F81. The bride in the river. .36.39.-.41.

The character does not recognize his reflection in the water, thinks that someone is looking at him (usually a woman he falls in love with right away), and jumps into the water. (Wed. J1793, "Diving for the reflection of a woman"; quinolt dives for the real reflection of a woman, menominee diving for a woman in water).

Evens, Northern Yakut Reindeer Herders, Forest Yukaghirs, Markovo, Chukchi, Reindeer and Coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Itelmen, Asian Eskimos, Northern Alaska Inupiate, Taltan.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [a little boy lives with two sisters; the old man agrees to shake him on a swing; he invites him to his sisters' yurt; they feed him meat; when he falls asleep, they glue him to his eyelashes red deer dyed hair; at home he screams that the yurt is on fire, his wife rushes to extinguish it; discovers wool on her husband's eyelashes; next time the sisters paint the old man's face with charcoal and red paint; he looks into the water, takes his reflection for a woman; kills his wife, throws his property into the water, throws himself, drowns]: Novikova 1958:73-75 (=1987:77-78); northern Yakuts reindeer herders: Gurvich 1977 [the deceiver Kaeday smears the bone with blood from the nose, lets the hostess cook under the guise of a deer's thigh; accuses the owners of eating meat, receives two annual deer in return; in another house orders tie his own reindeer so that they do not care for him two; kills his own at night, gets two females in return; digs up a woman's corpse from the grave, arrives at a house where two girls are; accuses them of being killed his wife, gets them married; on the way, he puts one girl on a tree, another under a tree; looks at her reflection in the ice-hole, decides that he is rich there, rushes to take away his property, dies]: 180.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs: Kurilov 2005, No. 48 [the old man takes his reflection in the ice-hole for a woman; throws his things there, jumps himself; the wife sees her husband's corpse at the bottom of the river (=Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (2), No. 49 : 33-35)]: 389; Sangi 1989 [the old man is tired of his old wife, dreams of a young one; sees a reflection in the ice-hole, throws money, things there, jumps himself, drowns]: 425-426; Markovo {most episodes are from Russian folklore, but the reflection in the ice-hole is from local} [wild people lived in the upper reaches of Anadyr and on the slope to the Kolyma Sea; they built houses without windows and chimneys, unsuccessfully tried to bring in light and take out smoke in bags and hem; one takes his reflection in the ice-hole for a woman, throws her property as a gift, then goes down himself, drowns; if you move the sledges on the contrary at night, the boys go back, they attack their own village; those crossing the river are tied their feet below a log; the log turns over, they swim, only their feet above the water, they shout from the shore that it is too early to dry their feet; so they all died]: Dyachkov 1992:238-239; Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 38 [The mice painted Kuikynek's face, he looks into the river, thinks that there is a woman in front of him; throws property into the water; his wife Mitya laughs at him]: 103-104; Belikov 1982 [The mice fed the Raven, began to look in his head, he fell asleep, they painted his face like a woman, sent him to look from the shore into the water; the Raven throws him there property, rejoices when gifts are accepted (i.e. heavy objects sink); rushes himself, Mitty watches him be carried downstream]: 86-87; Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 9 [other Crows painted The crow's beak; he saw his reflection in the water and thought that there was a beautiful girl there; threw all his belongings into the water as gifts, jumped himself, drowned]: 21; Portugalov 2009 [mouse girls found a seal , the raven filled it up, told Mitty (Mitteay) to cook; they ate, fell asleep; the mouse girls ate the remaining meat, stuck needles, M. pricked; the raven wants to kill the mice, they offer to comb his hair, they blindfold with red material, he thinks it's a fire; they comb the crow's hair, make it on his face (tattoos?) , lead to the river, he sees his reflection, thinks she is beautiful, swam to her]: 10-11; Van Deusen 1999 [The mice painted the sleeping Crow's eyelids red, he woke up, thought it was a fire; they put on him the girl's face was tattooed; he looked into the water, thought it was beautiful, threw her belt, then her sleeping skins, then rushed himself; at the mouth of the river he changed his head with the birds; at home Mitya asked where he had he had such a head; he said he would die, ordered him to be buried in an old dugout, left a lot of caviar with him; the fox tells Mitya that her husband is alive and eats caviar; the fox went, smeared himself with alder juice, pretended wounded; Bear came, said he was wounded, Lil replied that he too; that he would cure the Bear by putting hot stones in his wounds; the Bear was dead]: 68-69; kereki [Kukki takes away from The mice they found a seal; falls asleep; The mice defecate into his mouth, carry the meat out of the cauldron; K. comes to them, feeds him, he falls asleep, they tangle his eyelashes; he comes back, screams to his wife Mitya, what a fire; M. tears off his eyelashes; next time the Mice paint him; he looks into the river, takes his reflection for a woman, throws her property, rushes himself; takes him out into the sea; M. finds he on the shore, brings him home]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 119:374-378; Koryaks: Baboshina 1958, No. 31 [like the Chukchi; Raven]: 76-80; Elistratov 1978 ("Day Memorial of Geodesist F. Elistratov from the Tigil Fortress along the Penzhinskaya Bay to the Penzhina River...", 1787, the group is not listed; in the course of the text, the author mentions both reindeer and "sedentary" Koryaks) ["The Original Man they call Kui-Kenika or Cook-Kul, and his wife Meath; they were big, so that no mountain was higher, strong and extremely heavy, and where they went and lay down, the earth fell down, which is why great troughs and gullies became between the mountains. They lived for a long time and, dragging from place to place, left many of their children in different places, between whom the first and most famous were their son Ememhut, whom Kui-Kenika and Meath loved dearly; he was great handsome, intelligent, daring and strong, besides, a great hunter is fly agarics; after eating them once, he fell asleep, but his wife loved him more than herself, and out of jealousy, by the way, wiped his face with soot and coal, but when he woke up, he went to a clean and fast river to get drunk and, seeing himself in it, fell in love, thinking that he saw a woman so beautiful there, shouted, called her to him, and like his voice down the river and on It was heard that he, honoring that the beauty he saw answered him, was so happy that he died of joy. His sister Blinked was also of great beauty and, loving her brother, embroidered her face; finally, she went to the place where he died, threw herself into the water and became foam. Why did they custom, instead of wiping out their faces, to sew them with a needle with a thread stained in whale or seal oil and soot, figures, and even more so in women. They still have a saying about men and women: "Because you're not as good as Blink, Kui-Kenikov's daughter." Nothing is mentioned about the other Kui-Kenikov children"]: 170; coastal Koryaks: Jochelson 1908, No. 88 [Big Raven Kikkinyaku takes the seal from the Mice; they drag the meat back; they feed him with berries, he falls asleep; for the first time they sew a bubble to his ass (he can't find his excrement), the second time they sew red hair to his eyelashes; he thinks his house is on fire, tells Mitya to tear it apart in half one of their sons, extinguish him with blood; she does so, then notices her eyelashes sewn on; now the Mice paint K.'s face with charcoal; he takes his reflection for a woman, throws a hammer into the river, he jumps himself, is carried away by the current; he is cared for by an orphan girl; he sends his son Ememkut to marry her], 130 [as in No. 88; without killing a child; K. drowns in the river]: 260-264, 324-326; itelmen : Menovshchikov 1974, No. 180 [Kutkh and Ememkut lived with their wives; K. went to see how his mouse granddaughters lived; they fed him, he asked him to look in his head, fell asleep; the mice sewed him below his back duffel bag; K. went, something is rattling from behind, does not know that it is his litter in the bag; running up to the house, he shouts to Mitya that the Koryaks are catching up with him; M. feels the stench, shows the bag; K. promises to kill the mice; but the mice fed him again and put him to sleep, sewed red to his eyes; when he got home, K. thinks it was a fire; the third time the mice painted K.'s face; he sees his reflection in the ice-hole, thinks that there is a girl, brought and threw her a wooden pestle, a trough; they were swimming on the water; threw a stone pestle; thought that the girl accepted the gift, rushed into the ice-hole himself, drowned], 202 [Kutkh takes the seal from the mouse, the mice drag meat back; K. comes to the mice, they feed him, sew red rags to his eyelashes; K. meets his son, he thinks his son is burning; the wife notices the rags, rips off; now the mice are coloring his face; he takes his reflection for a woman, throws himself into the water with property, drowns; =Orlova 1999:154-155]: 538-540, 586-587; Steller 1999:151-154; tundra and coastal Koryaks, kereks, itelmen [(detailed analysis of all records, including the author himself)]: Golovaneva 2014:27-48.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [Koshkley lived with Mitika and his son Imimkut; took the seals they found from the girls; at night they took away boiled meat, laid stones and sand; K. chased them, they scratched his head, he fell asleep, they drew stripes on his face like women's; K. took his reflection in the water for a woman, reached for him, fell, drowned]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 36: 81-83; Northern Alaska Inupiate: Burkher 1989 (Point Berrow) [a man in a kayak looks into the water, takes his reflection for a beauty looking at him; trying to grab her, he turns the kayak over]: 55; Hall 1975, â„– PM124 (Noatak) [A friend paints the face of a sleeping hunter with charcoal, the pattern resembles a tattoo; going for a drink, the hunter sees a woman in the lake; grabs the bed and the park, jumps into the water, cannot grab a woman; after wiping his face, he looks again, sees that the woman has changed; the friend laughs, the hunter cannot catch him]: 353-354.

Subarctic. Taltan [The raven takes his reflection for a woman; dives, pulls silt from the bottom, tries to mold the woman; sees the reflection again; throws the silt back into the water, says it will now be soft; so the silt is soft, people get stuck in it]: Teit 1919, No. 1. 26:220.