Eagle son of Eagle flew to the sea and brought mighty winds, the sea
rose, and threw the barrel on shore. Falcon son of Falcon grasped the
barrel in his talons, bore it high, high in the air, and dropped it
thence to the ground. The barrel fell and was broken in pieces; but
Raven son of Raven carried healing water and living water and
sprinkled Ivan Tsarevich with them. Then all three of them caught him
up and bore him to the thrice-ninth land, to the thirtieth kingdom.
They brought him to the thirtieth kingdom and said: "Go now to the
blue sea, where lives a marvellous mare; in front of her twelve men
are mowing hay, and twelve rakers are raking what they mow: she
follows them and eats the hay. When the mare drinks water, the blue
sea rises in waves and leaves fall from the trees; when she scratches
herself on hundred-year oaks, they fall to the ground like bundles of
oats. Every month she has one colt; twelve wolves follow her and
devour these colts. Bide thy time; and the moment a colt is born with
a star on its forehead, seize it quickly,--that colt will be an heroic
steed for thee. On that colt Koshchéi Without-Death will not overtake
thee." Ivan Tsarevich did as his brothers-in-law taught him.