B109. A man became a bear.. 27.-.37.39.

A person acquires hair and becomes a bear (the origin of bears).

Bulgarians, Macedonians, Romanians, Belarusians, Ukrainians (Galicia, Volyn, Kharkiv, Yekaterinoslavskaya, Kherson, Voronezh), Russians (Olonetskaya, Ryazan, Smolensk, Vyatskaya), Poles, Karachays, Avars, Georgians, Talysh, Rushans of the Huf Valley, Dards (Shina), Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Eastern Sami, Mari, Komi, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Chulym Turks, Chelkans, Khakas, Tuvans, Tofalars, Buryats, Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Southern Selkups, Nenets, Nganasans, Dolgans, Central and Northeastern Yakuts, Evens, Orochi, Nanais, Russkoe Ustye.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, № *480 ₄ [stepmother sends stepdaughter to the river to wash black yarn white; the elder (Lord or the Old Mother of God) makes the yarn white; asks to look for insects, she says that there is gold and silver, lice turn into gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she is rude, refuses to look for insects, her body is covered with the male genitals, bowel movements, or she turns into a bear; the prince marries the stepdaughter]: 173-174; Dähnhardt 1907 [the predictor informs the priest about the imminent flood, tells him to take his wife and daughters with him and leave without turning away from the city; women broke the ban and God turned them into a bear, a monkey and a nightingale; they look like humans because they come from humans]: 292; Macedonians: Ortenzio 2008, No. 15 [stepmother sends her stepdaughter to wash the black yarn white; she is polite to the old man who comes up, her yarn turns gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter to wash the white yarn to black; she is rude to the old man, he tells throw yarn on her back, the yarn turns black, the girl turns into a bear (bear origin)], 16 [Before causing the flood, God sent a prophet to the city, but only the priest listened with wife and three daughters; leaving the city, the daughters returned to see that there was only a mosque above the water; the father punished the daughters, turning them into a bear, a monkey and a nightingale; these three look like people and come from person]: 107-108, 108-109 (=Shishmanoff 1896, No. 15, 16:16-17, 17-19; Romanians (translated by N.G. Golant) [I a. The Mother of God went to church with Jesus, who was 5 weeks and 3 days old. She has embarked on a difficult and long journey and would like no one to see her. b. A shepherd who herded sheep climbed a dogwood and, imitating (singing) a cuckoo, greatly frightened Virgo. c. Because of this, she cursed the shepherd should become a bear, and the dogwood was told to bloom first and bear fruit last. d. The sheep were destined to be eaten by St. Petra (i.e. wolves) and that they don't bleat]: Brill, Ispas 2005:175.

Central Europe. Poles (many records) [the miller wanted to frighten Christ and was turned into a bear as punishment; a bear's paw looks like a human hand]: Krzyżanowski 1963, No. 2502:180; Russians ( Ryazanskaya) [the man plowed, complains to the lady about life; replies that he wants to be a master; she made him a master; now he wants to be a king; lady: you will always be dissatisfied, be a bear; this is where he came from bear]: Smirnov 1917, No. 240:134; Russians: Azbelev 1992, No. 319 (St. Orlov, Vyatka Gubernia) [to be even more afraid of them, the landowner and his wife decide to become unprecedented animals; they became bears; the man saw a bear eating raspberries; they went to the whole village; bears suck honey in the tree; they were called bears]: 461 (=Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 137:106); Dobrovolsky 1891 (Smolenskaya) [the woman wanted to frighten God, became a bear; when God was walking through the village, she hid in a hole and began to growl; God told her to become a bear; therefore, bears have nipples on their breasts like humans, and not on their stomachs like other animals]: 288 (in Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 135:105); Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 136 (Vladimirskaya) [slutty girl grew old; when people stopped feeding her, she lay under the pear and waited for the pears to fall into her mouth; God lowered her rug, but she was lazy to reach out; then he told her to eat berries and animals; she knew the honey animal, bears come from them]: 105-106; Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 139 (Nizhny Novgorod) [the woman sent her grandfather to cut firewood; the linden tree asks her not to cut wood - there will be firewood; houses chopped firewood; then the old woman sends her to the linden tree for bread, then for money; then wants everyone to be afraid of them; she became a bear and ran into the forest, the old man after her became a bear]: 108-109; Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 140 (Olonetskaya) [=Azadovsky 1947, No. 52:204; the woman sent her grandfather to chop firewood; the linden tree asks her not to cut wood; firewood will be chopped at home; then the old woman sends her to the linden tree for bread; then wants so that everyone would be afraid of them; the old man came back, stumbled on the doorstep and became a bear; the old woman also stumbled, became a bear; bears come from them], 141 (Olonetskaya) [about like in (140); the old man wants cut a linden tree to sell and buy bread]: 109, 109-110; Kuzmina et al. 2005, No. 7/21 [the bean is going to cut a linden tree, she asks not to cut, promises a new hut; then the bean asks for richness, nobility; when began to ask for the kingdom, the linden tree turned him into a bear; therefore, the bear's paws look like human hands]: 107-108; Khudyakov 1860 in Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 142 (Moscow) [the bean began to cut a linden tree; that offered to fulfill his wish; he asked for the farm, then his wife, then the post of head, official, governor; when he wants to be king, the linden tree turns him and his wife into bears]: 110-112; (others one-story Russian versions of Belov, Kabakov 2014, Nos. 143-145:113-116); Belarusians: Dobrovolsky 1891 [when God walked the earth, a mighty woman decided to scare him for driving him away people from paradise; hid and when God came, began to growl like an animal; God made her a bear]: 288; Federowski, "People of Bialorussky", No. 742 [the man wanted to frighten God, hid under the bridge, was turned into a bear (bear ancestry)], 743 [a person wanted to scare God by putting his fur coat out and standing on all fours] in Dähnhardt 1909:99; Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [ The bear used to be human; it still knows how to walk on its hind legs, dances, has no tail; St. Paul and St. Peter was wandering; the evil man and his wife hid under the bridge to scare them; they put on their skins, roared; the saints made them bears]: Afanasiev 1859, No. 187, 188 in Dähnhardt 1909:99; Ukrainians (Starokonstantinovsky skovorodki y. Volyn Gubernia) [Bear. Jesus Christ, wandering across the earth, crosses the dam. A miller who sees Christ from a distance thinks to scare him and climbs under the dam. When Jesus walks through the dam, the miller frightens him. As punishment, God turns a miller into a bear that frightens people with his appearance]: Teodorovich 1899:264; Ukrainians (Kherson) [The origin of the bear. The poor man goes to the woods, thinks to cut down a spruce he likes. She speaks in a human voice so that he doesn't cut it, he'll need it. He listens, cuts the other one. After a while he goes back to the forest, cuts down that cherished spruce tree. Thunder thunders, lightning glitters, a man falls to the ground, turns into a bear]: Hawks 1894:10; Ukrainians (Voronezh, Zemlyansky, pp. Eater, Latanoe, Shumeiki) [The bear was a king and wished to be God, and his wife was the Mother of God, for which the Lord punished him and turned him into a beast, defined bread and grass for his food]: Fedorov 1903:261; Ukrainians : Afanasiev 1859, No. 189 (Kherson) [the evil husband and wife decided to frighten the Savior; to do this, they hid behind the pond and suddenly jumped out; the husband growled at a bear, and the wife ate a cuckoo; the Savior turned them into a bear and a cuckoo] in Dähnhardt 1909:99, 99 (Galicia) [Jesus and St. Peter, in the guise of beggars, went to the miller; he saw them and decided to scare them, roaring suddenly from outside the door; the Lord told him to go into the forest to become a bear]; Dragomanov 1876, No. 10 [bear from the miller; God walked along ground; the miller put his fur on the cover outside and decided to scare him; God: so will you frighten him now; the miller has become a bear]: 5-6.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [the bear was a woman and therefore does not touch women; when she meets a bear, a woman exposes her breasts and he does not touch it]: Dzhurtubayev 2007:17; Nogais [asks the old man not to cut the tree He promises to fulfill his request, he asks for firewood; the old woman complains that the firewood is small, tells him to ask for flour; the tree's leaves have turned yellow, it promises to give flour; the next day the old woman says that it is snowing, it turned out that this is flour; the old woman wants gold and silver; the tree's foliage is almost opal; the old woman is afraid that they will now be robbed, tells the tree to be afraid; the tree's last leaves have fallen, it turned an old woman into a fox, an old man into a bear]: Aliyeva 2013, No. 107:467-468; Avars [the bear descended from a person, understands human speech; when they meet a bear in the mountains, women dissolve hair, exposing their breasts, asking the bear to go their own way]: Khalidova 2012, No. 39:57; Georgians (Kartli) [bear, wolf and fox were human; told Christ it was difficult for them to get food; Lord He turned the forest into a vineyard, the meadow into a field, the cobblestones by the river into sheep; one day he came dressed as a peasant, asked for grapes, bread, milk; he was driven away; for this he turned those people into bears, wolf and fox]: Virsaladze 1972, No. 200:270-271; Talish [brothers Amiz and Mamiz asked Saint Noah to save them from poverty; he conveyed the request to God and the brothers became rich; but when Saint Noah came for them, they regretted slaughtering a camel and cooked a cat; Noah told the fried cat to come to life, and turned the brothers into animals: Mamiza into a monkey and Amiza into a bear]: Asatryan 2005:11-12.

Iran - Central Asia. Dards (tire) [bears descend from a man who went crazy because he could not pay debts and went to the mountains]: Leitner 1877, No. 3:12; the Rushans of the Huf Valley [The bear used to be human That's why he still has human legs, a hero named Ussain. He hung people on the scales and hung them. "Buzurgvor" (saint), who lived in Bombay, turned him into a bear when he found out]: Andreev 1958 (2): 227.

Baltoscandia. Finns [A wealthy family is having a lavish wedding. A poor old man comes, asks for a drink, he is denied. He goes to the sauna and does witchcraft. He asks her son to see what is happening in the hut. The boy reports that all the people at the wedding jump on the walls. The old man says he's good, their skins are going to be expensive. He asks her son to see what is happening in the hut. The boy reports that the whole wedding on all fours is getting close to the door. The old man says he's good, their skins are going to be expensive. He asks her son to see what is happening in the hut. The boy reports that the whole wedding is already jumping out into the woods. The old man gets all the property and household. Wedding participants turn into bears, women into bears with smoother necks. This is where the bear family comes from]: Rakhimova 2000:258-259; Estonians (southwestern Estonia, Tõstamaa) [a farmhand (or rather a poor tenant, saunik) was too lazy to go to the forest, went to the neighboring pasture, became cut down an old tree (from a sacred grove); a gray head appeared from under the root: why are you cutting? man: wife, children; old man: go home, there is already a woodpile; the man decided to go back to the tree with an ax, ask for the barn; then let him be full of goodness; then become a judge; landowner; general; when asked to make him king, the old man got angry and made him a bear; and his wife, having inherited all his wealth, married a noble gentleman; he met a bear and shot him]: Järv et al. 2015:35-36; (cf. Eastern Sami [the man was gone all winter; the next he disappeared again; the son noticed a trail leading to the forest, the wife followed it; the trail became bearish; the woman also became a bear, found her husband in den; he says that their son will come and kill him; when he takes off his skin, let his wife jump out and rush at her - then he will become human again; this is what happened]: Yermolov 1959:61); Lithuanians ( Samogites) [the man put on his skin upside down to frighten others; Jesus commanded him to become a beast, so bears appeared]: Veckenstedt 1883:224; Lithuanians [horse shepherds put their fur coats inside out and roaring were getting closer to God/Christ; they became wolves/bears]: Kerbelite 2001:79.

Volga - Perm. Komi {one source text}: Limerov 2005, No. 64 [Mikhailo decided to stand on all fours and be a bear; the goblin turned him into a bear; the woman went to the forest, he stole her; the woman died, and the cubs stayed; the bear wanted to eat Mikola Ugodnik; he first asked for help split the log; clamped the bear's paws, began to beat him, let people go for promising not to eat; the bear asked for his thumb; Nikola ready to give on condition that the dog receives a gun; the bear took his request back]: 62-63; Fokos-Fuchs 1951:241-244 in Ulyashev 2011 [Mikhailo got on all fours, decided to become a bear, Leshy turned him into a bear, he stole a woman, they gave birth to cubs, they began to eat people; Mikola Ugodnik came down, the bear came to eat it; as in Rochev 2006]: 215; Marie: Aktsorin 1984 [two women and a man stopped at the bridge; the women decided to scare someone, the man tries to object, but they do not listen; they put fur coats on the wrong side, put spruce knots - claws - into their sleeves; when he saw them, the merchant ran away, throwing them goods and horses; the old man was not afraid, but turned them into bears; since then it has been a shame, they shy away from people]: 276-278; Sabitov 1989, No. 555 [Wonderful tree: fulfills all the wishes of a poor man (good households, important rank, etc.); when he expresses a desire to become a bailiff, everything disappears, the poor man turns into a bear; (many texts)]: 34-35; Chetkarev 1948 [out of firewood, wife sends her husband to the forest, he is going to cut a linden tree, a voice from the hollow asks not to cut, says that firewood is already at his house; so many times, a person asks for more and more (house, cattle, money, headman's posts, foreman; when he asks to be a bailiff, i.e. a big master, to ride in a feather bed, he wakes up in the den as a bear; "the bear is a lordly breed, descended from a deadlock"]: 89-91; Anderson 1935:11-15 in Kippar 2002 [the poor man goes to the woods to cut down Christmas trees to build a house; the spruce says you don't have to cut it down, mark the plot and go to bed; the house is ready in the morning; he's back with an ax to the spruce tree, I need a yard; then money; I came again: everything is there, there is no respect; spruce: now people will be afraid of you, and you will be afraid of people; the man has become a bear, the bears are shy]: 117-118; Udmurts: Radimov 1922 [old man wants to split off a splint from the birch tree, she promises to fulfill all his desires; the couple gets rich; the old woman tells the old man to ask for something terrible to make everyone afraid of them; they turn into bears; ( the origin of bears)]: 5-14 (=Klabukov 1948, No. 44:129-131; =Kralina 1960:89-91); Potanin 1884 [the sorcerer knew how to become a bear by sticking a knife into a tree; someone took out the knife, the sorcerer remained a bear forever ]: 223-224; Wichmann 2901, No. 15 [the man went for bird cherry, undressed and climbed a tree; and to prevent his branches from being scratched, he asked God to give him wool; God made him a bear (the origin of bears) ]: 88; Bashkirs [a man stuck a dagger in the ground, turned into a bear, then returned; someone threw a dagger into the water, the man remained a bear (bear origin)]: Nadrshina 2001, No. 56:209- 210; (cf. Bashkirs [the old man brought a chock, began to stab, a bird jumped out, ready to fulfill his wish; the old man asked for firewood; the old woman every time tells me to ask for something else (food, become a merchant); after she wanted to become a queen of the forest, the chock and everything asked for disappeared, and the old people turned into forest shurals - horned, covered with wool, with green beards]: Barag 1989, No. 47:214-216).

Turkestan. Kyrgyz: Bayaliyeva 1972 [the bear was the wife of Paygambar (Muslim prophet); she did not honor her father-in-law, for which he cursed her to a bear]: 31; Poyarkov 1900 [God arranged in heaven was cleaning and wanted to see if everyone obeyed Adam; Adam began to pull out the dry tree, but could not, called for help; the one he called was strong, but clumsy, sluggish; A. replied that so far He will come, A. will pull out the tree himself; Satan has also persuaded him to say that he is cold; God turned this man into a bear, giving him skin, adding cowardice but not losing his mind; the bear is considered smart; his wife also did not work, but lay down, saying that she was sick; answered Satan that she knew what to do; God turned her into a fox; their daughter, who also did not work, but looked at her reflection and became God made mockery of the angel into a promise; because the bear and fox are less guilty before God than that girl, their skins are valued, and the monkey is considered filthy]: 4-6.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [the hunter comes home late, returns empty-handed; the wife went to see; the husband turned into a bear; the wife saw a knife in the deck, turned over, became a bear; gave birth to cubs; hunters killed a bear, began to rip it off, the wife threw her skin, became human; and bears come from children]: Lukina 2004, No. 5. 11:117; Chelkan residents [two brothers quarreled, elder he was offended, twisted his fur coat, became a bear, went to eat honey in the apiary; for this, people told him not to eat six months a year; this is how a bear appeared, he does not eat in winter]: Oinotkinova et al. 2011, No. 46:159; Khakas (Kachins) [a strong witch doctor went hunting, stuck a knife in a log, said, Let me be a bear; then in the taiga he walked like a bear, growling and raging; returned, but there was no knife in the log; the bear was a bear stayed, bears went from him]: Butanayev 2003:67 (=Mindibayeva et al. 2016, No. 24:137, 339, comm.); Tuvans: Katanov 1907, No. 193 [the bear was human in ancient times; this man, angry because of vodka, he became a bear], 205 [in the past, two people lived in the land of the Ehrliks: husband and wife; they made noises upside down, wanting to become oerliks; as soon as they began to gape each other, both became bears]: 16, 18; Tofalars: Katanov 1907:650 [grandfather (bear) was a man with a younger brother; they owned a lot of lakes, quarreled, the youngest became tofa bones Chogdu, and the elder bear], 651 [one brother became the ancestor of Kara Chogdu's bone, the second became Chogdu, the third wove a net, got angry, threw a net on a tree, became a bear]; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 17 (Tunkinsky district of Buryatia) [the wife is surprised that her husband has been hunting for so long; she watches him, sees how after running around the tree, he turned into a bear, and when he returns, he ran again and became human; on the third day, his wife she cut down a tree, her husband remained a bear; therefore, the bear looks like a person (especially without skin), and its meat is healing]: 223; Galdanova 1987 [the bear used to be a man with witchcraft, thanks to which he could turn into a bear when he went hunting; he always returned from hunting with abundant prey, which made his friend envious; once a friend burned his clothes, and the man stayed forever in in the form of a bear; as a bear, he carried a woman out of the village; cubs came from their marriage - this is how bears appeared; they said that a bear had the same liver as a person; there was a ban on eating bear liver, because whoever tries it one day has an irresistible desire to consume human liver]: 33 (same in Erdenebold 2012:65); Dugarov 1990 [the man who made wooden dishes, began to cut the birch tree; she asked to stop, promised to fulfill his wish, he wanted to become a merchant; then king; since only a birch tree knows that he is not a king, sent servants to cut it down; the birch tree tells stop them: their king became a bear; when meeting a bear, you must say "Tsar Man, give way"]: 329-330; Galdanova 1987 [the bear used to be a man with witchcraft, thanks to which he could turn into a bear when he went hunting; he always returned from hunting with abundant prey, which made his friend envious; once a friend burned his clothes, and the man stayed forever in in the form of a bear; as a bear, he carried a woman out of the village; cubs came from their marriage - this is how bears appeared; they said that a bear had the same liver as a person; there was a ban on eating bear liver, because whoever tries it one day has an irresistible desire to consume human liver]: 33 (=Erdenebold 2012:65); Mongols {group not specified} [bear is son of Heaven, who, against his father's will, descended to earth; because of his disobedience, his father left him on the ground and covered his body with hair forever; his whole body has not become animal: it contains some human meat that is not allowed eat - it is cut out and not eaten]: Erdenebold 2012:65.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty: Karjalainen 1996 [Num-Torum's son violates his father's ban on leaving the palace; frightens horses, the horse's hoof pierces a hole, he sees the ground through the hole; wants go down to eat fruits and berries; N. lowers him into the cradle at the end of the chain; tells him not to eat corpses and human supplies, tear only guilty people; son descends and becomes a bear]: 11-12; Lukina 1970, No. 22 (b. Vasyugan) [=Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 17:19-20; the hero loved to go to the forest; got lost; to climb over the deck, he took off his clothes, climbed naked, the moss on the deck became his coat, he could not find his clothes , became a bear], 23 (p. Pim) [=Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 18:20; the bear was a god and lived in heaven; drove the naughty bear cub out; he fell from the sky into a fork in a tree; died, he was eaten by worms, they began to fall to the ground; from large bears with long tails grew up, and small bears grew into small northern bears without tails]: 79-80, 80; Mansi (Severnaya Sosva): Lukina 1990, No. 116 (song on behalf of a bear) [bear - daughter Upper Spirit; he raised her in a house, in a fur nest; when she went hunting, he forbid her to go outside; she went out, saw horses in the pen, wanted to play with them; the horses chased her, she fell into a hole, through She saw the hole, she liked it; the Upper Spirit, after a long request, forged a golden cradle, lowered her daughter to the ground; ordered not to touch people's labazas, she did not listen; arranged a den for the winter; son The City Prince found her; people killed her, celebrated her], 117 (a song on behalf of a bear) [the bear is the son of a poor woman Mos; she asks him not to go to the far end of the village; the son went and began to play with children; children run away when he has claws, fangs and bear skin; he leaves his mother and goes to the forest]: 301-307, 307-312; southern Selkups [the bear used to be human; he is now understands human language; the bear considers a boy, a man to be an older brother, and a girl, a woman, an older sister; they did not eat a bear before; they took the skin, ate lard, and threw meat into the fire]: Pelikh 1972:325- 326; the Nenets [Samoyeds do not worship the bear like the Ostyaks, although at the same time they have a legend about its origin that the bear was once human, but cursed by his father, turned into a beast]: Dunin-Gorkavich 1011:37; the Nganasans [the orphan girl was offended; people migrated, she remained freaky; she cried, went up the hill, and the Master of the Earth saw her there; promised to protect her; turned her into a bear; this is how bears appeared]: Barmich 2014:631.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [daughter has grown up, cries for a week; father asks if she wants to turn into abaas, a beast of the earth or a bear; she replies that she wants to be a bear; father: well, be it; one day a bear was killed, a bracelet was found under the skin]: Ionov 1937:27; the central Yakuts [a bear is a man who fell into the forest and ran wild there; when a bear was human, he was a woman; she fell out with husband, hid in the cellar and did not go out for a month; during this time her body was overgrown with hair, and her toenails and hands turned into claws; then she went to the forest and became completely a bear]: Pekarsky, Popov 1928:18; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts: Gorokhov 1882 (no place of recording; most likely Verkhoyansky District, where N.S. Gorokhov was born and lived) ["There is a legend that a bear is happening from a couple of people jumping over some sacred bars and stakes. I don't remember the details of this legend"]: 38; Seroshevsky 1896 [the hunter's wife noticed that he returns from the fishery too soon every time and brings in a lot of prey; she began to suspect that he was getting it from her mistress; when her husband went hunting, followed him; saw him jump three times over the stump of a fallen tree and turned into a big shaggy beast; she followed suit, turned around a bear and followed him; they never returned home; this is where the bears came from]: 660; Yakuts (no recording location) [legend has it that a pregnant woman became the first bear a woman who gave birth to two bear cubs]: Kulakovsky 1979:55; Evens: Captuke 2000 [from materials by A.P. Kozlovsky; the old man lived with an old woman, trapped a huge hare, put the meat in a storage shed, an old woman I cooked it, the old man did not eat, went uphill with the old woman; "I'll jump over this log, I'll become someone"; jumped over, became a bear, followed by an old woman; now there are bears]: 8; (cf. Robbeck 2005 [bears were smarter than others, decided to get away from animals that fought with each other; there were red berries on the mountain that made you smarter; old bears were young: get there and we can't; in the spring from- People born to bears came out under the snow and ate berries; bears beat people, their faces became flat; pulled out their hair; tore off their ears so that people could not hear well; old bears separated from people; people don't touch bears because they came from them]: 223-224).

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [son quarreled with his parents, wanted to stab himself; his wife held him back, offered to go to the forest; there they found a big tree and turned into bears 16 days later; bears descended from them before There were no bears]: Sternberg 1933:602; Nanais [Ulenda is lazy; the father laments that he has no other son; zangin orders to cut down an iron birch tree with a cradle with a boy on it; in a dream, the bear tells go to two rivers with blue and red water; pour a red iron trunk, the birch tree will collapse; the tiny boy grew up quickly, his name is Calduca, his father holds him for the elder; W. steals prey from his traps; Zangin torments the cat, its muzzle is warped, as will the thief; W.'s face warped at home; W. invites K. to go to the island for the saran; leaves, leaving him on the island in the hope that the bird Cory he will eat; the bird tells him to make three riddles, cannot guess, brings K. home; the father is dead; W. says that the deceased will come to life if he is anointed with foam from the lips of Sima's snake; K. tied himself in wet moss, Simu blazed with fire, K. killed her; Himu's snake crawled to take revenge; K. hid under seven cauldrons, Himu smashed 6, smashed her head on the seventh; K. brought foam, zangin tells her to throw her into the river, the water hissed, the fish surfaced; W. turned into a bear]: Medvedev 1992:161-168 Nanais [younger brother, older sister, they have a dog; sister dressed up brother, told me to go find a bride; put on different clothes herself she flew her dog up the river where her brother was supposed to go, made a home; the brother came, did not recognize her sister, sat, left; the sister returned on the dog; when she found out that the brother had just sat, she said that so he will not find the bride; she sent him down the river; this time the brother stayed; they have a son and daughter; the bird tells the boy that his parents are brother and sister; the boy told his father; he hooked the children's feet, dragged her through the taiga; the girl fell off, the bear fed her chum salmon, became her father; tells her to marry someone who is not afraid of him; well done killed a bear and married a girl; once the girl's father came, turned into musk deer; and his sister is a bear; brother and sister are descended from Namunkan people who have settled along the seashore; according to their custom, a sister cannot eat the meat of a bear killed by her brother]: Sem, Sem 2020, No. 58:277- 280.

SV Asia. Russkoe Ustye [a man knew how to turn into a bear by spitting on a knife and sticking it into a tree; a woman pulled out a knife and the man remained a bear]: Belova, Kabakova 2014, No. 134:105.