P. 45. Other Russian popular tales in which the characteristic traits of the group spoken of are well preserved: Afanasief, V, 178, No 37, ed. 1861, I, 239, No 67 b, ed. 1873, 'Tsarevitch i yevo Sluga;' 'Korolevitch i yevo Djadka,' the same, VIII, 170, No 18, ed. 1863, I, 233, No 67 a,ed. 1873; Khudyakof, II, 83, No 44, 'Udivitelny Muzhitchek;' the same, III, 143, No 115, 'Muzhitchenko s Kulatchenko.' A tsar's son delivers a prisoner; is condemned to leave the country with a servant (tutor, warden); having been let down into a well to drink, is forced to change positions and clothes with his attendant; serves as herdsman, horse-boy, cook, the attendant aspiring to marry a king's daughter; destroys three dragons (a seven-headed monster in the second, the fourth defective here); marries the princess, the servant or tutor being put to death (baited with dogs in the third, set to work in the stable in the fourth).[foot-note]
Afanasief, IV, 72, ed. 1873, refers to other Russian versions, and gives, p. 73 f., the Russian form of 'The Goose-Girl.'
46 b. Add: (F.) Ivan Tsarevitch i Martha-Tsarevna, Afanasief, I, 227, No 21, 1863, I, 246, No 68, 1873. (G.) 'Masenzhni Dzjadok,' the same, V, 185, No 38, 1861, I, 254, No 69, 1873. (H.) 'Kiósut,' Sbornik of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, III, II, 222. (I.) 'Der Königssohn und der Bartlose,' Hahn, Griechische u. Albanesische Märchen, I, 233, No 37. (1.) The son of a king liberates a prisoner (man of iron and copper, bird with human voice), F, G (stealing the key from his mother, G). (2.) The prince is under the necessity of leaving the country, F-I (is attended by a beardless man, H, I). (3.) To get out of a well has to consent to change clothes and position (with the beardless man, whom he had allowed to join him, or who had been hired as horse-driver), H, I. (4.) King's daughter (fair maid with golden locks, I) aspired to by a low fellow, F, H, I. (5.) Prince figures as stable-boy or scullion, F, G, I, kills three dragons, F, defeats an army, G, accomplishes three tasks, H, I. (6.) Prince marries princess, F, G, H (marries Golden Locks, I), treacherous competitor banished, F, hanged, H, thrown into boiling oil, I.[foot-note]
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