the monster gives land, leaves HK to the young man, K.'s father immediately regains his sight; HK gives K. two nuts, inside one a dress, the other a golden tray with moving figures; gives a ring, teaches what to do; the brothers put K. on a carpet over a hole, he falls through, they take the girls; K. licks the ring, a white and a black ram appear, K. tries to jump on the white one, the black one carries him to the seventh lower world; the old woman only has bad water, the seven-headed giant took the good one, gives it in exchange for the girls he devours; it's the king's daughter's turn; K. chops off six heads,the giant dies; if the seventh was cut off, he would come back to life; the princess's hands are covered in the giant's blood, she puts them on K.'s back, and that is how they discovered that he is the hero; K. kills the snake that was devouring the chicks of the bird Anka; she agrees to deliver him to the ground; the prepared 40 kg of meat and water run out, K. cuts off a piece of flesh from the caviar; on the ground, Anka puts it back; K. hires himself out to a tailor, then to a jeweler; they bring the dress and tray that HK demanded as a condition of marriage; HK knows that K. has returned; a tournament (jirit) is held twice; at the first K. appears in black clothes, kills the eldest brother, at the second - in red, kills the middle one; HK tells the padishah about everything; the wedding of 40 days and nights]: 10-24.