Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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F70C. The shattered is done by a man, (ATU 318).

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The young man becomes a victim of intrigue and is crippled (usually shattered). His dicks are restored by magic (and he's getting married happily). Wed. ATU 750K. ATU 318 describes this episode as one of many possible ones related to the topic of an unfaithful wife.

Soninka, Songhai, Dogon, Mofu-Gudur, Arabs of Egypt, Arabs (or Berbers) of Algeria, (Ancient Egypt, British, Friezes, Flemish), Thousand and One Nights, Arabs of Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, jibbali, Socotra, hotanosaki (?).

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; catch-up [the older brother is married, the youngest is single; the elder's wife offers herself to the youngest, he refuses; she gets her dirty a white sticky handkerchief made of baobab fruit, tells her husband that his brother raped her; at night, the elder scoped the youngest; in the morning he left; in a distant village he hired a rich man, who gave him his daughter to wife; she told the old woman that her husband did not sleep with her, she told her father; the father took the young men to the forest to find out the truth; everyone chased the monitor lizard, fell behind, and only caught up with him to the hole; the monitor lizard promised to fulfill a wish; the young man spoke about his problem and the monitor lizard gave a choice of 30 penises; the young man chose and became a man again; killed a monitor lizard; everyone saw that the rich man's son-in-law was a full-fledged man; he killed old woman; when his wife gave birth to three children, the father-in-law gave his son-in-law a lot of cattle and he and his family came to his older brother; he ripped open his wife's belly and took a new one; the brothers began to live with their families]: Paulme 1976:77-78; 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 believe in her kindness, invites friends for dinner, does not eat himself, hides his portion in calebas; an enraged woman makes a mess as if she was raped, complains to her husband; he waits for her brother, splashes him; the young man tells what happened, calls friends to witness, shows the calebass with 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 a dry corridor across the river), the daughter of the sun (the heat moderates); in the forest, these women create wealthy household; 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 with penises: old people, children, adults, boys; tells him to take it from the latter, attaches him a new penis, tells him to get together first, he does it; she tells him to bring him 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 child laughs; the old woman decides not to cut it, returns it to her parents; Djalo tells people that their leader is not real, but the real one lives in forest; people come there, they are well fed, and the mountain leader does not feed well; he calls the young man, demands 1) split the round stone into two equal parts (the daughter of darkness splits); 2) separate the sesame and sand ( wives tell ants); 3) bring a long, even spear (wives give); 4) identify the leader's last wife and beloved horse; the daughter of darkness comes to the leader disguised as an old woman, finds out what kind of handkerchief her beloved wife has, what the horse is gray; the answers are correct, the old leader is killed, the young man is chosen; the wives tell them to always leave the liver of the dead animals; the servant persuades them to give them simple meat; the wives tell everything to disappear, from the young man All that remains is to hide the skin; he apologizes, his wives return everything, now he listens to them]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 25:200-226.

North Africa. Egyptian Arabs, Arabs (?) Algeria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 318A: 148-149; (cf. Ancient Egypt [(papyrus d'Orbigny, first published. Vicomte de Rougé d Revue archéologique 1862:385f; Anepu and Batau); Anubis's older brother is married, the younger Bata lives in his house and works for him; the brothers worked in the fields; A. sent B. to bring seeds; at home, A.'s wife offers B. to get along with her; B. refuses, but promises to remain silent; in the evening, A.'s wife pretends to be beaten, says that B. tried to rape her; B.'s cow warns him that A. is going to kill him; B. runs, A. pursues him; B. asks the Sun God, who creates a reservoir in the way A.; in the morning B., standing on the other side, screams, telling his brother how it was, shouts himself, throws his severed penis into the water, swallows 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 has holds, starts wandering; A. returns home, kills his wife, throws the corpse to dogs, mourns his brother; B. comes to the Valley of the Cedar, places his heart on 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. Livshitz 1975:87-102).

(Wed. Western Europe. The British, the Friezes, the Flemish [the general definition of the plot; two soldiers have lost their genitals; one is hired by a peasant as a farmhand; the owner gives him a stallion and sends him because his son-in-law will not leave him; a soldier shares bread with a fairy or helps an old woman who promises to fulfill his wish; he wants to have genitals like his stallion, marries his master's daughter; when he finds out what's going on, the second soldier also shares bread, but did not take into account that his horse is a mare]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 750K: 402).

Western Asia. The Arabs of Iraq [the middle, youngest sons of the sheikh can't find grass for cattle, the eldest finds, meets a girl, she gives a sword to kill the ogre, the young man brings grass, the sheikh orders to migrate to it place. The older brother marries a girl. The father tells the average man to kill the elder, he can't. The younger brother scoped his sleeping brother, who went to another oasis, killed 70 Bedouins, and the slave took credit for himself, but could not lift the stone under which the young man laid the stirrups and reins of the dead. The sheikh married his daughter to a young man. The young man asks for a month's delay, then leaves. He is greeted by the prophet and Ali, restored his courage, and given him the ability to heal. A young man connects with his wife. At home, the father and brother fell seriously ill, the Bedouins persuaded the young man to heal them]: Weissbach 1908, No. 15:92-104 (translated to Lebedev 1990, No. 17:95-101); jibbali [when leaving, the sultan tells his son to kill the child, which a wife should give birth if a girl is born, save if a boy; the wife gives the girl to an old woman, the brother buries the sheep; the girl grows up, the old woman tells her not to leave the house, she goes out to drive the chickens away from the grain, the sultan sees her, wants to marry her; the deception is revealed; the sultan tells his son to kill his sister; he leaves with her; they live by the stream, the brother hunts; the sister's hair swims along to the current, an old woman picks him up; the infidel tells her to find a girl; they come to her; she tells her to kill her brother; invites him to play, the loser will be tied to the bench; ties firmly, unfaithful breaks the young man, takes his sister away; the cat gnaws through the fetters; the young man recovers, leaves; the Sultan's daughter sees him, agrees to marry him, even if he is a castrato; the infidel meets the young man, tells the Sultan that his son-in-law is a castrate; he promises to execute the infidel and his wife if it is a lie, or let him and his son-in-law execute if true; in the evening the wife lowers the young man out the window, he leaves; three angels promise to restore him courage if he gives them half of his future children; they tell them to wake them up when the sea is not white or black, but green; he wakes him up, he is thrown into the green sea, his genitals regenerate; at night he sleeps with his wife; cuts off the head of his sister and the infidel; the wife gives birth to three children; when he divides them, he cuts one, leaves, taking half; the angels call out to him, connect the halves, lets him go to his wife together with three children; everything is fine]: Müller 1907, No. 22:102-110; Socotra: Müller 1905, No. 16 [the younger single brother replies to the elder that a woman can separate them; to check, suggests to his brother leave for 2 years, leaving his wife with him; she offers her husband's brother her love, he refuses; when her husband returns, she tears 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 it to 4 cannibals with their breasts thrown over their backs; tells him to venerate the breast alone; the cannibal says she would eat it otherwise; 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 a piece to my father; he threw it at his wife, the child was reborn]: 186 (with additions to the full English translation); A thousand and one nights [the princess marries; the princess's husband has a vizier; rejected the princess's cousin sends him gifts asking him to lure the prince into a trap; the vizier gives the prince water from a stream that changes the sex of the drinker; the prince takes on a feminine appearance; lives by the stream; the king's son The genies take him to his palace; talks about the betrayal of the vizier; takes him to a stream that turns women into men; the prince returns to his wife; the princess's cousin dies of rage and jealousy]: Salye 2010, night 582-584:215-219; Arabs of Syria, Kuwait: El-Shamy 2004, No. 318A: 148-149.

South Asia. Sinhalese [parents are dead; the younger prince has returned from the monastery and is praying; the eldest is married; his 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 in her the house is a holy man, he finds out who is stealing flowers from the royal garden; 5 naked girls flew in to pick flowers, listened to the cripple reading; four returned his arms and legs, he hid his fifth dress, married on it; the tsar made the young man chief gardener, gave the province]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 126:307-309.

Turkestan. Hotanosaki (?) [there was once a king in this country who honored the "three treasures"; he wanted to visit holy places and ordered his younger half-brother to take business; the brother secretly cut off his male penis, placed He handed it to the king in a golden vessel and this vessel: "You can open it on the day you return"; the palace guards were instructed to keep the vessel; when the king returned, the ill-wishers said: "The king instructed him to keep it monitor the affairs of the state, and he was debauchery in the inner chambers"; the king wanted to put his brother to death; brother: "Do not rush to punish. Please open the golden vessel"; the king opened and demanded explanations; brother: "When the king went on a journey, he commanded me to take things. Afraid of defamation, I cut off my dick to give me something to justify myself. But now I have proof of my innocence. They are pleased to pardon"; the king paid deep respect to his brother and allowed him to enter the inner chambers without hindrance; later, the royal brother met a man who had 500 bulls and gathered them to castrate; seeing this, he thought and was increasingly upset that he was like these bulls: "Is this not the result of sins committed in the past?" ; he bought the bulls for his own money; for such a benevolence, his masculine appearance was restored; after that he no longer entered the inner chambers of the palace; the king was surprised and his brother told him everything; the king was amazed and founded a monastery to celebrate the memory of a wonderful deed and pass it on to future generations]: 38-39.