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

D1a2. The borrowed item does not burn .28.31.34.35.37.

The house of the person who insulted the fire burns down, but the property or the child of another person (or the person himself) who treated the fire with respect were not damaged .

Northern Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Finns, Dagurs, Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Wilta.

Central Europe. Northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Ostrozhsky district) [the peasant overheard the two lights talking; the first asks how the hostess treats him; the second replies that he is bad; the first says that he is satisfied with the hostess; after the furnace, he puts a pot of cold water, cleans well; second: and they clean me with a lousy broom, I'll go out for a walk in two weeks; first: there is a forged visa in Riga (in the club) {who?} Don't touch my owner like that; two weeks later, the owner's rig, whose wife did not handle fire well, burned down, but the cart remained intact]: Malinka 1902, No. 28:304-305.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [fire is a feminine creature; one fire complains that it is not covered or covered, it will go for a walk; the second says it will not go anywhere - it is laid and covered; asks the first one does not catch its owner's belongings; the house burns down, but the fire does not touch the neighbor's harrows, carts, clamps that were near the house wall]: Kerbelite 2001:252; Finns [one spirit of fire complains to another: they poured dirty water on my face (slop was poured on the coals of the hearth); the spirit takes revenge and burns the house; a sieve borrowed from a neighbor at the request of the neighbor's fire spirit remains unharmed]: Jauhiainen 1998, No. G1101:235.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagurs [a poor man takes care of the fire in the hearth, keeps the hearth clean, gives it offerings; the nobleman (Landherr) does not care, throws dirt and garbage into the hearth; a relative spent the night in the house poor; hears the conversation between two hearths; the fire of a noble promises to burn down his house; the fire of the poor asks not to touch the saddle that his master lent to the noble; the fire of the nobleman promises not to touch; in the morning the wind blew, The nobleman's house caught fire, he found only a borrowed saddle in the ash; a relative explains what was going on; says how to treat a fire father; since then, the nobleman has treated fire with respect]: Bä cker 1988, No. 20:142-146.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Kumaeva 2015, No. 7 (Berezovsky district) [like Rombandeeva]: 95-97; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 21 [two women live nearby, one neat, the other has cracks and holes in the furnace; Tyaka-Aqua is sloppy women (fire woman) complains Tyaka-Akv neatly, threatens to burn down the house; Tyaka-Akv carefully asks not to touch her mistress's tool, which she lent to her neighbor; the house burned down sloppy, and borrowed the instrument only scorched slightly]: 215-217; Eastern Khanty [you can't spit on the fire, you can't interfere with iron objects, then the daughter of fire hurts; in a fairy tale on Konda, a fire angry with poor treatment refused to burn on a cold rainy day; the husband noticed a fire in the distance, went, there was a wounded girl sitting on a stone; she agreed to return only after receiving the man's son; the boy was put on a stone next to as a girl, the fire caught fire brightly, the girl and the boy disappeared; in a fairy tale from Vasyugan, angry with mistreatment, the daughter of the fire destroyed the house with its inhabitants; only the child in the house from another family whose mother treated fire respectfully; each stove has its own fire daughter]: Karjalainen 1996 (3): 51.

Amur - Sakhalin. Wilta [a distant relative comes to visit; over evening tea, he threw a piece of meat to the fire, for which he received a reprimand from the owner. I had a dream last night. A white man came out of the fire, thanking him for a piece of meat. Warns him to leave this house as soon as possible. In the morning he sees that the house with the owner has burned down. Only the place where he slept was left intact]: Ikegami 2007:1 in Bibikova 2019:43-44.