4. The villain seizes the daylight. This occurs only once.
(165) Parents launch a small boat, carrying their sleeping son, into the sea.
11. Even in instances when a bride is changed into a duck and flies away
4. The son sets out in search of his sister, without having been asked to do so by his mother.
(133) More often, however, a story of misfortune does not come from parents, but rather from various old women.
6. A cook or an archer spares a young girl (or boy)
XII 1. A witch gives a girl household chores.
(115) The hero is supposed to serve as a ferryman for three years.
(216) The apple tree, the river, and the stove offer a very simple meal.
(171) A dragon suggests the raising of a heavy stone.
4. The little brass peasant is held captive and asks to be freed.
(125) A devil sits in a tower and begs a soldier to free him.
(236) A jug fished out of water begs to be broken, i.e., the spirit within the jug asks for liberation.
(166) the hero aims at animals which beg to be spared
Mice ask to be fed (102); a thief asks the robbed person to carry the stolen goods for him
(238) A little vixen is caught; she begs, “Don’t kill me”
(fledglings become soaked in the rain, children torment a cat)
(270) They offer these things for an exchange.
(108) The heroes exchange clothes with the daughters of the witch in secret; she proceeds to kill them instead of the heroes
9. The hero vanquishes (or does not vanquish) his adversary
VI. Some tales end with the moment of reward
(Fneg) The hero is devoured, frozen, has strips cut out of his back, etc
2. An old woman indicates an oak tree under which lies a flying ship.
6. A staircase suddenly appears, leading up a mountain-side.
8. The hero steals a horse from a witch.
9. Sometime I’ll be of use to you
(D10E10F8) an invisible spirit serves the hero. Three merchants offer a little chest (a garden), an axe (a boat), and a horn (an army) in exchange for the spirit. The hero agrees to the barter but later calls his helper back to him.
No. 159 and others, A flying ship may be prepared, or pointed out, or given as a gift, etc.
(F9) Therefore we conclude that there exist types of connections.
1. The hero flies through the air (G1) on a steed (171) on a bird (219) in the form of a bird (212) in the carriage of a devil
2. a handless person carries a legless one (198) a cat swims a river on the back of a dog
3. He is led
6. He follows bloody tracks. (G6) finds the entrance into another kingdom
3. They play cards (H5). The hero and a dragon (192, 153) play cards.
1. The hero receives a wound during the skirmish. A princess awakens him before the fight by making a small wound in his cheek with a knife (195); she kisses him, leaving a burning star on his forehead.
1. The villain is beaten in open combat
2. He is defeated in a contest
3 He loses at cards
(K5) The seven Semjons obtain a princess: the thief kidnaps her, but she flies away in the form of a swan
(145) Similarly, the egg containing Koscej’s death is obtained. A hare, a duck, and a fish run away, fly away, and swim away
3. A blinded girl embroiders a wonderful crown and sends it to her villainous servant girl. In exchange for the crown, the latter returns the eyes
4. The princess is neither seized nor abducted, but she is nevertheless “obtained.” She is obtained as the result of combat. Obtaining in these cases is a logical element.
6. The magic tablecloth which sets itself and the horse that scatters gold both belong here.
7. He captures the crane which was stealing peas.
8. “Be a girl once again!”
10. Here initial misfortune is done away with.
Tale No. 259: here, the king of the sea always drags his prisoner out onto the shore at midnight. The hero beseeches the sun to free him. The sun is late on two occasions.
XX. Sometimes return has the nature of fleeing.
1. a witch flies after a boy (105) geese fly after a girl
4. Pursuers (dragons’ wives, etc) turn into alluring objects…here they’ll be torn asunder like poppy seeds (136) She-dragons change into gardens, pillows, wells, etc
(155) A dragon mother opens her jaws from the sky to the earth
2. He throws a brush, a comb, a towel. They turn into mountains, forests, lakes.
No. 153 devils are placed in a knapsack by a soldier
(Rs10) we again have abduction, enchantment, murder but there are specific villains connected with the new misfortune…they steal his prize
(Rs10) by throwing him into a chasm (into a pit, a subterranean kingdom, or sometimes into the sea) into which he may sometimes fall three whole days. Then everything begins anew:
(137, 138, 144) to bathe in a red-hot iron bathhouse
(169) to pose an unsolvable riddle (239) to recount and interpret a dream (241) to explain the meaning of the ravens’ croaking at the tsar’s window, and to drive them away
(238) to select sought-after persons among twelve identical girls (or boys)
(236) To kiss the princess in a window
(180, 182) To jump up on top of the gates
(167) to spend seven years in the tin kingdom
(123) to supply a medicine (123), to obtain a wedding dress, a ring, shoes
(170) to build a palace during one night (190), a bridge leading to it (216), to bring “the mate to my unknown one to make a pair”
(197) Sometimes a song is sung telling of what has occurred and exposing the villain
XXX. The villain is shot, banished, tied to the tail of a horse, commits suicide, and so forth.
(U neg) Usually only the villain of the second move and the false hero are punished
xxxI. 1. A bride and a kingdom are awarded at once
5. a married hero loses his wife
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