K85E. Seahorses. .17.27.-.29.31.32.34.

Magic horses live in water.

Arameans, Ancient Greece, Transylvanian Saxons, Moldovans, Gagauz, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Poltava, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav), Kalmyks, Crimean Tatars, Adyghe, Ossetians, Karachays, Ingush, Chechens (Terek Cossacks [sea goat]), Avars, Dargins, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Norwegians, Livs, Udmurts, Komi, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Baikal Buryats, Mongols.

Western Asia. Arameans [a merchant gives his three daughters in marriage to three giants; falls ill; to recover, he needs dancing pears, singing apples, and a jumping quince; the three sons set out to get them, and leave their seals at a fork in the road; the youngest, Adibek, meets an old man; he teaches him to get a sea horse, and to cross the sea, the Black Country, and the Bitter River on it; there will be hay in front of the lion, and meat in front of the donkey, which must be exchanged; in the castle of the nightingale Bulbul-Khazar, there are talking apple trees, pears, and quince; there is also a beauty there, which must be kissed; A. returns with fruits, the beauty (and, obviously, with the nightingale); finds and ransoms his older brothers; they agree to let him put seals on them; A. climbs into the well for water, the brothers cut the rope, carry away the fruits (and the nightingale); A. climbs out of the well, visits his sisters with his wife; the sisters' first two husbands show the way to the third, who gives him an invincible fiery sword; the unrecognized A. conquers his father's kingdom; seeing him, the nightingale stops crying and starts singing again, the apples, pears, and quince begin to sing, dance, and jump; A. shows his seals on his brothers' thighs; agrees to pardon them]: Belov, Vilsker 1960: 287-294.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [hippocampi]. Posted by D.V. Panchenko, December 2022: Poseidon is normally associated with ordinary horses, and where there is a sea, they seem to gallop over the waves: Il. Il. XIII: “Poseidon stepped three times and on the fourth he reached the limit, // Aegae; there is Poseidon’s abode in the deep gulf, // A golden house, shining radiantly, eternally incorruptible. // There he, having flown, harnessed copper-legged horses to the chariot, // Stormily flying, with golden manes waving around. // 25 He himself was clothed in gold, a beautiful whip in his right hand // He took and mounted a bright chariot; // He drove the horses over the waves, and the horrors of the abyss began to play, // Whales jumped around from the depths, recognizing the ruler; // The sea spread out beneath him in joy, - and the proud horses // 30 Flew violently, not touching the swell with their bronze axles; // The swift-galloping horses raced toward the Achaean camp." In Aristophanes' Clouds, Pheidippides, the wayward son who raves about horse racing and through this plunged his father into unpayable debts, swears by Poseidon the Horseman, and his father replies that all their troubles are from this god (verses 83-85). In his same Horsemen, the chorus addresses "lord Poseidon the Horseman" (verse 551). Poseidon reveals a close connection with horse racing already in the Iliad (XXIII, 307 and 584). Poseidon gives Pelops an "unovertaken" chariot (Pindar. Olympus Odes I). Not named directly but clearly implied, Poseidon is the "horse god" in Euripides' Phoenician Women (p. 1707). An altar of Poseidon the Horse (or rather "Horse") in Attica is mentioned by Pausanias (Description of Hellas I, 30, 4); the Croats[7 brothers went to look for wives, so that they would be 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin horse, but this horse was magic; the old woman said that she had 7 daughters; the horse warned the youngest brother that she was a witch, that she was hiding the eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest does not sleep, changed the hats of the brothers and daughters of the old woman, put the bridles of the horses near the old woman's mares; at night the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the youngest tells the brothers to run; when he returned, he shouted to the old woman that she had killed her daughters; the old woman turned the poker into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads the youngest parted from the elders, who disliked him; the horse of the youngest tells him not to pay attention to what he sees or hears; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hairs, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man hired himself out as a groom to the king, works better than anyone else; the other grooms became envious, noticed the golden things, told the king; he ordered to bring the girl who has golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in a swamp, the witch will come running, at that time it is necessary to take the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her in marriage to his son; girl: first get three ducks, whose feathers are golden; the king sent the young man for the ducks; they spent the night again at the witch's, stole the ducks; the witch chases, the horse orders to throw down the currycomb, a dense forest arose; now the girl demands to get the horse, whose golden horseshoe; the young man orders the horse to put 8 buffalo skins on him; the sea stallion tore them off, but got tired, blue flame came from his mouth, and red flame came from the young man's horse; the sea mares followed the horse; the girl ordered them to be milked, the milk boiled, they filled a vat with it; let the groom bathe; the horse cooled the milk, the young man became a handsome man; the prince also threw himself into the milk, but it boiled, he died; the king adopted the young man in place of the deceased, gave him the golden-haired girl in marriage]: Schütz 1960, No. 16: 126-133; Transylvanian Saxons[a young man inherited a sword from his father; he went to look for work; an old man came towards him: he was blind in one eye and had poor vision in the other; he agreed to take him on to tend the sheep; he told him not to drive them into that forest - they had never returned from there alive; the young man was not afraid, he had a sword; a three-headed dragon: should he fight or wrestle? the young man: to fight; the dragon drove him into the ground up to his knees, but the young man cut off his heads; the next day, a 6-headed dragon, drove him into the ground up to his navel, but the young man cut off his heads; on the third day, a 9-headed one - up to his shoulders; the young man cut off the heads again and brought them, like the previous ones, to the old man's house, impaling them on fence stakes; on the fourth day, a 12-headed dragon; he drove him into the ground with his head; but the young man got out, cut off 11 heads; while he was chopping off the 12th, 11 grew back; only at sunset did the young man chop off all 12; On the fifth day the forest was quiet, but the mistress of the forest was visible; she led the young man into the house where the dead bodies of her four sons lay; the young man began to chop her with a sword and although he could not wound her, he knocked her to the ground; she begged him not to beat her anymore, pointed to a tree under which a toad was; she needed to hit the old man in the face with it, and he would regain his sight; the old man regained his sight, and the toad thanked her for no longer having to guard the treasures in the rock; the old man gave him his wise 8-legged horse; the young man galloped on it, picking up a copper, silver and gold feather along the way; he hired himself out to the king and he fell in love with him; the other servants were jealous; they told the king that the young man boasted of getting the birds from which the feathers came; the horse ordered them to ask the king for a cage for birds - copper, silver and gold; they galloped to the place, the horse ordered them to shout in all 4 directions: birds - here! The birds arrived with their king; he asks who knows about the copper, silver and gold birds; they are not in his kingdom; finally, three birds arrived from the edge of the world, these birds are there, as well as copper, silver and gold dragons; the king orders the three birds to show the way; the youth slew the dragons and caught the birds; now the envious people say that the youth can get the mermaid; the king promises half the kingdom for her and his sister as a wife; the horse orders to ask for white bread and wine; orders to leave them on the shore; the maiden will come out of the sea and begin to eat and drink; she must be seized after this, but before she touches the water with her foot again; the maiden will marry the king only on the condition that her stallion and the entire herd are delivered to her; the horse orders the youth to throw 12 buffalo skins with resin on him; when the horse defeats that stallion, a halter must be thrown on the stallion; the horse neighed, a fire-breathing stallion came out; he bit through 12 buffalo skins, after which he fell from fatigue; they galloped home and the herd caught up with them; but when they galloped into the city, the herd of mares entered there quietly; the maiden ordered to milk the mares, boil the milk and bathe in it; the horse blew out the cold, the mares' hooves froze to the ground, the youth milked them; the maiden: let the servant bathe first; the horse cooled the milk; the youth jumped out, the king jumped into the cauldron, the horse blew heat into it, the king was boiled; the maiden made the youth a husband, and the king's sister a servant; the horse: take all the horses and bring those treasures,who were under the tree; after this the horse disappeared (probably returned to the old man), and the maiden and her stallion and mares remained with the new king]: Haltrich 1882, no. 10: 9-10;Transylvanian Saxons [a wild woman (eine Wildfrau) took in a lost boy; he grew up and said he was going to look for the Rose Maiden (DR, Rosenmädchen); the woman warned him that a dragon was guarding her; gave him a bell: if you ring it, what you want will appear; met bees, asked the queen if she knew about DR; she called all the bees; the last one to arrive was lame: she had just come from DR; showed him the way; the young man got a job herding geese; DR goes to the city every evening for a ball; the young man rings his bell, a copper horse appears, the young man in copper clothes dances with DR, suddenly disappears; the same silver horse and clothes; golden; DR's mother advises her to smear resin on the young man's hair; the next morning DR notices resin on the goose herder's hair; both are happy; Having mounted copper, silver and gold horses, the youth, DR and her mother gallop away before the dragon wakes up; he sleeps for a year, the time has come; the dragon sleeps in a barrel, three hoops fall from it, he easily caught up with the fugitives, took the women, horses, etc.; let the youth go, saying that he would be able to kidnap DR only if he gets a horse from his (the dragon's) mother; the youth goes to her; along the way he releases a raven from a noose, a fox from a trap, throws a fish into the water; the dragon's mother agrees to give up the foal if the youth can graze her mare without loss; the mare immediately disappeared; raven: a mare is giving birth to a foal in the clouds, mount me, I'll take you there; in the evening the youth drove the mare and foal home; the next day the same; fox: a mare is giving birth in a mountain cave; on the third day the same; fish: gives birth to a foal on the seabed; as a reward the young man took the older foal; hearing the neighing, the dragon's stallion trampled it; the young man began to live with DR in his palace]: Haltrich 1882, No. 24: 23-24; Moldovans: Moldavian Tales 1968: 139-157 [a childless queen conceived from a tear of an icon; her son Fat-Frumos ("Born from a Tear"); he makes peace with his father's enemy; he pays tribute to the Lesovaya witch, every tenth baby; FF defeats her, she runs away chained; he follows her daughter Ileana orders to exchange the barrels with water and strength; FF kills her, takes her daughter as his wife; the king asks to defeat Lute, to bring him his daughter; FF takes her away; L. asks his horse if he should hurry with the pursuit, the horse says not very; the first time L. takes his daughter away, the second time he incinerates FF; St. Peter asks God to revive him; L.'s daughter turns FF into a flower, hides it, asks L. how to get the two-hearted horse; FF hears, comes to the old woman, who gives the task of grazing her herd, on the way helps a mosquito, a crayfish; mosquitoes drive the scattered horses, crayfish drive them out from under the water; a servant replaces the old woman's sleepy food with a good one; the old woman puts the hearts of mares into a skinny three-year-old, FF chooses him; gallops away on him with the servant; she orders to throw away the brush (the forest), the whetstone (the rock), the scarf (the lake), the witch-Midnight drowns; the servant disappears, FF takes away L.'s daughter on a seven-hearted horse; the two-hearted man throws L. into the sky; the tsar marries L.'s daughter, FF marries I.], 251-262 [a healer advises a childless woman to try food that is not at home; she wants bleak fish; the husband brings 21 fish, cooks fish soup, the wife gives birth to 21 sons; the husband goes off to live in the forest in horror; the wife raised her sons, they found their father, brought them back, and demanded that he find them 21 sisters to marry; Ilyana Kosynzyana has 21 daughters; the brothers are on their way to them, the youngest, Petra, did not have a horse, so he bought a magic one; this horse tells them to exchange clothes with the girls at night, and leave the horses ready behind the fence; at night, IK's broadsword cut off the heads of her daughters, the brothers returned to their father; along the way, P. picks up a golden feather, horseshoe, and scarf, and hires himself out to a boyar as a coachman; his daughter sees a shining feather, the boyar demands a bird; the horse: the bird is in IK's cage, don't touch the cage; P. brings the bird, the boyar demands a horse; the horse teaches them to take the one that eats hot coals, P. brings it; the boyar demands the owner of the scarf; the horse teaches them to drink strong water at IK's bed, and bring it along with the bed; IK demands that P. bring her herd of sea horses; the horse teaches him to smear it with resin and stick matting on it; the horse, emerging from the sea, bites the matting; P. bridled him, and the whole herd followed him; IK orders the mares to be milked and bathed in boiling milk; P.'s horse cools the milk; the boyar's horse does not cool it, and the boyar is boiled; P. marries IK]; the Gagauz[the master kept the worker for a long time, married him, then let him go to work; he left home, three sons grew up, one found his father, asked him to marry them; the eldest brother Ivan refused to marry; tells his brothers 1) not to linger on the way, 2) not to promise anyone anything, 3) to tell only the truth; the brothers went home with their wives, the devils surrounded them with a wall, asked them to give them I.; tied up I.; I. to the brothers: I told you not to linger and not to promise; but I will be saved; the eldest devil tells I. to run the household; one horse asks him to look after it, promises to help; I. finds a feather; the lame devil tells the chief that I. will be able to bring all the birds; the horse: I warned you that the feather would cause trouble; tells the lame man to be beaten, let him bring alcohol, peas and the table; the bird pecked the peas soaked in alcohol, got drunk, was caught, but sad; lame man: let I. bring the bird's nest, she will become cheerful; horse: let the lame man bring a knife and a needle and thread; slaughter me and climb inside; the king of birds will fly in to peck; seize him and demand living and dead water and the bird's nest; I. revived the horse with water, brought the nest to the chief devil; lame man: let I. find out why the sun turns red at sunset; the horse orders to put a table on the seashore, there is also a mirror and shoes; a girl came, looked in the mirror, put on the shoes, I. caught her; lame man: I. undertakes to bring this girl's herd; horse: let the lame man bring a cauldron, linen and resin; I. wrapped the horse in tarred linen, the sea stallion began to fight with him, but could not tear the linen; the sea horse was defeated, I. mounted him, a mare with 300 foals came out after him; lame: I. undertakes to milk the mares, boil the milk, bathe in it; I.'s mares cooled the milk, I. bathed, became a handsome man; the wife suggests that the chief devil also bathe; he boiled in hot milk, I. took his wife and horses, took the devils into captivity]: Moshkov 1904, No. 43: 66-67.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [an old man found 9 eggs in the forest, collected them in his mitten to take them on the way back, but there are no more eggs; the old woman is angry; the same 19 eggs; when 33, he carried them home, but they fell and broke, 33 young men appeared; the father has nothing to mow, they went to mow the king's protected meadows; the king took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone steals hay; only Ivan does not sleep; a golden-maned mare with 33 foals came out of the sea, Ivan saddled one foal; he teaches him to catch its mother (roll over it when the mare runs up to him and grab her); the night is bright from the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second 19, the third 33; Ivan's mare teaches him to go with the youngest, to whip her until she gives him a flint, a whip and a magic kerchief; mare: the old woman will put you to bed with the brides, put white hats on them, and black ones on you; you have to switch; a sword will roll up and chop off the heads under the black hats; after that you have to run; the old woman is chasing in a fiery chariot; Ivan waved his kerchief - a bridge; when the old woman is on the bridge, he waved again, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Ivan killed their brides out of envy, they rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became a groom for the tsar, the other grooms are jealous; they tell the tsar that Ivan ran to get him the princess; the mare brings her to the garden, throws in an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they gallop to the tsar; the princess demands that he first get the wedding dress; when the princess disappeared, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured people out of the cathedral, Ivan grabbed the dress and galloped away; the princess: to rejuvenate, you have to jump into a cauldron of milk, then boiling water, then cold water; the tsar: let Ivan be first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar was boiled; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 183-193; Russian(Voronezh) [An old man kills a bird with 21 eggs while hunting. An old woman orders him to hatch them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatch, and a week later the last son, Ivan the Chatterbox, appears. The old man grows rich, notices that someone is stealing from the stacks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and on the last night it is Ivan's turn. He prepares a hammer and an iron bit. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and her 21 foals (hits them between the ears with the hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, and Ivan gets the weakest. The father and his sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal out into the field to gain strength (it bends first under his hand, then under his foot, under a seated rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, on the third day he sees fire, finds a golden feather, despite the horse's warnings, takes it with him. The father orders all the horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves the feather - his horse becomes golden. The father praises Ivan, shames the other brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts of catching a playful cat, a dancing goose and a cymbal-playing fox, the father sends his youngest son to get the animals. With the help of the horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get a self-playing gusli. Ivan ends up with Baba Yaga, she gives him a ball of yarn, he leads her to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of the Serpent Gorynych, who keeps the gusli. The mother feeds her son, sits him down to play cards with Ivan, the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the gusli, the Serpent gives it, rejoices that he remains alive, not eaten. The father again, on the slander of the elder sons, orders Ivan to get Marya the princess. He sails on a ship, lures the princess to him by playing the gusli (never heard of it), and brings her to the father. The father then gives all the orders to his son at the request of the bride, demands to bring her casket. Ivan distracts the palace guards, releasing his golden horse, gets the casket and brings it. He gets 12 mares on the orders of his father: he wraps his horse in twine and pours resin on it - it drives the horses out of the sea, its protection is torn by the horses' teeth. On the orders of his father, he milks the mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the agreed signal from the horse. Ivan becomes a handsome man. Marya demands that her father also bathe, but he dies in the boiling milk. Ivan marries Marya]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17: 97-105; Russian(location of recording not specified) [an old man orders a childless couple to collect an egg from each yard, to plant it on a hen; 40 healthy boys are born, one is sickly; his name is Zamoryshek (Afterlife); the brothers mow hay, collect it in stacks, one stack is lost; Z. orders the blacksmith to forge a chain, catches and tames a thief - a sea mare, she gives her foals, the brothers leave to look for brides; Baba Yaga alone has 41 daughters; Z.'s horse orders them to change places with their wives at night; Baba Yaga's servants chop off the heads of her daughters; the brothers impale the heads on stakes and leave; Baba Yaga shoots with a fiery shield; Z. throws a scarf across the sea, it turns into a bridge, the brothers are saved]: Afanasyev 1958(1), No. 105: 166-168, 482 [variation: Z. throws a brush (mountain), comb (forest), towel (river)]; Ukrainians (Poltava, Pereyaslavsky u., Ivankov village) [an old woman tells her grandfather to go to the grove and bring what he finds, he brings 20 kachin eggs{?} and one tea (chayachye?); the woman hatched them, boys were born; they grew up; they went to prepare hay; they swept up a haystack, returned; the "tea" (hereinafter Ch.) went to guard - the haystack was swept away; the brothers do not want to go; he saw sea horses: a mare with foals; he jumped on the mare, brought the herd to the brothers; the tsar found out that they had horses, sent them to war; The brothers gave Ch. the most inconspicuous little horse; two devils fight over an invisibility cap and a wish-fulfilling ring; he took the ring, wished for the best horse and the best clothes; he caught up with the brothers; they came to the hut; the old woman puts them to bed with her 21 daughters for the night; Ch. orders that when they fall asleep, they exchange clothes; (p. 38 is missing); the tsar orders that the self-made gusli be obtained; the horse brought it to Baba Yaga; Ch. took the gusli, but Baba Yaga locked him behind 12 iron doors, and she herself went to consult on how to execute Ch.; he broke down the doors and brought the gusli; the tsar demands that Nastya-Samokrastia be retrieved from the sea; the horse orders that 25 shoes be asked of the tsar, one of which is gold; on the shore Ch. opened the chest; NS came out, saw the golden bamshmak, started looking for the second one; Ch. came up from behind, shoved her into the chest and brought it to the tsar; the tsar orders Ch. to be thrown into boiling milk; Ch. asks to let the horse in to him; he blew on it and cooled it, and the tsar was boiled in the milk; Ch. married the princess]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 8: 36-40; Ukrainians(Kharkiv) [Three daughters take turns volunteering to serve in their father's place, the eldest ride out into the field where everything rumbles, and return. The youngest does not return, but ends up in a forest where a snake and frost are fighting, she responds to the latter's request for help, together they cut off three snake heads, and put the ashes in their pockets. Frost asks the hero's name, picks some "burkunets" grass, and calls him Roman. Roman goes on alone. He finds a feather from the Firebird on the road, the horse warns him not to take the feather, but Roman does not listen. The grooms notice the beauty of the horse and (cleaned with the feather), and report it to the king. The grooms order the iconostasis to be taken from the sea. Roman grieves, asks Frost for help, he freezes the sea and takes out the iconostasis "on the dry day of the sea." While the horse was getting the iconostasis – scattering the necklace, the grooms demand to get it, the frost helps Roman again, freezes the sea. The grooms demand to get 9 mares and the tenth stallion from the sea. The horse asks to wrap him in four skins and smear him with resin, he himself goes to the sea. After the sea water turns red, then blue, the horse comes out of the sea, where he defeated the stallion, whose skin is beaten, the horse was protected by resin and skins, brings out the mares “the earth trembles”. The grooms order to milk them, while the horse neighs, they stand rooted to the spot, Roman milks them. The grooms order Roman to boil in milk, the horse blows on him, and he comes out of the vat a beauty, the commander repeats the same, boiled]: Ivanov 1894, No. 1: 139-141; Ukrainians (Ekaterinoslavskaya, Mariupolsky district, Olginskoye village) [the parents went to reap, taking the baby; the eagle carried him off to its nest; three robbers heard his crying; one advised not to kill the boy, but to raise him; they named him Tremsyn; when he grew up, they sent him to look for his parents; horse: don’t pick up the Firebird’s feather; the feather is shining, T. picked it up; he hired himself out to the master; the other workers are jealous that the new one has an unusual horse and a shining feather; they say to the master: T. boasted of getting the Firebird itself; horse: take off your clothes, lie down in the field, the Firebird will fly in; when it tries to peck out your eye, grab it; workers: T. boasted of getting the Beautiful Nastasya from the sea; horse: set up tents with goods by the sea, flasks of wine and vodka; N. went out, looked at the kerchiefs, drank and fell asleep; T. brought her to the master; N.: get my necklace from the sea; horse: catch a crayfish; he got the necklace; N.: and now get the herd of my sea horses; the horse orders to cover it with 20 skins, and between them resin; if red foam appears on the water, then run, and if white, then hit with a weight the one who runs after me in front of the herd: he will not be so strong; the sea horse tore the skins that were put on, but not T.'s horse himself; N.: milk the mares, milk in three cauldrons: hot in one, warm in the other, cold in the third; N.: first dive into the cold, then into the warm, then into boiling water; T. first became an old man, then grew younger, then became a handsome man; the same with N. herself; and the master was boiled in boiling water; N. married T., and they began to rule the master’s household]: Dragomanov 1876, No. 10: 286-290.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks : Basangova 2002 [near Ardzhi-Burji, Aavin Aksak Ulana's horse was stolen by a man with one eye in his forehead, AB went blind from grief; he will recover if the son sees the land that he saw; the eldest, 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, along 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]: 98-104; Vatagin 1964 [Khan Badamji left a chestnut horse named Salar on the other side of the ocean for the safekeeping of the shulmuses; after this he went blind; says that he will regain his sight if his sons bring him something he has never seen; B. knows that this can only be found if one rides his horse; the eldest and middle sons return empty-handed; the youngest Bemba meets an old man, who tells B. to make a drink from his mother's milk and mix flat cakes with it; if they are given to the shulmus, he will give up the horse; when B. gallops away on his horse, the shulmuses pursue, B. throws them drink and food, they fall behind; disguised as a poor shepherd, B. hired himself out to the khan; the latter ordered the khan's maiden to be brought from overseas; the horse taught him not to look back when B. led the maiden; B. was about to look back, but the horse managed to kick him; the next time B. took the maiden away; she refused to marry the khan - he was black-boned; in order for the khan to become white-boned, he had to bathe in the hot milk of sea mares; the horse rolled in the sand, grappled with a sea stallion, but the latter could not bite through his skin under the sand; first B. jumped into the milk, became a beauty; the khan was boiled; B. and his wife came to his father; he said that he had regained his sight]: 167-174; Crimean Tatars(Bakhchisarai) [a poor man fell ill, his wife died; asks his daughter not to bury him properly {unclear; a hint at the tune of "At Night by My Father's Grave"?}; the neighbors buried him, sorted out his things, the mullah took the girl to his place; she grew up, put on men's clothes, mounted a horse and rode away; the snake asked her not to kill her, brought her to her father; he ordered the snakes to take human form; the snake insisted on giving the girl a dun horse with a golden mane; the girl rode away on it; the horse does not tell her to pick up the bird's wing, but she picked it up; she came to the padishah; the boy took the wing, gave it to the padishah, said that a guest had brought it; the padishah orders him to bring the whole bird; the horse orders him to ask for a sack of millet and a blanket; lie down under it, and scatter the millet; The girl grabbed one bird by the legs; the padishah demands that the mistress of the birds be brought; the horse orders a trough of dogwood, a barrel of wine and a jug of raki; the mistress of the birds flew in, ate the dogwood, drank the wine and raki, and fell asleep; the girl pulled out two hairs from her (the horse: now she will come to us herself); they returned to the palace, the horse ordered the hairs to be burned, the mistress appeared, the padishah orders to prepare for the wedding; the mistress of the birds: first let the one who got me get the comb and mirror that the witch stole when I was 13 years old; the horse brought the girl to the witch, she took the comb and mirror; now the mistress of the birds orders to get sea mares; the horse brought to the sea; a black stallion came out, the horse began to fight with him; there is blood from his throat; he orders to anoint the stallion with it; after this the girl turned into a young man, brought a stallion and mares; the mistress of the birds boiled a cauldron of milk; the young man remained unharmed, the padishah was boiled; the wedding of the young man with the mistress of the birds]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 4; Adyghe [a lone horseman meets Shauai, without recognizing him, says that he is going to Sh.; he brings him to his place, changes clothes, receives the guest; the horseman asks to give him and his horse huge portions of food; covers the horse with a layer of resin and sand; throws himself into the sea; if white foam floats up, Sh. must grab the horse, which jumps out of the water; red floats up; Sh. jumps across the sea on his horse; calls; the horseman replies that he lies between the crushing mountains; Sh. chops off the heads of 12 seven-headed inyzhs, ready to chop off the head of the horseman; The Inyzh stallion runs away, brings back three 12-headed elder brothers of the killed Inyzh; the rider kills two with arrows; when he fights the last one, his horse cannot bite the rider's horse covered in sand and resin; Sh. kills him; the rider confesses that he is a girl who avenged the brothers killed by the Inyzh; having washed their eyes with the Inyzh blood, her parents regained their sight; the girl immediately leaves, Sh. goes to look for her; Satanay says that the girl lives beyond the sea, the way there is guarded by the eagle An-Ak; Sh. on a horse in the dark (the beauty covers her face with her hair, it becomes dark) swims across an impassable swamp; the beauty promised to marry the one who can do this; on the way back An-Ak carries her away; Sh. pretends to be asleep, An-Ak brings him to his nest, Sh. kills him with a sword; [with his wife he returns to the Narts]: Khut 1987: 40-54;Ossetians [after the plague, a young man and his stepmother were left; the giants were unable to pull out the young man's arrow that had hit a pole, became frightened, and left; the eldest returned, made a deal with the stepmother, and she hides him in a chest; in order to get rid of the young man, the giant teaches the woman to pretend to be ill, and to ask for 1) the liver of a wild boar from the milky lake (kills the boar); 2) the giants' apples; the young man kills the giants, frees the girl; 3) the giant teaches the stepmother to ask where the young man's soul is; he says that it is in the bowstring, and offers to tie him up with this bowstring; the giant beats him, the young man's eyes pop out, and they bury him under a stone; his father-in-law finds him, his wife applies the eyes to him (they were in his pocket), and anoints him with living water; the young man killed the giant, dragged his stepmother by the hair until she remained in his hands]: Byazirov 1971, No. 32: 247-256; Georgians (Kartli) [dying, the king orders his three sons with three knives to guard his grave; the elders refuse, the youngest goes each time; at midnight a man on a white horse in white clothes galloped up, promising to deal with the dead man; the young man chopped him up, hid the horse and armor; the next night - the same (red horseman); then a black one; the king has three daughters in a tower; whoever jumps up there on horseback and gets the beauty, he marries her; the youngest brother reaches the princess each time unrecognized, takes all three; takes one for himself, gives the others to his brothers; dying, the father orders, if possible, not to spend the night outside the house; One day the younger one spent the night, and his wife was stolen by a bald chongurist; the brothers have three sisters for a dev, an eagle and a gveleshapi; a servant came for water, the prince quietly threw his ring into the jug, the sister found out; the dev is powerless, sends to the eagle; all the same, sends to the gveleshapi; he says that the kidnapper rides on a three-legged sea horse; they need to get a four-legged one; once a year a mare comes out of the sea, gives birth to a foal; wolves eat it, they need to have time to abandon the sheep; the chongurist did not have time, so one leg was bitten off; the prince got the four-legged one, took his wife away, the chongurist catches up, but the prince's horse kicked and killed him; the prince put his wife on the three-legged one; all is well; [three red pomegranates fell, three juicy apples]: Kurdovanidze 1988(1), No. 70: 317-328; Armenians[a poor man dreams of the sun on his head, the moon at his feet, and two stars on his chest; a shepherd buys the dream, giving his entire flock for it; he comes to the city at night; a young man rides up with two horses and falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to run away; they leave, she takes the shepherd as her husband, dresses him in the costume of a shah-zade, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah receives him with honor, falls in love with his wife, orders him to get 1) milk from a sea mare (the wife teaches her to give it a drink by pouring wine into a pit); 2) apples of paradise; the wife orders him to ride on a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, she becomes the second wife, brings apples of paradise; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, carries him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and courtiers order them to be burned, T. ascends to the throne; the sun - the moon in a dream are his wives, sons - the stars]: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 6: 115-124; Karachays : Alieva 1994, No. 54 [two tulpar foals come out of the lake; only Alaugan manages to throw a lasso on one of them, tame the foal]: 399-400; Dzhurtubaev 1991 [unable to feed the eldest of 19 brothers, the ancestor of the Narts Alaugan, fellow villagers told him that his food would come out of the sea; A. began to wait on the shore; from the sea came a black, white, golden horse, driving fish before them; A. caught a golden winged horse named Gemuda; gave it to his son Karashauay; with its help he drove a herd of sea winged horses to the sleds]: 165; Karachays [a blind khan sends three sons for land to a place where his own foot has never set foot - that land will restore his sight; the two eldest sons soon return; the shepherd gives the youngest Aslan his horse; on the road there is a diamond hen; the horse allows him to take it in order to give it to the owner of the house where they will stop; A. gave it to the khan; the khan will give his daughter to the one who hits the thimble with a gun; A. hit the thimble; envious people offer to test the groom; 1) bring a diamond rooster; the horse orders to fill a hundred carts with millet, the birds will flock, the diamond rooster is their king; A. brought the rooster; 2) a bull with diamond wool, golden horns and silver hooves; the horse drove the bull; 3) a golden horse with diamond hooves from the bottom of the sea; horse: it is necessary to pour a mountain of sand on the shore, bring a hundred carts 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 horses, with sea riches; the girl took palaces, etc. out of the thimble; the khan decided to take possession of A.'s wife; wanted to poison, throw her into a pit, the sea queen sends a dog, 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 be defeated only 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, wife and sea queen were fighting off the army of the khan-father in the palace; the horse killed the khan]: Rumyantseva 1981: 44-55;Ingush [the son of the widow Zhosarko and Prince Tepsyrko propose to the girl; she promises to marry the one who will drive away the herds of sea monsters; Zh.'s mother gives him her father's horse and a powerful whip; T. remains on the shore, Zh. goes down to the sea; if he is in trouble, red foam will appear, if he wins - white; first the red goes, then the white, Zh. drives the herd; three times a horse separates from the herd (first a red one, then a white one, then a black one; Zh. drives the horse back, T. lets it pass; the horse announces victory, Black Khozha chases after the rustlers, then his middle, older brother; T. drives the herd, Zh. fights; the older brother ChKh himself is also killed, but he hits Zh. with a stone; Zh. asked T. to tell his mother that her son defeated the one whom his father could not defeat; she guesses that Zh. got the herd, and not T.; the bride finds Zh., revives him with tears; wedding; T. is disgraced]: Kibiev, Malsagov 1981: 183-192; Chechens [the father went blind, the eldest son reaches places where the snow is red, brings medicine from there, the old man is unhappy; the middle one - where the grass is white, the same; the father tells the youngest not to pick up anything along the way, he picks up a golden feather, a ball of thread; 1) seeing a feather, the prince demands to get a bird; the horse teaches to tell the bird that Timar (the boy's father) has gone blind, to pour some hops into the river, to scatter millet; the bird got drunk, came to peck, the boy brought it; 2) seeing a ball, the prince wants the girl who wound it; the horse teaches that the ball will lead to the girl; you need to tell her that Timar has gone blind; the horse prances, the boy picks up the girl; 3) she promises to marry the prince if he bathes in the milk of a sea mare; the horse orders to wrap himself in cloth; in a battle with a horse that came out of the sea, she gnaws his flesh, and he only tears off the cloth; the sea horse agrees to drive the mares with foals out of the sea; the boy is the first to bathe in hot milk, the horse cools the milk; he kills the prince with his hot breath; with a bird's feather the son returns his father's sight and youth, and marries the girl to him]: Malsagov 1983, No. 15: 95-100; (cf. Terek Cossacks(Naur) [the king goes blind, sends his sons to bring earth from the country where he was, from it he will regain his sight; the eldest, the middle son bring earth where it is covered with gold, where a tree exudes milk and water; the king 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 - got boiled; the prince puts the vizier in prison, marries the sea queen, cures his father of blindness]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 1: 66-74); Avars [the king sees a sea horse in a dream; the eldest and middle brothers ride to the right, to the left; the youngest - forward (it is written that the one who rides will die or find happiness); he kisses the giantess's breast, she hides him from her sons; he asks his sons, the youngest knows the way to the horse; the prince hears, catches the horse; picks up the golden fluff; falls asleep near the city; the king of the city demands that the creature from which the fluff came be brought; the horse says that these are three doves - the daughters of the sea king, who have come to bathe; he orders that the youngest's removed plumage be taken; the prince brings her to the king, she fills a pit with cow's milk; the elderly spouses are rejuvenated in it, the king drowns; the prince takes his wife home, the brothers push him into the pit, hold his wife in a lock; the wife gives the horse a rope made of her hair, he pulls the prince out; the brothers run away]: 311-323; Dargins[the shah goes to check if anyone turns on the light at night; at the house of an orphan girl he hears three times how she promises to give birth to the shah a golden-haired boy and a silver-haired girl; the shah marries, leaves, orders the nukers to hang out a red flag if the promised children are born, and a black one if ordinary ones; the first wife orders the children to be replaced with puppies, the children to be thrown into the river in a box; the shah orders the young wife to be sewn up in a buffalo skin, thrown at the threshold, to wipe her feet on her, to spit on her; the childless miller fished out the box; the grown-up girl orders him to buy calico at the market, embroiders a kerchief with silver and gold hair, sends her brother to sell it; the Persian gives a huge amount of money, the brother and sister go to the edge of the city, build a palace better than the shah's; the eldest wife sends a witch 1) to persuade a girl to ask her brother to get a special tree; the horse says that it is behind a wall guarded by fire-breathing dragons; the dragon king gives the tree; 2) to get an overseas wife for his brother; the sea horse carries the young man, he beats the beauty with a golden whip, she wakes up, leaves with him; the vizier tells the shah the truth, he returns his wife and children, the eldest wife is left to rot in prison]: Osmanov 1963: 97-102; Armenians [a poor man dreams of the sun on his head, the moon at his feet, and two stars on his chest; a shepherd buys the dream, giving his entire herd for it; he comes to the city at night; the young man rides up with two horses, falls asleep; the princess takes him for her cousin, with whom she was going to run away; they leave, she takes the shepherd as her husband, dresses him in the costume of a shah-zade, now his name is Teymur Shah; the local shah receives him with honor, falls in love with his wife, orders him to get 1) the milk of a sea mare (the wife teaches her to give it a drink by pouring wine into the pit); 2) paradise apples; the wife orders him to ride on a sea mare, hide the clothes of the youngest of the three bathing sisters, she becomes the second wife, brings paradise apples; 3) visit the king's parents; the second wife orders T. to ask the king to throw him into the fire, carries him out of the fire, T. comes to the king with imaginary news; the king and the courtiers order them to be burned, T. ascends to the throne; sun - moon in a dream - his wives, sons - stars]: Bunyatov et al. 1900, No. 6: 115-124; Azerbaijanis[old man Bakhtiyar dreams that the sun has risen to his right, the moon to his left, and a star overhead; he goes wandering, tells the dream to a young shepherd, sells it to him along with the name B.; the new B. spends the night under the city wall; the shah's daughter Perizad-khanum takes him for her lover, runs away with him, they settle in another city; the local shah falls in love with P., the vizier advises sending B. 1) for a paradise apple; P. gives B. a letter to his sister, she is the wife of the ruler of the divs; the div orders him to hide the dress of one of the three daughters of the padishah peri, when they arrive to bathe in the form of doves; they bring an apple; the one whose dress B. hid returns with it, she is Gurizad-khanum; orders him to give the shah the ordinary apples, and to keep the paradise rejuvenating ones for himself; 2) a rose from the garden of Gulistani-Irem; G. carries B. there, Gul Gah-Gah-khanum flies to his house before him, laughs, roses pour out of her mouth, B. brings them to the shah; 3) milk of a mare with 40 foals; GGG. sends B. to an old man, who teaches him how to lure sea horses, B. brings the mare with her foals, the shah is afraid to milk her, she runs away; 5) to visit the shah's deceased parents; G. quietly carries B. out of the fire like a dove, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased; the shah, the vizier, the barber (he told the shah about B.'s wives) burn up, B. reigns; the luminaries seen in the dream are his three wives]: Akhundov 1955: 106-125; Azerbaijanis (Kazakh district of Yelisavetpol province) [two friends set off to the east and to the west; they agreed that if they succeeded and got married, the son of one would take the daughter of the other; both became kings; the Eastern king had a daughter, Leyli, and the Western king had three daughters; he was embarrassed to admit that he had no son, and L. was waiting for her cousin to be her husband; each of the three daughters of the Western king was ready to go to the Eastern king dressed as a man; the vizier suggested simulating an attack: if the girl got scared and returned, then let her stay at home, and if she showed courage, then let her continue on her way; the two older daughters got scared, and the youngest killed the vizier and his people, came to the Eastern king; a wedding was being prepared, but the newcomer refused: when he saw L., he called her his sister and therefore could not marry; L. lost consciousness; doctor: 1) lion's milk is needed; a false youth goes for milk, the prophet Hirellaz gives it; 2) a kidney of a sea stallion (H. teaches how to catch it); a sorceress orders to get an unusual apple; flies to the mountain in a clay pot with a false groom; directs to where people turn to stone; the girl kills her, breaks the pot; H. teaches: an angel will fly in to whip the former king of the petrified kingdom; you need to grab the angel's shirt, which he will take off; return it if he fulfills your wish; the angel makes the girl a man, gives an apple, frees the king and his petrified subjects; the youth is grateful to the prophet; wedding; the prophet told the father of the former girl about this]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 4: 18-26; Turks [the padishah went blind; dervish: the cure for your eyes is earth from where no foot of your horse has stepped; the eldest son brings earth from a hill beyond the seven mountains; 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; horse: it will bring misfortune; the shahzade stayed with an old woman, he uses the wing as 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 carrion; the shahzade brings the 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 in the World; the horse taught him to sneak up on her from behind and beat her with pink twigs; this girl 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; she began to wash the shahzade with the milk of a red-bay mare, he gained eternal youth; [shahzade brought earth, his father received his sight; they achieved their desires]: Stebleva 1986, No. 20: 62-69; Kurds [Kechelok ("Pleshchivets"), the son of an old woman, catches a bird, she asks to let it go, brings the bird to Simurg, he gives it to the hakim, receives money; the vizier is jealous, advises to instruct K. 1) to bring ivory to make a cage for the bird; the bird advises to throw resin into the spring, salt on top, the elephants will take the salt for water, eat it, and die of thirst; K. brings tusks; 1) a sea mare; the bird teaches her to hide on the shore, the mare will come out, she will want a beautiful saddle and bridle, she must be bridled; 3) the daughter of a sea hut (monster); she boards K.'s ship, he brings her, lives with her; [The hakim dies, a falcon lands on K.’s head, he is elected hakim]: Farizov, Rudenko 1959: 49-54.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians (western Norway, 1880) [a sea serpent appeared in a fjord, blocked the exit, food supplies began to run out; a priest began to pray in the church; a horse jumped out of the sea, neighed loudly and began to chase the serpent; managed to bite it in half, but lost a hoof; they made a grain bin out of it; the front part of the serpent washed up on an islet, and the back part rotted for a long time, poisoning everything around]: Christiansen 1964, no. 29: 68-70; Livs [people see horses running out of the sea, jumping on the shore, but they did not damage the nets laid out there and returned; these horses are blue; (but blue sea cows are more often spoken of)]: Lootits 1998(1): 179-180.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [the river Valo means "horse"; at night a white horse with black spots would come out of it to graze on the grass; if you throw iron into the water at this time, it will not return to the river; a man threw an axe, the horse was caught; a beautiful black stallion was born; the descendants of the water horse had visible wings at night; the owner had to warn the horse with a whistle so that it could hide its wings; one drunk owner did not warn, and the horses died out]: Marr 1925: 697 in Vladykin 1994: 90-91; Komi -Permyaks [at night well-groomed horses, often black, come out of the water onto the meadows; if you walk around it wearing a pectoral cross, it will serve the owner]: Gribova 1975: 79 in Vladykin 1994: 91; Kazan Tatars : Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 63 [the bai's haystacks disappear; only the youngest bald son (Taz) caught the sea stallion, with him two more; the brothers stole them and sold them to the padishah; the youngest hired himself out to look after them; the brothers: the youngest boasted of capturing the daughter of the sea padishah; the horses teach him to lay out silk on the shore, the young man grabs the girl, the horses carry her away; the girl demands a chest with her rings from the padishah; the horse orders him to wrap it with a ribbon; if blood appears on the sea, he is dead, if white foam, he has defeated the lion; foam appears, the horse brings out the chest with the rings; the girl demands that three cauldrons of milk be boiled, let Taz bathe; the horse neighs, the milk cools; Taz has become a handsome man; the padishah also throws himself into the boiling milk, is boiled; the daughter of the sea padishah married Taz], 66 [a hunter shot a duck with pearl feathers, gave it to the padishah; viziers: let him get the same fur coat; the old woman sends to another, she to a third, who has such a lamb in her flock; the young man brings the skin; viziers: let him get the main pearl; this is the girl Sylu with the same third old woman; the first orders to give the guards clothes, the bone that is in front of the bull to the dog, and the hay from the dog to the bull; he takes S. away, the guards refuse to detain the fugitives; S. refuses to marry the padishah, marries the young man, he himself became a padishah]: 310-314, 329-335; Bashkirs [Maseem Khan kills the sleeping Sura-batyr; before that, he gives his flintlock gun to the old man Taraulu; S. throws his wife into the lake; Sura-batyr's little son Khauban leaves, accidentally meets T., receives his father's gun from him; after many adventures he kills M., returns M.'s kidnapped daughter and his mother from the underwater world, marries Nerkes, the daughter of the owner of the lake; before this N. gives him Akbuzat, an underwater winged horse-tulpar]: 1987: 135-177.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. ; Baikal(?) Buryats (location of west not specified) [a dog brings the orphan Gure Araksh to a beautiful house, tells him to obey the horse, says that his betrothed is the daughter of Shaza Khan; GA picks up a swan feather, a horn of a fiery roe deer, a fragment of a fiery stone; comes to Sh., in the guise of an old man, then takes his own form; Sh. gave away his daughter, but demands from his son-in-law to bring the swan itself, the roe deer itself, GA brings the fiery stone itself; demands the stallion of the sea lord Dalai Lusay Khan, then his daughter; the horse lures them out, gets them; DL's daughter refuses to marry Sh. until they bring foam from her sea; GA called the water dirty, the sea began to seethe in a rage, GA brings the foam; GA's wife became a swan, flew away, her older sister replaced her, GA did not notice; but the wife drinks, goes alone to her father's for a holiday; in the third year GA finds a yurt where his real wife, the imaginary one, returns to her father; the wife told GA to bathe in boiling milk; the horse snorted, the milk turned into fog; Sh. decides to bathe too, got boiled; GA became a khan, took DL's daughter as his second wife]: Barannikova et al. 1993, no. 11: 181-191; Mongols (Khalkha?) [the Arata had a son, Damdin; his father sent him to learn a trade; he learned to play the khur; his father was dissatisfied, sent him to learn a necessary trade; D. began to play on the shore of the sea {in reality - a lake}; the daughter of the sea king came out, brought him to her father; he ordered him to stay at the bottom forever and play for him; but the daughter of the sea king brought D. to land and stayed with him; the khan was hunting, sent a noyon to D.'s yurt to roast a quail; he was amazed by the beauty of his hostess, the quail burned; D.'s wife gave the noyon two quails; neither the khan nor all his army could eat them; the wife tells D. to agree to give it to the khan on the condition that he will find D. in his yurt twice; the wife turned D. into a pestle; the khan did not find it; he himself turned into a tree near a well; D. understood this and took out a knife to cut it down; the second time the wife turned D. into a fly, the khan did not find it; he himself became a black goat among a hundred white sheep, D. pretended that he was going to slaughter him; khan: whose horse can run a three-day journey in three hours; the wife tells D. to play by the sea {lake} on the khur, her father will come out, we must ask him for a sea stallion; an 8-legged foal ran out; he easily overtook the khan's horse; the khan demands that the water in the lake boil; the sea khan gave two pebbles: throw the white one into the lake, the water will boil; put the black one in the cheek - the boiling water will not scald; the khan tells D. to swim, he is unharmed; throws himself into the boiling water with all the warriors and dies]: Khodza 1954: 13-15 {online, pagination starts from page 1}.

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