M57a2. The male character exudes values.

.11.-.17.19.21.-.24.27.-.34.43.-.48.53.

Instead of the usual secretions, beads, flowers, gold and other valuables pour out of the man's body; or valuables appear due to the very fact of the presence of the male character.

Kaguru, Hausa, Anyi, Krachi, Nubians, Tunisian Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Sicilians, Ladins, Scots, Irish, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany), Germans (East Prussia, Upper Palatinate, Austria, Bohemia), Arameans, Jibbali, Abelam, Tibetans, Amdo Tibetans, Khasi, Riang, Shans, Burmese, Khmu, Ancient India, Punjabis, Bengalis, Tamils, Modoles, Greeks, Romanians, Transylvanian Saxons, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Kherson), Russians (Arkhangelsk {Mezen}, Vologda, Kursk), Poles, Czechs, Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Lurs, Bakhtiars, Persians, Farsivans, Yagnobis, Turkmen, Bukharian Arabs, Uzbeks, Latvians, Setos, Vepsians, Western Sami, Mari, Kazan Tatars, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Dungans, Mongols, Darkhat, Baikal(?) Buryats, Comox, Chalcomelen, Kootenay, Clackamas, Menominee, Prairie Cree, Fox, Sauk, Seneca, Blackfeet, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Santee, Iowa, Arapaho, Kiowa, Creek, Alabama, Coasati, Pomo, Wintu, Achomawi, Eastern Panama.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Kaguru [a bird carries off sheep and goats; a boy fights with it, wins; the bird comes back, carries the boy off to its village, where it turns into a man; returns him; when he speaks, coins fall from his lips ; another boy goes to guard the sheep; also defeats the bird, but continues to beat it when it has already submitted; the same thing happens to him as to the first, but excrement falls from his lips; he is abandoned by everyone]: Beidelman 1974, no. 7: 176-180.

West Africa. Hausa [one daughter from an unloved wife, the other from a beloved one; the daughter from the unloved one lives in a hut on a dung heap, gives her father a cowrie, asks to bring the son of the King of Agadez from the market; at the market a man asks about this, they beat him for a long time, leave him in the evening, the son of the King of Agadez promises to come on Friday; the father beats his daughter, talks about Friday; the young man flies in at night on Friday, where he spits, there is silver ; the women found silver, out of envy they stuck needles in the bed, the young man died; the King of Agadez tortured the girl's parents, but took pity on her; var.: the girl's name is Lahidi, the young man's - Ba-Komi ("Nothing"); the daughter of the beloved wife stuck thorns in the bed out of envy; B. disappeared; L. goes to look for him, hears a conversation of cannibal spirits under a tree; the latter says that if their excrement is given to the king's son to drink, he will recover; L. comes disguised as a doctor, B. drinks the medicine, regurgitates thorns; L. takes B.'s ring as a reward, returns to his place; B. comes to kill L., she shows the ring, B. marries her, gives cattle to her father]: Tremearne 1913, no. 44: 278-282; anyi [a beggar Spider and his rich companion are going to another village, where there is a feast on the occasion of a funeral; the companion carries a vessel of gold as a gift, Spider - with excrement; along the way Spider switches vessels; upon arriving at the village, both break their vessels; Spider is received with honor, he marries; the companion is settled in a poor hut, is not fed; a young girl comes to take care of him, finds gold in his hair , it appears there again and again; becomes his wife; when the Spider runs out of gold, he suggests returning home; the wives accompany both; at a fork in the road to the Spider there are fabrics, but then the path is lost in the thickets, the Spider leads his wife to a poor hut; the path to the companion's house is narrow at first, but then rich fabrics lie on it, he leads his wife to a luxurious palace]: Tauxier 1932, No. 2: 229-230; krachi [the eldest wife of the supreme god Nyane - Akoko ("chicken"); he took four more and asked what each of them would give him; 1) will sweep and keep his yard (compound) clean; 2) cook and not complain if there are a lot of guests; 3) spin and bring water; 4) will give birth to a golden child; the fourth gives birth in the absence of her husband; these are twins; the first born is silver, the second (he is considered the eldest) is golden ; A. put them both in a pot, hid them in a dry tree in the forest; replaced them with two frogs; when N. saw them, he ordered his wife to be banished to the farthest corner of his domain; the hunter found the children; collects the silver and gold dust falling from them , became rich; Anansi (the trickster spider) guessed that these were N.'s children; the twins asked their foster father to bring them some pebbles for a game with which they would tell their story to their real father; while N. played with Silver, Gold sang, telling everything that had happened; N. got his wife back and washed her himself; tied Ayu's feet to a stick and dropped her from the sky; every time the hen wanted to drink, she would have to lift her head and ask N.'s permission; all people would sacrifice chickens to the gods as a very common sacrifice; the twins were washed every year and the dust from them fell to the ground; whoever it fell on would become rich]: Cardinall 1931: 36-39.

Sudan - East Africa. Nubians [wife dies, husband takes another woman, leaves; she takes a lover; stepsons Mohammed and Ali eat the rump and giblets of a chicken cooked for him; hear that their stepmother will kill them, run away; spend the night with an old woman, cry and laugh at night, in the morning the old woman finds gold and pearls spilling from their lips , gives them to them; in the desert, brothers dream of exchanging treasures for water and food, and that is what happens; M. takes the right-hand road; a king is elected in the city, a falcon sits on M.'s head, he becomes king; A. dies of thirst in the desert; the stepmother shows her father the graves of her sons, he finds logs in them; finds M.; tears his wife apart with hungry camels]: Katznelson 1968: 95-98.

North Africa. Arabs of Tunisia [a poor fisherman catches two fish every day; one day he did not sell it, but exchanged it for a bird, put it in a cage; the bird lays an emerald egg every day; the merchant sees the glow, gives up all his goods for 10 eggs; the fisherman became rich; went away on business; his wife has a Jewish lover; he orders the bird to be cooked, including the stomach and heart; the former fisherman's sons, Muhammad and Ali, returned from school and ate them; the Jew orders the boys to be slaughtered to get the bird's stomach and heart; the brothers ran away with the maid; at a fork, M. and the maid went one way, Ali the other; began to live with an old woman; every morning he finds gold on his bed , spends it on living expenses and gives it to the old woman; buys a mule, and in the morning it is back with the seller; the man advises buying with a bridle and feeding it almonds; the mule turns out to be a runner; turns into a woman, she orders to seize Ali, take him to the basement; her whole house is full of cats, donkeys, pigeons; the woman turned Ali into a peacock; Ali turned to God, the bird carried him to the city, gave him medicine to drink, he became a man again; the bird orders to buy a mule again, but not to release the bridle; Ali brought the mule, the bird turned into a wizard, he gave a whip and ordered to beat the mule; not to release the bridle even at night; Ali arrived on a mule to one city, stopped at an inn; the mule again became a woman and Ali took her as his wife; M. arrived in the same city; three birds, a female and two males, flew to the local sultan, but he did not understand what they were asking, promises a reward to anyone who understands; M. says that he knows the language of birds {apparently, this is a consequence of the eaten stomach of the magic bird}; asks first to sit him on the throne and dress him in royal clothes; then he orders the female to fly with the male she loves; after this all the animals come to him as to a judge; the sultan handed over the throne to him; the innkeeper sees Ali's beautiful wife, the boss wants to take her away and put Ali in prison; the matter reaches the sultan-M., he recognizes M.; their father returned, but no wife, no children; he recognized his wife in the Jew's house, but she denied everything; the matter reaches the sultan-M., he brings an old servant; the mother of the brothers and the Jew are burned]: Stimme 1893, No. 6: 93-106.

Southern Europe. Portuguese [a man learns that whoever eats the heart (liver) of a magic bird will find money every day ; will become king; will become pope; children eat the heart (and liver) that their father or uncle was going to eat; run away from home; adventures follow]: Cardigos 2006, no. 567: 143; Spanish (Extremadura) [one of two friends goes broke; takes up hunting; catches a bird that lays diamonds instead of eggs; becomes rich; his former friend wants to accuse him of stealing the bird, but when he learns about the bird, asks him to sell it to him; the former poor man agrees in exchange for all the rich man's property; the latter reads under the bird's wings that whoever eats the head will become king, and whoever swallows the heart will find money at his bedside every morning ; he tells the cook to roast the bird; his two sons accidentally eat the head, the elder, and the younger, the heart; the father began to beat the maid, but the sons confessed; every morning the father began to take money from under the pillow of the youngest son; one day the sons went to another place, the youngest began to find money; when they returned, the father told them everything; they went on a journey; the eldest was chosen king; the youngest went on further; married a poor but pretty girl; her aunt found out about the bird's heart, persuaded her niece to add powder to her husband's wine; he felt ill, he burped up the bird's heart, the aunt swallowed it, kicked the niece's husband out; he went away, ate figs, became a donkey, then ate grass, became a man again, gathered figs and grass, gave the figs to the house, where his wife, she, her aunt and the maid ate them, became donkeys; the young man tortured his aunt-donkey with work; she burped up the hearts, he swallowed it; allowed the donkeys to eat grass; returned to his brother the king]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, no. 567: 571-577; Catalans [after eating the heart of a magic bird, the hero finds a purse of money every day ; a woman makes him vomit and swallows the heart herself; the hero eats figs, turns into a donkey, eats grass, becomes a man again; gives figs to the woman, she turns into a donkey, he again takes possession of the bird's heart and leaves]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 567: 127; Sicilians [two sons bring their mother a colorful bird from the forest; if she lets it go, they will kill her; the mother starts cleaning the cage, finds jewelry in it, brings it to a jeweler; this happens every day; upon learning that the woman has a daughter, the jeweler offers to give her in marriage; the woman agrees; Having become a son-in-law, the jeweler killed the bird, ordered another to be substituted and said that the cat had bitten it; the sons just returned: a boiled bird in a pot; the eldest ate the head, the youngest the liver; the brothers left; the eldest defecates gold ; in the city he was seized and made king; the younger one also defecates and spits gold; does not know about the elder; became rich; began to live with a girl; told her everything; the old woman advised to pour him some special water; he vomited, the bride swallowed the liver herself, began to defecate gold; the guy tells him to burp the liver back; the old woman teaches the girl to feed him a special grass, the guy turned into a donkey; the donkey accidentally ate another grass and became a man again; gathered two kinds of grass; put it in the girl's food, she became a donkey; the guy gave him some of the water to drink, the donkey burped up the liver, the guy swallowed it; gave the donkey to work for the miller; the old woman took pity on the girl, told the king; he recognized his brother; everything was explained; the king ordered his brother to make the girl human again and married them; they brought the mother to themselves]: Pitrè 2009, no. 25: 140-143; Sicilians [two sons brought their mother a colorful bird from the forest; if she lets it go, they will kill it; the mother began to clean the cage, found jewelry in it, brought it to a jeweler; every day; upon learning that the woman has a daughter, the jeweler offers to give her in marriage; the woman agrees; having become a son-in-law, the jeweler killed the bird, ordered that another be substituted and that a cat had bitten it; the sons just returned: a boiled bird in a pot; the elder ate the head, the younger the liver; the brothers left; the elder defecates gold; in the city he was captured and made king; the younger also defecates and spits gold ; does not know about the elder; became rich; began to live with a girl; told her everything; the old woman advised him to pour him some special water; he vomited, the bride swallowed the liver herself, began to defecate gold; the guy tells him to regurgitate the liver back; the old woman teaches the girl to feed him a special herb, the guy turned into a donkey; the donkey accidentally ate another herb and became human again; gathered two kinds of grass; put it in the girl's food, she became a donkey; the guy gave him some of that water to drink, the donkey regurgitated the liver, the guy swallowed it; he gave the donkey to work for the miller; the old woman took pity on the girl, told the king; he recognized his brother; everything became clear; the king told the brother to make the girl human again and married them; they brought the mother to them]: Pitrè 2009, no. 25: 140-143; Ladins [=Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, no. 47: 277-279; a man lived by bringing twigs from the forest and knitting a broom; he caught a bird, at home with his wife he forgot to feed it; when they went to bed, the husband remembered and told his wife to feed the bird; she found a silver egg next to the bird; the next time - a gold one; a diamond one; each time she took the eggs to a jeweler; he asked to show him the bird; the spouses were illiterate, and the jeweler read on its crop: whoever eats its head will become king, and whoever eats its heart will find a purse with money at the head of the bed in the morning ; in order to get possession of the bird, the jeweler married the woodcutter's daughter and asked her to cook the bird on the wedding day; her younger brothers, out of curiosity, ate one's head, the other's heart; the mother raised a cry and the brothers ran away from home; the innkeeper kept the boys for the night; in the morning the maid found the purse; the innkeeper kept the boys; sent them to school; became rich; when a new king was being elected, a dove sat on the head of the brother who ate the bird's head; and the innkeeper married off the other brother; all is well]: Uffer 1973, no. 30: 117-118 (slightly different and shorter version in Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, no. 21: 72-73).

Western Europe. Scots [a widower marries, his stepmother treats his two sons ill, they leave; they caught a beautiful bird; a stranger asked to look at it; it was written under the feathers that the one who ate the heart would get the best wife, and the one who ate the liver would find gold under his pillow in the mornings; he buys the bird from the boys, takes it to his place, tells the cook to cook him the heart and liver; the younger brother accidentally ate the liver, the elder - the heart; the cook tells them to run away; they live with an old woman for a year, in the mornings she collects gold; tells them about their happiness ; the king's daughter takes the elder to be her husband; the younger marries the widow's daughter; she gives him an emetic, the wife swallows the regurgitated liver of the bird, drives her husband away; he works for a miller; his wife teaches the traitor to put a cap on the woman, which takes her to any place; they find themselves on a distant island; the wife asks her husband to get some fruit, puts on the cap, returns home; younger brother eats fruit, grows horns; eats others, horns disappear; eats red lettuce, becomes a horse, green lettuce, a man; returns home on a passing ship; sells fruit to ex-wife, she grows horns; treats with others because she takes emetics, regurgitates liver; swallows liver himself; wife returns to him; he gives her and his mother-in-law red lettuce, both become mares; he gives them to the miller, becomes lord]: McKay 1925: 131-159; Irish [who eats the heart of a magic bird receives gold]: Jackson 1936: 288; Bretons : Luzel 1995 [a young lord takes aim at a wild boar, she calls herself his bride; he marries her, she bears three, then three more sons, from whose hair gold coins fall ; three daughters; [becomes a princess (her mother once called her children freaks, God sent her a pig child as punishment)]: 57-59; Bretons [Louis goes begging with his older brother; the brother is given more generously, he drives Louis away; he comes to the fairy's castle; she gives him a roast pigeon to eat and in the morning he finds 50 coins under his head ; does not take them; the fairy orders to return, brings up and teaches Louis; promises to help him marry the princess; she is sick and will recover if you make her laugh; the fairy gives a self-propelled carriage, each wheel of which rotates with the help of mill blades; the princess laughs, Louis marries her; the princess herself wants to have money on her pillow in the morning; her godmother advises to give her husband an emetic; Louis burps up a pigeon's heart and the princess swallows it; the fairy, helping Louis, gives him in return a hat that fulfills wishes; on the advice of the godmother, the princess takes Louis into the forest, steals the hat and leaves him alone; waking up, hungry Louis takes lily roots (Lilium martagon L.) in his mouth and turns into a donkey; seven years later he comes to his fairy, she returns him to human form; Louis collects lily roots; unrecognized, gives them to the princess under the guise of a rejuvenator; the princess and her godmother are transformed into donkeys; they work for seven years, and then the fairy Louis returns them to human form; the princess reforms]: Orain 1904: 50-63; French (Upper Brittany, west. 1878) [a peasant saw a beautiful blue bird in the forest; the children asked him to catch it; every day it lays an egg; the buyer of eggs: I have no money - the eggs are golden; the prince went in for a drink of water, read the inscription on the wings: whoever eats the head will become king, whoever eats the heart will find a purse of gold under his pillow in the morning ; the landlady does not sell the bird; the prince promises to marry her daughter if this bird is served to him at the wedding feast; the sister persuaded the brothers to agree; the brothers replaced the blue bird in the saucepan with another; the prince ate it, and the brothers ate the real one, but, fearing exposure, ran away from home; at the inn they settled their debt with a handful of gold; after this they learned the value of coins; in a strange city their wealth was learned about, the princess married the younger one, who became king after the death of his father-in-law; the eldest came to a city where gold was previously unknown; married the daughter of a noble lord; a sorcerer explained to the young wife that her husband ate the heart of a bluebird; gave her a silver wire to extract this heart from the stomach of her sleeping husband; invited him on a ship and left him alone on a deserted island; the young man found grass similar to herring, ate it, became a donkey; another ate it, became a man again; the young man gathered both types of grass, a ship picked him up; pretending to be a greengrocer, he sold herring to the princess, she became a donkey, her maid too; the young man drove both donkeys into a stall and fed only hay; gave the donkeys to work for a coal miner; after 8 days he returned them to the stable; after a year the donkey-princess made it clear that she was ready to return the bird's heart; the young man gave her another celery to eat; with a silver wire he pulled out the bird's heart and swallowed it; from then on the couple lived happily ever after and had two children]: Sébillot 1880, no. 14: 97-104 (=Delarue, Tenèze 1964, no. 567: 444-445); Germans (Upper Palatinate) [a man lived by knitting and selling brooms; one day he saw a beautifully singing bird in the forest; it let itself be caught; he brought it, put it in a cage, the bird laid a golden egg, the daughter went to sell it, the master bought it for a lot of money; for the second he gave even more; having learned that the master was ready to sell the bird as well, he richly rewarded him; but the master's bird did not sing, did not eat and died; on its beak was an inscription: whoever ate the head will find a purse with money under his pillow in the morning , and whoever ate the heart will become king; the master ordered the cook to cook the bird; two beggar boys ran in, picked up and ate the two fallen pieces; these turned out to be the head and the heart; the master did not notice anything, ate the bird, but in the morning did not find any gold under the pillow; the boys spent the night with different peasants, but each time they gave the master the purse, deciding that he had planted it; then they guessed that the purse was theirs, but did not understand the value of the gold; a merchant took them in and soon became rich, thanks to the gold that appeared every morning; at this time the childless king died; the new king would be the one on whose head the dove sat; the one did not sit only on the head of the younger youth, he was chosen king; the elder became rich]: Schönwerth 1981: 18-19; Germans (Austria) [a grinder with two sons went to the city; sent his sons for food; they saw a bird, caught it, brought it to their father, he saw an inscription on its head: whoever eats my head will find a bag of gold every day; the old man told the cook to cook the bird, left; the elder brother ate it, giving the younger one the head; the old man beat his sons, found out everything, began to find gold under the younger one's pillow ; the brothers left, hired themselves out to a miller; the servant thinks that they are throwing gold to her; the brothers parted, sticking knives into the oak; the eldest Hans does not kill, takes a fox, a wolf, a bear as companions; in the city every year they give a girl to the seven-headed dragon, it is the princess's turn; G. kills him, cuts out his tongues, the princess gives him a ring, a chain, a scarf; the servant cut off the sleeping G.'s head, brought the dragon's heads, demands the princess for himself; the fox brought the grass of life (it was given to her by a white doe); the bear first put his head back to front, the fox had to bring a new blade of grass; the fox, the wolf, the bear bring the princess a ring, a chain, a scarf; everything is explained, G. marries the princess; he sees a roe deer, chases, meets an old woman, she turns him and the animals into stones; the younger brother sees the elder's rusty knife, with him also a fox, a wolf and a bear; the princess takes him for her husband; he also sees a roe deer, chases after her, but cuts off the old woman's arms and legs, smears her stones with ointment, the animals tear the old woman to pieces; both brothers consider the princess theirs, she chooses the one who killed the dragon]: Zerf 1992: 193-203; Germans (Bohemia) [the old woman tells the hunter to shoot at the cloak that 9 birds are tearing from each other; it will allow him to be transported to any place; one bird will die from the shot, you must swallow its heart; then in the morning you will find gold under your pillow ; having received a cloak and having gold, the soldier approached the castle; he sees an old woman with her daughter; the old woman knows everything about the soldier; tells her daughter to make the soldier fall in love with her, give him an emetic, swallow the heart herself; the old woman takes the gold from her in the morning; let the daughter persuade the soldier to move with her to the garnet mountain, where the precious stones lie; put the soldier to sleep; the girl collected stones, threw on a cloak and returned; there are giants on the mountain; one wants to crush the soldier, the other says that he will not go anywhere anyway, unless a cloud carries him away; the soldier grabbed the cloud, it descended on the vegetable garden; he ate salad, became a donkey; another - a man again; collected both kinds of salad; came to the castle, called himself the king's runner, who was sent for the best salad in the world; the witch, the servant and the girl became donkeys; the soldier took them to the mill; one the miller shall beat three times a day and feed once; another he shall beat and feed once; the third he shall not beat and shall feed three times a day; later he shall feed them with another salad and shall marry the girl]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 122: 400-404 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 315-320); Germans (East Prussia) [a broom maker caught a bird in the forest and brought it; the king came in and saw an inscription under the bird's wing: he who eats the heart shall become king of England; he who eats the liver shall find three ducats under his head in the morning ; the man refused to sell the bird; then the king promised to marry his daughter on the condition that he would be served roast from the bird at the feast; but the bride's two younger brothers looked into the kitchen; one ate the heart and the other the liver; When they came from church, the king saw that the chief was not there, and left in a rage; the brothers ran away and came to an inn; in the morning the owner's wife found three ducats under the pillow of one; the owner invited the boys to stay and live with him; became rich; the eldest brother sees in a dream that they need to go to England; the owner is honest, told about the ducats, gave the brothers money; at a fork in the road they parted; the eldest reached England; the old king died there; they decided to make a strange youth a new one; so the eldest brother became king; the younger met two women who were arguing over an invisibility cloak; asked them for it, put it on, and disappeared; at another crossroads he took seven-league boots from two other old women; in the garden he tried cabbage and became a donkey; he tried another and became a man; married a princess; at a feast, the cook, the cook's wife and the maid accidentally tried the same cabbage and turned into donkeys; a maid of honor came down to the kitchen; the princess followed her; they also try cabbage, become donkeys; then the young man turned them all into people by giving them another cabbage]: Lemke 1887, No. 45: 221-226.

Western Asia. Arameans [a widow's son finds a bird's egg every day, sells it for a hundred piastres; brings the bird home; a merchant persuades the widow to kill the bird; the young man eats its heart, in the morning finds 500 piastres at the head of the bed ; the merchant persuades the widow to kill her son, he leaves; he is admitted to the princess, she gets him drunk, he burps the bird's heart, she eats it; the old man decides to help the young man; teaches him to start cutting a kid with the blunt side of a knife under the windows of the palace, to cook it in a leaky cauldron, to put the meat not in his mouth, but in his ears; each time the princess teaches fools how to do the right thing; the old man goes up to the roof, says that this is a minaret, is going to call for prayer; the princess is afraid that her father will beat her if there is a noise, and is forced to burp the bird's heart and return it to the young man]: Belov, Vilsker 1960: 307-311; jibbali [the mother died, leaving two sons; the boys came to the grave, from where a bird flew out to them; the eldest suggested that their father marry again; the stepmother decided to kill her stepsons; she put poison in their food; the bird told the boys about it; the old woman advised the stepmother to pretend to be ill; the husband asked the old woman what to do; she ordered her to kill the bird; the maid boiled it; the elder brother ate the head, the younger - the heart; the brothers left home; they parted at a fork in the road; the younger came to the city, fell asleep in the mosque; the minister found a purse of gold at that place, gave it to the boy; he began to live with the old woman, every morning he found gold under his head ; The old woman told the sultan's daughter about this; she called the young man, offered to spit, he burped up a gold ring, she swallowed it; He bought a flying carpet at the bazaar, came to the sultan's daughter, and flew away to the island with her; When he left the carpet, the sultan's daughter flew home on it, and the young man remained on the island; He found three kinds of berries: some turn into a donkey, others make horns grow, and others return a normal appearance; He swam to the mainland, came to the city, offered a means for pregnancy; the old woman ate them, became a donkey; He freed her when she returned the chest to him {apparently, with the gold that she was taking}; He offered the berries to the sultan's daughter, horns grew on her, he freed her, just as she returned the ring and the flying carpet; He built his house; His elder brother came with a caravan of camels; When the caravan was leaving, the younger brother put an expensive dish under it; then he sent people, they accused the elder of theft; he was brought to the younger, the brothers recognized each other, told what had happened to them, and stayed together]: Müller 1907, no. 13: 52-58.

Melanesia. Abelam [The Sun went to plant yams; the Moon threw ashes out of the fireplace, another man appeared from there; the Sun came, asked the man whether he wanted a full moon or a half; he replied that he wanted a full moon; the Sun invited him to lie down with the Moon; then the man died from the Sun's heat; he dried up the springs and the river; but then the dead man was doused with water, he came back to life; he went to the latrine, saw that the Sun's excrement was valuable shells ; he took it with him; the Sun became furious, ordered it to be put back]: Huber-Greub 1988, no. 8.1.10: 281-282.

Tibet - North-East of India. Tibetans : Yondon 1989 [translation of Indian sources]: 52; Waddell 1931 [(one of the "ghost stories"; turquoise and golden frogs give out water only in exchange for human sacrifice; the prince and his friend kill the frogs, who order them to be eaten, they will burp up turquoise, gold ; the innkeeper and her daughter get them drunk so that they burp up more gold; the friends take away, supposedly resolving their dispute, the invisibility cap from the children, the seven-league boots from the demons; the prince is elected king, the friend - minister; the prince marries the daughter of the former king; the minister watches as the prince's wife comes to the old fortress for a date with Togkarko, who flies in the form of a bird; the minister lures the bird into the palace, burns it; finds a carpet, rolled on which he turns into a donkey and back into a man; plants it on the innkeepers; three years later the king orders turn overworked donkeys back into women]: 187-192; Tibetans [a mouse wanted to give birth to the strongest child% then the most beautiful; the smartest; gave birth to a tiger cub, a peacock, a boy named Hlatsin; the tiger and peacock went to the tigers and peacocks, promised to help; the barber saw a boy whose nails and hair were not cut; offered to cut his hair; hair clippings turned into gems, nails - into turquoise ; learning about this, the prince wanted to keep H. as a source of jewelry; accused him of going to his forest; if he brings four tigers, he will forgive; mother gave H. tiger hairs, brother-tiger brought a hundred tigers, prince took four; now the prince demands four peacocks to sit on the towers; if he fulfills the order, he will get the princess; brother-peacock brought; prince: let your mother-mouse will defeat my elephant; the mouse smeared its body with poison, climbed into the elephant's trunk, and it died; the prince had to give up his daughter; after the death of his father-in-law, H. reigned]: Komissarov 1997: 157-162; Tibetans (Amdo): Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007: 58 [The Frog and the Turtle settled in a lake; they give out water only when young men are sacrificed to them; it was the turn of the hunter's son and the farmer's son; they hid behind rocks; the hunter's son threw a rock at the Frog; the Frog decided that it was the Turtle who did it, and they quarreled; the young men grabbed them by the necks; whoever kills the Frog with a blow to the head with a stick and eats it will spit out gold; whoever hits the Turtle with a rock will spit out turquoise ; they did so, returned home, and began to spit out gold and turquoise], 248-249 [at Prince Caireng's sworn brother Nima, the son of a common woman; the king fears that the clever N. will take the throne, and expels him; K. leaves with him; two frogs demand that people sacrifice 15-year-old boys, otherwise they will flood the village; K. and N. kill and eat them; after this K. spits gold, N. - silver; in another place people will make the one whose saliva is gold king, and the one whose is silver will make him minister; K. and N. become king and minister]; Khasi [only one family shelters the wanderer; he leaves the little animal; if you eat its meat, you will become rich; the mother-in-law cooks the meat, the daughter-in-law enters, the mother-in-law scolds and drives her away; she accidentally eats a piece; she leaves the evil mother-in-law with her husband; the husband bathes in a pond, he is swallowed by the dragon U Yak Jakor; the wife finds her husband's clothes; the little son U Babam Doh cries with her, his tears turn to gold , for the blessing of the wanderer has passed on to him; the boy grows up, beats the chieftain's heir at dice, wins his right of inheritance; he says that UBD was conceived by his mother from a dragon; the mother is forced to tell about her father, she gives her son his clothes and a brass vessel; UBD lured the dragon onto dry land, where it loses its strength, lures it into a chest, brings it home, forbids his mother to open it; she opened it, the dragon took the form of her husband, said that he would recover after receiving the tigress's milk, but the one who brought the milk must not know what it is for; 1) the mother pretends to be ill, asks her son to go get milk; he treats the tiger cub, the tigress gives milk; 2) the same with the task of bringing fresh bear fat (the son catches and brings a live bear); 3) a fresh python skin; the son spies, sees how his mother opens the chest, kills the dragon, tells his story, inherits the throne]: Rafy 1920, No. 23: 140-160; riang [the king of Haphong had sons Abula and Adula; when she died, their mother bequeathed a magic rooster to them; the king's new wife ordered the rooster to be slaughtered and cooked; the bird tells the brothers to eat the rooster, and to cook another for their father and stepmother; having tasted this meat, the brothers gained enormous strength; the father advised them to leave; in the forest Abula went to the lake for water; at that time people were choosing a king; a white elephant came up to Abula, picked him up with his trunk, brought him to the city, Abula was married to the eldest daughter of the deceased king and made the new one; the youngest daughter wants the same handsome husband, ordered Abula's face to be depicted on fabric; at that time fishermen found Adula; they noticed that when he cries, silver pours out, and when he laughs, gold ; the messengers of the youngest princess found him, he married her, became a vizier; Abula fell ill; the shaman ordered to put him in an iron barrel, then he will tell what to do; Abula in a past life was a black dog (at this time Abula chops the barrel with a sword, but it withstood); he has to listen further; the princess of the kingdom of Hahoo spent all her time with this dog, bad rumors began to spread; then she ordered to chop the dog down, and tie its head to the top of a banyan tree; when the banyan tree sways in the wind, the king gets dizzy; it is necessary to find and burn the dog's head; Abula went to H., the princess's ring fit his finger, he married her, burned the dog's head, recovered; having lived a long time in H., Abula left the throne to his son from another wife, and with the main one and with his retinue he sailed back to his kingdom; he was warned not to turn around, but he turned around and the ship sank; he threw a ring to someone on another ship: whoever it fits will be king; it fits Adula; when he grew old, his son began to rule; he found a magic throne that gives strength and wisdom]: Mandal 2009: 111-114.

Burma - Indochina. Shans [two sons of a king kill a crane, the king orders their execution, the executioners let them go; princes kill and eat a wonderful peacock, after which emeralds pour out of the mouth of the younger one when he laughs, pearls when he cries , the elder is elected king; a rich man keeps the younger one in prison, then takes him to the king; the brothers recognize each other; the younger one inherits his father's throne]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, no. 192: 526-531 (=Shturm 1990: 544-547); Burmese [=Aung 1948, no. 3: 75-76, =Spencer 2014: 13-14; a poor brother brings the feathers of a golden rooster to a rich man, who gives small change for them; The rooster says that whoever eats his heart will find golden eggs under his bed ; the rich man asks to bring him a rooster; the poor man asks to raise his two sons in return; having cut up the rooster, the boys drop the heart on the floor and eat it; they become rich together with their father]: Aun 1957: 60-62; khmu [seven brothers are discussing what is the most delicious; the elders talk about food, the youngest about a girl; the elders beat him; having heard his explanation, his mother and father also beat him; he goes into the forest, kills the piglets of a wild boar, climbs a tree; sees how the pig revived those killed by a plant; takes a piece of the plant, revives a dead bird; the ruler's daughter died, the ruler promises her to the one who revives her; the young man revives her, but does not take her as a wife, but asks the ruler for a rooster; if you press him, he creates everything you want; creates a village; The ruler comes and asks to see what he used to bring his daughter back to life; the young man opens his palm, the Moon descends and carries away the remedy; during an eclipse, the Moon is attacked by a Frog trying to take possession of it (the remedy is called a "piece of wood" here); the young man's brothers come and ask for a rooster to create a village for themselves too; frightened by a storm that has begun, they squeeze too hard, the rooster dies; the young man makes a comb out of the rooster's bones; when he combs his hair, gold and silver fall out ; the brothers ask to borrow the comb, comb their hair, their hair falls out, they burn the comb; a little remains, the young man makes a toothpick out of it, gold and silver pour out again; the brothers and parents ask for a toothpick, their teeth fall out, they burn the toothpick; a piece remains, the young man swallows it, his intestinal gases become fragrant; one of the brothers asks what to eat; the young man advises to eat some plants [brother soiled himself and died]: Lindell et al. 1978, no. 14: 112-117.

South Asia. Ancient India [Jatakas, nos. 384, 536; Shukasaptati, 9; when the Brahmin Naya laughed, pearls fell from his mouth ; returning home, N. finds his wife with a slave; the king calls him to him, but N. does not laugh; spends the night with the king's shepherd, sees the queen come to him, the shepherd hits her with a club for being late; later the king accidentally pokes her with a ring, the queen bursts into tears; N. laughs, tells everything; having renounced the world, the king and the Brahmin become hermits]: Landon 1989: 52 (cf. AT 1426); Punjabis (Seraiki, Multan) [the merchant's son had just married when he was offered to sail on a ship with goods; being in a distant city, he lay down to rest, heard the conversation of swans; if this young man gets together with his wife today, a boy will be born, from whose mouth rubies will pour out, if he laughs; the swans decided to immediately carry the merchant's son home, if they are given pearls for food; the wife did not immediately believe that her husband had come, then she gave the swans her necklace; she got together with her husband, and in the morning the swans carried him back; his parents decided that the child was not his, they abandoned their daughter-in-law in the forest; she came to a hermit, gave birth to a son; the jeweler's wife replaced him with her child, came with her husband to another city, where the husband became a vizier; the wife of the merchant's son found her son, tried to carry him away, but she was seized, taken into the forest to be killed; a prostitute bought her, and the executioners brought deer blood for now; the prostitute agreed not to teach her her profession, but ordered her to take care of the cow and spin; the grown son came to the prostitute, the cow told him that he was going to get together with his mother; the king, the vizier and everyone gathered, including the woman's husband, who happened to be in that city; the cow told everything; the vizier and his wife were executed, the prostitute was rewarded]: Mehta 2011: 123-129; Bengalis [a merchant's son takes an egg from a warbler's nest, puts it in a cabinet in a niche in the wall, forgets about it; a girl is born from the egg; she grows up; in the youth's absence, she comes out, eats the food brought to him, returns to the niche; after 16 years the youth notices this; the mother advises him to hide; he finds the girl; she marries her; they have sons Swat (in Russian transcription Shet) and the younger Basanta (Boshonto); the elder merchant, his wife, the wonderful wife die; the merchant (i.e. the husband of the wonderful wife) marries the young wife; the wife of his son Sh. is older than her; the stepmother hates her stepsons; the fisherman brings a fish; if you eat it, jewels will fall from your lips if you laugh, pearls from your eyes if you cry ; the merchant tells his daughter-in-law to roast it for him; she gives the fish to her husband and his brother; Bosonty's pigeon flies to the stepmother, she hides it under her dress, Sh. takes it away; the stepmother promises that her husband will kill his stepsons as soon as he returns; both brothers with Sh.'s wife leave the house on a fast horse; spend the night in the forest, Sh.'s wife gives birth; Sh. goes to look for fire; in the city he is elected king, married; the previous king is found dead in the morning in his wife's chambers; so every day; Sh. does not sleep, sees a long hair crawling out of his sleeping wife's nostril, turns into a snake, Sh. kills it; Sh. forgets about his first wife, remains king; B. goes to the river, cries; a merchant sailing by takes him away; keeps him locked up, beats and tickles him in order to get pearls and precious stones; in the forest Sh.'s wife falls asleep; The police chief (he is of a low caste) sees her, he has his own dead baby; he substitutes it for the woman's baby; she goes to drown herself, is saved by a Brahmin, she lives with his family; the kidnapped baby grows up, wants to marry the Brahmin's adopted daughter; he refuses; the young man is going to kidnap her; he hears the calves talking, learns the whole story; comes to the king (i.e. to his father Sh.); he confirms everything; the family is reunited; the merchant who tortured B. is buried alive in a pit with thorns]: Day 1914, No. 5: 93-107 (translated in Zograf 1976: 133-138); Tamils ​​[a sage predicts to a childless king that he will have two sons, but first he will lose his kingdom, although in the end his sons will help him; the king is driven out of the city by his enemies, he and his wife serve in a rich house; the mistress takes care of the eldest and then the youngest boy; they decide to leave to earn their own living; they see an unusual mango in the forest, hide it in the portion of rice they took with them; the hermit waited a hundred years for the fruit to fall, and then went away to wash; he believes that the boys did not take the fruit; he explains that whoever eats the pulp will become king, and jewels will fall from the lips of whoever eats the seed every time he laughed; the elder ate the pulp, the younger - the bone; after the death of the king, the one on whom the elephant hangs the garland will become the new king; the elephant goes into the forest, hangs it on the elder boy; the younger decided that a wild elephant killed his brother; the younger stayed at the house of a dancer and her mother; when they learned about the falling jewels, they gave him an emetic and, having taken possession of the bone, drove him out; he saw a dying saint who had a bag that gave anything you asked for, a cup that contained any food, a club that would defeat everyone, seven-league sandals; the disciples began to argue over the miraculous objects, went to look for a judge; the young man took the objects, the saint blessed him from the grave; the dancer's mother pretended to have accidentally closed the door in front of the young man that time; he asked the bag for a palace; he told the women everything; they suggested that he visit a temple on an island, left him there, taking the miraculous objects; there was a tree with four kinds of fruit, turning one into a monkey, a kite, an old woman and again into a youth; having become a kite, he returned to the dancer's palace, gave them the fruit, the dancer became a monkey, and her mother - a kite; the youth took the magical objects; came to his brother's city, they recognized each other; threw a club at his father's enemies, returned the kingdom to him]: Natesa Sastri 1886: 120-139.

Malaysia – Indonesia. Modole [{the middle of the text is not clear to me}; a woman gave birth to a son in the form of a marsupial rat; the youngest of the Sultan's seven daughters (konig) agreed to marry him; before a festival he shed his rat skin and became a young man; gold and silver fell from his hair, half his teeth were gold, the other silver; the younger sister gave birth to two children - a new moon and a morning dawn on their foreheads; the sisters taped up the eyes of the woman in labor, put charcoal and coconut husks in her vagina; and left the children in a box near a stranger's house; an old woman raised them; they made a stone ship and sailed to their father; one had a new moon on his forehead, the other the morning dawn; their mother laid the sisters on the ground and the ship rolled over them as if on rollers]: Ellen 1916b, no. 6: 221-225.

Balkans. Greeks : Dawkins 1916: 411-419 [a woodcutter brought a feather from the forest; a Jew bought it, asks for an egg; bought it, asks for a bird; agreed with the woodcutter's wife that she would roast it; but her sons ate the head, liver, and heart; the Jew and the woman want to kill them, they run away; a bird lands on the head of one three times, he is chosen king; anyone he stays with becomes rich; the Jew learns of this, tries to kill the boy, but fails; he begins to live with a dervish; the dervish shows him a cap of invisibility; a pipe with which to summon a blackamoor; a fig tree from each fruit of which a horn grows on the head; water that turns into a donkey; water that makes the horn disappear; when the dervish dies, the youth takes possession of all this; he comes to a fork in the road, there is an inscription: to the right - you will return, to the left - no; he went to the left; there was a crowd around the girl; for the right to see her - 3 shares of gold; to see her naked breast - 8; completely naked - 40; the young man had as much gold as you want, since he ate the liver of a bird ; the girl gave him something to drink, he burped up the liver, she put it in a vessel; he came in an invisibility cap, fell asleep, she took possession of it; he came with a blackamoor, she asked him to remove it, promised to return the invisibility cap, deceived again; he sold her figs, she grew horns; the young man appeared under the guise of a doctor; he said that the horns grew because of sins; the queen returned everything stolen; he removed the horns with good water, and with bad water he turned other girls into donkeys and brought them to his brother so that he would use them in the construction; and then returned them to human form], 479-483 [the same story, briefly]; Romanians [Serekuts Petru is poor, he has two children; his rich Schwager calls him to help tie sheaves; some old man eats the food intended for SP; this is his brother's Happiness, and his own got drunk and is sitting in a tavern; let him go there and get the chicken of happiness; the chicken lays eggs every day and SP became rich; the teacher fell in love with SP's wife; he read what was written under the chicken's wing; whoever eats the kidneys will find gold under the pillow , and whoever eats the heart will become a king; the teacher orders the woman to kill and cook the chicken, but the children of SP ate the kidneys and the heart; the teacher sends the executioner to kill the children in the forest and get what they ate from them, but they persuaded the executioner to let them go; the boy ate pears from the tree, they grew horns, ate apples - the horns disappeared; they came to live with the old man; then they came to the city; the crown flew in and sat on the head of one of them; the second brother returned to the old man and married the minister's daughter; she had a lover who gave her a potion; she slipped it into her husband's drink, he regurgitated pieces of swallowed liver; the wife swallowed them herself and threw him out; on the advice of the old man, the young man picked pears and apples from those trees, sold them, his wife grew horns; the brothers turned into two stars {not very clear}]: Bîrlea 1966: 445-446; Transylvanian Saxons [a poor man caught and brought home an unusual bird; it began to sing beautifully; the neighbors persuaded him not to kill it; at night it laid an egg - a precious stone, from which it became light; a Jew found out about this; began to buy eggs and persuade them to sell the bird; persuaded them to show it; read under the left wing: whoever eats the heart, in the morning will find three gold coins at their head; under the right wing: whoever eats the liver will become king in Rome; he told the man that it was written there that the bird will die in two days; if he cooks it for him, the Jew is ready to pay the promised price now; the man slaughtered and cooked the bird, but the fried heart and liver were accidentally eaten by the man's sons; the Jew took the money back, took the precious eggs and left; the man drove his sons out of the house, gave them to a passing soldier and cut off each one's little finger on his left hand; but the soldier grew the little fingers back; left the children in the city; the king and princess took them in; Every morning a maid finds three gold coins at the eldest's headboard; when the boys grow up, she gives them all to the king; he thinks there is something wrong with the young men and orders them to be left in the forest; from the crossroads, the eldest goes east, and the youngest goes south to Rome; the Romans elected 7 kings in a year, they all died, no one wants to be king anymore; they decide to elect the one who is first at the gates when they open in the morning; this is the youngest of the young men; he reigns, begins to build palaces and castles; the eldest came to a small town and got married; the wife asks where the ducats came from; the husband told about the eaten bird's heart; the wife gave her husband a sleeping pill and a laxative, got the heart, swallowed it herself, kicked out her husband and took another; the young man was in poverty, saw a witch lying in the forest in shit; he asked for help, and he would help her; he pulled her out of the shit, and she gave him a bridle: an object or creature that he hit with it would become a horse {and return to its former form at will}; galloped to the city where his ex-wife was, turned the horse into stone again; found his wife, turned her into a horse, galloped to Rome and began to carry stones on the horse until nothing remained of her but skin and bones; for cruelty to an animal they were going to hang him; at this time the king comes out; the elder brother calls him, he recognized him, listened to his story; they turned the horse into a woman again, made it belch up its heart, the elder brother swallowed it; the king appointed him treasurer; executed the woman; the brothers found their father and showed him their cut off little fingers; forgave him; and the Jew then hanged himself in the forest]: Haltrich 1882, No. 6: 5-6; Bulgarians [the king (who has forbidden lighting fires at night) overhears a conversation between three sisters; the first promises, if she marries the king, to clothe his army from a single spindle of wool; the second, to feed the army with a single loaf of bread; the third, to give birth to wonderful children (a girl with golden braids, silver teeth, etc.); the king successively takes all three as wives; the first two do not fulfill their promise, the third gives birth to wonderful children; the envious sisters replace them with a kitten and a puppy (kill them), bury them in the garden; the king sends his wife to tend geese (ducks), marries one of the older sisters again; the buried children turn into wonderful trees (with golden leaves, apples), caress the king with branches, whip the queen; they are cut down, a bed is made, she says that the father is not heavy, his wife is heavy; [the bed is burned, a valislek grows from the ashes, a sheep eats it, gives birth to golden lambs, they are thrown into a river (well), they become children again; they tell their story ( at this time beads, pearls, money fall from their lips ), the king acknowledges the children and his wife]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no. 707D: 140-244-245; Bulgarians [an orphan finds a bird (a hen that lays golden eggs, a black hen, a sparrow), becomes rich; in his absence his wife slaughtered it and cooked it for her lover; their two sons secretly eat the heart and liver (head, stomach); they do not know that now one will become king, the other will find money under his head every morning ; they run away from home, separate; one is chosen king because a bird sat on his head; the other becomes rich; brothers meet, get to know each other, live together in the palace (they also take their father in; his unfaithful wife is cruelly punished)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no. 567A: 214; Macedonians [the poor man has a small vineyard, and the rich man has a large one; when the poor man went to reap the harvest, the bunches of grapes ended up on the rich man's plot; the one who moved them is the rich man's Luck; and his Luck sleeps under a bush; the poor man found a nest there and brought home a bird; it laid a golden egg, he sold it to a Jew for 5 gold pieces; the Jew asks that all such eggs be brought to him; in the absence of her husband, the Jew became friends with his wife, offered to kill and cook the bird; 5 but the liver and goiter were eaten by the sons of the former poor man (his wife is their stepmother); the stepmother and the Jew decided to kill the boys; the eldest overheard, they ran away; they came to the doors of the castle where the king died; the new one will be the one who is first at the door in the morning; so the elder brother became king; the younger one became rich by finding gold coins at the head of his bed in the morning ; the princess allows him to look at her for money: the more, the closer; the young man first looked at her, and then took her as his wife; told her about the bird's crop; she made him burp, swallowed it herself, and threw the young man into the sea; he swam to the island; having smelled the red roses, he became a donkey, and having smelled the white ones, he became a man again; he collected both; ate the grass, becoming a donkey; began to bray like a donkey, seeing the ship; having become a man, he returned on it to the princess's city; pretending to be a merchant, he promised to give the roses for free if the princess and her 39 servants sniffed them; they became donkeys; he made his donkey-wife burp the bird's crop; he brought the donkeys to the monastery under construction; they were used to carry stones; then the king, i.e. his brother, brought them to the court and told him everything; before his eyes he turned the donkeys into women; they became servants; the brothers called their father and told him everything; they put him on the throne; the Jew and the stepmother were chopped into pieces]: Mazon 1936, no. 45: 171-179.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [a poor man finds an egg, it turns out to be golden, catches a bird; a teacher falls in love with the owner's wife, says that he will get well if he eats the heart and heads of the bird; the owner's children accidentally eat them; the teacher asks to let him eat the children's heart and head; the forester lets the boys go, brings the heart and head of a dog; the brothers live with an old woman, a crown falls on Yurko's head, he is elected king; Vasil helps him, in the mornings he finds gold at the head of his bed ; the beauty gets him drunk, he burps his head, she takes it; V. takes a flying saddle from the devils arguing over it; he collects jewelry overseas; the beauty goes with him, is carried away in the saddle; V. finds a pear, an apricot, a plum, which turn into a horse, a deer, back into a man; he sells to the beauty, turns her into a mare, drives her; brothers come to their mother, tell about themselves, her heart breaks; fly away with their father and sister to their kingdom]: Fairy Tales of Verkhovyna 1970: 217-223; Ukrainians (Kherson) [an old man caught a duck in a snare; on its head there was an inscription: whoever eats the head will become king; on its chest: whoever eats the heart will spit out gold coins; the master bought it, told the cook to fry it; the master's eldest son saw the inscriptions on the duck, ate the head, and gave the heart to his younger brother to eat; they advised the cook to serve the master dog meat; they themselves left; in one place the king died, the eldest was chosen as the new one; the youngest found 4 types of berries: they make a handsome man; a horned horse; an old man; a young man; he spits gold; he became a merchant; he sold the berries that bring beauty to the queen; she called the merchant to her place, offered to play cards; he lost everything, but spits out the chervonets ; the queen put him to sleep, gave him an emetic, and got the meat of that bird; he sold her the berries that turned her into a horned horse; he promises to cure her, takes her into the forest, beats her with iron, copper, and wooden rods until she tells him where she hid the meat; the tsar wants to hang the merchant; on the gallows he turns to him: farewell, brother; the tsar recognized his brother, hanged the queen, and took his brother to himself]: Yastrebov 1894, no. 16: 148-152; Russian (Arkhangelskaya: Mezen, d. Lebskaya, 1927) [the son of an old man and an old woman (S.) found a hare in a trap, told his mother that he shot it himself. The same with the wood grouse. On the third time he sees a golden hen in the forest, finds her nest, takes two golden eggs, takes them to the merchant's wife (K.), who reads a warning on them: "No one should touch these eggs, otherwise he will be in trouble," asks her to get the hen herself for her. S. catches the hen in a snare, takes it to the merchant's wife, and receives a ruble for it. Her lover, an officer (O.), comes to K., while her husband and both stepsons Vasya and Vanya are absent. O. reads under the hen's wing: " Whoever eats my head will be the king of the kingdom. And whoever eats my maksa will spit gold " He persuades K. to cook a chicken for him, but its head, when he returns from school, is eaten by Vasya, and the liver (max) by Vanya. When O. threatens K. to disgrace her throughout the city and leaves, K. beats Vasya and Vanya, they run into the forest and accidentally find out that Vanya spits gold. They come to the grandmother's hut, spit gold at her and stay to live with her. At this time, the successor of the deceased tsar is being chosen, everyone is gathered in the church, given a candle, only Vasya's candle lights up in his hands, he becomes the tsar. Vanya goes to look for his destiny, reaches a foreign kingdom and lives with an old woman, spitting gold at her. His fame reaches the local princess (Ts.), she invites Vanya to her place and learns from him that the reason for his gift is in the golden liver he ate. She gives Vanya something to drink, he begins to vomit, and he vomits up the liver. C. washes the liver and eats it herself, and orders Vanya to be thrown into the forest. In the forest, Vanya learns that he has lost his ability, climbs an oak tree and overhears a conversation between three wood goblins, one of whom has gotten a flying carpet, the second some scab grass, and the third some living grass. When the wood goblins lay all of this out on the carpet, Vanya jumps down and flies off to C.'s kingdom, where he gets a job as a palace cook and slips some scab grass into her pie for her name day. Nine sorcerers and doctors tried to cure C.'s scab, failed, and were deprived of their heads. The tenth pike for a head on the palace parade ground is empty. Vanya comes to treat C., steams her in a bathhouse, gives her moonshine to drink, she vomits up a golden liver, Vanya washes this liver and eats it again himself. He asks C. if she has deceived anyone. She does not confess, Vanya beats her first with a copper rod, then with a silver rod, then with a gold rod. After the first she confesses that she deceived, after the second, that she deceived Vanya, after the third she promises to become Vanya's faithful wife. Vanya gives her some herbs, she becomes Vanya's wife, and he becomes the king]: Karnaukhova 2008, no. 139: 320-325; Russian (Vologda): Azadovsky 1934, no. 11 []: 245-266; Russian (Vologda) [the father died; two sons have no children, the fool Vanya has seven; he goes to beg grain from his elder brother; the daughters-in-law are indignant; on Sunday he went wherever his eyes looked; the woman chops wood, says that she is the elder brother's lot, and his, Vanya's, lot, and does not work on weekdays, but spends time with her lover; The woman teaches how to find Vanya's fate, tells him to order three iron rods from the blacksmith; fate will offer vodka, drink two shots, do not drink the third, but beat fate until the rods wear out; it gives a hen that lays golden eggs; the brothers sail away on ships on trade business, Vanya asks to sell three eggs laid by his hen; the brothers do not know that they are golden; for the eggs they received three ships with goods, they wanted to take them for themselves, all the ships immediately stopped; they had to give the goods and ships to Vanya, he became rich; Vanya's wife took a lover; he read on the hen's comb: whoever eats the comb will become a king, whoever eats the navel will spit gold ; lover: if you don’t kill a chicken for me, I’ll leave you; Vanya’s children Mishka and Grishka ate the chicken; they hear their mother promising to skin them; they left home; they stayed with an old woman, they pay in gold; she says that they will elect a tsar; whoever’s candle lights up in their hands will be elected; Grishka’s candle lights up, he becomes a tsar; he gets married; Mishka goes to look for a wife; he ate some grass and gets sick, he ate another and gets better; he heals the princess, he marries her; she gives him so much to drink that he starts vomiting, his navel falls out, his wife orders him to throw it in the outhouse; M. wakes up, leaves, finds apples that make horns grow, and others that make them fall off his head; he sells the first ones to the king, the princess gets horns; disguised as a doctor, he orders the princess to be sent to the bathhouse; beat her with iron rods until she lost consciousness and burped her navel; then fed her other apples; the young people forgave each other and began to live well; both brothers went and found their father, he was herding pigs; they tore their mother in half, taking her by the legs, and shot her lover on the doorway]: Gura 1965 {probably; the last name and year were omitted}, No. 32: 249-254; Russians (Vologda) [the poor brother has two sons, 7 and 8 years old, and the rich man is childless; the poor man shot an unusual bird; the rich man offered to buy it, the poor man gave it to him; the rich man told his wife to cook it, and the heart, liver and lungs separately; the nephews accidentally came in and ate it; the rich man's wife substituted rooster's; the rich man did not find gold under his pillow in the morning, but his nephews found it ; The rich man tells the poor man that his children are evil spirits; the poor man does not kill them, but leaves them in the forest; a hunter picks them up and they live with him until they are 18; then they leave; they do not kill the hare, fox, wolf, bear, or lioness; each gives them two of her cubs; at the fork in the road, the elder goes left and the younger goes right; the elder comes to the city, there is mourning: the 12-headed serpent takes the king's daughter; the guy cuts off the snake's head, cuts out its tongues, wraps it in a scarf, the princess gives him her necklace; the servant cuts off the sleeping man's head and makes the princess say that he is the savior; the hare runs off for a reviving root, the animals bring the owner back to life; he sends a letter to the princess with the hare; he comes to the wedding feast, shows the princess's necklace and the snake's tongues; the deceitful groom is shot; one day the elder brother goes hunting; old woman in a tree: cold; afraid of animals; gave him a rod; after that he and the animals turned to stone; the younger brother sees that the elder's dagger has rusted; follows in his footsteps; realizing that he is mistaken for the elder brother, refuses to lie with the princess, citing fatigue; did not take the rod, forced the old woman to revive the petrified ones, then the animals tore her apart; having learned that the younger one was with the princess, the elder, her husband, cut off his brother's head; repented; revived his brother with the same root with which he was revived; the wife only recognized her husband by the necklace; I was there, drank honey and beer, but nothing got into my mouth]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 36: 79-86; Russian (Kurskaya, Valuysky district) [The rich brother does not like his poor brother's family, but his wife loves her nephews and secretly feeds them. The poor brother kills a firebird in the forest, his children show the feathers to the rich brother, who tells the priest, who demands that the bird be cooked for him. The poor children accidentally eat it, the rich brother's wife exchanges the bird for a chicken, putting in the heart and liver of the firebird. The rich brother eats it, tells the priest that dogs ate the bird. The priest demands that dogs be cooked for him. The mother finds money on the poor children's pillows , thinking that they are stealing from their rich uncle. The poor brother tells the rich brother what happened, who tells the priest. The priest says that a demon has entered the children and they must be killed. The father takes the children into the forest and leaves them there, they come to a dugout and stay to live with the old woman who owns them, her husband adopts them, teaches them science. After 20 years, he wants to test the brothers, asks them to hit the first and last bird in a flying flock, gives them a gun and a silver dagger - in case of separation, rust on the blade will indicate that misfortune has happened to one of them; (further see motif K94, Bird of Happiness]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939: 76-84; Poles [a poor man or his twin sons catch a bird that lays golden eggs; a rich man, having learned of its magical properties, orders it to be cooked for him, but the head and heart are eaten by the poor man's sons; therefore one becomes a king, and the other begins to spit out gold or finds it under his pillow and becomes rich; the queen gives him an emetic, but he returns it to himself]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 567: 187-1880; Czechs [a hunter shot an unusual bird; a woman in the forest explains that whoever eats the bird's head will become a king, and whoever eats the heart will find money under his pillow in the morning ; the hunter tells his wife to cook the bird; she leaves her sons Fortunatus and Alex to look after it; the head and heart fall out, F. eats the heart, A. the head; the mother is furious, the brothers run away; in the house where they spend the night, the owners find gold coins in the morning; the same in the landowner's house; he decides to keep the children with him, sends them to the city to study; sends a servant to pick up the gold, intending to return it to the brothers when they grow up; the brothers do not return to the landowner, they go to another city; A. becomes a favorite of the old king; F. wanders; in one of the places where he unknowingly left the gold, the hostess goes to a witch, she explains that F. ate the heart of the bird of happiness; gives the hostess the heart of an ordinary bird to eat, the she believes that the gold will now be under her pillow, drives F. away; in the forest, F. eats a wild apple, turns into a donkey; having eaten an apple from another tree, returns human form; in a dream a woman explains his secret to him; an unrecognized F. gives an apple to an evil mistress, she turns into a donkey, jumps over a fence, and crashes; F. saves a big fish that ended up on the shore; becomes the king's favorite; an envious courtier says that F. promised to get a beauty living in the sea; the fish brings F. to the palace of the sea king, orders him to kidnap his daughter and take her casket; F. brings the princess to the king; she does not want to marry the old man, but says that the ointment in her casket revives the dead, making them young and beautiful; F. offers to cut off his head; the ointment makes him whole again; the king agrees to have his head cut off too; he is not revived, F. receives the throne and a wife; he arrives in the city where he left A., who married the king's daughter there and also received the throne; the brothers visit the kind landowner and their parents; [everyone is happy]: Nĕmcová 1970: 12–28 (=Nĕmcová 1978: 59–70).

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Kalmyks : Badmaev 1899: 81-84 [two crocodiles block the source of a river, demand people to eat; the khan's son and his comrade are walking; the prince knows the language of animals, hears one crocodile tell the other that if these two kill and eat them, they will start spitting out gold and copper , and the source of the river will not dry up; the youths kill the crocodiles, eat their meat, wander; take the invisibility cap and seven-league boots from the imps; go to bed, wake up at the top of a tree; the people make them khan and vizier], 99-105 [= Shugraeva 1995: 5-11; when Subsutai laughs, corals and pearls fall from his lips ; the khan calls him to him, his wife tries to hold him back; On the way S. becomes convinced that everything is a lie (the Seagull says that she protects the Lark's eggs from the sun, pecks them herself; etc.); he returns, spies, sees how his wife is flirting with a clergyman (getsul), says that S. should be blinded; S. does not laugh at the khan's, who orders him to be chained to a cart for the night; S. sees how a shepherd beats the khan's wife for not coming for a long time; in the morning S. laughs when the khan's wife pretends to reproach her husband for touching her face with his fur coat; the khan orders all women to be exterminated; the one-eyed shepherd stops him, telling the story of a faithful wife]; Kalmyks [two boys found a sparrow, hid it in a chest; the sparrow laid eggs of gold; the khan took it away, ordered the bird to be boiled; one boy ate the head (will become khan), another a wing (defecates gold); the khan orders the boys to be killed, they hide under a woman's skirt, then leave; the khan's servants argue over a flying carpet, a sword that controls it, an invisibility cap; the brothers offer them a competition, take the items, fly away; the eldest became khan, the youngest stayed with their parents] [a poor man finds a bird's egg, sells it to a merchant; this happens several times; then he puts the bird in a cage, goes on hajj; the wife becomes the merchant's mistress, he orders the bird to be roasted, the poor man's sons eat the head and liver (or kidneys, goiter, heart); the merchant orders them to be killed, they run away; the one who ate the liver meets people arguing over magical objects (an invisibility cap, a flying carpet, a self-assembled tablecloth), falls in love with a beauty, carries out difficult tasks; ( the one who ate the heart finds gold under his pillow in the morning ); the beauty gives him something to drink, he burps up the liver, she takes it, and kicks the young man out; (or takes away the magical objects by deception); the young man finds apples from which horns grow, figs that turn him into a donkey, grapes that return him to normal appearance; he sells the fruits to the princess incognito, forces her to return the liver, turns her into a donkey; comes to the country where his brother is chosen as padishah, when a bird sits on his head; returns the donkey to human form]: Basangova 2002: 195-197; Abkhazians [the elder brother learned that if he ate the meat of the chicken that the neighbors had, gold would pour out of his mouth every three days; he exchanged his burka for a chicken and told his wife to roast it; she gave the stomach to her two children to eat; she roasted another chicken, ate it with the children, and put the stomach from it together with the meat of the first; the husband ate the chicken, but saw that gold was pouring out of the children's mouths ; the elder brother and his single younger brother wove a basket, put the children in it, and left them in the forest; the hunter Kaurbey found them, the elder was named Mazlou, the younger - Zhakur; the brothers grew up, while hunting they took pity on two hares, two foxes, two bears; at a fork in the road they parted, each taking one of the pair of animals; Zh. came to the old woman, with a blow of her whip she turned him and his animals into stone; M. came to the village where the girl was to be given to the agulshap to be eaten; killed him, fell asleep; the groom cut off his head, told the girl to call him her savior; M.'s animals put his head back on and revived him; the prince hanged the groom and gave his daughter in marriage to M.; at the fork in the road M. saw that the blade of the knife left by Zh. had rusted; the old woman says that Zh. was killed by her older sister; the animals helped take away the whip, M. revived Sh., his animals and other petrified people, turned the old woman into stone; all is well]: Khashba, Kukba 1935: 103-110 (=Shakryl 1975, no. 29: 148-153); Georgians (place of recording not indicated) [poor people have three sons; the eldest finds two beautiful eggs in a nest; the merchant wants to buy them for a lot of money, the poor man does not sell them, puts them under the hen; after that the other eggs become precious; the man becomes rich; and two doves hatched from them; in order to take possession of them, the beardless man became the lover of the man's wife, ordered the doves to be roasted; the servant fed the doves to the children, and gave them chickens; the beardless man demanded the children's hearts; the servant ordered the boys to run away; the eldest came to the blacksmith, who finds gold on his bed every morning ; the middle one went to the merchant, there were diamonds under him; the youngest went to the old woman, there were precious stones under him, a dove sat on him, he was chosen king; the middle brother found his gold, came to woo the king's daughter, built a golden tower, received the princess; the eldest woos the sorceress; built a golden bridge; she orders stones to be brought from a distant mountain; the bear and the deer order to be hit with a club, they turn into young men (they were bewitched by the same sorceress); with a blow of a club the young man turned the sorceress into a donkey, flew to the mountain on her flying carpet, the eagle gave him three stones; the young man disenchanted the donkey because she removed the stones that had stuck to the carpet; all the brothers united, the beardless man and his wife were hanged]: Chikovani 1954, No. 13: 79-85; Armenians (Erzurum) [the king pitched a tent in a meadow by a stream; overhears three sisters talking; if the king takes her in marriage, one promises to weave a tent for the entire army and half will remain empty; the second - to weave a carpet so that the courtiers and people can fit on it and half will be empty; the youngest - to give birth to a silver-haired daughter and a golden-haired son; the king gave the girls in marriage to his three sons, but the first two did not fulfill their promise - it was just chatter; when the youngest gave birth, the sisters lowered the babies in a chest down the river, swapped them with puppies; the king ordered that his daughter-in-law be wrapped in camel skin and placed at the entrance so that everyone would spit in her face; the elderly couple fished out the chest; when his wife washed the babies, gold and silver fell from their hair ; the dying old woman told the grown girl about the fate of her own mother; the young man shot an antelope, the king brought it; then he killed a lion and brought the skin to the king; the king called the young man to the palace; his sister told him to take a bouquet of roses with him and give it to a woman buried up to her waist, on whom everyone spat; the young man's sisters persuaded the king to order him to bring 12 more lion skins; the sister told her brother that they had a kind aunt somewhere; it was an old fairy in a cave in the Black Mountains; she hid the young man in the folds of her dress; 40 genies {in the English text fairies} - the sons of the old woman - came; they promised not to eat their nephew; gave lion skins; the mother's sisters persuaded the king to ask for 7 pairs of elephant tusks; the same genies gave them; for this they filled the elephants' watering hole with wine and the elephants became drunk, the genies cut off their tusks; a new task: to deliver the daughter of the king of India; the genies immediately brought her; sister to brother: take a dog into the palace, let him go ahead and try everything; it found a hole behind the threshold, put some food in its mouth and died; when the young man returned, his sister told him everything; they invited the king as a guest, spread out a carpet and a dastarkhan given to them by the genies; king: this is what my eldest daughters-in-law promised to weave; the king promises to fulfill any wish; young man: bring back my father and mother; king: a man cannot do this; young man: do you believe that a woman can give birth to puppies and do not believe that it is possible to screw over parents? everything was explained; the mother's sisters were thrown into the oven; the young man married an Indian princess]: Seklemian 1898: 111-121; Armenians [a young man spat out gold after eating a bird's head]: Gullakyan 1983: 151; Azerbaijanis [the king had a son Lala and a daughter Nargis; their mother died, the king took another wife; she demands that L. become her lover; L. hit her, his stepmother accused him of attempting to assassinate him, the vizier advised to expel the prince; N. left with her brother; they stopped in the forest; at night N. hears a conversation between two birds; from it he learns that the one who eats the head of one will become king, and the one who eats the heart of the other will find gold under his pillow in the morning ; N. killed the birds, ate the heart, gave the head to her brother; the div extended his hand from the sky, carried N. away; said that his soul was in a bottle; G. broke it, the dead div fell from the sky; L. woke up in the morning, ate the bird's head, went to look for N.; a king was being elected in the city, the bird of wealth sat on L.'s head three times, they made him king; N. came to the city, but the guard did not let her in; a monster appeared, N. killed it with a sword, but weakened, lay down in a chest; the guard appropriated the victory, but the vizier did not believe her, ordered the king to put the guard in prison; a poor husband and wife found the chest; they cured N., every morning she has gold under her pillow; N. met the guard, exchanged clothes, deceitfully left her in prison, and left himself; a whale sinks ships if a man is not thrown to it; N. decided to throw him; She orders a rope to be tied to it: if there is red foam, then the whale is killed, and if black, then she perished; N. killed the whale with a sword from the inside; the merchant adopted her; the king gave N. his daughter; the merchant decided to take possession of her, threw the chest with N. into the sea; the gardener fished it out; {confusion and contradictions; as a result, L. met N., the merchant and the head of the prison were beheaded, the mother of L. and N. were hanged}]: Bagriy, Zeynalli 1935: 195-205; the Turks [the padishah forbade lighting a fire for three nights, three sisters worked, lit it, the courtiers advised to eavesdrop; the eldest wants to marry the steward, to eat plenty, the middle one a tailor, to dress well, the youngest the padishah, to give birth to children whose tears turn into pearls, and if they laugh, roses rain down ; the sisters ask the old woman to help, she puts two puppies under the woman in labor, throws the son and daughter in a box on the river bank; the padishah orders to bury his wife up to the waist, spit on her; the gardener finds the children, gives the padishah roses; the sisters guess, send the grandmother, she threatens the gardener with the wrath of the shah, he takes the children to a cave, they are fed by a doe; the boy sells pearls; the old woman persuades her sister to ask her brother 1) to bring the Dilryukyush-khanym bush; 2) her own mirror; 3) herself; the brother puts himself to the giantess's breast, she helps; those coming to D. turn into stones, the young man almost turned, D. revived him and others, became his wife, she is the daughter of a peri; D.'s servant is the giant Of, one lip drags along the ground, the other rises to the sky; D. cured her husband's mother, told everyone what had happened, the shah kissed his wife and children, forgave his wife's sisters]: Borovkov 1938: 120-135; Turks [a poor man finds a bird's egg, sells it to a merchant; this happens several times; then he puts the bird in a cage, goes on Hajj; the wife becomes the merchant's mistress, he orders the bird to be roasted, the poor man's sons eat the head and liver (or kidneys, goiter, heart); the merchant orders them to be killed, they run away; the man who ate the liver meets people arguing over miraculous objects (an invisibility cap, a flying carpet, a self-assembled tablecloth), falls in love with a beauty, carries out difficult assignments; ( the man who ate the heart finds gold under his pillow in the morning ); the beauty gave him something to drink, he regurgitated his liver, she took it, and kicked the young man out; (or takes away miraculous objects by deception); the young man finds apples from which horns grow, figs that turn him into a donkey, grapes that return him to his normal form; he sells the fruits to the princess incognito, forces her to return his liver, turns her into a donkey; comes to the country where his brother is chosen as padishah, when a bird sits on his head; returns the donkey to her human form]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, no. 174: 196-198.

Iran – Central Asia. Lurs [a poor bastard collects thorns for firewood; one day he finds a golden egg; a jeweler asks him to bring more; the queen finds out, comes to the bastard, promises to poison the king and take the bastard as her husband; and does so; they have two boys; the father catches the bird, every day it brings a golden egg; he goes on business, the wife takes a lover; he demands that the bird be slaughtered and given the liver and crop; the sons come home from school and eat them; they leave; every morning they find money under the pillow ; they meet the father; he ties his wife to the tail of a wild mule, her body is burned]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, no. 12: 60-63; bakhtiyars [a poor man cannot lift a bundle of brushwood; there is an unusual egg in it; the wife sells it for 200 tomans; On the second day, the husband sees a beautiful bird lay an egg and takes it again; the merchant to whom the wife sells the eggs learns that the one who eats the bird's head will become a ruler, and the one who eats the liver will find a hundred tomans under his pillow in the morning. ; a merchant asks an old woman to introduce him to a poor man's wife, promises to give her flour and molasses every day for food; the woman fell in love with the merchant, he demands that she convince her husband to catch a bird; he brings the bird, the merchant orders to make soup from it; the woman's two sons see the soup, ate a little, Ahmad took the head as a talisman, and Mahmad - the liver; the brothers hear the merchant talking to their mother, understand that he will kill them, run away; the parents are in despair, the father goes blind from grief; the brothers come to a fork in the road; an inscription on a stone; if two go together, they will die; the one who goes left by the long way will reach the desired; the one who goes right will get his faster; M. goes left; the sons of the merchant and the khan, sitting in the dust by the road, say that each spent his property in order to spend the night in the castle; the mistress of the castle has slaves similar to her, she sends them to the guests for 100 tumans; In the morning M. says that he will stay; the mistress saw that M. came with nothing, tells the slave to find out where he got the money; she sees how he takes the money out from under the pillow; the mistress orders to give M. a drink, takes his talisman, orders to throw M. into the desert; M. meets the merchant's three sons, who are dividing the inheritance: a wish-fulfilling bag, a flying carpet, invisibility antimony; M. shoots: whoever brings an arrow first will get everything; says that he is taking the things by right, since the disputants' father threatened his life and forced him to flee; flies away on a flying carpet; returning to the owner of the castle, takes her to an island in the ocean and takes her as his wife; talks about wonderful objects; while he is washing, the woman flies away, taking them; in his sleep M. hears a conversation between two doves: if M. wakes up now, he will help him, and if not, he will remain to die on the island; M. wakes up; dove: tree bark, if wrapped around the legs; will allow walking on water; a tree branch will turn anyone you point to into a donkey by saying "haush", and if you say the name "Adam", will return them to human form; tree leaves restore sight; A. comes to the castle on water; the owner orders not to let him in; M. turns the servants into donkeys, the mistress into a donkey; she cries; M. took the bird's liver, disenchanted the woman, stayed to live with her; Ahmad comes to the city where the ruler died; a hawk sits on his head three times, he is elected king; he finds his brother, parents, they are both blind; M. restores their sight; the mother repents]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 31: 197-211; Persians [a brushwood collector was widowed, took a new wife; gave the beggar the money he got for the brushwood; the next day he left some of the brushwood in the cave; when he returned, he saw that it had burned down, and a shining bird was sitting on the ashes; he brought it home, it lays golden eggs; the jeweler Sham'un, who bought them, understands that whoever ate the bird's head will become a shah, and whoever ate the liver and heart will find a hundred gold coins under his pillow in the morning ; when the brushwood collector leaves, Sh. sends an old woman, the collector's wife agrees to receive him in the evening, to roast the bird; stepsons Saad and Said eat the head, heart and liver; hearing that Sh. demands to cut them up and take out what was eaten, they run away; Sh. ripped open the woman's belly, is killed; the brothers hear the conversation of doves explaining the virtues of the bird; they disperse, having read on the stone at the crossroads that those who go together will perish; a falcon sits on Saad's head, he is made shah in place of the deceased shah; anyone wishing to see Princess Delaram must give 100 coins; Said gives it; D. has 40 servants similar to her, she sends one of them every night; she wonders where Said got so much money from; she gets him drunk, beats him, he burps up the heart and liver of the bird, D. swallows them; Said leaves; three sons of Sh. argue over his inheritance (the flying carpet, the magic casket, Suleiman's antimony that makes invisible); Said: let the one who comes running first take it; flies away, taking the miraculous objects; flies to D., is deceived again and left on Mount Kof; hears the doves talking: rub your feet with tree bark and you will cross the sea, a stick will turn you into a donkey and back, leaves will cure blindness and deafness; Said comes to the city, cures the Shah's deaf daughter, marries her, comes to D., turns her, her maids and servants into donkeys; D. returns everything, becomes a man again; Said heals his blind father; finds his brother; everyone is happy]: Christensen 1971, no. 9: 96-108 (= Rosenfeld 1956: 41-51); Farsivans [a woodcutter found an egg in the forest, a merchant gave a lot of money for it; the woodcutter began to go to the same place every day, bringing back an egg; then he caught a bird; went to his relatives, telling his wife to take care of it; the merchant promises to marry her himself, asks to roast the bird; the eldest son accidentally ate the head, and the youngest the heart; the merchant ordered to kill the children at night, to take out what was swallowed from their stomachs; the brothers heard, ran away; the youngest began to find a hundred tomans under his head in the mornings ; he gave everything to the eldest and they parted; a bird sat on the eldest's head three times and he was chosen king; the younger came to the city where the princess shows her face for 50 tumans, and her breasts for a hundred; the younger pays her every day; the princess guessed that he ate the egg of the bird of happiness; she invited him to her place, gave him something to emetic, swallowed the bird's heart herself, and kicked the young man out; three brothers divide the inheritance: an invisible skullcap, a flying carpet, a sack that gives any food; the young man shot arrows - whoever runs first, second, third will receive the items in turn; flew away on a flying carpet; flew to the princess and began to live with her; told his wife about the carpet, she flew away on it; the young man hears the conversation of pigeons; plane tree leaves will cure blindness; whoever picks the bast and makes shoes will walk in them beyond the 7 seas; who makes a stick from a plane tree, turns a man into a donkey by hitting him with one end, and back into a man by hitting him with the other; a young man healed a blind princess with leaves, received her and half the kingdom; came to his former wife, turned her and her maids into donkeys; she returned everything and the young man left her; found a brother-king; tied his mother by the hair to a horse's tail and untied it on the thorns; found a new wife for his father]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 10: 131-141; Yagnobis [the king orders Hasan Gulriz ("scattering flowers") to come to his wedding; he does not come for a long time, says that the king's wife is unfaithful; finally, he sets off, meets a plowman, finds out that he is his wife's lover, drives his wife away; the king locks him in the stable; at night he sees the king's wife go out to the grooms, they beat her for not coming out for a long time; CG laughs, by morning all the manure is strewn with flowers ; having learned what the matter is, the king drives his wife away, goes off to wander with CG]: Andreev, Peshchereva 1957, No. 6: 61-63; Turkmens [a hunter caught a bird, brought it home, gold pours out of the bird's eyes; he has sons aged 10 and 12 from his deceased wife; the new one got together with the vizier, he gave her poison to poison her husband; dying, the father tells his sons to watch the bird, not to show it to strangers or their stepmother; the stepmother overheard, began to get up and collect gold before the boys; told the vizier; he ordered the bird to be boiled to eat the eyes; one boy accidentally ate the head, the other the heart; fearing punishment, they ran away; the vizier sent a servant, who released the boys, bringing their clothes dyed with hare's blood; the elder brother came to the old woman, she found gold on his pillow ; she hid it, fearing that they would find out and kill them; the young man began to herd cows, the old woman began to sell gold, they became rich, the padishah made him a vizier; the younger brother came to the old man, grew up, became a military leader; the brothers found each other, defeated and killed that vizier and stepmother, began to live in their city]: Stebleva 1969, No. 32: 166-170; Bukharan Arabs [a man found an egg, sold it for 1000 tenge; his wife ordered to bring the bird too; bring a handsome man; makes the husband a servant, the handsome man - a husband; he fell ill, the astrologer ordered him to eat the bird; the head and heart are eaten by the stepsons; next time - to drink the blood of the stepsons; the old man brings the blood of the puppies, the children run away; the one who ate the bird's head is elected emir; the second lives with the old woman, every night a hundred tenge under his pillow ; the emir's daughter got him drunk, ate his vomit (the heart of the bird is in it), ordered the genie to throw him in the steppe; three fight, dividing the invisibility cap, the self-assembled tablecloth, the flying carpet; the young man orders the three to run a race, takes the items; visits the emir's daughter at night; The astrologer tells her to tell the young man, "Let your penis in my vagina," to tear off the invisibility cap; the div takes the young man to the steppe again; he hears a conversation between a nightingale and a parrot: a leaf from this tree will heal a wound, a branch will fulfill wishes; the young man turns the emir's daughter and her 40 slaves into horses; finds a brother, turns the horses back into women; marries a peri, the emir-brother marries one of the slaves; those who helped are rewarded, the mother is thrown from the roof onto the horses]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 33: 217-221; Uzbeks [a poor man has sons Rustamzod and Sherzod; after the death of his wife, he took a widow; his new wife advises him to join thieves; 40 thieves took him to cook food; the thieves went to rob a rich sorceress; the old man galloped there before them, began to beat the tambourine; the thieves got scared, the old man got the jug of gold and managed to get back before the thieves; the next time the old man saved the property of the mill owner in the same way; after that the old man took the money and the bird shot by the robbers, returned home; in 7 years the bird laid 7 eggs; the old man went to sell them, they brought him to the shah, the shah gave unimaginable riches for the eggs; having become rich, the old man began to leave to trade, and his wife took a lover; the lover knew that whoever ate the bird's wing would find a purse of gold under his pillow in the morning, and whoever ate the neck would find a purse of silver ; the lover ordered a bird to be slaughtered for him, the boys accidentally ate a wing and neck; the father returned, the stepmother told him that the sons killed the bird, he kicked them out of the house; Sherzod overhears a conversation between two birds; the first: whoever shoots me will wander in the desert for 40 days, 40 in the forest, and then become a ruler; the second: whoever shoots me will sleep for 40 days and nights, will wander for 40 days and nights, will experience many hardships and achieve the fulfillment of desires; Sh. shot the birds, boiled them, ate one, fell asleep; R. came up, ate the other, went wandering; the padishah died in the city, the released bird sat on R., he was made a padishah; Sh. woke up after 40 days, set off in his brother's footsteps; he was not allowed into the city where R. reigned; Every midnight a dragon flies in and swallows everyone outside the city wall; Sh. gouged out his eyes with arrows and chopped him up with a sword; the guards threw Sh. into a pit and said that they had killed the dragon; a potter found him and cured him; the guards identified him and put him in a zindon; a neighboring padishah comes to R.; he asks to give him the criminal to throw into the river: the river demands a sacrifice from those who cross; at night Sh. broke the chains and quietly crossed everyone; the padishah made him a military leader; the padishah will give his sister Nusrat in marriage to the one who kills a fierce lion; Sh. killed him with a club; Sh. received N., went to look for his brother; at night the warriors accompanying Sh. pushed him into the river, and put N. in a chest and ferried him to the other bank; R. saw this, suspected something was wrong, threw the warriors into the zindon, N. brought him to the palace; Sh. was saved by a fisherman; under the guise of the fisherman’s crippled sister, he asked to be brought to R.’s palace in a palanquin and began to tell him about his fate; everything was explained, the fisherman and the potter were given gifts, and the former guards who had become officials were executed]: Afzalov 1972(1): 115-128.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [ A wonderful bird . Two boys eat the heart (wings, head) of a magical bird, not suspecting that they have acquired magical properties and abilities: one will spit gold, the other will become a king. A man who has his own eye on the bird wants to kill the boys. The boys run away into the forest and part ways. The girls coax the swallowed heart of the gold -spitting youth out of him and chase him away. With the help of magical fruits (whoever eats them turns into a horse), the youth gets the bird's heart back. They want to punish the youth, but it turns out that the king is his brother]: Arijs, Medne 1977, No. 767: 303; Setu [a poor man sees someone in his wheat field; he hears in response: I am your neighbor's happiness, I take the ears of grain from your field and give them to his; and your happiness sleeps, since you yourself do not work, but only go hunting; follow it to the house in the forest, it is there in yellow clothes; a poor man came, his happiness itself called him, gave him a hen; at home she laid an egg, the poor man went to sell, no one had money to buy, finally, a rich merchant gave a hundred rubles; so every day, the poor man and his wife became rich, sent their sons to school; the wife got together with the priest, showed him the chicken; he saw that on the tip of her left wing it was written "whoever eats it will become the money king", and on the tip of the right "whoever eats it will become the king"; the wife agrees to roast the chicken; the boys who came home from school ate the tips of the wings; the priest tells his mistress to slaughter her sons, roast their hearts for him; she sends a servant to kill the boys, she killed a goose and a puppy, told the children to run away; the priest ate the hearts of a goose and a puppy, began to cackle and bark; the boys parted; the eldest settled in with a poor woman, every day he had gold at his pillow ; they became rich, bought a merchant's house next to the royal palace, began to live richly; the younger brother ended up with a priest, who raised him; the king died, they began to choose a new one; everyone went to church, a candle fell on the younger brother twice, he was chosen king; the brothers recognized each other; they came unrecognized to their father's house; their mother and the priest were there, their father was moved out, he became a shepherd; the brothers brought their father, they revealed themselves; the younger one threw up a sword, falling, it cut off his mother's head; the priest was put in chains, sent to eternal hard labor in Siberia]: Sandra 2004: 114-128; Vepsians [the rich brother made gold items, and the poor one - brooms; A poor man saw a bird in the forest, threw an axe, killed it, sold it to a rich man; the rich man saw that the bird had the following written on its right wing: “Whoever eats it will become strong,” and under its left wing: “Whoever eats it will have a gold coin under his pillow in the morning ”; he told his wife to roast the bird; the poor brother’s children came in and ate everything; the housewife got scared and roasted an ordinary rooster; the rich man didn’t gain strength, and no coins appeared; but the poor man got rich ; a rich man demands that he kill his children - they are devils; parents left their children in the forest; one went to get game; a she-bear asks her not to kill her, gave her two cubs; the same with a female hare; at a fork in the road the brothers parted, leaving a glass of water; if the water goes bad, one of the brothers is in trouble; the younger brother came to the city; there a snake ate all the girls, it is the turn of the king's daughter; a young man sees a slab: "Whoever lifts it will find wine and a saber under it, whoever drinks the wine will master the saber"; the guy chopped off 10 heads of a snake, the saber broke, the dog, bear and hare tore off the remaining two; the guy burned the snake, and hid the tongues; the princess gave a gold ring and a scarf, tied scarves to the animals too; the guy and his animals fell asleep; the king's servant cut off the sleeping man's head, told the princess to tell him that he defeated the dragon; the animals woke up, the hare brought living and dead water, revived the owner; at first they put the head in the wrong place; they changed it; they all came to the wedding of the tsar's daughter; the bride recognized the animals by the ribbon; the tsar asks where the ring is from, the guy shows his tongues; the servant's head was cut off, the guy married the princess; he went hunting; the wizard turned him and the animals into stones; the brother saw that the water had become cloudy; he came to the forest, put a cross on the bullet, shot the wizard, forcing him to revive his brother, the horse and the animals; it ran down his lips, but did not get into his mouth]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 18: 94-100; Western (?) Saami [a man spared a bird; it advises him to buy another one that lays golden eggs; the man gets rich; an acquaintance of his wife sees an inscription on the beak: he who eats the blood will become king, he who eats the right wing will spit out gold ; he orders the bird to be cooked; but the head is eaten by the woman's eldest son, the wing by the younger; when the eldest enters the church, the candles light themselves: the king has entered; the younger becomes an adviser; the mother and lover are executed]: Qvigstad & Sandberg, p. 48 in Aarne 1908: 154.

Volga - Perm. Mari [ Horns : three princesses adopt the hero's miraculous property ( to spit money ); he finds a magic apple from which horns grow and turn into horses, and apples that restore human form; with the help of these apples he gets his miraculous remedy from the princesses]: Sabitov 1989, No. 566: 36; Mari (mountain) [a man caught a beautiful bird in the forest, brought it home with an egg that was in a nest; sold the egg to a merchant for 100 rubles; then a second one; the merchant ordered {the man's wife?} to roast the bird for him, only then would he give him the money; but the man's two sons accidentally ate the most important parts of the bird; the merchant orders that he be given the children's livers; the father sent for the boys to school, but they ran away; they parted ways at a fork in the road; one brother, Ivan, comes to an old woman, she has no food, but in the morning I. gives her money: every spit of his turns into gold ; in the end he gets rich, visits the tsar; the three tsar's daughters give him {poisoned?} wine to drink, he falls dead, they cut out his liver, fry it, eat it, now they themselves have gold; I.'s body was cut into pieces, put in a barrel, sent down the river; the sailors caught her; when a raven came down to peck the meat, they caught him and ordered to get living and dead water; the raven brought it; I.'s body was fused together and revived; at first he was a cook on a ship, then asked for leave to go ashore; he came to the garden, ate and picked apples; from some horns grow on the head, from others they disappear; the other two kinds of apples turn into a black stallion and back into a man; I. sells apples to the palace: three princesses turned into black stallions, and the queen grew horns; I. promises to cure the transformed ones for a lot of money; he drove the horses until milk flowed out of them; I. licked it and again gained the ability to spit gold; returned them to human form; left and happily married]: Ramstedt 1902, No. 2: 173-180; Kazan Tatars [a poor brother saw a golden bird in the forest; he brought the rich man, who was a jeweler, first a feather, then eggs, then the bird itself; the rich man guessed that the one who ate the heart and liver would find gold under his pillow in the morning , ordered his wife to cook it; at that time two sons of the poor brother came in, ate the heart and liver; the aunt ordered them to be silent, substituted the heart and liver of a rooster; the rich man understood what was going on when the poor man brought him gold, ordered to take his sons into the forest; a hunter took them in, took the gold, but raised them; ordered to leave a knife at the crossroads - whose side rusts, that one will have trouble; a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear, a lion order not to kill them, each gives two cubs; the brothers disperse, each took one of the cubs; the youngest comes to the city, where the 7-headed azhdaha receives a girl every year, the turn of the padishah's daughter; the young man enters the house, where he drinks strong water and takes a heavy sword; the animals helped to kill the azhdaha; the princess gives her scarf; the young man and the animals fell asleep, the vizier cut off the young man's head, told the padishah that he killed the azhdaha; the hare brought a healing root, revived the young man; he sends a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear, a lion to bring bread, meat, berries, belyashi, sherbet from the padishah's table; seeing them, the princess understands that the groom is alive; the padishah orders to bring the owner of the animals, he shows the snake tongues he cut off; the vizier was torn apart by horses, the young man received the princess; one day he chased a white beast; an old woman-ubyr asks to hit the animals with a twig, they turned into stone, she herself hit the young man; the elder brother sees rust, comes to the wife of the younger, she at first takes him for her husband; he finds the ubyr, shot her with a silver bullet, ordered to revive his brother and his animals, then throws the ubyr into the fire; the younger brother is angry with the elder for coming to his wife; offers to enter the city from two sides, whoever the princess recognizes will be her husband; she recognizes her husband by her ring, which is on the neck of her husband's lion; after the death of the padishah, the brothers ruled together]: Yarmukhametov 1957: 106-122.

Turkestan. Kazakhs : Daurbekov 1979 [the younger brother is rich and childless, the poor eldest has sons Hasan and Husain; they find the eggs of a bluebird, bring them to their uncle; he asks him to catch the bird himself; his wife cooks it, the brothers accidentally eat the heart, the wife replaces it with a rooster's heart; in the morning the gold under the pillow is not the uncle's, but the boys' ; the uncle advises his brother to kill the boys; he takes them into the forest; they live with an old man, he becomes rich; the brothers go their separate ways; Hasan kills the seven-headed serpent, to whom the princess is given to be eaten, marries her, becomes a vizier; he hunts, the old woman, at the instigation of the former vizier, turns him, his horse and dog into stones; Husain arrives, forces the old woman to bring Hasan back to life; brothers return to their parents, throw uncle into well]: 60-67; Kanbak-shal 1985 [wife dies leaving two sons, husband takes another; leaving, says he has a bird of wealth; fortune teller tells wife's lover that if he eats heart of bird of wealth, he will become padishah, if the right wing - he will understand language of animals and will spit gold; wife slaughters bird, but cook feeds heart and wing to boys; younger brother hears conversation of sparrows: mother hired a robber to kill them; they give him gold, run away; three horsemen ask for help to divide father's inheritance: flying carpet, invisible skullcap, casket that gives gold; boys take items, leaving gold to horsemen; elder brother is chosen khan (bird landed on his head), younger one flew away on flying carpet; The old man tells that the khan's daughter wears out 40 pairs of shoes a day; whoever guesses why and beats the girl at dice will be married to him, the unsuccessful suitors are executed; the girl wins everything, but the younger brother has an inexhaustible supply of gold ; Mystan-kempir advises to replace the box; before the execution, the younger brother puts on an invisibility cap, flies away on a flying carpet; finds fruits in the forest that turn him into a wolf, into a magpie, then back into a man, and a handsome one at that; the young man gives the last apple to the servant, and turns the khan's daughter into a magpie; in the form of a mullah, he returns her human form, but says that the khan's daughter wore out her shoes, going out at night to debauch the giant, here is his head; he cuts off the head of the khan's daughter, flies away to his elder brother; he says that the viziers kicked him out of the palace, now he is a beggar; the younger brother turns the viziers into wolves; the brothers return to their father, kill their mother and her lover; magic objects return them to their former owners]: 271-278; Sidelnikov 1952 [from Sobolev 1940: 158-165; the younger brother is rich and childless, the elder is poor, he has sons Hasen and Husain; they brought white bird eggs with blue veins from the forest; the uncle bought them at a high price and asked them to bring the bird itself; they brought them, the uncle told his wife to boil it; the brothers saw the brew, ate the heart in half; the uncle's wife replaced it with the heart of a rooster; the uncle ate it, but in the morning he did not find any gold under his pillow, but his brothers did ; when the elder brother learned of this, he told the younger that his sons had been corrupted by their spirit and that they should be killed; the younger brother took the children to pick berries and left them in the steppe; they settled with an old man; when the brothers grew up, new gold ceased to appear among them; the brothers went their separate ways, each leaving a knife; Khasen came to a city where every day one girl and one hare are given to the seven-headed serpent; it was the khan's daughter's turn; Khasen woke up from the girl's tears, cut off the serpent's head, and received a ring from the girl; the vizier said that he had killed the serpent; but he could not move the carcass from its place, but Khasen did it easily, and he received the khan's daughter; an old woman came to his fire and turned him, his horse, and his dog into stones with her stick; Husain found his brother's wife, found the old woman, pointed a gun at her, and she gave him the stick to revive the transformed ones; the brothers returned to their impoverished and blind parents; [they threw the uncle into the well]: 261-269; the Kirghiz [Khan Sarybai wants to marry a young widow; he orders her to slaughter a hen, with whose eggs she feeds her children; the widow gave one son's head, the other a liver; the khan demands the liver and head of his sons; the butcher seized them, but a black bird ordered them to be released, he gave the head and liver of a cat; the elder brother lowered the younger into the well to drink water, the rope broke; a bird landed on the head of the elder, he was elected khan; the younger was rescued by an old man; every spit of the younger turns into silver ; the girl Myskal beats everyone; the young man beat her, but she got him drunk, he burped up the liver of a chicken, after which he lost everything; three brothers argue over an inheritance: a self-assembled tablecloth, a wineskin filled with kumiss, a stick that fulfills wishes; the young man suggests that they run a race, takes the magical objects; wishes to become rich and for M. to be near; she stole the stick; the young man overhears a conversation between three doves: whoever eats the red apple will become rosy, whoever eats the white apple will become white-bodied, whoever eats the green apple will become an old man or an old woman; the young man fed M. the green apple, gave her the red one after she found his brother; the younger one gave her to his brother as a wife, and himself returned to his mother]: Brudny 1954: 100-104; Dungans [brushwood collector Shynbor finds two eggs in a bird's nest, a stranger buys them for a lot of money; Sh.'s wife goes with him, brings the bird home, Sh. sells the eggs, becomes rich; Sh. leaves, the wife takes a lover named Sychyn, who asks her to slaughter and cook the bird; sons Shynmyn (younger) and Shynfu (elder) accidentally eat the heart and head; S. demands that the woman give him the heart of the younger and the head of the elder sons to eat; they run away; Shynfu goes down to get water from the well, cannot get out; Shynfeng goes for a rope, blind old people find and adopt Shynfu; gold coins are found under his pillow every morning , he does not know about it; says that the one traveling along the western road will return with gold, wait, blind old men find, adopt Shynfu of the eastern road - on the same day, along the southern - without clothes; a widow lives on the eastern road, beats travelers; Shynfu beats her; the fortuneteller says that if Shynfu vomits, he will burp up the heart of a bird; the widow gave him something to drink, swallowed the heart, Shynfu lost everything; three fight for a bag (gives gold), a table (food), a stick (will take where necessary); Shynfu invites them to run a race, takes the items; tells the stick to take the widow's house to the desert; the widow takes the stick, returns the house, Shynfu remains in the desert; hears a conversation between three pigeons (under the poplars, one apple at a time; whoever sniffs the first one will be covered in red hair; the second one will become beautiful, the third one will turn into a donkey or a mule; Shynfu gives the second one to a servant (becomes a beauty), the third one to a widow (becomes a donkey); the donkey runs to the police station, the officials decide that he has come to complain; Shynfeng turns out to be the governor; he orders the widow to be returned to her human form, by giving her the first apple to sniff and give her something to drink, she regurgitates the bird's heart, Shynfu swallows it again, and marries the widow]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 6: 62-68.

Southern Siberia – Mongolia. Mongols : Yondon 1989 [translation of Indian sources, see South Asia]: 52; Mikhailov 1967 [a poor man named Badra had sons Zayaa (Luck) and Delger (Abundance); B. caught a swan with a bright flower sticking out of its beak; he died, his mother married a lama, who ordered the swan to be boiled; D. swallowed the swan's head, both brothers went traveling, agreed to meet in three years at a place where they had each planted an aspen tree; D. got a job in a Chinese shop, when he got drunk, he burped up pearls ; a prince's son invited him, gave him something to drink, the prince's daughter-in-law swallowed the regurgitated head; the merchant waylaid this woman on the way, made her burp up the head, D. swallowed it again; Z. suffered a lot at this time; the whole family began to live richly at the merchant's]: 79-82; Baikal(?) Buryats (recorded by A.I. Shadayev) [a hunter kills an unseen bird, his wife gives a piece of liver and heart to his sons, they begin to spit out gold and silver ; (then a series of adventures of the brothers separately and their sister separately)]: Eliasov 1973, No. 11, 25: 94-101, 182-195; Darkhats [a man caught a bird, after which animals began to come themselves, the hunter became rich; the wife got together with a merchant, he asked him to cook the bird, her two sons accidentally entered, the younger ate the head, the older a wing; the mother began to beat them, they ran away, lost each other; the younger lives with an old woman, sells hay, they pay three times the price for it; the noyon's daughter lures him to her, gives him something to drink, and he burps up precious stones first , then the head of a bird; the noyon's daughter threw him out, he returned to the old woman, the happiness was gone; the young man leaves, undertakes to judge those arguing over his father's inheritance: who will get the invisibility cap, the wish-fulfilling box and the staff with which one can walk on water; he threw a stone, ordered them to run a race, took possession of the things, came back to the noyon's daughter, she again took everything away, leaving only the staff; he came to live with another old woman, pretended to be asleep, saw that it was a shulmusikha with one eye in her forehead; pretended to wake up, the shulmusikha again took the form of an old woman; she replied that the flowers on her box fulfilled wishes; she fell asleep; the young man burned out her eye with a red-hot staff, ran away, crossed the sea with the help of the staff, the shulmusikha threw herself after him and drowned; A young man came to the noyon's daughter, turned her into a horse by the power of flowers, and the maids into donkeys; promised the noyon to find his daughter if he gave him her box; it contained all the magic items; the young man returned the noyon's daughter to her human form, but left only one eye; he gave her the second after he received the noyon's daughter as a wife; the noyon made him a senior dignitary; he found his father and mother, made his father a chief, and his mother a maid; the elder brother caught a magpie, agreed not to kill it, it became a girl, her father gave her a piece of cloth, it fulfills wishes, the cloth was replaced in the aul; then he gave her a club, it began to beat the deceivers, they returned the cloth; servants and cattle came out of it]: Potanin 1883, No. 160: 535-539.

Coast - Plateau. Comox [Mink sees women bathing, turns into a trout, cannot be caught; at home advises women to fish for trout with their legs wide apart; makes the most beautiful woman pregnant; she gives birth to a boy, who cries out that Mink is his father; when the women take him in their arms, he soils them, but the excrement turns into dentalium shells, into copper ; Raven also takes him in his arms, finds himself all dirty]: Boas 1895, No. 4: 73; halkomelem (StsEélis) [a girl is capricious every evening, is carried off by an owl Slalakem, raised, made a wife; she asks permission to relieve herself, comes down from a tree, leaves the urine to answer for her, runs away; S. comes to her parents, they tell her to return to her husband; she gives birth to S. a daughter; sends a bird to her older brother; he and his other sister come to S.; he sends S. for a deer, they all set fire to the house with S.'s daughter, run away, the brother falls into the lake, disappears, the sisters return home; the girl from another village rejects the suitors, leaves, sings on the shore of that lake; a common pochard, a northern pochard successively emerge, the girl replies that she did not invite them; a female pochard emerges, becoming the wife of the missing youth; the fourth time he himself emerges, takes off the pochard's skin, goes ashore, takes the girl as his wife; near the girl's village, the youth enters the hut of a leper, throws him out of his skin, puts it on himself; the wife suspects that the leper is her husband, stays with him; her parents send her food with her younger sister; when the supposed leper washes himself, the drops of water turn into ts 'ákwEs (some kind of jewelry) ; the sister brings this to the parents, who ask the daughter and her husband to come to them; the wife carries her husband on her back, Raven mocks her; at night the youth throws off the leper's covering; he drives together and hides all the reindeer; in the morning he goes after them on skis, leaves the skin on a tree, the wife follows, burns the skin; the youth puts the meat of the killed reindeer in a bag, brings it to his father-in-law's house; the bag is opened, the whole village is littered with meat, everyone admires the former leper; he visits his parents, who thought him dead, with his family; at the festival Raven eats all the meat alone, hiding it from the family]: Hill-Tout 1904b: 347-352; Kutenay [ Tree Chieftain spits beads , his tame hawk eats them; Coyote pushes the Chief into a pit, puts on his clothes, takes some beads, comes in his guise to his wife (she is the eldest daughter of the local chief); in the absence of the Tree Chief, famine begins; Tree Chief turns into a baby, is found by wolves; grows up, turns offal into pemmican; regains his true form, marries the chief's youngest daughter (to do this, wins a competition to shoot an eagle; Coyote substitutes his arrow for his own, but the eagle in Coyote's hands turns into a partridge); kills and revives animals with his magic arrow; turns dung into bison; hits Coyote with a firebrand, he runs away]: Boas 1918, no. 64: 191-213; Clackamas [snotty teenager Warm Wind touches grass with his penis; chief's daughter weaves a basket from it; gives birth to a son; her father accepts as his son-in-law the one whose wood burns for five days; whose bow the boy will take; Blue Jay cannot prove paternity, the boy chooses Warm Wind; in the morning he turns into a handsome man, his snot into beads ; in winter, only he has a lot of provisions, he is chosen as a leader; the steam from his steam room turns into spring clouds]: Jacobs 1958, No. 23: 188-193.

Midwest. Menominee : Bloomfield 1928, #96 [two sisters go to marry Bead Spitter (BSP); Hell-Diver says he is the one; hides beads in his mouth and nose, blows his nose and coughs with them; BSP has a tame deer; Hell-Diver says the deer got scared of the girls and ran away; in the evening Hell-Diver is invited to a dance at BSP's; the girls put Hell-Diver's mother to sleep, leave driftwood in their place, and come to BSP's; Hell-Diver lies on the floor and everyone dances on him; returning home, Hell-Diver lies down among the driftwood, mistakes ant bites for wives' nibbles; kills his mother, finds BSP sleeping between the girls, kills him by putting hot pebbles in his mouth; hides bloody deer stomach under clothes, pretends to kill himself when news of PB's death; chased, says he will die if his wives follow him; capsizes their boat; he and the two girls turn into diving ducks]: 359-365; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, #II33 [Chief White Wampum spits beads ; his brother is Hell Diver; two sisters come to marry chief; Hell Diver says he is; goes to dance at brother's house every night; wives leave rotten logs in their beds, go to dances secretly; stay with White Wampum; Hell Diver thrusts hot iron into brother's genitals, he dies; Diver pretends to mourn, imitates suicide attempt by placing blood-filled deer stomach under clothes and tearing it; calls ex-wives into his boat, capsizes it; sisters turn into female diving ducks]: 408-410; Fox [ Wisakya disguises herself as a woman, seduces Turtle; he coughs, regurgitating cowrie shells ; brings his bundle of amulets; V. carries it off and destroys it; turns Turtle into a turtle]: Jones 1907, no. 15: 315-331; Sauk : Marriott, Rachlin 1968 [Turtle annoys everyone, seducing women and girls; Jesus turns into a girl, agrees to walk with Turtle in the forest; when he spits into the fire, pearls appear ; I. puts him to sleep, puts a rotten log with ants with him, Turtle thinks the girl is tickling him; I. turns him into a turtle]: 124-127; Skinner 1928, #13 [Turtle is a chief; Visakya turns into a beauty, comes to live with an old woman; Turtle comes to ask for her hand in marriage, spits out beads ; V. asks him to bring his sacred packet of scalps; they sleep in the forest; V. replaces the packet with a log of ants, steals the packet; lets a dog smear it with excrement; turns Turtle into a turtle]: 152-154; Prairie Cree : Bloomfield 1930, #31 [two sisters come to marry Wampum ; Red-necked Grebe pretends to be him; his sisters marry him; they see him being trampled by the dancers at the festival; they leave logs of bugs in his bed instead of themselves, and go to another man (apparently Wampum); Grebe cuts his throat; the women go away], 32 [the old woman dies, tells her two daughters to go to Wampum, who spits beads ; Dipper puts beads in his mouth, spits them out; his sisters marry him; he wraps himself in pieces of meat and fat instead of a festive outfit; the younger sister suspects deception, spies on the dancers; they dance, trampling Dipper into the mud; the sisters leave logs of bugs and bees in his bed, and run away; Dipper fakes suicide by piercing a vial of blood hidden under his clothes; [floats away in a boat, turns into a diver]: 297-309.

Northeast. Seneca : Curtin 2001 [uncle goes hunting and for wild tubers; hides eldest nephew Two Feathers for fear of his being kidnapped by Sgano ⁿ hses Gowa's daughters; gives only bad tubers to younger nephew Oneqsas; he spies at night as uncle calls eldest in corner; calls him himself in morning; two women arrive in boat by air, demand Two Feathers; he hides, women promise to come again; in morning they find youth, noticing his long hair, take him west; uncle arrives, weeping; Q. overtakes boat on smoke, turns back; agrees to let brother go with women when they allow them to cut off pieces of their flesh to make moccasins, giving strength and knowledge; Q. knows women are tormenting brother, flies west again on smoke; stops at a clearing where an old woman, her grandson and two granddaughters live; the grandson is like Q. in everything, becomes his brother; the old woman tells that the chief's daughters brought a man, hung him on a pole, burn him to make him cry, his tears turn into beads ; Q. gives one of the moccasins to her adopted brother; when they put them in the fire, the chief's daughters feel pain; Q. puts those in the house to sleep, carries out his brother, turns the house into a red-hot stone, everyone dies; Q. returns to his uncle with the old woman and her grandchildren; he is tormented by foxes, mocking him and saying, We have come! (as if it were his nephews returning), throwing coals in the old man's face; Q. hangs the Fox in the chimney, he turns from white to red, his nose and the tip of his tail turn black; Q. lets the Fox go, now the foxes have their present coloring]: 185-191; Curtin, Hewitt 1918, #7 [chief's daughter rejects suitors; is bewitched, left in a deserted village; an orphan finds her, revives her, marries her; regurgitates a bowlful of wampum as a gift to her father; kills many deer, leaves one for Crow; rivals drive him into the ground by bewitchment; Crow and Turkey dig him up], 20 [see motif K35; youth goes to marry chief's daughter; old man puts on his clothes, takes his form, marries chief's eldest daughter; hero in old man's form marries youngest; regurgitates a bowlful of black, then white wampum ; kills many deer; trickster regurgitates lizards and worms; hero takes back his clothes, resumes his form; trickster changes into owl], 22 [see motif K35; uncle sends nephew to marry, gives him cap, outer garment, leggings, moccasins; if they are taken off, they turn into otter, puma, lynx, owls; trickster steals hero's clothes, stabs him in the back with a dart; hero's sister and her daughter save him, return his clothes to him, stab a piece of bark in the trickster's back; hero grows younger, woman recognizes him as her true husband; he spits out beads , mother-in-law is happy], 26 [seven sisters reject men; the youngest's lower body secretes beads until she marries; husband's mother dislikes her; he goes to visit mother, disappears; older sisters steal younger sister's lower body to have beads again; her son returns stolen property, makes mother's body whole; mother and son now have many beads], 35 [bird flies from tree, turns into man, copulates with woman; husband kills lover; wife beats husband, sets fire to their house, leaves; son violates injunction not to put feet of his little sister on ground; bear carries her off, their dog also disappears; boy jumps into lake in attempt to commit suicide, swallowed by fish; two women catch fish, adopt boy; he plays with three old men in succession, wins, kills them; his mother calls men to choose new husband; tortures old one, daughter and dog with fire; father's tears turn into beads ; son puts on moccasins made from female genitalia, sticks them in fire; his mother dies in agony; father, sister, dog recover; sisters who adopted the youth marry his father], 41 [a man's tears turn into beads; sorcerers torture him to make him cry; his brother saves him, turns the sorcerers' house into hot flint; they perish]: 95-98, 132-133, 139-144, 154-160, 186, 208-212; Seneca [Hodadeio lives in a wigwam with his older sister; when leaving, she closes the door with a leash; he plays with a raccoon's leg, tossing it up and shooting accurately; he hears some sounds on the bunks under the roof; sister: it's your brother Porridge; she scrapes off a little chestnut, cooks it, knocks on the pot, the pot fills with porridge; After eating, Cashew sings, but is still weak; then gives tobacco to smoke; the voice is stronger; the sister leaves, H. boils the whole chestnut at once, gives all the tobacco, now Cashew is strong; sister: there are no more chestnuts, Cashew will die; chestnuts are with witches in the east of the world; trees are placed across the river, on the other bank are two rattlesnakes; then a narrow pass in the mountains, on both sides are two giants; further on an elevation, there is a woman; if she sees, she sings, the witches run out and kill; H. learns to get increasingly larger game: chickadee, robin, partridge, turkey, raccoon, deer, bear; the sister does not order to go north; H. goes; the stump became a man: I am a great sorcerer, I will bring down a rain of spears on you; H. ordered that the wigwam become stone, the spears will not pierce it; sister: you went north; H.: I won't do it again; but he let fire into that part of the forest, the sorcerer's head burst, an owl flew out of it, flew away; {H. defeats and kills his uncles and the cannibals}; having crossed the river, H. gave the snakes a chipmunk each and told them to go away; gave a cake to the giants, gave beans to two herons, told them to go away too; told the mole to lift him up the steep mountain; grabbed half a chestnut and returned to his sister; H. hears a scream; sister: it's your brother screaming; he is tied to a pole and is being burned; his tears are turning into wampum , they collect it; and the tobacco was stolen by the great sorcerer Long Eyebrows; H. came to the village where his brother was being tortured, stayed with an old woman and her grandson; they were also called to collect wampum; two women burned the brother from different sides, so that the wampum fell continuously; H. put everyone to sleep, untied him and carried the brother to the old woman; made a stone wigwam where everyone slept, made it red-hot, everyone died; then he felled a tree on the bones of his relatives: get up, the tree is falling; everyone came to life, jumped back; leaving his brother to come to his senses, H. came to Long Eyebrows; hits him on the head with a hammer, but he: mice are running; finally raised his eyelashes, tied them behind his head, scraped out his eyes with a shell and looked; chased after H., but he struck him with arrows, took the tobacco and ordered the tobacco to fly to his sister; led the revived people there; the grandson of that old woman, although he was one of the cannibals, promised not to eat human flesh any more; marking out the places where the wigwams should be, H. created wigwams for the animated people; {on p. 343; then further adventures}: Curtin 1922: 327-350.

Plains. Blackfoot : Josselin de Jong 1914 [as in Wissler, Duvall #V1; sacred pipe shells are the excrement of the chief's son ; lice on the buffalo's head are large beetles; the chief ties the children to the central pole of the ritual structure, paints them black, dedicates them to the sun; the young man kills the chief and parents by throwing stones into their mouths]: 83-85; Wissler, Duvall 1908, #V1 [the chief is the owner of the sacred smoking pipe; the other children take the shells (from the pipe?) from him; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children behind; they fall into the hands of a witch; she kills everyone except the girl and her younger brother; they flee; the buffalo skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take the lice off the buffalo and bite them; bites beads instead of lice; Buffalo carries children across river, they return to people; witch says lice are bitter; Buffalo throws her into river, she drowns; parents refuse to take children, chief orders children to be tied to tree and left; good old woman leaves her dog, it frees children; brother becomes young man, kills buffalo by magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their cruel parents by throwing pieces of tough meat into their mouths]: 138-141; Assiniboine : Lowie 1909a, no. 4 [chief defecates beads ; little girls find them; chief's brother advises to leave children alone, as in possession of beads they can harm adults; good old woman hangs moss indicating direction tribe went, but children do not notice it; fall into the hands of a cannibal; she kills them all except one girl and her younger brother; a bison skull advises them to flee across the river; two swans join their necks together like a bridge; the girl looks for lice on them, bites them, says they are delicious; the cannibal-pursuer says that lice stink; the swans raise their necks, the cannibal drowns; the children meet their tribe, but the leader orders them to be tied to a tree and left; a kind old woman leaves her dog, who frees the children; after the bath, the children become adults; the brother magically gets a bison; kills a bear, a giant; the old woman comes to live with them]: 140-145; Gros Ventre [two sisters are going to marry the Bead-Spitting Man ; Loon picks up some beads, puts them in her mouth, pretends to be the sought-after groom; tells her mother Badger not to let her wives out of the house; he is invited to a dance; sisters step over Badger, come to the chief's house; see the real Bead-Spitting Man; dancers trample Loon underfoot; sisters abandon Loon for the real groom; Loon kills him; hides in a hole with his mother, people cannot get him there]: Kroeber 1907b, no. 28: 108-109; santi [ Two-Women (sisters endowed with supernatural powers) and Heart-Breaker go to marry Bead-Spitting Man (aka Beloved Youth ); in the morning a bowl trimmed with porcupine quills full of wild rice ends up on the head of the PC; this means that the PC will marry the PB; Teal in the boat offers to transport the girls; taking beads in his mouth, he spits them out; J takes him for the desired groom; later the real PB swims up, takes the PC as his wife; Teal does not tell his wives to follow him; they peep into the tipi for dancing; there Teal lies on the floor, people dance, trampling him; the sisters leave blankets with bees and ants in the bed instead of themselves, go to the PB, driving the PC away; Sedge (sent by Teal?) cuts off PB's head when he is sleeping with his wives; people come to kill Teal; his mother Snipe flies off to the swamp; people trample her, since then the roots of the reeds are red with blood; Teal with the head of the PB in his hand and Sedge with a knife in his hand climb to the moon; and they can be seen standing there now]: Riggs 1893: 148-149; Ioway : Skinner 1925, no. 33 [two sisters go to marry a shell-spitting chief's son; his servant picks up the spit-out cowries, passes himself off as him, marries the sisters; Ishiinki comes for him, telling him to come to the chief's son; servant pretends it is a joke, forbids the wives to follow him; they go, see their husband only picking up shells; go to the chief's son; servant kills both the son and the chief himself; flies away carrying their heads; I. casts a spell, trying to bring the servant back to earth; he defecates in I.'s open mouth, flies up to the moon; his silhouette is seen there, a head in each hand]: 493-494; Arapaho : Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, #41 [ Nihansan asks a man to get eagle chicks from a cliff; makes it smooth and steep; takes the man's clothes, takes his wife, mistreats his son and daughter; the man left on the cliff cries, his tears turn into beads , the people find the beads at the foot of the cliff; wild geese lower the hero on their backs; he feeds the hungry children, kills N.], 121 [the girl goes to look for Bead-Spitting Man ; Split Butt says it is he, spits out some beads; tells his mother not to let his wife out of the house; the woman comes to the dance house; sees P.B. dancing with R.Z. serving as his platform; marries P.B.; R.Z. kills his rival, dives into the lake, turns into a bird that lives near the buffalo; woman allowed to choose new husband]: 78-81, 272-275; Kiowa [see motif K27; chief promises daughter to man who shoots eagle out of pine tree; Senpit (Dirty Nose) kills eagle; Sendeh switches arrows; marries elder sister, Senpit the younger; Senpit and his grandmother dive into boiling water, become beautiful; Senpit blows nose, beads fall, honey flows ; Sendeh has snot]: Parsons 1929a, no. 26: 47-56.

Southeastern United States. Desired groom spits beads. Cries [see motif J12; two sisters go looking for the Bead-Spitting Man ; Rabbit pretends to be him, gets some beads from vultures, puts them in his mouth; sleeps with one of the sisters; sisters leave, fall into the hands of Gopher, who eats their provisions; the closer the house of the Turkey Killer (=Bead-Spitting Man), the more feathers lie on the road; the master tests and rejects the girl with whom Rabbit has mated; sends another to fetch water in a sieve; the water turns into beads]: Swanton 1929, no. 2: 2-4; Alabama [two sisters go looking for the Bead-Spitting Man ; Owl shows the girls the way to his own house; tells his sister to watch the wives; goes to dance at the house of the Bead-Spitting Man with offal tied around her neck; [the sisters come there too, become the master's wives; at night the Eagle Owl kills him; the girls' brother kills the Eagle Owl, brings the sisters home]: Swanton 1929, No. 12: 126-128; Alabama and Koasati [two sisters go to marry the Bead-Spitting Man ; the Eagle Owl shows the way to his own house, scatters his sister's necklace on the road, takes several beads into his mouth; the girls accept him as the true groom; in the evening they go to another house for a dance, there are many beads, they understand the deception, stay with the real Spitting Beads ; at night the Eagle Owl kills his rival with a knife; they decide to give his widows to the one who 1) fills a basket with his own cut hair (the Eagle Owl cuts off his sister's hair, but the basket is half empty, the girls' brother filled it); 2) kills a white deer (the Eagle Owl killed a dog, cut off the legs and head); 3) kills a white turkey; everyone swam to the sea, the brother killed and sank the boat of those people with arrows, but the Eagle Owl swam out and took the girls as his wives, the brother remained beyond the sea; the cardinal tells him to climb a tree and get some stones; the cannibal sent her three jaguar dogs to get the young man, he drove them away with stones; the cannibal cooked the jaguars themselves, threw the bones into the sea, they came to life; the young man goes further; at the request of the young man, a rattlesnake drove the cannibal away at night; at the next overnight stays, a white crane warns of the cannibal's arrival; a clay pot; on the shore, the young man rejects a crocodile, a turtle, swims on a horned snake, throwing roasted partridges in front of it, and then simply shooting arrows; at home, the young man threw the Eagle Owl's children into a boiling cauldron, killed him with an arrow]: Martin 1977: 57-60; koasati [two sisters are going to marry Shooting Up ; Owl: The bad path leads to him, and the good one leads to me ; the sisters go along the bad path, end up with Owl; he puts beads in his mouth, pretends to spit them out (like Shooting Up ); in the evening Owl is called to dance; he tells his sister not to let the women out of the house; they run away; they see Owl dancing, having wound his intestines around his neck; they are left with Shooting Up ; at night the Eagle Owl kills him by plunging a sharp horn into his ear; people offer to give the widows to the one who wins the competition; the orphan wins; 1) fill the box with your long hair; bring a white deer (the Eagle Owl brings a white dog); 3) bring a white turkey; everyone swims overseas to hunt for a turkey, abandons the orphan there; the little bird tells him to hide in a tree; the Monster's dogs (these are pumas) cannot find him; the Monster kills them, cooks them, eats them, throws the bones into the water, they come to life; two sisters are bathing, the orphan hides their clothes in a tree, they dive for a reflection, then see a young man; he gives the clothes when they call him not grandfather, uncle, brother, but husband; comes to them; at the shore he rejects the Crocodile, Turtle, Snake, swims on the Horned Serpent; throws roast partridges in front of him to make him swim forward; tells his sisters to throw their children by Owl into boiling water; kills Owl with an arrow]: Swanton 1929, no. 12: 172-175.

California. Pomo : Barrett 1933, no. 79 [Coyote and Kalkalmaptseu compare their excrement to see who is richer; Coyote's excrement consists of small shells, K.'s of large beads ]: 293-294; Williams 1954 [two sisters are going to marry a young man, Skoshelkel, who is dropping beads from his lips ; old Coyote says he is coming; changes into a young man, pretends to be S.; takes beads into his mouth and spits them out; younger sister suspects deception; imaginary S. explains that he has been dancing all night, which is why his voice has become rough; takes him by boat to his wife, Frog (Fra Khatsu), whom he pretends to be his mother; he is invited to a dance, younger sister notices that he is turning into an old man; The frog replies that the real S. is the chief, tells the children to take the girls to him; everything there is hung with deer and puma skins, there are feathers of bright birds on the floor; S.'s mother liked the girls; S. came, he liked them too, he sat down between them; beads are pouring from his lips; Coyote returned, his wife said what happened, he threw a pestle at her, she turned into a frog, jumped away; he asked the four Otter brothers to return her; they did it, Coyote promised his wife not to beat her anymore; the sisters brought their relatives to live in the village of their husband-Skoshelkel]: 17-23; vintu [two sisters come to marry Kidipatevi , who spits beads ; dirty lazy Huik (nightjar) takes some shells in his mouth, spits them out; tells his wife Toad to say that she is his mother; the sisters meet K.'s daughter, she also spits beads; they leave H. for K; H. kills Toad, who allowed the women to leave; the people dance, standing around their chief K.; H. sees the calf of his leg, hits it with an arrow, killing K.; hides in a hole, runs away]: Demetracopoulou, Dubois 1932, no. 36, 37: 461-463; DuBois, Demetracopoulou 1931, no. 32: 341-342; Achomawi [Sun and his wife Shell send their daughters to Marten, who, instead of excrement, comes out of his body shells dentalia ; Coyote puts on his best clothes, but the younger sister understands who is in front of them; Hawk pretends that he is a chief, defecates pebbles for a rattle, pretending that they are beads; further as in Yan (cuts off the meat from the thigh, etc.); when the Hawk calls for rain, the Marten sends a man who kills the Hawk]: Dixon 1908, No. 3: 163-165.

Honduras - Panama. Eastern Panama ( Kuna ?) [The Sun sends a boy and a girl from heaven to earth; the girl is older, holding a shaman's rattle, the maraca; people raised the children; when they were washed and combed, pieces of gold came out of their bodies ; the children fed on the smell of food for a long time, cleaned themselves through the navel; when they grew up, they were married, but the young man also took other women as wives, and the girl married an Indian; in anger, the Sun deprived them of the privilege of feeding on smells and they began to relieve themselves like everyone else; from them come the caciques]: Adrian de Ufelde 1908: 129-130 in Casimir de Brizuela 1972: 62.