E9A. The magic wife is a fox. 37.39.-.41.
A man marries a fox woman. See motive E9.
Amur - Sakhalin. Nivkhi [brother went to the taiga; a red dog came into his sister's house, poked her sister with a knife; dog: why did she prick me; ran away; sister fell ill; the man shouted in the outlet: prick his little finger, then you will recover; the sister pricked her little finger and died; the brownie grandfather tells his brother that the sister was taken away by a heavenly man; tells him to sit on a toad, she will take it to heaven; the brother flew on a toad to the hole stars, but heavenly shamans cut the toad; the guy fell on the island; the water arrives; the dragon tells him to sit on it, brings him to the stars-holes; he was also cut, the guy is back on the island; tells the seal to take him to to the owner of the sea; becoming a needle, he fits between her eyes; the guy asks the owner of the sea for a flying white horse; she tells the guy to become a needle and hide in her ear; heavenly shamans have counted all the horse's hair There was no extra, she was missed; the guy went skiing; the devil offers to walk along the edge of the boiling pot; the guy asks him to go himself, pushes him into the cauldron; then two wolves show each other how they will bite a man; the guy became ash, swept through the wolves in a whirlwind; the woman asks to come in, the guy passes by, the woman covered his skis with her hair; he cut them off with a sword; a fox appeared, threatens to raise his tail, the guy swings, the fox raised his tail, the guy was carried under the rock in a whirlwind; I had to agree to marry the woman; he lives with her for a year; when he leaves, she promises to help; he enters sister and her husband's house; they start fighting, sister and her husband cut the guy with sabers, laughing; a fox came in, raised her tail, sister and her husband immediately froze; the fox revived the guy; the guy turned the son-in-law into larch, arms and legs upside down, grows upside down; turned his sister into a dolphin; the wife made figures of birds, tied them to the barn, the birds came to life, they flew to the barn to the sea master; he gave a daughter and a flying white horse; they flew to the guy's house, he got well with his two wives]: Medvedev 1992:113-121.
SV Asia. The Chukchi [on their way home, ten brothers find that someone is sewing clothes for them; one catches Lisa by surprise; she marries the elder, turns nine dolls into wives for the rest of the brothers; forgets to make her nails for the dolls; first young, then the rest of the wives, then the brothers start laughing; Lisa runs away, women become dolls again]: Baboshina 1958, No. 44:115-116.
The Arctic. The Aleuts; the Northern Alaska Inupiate (Selawik) [Nunamiu and his wife Qimmiq have four sons, they go and go; N. conceives a fifth, making a fire so that sparks fall into his wife's vagina; A son Qayaq is born; his father magically educates him in strength and dexterity, gives amulets made from the bodies of insects and small nimble animals (weasels, minks, shrews); preparing a supply for parents groceries, K. goes up the Kobuk Valley in search of brothers; his father tells him to take his uncle with him, whom he meets on the way; an unfriendly man enters K.'s hut in the parking lot, he throws it away him, he turns into a woodpecker; a wolverine picks up a broken tooth at a beaver hut; a man sleeps with him, leaves in the morning, it was a wolverine; K. says to the person who came up that his thumb eats people like he; a man runs away in fear, turns out to be a trot; someone voracious behaves strangely, rushes at K. with a knife; K. offers him to die in the fire, he jumps into the fire and burns; in the village of K. he marries; In spring, the wife expects her father to cut her to take out the child; K. teaches her how to give birth in the usual way; goes on, meets a giant; he says that his two wives will come soon and fight; let K. cut both veins, first the one that comes from the sea side, because it is aggressive; after urinating, the giant flooded the whole valley; K. does this, the giantesses bandage their wounds, the husband sends them to clean the house; wives live with a giant only in spring; a giant kills a caribou with uprooted larch; K. leaves, prepares material to make a boat, wants help; spies, sees a fox girl roasting meat, Squirrel heats resin, female birds sew the boat's skin, the Beaver prepares the frame and oars, the Raven the dart for the birds, the Wolf and Wolverine scrape the bark, the Bear knocks down trees, cleans the branches; then everyone dances The woodpecker hits the tambourine; K. jumps up, grabs the Fox, she remains human, the rest run away in the form of animals and birds; in the summer, K. swims down the Yukon, the wife becomes a fox again; K. meets, takes They see how a man breaks off fir chips, they fall into the water, turn small ones into trout, large ones into salmon, and so eat fish; on the shore, the bones and skulls of his brothers, naked woman; K. throws a lahtak's head into her vulva, her head tears the cannibal; K. buries her bones; there is a shiny ball on the tree, he attracts K., he hangs in a trap; the cannibal brings him home, his two children are told that the game opened their eyes; the cannibals fell asleep, K. cut off their heads; K.'s boat slips between the crushing rocks, only the paddle is crushed; the giant in the boat and K. throw darts at each other, a dart K. cuts off the giant's head; enters the house, the giant's wife throws the ula, K. throws it at her, cuts off his head; the door is closed, he gets out as a mouse; turns into trout, bites off the tip of the fisherman's jail; comes to him, offers to repair the prison, pierces the fisherman; turns into salmon, climbs into the fishermen's net; the leader's son eats his head, the bone gets stuck in his throat, he dies; the bones are thrown into a hole, K. is reborn, he is shot, he runs away; they swim to the sea; his uncle has left, turning into a lynx; K. becomes a falcon; the leader of the people unalik catches him, eats him, he rises from bones, marries on the leader's stepdaughter; he wanted her for himself; sends a storm, K. steals the boat into the open sea; K. regurgitates the pebbles given by his father, the wind has subsided; K. burns the leader's face with this stone; he orders to split it into firewood log; this is how he killed many of his stepdaughter's suitors; with the help of a caress amulet, K. performs the task, the leader is surprised that K. is alive; the leader orders to shoot partridges, K. kills a huge cannibal bird there; go over the log abyss, K. falls, but returns unharmed; crawls away with a caterpillar from the community house where the leader wanted to burn it; K. dodges the arrows fired at him, kills the leader's soldiers himself; ties he is naked to a pole, leaves him in the cold; appoints a new leader, flies away with a falcon]: Ivanoff Brown 1981:40-114; netsilic; igloolik; Labrador Eskimos; polar Eskimos; Baffin Land; West Greenland.
Subarctic. Koyukon: Attla 1990 [brothers go missing one by one; younger Betohoh (then his name is K'etetaalkkaanee, "The one who rows {on a boat} among humans and animals") goes in search; many encounters with people who turn out to be different animals; decides to make a boat, choosing black grouse (Dendragapus canadensis) as a nose sample; tries the bark of different trees for plating; fir, poplar sinks, birch bark does not; chooses wood for the frame - birch is not suitable, larch is suitable; when she wakes up, the boat is sewn; next time she spies; the woman who will become the Polar Owl, makes large stitches, others reproach her for it; B. tells the most beautiful to lose her awl; she stays looking for her, he grabs her, she barks like a fox, he releases it; he will tar the boat; comes to the burrow house; The younger sister of the Fox woman, the Squirrel woman, comes out; offended that B. does not want her; two types of Caresses come out, B. tries to grab each, they rush back, promise to give him his wife; then the Mouse comes out; then the half-blind Polar Owl; the Long-eared Owl; there were also Mink, Marten; B. found a flaw in everything, only those Lasky liked; the hole became big, he went in, sat next to the one he fell in love with; he took her, swam with her in a boat; one day she felt hot in the sun and a fox smell came from her; he let her ashore, she barked]: 76-88; De Laguna 1995, No. 22 [a man throws fir bark into the water, poplars, other trees; everyone drowns, birch bark floats up; to make a frame, a person kills a hawk, tries on its lower jaw - not good; the same with the jaw of an owl; the hazel grouse's jaw is just right, he makes a boat; girls come to sew it; he can't catch the one he likes; her father gives it to him; it's Lisa; she cries; he throws it out of the boat, sails down the Yukon]: 188-190.