Published for the first time. The manuscript of the recording is kept in the FA; see A. Sakanyan's fund, manuscript collection “Fairy Tales of Stepanavan”. The tale was told by Voskehat Ghazaryan, born in the village of Hovnanadzor, Stepanavan region, in 1914, a resident of Odzun, Alaverdi region, a state farm worker. It was written by A. M. Sakanyan, in 1966, in Odzun.