M57a3 The female character exudes values.

.11.-.17.21.-.24.27.-.33.36.39.43.(.50.).61.72.

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

Rwanda, Kaguru, Duala, Bassa, Mossi, Sudanese Arabs, Kabyles, Algerian Arabs, Tunisian Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalans, Basques, Italians (Piedmont, South Tyrol, Marche), Sicilians, Corsicans, Maltese, Ladins, Bretons, Walloons, French (Upper Brittany, Nivernais, Gascony, Auvergne), Germans (Hesse, East Prussia, Austria), Dutch, Syrian Arabs, Iraqi Arabs, Qatari, Harsusi, Jibbali, Tibetans (Ladakh), Thai, Burmese, Kashmiri, Kashmiri (in Hindi), Himachali Pahari, Kumaoni, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Marathi, Konkani, Tamil, Sinhalese, Timor, Adonare, Alune, Vemale, Loda, Pagu, Greeks, Moldavians, Transylvanian Saxons, Albanians, Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Bulgarians, Ukrainians (Poltava), Russians (Tersky Coast, Karelian Pomorie, Arkhangelsk {Morzhegorsk region}, Pskov, Moscow, Bryansk, Gorky), Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks (Kalmyks), Karachays, Balkars, Laks, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Farsivans, Shughni, Pashtuns, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Norwegians, Icelanders, Danes, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Karelians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Northern Yakuts-reindeer herders, Verkhoyansk Yakuts, Central Yakuts, Tundra Yukaghirs, Coastal Koryaks, Klamath, Modok (Western Keres {Laguna}), Aguaruna, Chorot.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Rwanda [Kwisaba has gone off to war; his wife, sick and without firewood, cries out that Thunder should at least come and chop some; a thunderstorm begins, Thunder chops firewood, tells the woman to promise to give him the daughter she bears in marriage; K., returning, tells her not to let Miseke's daughter out into the street when she becomes a girl; the other children say that beads are pouring out of the girl's mouth ; one day the other girls go to get potter's clay, take M. with them; Thunder demands that each of them laugh, discovers M.'s beads pouring out, carries her away; M. gives birth to two boys and a girl, her husband allows her to visit her parents, gives her cattle and beer; M.'s cortege loses its way, falls into the hands of a cannibal; he eats all the goods, servants, and M.'s children; she manages to send the eldest boy back to his parents; the warriors come, kill the cannibal; he orders his big toe to be cut off, all the swallowed ones come out from there; a month later M. decides to return to her husband, Grom takes her back]: Werner 1933: 57-61 (retold in Kotlyar 2009, no. 100: 100; in Scheub 2000: 149-150); kagura [two girls promise to give a third a beautiful vessel if she kills her mother; the girl pushes her mother into the river, but her friends laugh at her and do not give her the vessel; she is hungry, goes to the shore, the mother tells her from the water where to find a fruit tree; the friends are surprised that the girl is not hungry, go with her, eat all the fruits; the same with the place where there are pumpkins; the chief promises to marry the one who dances well; the friends try to prevent the orphan from dancing, but the chief insists, takes her as his wife; one of the friends comes to braid her hair, sticks a thorn in, the chief's wife turns into a bird, the friend takes her form; the real wife emitted light, and when she washed herself, coins appeared ; the husband notices that this no longer happens; hears the bird singing about what happened; orders it to be caught, at night light emanates from it, he understands that it is his wife; notices the thorn in her head, takes it out, before him is the former wife; he kills the deceiver, cooks her meat, feeds it to her relatives and friends, kills them, throws the corpses into the thicket]: Beidelman 1967d, no. 3: 11-16; duala [the mother of the boy and girl died, the father's new wife persuades him to get rid of the children; they run away; at the stream the boy hears the bird explaining: if the girl goes into the water, fish will be thrown out onto the shore, if she starts combing her hair, silver will pour out ; and so it happens; the children come to live with the nine-headed skeleton woman, she is kind to them; the girl grows up, the king takes her as his wife, gives her brother half the kingdom; he also marries]: Binam Bikoï 1977: 61-63; basa [the stepmother tells her husband to get rid of the children of his dead wife - the younger girl and the older boy; he overheard, he and his sister leave; at the spring the fish begin to dance when the girl steps into the water, and when her brother combs her hair, silver falls from her hair ; children come to the 9-headed skeleton old woman; they live with her, caring for her ulcers; the girl became a beauty, the king married her and gave her brother half of the wealth]: Reuss-Nliba, Reuss-Nliba 2014: 172-176.

West Africa. Mossi [girls go to file their teeth, chase away an orphan, ashamed of her rags; one sends her to her home for good clothes, warns her not to turn onto a bad road; others change the signs at the crossroads; the girl comes to the Kinkirsi, but they do her no harm, but file her teeth themselves, inlaying them with gold and silver; they tell her not to laugh for a week, not to show her mouth; at home a week later they made her laugh, gold and silver poured out of her mouth ; the other girls became her servants; they still file their teeth, but the gold no longer pours out]: Frobenius 1986: 89-91.

Sudan - East Africa. Arabs of Sudan : Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 1 [Wad al-Nimayr (WN) had 7 wives, he took the eighth, she gave birth to a girl, the other wives threw her into the river, they said that the wife gave birth to a broom; WN: the one who gave birth to a broom will give birth to a son; next time she gave birth to twins Hasan (al-Hassan) and Husayn (al-Husain), the wives threw them into the river, they said that the wife gave birth to stones; WN: whoever gave birth to stones will give birth to a son; but he ordered a slave to take the eighth wife into the desert and kill her; he did not kill her, but abandoned her in the desert; a fish swallowed the children, found itself stranded, they got out; a man saw them, was afraid, but they followed him {immediately teenagers}; take care of other children; a sister found a pot of gold; When the brothers grew up, she asked them what they would do with the wealth; they would cover her with gold; the next time: they would make clay bracelets and cover you with gold {not entirely clear}; she showed them gold, they dressed her in gold; VN's wives persuaded her to ask the brothers to get VN's hen: she and the chickens were made of gold; the brothers stole her, the women told VN about it, the brothers were put in prison; VN's wives stuck a pin in the head of the brothers' sister, she turned into a turtledove, sat on a tree in front of the prison; began to ask the guard named Khair where her brothers were; they were crying in prison; she also began to cry - it began to rain, the vegetable gardens blossomed; the next time: they were sleeping on silk, they would soon be released; she laughed, gold poured out of her mouth , Khair began to lift him up; he told VN; he replaced him, covering himself with a blanket; the turtledove began to ask, he was silent; the turtledove flew down to him, VN grabbed her, noticed the pin, pulled her out, the turtledove became a girl; the brothers gave her to VN in marriage, in exchange for this he let them go; during the wedding, a turtledove flew in and began to sing: VN is marrying his own daughter; VN understood everything, cut off the heads of 7 wives, brought the eighth back from the desert, stayed with her and the children], 3 [the girl was given in marriage to a stranger; the cousin, who was hoping for marriage, went to an old woman; she ordered that a thorn be stuck in the bride's head during the wedding, she would turn into a turtledove; the groom complained, the father and cousin were imprisoned; the turtledove asked the shepherd slave what was wrong with her brother (apparently, with the cousin); they were preparing to behead him; she began to cry - it began to rain, she laughed - florins rained down; the shepherd told the girl's other brother, then another; he caught a turtledove, took out the thorn, the turtledove became a girl, married her cousin]: 61-63, 64-65; Hillelson 1935 [ when the girl cried, it rained, when she laughed, pearls and corals rained down, when she blew her nose, silk came out ; the brother was on the road, it started to rain, he realized that his sister was crying, he returned; there the old woman told the sister to ask her brother to get him a talking parrot; the brother went after it, stopped with the old woman; she told him to throw pearls to the slaves, dried meat to the ants, a leg of mutton to the lions; then he went in and took the parrot; the brother brought the parrot, the sister laughed, the pearls rained down]: 13 (Russian translation in Lebedev 1990, no. 30: 160).

North Africa. Kabyles [Aïcha and her brother Bejliman are orphans, A. is especially hated by her stepmother; when A. walks, a trail of wheat grains follows her, when she laughs, the sun is in the sky, when she cries, it rains, when she combs her hair, gold and silver rain down ; B. told the king about this, he asked for A.'s hand; together with her stepmother, A. walks through the desert to the groom's country, suffers from thirst, the stepmother gives her a drink in exchange for her eyes; she substitutes her ugly daughter, leaves A. under a tree; the deceived king ordered A.'s brother to be tied in the stable; turtle doves brought leaves that restored A.'s sight; they offered to become a turtle dove too, she did; the turtle dove sings to the peasant, then to the king about her brother's sufferings; the young queen orders the turtle dove to be caught, then her throat to be cut; a date palm grew in this place; when the queen wants to pick dates, the branches rise; she orders a palm tree to be cut down, an old woman takes one splinter; the next morning a girl replaces firewood; she asks for a comb, gold falls; she asks for shelter in the royal palace; she cries – a storm begins; gold falls from her hair; the king recognizes A., frees her brother, and the stepmother’s daughter is tied in his place]: Arezki 2010: 43-50; Arabs of Algeria [after the death of a merchant, his son squandered his wealth and went wandering with his mother; leaving her with the mules in a clearing, he began to explore the forest; a beauty was hanged by her feet over a pool; falling into the water, three drops of blood from her cut throat turned into rubies ; despite his mother’s warning, the young man took one of the rubies; he settled with his mother in the city and opened a shop; the sultan’s daughter is Blood-Gazelle-on-Snow; The vizier wants to marry her son; the princess sets a condition: to bring three rubies (and in their country no one had rubies); after telling fortunes, she found out that she would marry the son of a merchant who settled in their city; the sultan promises a reward to whoever gets the rubies; the young man brought them and received a reward; the sultan's adviser: whoever brought one ruby, will bring the other two; the young man came to that pond in the forest; he saw a Jew who revived the girl and began to beat her, demanding that she convert to his faith and marry him; the young man hacked the Jew to death; the girl said that she was the daughter of the king of the genies, her name was Rubin; they came to the sea, R. dived, but returned accompanied by a luxurious procession; her father gave her to the young man, they came to the city and got married; the sultan summoned the young man: he will be executed if he does not bring two rubies within a month; the wife took a knife, cut herself slightly, two drops of blood became rubies; the princess now wants a pearl necklace; R. sent her husband with a note to the sea; he summoned a giant Negro; the young man was sent the daughter of the vizier of the genies as a wife, named Pearl; at home R. specially scolded her, she cried, her tears turned into pearls; the sultan hopes that now his daughter will agree to marry the vizier's son, but she demands to bring musk; the same: a girl Musk is sent from the sea; R. scolds her: let her wash herself; in something is collected from her skin in the bath, which turns out to be musk ; the sultan's daughter to her father: I know that it was not the vizier's son who obtained the valuables, but another youth; the sultan in vain demands that the youth refuse to marry the princess; he orders that his head be cut off; but anyone who tries to do so cuts off his own head; including the sultan himself and all the viziers; the princess becomes the fourth wife of the merchant's son]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951: 113-137; Tunisia : Al-Aribi 2009, no. 1 [An old woman took in the orphan Maryam to help her around the house. One day she ordered water to be brought from the well, Maryam was late, the old woman punished her: she gave her wheat and salted fish to grind, forbidding her to drink water. She was grinding and eating the fish, her thirst became unbearable, and she threw the stick she was turning the millstone with aside so that it hit the wall, and the wall split. Maryam stood up and stepped over the wall. She found herself in a spacious garden. She saw a stream and hurried to it to drink, but the rose asked her to give her a drink. Maryam gave her a drink, and the rose gifted her with its blush and the beauty of its appearance. The same with the jasmine. It rewarded her with its fragrant aroma. The donkey: pearls and precious stones with every word . The horse gave her silk, silver and gold. Then she drank some water herself. She thanked God. She returned to her room and went to bed. The old woman entered the room and saw everything. Maryam woke up, told her her story, the old woman was happy, asked for forgiveness for her rude treatment of her and decided to treat her well in the future. Maryam woke up from her sleep and again began to turn the millstone with redoubled force, suffering from hunger and thirst], 68 [a merchant has three daughters, the father does not want to give them in marriage; having overheard their conversations, he married them off according to their wishes: the eldest - to a bald rich man, the middle one - to an honest rich man, the youngest named Marjana ("coral"; later her name is Lyulyu) to a poor bathhouse attendant; she gave birth to a daughter, to whom it was predicted that when she laughs, precious stones will pour out of her mouth, and when she cries - emeralds ; so her father became rich; she grew up, the sultan's son proposed to her; her aunt went with her to the prince in a carriage, she hated Lyulya; when she wanted to eat, her aunt gave her a salted fish in exchange for her eye, and when Lyulya asked for water, her aunt gouged out her second eye and threw her out of the carriage, dressed her daughter in her clothes, and sat her in Lyulya's place; a bird flew past Lyulya in the forest and said that if she chewed a leaf from a tree, she would become a dove; Lyulya did so; while hunting, the prince caught a dove, put it in a golden cage, and began to spend a lot of time with it; his wife pretended to be ill so that he would roast the dove for her; a palm tree grew in the place where her bones were buried; the prince began to spend time near the palm tree, his wife began to demand that it be cut down, otherwise she would get sick again; The prince cut down a palm tree and threw it into the forest; an old woman picked up the firewood and brought it home; she left the house and returned to find that everything in the house had been tidied up; the neighbors said that it wasn't them; the old woman began to spy and saw a girl coming out of the firewood; Lyulyu told them what had happened to her; she made a necklace out of the precious stones that fell out of her mouth while she was talking, gave it to the old woman to take to the market, but didn't sell it to the prince's wife; she sold it; when the prince saw the necklace, he questioned the old woman, she told him about Lyulyu; he went to her and returned from her with his son, and told his wife that he was the son of his friend who had suddenly died; Lyulyu told her son to ask the prince's wife for the necklace from around her neck; the wife took off the necklace and died immediately; Lyulyu entered the palace and took her place] in Korovkina MS.

Southern Europe. Portuguese : Braga 2002 [a family has an older sister and a little brother; the brother overhears his parents agreeing to kill one of the children so they won't have enough to feed; he tells his sister, and they run away; the little brother is sleeping with his head on his sister's lap; three fairies passing by tell the girl that her face must be beautiful and that gold must fall from her hair when she combs it ; the brother and sister come to an evil old woman and start living with her; the brother goes to buy something; the king is told that the boy has gold, they don't believe the boy's story and put him in a tower to present his sister; at that time the sister has nothing to eat; for food and drink she gives the old woman her eyes; she takes her daughter to the king and throws the golden-haired one into the sea; the boy sees his sister in the sea and lowers a rope from the window; the sister tells her brother to ask the jailer for some thin paper; made a branch with golden flowers, asked to sell not for money, but for the eyes; the old woman gave her eyes; everything became clear; the sister asked that the old woman's skin be stretched over a drum, and that a seat be made from the bones]: 151-152; Coelho 1879, No. 36 (Ourilhe) [a woman takes care of her daughter and bosses around a servant (engeitada); sends a cow to graze and orders her to spin; a woman comes and orders her to wind yarn on the horns of a cow, so that she will be docile; asks to bring a jug of water, she brings it; bestows a gift on the girl: when she begins to speak, pearls will pour from her lips ; seeing the pearls, the woman sends her own daughter; she herself asked to bring water, but broke the jug; woman: field radishes (saramagos) will pour from your lips; everyone wants to marry the one from whose lips pearls pour; the woman hid her in a closet, replaced her with her own daughter, showered her with pearls and said that she had become speechless; in the church the deception was revealed, the groom found the servant, who told everything; wedding]: 86-88; Pedroso 1882, No. 9 [if there is a girl of marriageable age in the house, a golden ball must be hung by the door; for the two eldest daughters they hung one, they married princes; for the youngest there was not enough money for gold, they hung a silver ball; the older sisters refused to have anything to do with the youngest and her husband; when she gave birth to a daughter, three fairies appeared; one gifted the girl with beauty, the second with wealth, the third with the fact that flowers would fall from her lips if she spoke ; and the fairy turned the house into a luxurious palace; the girl grew up; a certain prince was going to marry the daughter of one of the older sisters, but when he saw the daughter of the youngest, he chose her; when, on the advice of doctors, the prince went on a journey and his bride climbed a tower to look after him, the daughter of the eldest sister crept up from behind and gouged out her eyes; a man picked up the blind woman; when the prince returned, the criminal pretended to be his bride; the blind woman sent flowers to the wedding in exchange for her eyes; came to the prince, he recognized his ring on her finger, then recognized; married the true bride]: 37-40; Spaniards (Extremadura) [A widower's daughter insisted that he marry a widow, who also had a daughter; the stepdaughter goes out in winter to pick strawberries in paper shoes, comes to three dwarfs, shares her black bread with them; they give her strawberries, tell her to let gold coins fall from her lips , so that she will marry the king and become more beautiful day by day; the real daughter goes in warm clothes, does not share her food with the dwarfs, refuses to shovel the snow to pick strawberries; they tell her to let toads fall from her lips, so that she will marry the devil and become more and more ugly; the king sees the stepdaughter, marries her, she gives birth to a son, the stepmother pushes her into the water, she becomes Galopín de agua, the stepmother replaces her with her own daughter; the real queen comes out of the water every day, comes to the baby; the king pinches her, she regains her former appearance; [the impostor was tied to the tail of a horse and scattered throughout the village]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, no. 480A: 358-362; Catalans (including Mallorca) [a girl saves a snake; in return, the snake rewards her with the ability to turn anything she touches into gold ; the king takes her as his wife; her rival blinds her, leaves her in the forest, and pretends to be a queen; the snake gives the blinded girl a precious fruit, which she exchanges for her own eyes; the king recognizes his wife and punishes the impostor]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, no. 404: 90; Basques [after taking a new wife, the father dies, the daughter stays with her witch stepmother; she sends her in the winter to pick strawberries; the girl meets three men, who say that she will find strawberries under the woodpile behind the house; one promises that with every word gold will fall from her lips , that she will become more beautiful every day, that after death she will go to heaven; the witch sends her own daughter; three men ask if one basket of strawberries was not enough; they promise that toads will fall from her lips, that she will become more and more ugly, that after death she will go to hell; the witch sends her stepdaughter to the frozen river to wash skeins of thread; the king sees the girl, brings her to him, takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a boy; the husband and mother-in-law bring him into the garden, at this time the witch replaces the queen with her daughter, throws the queen into the river; the king is amazed at how his wife has changed; a bird sings, the king understands what has happened, saves his wife, burns the witch, drowns her daughter in the sea]: Azcua 1942, no. 2: 18-22; Italians (Piedmont; p. 718; the motif of the pomegranate tree, the fruit of which can only be plucked by a girl, is added from the Tuscan version of Gradi) [a peasant has three daughters; the eldest goes to take dinner to her father, sits down on a stump, a snake crawls out, the girl runs home; the same with the middle one; the youngest carries two portions, gives one to the snake, which asks to take it with it; lives under the girl's bed; when he grows up and crawls away, he gives her the ability to cry pearls and silver, to laugh with golden pomegranate seeds , which will fall out of her hair, and when she washes her hands, fish will appear in the water; the sisters are jealous, they lock the youngest in the attic; the prince sees her; a pomegranate tree grows under her window, which becomes taller as soon as the prince tries to pick the fruit; the old man says that the one who manages to pick the fruit will become the prince's wife; the king gathers all the girls; the sisters hide the youngest, but she is found, a wedding is announced; the youngest rides through the forest with the elders; they cut off her hands, gouge out her eyes and throw her in the forest, the elder sister replaces her; a poor woodcutter picked up the crippled one; he got rich collecting her silver and pearls; the snake tells her that the new wife of the prince, who has now become king, is expecting a child and wants figs; the armless woman tells the woodcutter to take figs to the palace (they immediately grew out of season) and exchange them for eyes; next time peaches - in exchange for hands; the younger sister got her eyes and hands back, they grew back; the queen gave birth to a scorpion; the younger sister came to the ball, the king recognized her as his true wife: pearls and gold were poured out, fish were swimming in the washbasin; the older sisters were burned at the stake along with the scorpion]: Calvino 1980, no. 12: 37-40; Italians (South Tyrol) [after the death of the father, a son Tilio and a daughter remained; grains of wheat were poured out of her hair, and wherever she stepped, there was gold ; but she was bewitched: if a ray of sunlight fell on her, she would immediately find herself in the belly of a whale; T. served the king and told him about his sister; he ordered her to be brought to him; when T. was driving his sister in a closed carriage, a witch and her daughter met him; they asked them for a ride; the witch made holes in the roof of the carriage unnoticed, a ray of sun fell on the girl and she disappeared, ending up in the belly of a whale; seeing the bride, the king sent T. to tend the geese; they lead him to the seashore; T. asks the whale to show him his sister; she rubs her hair with her hands, the geese peck wheat; upon returning they tell about this; so every day; the king heard, but did not understand, but the witches understood; they told the king that T. could fill the garden with wonderful flowers and vegetables overnight; the king gave him three days; the sister tells him not to worry; in the morning the garden is full of flowers; let there be beautiful bridges and footbridges in the garden (ditto); ponds with fish; sister: the last fish will be a whale; I will jump out of it, grab me; and so it happened; the king married T.'s sister; the witches were burned at the stake]: Schneller 1861, No. 22: 51-55; Italians (Marche) [a widower and a widow got married, they each had a daughter; a stepmother sends her stepdaughter for water, giving her a basket; the basket falls into the river, the girl goes after it; an old woman asks to clean her back from insects, asks what's there; girl: diamonds and pearls; old woman: you will have diamonds and pearls ; the same when the old woman asks to make her bed (roses and jasmine), sweep the floor (rubies and cherubs); the girl chooses a dress, simpler jewelry, receives gold and diamonds; the old woman tells her not to look back when she hears the bray of a donkey, but to look back at the crow of a rooster; after this, a star appears on her forehead; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she does everything with disgust and says so directly; the old woman: you will have it; chooses something expensive, receives something cheap; the old woman tells her to look back at the bray of a donkey, a donkey's tail grows on the girl's forehead; the prince sees his stepdaughter, takes him as his wife; the stepmother asks her to climb into the tank to clean it, goes to get boiling water; her daughter asks what the stepdaughter is doing in the tank; she: I will be married to the prince; her own daughter takes her place to marry the prince, her mother poured boiling water on her; [the girl's father beat his wife to death]: Calvino 1980, no. 95: 353-355; Sicilians [a rich sister gives a poor sister only scraps for her work, but the rich woman's daughter is ugly, while the poor woman's daughter is beautiful, like her brother Quaddaruni; the poor woman's daughter goes to fetch water, gives seven young men a drink; each rewards her ( roses will fall from her lips, pearls from her hair , she will marry a king, etc.); the rich sister sends her daughter to the spring; she refuses to give the wizards a drink; dirt drips from her lips, scorpions and snakes fall from her hair, she is one-eyed, hunchbacked; Q. carries the roses into the city, the king demands that they be sold, he tells about his sister; the rich woman's daughter forces herself on her as a companion; from the shore K. shouts for her to cover herself from the sun; the ugly woman explains that K. wants her to give her her clothes, pushes her into the sea; K. explains to the king what happened; sent to graze geese and ducks by the sea; sister says that a siren put her on a golden chain; learns from the siren that seven swords are needed to cut the chain, seven horses to carry her away from the water; the deceiver's head is salted, sent to the mother, she sees it, and dies]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], no. 28: 185-194; Sicilians [a merchant has become impoverished; he has three daughters, and the eldest son Bandellone has left to serve the French king; the beautiful Peppina is born; while playing in the straw, she finds a large jug with gold coins; her parents allow four fairies to the feast; the cook ate one pie, replaced it with another made of bad flour and with gold; the three fairies reward P. with beauty; When you comb your hair, pearls and gems will fall ; will get any fruit out of season; the fourth got a pie with a gold one: as soon as a ray of sun falls on P., she will turn into a black snake; P. grew up, the French king learned of her beauty, sent B. for her; he took his mistress with him; she herself wanted to become a queen; when they arrived, she tore the palanquin, P. became a snake, crawled into the garden; B. is forced to call the deceiver his sister; the king is unhappy, but married her; she wants to destroy B., tells the king that he can bring figs, although it is not the season; in the garden, the snake-sister gave figs; the same with apricots and cherries; when the queen is 7 months pregnant, she demanded pears, but the sister-snake could only have three types of fruit and the king was going to hang B.; he asked to be buried in the garden; and so it happened; the gardener's wife hears P.'s complaints, and the gardener finds pearls and gems in the flowers; the next night the gardener watches, sees P.; the next night he brings the king; P. teaches him to ride to the Jordan River; 4 fairies will bathe there; you must take their clothes and return them only after each one gives you her ribbon in her hair, and the fourth also a lock of hair; the king does so; as soon as the lock of hair touched P., she became human again; the king introduced P. to the queen as a stranger, she was amazed at her resemblance to P.; she was asked about the execution for someone who would do evil to such a woman; throw her out of the window and burn her; so they did; B.'s grave was dug up, he came to life]: Pitré 2009, no. 61: 279-286; Sicilians [a sister with 3 daughters became impoverished, with one - became a countess; gave a corner to her nieces, but does not give oil for the lamp; they spin by the light of the moon; the youngest followed the setting moon, came to a monastery; Each of the 12 monks gave her gifts: when she combs her hair - garnets (stones) fall; when she washes - fish appear in the water; when she speaks - roses come from her lips; any work is done right away; cheeks are as red as apples; the countess sent her own daughter, they made her a stinking ugly thing, snakes from her hair, worms in the water; the king fell in love with the beauty, took her to the palace, went ahead to prepare everything; the countess caught up with her, gouged out her niece's eyes, left her in a cave, replaced her with her daughter; told the king that a witch had bewitched his bride, but the king threw both of them in prison; the old man found the blinded woman; she gave him diamonds, he bought baskets for roses, she sent to sell them in exchange for her eyes; the aunt returned first one eye, then the second; the beauty wove her portrait and ordered it to be left in front of the palace; the king saw, found a bride, married, the deceivers were thrown into boiling water]: Pitré 2009, no. 62: 287-289; Corsicans : Massignon 1984, No. 22 [a man's wife has a golden star on her forehead; dying, the wife asks her husband to marry again only the one who has the same star; only his daughter has it; from the grave, the mother tells her to bring a rosary, a poker, and a comb into the room; when the father calls her into the bedroom, the objects answer instead of the girl: I pray, stir the coals in the stove, comb my hair; at this time, a cow must be slaughtered, there will be a golden ball in its entrails; the ball will fulfill any desire, and you must throw the skin over yourself and run; now the girl's name is Kugyulina (from the word "skin"); she is hired to herd geese in the royal castle; when she combs her hair, wheat falls from one side of her hair, rice from the other , the geese get fat; transformed thanks to the golden ball, K. comes to the ball in a bronze-colored dress; the prince gives a ring, asks what country the beauty is from, she answers that from the country of Saddles; the next time - a silver dress, from the country of Bridles; the third time a gold dress, from the country of Spurs; the prince runs out each time, looks for K., tells her to bring the saddle, bridle, spurs; the prince tells K. to cook food; she locks herself in a room, takes off the cowhide, tells Sharika to prepare everything, throws the ring given by the prince into the bowl; the prince peeks, tells her parents to marry him to K.; everything is explained, the wedding], 72 [the beautiful girl hired herself out as a poultry keeper; when she combs her hair, rice spills out of one side of her hair, wheat on the other ; the prince asks her to bring the bridle; she appears at the ball unrecognized, answers the prince that she is from the country of Bridles; the next time - a saddle; stirrups; spurs; the prince gives her a ring; asks the poultry woman to bring him some broth; she throws a ring into the broth; wedding], 80 [the mother loves her eldest daughter and dislikes the younger; sends the younger one for water; at the spring the old woman asks her to come into her house and tell her how she thinks it is; the girl replies that it is a little untidy, but the old woman is very nice; she swept and tidied the house; the old woman rewarded her: when the girl speaks, flowers and jewelry will fall from her lips; the mother sent the eldest daughter; she said that the house was dirty and disgusting, just like the old woman herself; the old woman made toads and snakes fall from the girl's lips]: 50-53, 159-160, 179; the Maltese [the father has died; the mother and eldest daughter hate the younger one, whose name is Djamantina; they send for water; Djamantina is kind to an old witch dressed in rags, who makes roses and pearls fall from her lips ; the eldest daughter is rude when she meets a beautiful lady; snakes now fall from her lips; the prince meets J. in the forest and marries him; the eldest is chased away by everyone, she dies of hunger]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 480: 127-128; Ladins [the king wanted to give his daughter to the neighboring king, but she refused; then he put her in a tower; a young man in love with the princess went to look for her; the old woman said that the princess was not far away, told him to find a nest near the tower, take three eggs; when the young man broke the first, the moat around the tower disappeared; when the second, the tower turned into a palace; when the third, the lion guarding the princess gave him a sword, and the bear gave him a key; with the sword the young man killed three dragon guards, opened the princess's room; the princess's tears turned into gold , a huge heap of it accumulated, she gave the gold to the young man; seeing the gold, the king gave his daughter to the young man]: Uffer 1973, No. 20: 60-62.

Western Europe. Bretons : Lopyreva 1959, #15 [the queen gave birth to a daughter, the sorceress was not invited to the party, she turned the princess into a mouse; the spell will be lifted if the sorceress's sister laughs; the king went to war, the mouse daughter asked to be taken with him, sits in the horse's ear, sings; the Spaniards liked it, the son of the Spanish king took the mouse princess as his wife; the Spanish king will leave the crown to whichever of his three sons brings the best linen; the mouse wife gives a small box, in it there is a lot of the best linen, the elder brothers are put to shame; they offer to leave the crown to the one whose wife is the most beautiful; the mouse wife secretly rides after her husband on a rooster; stops at a puddle; the sorceress's sister sees this, laughs, the mouse becomes a beauty; the king gives the throne to her husband; at a feast she hides pieces of food in her bodice, they turn into pearls and flowers ; the eldest daughters-in-law do the same, dogs and cats run after them, the king drives them away]: 42-47; French (Upper Brittany, Gascony) [publications containing the episode IIB2-B3 (Forme A), IIA3-A4 (Forme B)]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964: 53-56; French (Nivernais) [a widower and a widow are married; the stepmother loves her own daughter; tells her stepdaughter to bring strawberries in midwinter; towards St. Virgin; tells her to follow the path to the clearing; the clearing is red with strawberries; the girl brought strawberries, and when she spoke, pearls and diamonds fell from her lips ; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she answered St. The Virgin, that it was none of her business where she was going; she also brought strawberries, but from her lips fell toads and snakes; after this the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to fetch water from the Red Spring, from where no one had yet returned; the Holy Virgin teaches to enter the white door, but entering the black and red; the guards will ask if the girl is hungry; she must answer that she is, and then share the crumbs with five little dogs; the girl did so; the guard asked the little dogs what they would wish for the girl; one: to be beautiful, the second - kind, the third - rich, the fourth - happy, the fifth - let her bring this water home; the stepmother sent her own daughter, she answered rudely to the Holy Virgin and drove the little dogs away; they wished her to be ugly, evil, poor, unhappy; and let her drown while collecting water; the stepmother began to curse her stepdaughter, but the father drove his wife away and stayed with his daughter]: Sébillot 1884, No. 20: 154-156; French (Gascony) [a widower has 9 sons and a daughter; he married a widow with an ugly daughter; the brothers met the king and told him that when their sister washed her hands, gold and silver fell from them , and when she combs her hair, rye and wheat fall out; the king orders the girl to be brought and the brothers to be rewarded if they tell the truth, but to be hanged if they lie; on the way to the palace, the brother tells the stepmother to take care of his sister, the sister asks again, the stepmother says that the brother will order her eyes to be plucked out; she threw the girl into the swamp, replaced her with her daughter; the king married her, but hanged the brothers; a poor man picked up the blinded one, got rich thanks to the silver and gold falling from her hands; the girl sent the poor man's wife to sell the queen first a spindle, then a distaff in exchange for her eyes; having returned her eyes, the girl went to the sea, took a dog; there is a golden chain in the sea; the girl asks the dog where her brothers are (hanged), where is the stepmother's daughter (in the king's bed), the stepmother (in the royal chambers); girl: pull, pull the chain, drag me out to sea; people hear, tell the king; he asks the mother of the deceiver's wife what she deserves for having destroyed nine young men and a girl; she says that she should be boiled in oil with salt; so they did, her daughter became a dishwasher; the king married the girl]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, no. 403: 47-50; French (Gascony) [the king has a daughter Florine, and his new wife is an ugly woman, Tritonne; two brothers F. tell the king about her beauty and he asks her to bring her to him as a wife; they are sailing on a ship; the brothers: do you hear the song of the siren calming the whale? F. asks again, the stepmother explains: the brothers ask you to tear out your eye; the same with the second eye; the third time: they tell you to jump into the water; the brothers got scared and agreed to give the king T. instead of F; Having seen her, the king threw the brothers into prison, but married her, since he bound himself with a promise; the dragon saved F. for her promise to stay with him; she asked to return her eyes; the dragon made a distaff, sent her to sell it in exchange for an eye; T. asked her mother to give F.'s eye and received the distaff; for the spindle - the second eye; the dragon tied F. to a chain and allowed her to go ashore; if he sees someone, let him order him to pull the chain; and so it was; F.: pull the chain, dragon, I see a whale; when F. washed herself on the shore, bran fell from her cheeks, and when she combed her hair, wheat fell from her hair ; the king's pigs fed on this; the servants were surprised why they were full upon returning from the shore; they told the king; he came, F. told him everything, they agreed; the dragon answered F. that the chain could be cut by the simultaneous blow of a hundred golden axes; the king ordered them to be made; the king brought the servants, the chain broke, F. left with the king in a carriage; the king freed F.'s brothers and placed the stepmother and her daughter in that dungeon; after the wedding the narrator was sent in a glass carriage drawn by rats, but the cat ate them, and he came on foot]: Perbosc 1954, no. 1: 1-8; French (Auvergne) [stepmother Séraphine tyrannizes over her stepdaughter Isabeau; I. has a fiancé, Pierre; tired of the beatings, I. left and fell asleep under a rock; at midnight, a dwarf with a huge gray beard crawled out from under the rock; and then dwarfs and dwarfs crawled out from under all the rocks; they began to dance and sing the same line; they said that they were sinful souls, condemned to sing at midnight; I. added a line, the dwarfs are happy, ready to fulfill the wish; I. wants to see P.; the dwarfs gave her a ring: touch the stepmother with it, and she will go to the garden to count cabbage, and you will go to P.; but Pierre soon got tired of I. and he left her for Miette; I. again went to the dwarfs and asked them to make her beautiful; the dwarf put her necklace on her; seeing I., the people are amazed by her beauty and follow her; the stepmother rushed with a stick, but I. managed to put the necklace on her neck; after that, the people almost began to crush the stepmother, she became attractive to everyone; she threw the necklace on the ground; everyone began to laugh at her; P.: I found a rich one, I will not return to you; I. again to the dwarfs; they made it so that her tears turn into pearls or diamonds ; when the stepmother began to beat her, pearls and diamonds filled all the vessels; P. saw, began to strangle the stepmother; out of resentment that the jewelry might not go to her, she died; I. and P. lived in love]: Sébillot 2004, No. 1: 8-15; Walloons [a woman loves an ugly daughter and does not love a beautiful one; a beautiful one goes to fetch water from a well; The fairy asks to scratch her back, the girl does it diligently; The fairy gives her a wand; The girl touches three lions with it, they fall dead, she passes; The fairy gives an apple and a feather with her; Makes it so that when the girl speaks, diamonds fall from her lips ; The apple became a tree, the feather - a parrot, the bucket turned into a pond; The ugly sister went to fetch water, she is rude to the fairy, she made her completely ugly, toads fall from her mouth; The mother brought her meat, she threw it to the lions so that she could pass; The prince saw the beauty and married; The wife gave birth; The mother put a thorny wreath on her, turning her into an animal; Orders her son-in-law to kill the animal; The beggar takes the prince to see how the animal comes to feed the baby; The prince tears off the thorny wreath, The wife becomes a human again; [mother and ugly daughter burned]: Laport 1932, #*403E: 52-53; Germans (from Dorthen Wild, Hesse) [after the death of a woman, a neighbor persuaded her daughter to advise her father to marry her, the neighbor; she has her own daughter; the father promises to marry her if water poured into a leaky boot does not leak; but the boot got wet and the water did not leak; in winter, a stepmother sends her stepdaughter for strawberries; she comes to the hut of three gnomes; she is polite to them, does not complain, sweeps in front of the entrance, shares bread; one bestows beauty on her, the other makes it so that with every word, gold coins fall from her lips , the third promises to marry the king to her; sweeping the snow, the girl found strawberries; the stepmother's own daughter goes into the forest; she is rude, unfriendly; the gnomes make her become uglier and uglier, toads fall from her lips, she will die a cruel death; the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the ice hole to spin yarn, but the king rides up and takes her away; she gave birth to a son, the king left; the stepmother and her daughter threw her into the river, the stepmother's daughter lay down in her bed; the king is surprised why his wife has changed; at night a duck swam in, turned into a queen, fed the baby; the same thing on the second night; on the third she tells the cook to call the king - let him wave his sword; the spell is broken; the king asks the old woman what to do with the one who drags another out of bed, throws him into the water; the old woman: roll him down the mountain in a barrel studded with nails; [they did the same with the stepmother and her daughter]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, no. 13: 45-50 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 42-46); Germans (Austria) [an old woman mows grass and carries it for her geese; she seems harmless, but they are afraid of her; the young count offers to help; she pretends to refuse, and then loads an unimaginable weight onto him and sits down herself; he barely made it; an ugly elderly Trulle lives in the old woman's house; he calls the old woman mother; the old woman gave the count a jar made of emerald: it will bring happiness; the count came to the palace and gave the jar to the queen; she lost consciousness, and then told about her grief; her husband asked his daughters how they loved him; like sugar; like a beautiful dress; the youngest: like salt; the king divided the kingdom between his eldest daughters, and ordered the youngest to have a sack of salt tied to her back and to be taken into the forest; along the way the princess cried and her tears turned into pearls ; and it turned out that there was an emerald jar containing the same pearl; at that time T. went to the well, took off her skin, became a beauty; put it on again; the count was hiding in a tree and saw this; the old woman said that the spell had expired, ordered her to take off her skin completely and put on a beautiful dress; the king and queen came; the old woman: you have been punished enough, I am returning your daughter to you; the old woman disappeared, her house became a palace, the count married the princess]: Grimm, Grimm 2003, No. 179: 518-525 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987: 402-410); Germans (East Prussia) [a stepmother loves her own daughter and tyrannizes her stepdaughter; in the middle of winter, having dressed the girl in a paper dress, she sent for strawberries; she goes in expecting an early death; she saw a house, went in; three little people were by the fire; the girl got water and bread; the little people asked to give it to them; the girl shared and saw that the water turned into wine, and the bread into pies; the little people gave her a broom and told her to spread the snow behind the house; there are strawberries under the snow; one little person wished that with every word the girl spoke, a gold coin would fall from her lips ; another - that she would become more beautiful every day; the third - to marry the king; when the girl returned, the stepmother sent her own daughter for strawberries; she refused to share with the food; refused to sweep away the snow - you will sweep it yourselves; she did not find strawberries and returned home; they wished for her toads to fall from her lips; that she would become uglier every day; and that she would end badly; later, but also in winter in the bitter cold, the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to the cemetery, telling her to spin along the way; the girl was met by the king and soon married her; a year later she gave birth to a son; the king went to war; the stepmother came to the city, penetrated to the young queen and pushed her into the sea, and put her daughter in her bed; the king returned and asked his wife how she felt; toads fell from her lips; at night the queen came out of the sea, penetrated into the palace, fed her child and returned to the water; so several times; the nurse reported to the king; he grabbed his wife; she turned into a snake, but the king did not release her and the wife was reborn; the false queen was burned]: Lemke 1887, No. 32: 157-160; Germans (East Prussia) [a widow began to court the daughter of a rich widower so that she would persuade her father to marry her; soon after the wedding, she began to tyrannize over her husband and stepdaughter; he went into the forest to hang himself; the old man gave him a rope to tie fallen trees on a stump - they would chop themselves into firewood; on his way back, the man remembered that he had forgotten his mitten and sent his daughter for it; she saw three doves in that place and was friendly with them; one wished that ducats would fall from her lips with every word ; the second, that she would become more beautiful every day; the third, that an apple tree with golden apples would grow in front of her window; the next time the man sent his wife's daughter for the mitten; she drove the doves away; One wished that toads would fall from her lips, the second - that she would grow ugly every day, the third - that she would come to a bad end; the king was riding and saw an apple tree, he sent a servant to pick an apple, the branches grew up; the stepmother's daughter - the same; a beautiful girl - easily picked an apple; the king took her to the palace and married her; and the tree ran after her and grew near the castle; a year later the queen gave birth to a son; the stepmother and her daughter came to her; at night they threw the queen into a well, the stepmother replaced her with her daughter; at night the servant hears a voice and answers the questions: What is my son doing? - Screams. - And the ugly stepsister? - Lies in bed and spits out toads. - And the stepmother? - Snores. The queen came, fed the child and said that she could come only twice more; the same the next night; after this the servant told the king; the king lay in wait and seized his wife; she took all sorts of guises, including snakes, but he did not let her go; and when she turned into a straw, the king broke her in half and the wife was reborn; the stepmother and her daughter were burned at the stake; the wedding was celebrated again; I was there, but nothing went down my throat and I remained hungry]: Lemke 1887, No. 33: 160-166; Dutch [a woman has a daughter Anna and a stepdaughter Bertha; she sent B. for water; a fairy sits on the edge of a well and asks for a drink, B. kindly gives it to her; the fairy makes it so that when B. speaks, jewels fall from her lips ; the woman sent A.; she is rude to the fairy; the fairy orders that toads, worms, and insects fall from A.'s lips; the woman kicked B. out of the house; she came to a house where there were 7 beds and a table; she tidied up and cooked everything; monkeys came, everyone praised her, and wished B. to marry the prince; the prince was hunting and met her, and took her as his wife]: Meder, Hendriks 2005: 342–343 in Sutrop 2018: 412–413.

Western Asia. Palestinians : Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, #18 [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one stream with honey, another with melted butter; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents of the promise, otherwise she threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds them, he remembers, the king builds streams, fills them with honey and butter; the old woman comes when almost everything has been taken; she collects the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe - Lolabe's daughter; he goes to look for L., she lets her hair down from the window, he climbs up it; when her witch mother rises, the daughter turns the youth into a pin, the pin senses the spirit of a man, orders him to give her the pin to take out a splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the youth into a melon, the mother orders him to give the melon, the daughter hides one seed, revives the youth from it, orders him to run away, sprinkling all objects with henna except for the mortar and pestle; everyone answers the mother that the daughter is here, the mortar and pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog gnaw), a brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish with urine), a mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house the youth orders L. to wait while he prepares everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws the jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to come down, sticks pins into her, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, that is why she has changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, her tears turn into pearls, corals , the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, learns about the dove, catches him, takes out the pins; the maid from behind now sticks them into him, turning him into a dove; the third time L. catches him, takes out the pins; wedding; the servant girl is burned], 43 [the poor brother's pregnant wife dreams of eating cabbage rolls (the rich man's wife did not offer them to her), the husband invites the vizier to the meal, the woman blows wind, falls underground from shame; the underground people find what she emitted, it gives her the ability to drop gold from her lips as compensation, when she speaks, returns her to the earth; the rich man's wife does everything on purpose; what she emitted tells everyone underground about it, gives it the ability to drop scorpions and snakes from her lips; they bite her to death, the husband marries another]: 159-166, 301-306; Arabs of Syria : Kuhr 1993: 64-68 (Damascus) [the mother with difficulty persuaded her son to marry; but the daughter-in-law turned out to be evil, told her husband to leave her mother-in-law in a deserted place; the son left his mother, promised to return soon, disappeared; two men, Winter and Summer, came to her and asked which part of the year she thought was better; she praised both; they made a gold coin fall from the woman's lips with every word ; on the fifth day the son felt ashamed, he returned, found a pile of gold; the daughter-in-law ordered her husband to take her mother to the same place; she cursed both winter and summer; they ordered that intestinal gases should be emitted from the old woman's mouth with every word; and so it remained], 215-218 [dying, the mother bequeathed her property to her two eldest daughters, and only a rug to the youngest, Laila; she slept on it, and in the morning she found gold under the rug; an old woman invited her to live with her, took the rug away; it stopped producing money, she buried it in the garden; a tree grew, emitted light, tears dripped from it, which turned into pearls ; one day the king ordered the lights in the city to be extinguished, sent the vizier to find out where the light came from; having found out everything, he took L. as his wife; the sisters, out of envy, stuck a pin into her, she became a bird; the sisters were as like as two peas in a pod with L., each told the king that she was his wife; they wanted to kill the bird, but the king caught it, took out the pin, returned the wife; she said that if they were not her sisters, they should have been tied to the tails of horses, but so she forgives them; the sisters reformed]; the Arabs of Iraq [a rich merchant asks to whom he owes his fortune and position; the two elder ones answer that he owes it to himself, the younger - that it is the blessing of God; the merchant kicked her out - let her seek God's blessings; she came to the muleteers, met there a beggar like herself, and they got married; the wife gave birth to a girl; when they bathed her, drops of water turned to gold , and jasmines and lilies fell from her lips; she grew up and the prince took her as his wife; he sent her to his place; the aunt and her daughter imposed themselves on her as escorts; The girl is thirsty, the aunt gives a little in exchange for her eyes, leaves the bride in the desert and puts her own daughter in her place; the old man picked her up; his family was delighted when the washing dish was filled with gold coins; the prince saw that flowers did not fall from his wife's lips, and that she supposedly lost the ring he had given her; he realized that the bride had been replaced, but was afraid of losing face; the real bride sent the old man to the city to sell flowers in exchange for her eyes; the aunt tore out her own daughter's eyes so that she could say that the flowers had fallen from her lips in the prince's absence; and the bride got her eyes back and was able to see; dressed as a young man, she came to court and hired herself out to drive a mule at the mill; the mule was so struck by her beauty that he began to run faster; everyone wonders where so much flour came from; the prince found out about this and, while the girl was bathing, hid the ring he had once given her; aunt and her daughter were sent home, and the prince arranged a new wedding for 40 days]: Bushnaq 1987: 75-79; Qatar [father and mother died; sister heard of a man named Al-Khadrabouna (Kh.) and fell in love without seeing him; brother hears her pronounce his name, goes off to find him; coming to K., he tells that when his sister steps, a stuffed chicken falls {on the ground} when she laughs, pearls fall from her lips , and when he cries, it begins to rain; H. gives his brother some cloth to give to his sister; she must wash it, pour out the water in front of the house, and a tree will grow in that place; when H. comes and sees the tree, he will understand that the bride is here; a neighbor overheard the conversation between the brother and sister; changed the water, poured out the one from washing H.'s cloth, in front of her own house; H. marries a deceiver; the sister sends her brother to him, but H. puts him in prison; the sister turns into a turtledove; flies to the guard guarding her brother, tells everything; a stuffed chicken falls, pearls spill, a storm with rain begins; H. notices the oddities in the behavior of the guard, eavesdrops and spies, catches the turtledove, {she again turns into a girl}; H. divorced the deceiver, took the betrothed]: Abu Shehab 2019: 59-62; harsusi [the fisherman's wife died, the daughter grew up, brought her father a new wife, who has her own daughter, she hates the stepdaughter; everyone went to a celebration on the occasion of the circumcision of the sultan's son; the stepmother gave the stepdaughter a sack of grain to grind and fill 7 jugs with water; seven old women came, took the girl to the well, washed her, dressed her up, gave her a sack of money and a sack of scorpions; let her pour the money out at the festival where they were dancing, and the scorpions on the stepmother and her daughter; she ran home, the sultan's son could not catch her, the work at home was done, the old women took the jewelry; the next time the stepmother gave two sacks of wheat and 14 vessels; the same; while running away, she dropped a bracelet, the sultan's son picked it up; sent slave girls to try them on, they found a stepdaughter, the sultan's son wants to marry her; the stepmother gave her beans to eat, and the 7 women replaced the beans in her belly with gold coins; she asked the sultan's son for his turban, relieved herself in it, and gold coins were found in the turban; in the morning, the coins were under her head as well ; then the sultan decided to marry the second son to the sister of the first son's wife; but she filled the turban with shit; the sultan ordered her mother's head to be cut off]: Stroomer 2004, No. 9: 43-51; jibbali [one sister married a rich man, the other a poor man, both had a daughter; the poor man's daughter blew her nose in the beggar's cup, and a gold coin was found in it ; he told the sultan about a girl whose snot is gold coins, when she bathes, gold appears, when she cries, it rains, when she laughs, lightning flashes, whose urine is musk and whose excrement is ambergris; the sultan decided to marry her; her aunt and her daughter took the girl on a ship; she did not give her food or drink; for water, she first took her jewelry, then her eyes, gave them to her daughter, threw her niece into the sea in a basket; a fisherman caught her, he and his wife think that she is an old woman; she asks for water to wash herself, the water fills the basin with gold; they come to the sultan, the girl tells her story, each time asking the bowl of water if it is true; the bowl answers that it is true; the sultan takes the eyes from the imaginary wife, returns them to the real one, she regains her sight; he asks to hang the aunt by her feet in front of the entrance, so that everyone who passes by would beat her; [he asks to place a brazier with hot coals on the body of his cousin; both died, the sultan remained with his real wife]: Müller 1907, no. 16: 63-69.

Tibet – Northeast India. Tibetans (Ladakh) [a poor young man Tundub lives with his mother; he saw an entrance to the ground in the bushes; there is a palace, in it a princess; tears drip from her eyes, turning into pearls ; she gave one; his mother advised T. to give it to the king; he gave it to his wife; a crow flew in: T. brought a pearl because he wants to marry the queen; the king is furious, orders a second pearl to be brought; the fairy gave two; the king gave a cartload of food; but the crow kept everything; the fairy gave a box: with it you are safe; the king led out his army; T.: kill me if you want; they began to pour boiling oil on him - nothing; T. opened the box; 7 giants destroyed them all; T. became king and married the queen]: Metha 1975: 46-50.

Burma - Indochina. Thais [when a daughter was born to a king, an astrologer predicted that she would have an unusual feature, thanks to which she would marry the king; when the girl began to speak, golden flowers fell from her lips ; when she played with a cat, rose petals flew around; she was named Phikool Thong ("golden flower"; PT); one day she was bathing with her maids; they were all horrified to see a vulture pecking at carrion; PT ordered them to leave quickly; it was the king of the vultures; he promised to avenge the insult; in the guise of a handsome man he appeared to the king and asked PT to be his wife, giving him a box of jewelry; the king ordered two bridges to be built in 24 hours: one of gold and one of silver; the bridges are ready; the groom took TK on a ship; she senses danger; she turned to the Goddess of the Sea for help; [the golden flower that had flown from her lips she placed inside a silver jewel, which she then placed in a coconut and threw into the sea: may her savior find it; the Goddess of the Sea ordered them to hide under the deck of the ship; the vultures that descended did not find the PT; a ship with a young king swam up; at that time the king of the vultures threw himself from the sky onto the PT, but the king stabbed him to death; wedding]: Toth 1971, no. 8: 66-72; Burmese [the mother sent her younger daughter, Little, to the well for water; the beggar woman asked her to give her a drink, she did so; from then on, whenever she laughed, pearls poured out of her mouth ; the eldest daughter, Big, went and refused to give the beggar a drink, and toads began to pour out of her mouth]: Nikulin 1988: 452-453.

South Asia. Kashmiris [an akhun (religious teacher) asks four sons what they would like to do; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; he sneaks into the palace, where the vizier and the princess are preparing to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, but must stay behind himself; in the morning the princess sees that the vizier is not with her, and becomes the youth's wife; he is hired as a groom by the king; a jeweler brings two rubies, the youth says that one has a wormhole, and turns out to be right; he is appointed caretaker of gems; the vizier wants to take possession of the youth's wife, persuades the king's daughter to ask for a second ruby ​​like the one brought by the jeweler (not a defective one, but an expensive one), and to send the youth for it; a month later the wife gives the youth a ruby ​​she picked up in the river, and he brings it to the king; the vizier suggests demanding the ruby ​​necklace; The wife tells the young man to hide by the river, six heavenly fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; her clothes must be hidden; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with the young man, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips ; he brings the rubies to the king; the barber informs the vizier that the young man has a second wife; let the vizier take one, and he, the barber, the second; the vizier suggests sending the young man for a bracelet; L. sends her husband with a letter to the spring where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet, tearing off the hand that extended it; vizier: second bracelet; L. sends her husband with a ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl to whom the young man addresses is the daughter of the woman whose hand he tore off; in order to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent the young man with a letter to her sons with the order to kill him; the daughter replaced the order to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, he only needs to pretend that he is eating inedible ones; gave iron claws - the brothers will ask him to scratch their backs; he did everything, the demons said that Solomon was calling them, they did not come; the young man takes the demoness's daughter as a wife, asks for a flying skin (i.e. a flying carpet) as a gift; brings a bracelet; a barber: he has a third wife, the king must receive her; the king orders the young man to bring news from his deceased king-father and a paradise fruit; the young man orders a fire to be made, flies away from it on a flying carpet; the fairy wife makes a fruit from seven metals, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased king: come with the vizier and the barber; they burned; the first vizier came, the young man gave him his bride, sent the fairy to her world, he himself remained with his third wife; the vizier became king, the youth became vizier]: Stein, Grierson 1923, no. 12: 85-105; Kashmir (translated from Hindi) [a fakir gives a childless queen barley grains to eat, a son is born, Sherdil ("lion's heart"); he goes wandering with a blacksmith, a carpenter and a grinder; they come to an enchanted city, each in turn staying to cook; a dwarf rides up on a rat, demands food, turns into a giant, throws the cook up a tree; when it is Sh.'s turn, he kills the enemy, leaves the grinder king of the city; in another city Sh. kills a witch who appeared as a girl, makes a blacksmith king; in a third - a carpenter; a grain of barley to each sworn brother, while the barley plant is green, all is well with Sh.; flowers are floating down the river; Sh. finds a tree, on it is a basket, in it is the head of a beauty, drops of blood fall into the water, turn into flowers; finds a body on a bed; puts the head to the body, the princess comes to life; The genie who stole the princess beheads her while he is away; Sh. asks to find out where Sh.'s soul is; in the desert there is a tree, grass in front of the dog, bones in front of the horse; you need to pass them by, take a cage with a starling from the tree, in the starling there is a bee, in it is the soul of the genie; to pass, you need to give the grass to the horse, the bones to the dog; Sh. did so, killed the bee, the genie died; the princess sent a box with her hair down the river, the king's son found it; he sends an old woman to Sh.'s wife; she found out that Sh.'s life was in his saber; on the advice of the old woman, the wife replaced the saber, the old woman threw it into the fire, Sh. died; the old woman brought it to her master, the princess asked to wait six months; the barley shoots withered, the sworn brothers found and repaired the saber, Sh. came to life; the carpenter made a flying palanquin, brought the princess, threw the old woman from a height; Sh. returns to his homeland]: Zograf 1964: 327-339 (= 1976: 71-80); Himachali- Pahari [the raja says that the cry of a partridge is heard on the left, his wife - that on the right; the raja: if I am wrong, I will leave, leaving you the throne; loses; his confidants persuade him not to do stupid things, they lower the pregnant rani in a box down the river, an old fakir picks her up, she gives birth to a girl; three fairies leave gifts: her trace is gold and silver, laughter - flowers from her lips, tears - pearls from her eyes ; the rani builds a palace, the raja sees it, persuades the rani to return]: Dracott 1906: 93-95; Kumaoni [the wedding of the king's seven sons with the seven daughters of a Brahmin is being prepared; the youngest son decides to stay and look after the house, tells his father and brothers, who have gone to fetch brides, not to stop at the lake; they stop, the lake floods the camp, everyone except the king drowns; the king wants to drown himself, the yogi pulls the wedding procession ashore for the promise to give him the youngest son; he goes to the yogi, his wife is with him; the yogi sends him to marry the princess, who laughs with rubies, cries with pearls ; the prince successively meets a tree-puller, a blind man who catches arrows, a carpenter who instantly builds a palace, a one-legged man who runs around the world; each one replies that he is not the strong man, but the prince who is going to marry Princess Hira; having learned that it is he, he accompanies the prince; the king gives away Princess Hira, the yogi returns his first wife, the prince comes home with two wives]: Minaev 1968, No. 33: 88-92; Punjabis (Seraiki, Multan) [a childless king adopted one of the vizier's four sons; and then the king's wife gave birth; the vizier killed the king, drove out the queen and the child; a potter took her in; the boy, who had grown up, began to herd his donkeys; the Brahmin realized that he was the king, began to send another worker to the potter, and began to teach the prince; he became the best student; The vizier's son, who had become king, began to look for a clever husband for his daughter, the Brahmin suggested a prince; the mother and son fled into the forest, for the vizier might recognize her; a young man finds two rubies in the river, sells one to a merchant, who gives him a house and property in exchange, and sells the ruby ​​to the king; the king's son and daughter quarreled over the ruby, the king demanded a second one just like it; the young man went for the hidden second ruby, saw another in the river; came to an underwater palace; there the maiden was unconscious; the young man rearranged things around her, she came to life; her father Deh, who, leaving, leaves her motionless; when Deh comes, the girl turns the young man into a fly, and then back into a young man; in order to find out what Deh's life is, she pretends to be afraid to be alone; Deh: in a parrot under a stone, and only a prince raised by a potter can lift the stone; the young man lifted the stone, killed the parrot, brought the girl to her mother; when the girl laughed, rubies fell from her lips, and ended up in the river; the young man gave the ruby, the merchant in gratitude gave him his daughter; the young man began to live in the city with his mother and two wives; the king, at the request of the queen, demanded that they bring silk fabric from the country of the Dehas; the young man's wife: this country is under the river bed, where I lived; the young man found the girl there, also shook the rods near her, she came to life, gave the fabric; the king's daughter saw the fabric, was delighted, the king gave it to the young man, who now has three wives; he killed the usurper - the vizier's son, reigned on his father's throne]: Mehta 2011: 130-137; Nepalese [a hermit tells the king's two wives that he cannot accept alms from childless women; let the king endure the test; the king fasts in the forest for 12 years, Vishnu gives him two apples, both wives ate and became pregnant; the second wife replaced the son of the first with a chopping block, floated her down the river in a box; the king ordered the first wife to go into the forest; the boy was picked up by a fisherman, he grew up, became a young man Chandra Mukhi; the son of the second wife is evil; the king promises to make the one who saddles his horse, which can only be ridden by a person fit to be a king, his successor; only ChM succeeds in this; the king found out everything, expelled the midwife, cutting off her nose, the first wife was returned, the second was sent into the forest; the king fell ill, he will be cured by medicine from the hands of the golden-haired princess Sunkeshari, let ChM marry her; when she steps, gold pours out ; difficult assignments from her father must be carried out; CM saved rats and snakes from a burning forest, sparrows from a birdcatcher's net; rats, snakes and sparrows promised to help; CM meets and takes as his companion 1) a man whose hand reaches out to grab any food; 2) a man who puts one ear under himself, covers himself with the other, and disperses clouds with his ears; 3) the companions stopped in the house, they cook in turns; each time a dwarf with a huge moustache comes, sweeps out the cook with them, eats everything; when it is CM's turn, he grabs the dwarf by the moustache, throws him out the window; the rats made a passage to the princess, she gave CM grains of magic rice; S.'s father orders 1) to sow the field, to harvest the crop tomorrow (CM sows the magic rice, it ripens immediately); 2) to plant trees from all over the world (the long-armed one reaches them, brings them); 3) to separate chaff, rice and millet (the long-eared one winnows the chaff, sparrows sort the grain); the king gives to S., she cures the father of CM; his evil brother poisoned him, kidnapped S.; snakes extracted the poison, CM came to life; the king executed his son from his second wife, handed over the throne to CM]: Sakya, Griffith 1980: 70-79; Rajasthanis (?) (Madhya Pradesh) [7 brothers have a sister Biran Bai; parents went on a pilgrimage, ordered to take care of BB; brothers also went on business; their sisters went to dig yellow clay and took BB with them; they have clay, and BB filled her basket with pearls ; The envious wives of the brothers left BB, saying that they would return to help her carry her burden, but they did not; beggars (minstrels) passed by and one of them took BB away; told her to beg, but to go to her native village, otherwise she would be kidnapped there; but she went, began to sing, about what had happened to her; her mother did not recognize her at first, but then she told everything; they are going to marry her off; every day that beggar comes: she can be married to another, but the servant (disciple) she is mine; so at each stage of the wedding; she is already in her husband's house; her bedroom is behind seven locks; she hears how the first lock is broken, calls her mother-in-law - wake up; so 7 locks in turn, she turns to her father-in-law, her husband's elder brother, her husband's elder sister, his younger brother, his younger sister, finally, to her husband; a beggar burst in, but everyone ran up, grabbed him and beat him; the couple lived happily for a long time]: Parmar 1960, no. 2: 6-10; Marathi [princess Sodewa Bai was born with a gold necklace around her neck, her life was in it; one day she lost her golden slipper, another prince found it, married SB; his former wife decides to ruin her; in her husband's absence, she tells a black woman to tear off the necklace; SB is placed in a crypt, but at night the black woman takes off the necklace, SB comes back to life; jewelry falls off her when she goes to the pond; her husband notices them, then hears the cry of the newborn from the crypt; everything is discovered, the necklace is taken away from the black woman, the first wife is imprisoned for life]: Frere 1868, no. 21: 262-272; Konkani (Goa) [a childless rani finally has a son; he grows up, but gets involved with bad company; the most beautiful princess is given to him, but bad women have cast a spell on him: he will never look at her face; the prince does not look at his wife, goes out at night to prostitutes; the parents of both spouses are dead; the prince himself has become a rajah; a beggar woman advises her to first put gravel in the rice that the rani is going to cook for her husband: he will shout at her in anger, but will also look; the husband does not look; prepare too hot a bath: ditto; the rani secretly follows her husband; when the door of the brothel opens, she screams, seeing two dressed up women hurrying to the rajah; the husband turns around and is amazed at the beauty of the woman, whom he will see for the last time; she runs away, sobbing; her tears turn into pearls ; [the husband follows the pearl trail to his palace, asks his wife for forgiveness; she tells him to look into 5 neighboring rooms; in them 1) two stone pillars collide with each other (the husband's parents, blaming each other for failing to raise their son); 2) two beautiful plane trees (the wife's parents); 3) a pool with two fish (the children who were never born); 4) a beautiful rose bush (the wife); 5) a bush with a single half-rotten pod of hot pepper (the husband); after giving an explanation, the wife dies]: Rodrigues 2020: 95-101; Tamils ​​[the rajah has no children for a long time; finally a son is born with a bow in his hand, knowing the secrets of magic; a bird sat on the old woman's hump; the prince shot the bird and the old woman's hump disappeared; she is angry; now the daughter-in-law will make her work; let the prince free the Peacock Princess (PP) from beyond the 7 seas; along the way, the prince saved a cobra, and then a frog, who found themselves on hot sand; the cobra built steps to climb over steep mountains; the PP princess asks to get a 16-foot-long braid of hair from a pond for her; the young man dives - no way to get it; the frog got it; having received the braid, PP approached the young man; gems fall from her lips , when he cries, flowers bloom, and when he walks, decorations appear; at a halt, the sadhu slaughtered the prince and was going to take PP away; she suggested that he first dig a deeper grave for the prince; she saw how one monkey healed the broken legs of another monkey with grass; suggested that the sadhu go down into the grave to try it on; covered it with earth, revived the prince with grass; the next time they spent the night at the blacksmith's; in the morning he said that PP had already galloped away, although he simply hid her; PP agreed to give herself to him, but only in six months, and on the last day let her feed everyone who comes; the prince also came and saved her; stopping under a banyan tree by the pond, the prince put PP on a branch and went to prepare for the wedding ceremony; the potter saw PP's reflection, took it for her own; PP laughed, the potter raised her head; PP came down, the potter tore out her eyes, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes and jewelry; the spouses carrying brushwood pulled PP out; having settled her in their home, the spouses began to pay huge amounts of money for the brushwood; PP gave them two pearls and ordered them to give them to the one who would give her eyes in exchange; the potter's mother gave her eyes, PP regained her sight, and the potter's pearls grew dull; at the prince's wedding, only dust came from under the bride's feet, when she smiles, black teeth are visible, worms in her hair; the guests ran away, the prince was horrified; PP saw him from afar from the terrace of her new 7-story palace, ordered him to be brought to her; now the real wedding; while PP was walking to the wedding platform, the earth was covered with pearls]: Blackburn 2005, No. 94; Sinhalese [seeing a bird, the king and his wife argue whether it is a male or a female; the queen loses, leaves, gives birth to a son, he picks up a precious stone; having received it, the king invites them to live in the palace; sends a young man for a second stone; yakshini, the daughter of their master, runs away with the young man; spits out precious stones ; the minister advises the king to send the young man to visit the king's deceased parents; he is walled up in an underground passage, yakshini sends rats (their mistress is her sister) to dig another passage, dresses her husband in precious clothes; the king believes that the young man has gone to the next world, he himself descends into the dungeon, is walled up; the young man ascends to the throne]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 89: 211-216.

Malaysia – Indonesia. Timor [one chief offers a larger gift than the other; whoever wins this competition gets his rival's sister as his wife; when she speaks, flowers fall from her lips, when she cries, her tears are gold; a slave throws her into the sea, puts on her clothes; not seeing the flowers and gold, the husband thinks that his wife's brother has deceived him, imprisons him; a crocodile rescues the woman, brings her to her brother, servants see the flowers and gold; the wife agrees to return to her husband, the slave is burned in an oven]: Correia 1973: 161-165; Adonare [the woman's excrement is gold, her hair is a gold chain, her fingernails are glass; the man sails up, marries her, tells seven men to prepare the field; the woman puts on her best clothes, tells her husband to kill her in the field; he scattered the pieces of her body, corn and rice grew]: Arndt 1951: 204-206 in Mabuchi 1969: 69-70; alune , wemale (west Seram) [Amete killed the pig that brought the first coconut; planted it, climbed the coconut to cut the leaves, cut his finger, the blood mixed with the juice, the girl Hainuwele was born ; when she went to relieve herself, Chinese porcelain, corals, gongs came out of her; during ritual dances, others out of envy pushed H. into the prepared grave, covered it up; A. dug up the corpse, cut it up, buried the pieces around the dance floor, they became various cultivated tuber crops; he took the hands to the goddess Mulua Satene ; she built a gate in the form of a spiral with 9 curls, ordered them to run to her through the spiral; those who failed to run turned into various animals, birds, fish, and also spirits; those who succeeded passed to the left or right of the tree on which the MS was sitting, she hit them with her left or right hand X., they became patalima or patasima; after this the MS retired to the land of the dead on Mount Salahua]: Jensen, Niggemeyer 1939: 59-65 in Stöhr, Zoetmulder 1965: 143-144; loda [a woman has an iguana son; she went to woo the king's daughter to him, everyone refused, except the youngest; during the day the husband in the form of an iguana sat on the ceiling, at night he turned into a man; the sisters were envious; everyone went for fruits, while the iguana husband was on the tree, the older sisters took the youngest away; they offered him a silver tray for betel, but he took betel from his wife's tray; at home he hid the iguana skin in a bamboo vessel; the sisters found her and burned her; Iguan said it was cold and left; the wife went to look for her; she stayed with a writer who had six wives; their excrement stank, and hers stank of fragrant oil; (further not entirely clear)]: Baarda 1904: 398-400; pagu[the couple have a daughter, Damura; the wife hid her soul in two bananas and watched so that the parrots did not peck them; the neighbor made a doll and promised to give it to D. if the girl brought the bananas; the mother at first refused to show where the bananas were, but then allowed her to take them and D. took the bananas to the neighbor; after that the mother died, D. began to play with the neighbor's daughter; the neighbor asked D. to persuade her father to marry her; at first the stepmother was affectionate, but then she began to tyrannize her stepdaughter; one day she sent her to the river to wash clothes; D. dropped her stepmother's stocking and it floated away with the current; the stepmother ordered her not to return without the stocking; M. ran down the river; greeted the mother crocodile in a friendly manner; she asked her to rock her baby crocodile, D. sings him a song, comparing him to a flower; gets a stocking, and when she speaks, gold pours out of her lips; the stepmother's own daughter also went to the crocodile; all the same, but in the song she calls the crocodile stinking; when she returned, she was speechless, and pebbles and earth poured out of her lips; the father, stepmother and her daughter went to the king's ball; the crocodile gave D. a silver dress; the next time - a gold one; when D. ran away from the ball, the prince managed to grab her golden slipper; crocodile: a lost slipper will make you a princess; the stepmother, father and stepmother's daughter, who returned from the ball, said that this time the princess was wearing a gold dress; the king ordered everyone to try on the slipper in order to marry the owner off to his son; only D. came up, she appeared in a gold dress; wedding; the stepmother pushed D. into the sea and a crocodile swallowed her; the prince found the she-crocodile, who ordered the crocodiles to confess who had swallowed D.; one confessed, regurgitated D. alive; and the crocodiles swallowed the stepmother and her daughter]: Vries 1925, no. 23: 110-118 (=Ellen 1916a, no. 4: 166-171).

Balkans. Greeks : Megas 1970, #25 [a man asks a young man to help him bring meat, gives him some change, he buys three sardines, gives them to his sister to cook; three women come; the sister feeds them sardines; each woman rewards her; 1) while combing her hair, pearls fall ; 2) while bathing, the pool is full of fish; 3) while drying herself, roses and thirtyleaves fall; the brother carries pearls to sell, they grab him, he tells the king everything; he orders the girl to be brought; on the way, a gypsy woman sticks a pin into her head, she flies away as a bird, the gypsy woman puts on her clothes, hides her face; while washing, the water is dirty; the king sends the gypsy woman to tend turkeys, throws the girl's brother in prison; hears singing, orders her to catch a bird, takes out the pin; marries a beauty, frees her brother, cuts the gypsy into pieces], 32 [a mother sent her daughter to pick herbs; she picked poppies; three Fates see her, one laughs; for this the first one ordered that the poppies turn into diamonds, the second, that roses fall from her lips , the third, that the king will soon meet her and love her; one day she laughs, says that the king's beard is like a broom; the king orders her to be executed; the three Fates turn into men, lead three ships, fire cannons, the king invites them, they say that they have come to visit their sister; they give his wife a diamond broom, order her to tell her husband that she meant it; the king is pleased]: 54-57, 81-83; Paton 1901, No. 21 (Lemnos) [when princess Kyra Florou combs her hair, beads fall from her hair, flowers from her lips ; when she cries, a storm begins; dying, the queen tells her son not to leave his sister; an old woman advises her to find a groom; tells her brother that it must be the son of the king of Rhodope; a monk tells the guardian animals of the three gates to throw a sheep each; to ask the rising and falling sword to stop for a moment; not to answer the king's question who he is; the king finds a portrait of KF, promises to send ships for her; her brother warns that at sea her sister will turn into an eel, swim away; KF is placed in a glass box; the old woman forces herself to accompany her, throws KF into the sea, replaces her with her ugly daughter; the prince is forced to marry her, but her brother is put in chains; a year later he asks to be allowed to walk along the seashore; the eel sister wraps herself around his neck, orders him to kill her, cook her, give her to the king to eat, bury the bones, a rose bush grows, the old woman orders it to be cut down, the trunk must be preserved; coming to the monk, the brother hits the trunk with an axe, the sister is reborn; combs her hair, beads fall; with this money the young man builds a new monastery, gives gifts to the king; at the feast KF appears to the king and his son; wedding; the old woman is chopped into pieces, scattered across the field, put in the horse's saddlebag; the old woman's daughter is sent to the kitchen]: 203-207; Moldavians [a stepmother brought her own daughter many nuts, and one to her stepdaughter; she planted it, a nut tree grew; its branches bend only to the stepdaughter so that she could pick the fruit; leaving for church, the stepmother orders the ashes to be separated from the wheat (two eagles perform; the next time millet scattered around the yard - doves; poppy - sparrows); the nut tree opens, inside are clothes and jewelry; the third time bachelors smear the threshold of the church with resin; the slipper sticks, the girl throws a ring into it, runs away; the boyar's son finds the owner of the slipper, marries; when he leaves, the stepmother and her daughter came disguised as beggars, cut the stepdaughter into pieces; she laughed - flowers grew, cried - diamonds fell ; a passer-by saw, the remains of the stepdaughter were ordered to be taken to the nut tree; the nut revived her, she hired herself out to her husband as a worker, looked after geese, and her stepmother's own daughter put on her jewelry, pretended to be his wife; the maid bakes bread, leaves a ring, her husband recognizes it, takes two stones of patience, tells them what happened, goes to his wife; the old woman was tied to the tail of a horse; where she hit her foot, ravines appeared, where with her back - gullies, where with her head - red poppies; her own daughter sank into the ground up to her neck]: Moldavian Tales 1968: 204-214; Transylvanian Saxons [the father died, the girl plays with the daughter of the neighboring widow; she persuades her to advise her father to marry her; promises to feed her porridge in the morning - this is "birch porridge"; sends her to the lake where the water maidens bathe - no one will return from them alive; The maidens feel sorry for the girl, they give her gifts; flowers bloom wherever she steps; when she speaks, a scent spreads; when she washes, gold remains in the basin ; the stepmother sends her own daughter to the lake; she demanded even better gifts; the maidens poured shit on her; thorns grow where she steps; her breath is foul; when she washes, there is a toad in the basin; the stepmother hated her stepdaughter even more; the young king found out about her, decided to marry and sent a carriage; the stepmother and her daughter also got into it; the stepmother gouged out the stepdaughter's eyes and pushed her into the swamp, dressed up her daughter as a bride; the king is amazed; the stepmother: it's because of the long road, let her be alone; blinded, she got out of the swamp and fell asleep under a tree; three swans: wash your eyes with the morning dew; the girl regained her sight; she came to the castle, flowers grow behind her; the king understood everything; [he lowered his stepmother and her daughter in a barrel of nails down a mountain into the sea; wedding]: Haltrich 1882, No. 40: 39-40; Albanians [the prince wooed a girl from whose lips, when she laughs, roses fall, and from whose eyes, instead of tears, pearls , the grass turns green underfoot; her mother sends her to the palace, on the way the maid offers to change clothes with the bride, pushes her into a pit, takes her place; the prince is surprised that the grass is not green, etc.; the meadow near the pit turned green in winter, the geese grazing there grew fat, the shepherdess says that there is a bride in the pit; the king orders to pull her out, bring her; the maid was executed]: Serkova 1989: 82-85; Serbs [Turks and Turkish women visit the bathhouse and pay small money; one has no money, she is not allowed; but she gave birth to a happy girl: if she bathes, the water turns gold, laughs - mallows fall from her lips, cries - tears turn into pearls , steps - the grass behind her turns green; having bought the girl, the woman collected gold and went to the bathhouse; became rich; {the girl grew up}; the prince decided to marry her, sent a cart with a gypsy servant for her; she gouged out the bride's eyes, threw her out of the cart, dressed up in her clothes; an old man picked up the girl; he got rich thanks to her; she asked him to sell pearls in exchange for her eyes; the deceiver agreed to give up one eye; in the evening she told the prince that she had cried thinking about her parents and here are the pearls; she gave the second eye for mallows; the prince became king; drought, famine; the king gives out horses, two to each person, so that the people can take care of them; the old man received skinny nags; after the disaster was over, the people returned the horses - all skinny; the old man: let my daughter lead them out; when she steps, the grass turns green, so the horses recovered; everything became clear; the king took the girl as his wife, and the gypsy woman was smeared with tar and burned]: Eschker 1992, No. 26: 138-140; Serbs [a girl and a boy, the younger one, were left by the first wife; the stepmother tells her husband to take them into the forest; the girl overheard, they filled their pockets with ashes and followed the ashes home; the next day the stepmother hid all the ashes and the children filled their pockets with bran; forest animals and birds ate the bran; two Jews came to their fire, took them to their mother; some time later, leaving in the morning, the Jews told the mother to roast the children for their return; the girl had already learned Hebrew and understood what they were talking about; when in the morning the Jewess suggested that the boy sit on a shovel to put him in the oven, the girl explained that the boy was small and did not understand, let her show him; The children put the Jewish woman herself in the oven; they ran away, crossed the river over a bridge and ended up in a dense forest; the Jews, seeing their roasted mother, rushed in pursuit, but because of the rains the river overflowed and washed away the bridge; they stopped the pursuit; the children met a woman at the spring, told her about themselves; she ordered that the girl's tears turn into pearls , and when she speaks, golden roses will fall from her lips; directed the children on the road to the house; having heard the story and seen the pearls and gold, the stepmother sent her own daughter to the spring; she is rude to the woman; she ordered the girl to cry tears of blood, and, when talking, to hiss and spit; the king took the brother and sister to himself, but the stepmother's daughter did not marry]: Karadzic 1854, No. 35: 205-212; Bosnians [the stepdaughter Fata is beautiful, the natural daughter Hata is ugly; the stepmother and H. go to the wedding; the cow tells F. to get a box from her ear, in it is a beautiful dress and jewelry; the same the next day; on the third day the sultan's son approached her, she started to run and lost her slipper; the sultan ordered everyone to try it on; Fata approached; the stepmother persuaded F. to take H. as an escort; at the stepmother's suggestion, H., when they were riding through the forest and began to be tormented by thirst, gave F. water in exchange for her eyes, threw her in the forest, and appeared to the sultan's son in her place; the cow found F. and brought her to the people, to the house of a pious hadji; they saw how flowers grew on the ground along which F. walked; the cow began to live in the same house, supplying everyone with milk; ordered another box to be taken from her ear, in which there were pearls formed from tears ; it was necessary to send a hadji to exchange them for eyes; H., a fake princess, gave her eyes, F. regained her sight when the hadji moistened them with water brought from Mecca from the Sem-Sem spring; the sultan promised a reward to the one who would cure his sick daughter-in-law; When F. arrived, she saw that the necklace of those pearls on H.'s neck was burning and choking her; F. took it off her; the sultan and his son recognized the real bride; the stepmother was torn apart by horses; the hadji was rewarded]: Preindlsberger-Mrazovic 1905: 54-67; Croats [a poor couple has 9 daughters; when the tenth was born, the husband carried her away to throw her into the sea; a voice forbids him to do this three times; he saves the girl's life; when she cries, diamonds fall from her, when she laughs - roses ; the girl grew up, the prince entered the house, saw her, decided to take her as his wife; on the way to the palace he left three times; the cook tells the young wife that her husband ordered her eyes to be gouged out; her hands to be cut off; she was thrown into the river; he replaces the woman with his daughter; she was made to laugh at a feast, but snakes fell from her lips; after this the prince and his servant went into the forest for 7 years; the real wife was pulled out of the river by a hermit; she orders him to pour water on her, the water turns into gold; the hermit makes a distaff out of the gold, the woman orders him to exchange it for her eyes; then a cord (Litze) on one hand, a distaff on the other; now roses fall from her lips again, diamonds from her eyes; she gave birth to a son and a daughter; after 7 years the prince and his servant come into this house, everything is explained; the cook and her daughter were doused with oil and burned, the other was torn apart by four horses]: Schütz 1960, No. 177-188; Bulgarians : Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 403 [the orisnitsy (i.e. fairies) give the newborn the ability to drop roses fall from her lips when she laughs, pearls from her eyes when she cries ; the girl grows up, the king wants to marry her; on the way to the king, the bride is blinded, substituted; the blind girl is picked up by a poor old man; at a time when there are no roses, he sells the roses to the king, receives the girl's eyes in exchange; sells pearls; the old man tells the king about the girl's abilities; the king meets her at the spring, listens to her story, takes him as his wife; the deceiver (and her mother) are punished], 403A [when the stepdaughter laughs, roses fall from her lips, when she cries, pearls pour from her eyes ; when the king learns of this, he wants to marry her; the stepmother substitutes her with her own daughter, pushes the stepdaughter into the river; she turns into a fish; the old fisherman catches her, sells her to the king; he reveals the truth, the fish becomes a girl; the tsar marries her, the stepmother and her daughter are driven out]: 140-141, 141-142; Klyagina-Kondratieva 1951 [the stepmother tyrannizes her stepdaughter, sends her to the well for water at night; 12 months have gathered there; grandmother Martha asks if the girl eats dried dogwood, she takes it with gratitude and eats it; she replies that all months are good; Martha makes flowers and gold coins fall from the girl’s lips when she laughs or speaks; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she throws dogwood in Martha’s face, says that all months are bad; when she returns, snakes and lizards fall from her lips; since then they have appeared in the world; and the stepmother drove out the stepdaughter and a passing young man took her as his wife]: 92-95; Bulgarians [an orphan finds a bird (a hen that lays golden eggs, a black hen, a sparrow), becomes rich; in his absence his wife slaughters it and cooks it for her lover; their two sons secretly eat the heart and liver (head, stomach); they do not know that one will now 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 landed on his head; the other becomes rich; the brothers meet, recognize each other, live together in the palace (they take their father in; his unfaithful wife is cruelly punished)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no. 567A: 214.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Poltava) [a prince looks into a hut, there a girl cries pearls, laughs with flowers; the girl grew up, the prince took her as his wife, takes her home; the prince stopped, went hunting; an evil woman took off the bride's clothes and jewelry, gouged out her eyes, pushed her into a pit, dressed up her daughter; the grandfather found the blind girl; his wife advises him to exchange the pearls she cried for ; he exchanges them with the woman for one, then for the second eye; the girl sends her grandfather to a feast to the tsar with a towel she embroidered; the tsar recognizes the embroidery, brings the bride, sends the woman's daughter to herd pigs]: Pankeev 1992: 254-256; Ukrainians (Poltava) [the tsar and tsarina died, leaving a son and daughter; The son writes to another prince that when his sister laughs, gold falls, when she cries - pearls , where she steps - flowers grow; that prince asks to send her to him as a wife; the princess went with a maid; by the river the princess undressed, took out her eyes and began to bathe; the maid put on her dress, took the eyes, came to the prince; he was surprised that gold did not pour out, but still married; blinded, she came out of the water, crying; an old man came up, saw a girl with a heap of pearls; took her to himself; she embroidered a towel with gold, pearls and flowers; ordered to sell only in exchange for the eyes; the deceiver gave one eye; for the next towel - another; found out that the soul of the princess was in a poplar egg; found the egg and put it in a chest; the princess to the old man: I will die, bury me over the road; the prince rode by, found a coffin, in it the princess is as if alive; he got together with her; the next time there was a child with the dead woman; the prince took him in; he cries, insists: give me the egg; he had to give it up; the prince went to church with his son, he dropped the egg, the princess came back to life; the prince began to live with her, and the deceiver was tied to the tail of a horse]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 6: 24-27; Russian (Tersky Bereg): Balashov 1970, No. 22 [the princess laughs - gold pours out, she cries - pearls; one step is golden, another silver; the tsar died, the prince goes to the city, the princess tells him not to brag about her; he drank, bragged, the local tsar orders that his sister be brought; the tsar sent a ship; the old woman took the princess's clothes, pushed them into the water, she flew away as a swan; the old woman replaced her with her daughter; gold does not pour out, the prince was put in prison; the sister flies in, sheds her wings, cries pearls ; the watchman followed, burned the swan's wings, grabbed the princess, she turned into a snake, a spindle, all sorts; the king took away his real wife, and gave her brother his kingdom], 49 [the brother's sister, parents died; the brother met the king Agar Agarych; said that his sister laughs with pearls, cries with gold; sister Martha agrees; Baba Yaga begged her for all her clothes, gave them to her daughter, M. turned them into a bird; no gold, no pearls, AA threw brother M. into prison; the bird flies to him, throws off her sheepskins, cries, the prison is covered with pearls; the servants told AA, he followed, burned the sheepskins, Baba Yaga was shot at the seven gates]: 78-80, 169-171; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [the tsar and tsarina have died; the tsarevich is lulling his sister Nastasya to sleep, promising to give her in marriage to Tsarevich Zorya; the sister has grown up, asks him to fulfill his promise; the brother tells Z. that when his sister laughs, gold curls, when she cries, pearls pour out, when she steps, one footstep is gold, the other silver; they swim to Z.; a woman screams from the cape, asking him to take her; the sister: don’t take her; from the third cape the brother took her, it was Baba Yaga; she comes to the cabin and tells her brother’s words: undress and throw yourself into the water; the third time N. obeyed, became a duck; Baba Yaga dressed up in her dress; Z. is disappointed in the bride, threw her brother into prison; Z. comes to the cook; he says that a duck flies in, becomes a girl, gold curls and pearls pour out, asks about Z. and about his brother; she flew back again, Z. grabbed her and kissed her, N. remained a girl; wedding]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 202-205; 84; Russians (Karelian Pomorie) [approximately as in Razumova, Senkina 1987: 72-82, motive K113A; on p. 68: Elena the Beautiful when she laughs, gold will flow, and when she cries, pearls will repent ]: Nechaev 1938: 59-84; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Morzhegorsky district) [the stepmother sewed a paper dress for her stepdaughter and sent her barefoot in the winter to pick strawberries; there is a hut on chicken legs; “Turn your eyes to the forest, and your gates to me”; there are 7 dwarfs in the hut; the stepdaughter offers them treats: green bread; dwarfs: knock on the table; food and wine appeared; they ordered the snow to be cleared away, there were large strawberries under it; the dwarfs dressed up the girl, gold coins were falling out of her mouth ; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she did not share food with the dwarfs; they did not give her strawberries; she spoke – toads fell out of her mouth; where she stood – nettles grew, with worms on them; the stepmother tried to palm off her own daughter on the suitors, but they saw toads; the stepdaughter got married]: Lutovinova 1993, No. 16: 37-38; Russian (Pskovskaya, Opochetsky district) [dying, mother tells her son: let him lull his younger sister, promises to give her in marriage to Prince Athenian; sister has grown up, sends brother to look for a groom for her; to meet A.; asks what is so special about sister; brother: when she cries, pearls pour from her eyes, when she laughs - gold comes from her mouth; they are going in a carriage to A.; sister cannot hear brother's words, mamushka conveys them, distorting them; not to change clothes, but to undress, not to accept the groom, but to open the window and throw himself into the river; replaced the bride with her daughter; neither pearls nor gold pour out; brother is thrown into prison; sister comes to brother twice at night, tells everything; will come a third time, he must throw a cross on her; prince found out and hid under the bed, grabbed the bride, she was scolded, he married her; [the mother and her daughter were torn apart at their horse tails]: Smirnov 1917, No. 101: 330-331; Russian (Moscow) [the daughter carried dinner to her father; caught a pike; it asks him to let her go; for this, if the girl cries, then pearls will shower down , and if she laughs, then diamonds; the family grew rich, the prince passed by, took the girl as his wife; he left; the sorceress called the queen to the bathhouse, turned her into a golden duck, replaced her with her daughter; the hunters cannot shoot the duck; the king cannot either, he spat; the duck flew up, swallowed the saliva, gave birth to two boys, brought them to the king's court, ordered them to play with golden eggs; the king kept the boys with him; the sorceress entered at night, the eggs are responsible for the boys, that they do not sleep; after midnight there was no answer, the sorceress slaughtered the boys; while the deacon was performing the funeral service, a duck flew in and became a queen: tomorrow I will fly in, let the tsar close the doors, otherwise he will lose me forever; on the first night the tsar only watched the pearls pouring out; on the second night the duck brought living and dead water, revived the babies; the tsar closed the doors, caught the duck, she became a queen; the sorceress was executed, her daughter was sent to a monastery]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 38; 92-94; Russian (Bryansk) [a stepmother tells her stepdaughter to work all day in the severe frost; she gives water to an old woman who came up, wishes her well; when the stepdaughter entered the house and spoke, gold and gems poured out of her mouth ; the stepmother sent her own daughter on her stepdaughter's trail; she is rude to the old woman; when she returned and spoke, beetles and toads began to fall out of her mouth]: Glebov 2016, No. 118: 196-197; (cf. Russian (Gorky region; high probability of Mari or some other borrowing) [stepdaughter and biological daughter: the former, for her politeness and kindness, receives from the old woman the miraculous ability to drop roses and precious stones from her mouth; the latter, for her rudeness, is punished by toads, snakes, and lizards falling out of her mouth]: SUS 1979, No. –403A: 130); Kashubians [fisherman Wojtek lived with his mother; does not take a wife, is always on the lake; a beautiful girl came out to him on an island, he named her Lily; when he cries, his tears turn into pearls; brought her as a wife, mother does not love her; sells pearls, builds himself a rich house, V. and L. live in the old one, they have a daughter Lyalka; mother fell ill, asked her daughter-in-law to go to the island for a magic herb; she knows that she will not return; gathered herbs; when they were sailing back, a thunderstorm began, the boat began to pull back to the island; at midnight Lily disappeared into the water, a lightning strike destroyed the mother-in-law's house; Lily became a seagull; her daughter ran to her cry, turned into an island; now the village of Lyalka is on it]: Puu 1991: 27-38; Poles [stepmother hates stepdaughter, sends her for berries in winter; she is kind to those she meets, rewarded; pearls and roses fall from her lips or tears turn into pearls ; her own daughter goes into the forest, is rude, and reptiles begin to fall from her mustache; the prince fell in love with his stepdaughter or fell in love with her from a portrait that ended up in her brother's possession; the stepmother drowns her along with her child; the stepmother or her daughter drowns her on the way to the prince; her place is taken by the stepmother's daughter; the brother is thrown into prison because the bride turned out to be completely different from the portrait; the drowned woman takes the form of a golden duck, goose or other bird, and flies to the royal court three times; on the third night the prince breaks the spell; when the prince seizes the bird; the brother is returned to court; the stepmother and her daughter are punished]: Krzyżanowski 1962, no. 403: 13; Slovaks [a prince married the 20th daughter of poor parents; she had golden hair, golden apples fell from her lips , and wherever she stepped, golden roses grew; a servant tore out her eyes, cut off her arms and legs, dressed her own daughter in her clothes; a forester's wife saved the crippled woman; exchanged her eyes and limbs for gold objects with the prince's false wife, the real wife became healthy; the prince went into that house while hunting; returned the wife; executed the deceiver, her mother, and the servant who helped them]: Gašparíková 1993, no. 151: 102.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. (Cf. Kalmyks [see motif K74; a boy Massang is born with the horns and tail of a bull; then as in Badmaev; when M.'s wife shakes her right hand, gold and copper pour out , while with her left hand, food and drink appear]: Dzhimbinov 1962: 87-92); Karachays [= Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983: 56-60; an elderly couple gives birth to a daughter, Alakëz; four genies give her 1) a talisman of immortality; 2) the gift of turning water into gold; 3) tears – diamonds ; 4) flowers under her feet; the khan takes her as his wife, on the way a widow neighbor blinds her, leaves her in the forest, and replaces her with her daughter; she says that she does not work magic every day; Ivan and his wife took in a blind woman, the old woman gave them A.'s eyes for diamonds; they built a tower for A.; the old woman sent someone to steal the talisman of immortality from the hand of the sleeping A., she died; the khan's wife dropped the talisman, a boy picked it up, came to the tower with the khan, dropped the talisman on A.'s body, she came back to life; the deceiver and her mother were tied to the tails of horses]: Kapiev 1991: 214-217; Balkars [a stepmother tells her stepdaughter to graze a cow and spin wool; there is so much yarn that it will not be enough before dark; the wind carried away the wool; the girl saw the old woman; she tells her to tie the wool to the cow's head - she will spin herself; the stepmother spied, told her to slaughter the cow; the old woman tells her to bury the remains of the cow; the old woman's three daughters helped to do the work - whitewash the house; invited to that; in the pit where the bones were - a beautiful outfit; the girl is mistaken for the khan's daughter; returning, she lost a shoe; the khan tells everyone to try it on; only the orphan fits; the stepmother took the stepdaughter into the forest and gouged out her eyes; the woodcutter adopted her; the stepmother gave the khan her own daughter, he does not like her; the woman found the stepdaughter, gave her apples, ordered her to sell for two eyes; the girl regained her sight, her tears turned into gold ; the woodcutter built a rich house; the khan and his retinue, including the girl's father, stayed in it; the girl tells her story; the khan married her, and drove away his unloved wife and her mother]: Malkonduev 2017: 305-309; varnishes (Tabakhlu village, 1836) [a red cow tells a hungry stepdaughter to suck her horns, honey flows from the right one, oil from the left; the wind carries away the wool, the stepmother tells her to find it and return it; the cow teaches her to go to the people who thresh pearls, gold, corals, to wish everyone well, to ask for herself, they will show the way to the windy Chassazhi; there will be bones in front of the horses, hay in front of the dogs, you need to change them; call the muddy river oily, take a sip; at the Windy Chassazhi, Airy Asiyat, you need to ask for the wool back; she will ask to scrape the rooms, they need to be whitewashed, tidied up; pull out hair, tear clothes - comb, wash; and so it all happened; the girl dipped her finger in the river, it turned silver, the river let her through {apparently, parted}; the same - a bloody river, the girl called it honey, her finger turned gold; Ch. poured golden water on her head, her hair became golden; Ch. suggested sleeping on a golden bed, wants to make the girl her daughter, hides the wool under her head; the girl pulled it out, ran; the old woman tells everyone to grab her, calls the river bloody, but they only give the girl even more gifts; the stepmother seats her own daughter to spin wool next to the cow; the wind carries away the wool, but the cow teaches differently; the girl scolds those she meets, gives bones to horses, hay to dogs, her fingers became covered in ulcers from the water of the muddy river; Ch. tears out her hair and clothes; she pours dirty liquid on her head, her face and body become covered in ulcers and abscesses; the cow was slaughtered, the stepdaughter buried the bones; she asked them for beautiful shoes and clothes to go to the wedding; one shoe floated down the river; the prince found it, it fit his stepdaughter, the prince took her to be his wife; the stepmother and daughter also went; the bride is tormented by thirst, the stepmother gives her a drink, taking out her eyes as payment; throws her into a well, dresses his daughter in her dress; the merchants pulled the girl out of the well, she turned into a canary; flying into the prince's garden, she asks the gardener to convey her greetings to the prince, and let the tree dry up; the prince sees that many trees have dried up; the canary was caught, the false wife ordered it to be slaughtered, a tree grew from the blood; dates are pouring down on the prince from it, his wife is scratched by thorns; the wife orders a cradle for her child to be made from the tree; the old woman's son picked up the splinters, threw them behind the chest; they turned into a girl, when she cries, a splinter (?) falls, when she laughs - pearls, silver and gold horseshoes fall from under her feet ; the cradle squeezed the child to death; the old woman's son takes a lousy horse to the palace to fatten up; the girl turns it into a decorated horse; the king comes to look at it, falls in love with the girl; the girls are gathered to tell stories, the true bride tells hers; the stepmother and her daughter are tied to the horses; wedding]: Khalilov 1976, No. 46: 109-119; Georgians [the wife of the elder brother tells her husband to drive away the younger brother and his wife; they give birth to a daughter, her tears are pearls , laughs - violets and roses are pouring out; the prince is hunting, a servant comes into the hut, is struck by the beauty of the girl, because of this the pheasant is burnt; the prince himself is walking, struck by the beauty, takes the girl to marry; on the way his uncle gives her salty food, takes her eyes for water, dresses his dark-haired daughter in her clothes; explains to the prince that she has become ugly from waiting; a blind woman cries pearls in the forest, an old man picks her up; exchanges violets and roses, a necklace from the uncle for the girl's eyes; she dies, the son sucks milk in the coffin of his mother; the prince finds the son, he tears the necklace from the imaginary wife, puts it on the mother, she comes to life; the uncle and daughter were torn apart by horses]: Chikovani 1954: 244-249 (= Chikovani 1986: 248-255); Armenians (told on Lesbos by an Armenian from Gallipoli) [three king's daughters think it is time for them to marry; they send their father three melons of varying ripeness; he took the hint; he ordered all the men to assemble; let each daughter throw a golden ball at her chosen one; the ball of the youngest hits the bath-keeper three times; the king refuses to conclude such a marriage, but the daughter gathered up as much jewelry as she could carry and went to the bath-keeper; they began to keep a bath-house; when the time came for his wife to give birth, the king issued a decree forbidding all midwives to assist her in childbirth; the woman in labor came to her bath-house; the wall opened, three nymphs entered; they helped her give birth to a girl; one hung an amulet around her neck to protect her from illness; the second ordered that if the girl laughed, roses would fall from her lips, and when she walked on the grass, fragrant flowers would bloom; the third wished that the girl's tears would turn into pearls and the water in which she would wash her hair would turn golden ; as a result, the youngest princess became richer than her father; the nymphs built her a palace; after this, the king promised to bequeath the throne to his youngest son-in-law; one of the older princesses also decided to go to the bathhouse to give birth; the nymphs entered, but in the form of terrible old women; an ugly woman was born; one wished that the ground on which she would step would become barren; the second, that her tears would turn into pus; the third, that if she laughed, a donkey's penis would grow on her forehead; the king died, the girl's father took the throne, she grew up; a neighboring prince asked her to marry; the king: I will give it to you if you show a rose from her cheek; he pretended to be a dervish, made the princess laugh in the street, begged her to give him a rose; a wedding is being prepared; the bride's aunt was also invited to it; she went with a caravan and did not let her niece eat; for a piece of salty cake she had to give up her talisman; The aunt hung it around her daughter's neck; then gave two more pieces in exchange for her eyes; abandoned her on the side of a hill; and told her daughter not to cry or laugh; The prince refused to marry the ugly girl, but the king insisted, fearing a war with his neighbor; The blinded girl was picked up by a shepherd; He became rich thanks to the pearls; One day the girl laughed and ordered a rose to be exchanged in the palace for an eye; then for the second; Accidentally changed her eyes, but this made her even more beautiful; She washed herself, leaving a cauldron of gold with the shepherd; She came to the palace and asked the nymphs to turn her into a cypress; The prince became a king; The aunt told him that his wife would recover if he cut down the cypress; The poor woman took a chip for firewood; Someone is cleaning her room; She found the girl; She told the old woman to go to the king so that he would give her a humpbacked mule for a while; he became well-fed and handsome; the king ordered the old woman to tell him everything; he realized where his wife was and brought her to the palace; she put her talisman on again; the king asks the aunt and her daughter if they want 40 swords or 40 mules; they said mules; they were tied to them; they were torn into as many pieces as there were stones in the mountains; a wedding: it rained honey, and wine flowed in the streams]: Carnoy, Nicolaides 1889, no. 6: 108-126; Armenians [“the girl gave the old man/woman roses and rehan, which were pouring out of her lips, and ordered them to sell them behind their backs”]: Gullakyan 1983: 106; Armenians [the young man who ate the bird’s head spat out gold]: Gullakyan 1983: 151; Azerbaijanis: Akhundov 1955: 230-240 [the eldest daughter asks the merchant to bring a shirt made of onion peel, the middle one a brocade scarf, the youngest a cat; the dervish gives the shirt, the scarf, asks the eldest, the middle one to be his wife; offers to eat human flesh, the wife hides the meat behind her collar, it falls to the floor, the dervish hits the eldest, the middle sister by the braids; the youngest takes the cat with them, it eats the meat, the dervish is pleased; leaves; the wife opens the fortieth room, frees the sisters; all three fly away in a flying chest; the youngest is taken as a wife by the padishah's son, the middle one by a nobleman, the senior by a vizier; the dervish gives the guards sleeping almonds, mutton to the lion and the tiger, the prince's wife pushes him down the stairs, the lion and the tiger kill him; for her salvation the woman promised a daughter who would be born to her; When she is five years old, three beggars call her and give her miraculous abilities (if she cries, there is a hurricane, if she laughs - roses fall, if she walks - gold and silver footprints); the evil sister of the girl's father feeds her salty food, gives her water in exchange for an eye, then for the second; leaves her in a deserted place, replaces her with her daughter at the wedding with the padishah; a poor man finds a blind girl, sells the flowers that fell from her lips to an evil aunt in exchange for eyes, the girl regains her sight; the prince marries her, the aunt and her daughter are tied to mules]; Bogoyavlensky 1899, No. 9 [the younger prince Ibrahim sees in a dream how the moon descended on his herd; tells his brother Rustam and other people; having given his share of the inheritance and taking a heavy staff, he sets off to wander; in another city, the vizier's son Ibrahim agrees to run away with the princess Kul-Shad; at the last moment changes his mind, and the fake shepherd I. accidentally ends up in his place, KSh runs away with him; they tell each other about themselves; I. picks up a stone, KSh says that it is dear; he builds a palace; KSh gives the stone to Tsar Melik-Aslan; the vizier Mamed-Ali is jealous, suggests demanding new stones; I. returns to the spring where he found the stone, goes under the water, there is the princess Shah-Sanam ("queen of beauties"), kidnapped by the diva; stones are formed from her blood; I. kills the diva, takes KSh as his wife; when she hits herself on the nose, gems are formed from drops of blood; the king orders to get the rose of Atri-lal; I. kills the snake that was going to eat the chicks; the chicks tell their mother not to drop the millstone on I., he is their savior; the bird teaches how to get the rose; two girls in the form of doves fly to a tree by the lake, throw off their clothes, bathe; you have to climb the tree, take the clothes, exchange them for a rose; one girl laughed, her laughter formed a bouquet of roses, the girls gave their hair; if you burn them, they will come to the rescue; I. brought roses to the king, the vizier advises him to send him for pears from across the blue sea; the bird carries him across the sea; there are apples from which a tail is formed, and pears from which it disappears; the king declares war on I., he kills him, the vizier and the soldiers, and himself ascends to the throne]: 71-81; Turks[the youngest daughter of the padishah is 20, the middle one is 30, the eldest is 40; the youngest asks her father to give them in marriage; he tells them to shoot a bow; the eldest's arrow hits the vizier's house, the middle one - the mufti's, the youngest - a poor man; her father drives her away to the poor man's; when it is time to give birth and the husband has gone to look for a midwife, three fairies enter, name the newborn Rose; roses will pour from her lips when she laughs, will appear on the grass she walks on; if she cries, pearls will pour out ; R. grows up, the prince takes her as his wife; the woman in the palace also has a daughter, Rose; to get rid of a rival, she feeds R. salty food at the wedding, her daughter gouges out her eyes for a sip of water, replaces her; R. is left on a mountain in a basket, a clay digger finds her, takes her to himself, begins to sell the pearls that pour out; she tells him to sell the roses for his eyes; she returns one eye, then the other; and the false R. adorns herself with roses and therefore becomes more and more popular with the prince; the mother of the false R. told the adoptive father of the real one that R. was a witch; he found out her talisman: a deer on a hill; they killed it, R. died, but a coral fell out of the deer's heart unnoticed; the false R. gave birth to a girl, who is in reality the daughter of the real one; the real R. told her husband in a dream where the talisman had fallen; he found it, the girl took it and disappeared; the peri carried her to her mother's grave, she immediately came to life; the prince found them, the impostor and her mother were executed]: Kúnos 1901: 30-41; Turks [a girl (var.: princess) was born into a poor family; three (or more) dervishes (peri; deceased mother) predict that where she passes, the grass will turn green, her tears will turn into pearls, if she laughs, roses will fall from her lips, gold will appear in the water she washes with; they give her an amulet (bracelet); the girl grows up, marries the prince, goes to him accompanied by another woman (this is a sister, a servant, a neighbor, a black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace the beauty with his ugly daughter); suffers from thirst, her companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind woman lives with other people; the palace needs roses, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl regains her sight; (the padishah sees the grass turning green under the walking girl); the deceiver steals the girl's amulet, she loses consciousness, is placed in a tomb; (she gives birth to a child, it sucks the breast of the dead mother); the prince finds her and revives her]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 240: 291-294; Kurds : Rudenko 1970, No. 54 [Usyb leaves his daughter to guard the house; she kills the robbers one by one, wounds the leader Akhmad; he marries her unrecognized, takes her into the forest to burn her; the driver hides her under brushwood, the merchant takes her as a wife for his son; A. takes her away, she promises the prophet Khydur to give her firstborn for deliverance; A. is torn apart by a leopard and a lion, Khydur comes for his daughter who was born and raised; he gives her the name Golbarin, her laughter is roses, her cry is rain, wherever she enters there is a purse of gold, her soul is in a bead in the heart of a hornless doe; the son of the emir of the Arabs takes G. as a wife; on the way, the sister of G.'s father gouges out her eyes, puts them in her pocket, replaces them with her daughter; a brushwood collector finds G., she makes him rich; [the false wife pretends to be ill, the mother-in-law orders a hornless doe to be shot; a bead falls out of the doe's heart unnoticed; at that moment G. turns into a mountain; the son of the Arab emir finds a hut there, with the blind and mute G. in it; she bears him a son; he finds the bead, G. regains his sight, says that a dove took her eyes out of her pocket and put them back; the false wife and her mother are executed]: 192-197; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [having given birth to a daughter, the shepherd's wife hears three doves order her to be named Golbarin; if she laughs, roses will fall from the sky, if she cries, it will rain; accompanied by her aunt, G. is sent to the padishah's son as a wife; the aunt feeds the girl salty food, gives water in exchange for her eyes, dresses her ugly daughter in her clothes; a shepherd picks up a blind woman, she orders him to exchange her roses for eyes in the city; doves teach him to wash his eyes in a spring, to run a feather over them, G. regains his sight; he goes into service to his aunt; receives beautiful clothes from the doves; the shepherd's son recognizes her as his true bride, the aunt and her daughter are beheaded, the shepherd is invited to live in the palace]: 29-33.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [a merchant's property burns down, he lives in a vacant lot, his wife gives birth to a daughter, four peris give her gifts: roses from his mouth when he laughs, tears - pearls, he sleeps - gold under his head , he steps - gold and silver under his feet; the shahzade takes her as his wife; the merchant's sister (i.e. the bride's aunt) gives her a potion, the girl is tormented by thirst, she gives her eyes for water, the aunt throws her into a pit, replaces her with her daughter; she takes roses and gold as a reserve, they soon run out; the gardener gets the girl, sells the aunt the roses and pearls in exchange for the torn out eyes; the shahzade finds his true wife, asks the impostor if she wants a horse or a sword; She answers that a horse, the shahzade ties to the horse's tail by the hair]: Rosenfeld 1956: 13-22 (= Osmanov 1987: 124-131); Tajiks [a stepmother torments her stepdaughter with work, tells her to spin cotton; a cow eats it, spins yarn from her mouth; the wind carries the cotton to the old woman's cave; she tells her to comb her hair, tidy up the house; promises that roses will fall from the laughing girl's mouth, her tears will turn into pearls , that gold bricks will fall from her right foot, if necessary, and silver bricks from her left; the stepmother's daughter goes to graze the cow; she combs the old woman's hair carelessly, sweeps poorly; takes gold from the storeroom; a bump grows on her forehead, the gold turns into stones; the stepmother tells her to slaughter the cow, the cow tells the girl to bury its bones in a hole; A stepmother and stepdaughter go to a wedding, they order rice to be separated from wheat; a chicken does this, in place of the cow bones - a luxurious dress, a horse; at the wedding, the stepmother does not recognize her stepdaughter; she loses her kaush (boot), the padishah's son looks for it, finds the girl in a tonura, where the stepmother hid her; on the way, the stepmother gives the bride something salty to eat, she is tormented by thirst, the stepmother gives water in exchange for her gouged out eyes; throws the stepdaughter into a well, replaces her with his daughter; the poor old man finds the beauty and pearls; saves her, collects roses; exchanges them for the eyes of the stepmother's daughter, the current wife of the padishah; now pearls pour out of her eyes, roses from her mouth; the stepmother sends a witch to suck the girl's blood; the girl orders to bury herself in a crypt made of gold and silver bricks; the stepmother takes her heart away, gives the bag with it to her daughter; when she takes it off her neck at night, the stepdaughter comes to life; the padishah's son finds her, comes at night; she gives birth to a son and a daughter; the boy grows up, takes out the bag with her heart; the stepmother and daughter are tied to horses, the beauty and her son are brought to the palace]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960: 175-182; Farsivans [an old man dreamed that the moon and two stars fell from the sky; he went to look for them; the bald shepherd Hasan bought this dream for a flock of sheep; only then remembered that he had not asked about the content of the dream; fell asleep under the wall of the palace; that night the princess and the vizier's son agreed to elope; the princess asked him to wait while she went to the bathhouse; the vizier's son saw the sleeping H., woke him up, asked him to guard the horses, and he himself went to hurry the princess; at this time the princess threw off H.'s saddlebag, believing that her lover was near the horses; she jumped off herself and they galloped; the vizier's son returned, found no one and stabbed himself; in the morning the princess decided that everything was God's will; the princess washed and dressed H., told him to buy a palace, bring a mullah and conclude the marriage; the old woman saw H.'s wife and told the king; he orders H. to bring a throne of ivory; H. met an old woman-div, got her drunk, she made him her son, hid him from her other 7 sons, turned him into a needle and stuck him in her collar; the divas felt the human spirit; they swore that they would not harm the guest; the divas threw potions into the water that the elephants drink; they began to fight and broke off their tusks; the divas made a throne and brought it to the king's garden; the king rewarded H.; now the king orders to bring a laughing flower and a weeping flower; H. came to the former old woman; during this time one of the divas was captured by a two-headed diva; the divas lowered H. into a well; the diva's heads are on the laps of two betting girls; one laughed, the other cried; flowers fell from the mouth of the laughing one, roses fell from the mouth of the weeping one ; one laughs, seeing H., and the other cries, regretting that the div would kill him; H. noticed a vessel in a niche and realized that the soul of the div was in it; he ordered the div to bring all the captives and all the goods to the ground; H. broke the vessel and the div died; the bet flew away like doves, told H. to come to their Green City and be their husband; in the city of the bet, H. was recognized by the traces that the girls left on his shoulders; when 2 days remained before the deadline given by the king, the father of the bet gave H. Suleiman's rug; on it H. and her wives flew to the divs, and then home; the king received laughing and crying flowers; he orders to visit his dead parents; the bet wives wrote a letter on behalf of the king's father with an invitation to paradise, dressed H. in clothes, as if he was lying in them in the grave; let the king build a fire, we, together with the old woman informer and the vizier, will stand on it and get to the royal ancestors; H. flew on a rug to the royal throne, and the king, the vizier and the old woman burned]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 8: 104-117; mountain Tajiks : Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 26 (Darvaz, upper reaches of the Vanj) [= Semenov 1900(2): 4-5; when the daughter of the Shah of Baghdad laughs, roses pour out of her mouth, when she cries, pearls pour out of her eyes ; she is sent to be a wife to the Shah of Misra; on the way the old woman says that she has brought her sister, asks her to undress, puts her daughter in her dress, plucks out the princess's eyes; a poor old man in Misra shelters her; he gets rich selling roses and pearls; the girl sends him to buy two old eyes, regains her sight; the Shah of Misra marries her, the old woman and her daughter are torn apart by horses]: 112-113; (cf. Semenov 1900 [the king saw an animal in a dream, when it laughs - roses fall, when it cries - pearls; the two eldest sons did not go to look for the animal, the youngest went; the bet waged war with the dev and killed him while he was sleeping; she has a cloud-horse and a wind-horse; when some king came to take her, she mounted the horse and killed the insolent one; the prince tied 40 strands of the sleeping bet's hair to the stodbas, took the animal and brought it to the king; the bet appeared with an army, saw the prince, fell in love, moved her city to him]: 36-37); the Shugnans [the poor shepherd Djumak fell asleep at the king's hitching post; the king's daughter was going to run away with the vizier's son with the same name, rode away with Djumak; gave him the king's clothes, on the way he accidentally picked up rubies on the shore; serves the king, who wants his wife; leads him to be hanged, J. promises to bring a bag of rubies; collects them, it is blood dripping into the stream from the throat of a slaughtered peri ; J. revives her; a div kidnapped her and kills her during his absence; J. persuades the peri to find out from the div where his soul is (in a plane tree, in a chest, in a bottle, in a shirt); J. kills the div, brings a second wife; the vizier advises the king to ask for the Laughing Flower; this is Green Pari from Mount Kof, when she laughs, flowers fall from her mouth; the paris fly to the lake to bathe, J. takes the dress of Green Pari, brings her to the wives, she is the sister of his second wife; takes the flowers to the king; he orders him to bring his late father's sword; the wives give the sword, hide J. with a pretended letter in the ashes of the fire; the king and the vizier agree to be burned, J. becomes king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 2: 60-73; Pashtuns [the padishah agrees to marry his seven sons to the seven daughters of another padishah; leaves the youngest at home for himself; the vizier forgets the fakir's order not to spend the night on the river bank; in the morning the princes and their brides are surrounded by a dragon; he releases it when the youngest prince is sent to him; the dragon asks him to go to the sorceress Gulhandan; if you make her laugh, flowers will fall from her lips , butterflies will fly out of the dragon's nose and fly to those flowers, the dragon will free himself from the butterflies; on the way, the prince saves ants, mice, pulls out a splinter from a lioness, who gives him a lion cub; he stops at an old woman's, asks the mice to dig an underground passage to G.; exchanges sleeping clothes with her; she teaches him to perform the difficult tasks of her father; 1) dog fight (the prince lets his lion cub go); 2) break an iron bar (G. gives her hair to tie an axe handle); 3) collect sown mustard seeds (ants collect); the prince brings G., she laughs, flowers fall, butterflies fly out, the dragon is pleased, the prince and his wife arrive to see their father]: Lebedev 1972, no. 5: 21-27; Turkmen : Annanurova 1980 [a merchant promises to bring gifts to his three daughters; the youngest wants beads, they are nowhere to be found, he is advised to collect beads in the house of the div behind the Black Hill; the div sprinkles beads into his hem, adds some ash, it burns a hole; by this trail the div finds the merchant's house; demands the eldest daughter as a wife; orders her to eat a human nose before his return; she gives it to a cat, the nose answers the div from the cat's belly, the div hangs his wife in the closet by her braids; the same with the middle sister; the youngest asks where the soul of the div is, he gives her a bottle for safekeeping; the girl does not throw the nose to the cat, but does not eat it either; breaks the bottle, frees the sisters; the beads were the tears of all his previous wives ]: 18-22; Stebleva 1969, No. 19 [the old man sees nightingales sitting on his shoulders in a dream; sells the dream to a shepherd; he comes into the garden, takes the reins from the hands of the sleeping youth; the girl mounts the horse, he brings her to the city; she makes skullcaps; the padishah takes the shepherd into his service in order to destroy him and lure his wife; 1) get milk from a black mare; the piebald horse defeats her, brings to the padishah; 2) bring flowers falling from the mouth of the peri Gülkahkas ; this is one of the peris who fly in as doves to bathe; the mother of the devas orders to hide her clothes, the shepherd brings flowers to the padishah, leaves G. as a second wife; 3) bring a letter from the padishah's parents from the other world; the peri raise the shepherd from the fire, then hides him in the ashes; the padishah thinks that he really burned and returned; orders himself to be burned, the shepherd becomes the shah]: 47-54; Uzbeks : Afzalov et al. 1972(2) [a shepherd's new wife torments her stepdaughter with backbreaking work; a gust of wind carries her yarn into a cave; the old woman orders the yarn to be fed to the cow, and the threads to be pulled from the udder; the stepmother orders the cow to be slaughtered; the old woman orders the bones and skin to be buried; the stepmother and her daughter go to a feast, a rooster and a hen separate the rice from the peas instead of the stepdaughter; the girl finds beautiful clothes in the pit where the remains of the cow were buried; four peris, the old woman's daughters, take her to the feast, she returns before the stepmother, having lost a boot; the shah orders everyone to try it on, it fits only the stepdaughter; the stepmother kills the rooster and hen who showed where she hid the stepdaughter; gouges out her eyes, throws her into a swamp, brings her ugly daughter to the shah; the weaver finds a girl, her tears are pearls, her laughter is roses ; a sorceress teaches to sell roses for a pair of eyes; a shah meets a girl, drives out her stepmother and her false wife]: 114-121; Sheverdin 1984 [having cut down a tree, a woodcutter frees a genie imprisoned in it; he gives him an apple to eat half and half with his wife; a daughter is born, whose tears are pearls, when she laughs, roses fall from her mouth , where she steps, there is golden sand; the old man has become rich, asks for too much kalym for his daughter; the evil genie orders her to be given to him; the batyr kills the genie, receives the beauty; the old woman and her daughter say that they have come from the batyr to take the bride; they take her away to the desert; the old woman gives her water in exchange for her eyes being torn out; she throws her into a well, dresses her daughter in her clothes; the people are surprised that the roses do not fall, there is no gold in the bride's footprints; a poor man pulls a blind woman out of a well, builds a pearl palace; when he smiles, a rose falls, the poor man sells it to the old woman's daughter for two blind eyes; a good genie-dove inserts eyes, the girl regains her sight; an evil genie tells the old woman to catch a goldfish, in it is an earring, where the soul of a beauty is; at night the imaginary wife takes out the earring, at this time the girl comes to life; having chased the dove, the batyr finds the true bride, returns the earring; the old woman and her daughter are tied to horses]: 82-89.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [a stepmother tyrannizes her stepson and stepdaughter; the stepson leaves, hires himself out to serve the king; the stepdaughter goes to fetch water; three ugly heads rise from the water; one asks to wash her, another to comb her hair, the third to kiss her; the girl does it; they make her beautiful, gold pours from her lips and hair ; her own daughter goes to fetch water, scolds the heads, they make her ugly with a long nose, a snout and a pine shoot on her forehead; the king sees a portrait of the girl's sister at the girl's brother; decides to marry him; the brother takes his sister across the lake, the stepmother and her own daughter sit between them in the middle of the boat; she tells the stepdaughter what her brother said, that he told her to throw a chest of gold, a puppy she got from her mother, into the lake, and to throw herself into the water; the king is forced to marry the ugly woman, and throws the girl's brother into a pit with snakes; at midnight the girl and her little dog come into the kitchen, the maid sees them, tells the king; twice the ugly woman sends sleep upon the king; when the girl comes for the last time, the servants put a knife in the hand of the sleepy king, he makes a cut on the girl's finger, the spell is broken; the brother is returned, the stepmother and her daughter are thrown into a pit with snakes]: Dasent 1970: 322-330; Icelanders [a childless duke's wife was overcome by sleep while out for a walk; in a dream three women in black clothes told her to kiss a stream and swallow a trout; she immediately became pregnant; when it was time to give birth, the duchess invited the old woman and warned her: three women are coming, they must be received in a friendly manner and well treated; she gave birth to a daughter; three women came, each called Blue Dress; the old woman greeted the two eldest, but was impolite to the youngest; eldest: the name of the newborn is Märthöll, she will be the most beautiful and clever, may her tears turn into gold ; second: let her marry the prince; third: let her turn into a lark on her wedding night and fly out the window; the first three nights she will shed her lark skin, and then no more; if the skin is burned on the third night, M. will remain human; M.'s best friend is Helga, the daughter of a lady-in-waiting; the prince has proposed; H. must stay with M. for three nights; during these three nights she sticks a sleeping pin into the prince's head, and she hurries to the hill, where M. flies and sheds her lark skin for a short time; on the third night the pin falls out, the prince wakes up: his wife is not there; he sees M. and H. on the hill, they are filling a sack with gold; he grabs the skin and throws it into the fire; all is well; H. married the most noble man]: Poestion 1884, No. 17: 136-143; Danes [to get rid of her stepdaughter, the stepmother sends her to pick berries on a mound where there are dwarfs; on the way, the old man gives the girl food - let her feed the dwarfs; they are grateful; let her become more beautiful day by day; roses and lilies grow where her foot steps; gold and silver fall from her hair , when she combs her hair; the stepmother sends her own daughter, who to the dwarfs not with food, but with a stick; they make her spit turn into frogs and toads, a calf's tail grows on her forehead, she passes gas at every step; the heroine's brother is in the service of the king; she sends him her portrait, the king wants to marry her; on the way, the stepmother throws her off the ship, turns her into a duck, replaces her with her own daughter; the king is furious, throws the heroine's brother in prison for deception; in the form of a duck, the heroine enters the kitchen, asks about her brother and half-sister, says that she can only come twice more; the king orders the servant to catch the duck; draws a cross on her beak, she becomes a girl again; the king marries her, frees her brother, puts the stepmother and her daughter in a barrel of nails]: Holbek 1987: 523; Latvians [a stepmother tells her stepdaughter to take dinner to her father, promises to kill her if even a drop of fat gets on her handkerchief; the fat drips; on the way home, three snakes ask her to weave wreaths for them; they make the handkerchief clean, the girl's face beautiful, her tears turn into pearls ; her own daughter kicks the snakes, her handkerchief turns black, her face and voice terrible, toads pour out of her eyes; the prince hears the stepdaughter's little voice, finds her under a vat, takes her to the palace]: Arijs 1971: 207-210; Lithuanians [an orphan servant goes to take dinner to the estate; three snakes ask her to weave wreaths for them, she does so; they reward her: to be rich, hard-working, beautiful; when she cries and laughs, let pearls and gold fall ; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she drives away the snakes, they make her poor, lazy and ugly, frogs and lizards fall from her face; the master marries the orphan; 18 variants; in the 7th continuation about the bride who was switched and turned into a swan/duck]: Kerbelyte 2021, no. 76: 151-153; Estonians : Mälk et al. 1967, no. 61 (southern Estonia; also Saaremaa, central part of northern Estonia) [the daughter asks her father not to marry a widow-witch; he says that if water poured into an old leaky boot does not leak, he will marry; the water did not leak; the stepmother has an ugly daughter of her own; the stepmother tyrannizes her stepdaughter; gives paper clothes in winter, orders to bring strawberries; the stepdaughter comes to the old people's house, shares her stale bread with them, they order to spread snow, strawberries under it; everyone wishes her something (when she speaks, gold falls from her lips ; more and more beautiful; more and more kindly; to marry the king; warm clothes; the stepmother's daughter is rude to the old people, does not share her pies, tells the old people to sweep the snow themselves; they wish for toads to fall out of her mouth, she becomes uglier and uglier, and does not marry; the young king arrives, takes his stepdaughter as his wife; the stepmother, disguised as a healer, hires herself to the king, after the king's wife gives birth to a son, kills her in the bathhouse, replaces her with her daughter; the cook spies on a wild duck flying into the window at night, turns into a real wife, feeds the child; tells the cook that she will fly in for the last time, the king must cut off her (the duck's) head, then she will become a person; the stepmother and her daughter were lowered from the mountain into the sea in a barrel studded with nails]: 160-164; J.Parijõgi in Raud 2004 [a stepmother sends her stepdaughter to pick berries in winter; an old woman in a hut tells her to clear the snow from under her window; the girl finds many berries there; three dwarfs ask for something to eat, the girl gives them her crusts of bread; one wishes for golden eggs to fall from her lips , the second, for her to marry a prince, the third, for her to live happily; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not clear the snow, does not give the dwarfs her bread and honey; some wish for toads to fall from her mouth, so that she will not get married, will be unhappy; the stepmother drives the stepdaughter away, the dwarfs lead her to the road, where the girl is met by a prince; he marries her; the stepmother's daughter is unhappy and alone]: 294-296; Finns [the mother died; a neighboring widow, who had a daughter of her own, persuaded the girl to advise her father to marry her; began to tyrannize; sent in the winter in one shirt for strawberries; the girl asked Frost to give her warm clothes, he gave; she came to the house, there were three little people, the girl shared bread with them; they sent her to sweep the snow, under it there were strawberries; one endowed the girl with even greater beauty, the other made gold coins fall from her lips , the third promised that she would marry the prince; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she refuses to sweep the snow; the little men make her even uglier, toads fall from her lips, she is destined for a miserable death; one day the stepmother gave her stepdaughter a piece of bread; it rolled, the girl after it; the ram asks to shear it, the cow - to milk it, the sheaf - to tie up; the girl does everything; she comes to the estate of Hiisi; his wife is at home, she orders to heat the bathhouse and at the same time weave material from wool; while the girl was heating, the mice spun and wove everything; H. orders to milk the cows, these are she-wolves and bears, the cat milks; strain the milk - the sparrows do it; Hiisi himself came, gives a bell, puts out the torch - he will catch by the ringing of the bell; the mouse runs with a bell; In the morning H. gave the girl gifts, put her on a cart and sent her home; old woman H. orders the cow and the ram to detain her, they refuse; orders the oak tree to beat her with branches, the sheaf protected her; the stepmother sent her own daughter to H.; she refuses to shear the ram, milk the cow, tie the sheaf; drives away mice, a cat, sparrows; the mouse did not run with a bell, H. caught the girl and badly crushed her; on the way back the oak tree whipped, the cow kicked her with its hooves, the ram butted her; the girl returned barely alive; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to wash skeins of wool in an ice-hole; the prince saw her and took her as his wife; she gave birth to a son; the stepmother came, cut off her golden hair, tied it on her daughter's head, pushed the prince's wife into the water; the horse pulled her out, hid her in the stall; the king found her there; asks an old woman what to do with someone who replaces his wife and pushes his real one into the water; old woman: put him in a barrel with thorns, throw him into the water; this is what they did with the old woman and her daughter; all is well]: Konkka 1993: 94-104; Finns [the wife gave birth, but the child was just a head; grew up and demanded that a princess be won for him; the king demands 5 live foxes by tomorrow; the head son got them; the same - 5 bears; build a castle like the king's; wedding; the husband warns his wife not to tell that he is turning into a man, his legs are silver, his hands are gold, the sun is on his forehead, the moon is on the back of his head; but her mother-in-law gave her something to drink and she told; when she told the story, flowers fell from her mouth and nose ; hearing this, the husband turned into a dove, broke the window and flew south; the wife went to look for him; after 7 years she came to the house; there they answered that her husband had flown by 7 years ago and left a bundle for her; 7 years later the same thing in another house; in the first bundle there was food and drink, in the second – clothes; they told her to go to the city, where her husband was a nobleman; she met him; he sent out letters asking which marriage to consider true – the first or the second; everyone answered that it was the first; he sent away the new bride; they returned home, all is well]: Löwis of Menar 1922, No. 39: 119-123; Karelians (northern, Tungudskaya volost) [if a sister steps on it – gold, if she cries – beads , a month on the shoulders, the stars of the Bear on the forehead, the sun on the crown of the head; the brother went to the palace, the prince saw the embroidery on the hoop, asked who embroidered, ordered to bring the sister; the sister said that she would not marry until the handle of the millstone breaks from work; the brother sawed through the handle; until the bench made by their father collapses; the spinning wheel made by their father breaks; the threshold will not break; the brother saws each time; the sister agrees, they go in a boat, Syottyariha asks to take her, puts sleeping needles in her sister's ears, orders her to spit into the sheath, jump into the sea, the sister swam as a duck, the brother brought S.; the prince put his brother under lock and key - why did he bring an ugly one; the sister swims to the widow's house, becomes a girl, sews on the hoop, the widow sells; tells the prince to hide behind the stove, throw duck feathers into the stove, grab his wife; she turned into a snake, he beat her, did not let her go, she became a woman; they dug a hole, took S. to the bathhouse, pushed her into the hole, let her brother out; S.'s mother came, sees two blades of grass, wants to pick them, the daughter screams from the hole, "This is my umbilical cord, don't touch it"; the mother came to the gate, rejoices that her daughter is there, the prince ordered her to be lifted onto the gate]: Stepanova 2000, No. 103: 181-183.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs : Barag 1988, #50 [Zhin-peri puts a ring on the finger of the young man Alyukei; he goes speechless; the old man tells him where to go; Zh.'s sister says that she is getting married; A. tells her to throw Zh. her ring; A. and Zh. run, A. kills the pursuers with arrows - Kubykty-kara and his army; Zh. gives birth to a child; A. takes her and the child home, leaves her by the river; Zh. bathes, the nanny takes her clothes, Zh. flies away as a goose; everyone at home is disappointed that A.'s wife is ugly (a real wife has a moon on one cheek, the sun on the other, she spits gold and silver ); travelers tell about an unusual goose; old people advise hiding in a hole, putting the child next to her; Zh. comes up to feed the child, takes off her bird clothes, both fall asleep; A. returns his wife]: 360-365 (= Zelenin 1991, #101(107) [the hero's name is Aleuk ]: 436-441); Barag 1989, #8 [the merchant's eldest daughter asks to bring a scarf, the middle one - an unseen fruit, the youngest - a cat; the merchant cannot find the fruit, the Sheikh gives it on the condition that the middle daughter be given to him as a wife; he asks his wife to bring meat and eat with him, there is human flesh in the cauldron; the wife does not eat, hides it in her bosom, the Sheikh asks to dance, the meat falls out, he hangs his wife by the hair in room 41; the same with the eldest sister; the youngest feeds the meat to the cat, dances, the Sheikh recognizes her as his wife, orders her not to look into the forbidden room; she unlocks it, frees her sisters; They take a flying boat and precious stones out of the chest and fly away; the prince marries the youngest, the vizier's sons marry the eldest; the prince's wife asks to build a tower, it is guarded by a lion, a tiger, a wolf and a bear; the Sheikh puts them to sleep, comes to his wife; she hears a whisper: give up your beloved, you will be saved! She pushes the Sheikh down the stairs, the awakened animals kill him; the woman gives birth to a daughter, gives her away, it is not clear to whom; orders that her footprints be gold and silver, her laughter - roses, her cry - fire ; the stepmother takes this girl as a wife to the prince, gives water in exchange for her eyes, pushes her into the sea, replaces her with her daughter; the prince is disappointed; an old man finds the blind woman in the forest, she sends him to sell roses to the palace, he exchanges them with the evil stepmother for the girl's eyes; the prince marries her, the stepmother's daughter is tied to the tail of a horse]: 65-69.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Aleke's son Aleuko (Ali-ükö?) sees the khan's daughter in a dream, sets off to look for her, sets off to look, puts 40 guards to sleep, finds her sleeping, rearranges the candles that stood at her head and feet; the girl wakes up, orders the guards to be executed; the same thing a second time; A. comes to her and they meet; Aleuko orders her father to woo her; the khan demands that all his winter and summer huts be filled with cattle; A. drives the cattle, but the khan has managed to migrate overseas, is going to give his daughter in marriage to the blind dau (giant) Karke; A. crossed where the bai-terek grew; at the wedding, K.'s brother came out to wrestle; A. turned into a lousy boy, killed K.'s brother; won the race; The khan's daughter saw a ring on the hand of a lousy boy, which A. had given her; they were running (or rather flying), K. was catching up; A. killed K. with an arrow, received the khan's daughter; one day A.'s wife came to the sea, the servant pushed her into the water, she became a swan; the servant put on her clothes, came under her guise; but the real wife spits gold , and the servant cannot; the wanderer tells A. that a swan was flying, said: How stupid A. is, he doesn't know that he lives with a false wife; the false wife pretended to be ill, asked for swan meat; A. shot the swan, one feather flew off, became a camel; the servant asked for camel meat; one bone flew off, turned into a rose hip; the servant ordered it to be cut down, the thorn became a hawk; A. caught it, brought it into the house; everything in the house becomes tidy, the clothes are mended; the maid orders the hawk to be killed, A. refuses; he lies in wait, sees the girl take off the hawk skin, start sewing a dress; A. hid the skin, the girl confesses that she is his wife; A. brought her to his parents; the wife orders him to be washed with milk and rubbed with mare's fat to get rid of the bad smell that he had absorbed while living with the maid; she was asked whether she wanted 40 horses or 40 scissors; she replied that she wanted both; she was cut into 40 pieces with scissors, tied to the tails of 40 mares, and scattered across the steppe; that for 40 days]: Potanin 1916, No. 14.1: 95-97; Kirghiz [there lived a widow with two daughters; the elder, like her mother, is rude and arrogant, the younger is kind and beautiful; the mother sent the younger with a jug to a distant spring; a poorly dressed woman asked her for a drink; the girl was kind and polite to her; she said that now, as soon as she spoke, flowers and precious stones would fall from the girl’s lips ; the mother sent the elder daughter, who answered the woman rudely, snakes, frogs and turtles began to fall from her lips; she never married, and the younger was taken by the padishah’s son]: Sabyr uulu 2008: 54-55.

Eastern Siberia. Northern Yakuts - reindeer herders [an old woman harnesses a louse to a thimble, drives it with a needle, controls the thread-lead, finds a fresh grave in a rich yurt, digs out a beauty; the arrow of the youngest son Kharakh-khaan hits the yurt of the old woman, he marries the beauty, not knowing that she is dead, pushes her at night, she comes to life, silver coins fall from her mouth; returning with his wife, the husband pursues a squirrel, does not tell his wife to go along the road where bear and wolf skins hang, but to go where hay is scattered; the wife forgets, turns onto a dangerous road, comes to Dyega-Baaba (Baba-Yaga); she takes her clothes, comes to H. instead of her; the owners decide that if the daughter-in-law is of good origin, then when she jumps "kur-kur", green grass will scatter, and when she jumps "bar-bar", silver money; if she is of evil origin, then dried fish and insects will rain down; they rain down, the husband Erbekhtai Bergen pulls the veil from his wife's face, sees eight eyes and a bull's nose; they beat her, she gives the girl away, she is revived with living water, DB is thrown into the fire]: Gurvich 1977: 175-176; Yakuts : Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [the old woman Byaibyarikyan with five cows finds an unusual horsetail; leaves it in the house, it turns into a beauty; the hunter Kharzhit-Bergen gives a lot of cattle for it, takes it away; on the road he leaves to pursue a fox, orders at a fork to turn east, where a sable skin hangs, but not west, where a bear skin is; the girl forgets, turns west, gets to the abaasy in iron clothing with one arm, one leg, one eye; she tears the skin off her face, puts it on herself, puts on her clothes; in the groom's house everyone expects that at the word bride beads will pour out of her mouth; when she steps, sables will run; frogs pour out from her, mangy ermines run; at this time old woman B. digs up horsetail again, it turns into the former girl, tells that her former body was dragged across the field by dogs; the girl's horse tells HB's father what happened; HB ties the daughter of the abaasy to the tail of a horse, returns his wife, red beads fall from her lips, sables run]: 136-143; Yakuts (Verkhoyansk; =Ergis 1964-1967(1), No. 51: 172-177) [a short old woman (Ergis: old woman Beiberikeen) with five cows brought a horsetail with five shoots from the field, puts it under the pillow, it turns into a girl, her body is transparent (the body is visible through the dress, the bones through the body, the brain through the bones); the son of Harakh Khaan Harzhit-Bergen (Ergis: Haardyt Bergen) takes her as a wife, giving her a lot of cattle as a bride price; takes home, hunts foxes, tells to go along the road where the lynx and sable skins are hung, not to go where the bear skin is; she forgot, went where the bear skin is, the devil's daughter from the iron yurt with one leg, one arm, one eye puts on her skin; in the house of HB blows her nose, kinglets (?) fall, everyone is disgusted (Ergis: in the house of her husband, where she blew her nose, green beads fell , where she stepped, gray ermines ran, everyone became disgusted); steps, only red thin-haired sables run; the old woman finds a horsetail, brings it home, it turns into the same girl; tells what happened to her (the dog dragged her heart and lungs, abandoned her, and horsetail grew there); the horse tells HB's father what happened; says that if his son does not take her mistress from the Aiyy tribe again (who came to life again from the horsetail), then she will complain to Urung Aiyy Toyon (the White Creator Lord); the son must be kept in running water for 30 days, then aired; the son himself tells his father that the girl who emerged from the horsetail is one of the seven crane daughters of the younger brother ÜAT; her wings were cut off, she was sent to the earth; The false wife was tied to a horse, scattered across the field, her body and blood became worms and reptiles; the true wife was returned; when she blows her nose, expensive kinglets fall, when she steps, sables run]: Khudyakov 1890, No. 4: 80-89.

NE Asia. Russified, probably tundra Yukaghirs (Pokhodsk village, Nizhnekolymsky district) [an old woman brings home a blade of grass, it turns into a girl; her tears are pearls, her laughter is precious stones , sable, marten, and fox skins pour out of her sleeves; a young man takes her as his wife and takes her home; she is thirsty, he makes ice holes, but all the lakes have dried up; the dogs drag her sled to Yagishna’s house ; there she falls into a deep dungeon; Ya. promises to let her out if she gives her her clothes; having put them on, Ya. takes on her appearance and comes to her husband; he is angry that she does not drink the water he had worked so hard to obtain; at home only one crookedly drilled bead falls from her face; she gives birth to a son, gives him not her breast to suck, but her left heel; the husband angrily takes her back to the old woman; the girl climbs out of the dungeon over a mountain of corpses, Y. sends wolves and bears after her, they kill her; yellowish grass grows from the blood, the old woman brings the blade of grass into the house again, the girl is reborn from it; the husband recognizes his wife, kills Y. with arrows]: Bogoras 1918, no. 6: 52-54; coastal Koryaks : Zhukova 1980, no. 14 (Palana) [Ememkut is married to Nevryttytiny?anevyt; when she speaks, cloudberries pour out of her mouth ; they are traveling to his parents, on the way the child wanted to drink, E. went for water; the frog Kamynganavyt threw snow under the sled over the cloudberries, put on her clothes; at E.'s relatives', the frog spits out one berry; N. lives in a grass hut, she gives birth to a second son; he comes to his father, brings him to the hut; N. returns, the bowls are filled with cloudberries; The frog was tied to a sled, pieces of its meat were scattered across the tundra]: 178-179; Jochelson 1908, No. 128 [ Ememkut rises to the Sun, defeats him in running and hauling stones; the Sun says that he will not be able to get the daughter of the five-headed Kamak anyway; E. comes to Kamak, who swallows him five times, but E. comes out through the anus each time; kills Kamak, takes his daughter; her feces are beads and copper rings ; E. grows rich]: 323-324.

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 he alone has plenty of provisions, he is elected chief; the steam from his steam room turns into spring clouds]: Jacobs 1958, no. 23: 188-193; Klamath [all the fish in Crater Lake are the children of the monster Lau ; he sends his daughter to Marten; she and Marten's wife both spit beads ; Marten kills L.'s daughter, throws parts of her body into the lake, shouting, Here falls Marten's leg , etc.; L.'s children devour their sister's flesh; when Marten throws her head, he shouts to them about it; runs home, does not pick up objects on the path, any of which can devour him; L. Sends his one-eyed daughter, she fights with Marten, throws him several times into the lake, covering the surface with ice, but he breaks the ice with a knife; finally, pierces and carries off Marten's heart, L.'s men play with it; Marten's younger brother Laska asks Kamukamts to place it in his shoulder, they carry off the heart; the one-eyed one pursues them, K. throws down a tump-line, it turns into a river; L.'s men give up the pursuit; they die on dry land, there are no fish in the lake now]: Curtis 1976(13): 212-213; modok [Morka is a chief and a good hunter, married to Kleshch; his younger brother Laska never gets any deer; the old man tells Minka to wrestle with him, carries him off, taking the form of a horned beast, is going to cut him into pieces and throw them over a cliff to his children; Minka cuts him up, throws the pieces with the words, Here falls Minka's shoulder , etc.; the head is the last to fall; the monster's children scatter knives, blankets, beads on the path; if Mink picks them up, he will die; he picks up the last knife, but manages to throw it away; returns home; the monster's daughter comes, spits out the beads; Mink's wife spits out more beautiful beads , fights with her all night; in the morning the monster's daughter overcomes, carries off the sleeping Mink, also becoming a horned animal; is going to throw pieces of his body into the lake to her sisters; Mink cuts her into pieces, throws them himself (episode similar to the first)]: Curtin 1912: 294-299.

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, W.'s of large beads ]: 293-294; Williams 1954 [two sisters are about 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 and has become hoarse in his voice; takes him by boat to his wife, Frog (Fra Khatsu), whom he pretends to be his mother; 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.

( Cf. Great Southwest. {Boas regarded this text as a Spanish borrowing. This is unlikely to be true of all motifs, but M57a3 in combination with K32, "Substitute Woman," has no North American counterpart.) Western keres (Lagoon) [girl finds worm, places in water; it grows, makes the pool larger, turns into a horned serpent, takes her to its underwater world, makes precious stones fall from girl's hair while washing ; she marries; while husband is hunting, another woman drowns her, takes her place; but stones do not fall from her hair; husband sees real wife in river, takes her back, kills false wife]: Gunn 1917: 269 in Boas 1928a: 269).

Western Amazonia. Aguaruna : Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, no. 19 [a young man desires a star as a wife, she appears next to him; instead of urine , beads come out of the star's body ; the mother-in-law disdains them; offended, the star returns to the sky; the husband follows her up a liana], 19a: 221, 223-225; Guallart 1958 [two young men stand in the open at night; two worms fall on them; one throws them away in disgust, the star returns to the sky; the other hid them in his clothes, brought them home, the worm became a girl; she peed in a vessel, it became filled with bead necklaces ; the young man's mother called this an abomination; the star was offended, ascended to the sky, and lowered a rope for her husband to ascend after her; but the boy's mother cut it, and the rope turned into a guayaquil liana, which had not been there before]: 68.

Chaco. Chorot [ instead of urine, beads or crystals come out of the star's body; the mother-in-law disdains to give her a vessel to urinate in, another woman gives it to her; the husband hides the star in a calabash; when his sister throws the calabash to the ground, everyone dies, the star revives people; revives dried-up cultivated plants; returns to the sky, the husband looks for her, falls into the hands of vultures, they devour him, the star revives]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 136 [before meeting the star, the young man loses an arrow, the star gives it to him], 137 [the young man visits his mother, having descended from the sky], 138 [having lost an arrow, the young man steps on a thorn, the star takes it out; a man descends from the sky on a vulture, falls into the water, drowns], 139-140 [short versions, only the beginning of the plot]: 254-267.