B33e1. Freeze in the womb .27.29.31.

The cold, which is never worse, is said to freeze the embryo in the womb.

Serbs, Romanians, Adygs, Swedes, Estonians, Lithuanians.

The Balkans. Serbs [March says if only he were given one more day he would freeze a calf in a cow and a baby in a woman's womb]: Kabakova 1994:211; Romanians [mighty king with his right eye always laughs and cries with the left; he has three sons; the mighty tall Florea, the tight strong Costan and the younger Petru are tall, but the character is girlish; the older brothers refused, P. agreed to ask his father about his eye got a slap in the face; but it seemed to him that his left eye was crying less and his right eye laughing more; and he asked again; both eyes laughed: that three sons were good, but they were unlikely they will be able to protect themselves from their neighbors; therefore laughter and tears; but if you bring water from the well of the Morning Dawn fairy, I will wet my eyes and both will laugh, for I understand that the sons are brave; F. rode the best horse to the boundaries of his father's possessions; there is a bridge and a three-headed dragon: one jaw in the sky, the other on earth; F. turned, but did not return home a year, month and day later; K. went; the dragon also has three heads; he also turned, but did not return home; P. went, the dragon has 7 heads; the horse stands on its hind legs, P. returned to take another horse; the old nurse: you need the horse your father rode; he replies that the horse has long fallen, and in the stall except for scraps of bridle; the nurse tells you to bring such a piece and hit the pole with it; immediately a beautiful horse appears under the precious saddle; now there is a 12-headed dragon at the bridge; the horse orders to cut off the main one head and flies forward - one day like the wind, the other as a thought; in front of them there is a copper wall, as well as copper trees, bushes and grass; flowers whisper, but the horse forbids them to be plucked; otherwise you will have to fight with Velva; but he tore it off to see her; she has a horse's mane, a deer antler, a bear's face, a ferret's eyes, and the bodies of various creatures; after three days of battle, P. put a bridle over the velva and she turned into a beautiful horse; this is the brother of the horse P., who was bewitched; so they galloped through the copper forest; then silver (still another velva horse); golden (the strongest and youngest of these horses is disgraced ); now they are driving through the frozen country of Saint Sereda, and there is fire around the edges; this is the frost that makes the calf in the womb of the cow freeze and the rocks crumble; when they reach the house of St. Sereda, she gave a box that will show the way home and tell you who is doing what now; P. asks about his father; a box: his eldest sons have taken away his power; now they are traveling through the red-hot land of St. . Thursdays (Joi, Jupiter); rocks began to melt under their hooves; from the cool valleys, where springs and flowers, girls turn to P.; St. Thursday: Next will be the country of St. Fridays, tell her my wishes for good health; it is not cold or hot there; but darkness has descended and Tornado's daughters are in it; Tornadoes guard Friday's house; the horse tells me to throw a copper wreath, the spirits rushed behind the wreath ; a silver wreath showed Friday and she allowed her to enter; Friday is an ancient old woman; when the world arose, she was a child; asks for a mug of water from the spring of the Morning Dawn Fairy on the way back; gave the flute, the sounds of which make them fall asleep; in the morning P. fed his horses with hot coals; Friday: leave one horse here now, and enter the Fairy dismounted; she has a terrible appearance: owl eyes, fox face, claws cats; her gaze deprives her of reason; the Fairy's palace where the earth touches the sky; flowers along the way; neither warm nor cold, eternal twilight; P. sedated the giant watchman and seven-headed dragons with a flute; the milk river is not in sandy or jelly shores, and on shores made of gems and pearls, flows quickly and slowly at the same time; lions with golden skin and iron teeth; beautiful fairies sleep in flowers; P. tied to a sleeper He woke up the giant's fingers, told him to carry him across the river - then we'll fight; but the giant hammered P. into the ground to his knees, and P. to his waist; giant P. to his chest, P. his neck; then a half-bound giant agreed to carry P., standing with both legs on different banks of the river; on the table in front of the fairy's bed, the bread of strength and the wine of youth; he bit off bread and took a sip of wine, kissed Fairy, put a golden wreath on her, and picked water and left; gave water to Friday; Thursday warned not to communicate with people on the way back; gave a handkerchief protecting against lightning, spears and bullets; a knowledgeable box warns: the brothers found out that P. would bring water, they want to kill him; P. does not believe him, broke the box; the brothers met him, asked him to get water from a deep well, left it there, took the Fairy's water and came to their father; the Fairy woke up and sent all the guards they did not find it; they did not find it; the Sun looked for 7 days, but P. was where its rays did not reach; the Fairy ordered darkness to come, and now only the king father, who saw the light from that water, began to see, but everyone else did not; Florea came to see the fairy, but could not say how he got that water; the Fairy blinded him; {the same with his middle brother}; The fairy told everyone to come to her so that the winds, flowers, springs, people and giants would all cry; Friday sent tornadoes to look for P.; and only one spring breeze heard P. end up in the well; now there were only bones and ashes; Thursday boiled ashes in a cauldron with the dew of life, she got an ointment, she was rubbed bones, P. came to life; tells the horse to fly fast like a curse; came to Fairy, kissed; the flowers bloomed, the sun shone, the world came to life again; P. brothers found sight to see his happiness]: Kremnitz 1882, No. 20:237 -295.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [February was called maze huane (from maze - month, huenen - swear); this month is the most severe frosts - the end of winter shyle, which begins around January 16-17 and lasts 40 days, until February 24-25; February regrets that it is not ahead of January, but after him; then it would make people hear the sound of a dog's step like a plinth hooves, and the base of the hooves would multiply by a hundred times, make old people lazy not to leave the house even if necessary, and young animals would dry the animals right in the womb of their mothers]: Mafedzev 1984:129.

Baltoscandia. Swedes [Mart says: If I had the power of Thor, my brother (i.e. January), and Goa, my sister (February), I would be able to freeze a calf in a cow, a pig in a pig, and an old woman in stripes and fifteen fur skirts]: Kabakova 1994:211; Estonians (in most areas, but not near the setu) [March (or February after the meeting) frost would freeze the baker's hands and an unborn pig into a pig, but one eye is already flowing (one leg is limping)]: Kippar 1986, No. 294A: 180; Lithuanians [January: I can freeze a wrapped man; February: me and a calf in a cow I'll freeze the womb, can you freeze that ragged man that goes to the forest; the guy started cutting the forest and warmed up; March: I freeze the tree to the core, but the trouble is: you can't freeze during the day, the sun warms!] : Velas 1989:255-256.