F70B. Revenge rejected.

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A woman takes revenge on a man who has rejected her love.

Mbundu, Zigula, Soninke, Songhai, Mofu-Gudur, Somalis, Ancient Egypt, Western Sahara, Algerian Berbers (Zouahua), Catalans, Spaniards, Italians (Naples), French, Irish, Old Testament, Arabic written tradition, Aramaians, Ugarit, Babylonia, Southern Yemen, Socotra, Ancient India, Kashmiris, Punjabi, northern India (Hindi) (?) , Himachali plowmen, gondas, Kannada, Sinhales (?) , Bali, Ancient China, Koreans, Russians (Olonets), Crimean Tatars, Adygs, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Tajiks, Tajiks in Sistan, Mountain Tajiks, Turkmens, Bukhara Arabs, Baluchis, Persians, Shahname, Danes, Icelanders, Lithuanians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Dungans, Trans-Baikal Buryats, Tsimshian, Haida, Western Ojibwa, Steppe Cree, Seneca, Sarsi, Assiniboine, hidatsa, santi, zunyi, warrau.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Mbundu [women are infertile in one area; an old woman gives a drug, each of the wives of five men gives birth to a boy; they are all Lau brothers, the most beautiful Lau Kimalaueso (K. is the name of his mother's wife, she died herself); the ruler of Angola summons him to him, he leaves his wooden image to his father (K.); K.'s new wife falls in love with him; L. confesses this through a messenger; he is married and does not react ; she persuades K. to call him home; wounds herself, accuses L. of assaulting her; he is silent; L.'s four brothers take turns telling stories in which a man dies due to a woman's fault; the last L. himself says; the woman is executed]: Nekrasova 1975:20-35; zigula [the merchant has a son; the teacher dreamed that the merchant is going to kill his son; advises the young man to remain silent when he goes to his father; he is silent; the father's wife complains to her husband that his son tried to seduce her; the father sends a servant to kill the young man, who let him go; told the merchant a story about how the couple began to work in the fields, leaving the baby in shadows; a snake crawled towards him, but the dog killed her; the wife saw the dog's bloody mouth, thought it had killed the baby, the husband killed the dog; another servant spoke of a man riding a donkey through the desert; saw it dripping {from a cliff?} liquid, was about to drink; the donkey knocked over the bowl, the man killed the donkey in anger; then realized that it was pus flowing from the corpse of a snake; the young man spoke, talked about the teacher's dream and his stepmother's attempt seduce, father admitted he was wrong]: Arewa 1961, No. 3506:176-178.

West Africa. Soninka [the older brother's wife tries to seduce her younger brother, who rejects her; she complains to her husband that the younger brother tried to take possession of her, tells him to tear him up; the elder tries to approach him twice at night to the youngest, the dogs raise the alarm; the third time the dogs do not bark, the elder splits the youngest, brings his genitals to his wife; the youngest recovers and leaves, and the eldest and his wife soon become poor and blind; the king's daughter falls in love with the youngest, tells her father to marry him; two nights the young husband does not touch his wife; the slave examines him sleeping, the wife tells the father that the husband is castrated; the father tells the servant to check promises to execute either a son-in-law or a slave if she lied; the spirits tell the youngest to catch a beast; in exchange for a promise to let him go, the beast gives him a choice of 7 copies of his genitals, suggests choosing; the shattered becomes a man again, kills the beast, takes all his genitals, meets his wife 7 times in a row at night; she gives birth to a son; the royal son-in-law with his wife, cattle and gold returns to his homeland; no need listen to women and get paid if you're on good terms with blood relatives]: Dantioko 1978:109-119; Songhai [Kelimabe's ugly older brother is married, his wife offers love Kelikelimabe, the handsome younger man, promises the cattle, takes him into the bedroom; when he refuses, he makes a mess, tells her husband that his brother wanted to rape her; the elder cuts off the younger penis, runs away into the forest; the youngest goes to look for him, comes to the village; the chief's maid is amazed at his beauty, his daughter asks her father to marry him; Kelikelimabe is forced to agree; tries to drown himself; the man leads his spirit, restores his penis; he is happy with his wife; she gives birth to a son, he is given the name Kelimabe; lets her husband find his brother; Musa Nyame finds, tames the dryad he is married to; brothers meet and reconcile, MN kills Kelimabe's first wife]: Belcher 2005:24-30; mofu-gudur [in the absence of her husband, the wife does not feed his younger brother; one day she cooks a good dinner, calls a young man; he does not believes in her kindness, invites friends to dinner, does not eat herself, hides her portion in calebas; an enraged woman makes a mess like she was raped, complains to her husband; he waits for her brother, overwhelms her him; the young man tells how it was, calls friends to witness, shows the calebass with untouched food, leaves; he is joined by the daughter of darkness, the daughter of the moon, the daughter of the spirit of the waters (for the right to join she creates there is a dry corridor across the river), the daughter of the sun (the heat moderates); in the forest these women create a rich household; they are surprised that the young man does not sleep with them; he hides his impotence, runs away, meets an old woman; she consistently shows him 4 boxes of penises: old people, children, adults, boys; tells him to take from the latter, attaches him a new penis, tells him to meet her first, he does it; she tells him to bring it his first child born, she will eat it as a reward for this penis; he and his wife bring the child; as soon as the old woman brings the knife to his neck, the baby laughs; the old woman decides not to cut it, returns it parents; Djalo tells people that their leader is not real, but the real leader lives in the forest; people come there, they are well fed, and the mountain chief does not feed well; he calls the young man, demands 1) split round stone into two equal parts (the daughter of darkness splits); 2) divide sesame seeds and sand (wives tell ants); 3) bring a long, even spear (wives give); 4) identify the leader's last wife and favorite horse ; the daughter of darkness comes to the leader disguised as an old woman, finds out what handkerchief her beloved wife has, that the horse is gray; the answers are correct, the old leader is killed, a young man is chosen; wives always tell them to leave them the liver of the dead animals; the servant persuades them to give them simple meat; the wives tell everything to disappear, the young man has only his skin to cover himself; he apologizes, his wives return everything, now he listens to them]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 25:200-226.

Sudan - East Africa. Somalis [the king's wife invites the young slave to sleep with her; he says that if she talks about it again, he will inform the king; she herself tells the king that the slave has invited her to sleep with him; the king asks the other wife if a young man molested her, he says not; tells him to call the young man; the first wife tells him to run, supposedly the king wants to execute him; the young man hides in the cave; a lion comes there with a thorn in his paw; a young man takes out a splinter, a lion carries him meat; once he finds himself in a pen surrounded by soldiers; a young man went to look for him, he was also caught; the king tells him to leave the young man with a lion; the lion does not gnaw, but licks him; the young man explains that an innocent person will not be eaten; the king orders to give a ram to the lion every day, treats the young man well]: Reinish 1900, No. 39:145-148.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [(papyrus d'Orbigny, first published by Vicomte de Rougé in Revue archéologique 1862:385f; Anepu and Batau); Anubis's older brother is married, the younger Bata lives in his at home and works for him; the brothers worked in the fields; A. sent B. to bring seeds; at home, A.'s wife invites B. to get along with her; B. refuses, but promises to remain silent; in the evening, A.'s wife pretends to be beaten, that B. tried to rape her; cow B. warns him that A. was going to kill him; B. is running, A. pursues him; B. asks the Sun God, who creates a reservoir in the way A.; in the morning B., standing on on the other side, screams, telling his brother how it was, splashes himself, throws his severed penis into the water, swallowed the catfish; B. goes to the Valley of the Cedars (Pines), telling A. to come for him if he finds out that something has happened to B.; in this case, the beer in the mug he holds will begin to wander; A. returns home, kills his wife, leaves the corpse to the dogs, mourns his brother; B. comes to the Valley of the Cedar, puts your heart to the top of a cedar flower (?) , hunts; god Hnum creates a woman for him; B. warns her not to leave the house, because the Sea can swallow her, and he, B., will not be able to save her, because he is "a woman himself like her"; a woman violates the ban, The sea tries unsuccessfully to carry it away, tells Cedar (Pine) to detain her, but he only grabs her curl; the sea brings it to Egypt and leaves it where the laundresses wash the pharaoh's clothes; the aroma of the curl remains on underwear; scribes explain to Pharaoh that the curl belongs to the daughter of the Sun; Pharaoh sends people to the Valley of the Cedar to bring a woman; B. kills them; Pharaoh sends other warriors and a woman, giving her all kinds of things women's jewelry; this time B.'s wife comes to Egypt; she succumbs to Pharaoh's persuasion and advises to cut down the tree on which B.'s heart is located; the tree falls down, the flower with B.'s heart falls, B. dies; at home, A. sees that the beer in the mug has fermented; comes to the Valley of the Cedar, finds B. dead on his bed, unsuccessfully searches for his heart for three years; on the fourth, intending to return to Egypt, he finds fruit - B.'s heart; he puts it in a vessel of cold water, at night the heart absorbs water, B. comes to life, A. gives him water to drink, B. swallows his heart and it returns to its place in his body; deciding to take revenge to his wife, B. turns into a beautiful bull, whom A. brings to the Pharaoh's palace; he accepts the bull as a "miracle"; when he enters the kitchen, the bull finds his ex-wife there, reproaches her; the wife asks the pharaoh slaughter a bull and cook its liver for it, two drops of blood fall on the sides of the palace gate, from which two Persea Mimusops Schimperi trees grow); when the pharaoh and his wife sit under them, one of them tells the woman that it is B., reproaches again; the woman orders to make furniture out of wood; a sliver flies into the mouth of Pharaoh's wife, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son; he grows up (obviously in the form of B.) after death Pharaoh takes the throne, sues his former wife; after 30 years he dies, A. takes the throne]: Lichtheim 1997:85-89 (Russian per. Livshits 1975:87-102); Western Sahara [stepmother fell in love with her stepson, tried to get along with him, he ran away, she had a piece of his shirt in her hand; she told her husband that her stepson had encroached on her; father furious, but the judge found out that a piece of shirt from the back, not from the front, the father was guilty to his son; the young man decided to leave, met and accompanied the other two; they came to the city, destroyed by the earthquake, there are two girls, they married the young man's companions, he went on his own; he comes to a girl whose four brothers kill 400 warriors every day, and again in the morning; they first throw the young man in prison, then released, he goes with them, one kills 500 warriors; sees an old man reviving those killed with living water; kills him and the lively, the girl's brothers no longer have to fight; a young man takes a girl to wives; the king sends warriors to pick her up because he believes that the man who marries her will be younger; the young man easily exterminates warriors; the old woman trusts the young man's wife, finds out that her husband's strength is in the knife; says that her husband another woman tries to seduce, his knife must be taken away, at this time to break the spell; throws a knife into the sea, the king takes the young man's wife, she asks to postpone the wedding while mourning for her ex-husband; two the young man's companions come, take a knife out of the sea, the young man stays in the city with a woman, dresses himself as a woman, under the guise of an outfit saleswoman, penetrates his wife; kills the king during his wedding, goes out to to the people under the guise of a younger king; all is well]: Aris, Cladellas 1991:47-60; Berbers Zooahua (Kabylia) [seven brothers promise to stay if their mother gives birth to a daughter, but the mother gives birth to a son; they leave; the older paths leave the youngest in the well {it is not clear whether it is a grown baby or the youngest of seven}; he is sold to one person; a month later he turned white; the owner's wife invites him to run with her, he refuses; she tells her husband to sell the slave, her husband lets him go; he comes to the village where the many-headed dragon has locked the water, gives for the girls given to him to be eaten; the princess's turn; the young man breaks with sticks dragon heads as they appear out of the water; gets a wife and kingdom]: Basset 1887, No. 35:72-74.

Southern Europe. Catalans (including Mallorca and Ibiza) [disguised as a man, the heroine goes to court; on the way, she is kind to the old lady; she promises to help her; the queen (thinking she has a man in front of her) tries to seduce him, but the imaginary young man shies away from intimacy; then the Queen tells the king that the young man boasted to do this and that; every time the king orders to do it; c with the help of an old woman, the girl makes the monster (or the king's deaf and dumb sister) begin to speak; the monster talks about both the Queen's desire to commit adultery and that the imaginary young man is a girl; the king punishes the queen and marries a heroine]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 514**: 115; the Spaniards [a poor girl dressed as a young man is hired to the palace, heals the king and he makes the imaginary young man in charge a doctor; the queen falls in love, is rejected, accuses her of an attempt on her life; St. Peter helps complete the tasks offered by the king; she whistles and the fish brings the ring that the king has dropped into the sea; brings a dumb girl out of the castle or from the robbers; shares mixed wheat, barley and rye; asks why the girl does not speak, but only groans and cries; she talks all about the queen and the imaginary young man; the king executes or expels the queen, marries heroine]: Boggs 1930, no.*515:68-69; Italians (Campania: Naples) [the king prays for the sending down of a child; a voice from heaven: a daughter who will leave or a son who will take a soul out of you; it is decided that a daughter will bring personal suffering, but her son will ruin the country; the king asks for a daughter; Marquette grew up, on her wedding day she was carried away by a whirlwind to the orc's house; an old servant teaches her to clean the house without showing her eyes; go out only after the orc swore not by anything, but by three crowns that she would not cause harm; the orc gave the key, ordered not to unlock one room; M. unlocked the three daughters of the orc; she locked her daughters because she knew that they would be in danger when they were released by the Queen; the orc drove M. away but gave a ring to help summon her in case of danger; M. dressed up as a man; the king hired the imaginary young man, the Queen confessed her love; M. refused, the Queen accused the imaginary young man of an attempt on himself; when M. is executed, an orc appears; the king left his wife at sea with a millstone around his neck, married M.]: Basile 2018, No. IV.6:407-417.

Western Europe. The French [Dolopathos novel, 13th century; during Augustus, King Dolomat of Sicily sent Lucinian's son to study in Rome with Virgil; he taught him all sciences, especially astronomy; D.'s wife died, he married another, sent for his son; V. found out from the stars that the young man was in danger at home, ordered him to remain silent until he allowed him to speak; the Queen tried to get L. to talk; offered her love; not When she met an answer, she complained to her husband that he tried to rape her; a sage appeared, thanks to his story, L.'s execution was postponed; one by one new wise men come, each time the execution is postponed; V. comes as a witch, allows L. to speak; the queen was burned alive; later D. and V. die; Christ appeared, L. is baptized, dies saintly]: Potanin 1899:571-572; Wallons [15-year-old princess for the first time left the palace to the seashore; the sailors kidnapped her; the king summons the Marquises; the Marquis Matacon is too old, replaced by his daughter, who pretends to be a man; the Queen fell in love with an imaginary young man, the refused; then she told the king that M. volunteered to save their daughter; the hunchback tells M. that the princess is in a golden castle in the middle of the sea; M. saves a fly from a spider; saves a pig; pushes it into the water fish caught on land; a pig puts M. on its back and brings him to the castle; he is brought to a room full of girls, each saying she is the daughter of a French king; a fly sits on the real cheek princesses; the pig transports M. and the princess back; the princess loses her shoe, but the fish pulls it out; the queen again in vain seeks M.'s love; tells her husband that M. boasted to get Turkish treasures Sultan; on the advice of the hunchback, M. takes the Strong Back as his companions; a logger throwing a pole for 300 leagues; the Listener; the Runner; the Blowing; the Sultan tells, overtaking the old woman, to fill the bottle with water from the spring, over 700 leagues; The runner at the spring falls asleep, the listener learns about it, the Blower throws the old woman 300 leagues beyond the spring; M. takes the treasure, but the sultan sends an army after him; The blowing scattered him ; now the Queen accuses M. of trying to seduce her; he is taken to the scaffold, but the hunchback reports that M. is a woman; the queen has been beheaded, the king married M.]: Laport 1932, no.*514A: 62-63; Irish people [Expulsion of the sons of Success. In order not to seduce all women and girls, the boys decided to find a wife for Kukhulin as soon as possible. But there was no suitable bride. Then Kukhulin himself comes for Emer, Forgal's daughter, who lives in the Luga Gardens. Here they engage in dialogue, partly speaking in riddles and praising their merits. Emer fell in love with Kukhulin. Her father Forgal is afraid that he may die at the hands of her son-in-law, who is easily furious, so he gives him a difficult task in the hope that he will not return. Kukhulin should go to Alba to learn his military exploits and visit Lady Skatah's castle on the edge of the world. Kukhulin rejects ugly Dornolla's love (her feet are turned back, her face is black, her hair is bright red). Dornolla decides to take revenge. When Kukhulin was accompanied by Konhobar and Loigaire, she gave them a vision: Konhobar and Longaira saw their hometown of Emain-Maha and they flocked there, leaving Kukhulin alone. But at this moment, a monstrous beast like a lion approaches Kukhulin, lets him sit on his back and takes him to the end of the world. At the end of the world, a young man gave Kukhulin a wheel and an apple to cross the plain of misfortune in front of the castle. Next, you need to cross the bridge that throws a person stepping on it (p.597). But Kukhulin jumped right into the middle of the bridge and safely found himself on the other side. Skatah Uatah's daughter, who is in love with Kukhulin, teaches him to put a sword to her mother's chest and demand that she, first, teach him martial art, secondly, give him Uatah as his wife, and thirdly, predict the future. Kukhulin marries the Uatah, while Forgal married Emer to the king. But out of fear of Kukhulin, the king was afraid to marry her. Skatah was at war with Queen Ife. She put Kukhulin to sleep because she was afraid that he would be killed in this war. When Kukhulin woke up, he finally helped Skatah's sons kill Aifa's sons and defeated her in a duel. In exchange for her life, Aife gave birth to him a son. He asked her to send her son to Ireland when the ring he left fits the boy. A son should not say who he is, should not give way to anyone and should not give up fighting. Skatah predicted that Kukhulin would live for another 30 years]: Smirnov 1973:565-573.

Western Asia. Old Testament [Joseph dreams; in the first he and his brothers knit sheaves; their sheaves stand around and bow to his sheaf; in the second he is worshiped by the sun, moon, and eleven stars; his father scolds him because he thinks his parents and brothers should bow to him; his brothers throw Joseph into the ditch and sell him to merchants; in Egypt, Pharaoh's chief of bodyguards, Potiphar, buys Joseph; P. offers herself to Joseph, I. refuses; she tears her dress, accuses I. of violence; in prison, I. solves the dreams of a butler (in three days she will be released, held in high esteem), a baker (will be executed); solves the Pharaoh's dream, is appointed to oversee Egypt; the older brothers come to Egypt for bread; I. tells them to return for Benjamin; releasing him, I. puts a bowl in his things; V. is accused of stealing; I. opens to his brothers, Jacob brings the people to Egypt]: Gen. 37-46; Arabic written tradition (One Thousand and One Nights): Salye 2010 (1), Nights 217-225 [from two wives, the king's sons Al-Amjad ("the most glorious") and al-Assad ("the happiest"); they have grown up, each woman falls in love with the other's son; the king leaves, tells his sons to rule one day later; the king's wives send love letters to the young men, princes kill messengers, tell each other about what happened; wives complain to the king that his sons raped them; the king orders their sons to be killed, their blood brought in a jug; the treasurer binds brothers; everyone will ask him to be killed first; the treasurer goes into the thicket without a sword; young men untie fetters, save the treasurer from the lion; the treasurer fills bottles with animal blood, brings the king the clothes of young men; In the clothes of both sons, the king finds notes from his wives, builds tombs in memory of his sons, and retires (hereinafter about the adventures of the brothers; after all, they are made kings themselves)]: 760-774; 2010 (2), night 578 [ the childless king asks God to give him a son; a son is born; the king gives him up to the sage As-Sindibad; the young man becomes learned and skillful in battle; once S. warns that if a young man does not He utters even a word, then in this word he will die; the king entrusts the son to the slave; she tries to seduce him, the son threatens to convey to his father; the slave slander the prince; the king orders the execution of the son; the nobles prevent this; the viziers tell the king stories about the cunning of women, and the slave answers each time; as a result, the prince is acquitted]: 206-207; Arab written tradition (Forty Slaves, manuscript of the late 13th - early 14th centuries) [A beautiful baby has been thrown into Harun al-Rashid's garden; he was named Muhammad al-Maujud, raised and raised; he considers himself the son of a caliph; a Rumian slave offers him love, he refuses; then , in order to lose her virginity, she forces a black slave to get along with her, tears her clothes and accuses M. of violence; Caliph Masroor's servant let M. go, brought the Caliph the severed head of a black man, which he took M. for his head in the dark; the Caliph repented, Masrur told him everything, M. began to search; after many adventures, M. returned to Baghdad; asked not to execute the slave, but to sell her]: Osmanov, Yusupov 1962:333-360; Babylonia [Ishtar offers himself to Gilgamesh, promises him wealth and abundance; he rejects her, describing everything she did to her previous lovers; wife of her youth, Dumuzi, doomed to sobs; the shepherdess bird has broken its wings, he lives in the woods, screams where his wings are; the lion has dug traps; the horse has been made a slave to man; the cosopace shepherd has been turned into a wolf, he is being driven his own backup is bitten by his own dogs; Ishullana turned the gardener who rejected her into a spider; hearing this, I. tells her father Ana to create a bull that will kill G., otherwise she threatens to open the doors of the underworld. for the dead to devour the living; the bull begins to kill Uruk's citizens, but Enkidu grabs him by the horn, G. kills him; in Uruk, a holiday]: Deaconov 1961, Table VI: 39-45; Ugarit (known by Hittite sources of the Northern Canaanean myth) [Asirat, Ilu's wife, tries to seduce Bala; he talks about her harassment Ilu, on the latter's orders fulfills A.'s wishes and humiliates her; between A. and B. enmity begins]: Lundin 1980a: 113; Arameans [{the story of Joseph the Beautiful}; the father has three sons; he loves the youngest Joseph the Beautiful more than others, does not send him to work; the elders refuse to go in the field, if I. also did not go with them; he went, they pushed him into the well, told his father that I. separated from them along the way; the caravans pulled I. out after he had collected water for them all; each gave he had money; he came with a caravan to Baghdad; the sultan took him into service; the Sultan's daughter fell in love with him, he refused, she accused him of stealing the treasury, the sultan threw him into prison; the Sultan dreamed of 7 skinny cows were devoured by seven obese cows; no one can solve the dream; they remembered I., he guessed it, rose again; his brothers came to buy wheat, did not recognize I., and he recognized them and threw them back the received ones money; when he found the money, the father ordered it to be returned to I.; he revealed who he was, ordered him to give the money to his father; the father was blind from tears, and now he has recovered; the brothers and father have come to live with I.]: Bergsträsser 1915, No. 5: 13-18; South Yemen [after the death of his wife, the Sultan remarried; the new one fell in love with his stepson; he avoided her, she told her husband that her stepson was bothering her; the sultan told her son to leave; the daughter of the king of the jinn promises to help the young man, but he will be his sister, not his wife; the young man puts on donkey skin, comes to the Sultan's city; when he bathes, taking off his skin, the sultan's youngest daughter sees him; the sultan gives him seven daughters, in order for sons-in-law to help fight the neighboring sultan; summons men, daughters must throw an apple at the chosen ones; the youngest throws them into Donkey's Skin; the sultan settles them in a stable; the neighboring sultan demands tribute; the daughter of the king of genies gives the young man a horse and a sword, he smashes enemies, then puts on donkey skin again; wins the tournament, the sultan inflicts a minor wound on him to identify him later; everything is explained; the sultan gives his throne]: Daum 1992, No. 8:84-96; Socotra: Müller 1905, No. 16 [the younger single brother replies to the elder that they can be separated by a woman; to check, he invites his brother to leave for 2 years, leaving his wife with him; she offers her husband's brother her love, he refuses; when the husband returns, she tears off her clothes, accuses her husband's brother of trying to rape her; when the youngest milked the cow, the eldest cut off his penis; the youngest brings the severed penis to the old woman, asks him to heal; she sends him to 4 cannibals with their breasts on their backs; tells him to venerate the breast alone; cannibal says she would otherwise eat it; when her son comes and sniffs, feeling a man, she says that his brother has come; the cannibal's son took the young man to another cannibal; she restores him masculinity for promising to bring the first child she will eat; he marries a girl, there are two more suitors; the father will give his daughter for someone who cooks food in the bare desert; two can't, the young man fills a vessel with camel saliva, boils, burning his staff; gets a wife; takes the born child to a cannibal; comes with his wife to where his brother stayed; he does not like that his wife jokes with his brother, he talks about this in verse]: 89-95; Naumkin, Kogan 2013, No. 19 (written in 1980 from a young illiterate woman) [the two brothers loved each other; the youngest replied to the eldest that they would be separated by a woman; the eldest married, the wife wanted to get along with his brother; he refused; she tore her clothes, told her husband that his brother tried to rape her; demanded that he cut off his penis when his brother milked the cow; the elder the brother did so; the younger brother left; the sultan calls the men to let the daughter throw a pebble at her chosen one; she throws and hits the young man three times; on the wedding night she makes an incision in her thigh so that blood remains in the sheet; tells her husband not to worry about his situation; the servant notices that the Sultan's son-in-law is castrates; the sultan tells him to swim naked to check; the young man runs away, meets old people, they restore his penis for promising to give the child he will have; the sultan sees a healthy son-in-law, executes a servant; his son-in-law takes a newborn to the elderly; they stabbed the boy, gave it a piece for my father; he threw it at his wife, the child was born again]: 186 (with additions to the full English translation).

South Asia. Ancient India [the sons of a brahman from Malawa (probably Punjab) went on a journey; the elder Yaśodhara, the youngest Lakshmīdhara; spent the night in a tree above the lake; saw how people come out of the lakes, arrange everything they need for a feast and love; then a handsome man comes out with a sword, and the servants return to the water; the man takes his two wives out of his mouth; the first is more modest, and he loves the second more; when I fell asleep, the brothers went down to the women to ask them; the second offered me my love; let her not worry: she had a thousand lovers, each gave a ring, here they are; I rejected her: you are the wife of another, and to me like a mother; the woman woke her husband up and said that the young man raped her; he wanted to kill me, but the first one stopped him and told him everything; the man was convinced that she was right when he saw those rings; she was all I knew it before, but wanted to disturb the master, and now I must save the life of an innocent man]: Tawney, Penzer 1926a, No. 132:120-124; Ancient India (Jataki) [Prince Padma's mother died; the king took a new wife; she offers herself to Padma, who refuses; she tears her clothes, tells her husband that P. tried to rape her; the subjects do not believe, but the king orders P. to be thrown into the abyss; the spirit of the abyss picks him up, the naga king shares power with him for a year; then he becomes a hermit in the Himalayas; one person recognizes P., the father comes, offers him power; P. refuses; the king throws him into the abyss wife, rules righteously]: Jataki 2002, No. 472:120-125; Kashmiris [the king and his wife listen to the chirping of the chicks, then find them dead; the female died, the male took another, killed the chicks; the wife died, the king took another one, she fell in love with his two sons; they refused to get along with her, she accused them of encroaching on her; the king orders the execution of his sons, but the vizier tells them to flee, they bring the queen the hearts of dogs; another king took the young men as guards; the elder brother guards, sees a snake, cuts into pieces, erases blood drops from the body of the royal wife; the king sees this; when it comes to the younger brother's turn, he replies to the king that traitors should be executed, but first tells the story; one king took water, but his falcon knocked over the bowl; the king killed the falcon, and then noticed a snake whose poisonous saliva was dripping into the water ; let the king find out first; after the younger brother, two more old warriors are on guard; one tells how one merchant bought a dog from another; at night this dog did not stop the thieves, but in the morning led to The merchant became rich in the place where the thieves kept the loot; sent the dog with a note to the former owner, who thought the dog was guilty and killed him; then read the note; the fourth guard tells the whole the story of young princes up to the murder of a snake by his younger brother; the king appoints one of them as a vizier, the other as Pasha]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 8:45-57; Punjabi: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 22-25 [y Raja is the son of Puran from her eldest wife, the youngest is childless; out of envy, she accuses her eldest son of an attempt on her honor; the father ordered the young man to be cut off and thrown into the well; the guru found the young man, healed him, he himself became a fakir; returning home and finding the garden dried up, made it green; restored the sight of his mother, blind with tears; Lona's youngest wife asks for a child; P. demands that she confess her crime; forgives her, lets her eat rice to conceive, but let her son make her cry as much as P.'s mother cried; when the boy Prince Rasalu was born, three yogis ordered that by 12 His parents did not see him for years, otherwise they would die; a 12-year-old boy with servants, a parrot and a foal born on the same day was imprisoned in the basement; but R. leaves after 11 years; smashed jugs by the river who came for water women; they complained to the Raja; fearing to see his son, the Raja ordered the women to take jugs of iron and brass; R. also smashed them, rode to the Raja, but he turned away; offended R. with his horse, a parrot, taking the son of a carpenter and the son of a jeweler, went on a journey; while the others were sleeping, the Carpenter won and killed the snake, hid the body; then guarding R. the serpent is huge, he killed him; after that, the companions were frightened, R. went alone; the giant demands sacrifice, killed the old woman's 6 sons, the last one left; R. killed him and the other giants; their sister disappeared into the cave; R. put a scarecrow similar to him at the entrance, a giantess scared, starved to death; {further adventures to p. 280}]: 247-262; Kudryavtseva, Rabinovich 1967 [Raja Puran's son treats his stepmother Lunan like a mother; she tries to seduce him; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses P. of trying to rape her; the Raja orders her son to be killed, but the torturers threw him alive into a well in the desert; followers of Gorakhnath's doctrine pulled him out; he became a yogi, but Rani Sunduran fell in love with him and the teacher let him go; however, P. rejected her and she killed herself; the teacher sends him back to his father; he comes unrecognized as a yoga; L. and Father P. childless, unhappy; L. was guilty of accusing her stepson in vain; he gave her a seed to give birth to a son; opened himself to his own mother and father; renounced the throne - let his future son L. take him]: 28-45; northern India, Mirzapur, Hindi (written by a Christian from a Muslim cook) {there is no explicit motive for rejected love, but it is assumed} [the king has sons Sit and Basant; their mother sees a nest sparrows; when the sparrow died, the sparrow brought another wife, and they threw the chicks from the first one out of the nest; the queen asks the king not to marry after her death; but the sons themselves persuaded the father to marry; father placed them on the second floor, and his wife and he stayed on the first floor; they played ball, the ball hit the queen's room; S. invites B. to go get the ball, but B. sends S. to cover his face with a cloth; in the evening, the queen complains to the king that his sons molested her; the brothers left, spent the night in the forest; S. went to look for food, he was captured and made king (after the death of the former, you must go to the forest and bring the first person he met human); B. hears a conversation between a parrot and a starling (myna); the parrot tells the story of S. and B.; realizing that his brother will not return, B. hired a grain dryer; S., becoming king, promises a reward to someone who will tell the story of S. and B.; B. sent the owner to tell it; S. sent for his brother, did not immediately recognize him, but from his story he was convinced that it was him]: Crooke 1892-1893, No. 334:81-82; himachali plowmen [in The fairy tore her wing in the shoemaker's garden against a thorn, the shoemaker adopted her, passed her off as raja; Raja Puran's son had just come out of 12 years in prison (the fortuneteller ordered to spend 12 years without people; when he saw R., the king's wife decided that she should have married him, not Raja; so she decided to lime R., accused her of encroaching on her; the Raja invited her son to put his hand in boiling oil, he lowered it, his hand was unharmed; but the wife The Raja still demanded that R. tear out his eyes, cut off his arms and legs; the servants brought Raja the animal's eyes, and R.'s arms and legs grew back when he was thrown into a dry well; the guru pulled him out, he did not returned to the raja; (hereinafter another story); the guru did not tell the students to go to the witches, they went, the witches turned them into bulls; the guru dried all the wells except one; the witches came there, the guru turned them into donkeys; then disgraced the disciples; each hit a donkey with a stick, which became a woman again; but 5 donkeys remained donkeys as a reminder]: Dracott 1906:186-193; gondas: S. Hyslop in Zograf 1971:8-11 [gondas multiplied, killed animals, lived in mud; Mahadeo imprisoned them in a cave, four stayed outside; Lingo, born from a flower, taught them farming, hunting, and using fire; fire younger Ricad Gavadi could not steal from the gondas; L. himself came to the WG, played the violin, got his seven daughters for this, gave them to the gondas; the youngest got one wife, the rest two; the wives became to flirt with L., he rejected them; they accused him of trying to rape them; the brothers killed L. with arrows and began to play with their eyes out; the Creator sent the Raven with live water to revive L.; M. agrees release the gondas if L. brings the Bingo bird's chicks; L. killed a sea serpent eating chicks; adult Bingo brought the brains of elephants and camels to the chicks; agreed to take L. and the chicks to M.; gondas came out of the cave, L. became their priest, then god], 25 [Elwin; Gunjhi's dove laid 106 eggs, two large eggs, from which princes elder Gunjmara and younger Gunjhira came out; spent the night with the old woman; the youngest found out from her, that at night the bod fish comes out of the lake, takes people away; killed her, killed her ears, fins, tail, hid a piece of liver; the king will pass off his daughter as a hero; the village guard says that he killed the fish; he cannot confirm, shackled; Gunjhira shows a tail, etc.; Raja's daughter wants for him, but he refuses in favor of his older brother because he does not want to part with him (communication with his younger brother's wife forbidden, the eldest is allowed); she smeared her with sour cream so that cats would almost lick her to death all day; accused Gunjhira of encroaching on her; as proof of correctness, he hugged a red-hot pole , nothing happened to him; and went to the woods cursing the women]: 99-105; kannada [Alakanna's older brother went to war; his wife began to seduce his single younger brother Malakanna, but He refused; she turned to the sorcerer; the sorcerer gave jasmine, which M. smelled, and a thorn; when M. realized that his brother's wife was again in front of him, she stuck a thorn in his forehead, turning him into a dog; when A. returned, his wife said that M. molested her; A. caressed the dog, felt for the thorn, took it out, the dog turned into M. again; A. whipped his wife and her maid, kicked them out of the house, found them another wife]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 14:46-50; Sinhalese [{the rejected offer is not mentioned directly, but it is implied}; parents are dead; the younger prince has returned from the monastery and prays; the elder married; the wife's pestle fell on a pot of water; she told her husband that his brother had attempted on her; the elder called the youngest into the forest, cut off his arms and legs; the youngest asked him to leave the holy book; seven widows heard him read sacred texts; 6 left, the youngest brought him home; told the king that there was a holy man in her house, he would find out who was stealing flowers from the royal garden; 5 naked girls had arrived tear the flowers, heard the cripple read; four returned his arms and legs, he hid his fifth dress, married her; the tsar made the young man chief gardener, gave him the province]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 126 : 307-309.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bali [Ktut Láyang is rich, offers herself to marry handsome Hee Lingg; he says he is a poor orphan, refusing her; KL breaks his jug in his hearts, scratches against the bush, accuses HL of assassination attempt on her; KL's relatives kill HL with arrows; in the next world, HL sees parents in hell (wife cheated, husband killed her); they repented, HL refuses to go to heaven without them, all three are taken to heaven]: Kahlo 1967:56-59 (=Braginsky 1972:110-113).

China - Korea. Ancient China [by Fêng shen yen I); Bo Ikao (Po I -k 'ao), the eldest son of Wen Wang, ruled the kingdom while his father He was held captive by tyrant Zhou for seven years; tried to free his father; sent ten fat women to the tyrant's harem, seven chariots made of fragrant wood, a clever white-faced monkey, a rug on which is recovering from a hangover; Zhou's favorite concubine, Ta Chi, began to seduce him; he rejected her harassment, she decided to kill him; the monkey sent rushed to T. for sweets and scratched; C. ordered the monkey to be killed, B. proved he was innocent; but advised C. to leave his unfaithful mistress; she became angry, he hit her with a lute, she ordered him to crucify and cut the meat into pieces, from they were made cutlets, sent to his father to eat it; he guessed, ate three cutlets in the presence of envoys, thus escaped execution; Bo Ikao was canonized and appointed ruler of the northern circus Tzŭ-wei constellations]: Werner 1922:192-194; Koreans [the old man predicts the young man that he will be able to avoid dying in the fire if he is decent; the young man stays in a house where the hostess offers to him, says that her husband has left for a long time; the young man rushes out, encounters her husband in the doorway; the wife complains that the young man tried to rape her; the husband knows the truth; two fires are burning in the yard; if the young man agreed to fornication, the owner would burn him and his wife]: Shkurkin 1941:143-145.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece. 1) Astidamia, Acast's wife, fell in love with Peleus, but could not seduce him; then she sent a message to P.'s wife that he was going to marry Sterop, A.'s daughter; A. also said that P. tried to seduce her; A. did not want to kill the one he had just cleared of the filth of murder, took P. to hunt in the mountains; when the competition between hunters began, P. carved out the tongues of the animals he had killed; A.'s companions gathered the dead, mocked P. that he had not obtained anything; P. showed his tongues; when P. fell asleep, A. abandoned him, hiding his sword in cow dung; centaurs attacked, but Chiron found P. and gave it to him; (Peleus later looted Jolk along with Jason and Dioscuri, cut Astidamia to pieces)]: Apol. 1972, 3, XIII, 3:69. 2) Ftia (or Cletius), the concubine of King Amintor of Boeotia, accuses him Phoenix's son. Amintor blinds (or only curses Phoenix, making him infertile), who runs to Peleus, where he raises Achilles. 3) Sphenebey, the wife of King Tyrinth Proyt, accuses Bellerophon (Glavka's son, grandson of Sisiphus) who is visiting her husband to cleanse himself of the filth of his brother's accidental murder. Past instructs Bellerophon to deliver a letter to King Lycia Iobat asking him to kill Bellerophon. Iobat sends Bellerophon to kill Chimera. 4) Philonoma, the second wife of Poseidon Kickn's son, slandered Tenes, Kikn's son by his first wife. Kickn put Tenes and his sister (his daughter) Gemitea in a box and threw them into the sea. The box was nailed to Tenedos Island, and Tenes became its king. Kickn found his son, and Philonom buried him alive in the ground. Kikn ordered the flutist Eumolpus, who testified in favor of Philonomus, to be stoned (Apol.:84). 5) Phaedra, the second wife of King Theseus of Athens, slandered Hippolyte, the son of Theseus with his first wife, the Amazon Antiopes (or Hippolytes; Melanipps). Theseus was not actually Aegean's son but Poseidon's son. So Theseus asked Poseidon to kill Hippolyte. He sent the bull out of the sea, frightened horses carried Hippolyte's chariot and dragged him along the ground. Artemis (revered by Hippolyte) revealed the truth to Theseus and reconciled her dying son. Phaedra hanged herself (Apol.:78). 6) The idea, the second wife of Phineas, king of Salmidessa in Thrace, slandered his sons by his first wife Cleopatra (who was the daughter of Boreas and Orithia). Phineas blinded his sons; Boreas's children Zet and Kalaid later punished him (Var.: they, on the contrary, drove away the harpies that tormented Phineas) (Apol:73).

Central Europe. Russians (Olonetskaya) [Forty Kalik; 40 wanderers led by Thomas Ivanovich go to worship in Jerusalem; decide that the person who committed theft or adultery should be beaten with keys and snatched out tongue through the back of his head, pull out her eyes and bury her chest in the ground; they come to Prince Vladimir in Kiev, but he is not at home; Queen Opraksna offers herself to FI, who refuses; in revenge she hides in his belongings the princely cup; when the wanderers leave, she orders them to be searched; sent by Churila Plenkovich, then Alyosha Popovich, did not find the bowl; Dobrynya Nikitich found; FI subjected to the execution agreed upon by the wanderers ; when the wanderers approached Jerusalem, they lost their way and lost their sight; God sent two angels to revive FI by returning his eyes (and tongue); he asks wanderers why they go off-road; they they are responsible that God saved him for his truth, and he let them know for their lies]: Hilferding 1983:99-103.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars (Buyuk-Khozhalar {steppe Crimea?}) [The Coplands are Khan Mamai's best warrior; he rejected Khanshi's love; in winter, she ran barefoot around the palace three times, complained about K. Khan; he sent K. to Petropolk with a letter to the king; in the letter, a request to leave the applicant to prison; K. spent years in prison, his wife is being bullied; friend N. Kazim Myrza came to visit him; his wife told him everything and gave an ax from the nose of Albanasta, which K. once caught in the mountains; tells him to make a file out of this steel and dip a bear in the urine; file wife put it in a cake, asked the caravans to take it to Petropolka and hand it over to her husband; K. sawed the shackles, ran out, rode away; put the khan's head between the spokes of the wagon and drove the camel; he and his wife ran away]: Zherdeva 2020, No. 46; Adygi: Kerashev 1957 [a peasant one-year-old son pshi buys three old man's advice for an expensive price; 1) do not disdain poor treats, 2) do not marry a brunette with gray eyes, 3) do not prevent lovers from getting married; Pshi's son goes to marry him, the bride is a brunette with gray eyes; after the wedding she wants to marry him, the young man refuses, she tears her clothes, accuses him of attempted violence; asks her husband to burn the young man; he gives him a letter ordering him to burn the first one who comes to the fire, sends him to the place where the pit with dry bushes is made; the young man stays with the poor plowman and falls asleep, late; at this time, Psha's wife came to the pit, she was thrown into the fire; the young man arrives at the place where the girl should marry the turtle; persuaded her to do it; at night the turtle burst, a handsome man appeared, said that the spell has been removed; helps the young man make peace with his son Psha]: 165-176; Lipkin 1951 [Imys is married, his brother Uazirmes is single; while her husband is away, I.'s wife offers herself to W.; he refuses and goes to live in the forest; his wife tells I. that his brother wanted to rape her; in the woods, a giant with the body of a beast comes to the fire W.; W. puts a stump on his bed for the night, wrapped it in a burka, hid himself with a bow; the giant again came, pierced the stump with a sword, and W. knocked out both eyes with arrows; W. follows the giant, he dies at his cave, frees the girl Dadukh, lives with her like a sister; sledges come, D. answers that she more beautiful than I.'s wife; and since W. did not touch her, he could not have encroached on his brother's wife; I.'s wife is sent to her relatives, I. marries D.]: 342-345; Tambiev 1896, No. 2 (Kabardian people) [from the old man bulls fell; he exchanged new ones from the young man for three tips; 1) not to marry a gray-eyed brunette and not let those you love marry; 2) do not disdain anyone's bread and salt; 3) do not drag anyone's wife; absence of a young man, his widowed father marries a gray-eyed brunette; she offers herself to his stepson; he refuses, she tears her clothes, accuses him of violence; the father tells him to prepare a hole, burn it fire, throw into it the first person who comes in the morning; tells the son to go there and ask the torturers if they have obeyed the order; on the way, the peasants ask the young man to have breakfast with them; he became drunk and fell asleep; when came to the torturers, who replied that they had thrown the young man who was the first to come to them into the pit; the young man left home, stayed in the house, where the beautiful woman offered him love; her husband was a huge frog; but the young man I still disagree; well done from the frog's skin; he killed 99 young men who succumbed to the spell, and did this as a friend and brother]: 175-181; Huth 1987 (chemgui) [atalyk (the one to whom he was given up) son of Pshi says that the young man must remain silent for 40 days, otherwise he will die; the stepmother invites the young man to poison his father, make him pshi; he beats her; she tears her clothes, accuses her stepson of trying to rape her; pshi tells her hang a son; someone says you can't kill a person because of a woman's words, tells the story of a traitor wife; an atalyk runs up, tells the young man to speak; Pshi tied his wife to the horse's tail]: 180-185; Georgians [the king's servant inherited a snuffbox to his son; the king's wife wanted the young man, he refused; she accused him of trying to seize it; the king ordered the hangman to execute the first person who came to him, and to the second to give the head of the executed man; the young man went to church; another servant appeared first; the young man brought his head to the king; the queen demanded that he be expelled; he came to the kingdom, where the queen demands that she be forced answer three questions, otherwise he executes; the young man opened his snuffbox, a ball and two candlesticks jumped out of it; they begin to tell stories; 1) the ball: the robbers cut off the heads of her husband and guest; the wife put it heads and they grew, but I was mistaken: the husband's head to the guest's body and vice versa; who should be her husband? candlesticks: whose head; princess: the head is smaller than the body, whose body; ball: the carpenter made a wooden figure, the tailor dressed, the priest revived it with prayers; who owns the person? candlesticks: priest; tailor; princess: carpenter, he made a man; ball: the one who had a mirror saw that the prince was being buried; the plane who had a carpet brought there; the owner of the medicine revived the prince; who should receive the main award? candlesticks: medicine holder; carpet; princess: mirrors; this is the third time, wedding]: Bogoyavlensky 1894b, No. 6:119-123; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2007 [after Movses Khorentsi, middle of the 1st millennium AD; Shamiram, the wife of the Assyrian king Nina, was passionate for Ara the Beautiful, who inherited the Armenian throne; after her husband's death, she sent him gifts, asked him to come to Nineveh; A. refused; S. came with an army and ordered take A. alive, but he was killed; she told Armenian soldiers that she resurrected A. with the help of spirits (they come from dogs, they come down from heaven to lick the wounds of killed soldiers and revive them)]: 68-69 (=Ananikian 2010:71-72); Melik-Ohanjanyan 2004, No. 6 [Sarie, Hovan's wife, asks David, his nephew, to come to her bedroom; he refuses, calling him "aunt"; then she asks D. to come to her to pour water while she washes her hair; however, D. closed his eyes and does not look at her body; S. then tells Ovan that he sent her not a son, but a husband; Zenov Ovan put a door in the aisle and did not let D. into the house; he says that she is not angry with him, the hooker is to blame for everything; she leaves], 42 [about the same; she tore the collar of her shirt, the hair on her head is disheveled, her face is scratched into blood]: 34-35, 77-78; Nazinyan 2014 [dying, The father tells his son, when he hears the bells ring, to immediately go to pray in church; not to cross the river without knowing the ford; wait for a knowledgeable person, even if you lose a few days; not to travel at night, wait out the night where darkness found; the young man became a merchant; on the way from Tiflis he insisted that the river should not be waded; another merchant did not listen, drowned; then a local resident showed a ford; rich the merchant takes a young man into business; sends him to his wife in Ganja; she seduces him, he refuses; when her husband returns, the woman complains to him that his partner has attempted on her; the merchant tells the baker throw the first person who comes in the morning into the oven; the young man hears the bells ringing, goes not to the bakery, but to the church; the merchant's wife comes to the bakery, thrown into the oven; everything is clear, the merchant paid the young man, but asked him leave; the young man tells the drivers to spend the night not in the village, but nearby, where darkness has found; at night he sees a robber dragging something to the cemetery; finds a wounded girl there; healed, married her; she turned out to be a princess who refused to marry the son of a treasurer, who sent her to kidnap her; one day she asks her husband to sell a gem; he sells it to the son of a treasurer without knowing who he is; after visiting the son of the treasurer, the young man invited him to his place; at night, his wife stabbed him and told her husband to bury the corpse in the cemetery where they wanted to bury it; the couple ran; at night, the husband sees a red cloth in his wife's hair sewn on with jewelry, takes it off to sell it, the crow takes it away; the husband goes to Istanbul alone, is hired as a gardener, finds a cloth under the poplar on which the crow's nest; left alone, the wife, disguised as a man, started a caravanserai; without recognizing the woman, her husband came there and, in search of her daughter and son, her father and treasurer came; everything turns out, everyone is reconciling, the young man's wedding with the princess]: 94-105; Turks, Azerbaijanis [from the 10th to the 20th centuries, 117 Arab-Persian-Turkic-speaking poets turned to the history of Yusuf, 45 of them are Turkic-speaking; the Turkish folk version of Yusuf il Zileikha has details that go back not only to The Koran and "Kysas al-Anbia", but also to the Bible]: Korogly 1985:20; Azerbaijanis [the king has a son Lala and a daughter Nargis; their mother is dead, the king has taken another wife; she demands that L. become her lover; L. hit her , his stepmother accused him of an attempt on his life, the vizier advised to expel the prince; N. left with her brother; they stopped in the forest; at night N. hears two birds talking; from him he learns that he who ate his head alone will become king, and the other one who has eaten the heart will find gold under the pillow in the morning; N. killed the birds, ate the heart, gave her head to her brother; the diva reached out his hand from heaven, took N.; said that his soul was in a bottle; G. she was broken, the dead diva fell from the sky; L. woke up in the morning, ate a bird's head, went to look for N.; the city chose a king, the bird of wealth sat on L.'s head three times, he was made king; N. came to the city, but the watchman did not let her in; it seemed like a monster, N. killed him with a sword, but weakened, lay down in the chest; the watchman appropriated the victory, but the vizier did not believe him, ordered the king to put the watchman in prison; the poor husband found the chest and wife; cured N., every morning she has gold under her pillow; N. met the watchman, changed clothes, tricked her into leaving her in prison, and left himself; the whale sinks the ships if he does not leave a person; N. decided to leave him; she tells me to tie a rope to it: if there is red foam, the whale is killed, and if black, it dies; N. killed the whale with a sword from the inside; the merchant adopted her; the king gave N. his daughter; the merchant decided to take possession of her with her, threw N.'s chest into the sea; the gardener caught it; {confusion and contradictions; as a result, L. met N., the merchant and prison warden were beheaded, the mother L. and N. were hanged}]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:195-205; Turks [the older brother is married, the younger brother is poor and works for him; the elder's wife offers himself to him, he rejects her, she accuses the young man of trying to rape her; the youngest leaves, saying that his heart is - in a certain acacia, if it is cut down, he will die; his brother finds out when he is served milk; the youngest gets a beautiful woman, she cuts down a tree, the elder revives it]: Eberhard, Boratav 1952, No. 221:268; Kurds: Jalil 1989, No. 60 [roughly like Rudenko (similar text or the same text in another translation)]: 311-317; Rudenko 1970, No. 43 [Baghdad Caliph Balul-Zan's brother built a shack by the sea; eldest the Caliph's wife asks for a shack in exchange for food, B. agrees, the youngest laughs; later comes to buy a shack, B. does not sell; she tears her clothes, tells her husband that B. encroached on her; B. digs his grave, invites the Caliph to reconcile, throws him to a distant country; in search of a way to Baghdad, the Caliph visits three old men; the first wife must be beaten with a stick, she is a donkey breed, the second has a dog wife breeds, grumbling, the third's wife does everything herself; this old man tells the Caliph to grab the bird by the leg, which brings him back to Baghdad at the cemetery; B. offers the Caliph to kill him if he obeys his wife; Caliph tells her youngest wife to be torn apart by camels]: 103-107; Hittites [(no beginning); Ashert told Baal that since he resisted her, she would satisfy her hatred for him; then V. came to Elkunirshe (wife A.), addressing him "my father"; said that A. sent maids to pick him up with a request to come and get along with her; he refused, then she began to threaten him; E. advises V. to go to sleep with A. and humiliate her; V. says A. that he killed her 77, her 88 sons; A. in grief; Ishtar turns into a bowl, an owl, overhears E. telling A. to go to bed with V., then takes her to bed; I. flies to V. and speaks to him (text ends)]: Ivanov 1977:167-169.

Iran - Central Asia. Sistan's Tajiks [the king has two wives, one has a son, Malik-Muhammad; the second wife offers herself to him, he refuses; she complains to her husband that his son wanted to take possession of her; the vizier intercedes for him, his father expels him, but does not execute him; the pregnant mother leaves with her son; asks to catch the bird, he follows it, he is swallowed by divas; the mother gives birth to a son Khanjarsho ("king dagger"); his mother also tells him catch the same bird; he defeats the diva, throws it into the well; the mother finds the diva, picks it up, takes it as a lover; to destroy her son, asks for 1) lion's milk (the son takes out a splinter to the lion, he gives milk); 2) dates from the White Diva Garden; H. kills the dragon, which annually eats the Simurg bird chicks, the chicks eat meat, Simurg brings him to the White Diva, the defeated Div becomes his friend; kills his mother and her lover when she tried to poison her son; gives H. to his peri wife; the old woman kidnaps her for another king, breaks the dagger in which H.'s life was; the diva repairs the dagger, returns his wife H.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1981, No. 2:24-39; mountain Tajiks [the Shah has sons Gul-Podsho and Sanavbar-Podsho; S. goes to visit his fourteen-year-old aunt (var.: stepmother); she tells her to lie down with her, otherwise he will write to the Shah that he attempted on her; the shah orders his son to be executed, the vizier saves him by showing the Shah a shirt soaked in dog blood; G. finds a dead brother bitten by a snake; G. comes to the country where he is elected Shah; Kalandar revives S., brings him to a country where Shah G., guards throw S. into a hole; an old man and an old woman save him, sell him to a merchant, S. serves as a camel driver; on the way pretends to be dying, stays with the mufti, marries his daughter; the merchant returns, takes S.'s wife, throws him in a chest into the river; the chest sails to S.'s country, the old man saves him; S. dresses up woman; the old shah is dead, the vizier rules, S. finds out; brothers meet, reward assistants, the aunt runs]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 16:74-78; Tajiks [the padishah has sons Gul and Bulbul; after He took a new wife's death; stepmother offers herself to Gulu, he refuses; she tears his clothes, accuses him of trying to rape her; vizier: if clothes are torn from behind, G. ran away from the woman; padishah released his son, but drove him away, B. went with him; in the morning G. cannot wake up, B. left, a falcon sat on his head, he was elected padishah Misra; the merchants woke up Gula, in Chin's country he was hired as an assistant salesman pilaf, gold on his bed in the morning, the seller became rich; G. goes with merchants to Misr; in one city, for delicious pilaf, the padishah fulfills Gula's wish: a palace with a gold tower and the daughter of Padishah Baghdad; B. and G. met; at night, the merchant wants to take G.'s wife and kill him; the wife suggests lowering G. in a chest into the river; the gardener picked him up, he pulled a mutton abomb over his head, sent Bulbula a bouquet of flowers; everyone tells stories, G. - his own, takes the abomb off his head; the merchant is tied to the stallion's tail]: Osmanov 1989:506-512; Persians: Carnoy 1917:336 in Thompson 1932-1936, K2111; Tawney, Penzer 1924 [ numerous Arabic and Persian versions, including Sindbad. Story of the King, his Son, the Damsel and the Seven Vazirs; after many failed attempts, wise Sinbad teaches his only son; says he will die if he says a word within seven days; the king wants the son to speak; one of the wives asks to leave her with him, offers to meet with her and poison the king; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses the young man; the 7 viziers take turns talking about the insidiousness of women and men; seven days pass, the young man tells everything]: 122; Braginsky 1977 [the serpent turns first into a lion, then into a girl; the girl tells two brothers that the lion has tore her husband to pieces; The eldest takes her as his wife; she sends him to get water, offers herself to the youngest; he refuses; she tears her hair, accuses the youngest in front of her husband of trying to rape her; brothers kill each other]: 146-147; Shahname [Shah Kai-Kavus marries Sudab; she falls in love with Siyavush's stepson; he refuses her; then she tears her dress, accuses S. of trying to rape her; KK does not know who to believe; S. agrees to go through the fire, safe, proving his innocence; asks his father not to execute S.; in the end S. is forced to go to Turan; King Afrosiyab patronizes him, but then executes him because the machinations of envious people]: Ulug-zoda 1989:146-158 (retelling in Korogly 1985:21-22); Zoroastrianism [Pahlevi texts; Avesta is about the same, but the story was not fully reached; Kavi Usana's wife died; their son Syavarshan rejects the love of his father's new wife; she tears her clothes, says that the young man molested her; KU expels her son from Aryanvej; King Turana Frangrasyan is going to hand over power to him, but S. is slandered, executed]: Cancer 2006:182-183; Baluchi [from the king's deceased wife, sons Gul and Momin; stepmother invites elder Gul to get along with her; he pretends to agree, but leaves; (apparently stepmother accuses sons), the king orders them to be killed; then agrees to expel G., leave M.; both flee; Gulya kills the dragon; in one city M. is elected king; the dervish revives G., he converges with the girl; some people they lure him into a boat, put him in a box, let him down the river; a man catches him, leads him to the king, he turns out to be M.; G. celebrates that girl]: Zarubin 1932, No. 7:90-96; Turkmens [according to Abulgazi (Khan of Khiva in the 17th century), "Turkmen Genealogy"; according to the author, he recorded his work from the words of Turkmen elders; Bogra Khan has three sons; when he grew old, he handed over the kingdom the middle, Kuzy-Tegin; when B.'s wife died, KT advised him to take a new one, married Körkeli-Yahshi of the Avshar tribe; she began to lure CT; he threatened to execute her; then KY scratched her face told the maid to walk in CT boots through the fresh snow from her chambers to the KT tent; made a fuss accusing the ruler of violence; the maids confessed to what they had done under torture, KY was torn by horses]: Kononov 1958: 62-64; (retelling in Korogly 1985:21); Bukhara Arabs [a young man asks his father to buy a skinny horse; while his father is away, the stepmother offers herself to a young man; they sleep together in clothes; taking off their shirts; when they should to sleep with his pants off, the horse tells the young man not to do this; the stepmother affects the sick, asks her husband to slaughter the horse; the young man asks for permission to sit on him for the last time, the horse takes him away; the young man feeds gazelle meat a fox, a wolf, a Simurg bird; they build a house for him, bring him clothes and property; they marry the emir's daughter; he sends an old woman on a flying arba; she lures the young man's wife to the arba, returns it to his father; the young man stops feeding the fox, wolf, Simurga; they again bring the emir's daughter; the emir sends an army, Simurgs, wolves and foxes destroy him]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 24:159-163.

Baltoscandia. Danes [the king of Spain's wife is dead, he took a new one; stepmother seduces his stepson, but he refuses her; then she accuses him of trying to rape her; before his execution, he can walk three days in in the garden; every 7 years a white horse appears; this time it is here again, the prince rode away; it goes to Constantinople; the horse shows a hollow, it wears ordinary clothes and a vessel; when the prince has moistened his hair with liquid from it, they turned gold; he hides them under his hat; he hires a gardener for three years and must answer all questions "I don't know"; the youngest of the three princesses sees a young man's golden hair; tells the sisters that it's time to marry; they must throw golden apples at selected suitors; the youngest threw it at the gardener; unrecognized, in his true form on a magic horse, young man Smashes enemies three times; the king deliberately wounds him in the leg to bandage the wound with a handkerchief and then identify him; the young man appears in all his splendor, takes his wife and returns to his father; the stepmother is burned]: Holbek 1987:564-565; Icelanders: Boberg in Thompson 1932-1936; Lithuanians [stepmother tries to seduce a prince, he rejects her; she slander him; when they are going to hang him, prince, taught by his tutors, proves that among the Queen's maids there is a man in disguise; the queen and her lover are hanged]: Balys 1936, no.*656:65-66.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 17:158-170; Bashkirs: Barag 1990, No. 81, 82:232-233, 233-235.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [when dying, the king gives his son advice: 1) go to bed on a hill on the way, not in a ravine; 2) do not do bad to someone from whom you ate bread and salt; 3) do not refuse morning meals; during the famine, the young king led a camel caravan with jewelry to buy food from the merchant with whom the king father did business; at night he lay down on a hill, while the others in a ravine were soaked in the rain and smeared themselves in mud; the merchant had two wives, the youngest began to seduce the king, who refused; she scratched her body, accused the king of trying to rape her; ordered the tandoor to light a fire and throw him there who would come first; the husband agreed; the youngest wife sent the king to the tandoor; on the way, the old woman asked him to come in to eat; the youngest wife, in order not to be recognized, put on an old robe and came to see the king's ashes, the day laborers threw her into the fire, ran away; the tsar found the burnt corpse, explained to the merchant, brought food to the starving]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:110-113; Kyrgyz: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963 [first person they met teaches the young man to call beautiful not a beauty, but his beloved; the second not to be a rival to someone who has tasted bread and salt; the third is not to give up morning meals, not to wait for evening meals; the young man is hired caravans; a bucket lowered into the well, the worker who climbed after him disappear; a young man climbs, sees a diva and two women, a diva asks which one is more beautiful, the young man answers according to the advice, the diva gives water; the merchant rewards him; he stays with a friend, his wife tries to seduce him, he refuses, she slandered him in front of her husband; the husband asks his baker friend to throw a man into the oven who tomorrow he will come for bread; on the way, the young man comes to a friend's house for breakfast; the owner's wife comes to the baker first, she is thrown into the oven; the husband realizes that the young man is not to blame; wiser and rich, the young man returns home]: 237-240; Brudny, Eshmambetov 1981 [=1989:75-88; the Khan of Osh has sons Shakir and Shakiret and a daughter, his wife died; the khan remarried; the new wife began to molest Shakir and offered to poison his father; in response, Shakir hit her; the woman accused Shakir himself of offering to poison his father and marry her; Shakiret suggests that the guards kill him better; they let both brothers go, they brought Khan their shirts soaked in hare's blood; Shakireta was bitten by a snake; Shakir thought he was dead, left gold to the one who would bury him and a note; came to the city where the dragon wanted to eat everyone; Shakir came to the dragon and spoke to him in the snake tongue he had learned from the mullo; the dragon agreed to leave in six months if a ram and a girl were brought to him every month; Shakiret's body was found by the elder, revived it; Shakiret came to the old men, whose daughter should be eaten by the dragon; wearing a woman's dress, went in her place; cut the dragon with two sabers, but lost consciousness; the horsemen brought the dragon's head Khan and told that they were the heroes; the khan appointed them judges; the girl found Shakiret alive, brought him to his parents; the judges saw him, led him to the river to execute; the caravans bought him to sacrifice him the river for the opportunity to cross; Shakiret put his finger into the water, cast a spell, and a ford opened in the river; the caravans left Shakiret at home; he bought a chest, there was a girl in it; her caravans they took it away and sold it to the khan, i.e. Shakir, and Shakiret was thrown into the river in a chest; Shakir understood everything, ordered him to look for a chest in the river; he was caught by a fisherman, gave Shakir to another khan, who decided to transfer power to Shakir; brothers, now both khans have found a sister; stepmother tied to a horse's tail]: 69-80; Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 16 [the emperor's wife gives birth to seven sons, but parents want a daughter; the werewolf fox hears them conversation, throws up their daughter, they are happy; when the girl reaches seven years old, horses begin to breathe; on the advice of the teacher, the imperial son spies, sees her sister turn into a white fox , sucks the horse's blood; the next night her brother hits the fox with a sword, but only cuts off his fingers; the girl tells her father that at night her brother tried to rape her, but when refused, wanted to hack her; the emperor prepares to throw stones at his son in the well; the teacher tells him to run; he helps the little tiger cub and the little golden eagle, which the older cubs push away from food; the young man becomes a scribe, an accountant, the emperor's son-in-law; the emperor allows him to visit his relatives; the young man leaves his wife a cup of tiger milk; if it turns red, she will lower the tiger and the golden eagle; the young man finds his country empty; the sister says that everyone was eaten by an ogre; eats away the horse's leg, asks why his brother's horse has three legs; goes out to boil tea; the mice tell him to escape; the young man climbs the poplar; the sister turns into a white fox The size of a camel; sister chews on a trunk, brother moves to another poplar; wife releases a tiger and a golden eagle, after a long struggle they kill a fox; the emperor gives the throne to a young man]: 126-133; Yusurov 1970 [wife gave Honglin 10 coins, sent him for shopping; at the bazaar he bought advice from the old man: work everywhere, never be lazy; next week: if you are rude and the work is hard, still be patient; for the third time: when you meet feasting, go, eat and drink with them; H. hired a caravan, who sent him to get water, H. remembered the advice not to be lazy, went down to the well, there were three grenades; he remembered that his wife asked him to buy her grenades, sent his wife with a caravan he met; hired the old owner of porcelain workshops; his young wife offered him to kill her husband and take her; H. was not rude, but refused; his wife accused H. that he had molested her; the owner sent H. a letter to the workshop ordering the bearer to be put in the oven; on the way, H. met the feasts and stayed with them; the owner's wife felt sorry for H., she came and volunteered to take the letter instead of her; she was burned; the owner understood everything, paid H.'s salary and let him go; H. saw the palace at home; his wife: pomegranates were cured of diseases, she sold a grain, became rich]: 178-182; Kazakhs: Zhanuzakova 1977 [Khan and Vizier are friends, their sons are fed together; Khan's wife is dead; the new young one wants to get along with his son; he refused, she tore her clothes, accused him of trying to dishonor her; the vizier tells the khan's son to leave with his son for 40 days; the khan's son wants to get drunk; one, then the other falcon knocks the cup out of his hands, the khan's son killed them; the son of the vizier brought water: and she flows from the mouth of a dead dragon; the khan's daughter makes signs, the son of the vizier explains that she invites the khan's son; he overslept, the girl put an apple in his pocket; the same for the second night; the third they met; they were found, they were going to hang them; the vizier's son entered the prison under the guise of a girl, helped to escape, pretending that he ("her") was found sleeping together and that he was the sister of the khan's son, they tired from the road; everything was clarified; the khan returned his son, hanged his young wife]: 240-245; Kazakhs (Transcaspian region, Fort Alexandrovsky; apparently, it started like Zhanuzakov, but with cuts) [tsar widowed; Shakurat's eldest son is 16 years old, youngest Shakur is 14; the new wife slandered his younger stepson, the king ordered the guards to kill him; the guards felt sorry for Shakur, gave a piece of gold, and soaked him a shirt with the blood of a ram; he met Shakurat, who ordered him to tell his father that he was also dead; Shakura was bitten by a snake; Shakurat left gold with him and a note asking him to bury the deceased; he himself came to the city where the serpent devoured people; Shakurat agreed with the snake that he would only take a young man and a girl every year; the worshipers found the dead Shakur and revived him; he gave them gold, came to the elderly, their daughter owes tomorrow be given to the snake; he tells him to dress him up as a girl and leave him where the serpent will appear tomorrow; the serpent swallowed Shakur, and he cut him from the inside with a dagger, went outside, lost his senses; the nobles buried his body imaginary girls, attributed the murder of a snake to themselves; the old men accidentally found Shakur half-alive and revived it; the nobles found out everything, sold Shakur to the caravans; they must cross the sea, they want to bring Shakur was a victim; Shakur begged them to leave him on the shore, cut off his little finger and threw him into the sea, the waters parted, the caravans dried to the other side; Shakur was gifted; he bought a chest, and was inside girl; she told Shakur to describe his life and leave her a note; the caravans were jealous, took the girl, Shakura was thrown into the sea in the chest; he was caught by one king, made Shakur heir; caravans they sold the girl to King Shakurat; he read the recording of Shakur's life; Shakurat sent ambassadors and found Shakur; the caravans and nobles were punished; the brothers found a father deprived of the throne; he was freed from the spell of his witch wife, put him back on the throne; all is well]: Stamboliev 1896, No. 9:68-76.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Trans-Baikal Buryats (Selenginsky, Dzhidinsky District of Buryatia, 1973) [Bogdo studied with the llama; the llama's wife seduced him, he refused her; she tore off her lunch, told her husband that his student had molested her; the llama bewitched B., ordered that a hundred people be killed with a sword, made them out of them rosary fingers; he killed 99; his mother came out to meet him for the hundredth, asked him not to kill her, pointed to another; this is a burkhan bagsha, the weapon does not harm him; he tells B. to throw the rosary on the ground, the spell dissipate]: Tugutov, Tugutov 1992, No. 13:57-58.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [the chief loves his young wife, her four (or ten) brothers supply her with abundant provisions; the first wife is jealous; one of the brothers plays with the chief, paints his face with red paint, to be lucky; the first wife sends a maid asking her to send her paint to meet her; the young man refuses, reluctantly gives the maid some paint; the wife rubs her face with it, complains to her husband that the young man tried to rape her; the chief kills all her brothers; loses interest in the young wife because she is now poor; the son of the Sun gives her leggings, moccasins, snowshoes, tells her to bring them to the leader; when she does does, lightning strikes those present; the son of the Sun revives the dead; they leave, become atapaski tsetsot]: Boas 1916, No. 30:781-782; Haida (Skythgate) [beginning like the Tsimshians; the leader destroys everything the youngest wife's tribe; a boy comes out of her mother's thigh; this is the Month; he gives his sister a copper neckband and bow, tells her to give them to her husband; these objects light up, people die; the Month spits on them, reviving them] : Boas 1916:783.

The Midwest. Western Ojibwa: Radin 1914, No. 14 [a woman invites her husband's younger brother to become her lover; he refuses; she tears her clothes, accuses the young man; people do not believe, but her husband is lucky hunt on the other side of the river, leaves it there; the old woman brings the young man to her place, feeds him, warns of dangers on the way home, gives dogs; when they shake, they become big, kill enemies; young man kills giants and monsters who meet so much; his parents are happy to return him at home], 15 [as in (14); the woman herself rushes her husband's brother on the other side of the lake]: 27-31; steppe crees [the leader has three son, the youngest is single; the elder's wife tries in vain to seduce him; she accuses him in front of her husband; the husband stabs him; the young man comes to the old woman; she teaches him to defeat the Horse Master; the young man brings him home herd (horse origin); father makes him chief instead of himself; older brother finds out the truth, kills his wife with a knife; the middle brother gives the young man one of his two wives]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 28:268-279.

Northeast. Seneca [the witch's daughter comes to marry the youngest of seven brothers; mistakenly sits on the older one's bed; the youngest rejects her love; she scratches her legs with thorns, accuses the young man of attempted violence; the brothers want to cut off his head, their knives do no harm; the young man tells his sister to cut off his head, put him back around his neck; tells him to leave him and his sister in a house made of strong logs; the witch sends a storm; the brothers disappear, the youngest and sister escape, but the wind blows his eyes away; the sister marries the witch's son, gives birth to twin sons; the grandmother gives them a ball to play; following the ball, they come to their blind uncle; they put in the eyes of owls, eagles, they are not good; each one gives one eye; they come to their aunts (the daughters of a witch); they turn into fleas, bite their feet; each The aunt thinks the other is pinching her; they fight, they kill each other; the twins find a baby girl decorated with human eyes; they send eyes to their owners; the girl has the life of a witch; twins kill a girl, a witch dies]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 114:543-555.

Plains. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she is afraid he will tell her husband; scratches her legs, accuses the boy of trying to rape her; husband asks his brother to climb to the eagle's nest in a tree above the river; cuts down the lower branches, then knocks down a tree, the young man falls into the river, swims in a tree; husband and wife live downstream; buffalo are called dogs, they eat the meat of reptiles and water monsters; their daughter sees a young man who looks like foam; the father orders to place the foam on a wooden tray, places it in four steam rooms one by one, the young man revives; does not eat meat reptiles; first forcibly pushes bison meat into his wife's mouth, then she likes it; throwing a sharp stick into the water, accidentally kills a water monster; father-in-law is happy; the young man with his wife, son, buffalo returns to people; kills brother and wife; hunger stops, now people have bisons]: 141-143; Dzana-gu 1921, No. 22 [woman tries to seduce her husband's younger brother; he rejects her; she scratches herself, says to her husband that his brother tried to rape her; he asks his brother to get the eagle's chicks from the top of the tree, cuts off branches, then knocks the tree into the river; he is carried far downstream, he becomes small, the girl picked him up from the foam, her father prepared a steam room, the young man recovered and regained his former appearance, married a girl; he is offered to eat snakes and frogs, he refuses, gets bison, his wife is afraid try meat; he roasts his bison tongue, puts it in her mouth, she likes it, since then she and her parents have been eating meat; the wife has given birth to a son, the husband misses his parents, the father-in-law sends a herd of buffalo with his daughter and son-in-law, tells me not to look back; the daughter looked around, they were in the same place; for the fourth time they brought the buffalo to the place; the husband sent his son to his parents, they are happy; people gathered, the man told his story, cut brother and wife to pieces]: 22-24; assiniboine [the older brother's wife unsuccessfully tries to seduce the younger brother; cuts a tree to be scratched; the young man falls into the river, stays alive; woman repents; older brother sends younger brother to get eagle chicks out of the nest]: Lowie 1909a, No. 7b: 152-153; hidatsa: Beckwith 1938 [Chief's wife invites his younger brother to drink water (a sign of amorous interest); he tears her hair, everyone laughs; she accuses the young man of attempted rape; her husband takes him camping, leaves him across Missouri; the husband is the son of the Water Serpent, the boy is the son of the Water Serpent, the young man is the son of the Thunderbird; The bird teaches him to lure the Snake with its shell (the serpent's son wants to get it), feed him cornbread while he transports him across the river; the young man lies that there is not a cloud in the sky, jumps on shore, Thunderbird kills the Serpent; birds from four parts of the world teach the young man to defeat his brother; he returns to his camp, tells the spirits to burn everyone but his brother's younger wife]: 81-91; Bowers 1965 [same]: 299- 300; Santi [the older brother's wife wants to sleep with her younger brother, who refuses; she asks him to shoot a partridge, scratches her thighs with a claw, accuses the young man of trying to rape her; the husband promises Unktomi marries his sister, tells him to take his brother to the Unvisited Island to collect bird eggs, throw them there; the young man is attacked by the Big Mosquito, killed by a huge crane, the young man kills a crane; turns into fish, the Bear swallows it, the young man cuts his heart, cuts his side, goes out; comes to two blind people (?) old women who have awls throw a blanket between them, they pierce each other; a man whose dogs are all wild animals does not harm a young man; two good old women Gopher and Badger teach him that do when he comes to two young women; they offer him a man, he asks old women to help, a mouth appears from the ground swallowing meat; women lie down with him covered with a heavy blanket; he he pierces a hole with Gopher's tooth, does not suffocate; women become good, he marries them, he has two sons with them; he wants to return home; wives ask his mother to call his father; this is a horned water monster Unktelia; they put hot stones in the monster's eyes, hang a basket with her husband on his horns, he takes them to the mainland; asks for warning if they notice a cloud; daughters do not warn; when the monster turns back, the Thunder kills him; the monster is immortal, reborn; the hero meets his sister; Unktomi tortured her by throwing hot ash in her face, killing all the people in the village; the hero's wives heal her; the hero tells Unktomi to eat his crap, smokes to death over the fire, powders his heart; this powder is used by the hero's sons to shower the village, reviving people]: Riggs 1893:139-143.

The Great Southwest. Zunyi [a young married hunter rejects the witch girl's love; she tries to lime him, but a friend helps neutralize her witchcraft; then she wants to kill the hunter's wife as soon as she will fall asleep; before dawn, the hunter falls asleep and lets go of his wife's hand; she dies; at night he sees the light in her grave, goes down to her, wants to go with her to another world; she tells me to take four pairs with him shoes and food; following her, the hunter sees only a white feather moving; cannot go down into the abyss; the chipmunk plants a juniper, the hunter descends on it; the wife creates thickets of cacti, placers of stones, a grove of stunted trees; the husband puts on his prepared shoes, passes; the wife greets her parents (ancestors), who do not greet her husband; the husband wants to follow her into the kivu and to dance, but he is stopped by the one who was her first lover; The owl gives her husband an arrow with a jay pen, tells him to shoot the priest; then the wife returns to her husband; the Owl allows him to take his wife; through they will be at home for four days, but they must refrain from having sex on the way; at the last moment, the husband tries to break the ban; the woman turns into an owl; Now she is mine, says Owl; Owl takes her to west, their owl descendants live there now]: Quam 1972:146-179.

Guiana. Varrau [while swimming in the river, a woman offers herself to her husband's nephew; he rejects her, goes to live with her elder uncle named Light and the Heat of the Day; the younger uncle accuses him of assassinating his wife; they they fight, the nephew knocks the uncle down; the elder uncle takes the young man in a boat to the island; when he returns, the uncle's head bursts, from there the sun comes out]: Roth 1915, No. 197:255-256.