Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

B28C. Lice are dragged into the water. 37.43.

Lice grab a person and drag him into the sea.

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [about the cape on the way to the river. Takeme had two shore gates from Shoomi; a man with lice lived nearby; they dragged him away, hit him by the rocks, brought down the gate to the sea]: Arsenyev in Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 119:484.

The coast is the Plateau. Quinolt [The converter sees various people walking upside down; one lice is dragged into the water, others have spears and digging sticks that are too short, and others use their heads like hammers; he puts them all on their feet, gives one a comb, tells others to eat oysters and fish, and gives others real hammers]: Farrand 1902, No. 1:83-85.