B72d. Cutting board wings.. 35.36.39.

A woman makes her own wings (beak, tail) from clothing accessories and turns into a bird or flying squirrel.

Nenets (tundra: Yamal, Taimyr), Ents, Northern Khanty, Mansi, Kets, Northern Selkups, Evens, Forest Yukaghirs.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1947, No. 18 (Obdorsk/Salekhard) [husband, wife, son live; husband starts making a boat; mother asks her son to bring water, he refuses; she threatens to turn into a cuckoo; turns into a beak out of a thimble, an end out of a needle, wings from half a sewing board, a tail of flint; a cuckoo mother flies to her husband, who makes a boat, he thinks it's bad luck; the son runs for cuckoo, offers water, she still flies away, cuckoo; the son knocks his legs down, dies; blood turns the evening clouds red; when she comes home, the husband decides that the cuckoo has taken his wife and son]: 34-35 ( retelling to Janhunen 1992:36-37); Nenets tales 1939 [the poor woman's four children do not help her mother; she fell ill, asked for water, one replied that he was without pims, the other without a hat, the third without clothes , the fourth did not answer anything; the mother was covered with feathers, made a tail from the board for scraping the skins, the iron thimble was a beak; the children run after them, ask them to return, carry water, injured their legs, in the tundra now there is red moss, but the cuckoo does not raise children]: 5-10; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr Nenets) [mother sews, asks her son and daughter for water, they play, do not pay attention; the mother attached goose wings to herself, with which they sweep rubbish, the cutting board instead of the tail, the thimble is the beak, turned into a cuckoo, flew away through the smoke hole; children with a scoop of water ran after her along the tundra, bloodied their legs, since then there is red grass; therefore, the cuckoo does not incubate chicks]: 140-141; Pushkareva 1983 [(original in Pyrerka 1936:3-4); as in Nenets Tales, but blood colors autumn leaves]: 70 in Yanhunen 1992:36-37; Tereshchenko 1949 [four children play, do not listen to their mother; in the summer, the mother fell ill and asked for water; the children refuse and play; the mother made a tail out of a plank for making reeds, wings with which they sweep the floor, their beak is made of thimble; now the children offer her water, but her mother has become a cuckoo, flew away; the children ran after her all summer and winter; now the cuckoo does not raise children by itself]: 129-130; Ents: Sorokina , Bolina 2005, No. 33 [mother falls ill, asks for water, four children do not react; mother made wings out of brooms, nose out of thimble, became a cuckoo; children run after her, covered her legs; where is red earth, bushes - there is this blood], 34 [the mother did everything herself, got her feet wet, got sick; asked her eldest daughter to bring water - "Go by yourself"; the same with all the children; the woman put a scraper on her back, made a knife out of a thimble, became a cuckoo; the children were frightened, they ran after her, they still say they are running], 35 [the mother asks for water, each of the four children refuses; she makes a nose out of a thimble, wings out of panicles, flies away as a cuckoo; the children follow, promise to give water; the mother says she will get drunk now], 36 [the mother is sick, both sons did not give water; she put on a bracket instead of wings, a thimble instead of her nose, flew away cuckoo; cuckoos do not raise chicks], 37 [the mother's four children do not help, she fell ill, they did not give her water; she made her nose out of thimble, wings from scrapers, her back out of a Lithuanian woman (board), flew away cuckoo; children run after the ladle, their legs have been bloody, since then the moss is red], 38 [the mother is sick, asks for water, both of her girls do not give it; the mother made wings out of scrapers, the tail out of the board, flew away as a cuckoo; daughters run after a ladle, their legs have been bloodied, since then the moss is red]: 154-155, 156, 157-158, 159, 161, 163-164; northern Khanty (son): Aksyanova et al. 2005, No. 8 [mother asks her son and daughter to give waters; they refuse; she makes her tongue out of a needle, a nose out of a thimble, wings from a panicle, a tail from a sewing board, flies away like a cuckoo; her husband Voshan-Kurtan is making an oar and a boat on the pier, trying hit the cuckoo with an oar, the paddle and the boat split; he realizes that it is his wife]: 236-257; Mansi: Kumaeva 2015, No. 13 (Berezovsky District) [the woman has three daughters, she falls ill and sends them for water; they do not listen, they play; the woman has attached a thimble to her nose, panicles of bird wings instead of wings, a cutting board with a tail, flew like a cuckoo; the children run after her, promise to bring water, ask her to return; legs and arms were pierced with rose hips; now such a shrub with red bark is a "cuckoo leg bush"; traces of blood remain on those bushes]: 127-129; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 30 [mother sews, asks for water, children do not listen; she turned the cutting board into a tail, her thimble turned her nose, the panicles of duck wings into her wings, flew away with a cuckoo; the children were running after her, their legs were scratched, so the talnik is red; the cuckoo sat on the bow of the boat He hit her husband with an oar, broke his oar and boat; one daughter died under larch, the other under spruce]: 259-261; northern Selkups: Golovnev 1995 [Shchakalya was a woman; she was dry throat, she asked her children to bring water; they did not bring it; she took tail needles, a wing shovel, a beak thimble and flew away]: 519; Sanghi 1989 [two sons refused to give water to the patient mother; she made a nose out of a thimble, wings out of a skin scraper, a tail out of needles, flew away like a cuckoo; the sons rushed to catch up to give water, ripped their bellies against branches, hung on branches; found them there father]: 127-128; chum salmon: Alekseenko 2001, No. 25 [Cuckoo had a son and daughter; she fell ill, her children did not carry her water; she made a torso out of a needlework bag, a head out of a needle bed, a scraper and crumbs are wings; flew away; the children ran after her, their entrails were unwound in the trees, they died; and the cuckoo still calls the children], 26 [The cuckoo was a good mother, and when she fell ill, the children did not give her water; she took a ball, an iron and a scraper, made wings and tail out of them, flew away; son and daughter did not fly well; they chased their mother, their intestines wrapped around the talnik, they died]: 81; Nikolaeva 2006 (told Berdnikova village Surgutikha, Turukhansky District) [the children just played, the mother worked, fell ill, asked for a drink, the children continue to play; the mother made her head out of the needle box, the back out of the ball, the wings from the scraper, the beak out of the needle box thimble, became a cuckoo, flew, shouting, "One son, one daughter!" ; children cried, ran after their mother, were bloodshot, tired, died]: 47-49; Donner 1933 [husband and wife had a son and daughter; parents asked the children to bring water, they did not bring it; mother took iron scrapers for the skins, one of them turned into wings and the other into a bird's chest bone; the mother became a cuckoo and flew away; the father was the same; the children died; their guts remained in the trees on which they were climbed to see their parents; after all this, the cuckoo screams qok h Å«n, qok h p ('one daughter, one son')]: 99.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [squirrel with a neighbor (it is not said who it is) live together; they cook meat one by one, each gets a brisket or a tenderloin; the squirrel required tenderloin out of turn, the neighbor did not give it; then protein I made myself wings out of kumi (a woman's arcuate tool for making skins), became a flying squirrel, flew and brought me old age; before that, people did not grow old or die]: Bolshakova, Chaiko 2015:21.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (recorded by L.N. Zhukova from L.N. Demina, virgin. Dyachkova, 70 years old, compiler of textbooks on Yukaghir language and folklore) [the sick woman has two children; she asks them to bring water, light a fire, cook; they do not listen, they continue to play ; someone came up: let's go with me; woman: I'm barely alive; came: I'll give you flying hair, blew, the woman covered herself with a bird's feather, tore the plague tire in half, pulled it over her bones, made wings, from She made a tail on the cutting board, became a cuckoo; the children ran after them, asked their mother not to leave them, but the mother, offended, flew away; the children ran along the tundra without shoes, the blood from their legs on the moss is still visible]: Zhukova, Chernetsov 1992:18-19.

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