L65a1. Horse's severed legs. .17.23.27.29.30.32.-.34.

The demonic character sequentially devours parts of the horse the hero rode on, each time returning to the hero and then leaving to devour another part. (Often asks whether the hero rode on a three-, two-, or one-legged horse.)

Palestinians, Kannada, Bulgarians, Romanians, Abkhazians, Karachays, Balkars, Stavropol Turkmens, Ossetians, Ingush, Avars, Lezgins, Georgians, Turks, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Bukharan Arabs, Baluchis, Bashkirs, Dungans, Chelkans, Tundra Yukaghirs.

Western Asia. Palestinians [a married couple has three sons, the wife asks God to give her a daughter, even a ghoul; gives birth to a girl; every night one sheep disappears; the brothers take turns guarding the children, fall asleep, the youngest sees his sister devouring a sheep; the parents do not believe it, the young man leaves, lives with an old woman, helps the lioness give birth, she gives him two lion cubs; he decides to visit his native places, where his cannibal sister has eaten everyone, chases the last crooked rooster; eats off a horse's leg, the brother replies that he arrived on a three-legged horse, then on a two-legged one, came on foot; the sister is going to eat her brother, he asks to let him perform ablutions, ties a rope from his belt to a stone, runs away, climbs a palm tree, the sister saws it with her hand, he calls his lions, they tear the cannibal apart; the merchants ask him to guess what they are carrying, otherwise they will take the lions; the sister's blood cries out that they are carrying sumac, the youth takes back the lions he gave away]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, no. 8: 93-98; Syria [as among the Palestinians, Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, no. 7]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989: 334.

South Asia. Kannada [a girl was born as the seventh child in a family of an oil merchant; at night she turned into a monster, walked around the town, devoured people; his brother saw her, they didn’t believe him, he left; in one town they offered to jump over a pit; the young man succeeded, he got a wife; he got a lion and a tiger cub; he decided to visit his native place; he told his wife to release his animals if they showed signs of restlessness; the young man came home, there was no one there, his sister had eaten them all; she left him in the kitchen, and then went out, ate one leg of his horse and, returning, asked whether he had arrived on a three-, two-, one-, or no-legged horse; he said yes every time; while she was eating the body, the young man ran away, climbed a tree; the sister released the animals and they tore the monster apart; the young man returned to his wife]: Ramanujan 1997, no. 7: 27.

Balkans. Bulgarians [a woman, who previously gave birth only to sons or is childless, asks God to give her a daughter, even if she is a lamia (vampire, plague); gives birth to a daughter, she is a lamia, eats horses; the younger brother, while grazing horses, wounds her (cuts off a finger); leaves home, along the way gets helper dogs, lives in another village; decides to visit his native village; there the lamia has eaten everyone; the sister successively eats off the horse's legs, asks her brother whether he arrived on a three-, two-, or one-legged horse; the Mouse answers the sister instead of the brother (beats the drum, sings); running away, the hero successively climbs three trees (poplars, oaks, they were planted by him); when the sister had almost gnawed through the trunk of the third tree, the hero's wife, having learned from the dogs' behavior or some other sign that her husband was in trouble, releases the dogs, and they tear the lamia apart]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no. 315a: 117-118; Romanians [a married couple have a son; later a daughter was born; a sheep disappears every night; the son volunteered to watch it; he sees a baby girl crawl out of her cradle at midnight, go out and eat the sheep whole; the boy threw the axe, cut off his sister's finger; the girl lay down in the cradle and began to cry; the boy began to tell his story, but his father did not believe him and kicked him out of the house; he walked away; there is a house in a deserted area, the owner takes him in; 12 years later he gives him a horse and sends him to visit his parents; grass grows on the site of his native village, only the parents' hut remains; he goes to see his sister; she went out, bit off one of the horse's legs, and came back and said that her brother had a strange horse - three-legged; then two-legged, then one-legged; then she swallowed the horse whole; the young man jumped out the window, ran, climbed one of the two oak trees growing nearby; the sister ran up, gnawed through the trunk, the young man moved to the second oak; he began to call his master's dogs; one was named Well Hear (Hör gut), the other - Strong as the Earth; the second broke down the door, they managed to run there, ate the cannibal; the young man began to live in his own house, the master helped him, he got married, everything was fine]: Schullerus 1977, No. 48: 303-306.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians : Bgazhba 1983 [a prince has three sons; he prayed to God for a daughter; shot off a wolf's finger, his daughter was crying at home, he put his finger on her hand, she was a werewolf; the sister chased her younger brother; a woodpecker complained that the tree would soon fall, he would have nowhere to get food for the children; the young man made the rotten tree young and hard; the witch Arupap directed him along the road, he came to the Moon, got married; went to look for his parents and brothers, the Moon gave him a ring; everything at home is in disrepair, only the sister lives; he successively eats the horse's legs, goes to the blacksmith to sharpen his teeth; the rat tells the young man to run; the woodpecker, A. send the witch along the wrong road, but she catches up again; the young man throws the ring to his wife in the sky; the dogs rush at the witch, the young man climbs to his wife along the moonlit path; a witch tears off her brother's leg up to the knee; a one-legged man is seen on the moon]: 33-35 (=2002: 39-41); Chursin 1956: 149-150 [A. Ioakimov, 1874, No. 54; there are three brothers in the family; a daughter was born; that same day she carried her younger brother off to a cloud, but he cut off her finger and escaped; after getting married, the sister ate her husband; the younger brother came to visit; the sister ate his horse's leg, then another, then a third, then the whole horse; she tied her brother in a leather wineskin and went to sharpen her teeth; rats gnawed through the wineskin, the brother ran away; he threw a handful of wheat (forest) and salt (sea) behind him; the sister made her way through, swam across, grabbed her brother near the house, and the brother's wife began to pull him toward her; they decided that the sister would eat her brother-Moon, and the wife would fatten him up], 150 [N. Janashia; 7 rich brothers wanted a sister, she was born, cattle began to disappear; the youngest Amzu (Moon) suggests killing her, the others do not agree; he leaves, marries the sun-Amra; comes to visit his brothers; there is only one sister, she ate his horse, went to sharpen her teeth; the brother ran, Amra pulls him to himself, the sister to herself; God gave the Moon 15 days to his wife-Sun, and the other 15 - to his sister-devil], 151-153 [Gudauta district; 7 sons of a prince want a sister; a girl was born; at night a wolf carried off a lamb, the 4th brother cut off a finger on his hind leg; saw that the finger was cut off from the girl lying in the cradle; leaves home; got married; went to visit his homeland; the father-in-law ordered to take a boxwood branch, a walnut, coal; the husband gave his wife a ring; only sister at home, eats horse's legs, whole horse; went to sharpen teeth; rat started playing violin; brother throws branch (forest), coal (dirt), nut (tree); brother hides on top; witch gnaws tree; wife looks at ring, releases dogs, they tear witch apart; man stepped on her tooth, died; Raven pecked out eyes; God gave Hawk powder, he sprinkled, dead rose]; Karachays[the son, having seen his newborn sister, orders her to be killed, the parents refuse, he leaves; he helps a female leopard give birth, she gives him one cub, he takes the second one himself; they leave him a hair each; he comes to his native village, where the blacksmith says that the young man's sister has eaten them all; the sister eats the horse's legs one by one, each time asking how many legs the horse had; the brother confirms that there were three, two, one; the sister orders him to knock on the basin, she herself goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse takes up the knocking, gives an awl, a comb, a mirror, orders him to run; the objects turn into a bone lock, an iron fence; the sister catches up; the brother burns the hairs, the leopards come running, grab her by the jaws; the girl rises into the sky, pounces on the sun and the moon, the leopards prevent her from swallowing them]: Dzhurtubaev 2007: 370-371; Balkars (west 1965) [a man has an adult son, then a daughter is born; when the son saw her, he asked her parents to kill her, but they suggested that he get out himself; he helped a tigress; she gave him one tiger cub, and he stole the second one; when they grew up, they gave him a hair each to call them if needed; a guy came to his native village, there was only one blacksmith; a dragon left him alive to sharpen her teeth; a dragon sister successively gnaws off the legs of her brother's horse and each time asks how many legs the horse he rode on had (three, two, one); gave a basin and told her brother to knock on it until she returned; a mouse tells him to run, taking an awl, a comb and a mirror, and remains to beat on the basin; the guy throws a mirror (sea), a comb (bone tower), an awl (iron fence); if his sister catches up again, ask permission to do two parts of the namaz; before starting the prayer, the guy burned his hair; tigers rushed in, tore the girl apart, but couldn't tear off her cheek; the dragon girl flew to the sky with the hunters; she wants to eat the moon and the sun, but the hunters (i.e. tigers) interfere (eclipses of the luminaries)]: Malkonduyev 2017: 125-127; Stavropol Turkmens[the king has three sons from his first wife; she died, he married again; the new one gave birth to a daughter; mares in the herd disappear at night; the eldest and middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes, prepares dinner; the old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a stone; the young man goes down there too; 40 robbers are sleeping there; the young man hit one with his boot, hid; then said that he was the son of a thief and wants to steal with them; promises to get the king's three daughters; killed the guard, went in to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit with his own, cut the first two, from the blow to the sword of the youngest his sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed each one one by one, strung their ears on a thread; killed the old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot at a black cloud, a child's severed finger fell to the ground; at home the queen says that her daughter's finger was cut off; the young man gave away his finger - he found it in the steppe; the king (the one who is the father of the three princesses) calls the people together, looking for a hero, only the young man's sword fits into the scabbard; the three princesses are given in marriage to three princes; the stepmother orders to drive the youngest away; he came to the tree; a snake is crawling towards the eaglets' nest, he killed it; for this the eaglet gave him two eaglets out of three; the young man went further, took a thorn out of the lioness's paw, she gave him two lion cubs out of six; he left the lion cubs and eaglets to guard the horse, put on ram skins and offal, went to the city; the youngest of the king's three daughters realized that this was the prince; she suggested that her sisters send the king three apples: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered all the men to pass under the window, let each daughter throw an apple at the one she wants to marry; the elders threw them into the viziers' sons, the younger one into a pretended beggar; the king settled them near the stable; the king fell ill and needed the meat of an asshole; the pretended beggar in his true form, with the help of his lions and eagles, got the asshole, gave the meat to the elder sons-in-law, and they allowed him to brand their sacrums; the meat brought by the elder sons-in-law made the king feel worse; but the asshole's intestines, which the younger daughter cooked, made him well; at the feast the prince in his true form said that two of his slaves had run away, and the elder sons-in-law had to show the brands; the prince presented the slaves to the king; everything became clear; the prince decided to visit his home; he released the eagles, but the lions said that they would still be useful and stayed with the prince's wife; the city was intact at home, there were no people; in the werewolf sister's hut were the emaciated father, stepmother, brothers and wives; the sister asks successively whether her brother arrived on a horse with three, two, one legs, whether he arrived on foot; she orders him to play the balalaika; the fox volunteered to play for him, and let him hang up his boots, which are visible from the kitchen - as if he continues to sit; the sister pursues, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first, the sister gnawed at it, it fell, the prince moved to the second, then to the third; the lions sense something, the wife released them, they tore the cannibal to pieces; they drove a lot of cattle; at home the prince handed over power to his elder brother; he himself began to live with two wives (how he married the first is not said)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1: 1-13; Ossetians[(Zap. A.N. Grenom, from materials of L.G. Lopatinsky); three sons of an old woman went to hire themselves out as workers; a daughter was born, she grew fangs, ate her parents; found two older brothers, offered to herd the cattle for them, ate them themselves; the youngest quietly crawled out from under his burka, ran away; the shepherd hid him; he began to herd the herd, drove them into a gorge, killed the hero who attacked him; the same in two more gorges, took three huge dogs; came to his father's house; his sister began to treat him, ate half of his horse, asks why he came on half a horse; the mouse tells him to run, promises to play the accordion herself; the brother hid in a tree, whistled, his dogs tore his sister to pieces]: Bagriy 1930(2): 191-193; Ingush : Malsagov 1983, no. 45 [=Tankieva 2003: 209-211; after her husband's death, a woman gives birth to a toothy girl; she devours cattle; the mother refuses to kill her; the brother takes her to the forest; later comes to visit; she resembles a scary cat; she successively eats off the horse's legs, the brother agrees that he arrived on a three-legged horse, etc., on a legless horse, in half; the cat gives a comb, a jug of oil, three needles; the brother runs, throws objects, thickets appear, a sea of ​​oil, three cast-iron pillars; when the gam gnaws the third pillar, the mother releases her son's hounds, they kill the gam; the mother believed that her son was alive and returned only when he stuck his finger into the crack; "she danced on the surface of the porridge, without leaving a trace of a mouse"], 138 [there are seven sons in the family; everyone wants a girl; after the girl is born, the apples disappear; the thief is wounded in the finger; everyone is checked, the girl's finger is wounded, the mother asks her not to kill her; then the younger brother leaves; returning after many years, he finds an empty village; the ant says that the girl ate everyone, tells him not to agree to eat, to ask her to bring water in a sieve; the sister eats off the legs of her brother's horse one by one, each time asking how many legs the horse had; the brother answers that there were three, two, one, that the horse crawled; that he came on foot without a horse; while the sister carries water, the ant tells her to take a comb, copper sulfate, coal; the brother runs; the comb turns into a forest, the copper sulfate into a copper sulfate field, the coal into black fog; the brother asks the Moon to save him; the Moon lifts him up, the witch manages to tear off one of the horse's legs; the Moon and the brother are now together]: 181-183, 297-299; Avars [wife gives birth to a son; after her death, the second gives birth to a daughter; she carries food to her brother in the pasture, eats it all herself; the brother sees her swallowing a sheep; asks the parents to drive this hart away, he himself is driven away; he lives with the old people whom the adzhdakha blinded; kills the adzhdakha, takes two little ones out of the womb, raises them, names them Tavus and Khavus; comes to his native village; the sister tears off the leg of his horse, asks why the brother arrived on a three-legged one; so all the legs; having eaten the horse, chases after her brother, T. and Kh. tear her apart]: Mazaev, Kasumov 1997(1): 205-207; Lezgins[the shah has three sons from his first wife, she died, the second gave birth to a daughter; someone eats off a horse's legs; the eldest and middle sons are guarding, they notice nothing; the youngest cut his finger, sprinkled it with salt, shot off the monster's finger, it turned out to be his sister's finger; the shah decided to kill his daughter, the sons do not agree, they leave; the eldest goes along the road "from which they return", the middle one - "I don't know", the youngest - "they do not return"; exchanges his rich clothes for a lion cub; kills a one-, two-, seven-headed azhdah, freeing three princesses, promises to take them on the way back; comes to the mother of the seven azhdahs, makes friends with them; they want to get a golden cockerel and a golden sieve, to get a girl for them; the young man goes to get them; the azhdah brothers give a fat tail, a carpet, cotton wool; the young man gave the lion cub the fat tail, sent him back; laid a carpet on a bridge that goes up and down; cotton wool on thorns; jumped over crushing mountains on a horse, only hairs from the horse's tail were cut off; in that country there are only women; a young man stole a cockerel and a sieve, came back, took three princesses, found brothers; they pushed him into a well; a merchant pulled him out; the queen of the women's kingdom came to the brothers, they said that they got the cockerel and the sieve, she killed them; found the young man, made sure that he got the items, became his wife; the young man goes to visit his father, only his sister is there; he asks if the brother has arrived on a horse with three, two, one horse, on the carcass of a horse; she has already eaten them all; the brother became a dove, the sister a fox, the dove sat on a tree, noticed a lion cub, he tore the fox to pieces; the dove became a young man, noticed a leaf with a drop of his sister's blood, the leaf became a beetle, the young man threw the beetle to the hen, who ate it; the young man returned to his wife; feast]: Ganieva 2011b, No. 31: 301-304; Georgians[after the son a daughter is born, she has two teeth; the brother spied on his sister getting up and devouring cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; the brother leaves, ends up with a one-eyed dev; at night the ram orders to blind the dev with a hot spit, slaughter the sheep, pull its skin over himself; the dev passes the sheep between his legs, the young man comes out; the dev promises to adopt him; orders not to graze the flock on the mountain of the black dev; the young man kills him, his dev is grateful; the same with the red dev; with the eagle; she asks to take delivery from her; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eaglets; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding the heads of her parents in her hands; she bites off the legs of her brother's horse one by one, he agrees that he arrived on three-, two-, one-, no-legs, came on foot; the sister goes off to sharpen her teeth; the mouse wakes up her brother, talks about the danger; he leaves a stone in the bed, a bag of ashes above it, climbs a poplar; the sister cleans her eyes of ashes, gnaws the poplar; the Fox offers to throw the young man down, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed out hole grows over; the same with the Bear; the young man calls the eaglets, they eat the cannibal; three drops of blood fall on a leaf, the leaf says that the young man will regret if he takes it, and will regret if he does not take it; the young man hides it in his bosom, his side dries up; the merchants offer to guess what is in their chests; the young man does not guess, must give up his eaglets; the leaf says that in one there is cotton wool, in the other a beauty; the young man catches up with the merchants, receives chests and eaglets, marries the beauty]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46: 182-187; Turks: Stebleva 1986, #15 [a poor man has a son; a daughter is born; she immediately eats her father, then her parents; the brother flees, lives well, has two wives; when leaving to visit the house, he leaves water and salt for the wives; if the salt turns into water and the water into blood, his stallion must be released; the sister greets her brother, recognizing him by the ring; every day she goes to his horse, says that it has three legs, two, one leg; that there is no horse; the brother climbs a tree, from it to the second, third; the sister gnaws and fells trees; the water turns into blood, the wives release the foal, it kicks the cannibal, killing her; the young man returns to his wives]: 45-46; Walker, Uysal 1966, #9 [a married couple has three sons, they want a daughter; they say, even with a head like a cauldron and teeth like axes; the sheep disappear; the brothers take turns keeping watch; the eldest, the middle one fall asleep, the youngest sees his sister climbing out of the cradle; they do not believe him; he leaves, throws date stones along the way; lives with a shepherd, who does not allow the cattle to graze near the mountain, there are dangerous animals there; he took pity on the Lion, the Bear, the Tiger, they gave him a cub each; he misses home; tells the owner to release the animals if they start to vomit blood; at home, the sister eats off one horse leg after another; the brother replies that he arrived on a three-, two-, one-legged horse, came on foot; the sister searches inside her brother's head, is going to bite it off; he asks her to open her mouth, will jump into it; throws a stone roller for rolling clay from the roof; runs away, hides in the grown date palms, the sister gnaws one tree after another; he asks to be allowed to play the flute before he dies; at the sound of it his pets come running; she advises to cut out her tongue and put it in his pocket; the animals kill her; the owner of the caravan asks what his staff is called; if he gives the wrong answer, he will take the Bear, Tiger and Lion; the sister's tongue suggests the Magic Staff ; the young man receives the caravan, lives richly]: 86-90.

Iran - Central Asia. Lurs [when seven brothers were told that their mother gave birth to a girl, they rejoiced and returned home; but if a boy had been born, they would have gone wandering; that same night the girl crawled out of swaddling clothes and ate two sheep; they decided that it was a wolf; six brothers took turns guarding; they did not notice anything, although every night the demon girl ate a couple of animals; the youngest cut his finger and rubbed salt into the wound; he saw a ghoul, one tooth - a saw, the other - an axe; the young man told his parents about it, they did not believe him and he left home; on the way he picked up two puppies; settled in the city with an old woman, calling her mother; one day he said that he wanted to visit his home; let the old woman let the dogs out if they started howling; in his parents' city there was only one chicken alive; his ghoul sister came up to kiss her, tore a piece of meat out of his face; bit off the horse's leg: did you come on a three-legged horse? then: on a two-legged one? so she ate all the legs, then swallowed what was left; the young man asks his ghoul sister to bring him water; let her bring it in a sieve; the sister left, the young man ran; the crow taught her to cover the holes in the sieve with clay; the sister chased the young man, he climbed a plane tree; he called the dogs; they ate the ghoul, but one drop of blood fell to the ground, became a sparrow, and it flew away; the young man got down from the plane tree, met a caravan driver; he offered a bet: if he named the caravan {apparently, he will say what the caravan driver is carrying}, then the caravan is his; if they named the dogs, they would take them for themselves; the young man guessed wrong, the caravan driver said that the dogs' names are Salan and Dalan and took them; from the sky a sister sparrow: a caravan carrying resin, indigo and ginger; a young man overtook the caravan, the caravan driver had to give up both the caravan and the dogs]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, no. 14: 67-70; Persians [a youngest daughter is born into a large family; the kneaded dough goes bad; the mother asks her youngest son to keep an eye on her, he sees his sister crawling out of her swaddling clothes; the young man leaves, plants three peaches along the way; the tigress asks him to help her give birth, he leaves her one cub, takes two, names them Zangi and Zarangi, lives with an old woman; goes home, tells his foster mother to let the cubs out if the milk in the jug turns blue; finds only his sister at home; she leaves, each time returning she asks if his horse had three (then two, one) legs; he answers yes; The rooster says that his sister has gone to sharpen her teeth; he tells her to hang her pants filled with sand and salt on the edge of the chimney and run; the sister bites her pants, salt and sand fall into her eyes; the brother climbs the peaches he planted, the sister gnaws, the trees fall one after another; the milk turns blue, the tiger cubs eat the cannibal, the young man tells a drop of blood to fall on a cotton boll; the man tells him to guess what his club is made of, otherwise he will take one of the tiger cubs; the young man hears a voice that it is made of jar-jar wood; the man disappears; there is a snake in the young man's pocket, the tiger cubs eat it; the young man and the tiger cubs return to their foster mother]: Osmanov 1987: 342-344; Baluchi[a newborn rips open the bellies of cattle at night; her brother has second eyes on the back of his head, he sees everything, asks to kill his sister, they do not believe him, he leaves; returns, on the way meets three blind girls sucking milk from three goats; sucks out the milk, they catch it; he kills the buzlangs, brings magic leaves, returns the girls' sight; leaves two dogs, orders to let them go if the feeding trough becomes rusty; at home he finds a dead city, his sister takes his horse to water, eats off one leg, the brother in fright admits that he arrived on a three-legged horse; the same episode with other legs, head, harness; he asks his sister to bring water in a sieve, his sister orders him to beat in a cup; a mouse beats instead of him, he runs away; the sister eats the mouse, chases; he throws one, two golden supports for the hearth, the sister hesitates, picking them up; throws down a brush for antimony, it turns into a tree, he is at the top, she gnaws the trunk with her teeth; he calls the dogs, they kill his sister, she says that the bead in her throat should be crushed; with this powder he revives the dead.: Zarubin 1932, No. 4: 52-60; Tajiks (Samarkand region) [the padishah has three sons, his wife died, the new one gave birth to a daughter; someone steals apples from the apple tree; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same with the middle one; the youngest Kenjaboy sprinkles salt on the cut, shoots at the winged demon, it flies away to the stepmother's chambers, K. finds the peel next to the cradle; the padishah does not believe, kicks him out; he left, got married, and his sister-div ate all the people and animals in his country; K. takes care of two lion cubs; wants to visit his parents; gives his wife a jug of milk; if the milk turns red, let her release the lions; K. comes to his sister; she eats off the horse's legs and asks successively whether the horse was three-legged, two-legged, legless; K. replies that it was; mouse: leave your boots, so that it seems as if you are sitting, take three needles, salt, a mirror, a comb; and she will strike the strings of the tambour; sister chases, K. threw down the comb (forest); sister: as you passed; K. lift up your hem; the same with other obstacles: a mirror (river), salt (salt mountain); K. stuck in three needles, they turned into three boxwood trees; the sister pulled out her tooth, began to saw the trunk with it; K. jumped to the second tree; to the third; the milk turned red, the wife released the lions, they tore the diva, K. returned to his wife]: Amonov 1961: 376-381; Bukharan Arabs[the youngest son tells the king to kill his sister, she will become a witch; he does not believe; three sons take turns guarding the horses; the eldest, the middle one fall asleep, the witch eats the horse; the father does not believe; the youngest does not sleep, he sees, the king still does not believe; the youngest leaves, gets married; after 20 years he tells his wife to release his two lions, if the milk turns red, yogurt black; comes to his sister, she hugs him, having eaten his ears; she has already eaten them all; tells him to beat the drum, goes out to the horse, eats off his leg; the brother replies that the horse had three legs; the sister comes out again to eat the horse; someone from under the wall tells them to run, taking a comb, a mirror, salt, a spindle; the thrown objects turn into thorny bushes, a river, a swamp, two trees; the brother climbs a tree, the sister takes out her tooth, chops down the tree with it like an axe; begins to chop down the second; the wife releases the lions; the witch throws herself into the river; the lions say that if blood rises to the surface, they have won, if blood and wool, they are dead; they throw themselves into the water after the witch; first the wool floats, but then the blood; the lions bring the owner a piece of skin from the sister's head; the camel drivers promise to give the camels if the owner of the lions guesses what their cargo is; the piece of skin suggests that it is almonds; the man receives the camels; he distributes them in his father's city, and is elected king]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 58: 324-326.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 19 [an old couple has three sons and a daughter, the youngest is a bald lazybones; the cattle disappear at night; the brothers take turns keeping watch, the older ones fall asleep; the bald man sees a descending fire, shoots, shoots off a finger; in the morning the sister's hand is bandaged; the parents do not believe him; he leaves, marries two princesses in different kingdoms; they advise him to visit his relatives; he arrives on Kuk-tulpar, leaves at a distance, rides in on a mare, desolation is everywhere; the sister is at the stove, flew up the chimney, returned, asks if her brother has arrived on a three-legged horse; then on a two-legged, one-legged, came on foot; the brother rushes away, gallops on Kuk-tulpar, the sister follows, the wives are ready with sabers, they hack her to pieces], 31 [a widower has a son, he married another, a daughter was born; the young man sees how the descending fire turned into a girl, she sucks blood from the heart of a mare; he rushes at the girl, bites off her finger; in the morning he sees that the baby is missing a finger, throws the girl into the oven, the stepmother snatches it, the young man leaves; a month later he saves a white snake from the fire; this is the son of the king of snakes, becomes the hero's companion; brings to his father, advises to ask for a red pillow as a reward, this is his sister; the widower's son is happy with his wife, the vizier sees them, the king demands that he give his wife or get a girl from overseas; the wife says that this is her friend, gives a letter, the young man takes her as a second wife; the king is furious; the king demands another girl, the young man himself takes her as a third wife; the king sent an army, his wives destroyed him; the king gathers a new army, the wives teach him to saddle a winged dragon, it kills the king; the young man decides to visit his relatives, the wives order him to take two horses with him; at home only a sister-witch, eats the horse's legs, then the body; the brother leaves his boots (the sister rushed at them, swallowed them), galloped off to his wives on the second horse]: 116-117, 159-164; Bessonov 1941, No. 28 [when the boy was 6 years old, an abscess burst on her mother's left hand, a girl came out; immediately all the mares threw out; in a dream the brother saw how his sister turned into fire and flew away; the next day he took her from her mother, hit her against the fire, ordered to kill; the parents refused; the son rode away on a thin foal, it turned into a mighty horse; on the way he extinguished a burning bush; there was a snake in it, she led him to her father, ordered to ask for a lame goat as a reward; the snake orders to slaughter her, put her feet to her feet, her head to his head and wish for what you want; In the morning there is a palace and a farm with workers, his wife is in bed; the king is jealous, he sent to bring a golden hare; the wife teaches how to build a bridge across the sea, to catch the hare; the husband caught it and did not give it to the king; he orders to bring a girl from the bottom of the ninth sea; the wife gave a paper: strike the seas, the water will split in two; the man brought the girl, made her his second wife; the king orders to bring eat with netom; the eldest wife was the queen of birds and reptiles, she called everyone, no one knows; the last to arrive was an old frog, she says that eat with netom exist, but she does not know where; they went, the frog jumped into the water; the young man went into the house and hid; some man came in; Syarbyay!Bring the food; the invisible one brings everything; when he left, the man invites S. to the table; he agrees to go with him; orders to poke the house with a stick, it will turn into an egg, put it in his pocket and go home; the king orders to go to his deceased parents; the wives carried the husband from the fire; they order to bury gold under the threshold of the king; tell the king that his parents are in paradise, calling him to them, they tell about the gold; the king found gold, ordered himself to be burned, the man became the king; decided to visit his parents, his wife gave him a tulpar; an old woman is at home - his sister; asks if his brother arrived on a three-legged, two-legged, one-legged horse, came on foot; she rushes at him, he asks for a delay, she ties his leg with a rope, he tied the rope, ran to the horse; an aspen fell in the old woman's path and turned into a mountain; the young man returned to his wives]: 160-166.

Turkestan. Dungan : Riftin et al. 1977, #16 [the emperor's wife gives birth to seven sons, but the parents want a daughter; a werefox overhears their conversation, throws his daughter into the air, they are happy; when the girl reaches seven years old, the horses begin to die; on the advice of his tutor, the emperor's son spies on, sees his sister turn into a white fox, suck the blood of a horse; the next night the brother strikes the fox with a sword, but only cuts off her fingers; the girl tells her father that during the night her brother tried to rape her, and when he refused, he wanted to hack her to death; the emperor is preparing to pelt his son with stones in a well; the tutor tells him to run away; he helps a small tiger cub and a small golden eagle, whom the older cubs push away from food; the young man becomes a scribe, accountant, son-in-law of the emperor; the emperor allows him to visit his relatives; the young man leaves his wife a cup of tiger's milk; if it turns red, she will release a tiger and a golden eagle; the young man finds his country deserted; the sister says that a cannibal has eaten everyone; eats off a horse's leg, asks why his brother's horse has three legs; goes out to boil tea; the mice tell him to escape; the young man climbs a poplar tree; the sister turns into a white fox the size of a camel; the sister gnaws the trunk, the brother moves to another poplar tree; the wife releases a tiger and a golden eagle, after a long struggle they kill the fox; the emperor gives the throne to the young man]: 126-133; Shujang Li, Luckert 1994 (the city of Bogda in northern Xinjiang) [Luguma has a younger sister, Meinai; the sheep disappear; L. sees M. put on a wolf skin, turn into a wolf, and take it to his father; he wounds the wolf in the front leg; in the morning M. complains to her parents that her brother shot her; they drive the son away; L. stops in one village, gets married; tames a hawk chick and a tiger cub; decides to visit his father's house; tells his wife to release the hawk and tiger if they get worried; at home there are only bones of those eaten; M. eats the leg of L.'s horse, asks how many legs there were, the brother answers that there were three; then that there were two; he climbs onto the roof, M. tells him to sit with his legs dangling; he hangs up his shoes, must play a stringed instrument; the red and white mice promise to play for him, tell him to run; M. comes, sees only mice; rubs her forehead, a third eye appears, she sees her brother running away barefoot in the distance; turns into a wolf, chases, the brother climbs one of the three trees; M. says that she is a wolf, ate M. and took her form; she gnaws the trunk, but L. jumps to another tree; the wife releases the hawk and the tiger, they tear the werewolf apart; L. brought his wife to the ruined village, other people also returned]: 112-126.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chelkantsy : Kandarakova 1988 [after the shaman's calling, the wife of the childless Ak-Kaan gives birth to seven sons; after the second calling - to the six-eyed Karagys ; the eldest son Maka-Maatyr sees a girl get out of the cradle, devour animals, lie back down; MM runs away, marries the youngest daughter of the great khan; two other sons-in-law persuade MM to give difficult tasks, the wife explains how to accomplish them; 1) get a golden eagle feather; MM cuts off with an arrow the heads of a seven-headed serpent coming out of the lake to devour the golden eagle chicks; they hide it from their parents; their father arrives with rare snow, their mother - with heavy rain (these are the golden eagles' tears), they carry the deer in their claws; the chicks explain that MM saved them, the golden eagle does not kill MM, but gives a feather; 2) get a tooth of a monstrous wolverine (one of its horns is stuck in the ground, the other props up the sky; MM jumps between the horns, the wolverine runs under the clouds, cannot throw it off, gives two teeth); the sons-in-law do not know how, MM makes a cauldron, working with these teeth like tools; 3) bring Altyn-Tan , the daughter of God; the wife gives MM fur coats to have them, AT's brothers ask her to show MM her face, to drink araki from a thimble; AT loses consciousness, MM takes her away; the brothers catch up, she sends them back; turns the khan into a fox, his people and property into black earth; MM climbs the mountain, sees his camp, cries; says that a branch, pipes, wind damaged his eye; AT punishes them, the wind mother explains what is going on; MM gets home on a six-legged horse; the six-eyed K. has eaten everyone, chases after MM, tears off one by one all the horse's legs; AT tells her not to touch her husband, K. leaves]: 44-72 (retold in Sadalova 1989: 86-87); Sadalova 2002, No. 20 [after turning to the shaman and sacrificing a horse, the wife gives birth to seven sons, the eldest is Maka-Maatyr ; next time he asks for a girl, but sacrifices not a mare, but a dog, gives birth to the six-eyed Karagys ; MM sees how K. gets up from the cradle, eats the calf, lies down back; then a foal, a bull; MM says that he will leave for a short time, leaves forever; is hired as a servant to Ulug-Piya ; marries the youngest of Ulug-Piya's three daughters ; the other sons-in-law say, UP, that his youngest daughter was going to marry a better man, but married a servant; they advise ordering MM to bring 1) feathers of the Purush bird; the wife says that her nest is on the top of one of the seven larches; a seven-headed snake is crawling from the lake to the nest, MM kills seven heads with arrows, climbs into the nest; the chicks say that this snake always devours chicks; father P. flew in with the wind and fine snow, then mother with the wind and rain (these are her tears), gives two feathers; 2) the tooth of a wolverine living at the confluence of seven rivers, to make a tagan; the wife says that one of its horn is stuck in the ground, the other is raised to the sky, you need to grab onto both; the wolverine gives two teeth; 3) the youngest daughter of Kudai Altyn-Tan ; the wife teaches how to make a dwelling where K. gets water; his three sons will come; for a fur coat sewn from what was collected from the mountains, ask to show half of your sister's face; for one sewn from what was collected from the meadows - a button under your arm; from the rivers - let him drink arak from a thimble; AT gets drunk, MM carries her away; the brothers who received the fur coats catch up, AT sends them away; turns UP's cattle into black earth, him - into a fox; MM marries AT; she says that only six-eyed K. remains at MM's father's camp; AT gives him a six-legged trotter; K. gnaws the bones of her parents, sees MM on the chimney, chases, cuts off, eats the sixth, fifth legs of the horse, fights with her brother; AT tells her to leave, she returns home; AT and MM live on]: 173-201.

( Cf. Western Siberia. Kets [Prokofieva's entry; the brother goes further and further from the chum where his sister lives; the Sun-woman takes him to heaven; a week later he asks to let him go; she gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends him down on a winged horse; during this time, Khosyadam ate his sister, took her form; he understands this when he sees her boiling the leg she tore off his horse ; he sticks the leg back, gallops away on his horse, throws the whetstone, comb, they turn into a mountain, a forest; Kh. overcomes obstacles; the Sun grabs him by one leg, Kh. by the other, they tear him in half; the Sun gets the part without a heart, she puts a coal in place of the heart, revives the man, but he dies again and again; she sends him to the other end of the sky, turns him into the Moon, sees him once a year, they see each other's eyes; the Moon cold, because without a heart]: Sangi 1989: 142-144).

NE Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (Sukharnoye village, Kolyma delta; west in 1896 from Russified Yukaghir Anna Korkina) [wife wants pike, husband brings it, wife cooks and eats it, discovers that she has iron teeth; gives birth to a girl, she grows by the hour; her brother hears her promise to eat everyone; parents do not believe him, he runs away alone; comes to the house, there is a naked girl; he marries her; wants to visit his parents, she gives him a six-legged deer; at home he finds his sister playing with her parents' skulls; runs away, she pursues him, tears off and eats first two extra legs, then the fourth leg of the deer; the brother turns his arrow into an iron pole, climbs up; she gnaws the pole with her iron teeth; he asks the jay to pass on a request to his wife to send dogs; the jay refuses; the snow-bunting agrees; the sister sends out the bears and wolves; the Pike girl turns into a stoat, the wolves and bears catch her; the brother chops her into pieces, burns her]: Bogoras 1918, No. 10: 65-67.