A29A. Torn apart by two women. (.21.) .27.35.72.

Heavenly and earthly women (demon) pull a man in different directions. As a result, he (or half of it) turns into a celestial object.

(Lhota), Nenets, Eastern Khanty, Southern and Northern Selkups, Kets, Poppies.

(Wed. Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lhota [Tiger wants to eat a woman, she promises him her daughter when she is born; when a girl grows up and can carry water and fuel, Tiger takes her; Tiger's wife gives birth to him a daughter, wondering why, left with her father, the girl cries; sees him hitting her head against the hearth, licking blood; goes to wash, leaving a louse and a flea responsible for herself; runs away; the Tiger catches up with her at her mother's house; the mother does not believes that the daughter is alive, does not open the door; the daughter climbs into the hole for the dog; the Tiger and mother pull her, tear her in half; the Tiger cries, buries her half; the mother cooks a piece of meat from her half, gives it to him; he eats, pulls and eats buried goods; tigers have been eating humans ever since]: Mills 1922:190-193).

The Balkans. Moldovans [When a flea shoved one leg with 99 eyes of iron, the other with 99 okami (1 ca 1200 g) became, and everything seemed not enough for her, the king had a mischievous son. He fell from a slingshot into a jug of water carried by his grandmother, who cursed him: "So that you walk around the ground and not calm down until you reach the immortal kingdom, but you will not find peace there either." The prince is melancholy; he goes to seek an immortal kingdom. He comes to his cell. The hermit does not know about such a kingdom, he sends him through the forest, animals will meet there - everyone should be greeted. Then in front of the castle, the snake will lie with its head on the doorstep - and greet him, he will be happy, turn his head - it will be possible to pass. The castle will tell you where to go next. That's what the prince does. The palace is an old man as old as the world. For saying hello to his animals, he gives a ball of gold thread. The guy goes for a ball, sits down to rest under the oak tree. The acorn asks you to get up from him, offers to live with him until he becomes a strong and lush oak tree. And when he is old, falls and swallows begin to swarm in his ashes, then the prince will end. The prince sprinkles the acorn with earth to grow, says goodbye to him, and goes on after the ball. He comes to a grape bush covered with clusters. The bush suggests burying the grape seed and staying here until the grapes grow; as long as he is alive, the prince will drink wine and eat grapes. The prince buried the seed and moves on. He wants to shoot an eagle, the Tolt asks not to kill, but to heal. If trouble happens, we need to think about it, he will come to the rescue. The prince bandages the eagle's wounds, feeds it, and moves on. The sea has receded, and on the sand lies a king of fish 12 steps long, human-tall, with silver wings, and golden scales. He asks not to eat it, but to put it in water - if you think about it, he will come to the rescue. Then the fox asks to protect it from dogs (same thing). The mosquito asks to be released from the web (same thing). He says that there will be a castle, where you have to go to the king and ask for your youngest daughter as a bride. Until he gets married, he won't take over the immortal realm. The guy comes to the gilded chambers, explains where and where he's going from. The king agrees to give his daughter if the boy can hide. Then he will live in the castle as long as the earth stands and the sun shines: from this gate the immortal kingdom begins. The guy remembers the eagle, the eagle takes it to the heavenly gate and hides it behind 9 rows of clouds. The three princesses look the same. The eldest sees the guy in the sky. The king is going to tear his head off, his daughter asks for forgiveness. The average one sees a guy in the fish's mouth (same thing). The youngest can't see only the boy's shadow. The king tells him to go out and admits that his daughter did not see him, but let him know the youngest. A mosquito sits on her nose. The guy stays in the castle with her forever. The king forbids him to go out through the gate he entered. One day, his arrow goes out the gate. Behind her, he opens the gate, sees a shiny thread from a golden ball, remembers his house, his father, and his mother. The king dissuades him, but he leaves. On a golden thread, he comes to an old and long vine, which recognizes him, but he refuses to rest. It's the same with oak. He reaches the castle, where he was given a golden ball, sees a dragon, dried up from old age, and greets him. The dragon rejoices and keeps him alive. The owner of the castle has grown a beard, half of which he puts under himself and the other is covered. The old man raises his eyelids with a crutch, looks at the guy, invites him to come back. There is a grove in the place of the hermit's cell, and ruins on the site of the castle's father. A 300-year-old man heard from his grandfathers that there was a king's castle with a son here, and that son went around the world for life without death, for youth without old age. And then everyone in the kingdom died of the plague. The prince returns, kicks a clay mortar at the ruins of the gate, and death creeps out from under it with a scythe on his shoulder: waiting for him. The prince runs away, death is his. He greets the dragon, enters the castle, the old man gives him a wool belt, tells him to die, let him wear it until he wears out so that there is no whole thread left, and only then let him come. The dragon breathes heat and tar to death, does not let him in for not saying hello. The prince gives death a belt, runs to the oak tree, the oak tells you to take an iron staff from the hollow, let him die: let him come when the staff is erased. Death sets out to erase the staff. The prince reaches the vine. She promises to be a boat and a bridge for him, and tells him to throw his sword under his feet: let him come when the soblya rust and falls to dust. The saber is rusted, death is chasing, the prince comes to the castle, opens the gate, the wife meets him, grabs his hand, and death by the leg. They're arguing. The wife proposes to turn the prince into a golden apple, throw it up: whoever catches will get the prince. He throws an apple, it turns into an evening star. The king and his people also turn the girl into a golden apple, throw it up, tell them to find the king's son and return with him to the palace - death will not be able to do anything to them. The apple becomes the morning star. Death is angry, tramples the shadows of all three, and turns the king and his two daughters into blocks of stone. Since then, there have been stars in the sky and stone pillars at the gate]: Botezatu 1981:27-37.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Drannikova 2002, No. 94 (Arkhangelsk Region; Western 1992 in Naryan-Mar) [Ostyak had a god sit down; he drowned him because there is no luck; he went to see a girl, she replies that she will live not for long; such a wife is not needed, the ostyak is gone; the second one has the same; the third says that there is no death for her; the wife does not tell Ostyak to go to his former house for the knives and axes left there, but he goes; in the house here , chased; the first two girls have already died; the wife grabs her head and sit by the legs; tore them off, took them away and ate them; in his wife's bed, the ostyak turns into a baby or half an adult; after three his wife threw him into the sky, he became a month], No. 95:191-194; Sherbakova 1984 [the man got angry, threw his helper spirit into the water (sit down); he chased him, on the verge of the plague grabbed him by legs, the wife grabbed her hands, tore it in half; ate the back of the seat, threw the front wife on the bed, she turned into a baby or half a man; the wife threw him into the sky, he became A month, it is by the Sun]: 87 in Golovnev 1995:303-304; Eastern Khanty; Southern (b. Tym) and northern Selkups; Kets {comm. Nikolaev 1985:45; most likely, the story about the sun and the month was borrowed by some groups of Kets from their predecessor inhabitants of the Lower Yenisei taiga and revised in their own way; that is why the Imbat The Kets do not know it, and the Syms have lost their original meaning; however, it is kept by the Dibikovs, who are a mixed keto-Selkup group}.

Chaco. Maca: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 84 [the wife does not like an ugly husband; he looks at the sky, wants a little star as his wife; she wounds a deer while hunting, he turns into a woman, she says that and there is the Star he wanted; in the form of a firefly, hides in her husband's bag; opens up to his relatives after her husband's younger sister tried to look into her bag (The star hurt her eyes with something, then cured); when the season for collecting algarrobo pods (Prosopis nigra) is over, she leads her husband to collect them, moistens his eyes with his urine, then he sees pods on the trees; the star leads collecting other women's algarrobo beans also moistens their eyes; takes her husband to heaven to his Frost father; when he admits that her husband is sleeping with her, the father-in-law scratches his son-in-law's body with bones for ritual scars, he dies of blood loss; father-in-law tells his daughter to step on his grave, gives the comb to comb the corpse, the son-in-law revives handsome; father-in-law warns that on earth the former wife will pull man to herself, but the spouses still return to earth; the sister of the former wife sees that the man has become handsome; the star and the man's ex-wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; Star revives it by stepping on it; the next night, the same thing, cannot be revived again; the star returns to heaven, telling her husband's relatives to stock up firewood; the rest of the inhabitants of the village of Frost kills cold; the Sun visits Frost, he gives him fish; he visits the Sun himself, he gives him an Algarrobe bean], 85 [the wife leaves her ugly husband; he looks at the sky at night, wants Foteki Morning Star as his wife; when hunting, a deer hurts, a deer turns into a woman, she says that F. is; becomes a holy place, tells the man to hide it in his bag; the man's mother hears that her son is a woman at night; the youngest the sister tries to look into the bag, a needle falls out, stabs it in the eye; F. heals her eye, remains human; she smears her husband, mother-in-law's eyes with urine, who now see fruits on the tree that they have not seen before; takes her husband to heaven to visit his father-in-law; it's cold there; F.'s father is also a star; for a long time F. replies to him that her husband did not copulate with her; finally he confesses; he calls his son-in-law, pierces him with sharp bones, the son-in-law dies of blood loss; after a while, the father-in-law tells his daughter to step on the grave, the husband gets up; the wife combs the half-decomposed corpse, it comes to life, becomes handsome; the father-in-law goes to visit Sun man; son-in-law misses earth; father-in-law tells daughter that she will be able to revive her husband one more time in the same way as she has already done; spouses return to earth; the former wife sees that he became handsome; comes for him with his sisters; F. and his former wife pull him in different directions, tear him in half; F. revives him; the next night is the same, F. cannot revive her husband again; returning to heaven, she tells her husband's family to stock up on firewood, for her father will send cold as punishment; father-in-law kills the rest of the village with cold]: 179-186, 187-191.