Karelian researchers register that the tale type is "widely reported" in Karelia, with 55 variants collected,Карельские народные сказки [Karelian Folk Tales]. Репертуар Марии Ивановны Михеевой [Repertoire of Marii Ivanovy Mikheeva]. Петрозаводск: Карельский научный центр РАН, 2010. p. 44. . apart from tales considered to be fragments or summaries of The Tale of Tsar Saltan."Русские Народные Сказки: Пудожского Края" [Russian Folk Tales: Pudozh Region]. Karelia, 1982. pp. 8, 288 (tales nr. 15 and 16), 317 (tales nr. 348 and 349), 326 (tale nr. 460). According to their research, at least 50 of them follow the Russian redaction (see above), while 5 of them are closer to the Western European tales.
