G8B. They cut down a tree to get the climber.

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A person hides in a tree or (Kazakhs) hides behind walls. Another tries to knock down a tree (break walls) to reach a person, but the felling overgrows (or a tree that has already fallen rises, the wall is restored).

Hottentots, Yaka (Baja), Bolia, Maragoli, Rwanda, Ronga, Zulu, Xhosa, Mamprusi, Mosi, Senufo, Manden, Bambara, Lobi, Von, Gola, Felupe, Tangale, Temne, Songhai, Joluo, Shilluk, Kabyls, Algerian Arabs, Tuaregs, Bukavak, Kuni, Motu, Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, Nepalis, Bulgarians, Gagauz, Belarusians, Georgians, Turks, Kafirs (prasun), Lithuanians, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Eastern and Southern Khanty, chum salmon, southern tutchoni, shuswap, tarahumara, rama, aguaruna, kaduveo.

SW Africa. Hottentots [one wife has two crippled children and the other has 4 eggs; the husband loves the first, but when 2 boys and 2 girls hatched from the eggs, they immediately got to work, the husband fell in love with the other; the son of a blind woman Sees an older sister named Lutanga, gives her a ring; L. asks her sister to remain silent, she takes her food for it, then tells her mother anyway; the mother laughs; the young man takes L. away in a bull, sister accompanies her; on the way, L. leaves out of need; the spirit of the dead throws at her from the tree, takes her clothes, takes her place; at night the false wife pricks her, the husband stabs her with an awl in response; the bull finds the mistress in the velda, she is brought to her husband, who understands the deception, his mother has seen the light; the imaginary wife is pushed into a hole with fire; the people of her husband's village are jealous of him, prepare to cut off their sisters while dancing; her mother-in-law tells her to run, leaving the calebass and the blanket to answer for themselves; the sisters run, climb the tree; the pursuers cut the trunk, L. calls his father, the bird, the tree becomes intact; when the tree is cut down again, the bird takes the sisters away under the wings, a tree falls, crushed everyone but one boy; at the request of (earthly) father L., husband and mother-in-law move to L.'s parents]: Schmidt 2007, No. 17:45-54.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Yaka (baya) [the man has three dogs, Godongkela, Kilo, Gbara, they help him with everything; there were many unmarried women, one asked the man to marry her, he refused; she became a cannibal, the man climbed the tree, she began to cut the trunk with her genitals; when the tree is ready to fall, the Toad tells the tree to be cut down, hides; so twice; the third time dogs came running at the call of the owner, alone Tore the cannibal's genitals, the other face and body; the man brought the Toad to the village, told people not to eat toads; some women became men, so there were no more unmarried; the man stayed with the dogs, unmarried]: Tessmann 1934b: 236; bolia [women went for reeds, lost alone, went into the hut; a cannibal without a head comes; says he will take her as a concubine and cook; older brother finds her, she hides it; explains what to do; brother does not eat man; runs, throws honey, cannibal wasts time, eats honey; bees, they bite cannibals; throws de terre avec fermeté (ou: a foie?) {incomprehensible}; at home, the younger sister also decides to go to her elder; does not listen to advice, eats the head of a man brought by the cannibal; when she runs away, she shouts that he is headless, he kills her; tells to his wife, she explains that smoke eats her eyes, so she cries; the elder brother, taking 12 dogs, comes to his sister; in the morning the cannibal leads his son-in-law to collect cola nuts; when he is in the tree, all cannibals come - who are without heads who have no legs; they cut down a tree, it begins to fall, a man hits it (l'homme donne une gifle), the tree recovers; he calls dogs locked in the cannibal's house, they come running and exterminating cannibals; brother and sister return to people]: Mamet 1960:115-119; Rwanda [insibika dog or hyena-like monsters live in the forest, spewing fire from their mouths and butts; Maguru promises to bring their tail chief; his mother gives him calebasses with 1) pumpkin seeds, 2) eleusines, 3) beans, 4) small peas, 5) mist, 6) water; in the absence of insibika, M. comes to their lair, the old woman hides him; when insibika they come and fall asleep, M. cuts off their leader's tail, runs away; consistently throws calebasses behind him, who detain their pursuers; {do they collect small seeds?} ; the wind dissipates the fog, but insibika cannot overcome the reservoir; when leaving, the last insibika predicts that M. will find a beautiful rod, a good cow, meet a beautiful woman, they will turn into insibika, they will eat it; M. rejects the rod and the cow, after listening to the advice of friends and mother, but accepts the woman; at night the wife gets up, but M.'s dogs are on guard; the wife says every time she is in need; becoming pregnant, invites her husband to go to the forest to get ingredients from the tree for the witchcraft that pregnant women need; the mother tries in vain to prevent M. from letting M. in; he ties the dogs, tells the mother to release them, if a leaf falls on her chest; M. climbs a tree growing near the confluence of two rivers; the wife turns into insibika, the whole flock joins her, they cut the trunk with an ax; every time a bird shouts to prevent the tree from falling, the felling overgrows; M. throws a leaf, the mother releases the dogs, they tear insibika to pieces; on the way home, dogs demand their part of the prey, M. refuses, they tear it up and they devour; the little mongrel swallows the heart unintentionally; mother M. makes the dogs come back and regurgitate what they swallowed, but there is no heart; the mongrel promises to regurgitate it if she is given the best pieces; this promised, she belches her heart, M. comes to life, returns home, has always fed dogs well ever since]: Smith 1988:79-80; maragoli [the woman's husband became an ogre; her sister came to her; the husband came, became to sing, but the sister sat quietly; when she left, the wife gave her sister lots of ornaments; taught her to put the fruits in the holes in the rock and run as soon as the bird began to bite; if she saw dancing grass, not to go to dance with her; her sister sang everything, came back rich; her younger sister wanted jewelry for herself; when the cannibal began to sing, she began to dance; ran when the bird had finished the fruit; the bird began to scream, that the woman was here; began to dance with the grass; the cannibal caught up with the woman and ate it; the wife began to shave the ogre, skinned him, burned him with the house; the other cannibals chased her; she asked for a hawk raise her and her children to the tree; the cannibals began to cut it down, but the woman said: the tree will not fall! and the felling overgrew; the woman began to whistle, people heard, ran, killed cannibals]: Kavaji 2005, No. 14:232-236; ronga [Chief Makenyi's daughters (from different wives) go for clay; older sisters ask Chichinguane to go down into the hole, leave it there; the water in the river rises, the huge Chipfalamfula fish invites C. to enter its mouth; there are people in the fish's belly, fields, abundance; now they have to go for water C.'s younger half-sister; she can't put the jug on her head on her own; C. comes out of the water, helps; the girl tells her mother, she grabs C., she slips out, returns to the water, asks let the fish go to land, she gives a magic wand as a gift; at home, C. rips off the fish scales, they turn into silver; other girls go for brushwood, ask C. and her sister to climb the tree , cut off the lower branches, leave; cannibals come, try to cut down a tree, C. overgrows the felling with his wand; girls go down, run away, ask the river to part; when cannibals are in the middle, the water close, cannibals drown; sisters take jewelry in the cannibal's cave, marry the chief]: Knappert 1977, No. 17:58-63; Zulu: Snegirev 1937 [cannibals captured the girl, left, forbiding her to fry meat to the smell did not attract other cannibals; they lived in a rock that opened at their word; the girl began to fry meat, other cannibals came, the girl did not open it when she heard the wrong voice; the cannibal burned his voice with a hoe, girl, he ate the meat, told the girl not to leave; she ran away with corn; the pursuers are wasting time picking it up; the girl climbed the tree, the cannibals sat under him; the girl she peed herself, the cannibals noticed her, began to cut down the tree; every time they cut down the tree, it took root again; the girl's brother came with the dogs, and the cannibals asked him to help cut down their game; the brother climbed upstairs himself, and his sister found himself in a beautiful country; (var.: gave the cannibals tobacco, let the dogs go, they tore the cannibals, brother and sister returned home); brother and sister let the cannibal down the rope, released the first time, he fell; picked it up the second time, starved; went down, found his sister]: 107-112; Callaway 1868:48-52 in Parsons 1922 [the chief's son runs away with the cannibal's daughter Langzeh; that chases after him, a young man climbs a tree, his dogs stay below; L. begins to cut down a tree, dogs kill him, felling overgrows; he comes to life, the episode repeats, but this time the dogs throw pieces of it bodies into the water]: 10; braid [the woman leaves, becomes a cannibal; she has a son Magoda; her brother's two daughters went to get water, the youngest broke the jug, they decided to leave; came to the house, M. warns that his the mother is a cannibal; in the house, a woman with half her body vertically says that the cannibal ate the other half; the cannibal has come, the girls hear her sharpening her ax, leaving pieces of wood instead, they run away, climb a tree; the cannibal runs to cut it, but the bird tells the chips to stick back; the cannibal swallows the bird, but one feather falls to the ground, continues to spell the chips; the children saw their father's three dogs, called them, the dogs ate the cannibal, the kids came home]: McCall Theal 1882:115-119; (cf. braid [Masilo and his wife dig up the plot; when they go home, a bird arrives, tells the field to go untreated again; the same the next day; on the third evening M. remains on guard, catches the bird; she asks not to kill her, makes the site re-cultivated, promises to create milk at M.'s request; at home, M. tells the children not to tell anyone about the bird; but other children ask M.'s children why they are like this well-fed, they tell; the children ask the bird to dance, they take them out of the house, it flies away; the children are afraid that their father will kill them, they go to look for a bird; during a storm, a boy tells the house and hearth to appear with fire, everything appears; the cannibal comes up, demands the roots of yams; the boy throws them away to him, the children run, climb the tree; the cannibal comes running, begins to cut off the trunk with his fingernail; the boy tells all the children to scream, "Tree, be strong"; a bird arrives, tells the children to sit on it, brings them home]: Radin 1970, No. 37:146-149).

West Africa. Mamprusi [mischievous brother Nanzu-bishi (NB) and calm Nanzu-kara (NK) were born from a bump on the woman's leg; leaving their parents, they went on a journey; a woman with a baby asks to fry for he is a grasshopper; the NB roasts the baby, tries to feed the meat to the grasshopper; the old man asks to take the threshed millet to the house by the stream, the NB sprinkles it into the stream; the brothers climb the tree under which the naba rested ( ruler), the NB spits on the naboo; he orders the tree to be cut down; when it is ready to fall, the lizard raises its head and the tree straightens up; the NB kills the lizard with a knife; the tree falls, but the vulture picks up and takes the brothers away; The NB tells him he stinks, the vulture drops them; where the NB fell, small hot peppers grew, and where NK is large sweet]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 12:22-24; mosi: Frobenius 1986 [parents, daughter and the son hid to see what Naba Ouende (God) looked like; the girl looked out of the calebas where she hid, NO, on pain of death, told her where her father (in addition) killed him, baked him, forced the girl eat his meat; the same with his mother; the girl told his brother not to go out, they ran away, climbed the tree; the boy wrote the chief sitting under the tree into the beer; the leader's men cut down the tree, but the boy clicked his tongue and it was recovering; finally it fell, the children took off, became thunders; booming peals - brother's laughter, deaf whistle - sister's whisper]: 91-92; Sissao 2010, No. 28 [the woman has a son Raôgo and a daughter Poco; she fell from trees, shattered to death; the hawk brought them to the nest, raised them; gave an iron club: if the hawk comes from the east, it's not me, kill him; once he accidentally flew from the east, R. killed him; the children came to to the leader, who adopted them, loved them very much; R. set fire to the palace, the leader is desperate, thinks that the children have died; sat down to cry under the tree they climbed; R. relieved him; the leader understood everything, ordered cut down the tree; when it was ready to fall, the salamander said ko-ko-ko, the tree was intact; R. cut off Salamndre's head, ate the salamander, put P.'s head by the cheek; the tree was cut down, the children broke to death, the chief ordered the bodies to be left without burial; but they came to life and left; when they saw people, they gathered for a huge fire-breathing kite to eat them all at once, not one at a time; R. ordered them to disperse, killed a kite with an iron club; people asked what R. wanted as a reward, he replied that the sky; the blacksmiths built a staircase, R. and P. climbed it, became thunder; when thunder was heard, P. asks his brother to be more careful, but he replies that he has neither children nor a wife on earth and beats with all his might]: 75-78; senufo [the cannibal Dinama decided that it is not good to eat children; warns his wife to fear his mother: she can eat; for the second time, the daughter-in-law agrees to go with her mother-in-law to the forest; she asks her to climb a tree, turns her hands into two ferocious animals, who begin to chew on the tree; the lizard tells the trunk recover; daughter-in-law's dog ran to D. in the field; he ran and killed his mother; the swallow saw, still screams about it; since then, the number of people has begun to grow]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 2:13-15; manden [the girl's father promises her to the one who will run faster; the antelope is the fastest, but the chameleon hides on her back, touches the girl first, gets a wife; she gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the mother tells them take food to their father; they call their father, the chameleon answers; the children do not believe that he is their father, they laugh; (in anthropomorphic form) the father tells them to always be together; they hear the chameleon again, kill him, mother chases them away; they come to the lioness, kill, cook one of the three cubs, feed the lioness; she asks to bring her cubs to breastfeed; the boy brings one twice; explains that he has already eaten beans, so she does not want to suck; the same with the second; fed the lioness and the last, hid in a hole, threw the lioness the skulls of her children, put a bag over her, sold the lioness bag to merchants - supposedly there is a big one dog; ordered not to open it right away; at night the merchants opened them, the lioness ate them, the old woman was left alone; the children climbed the tree, lowered the lion's rope, she got up, they threw the rope, the lioness broke to death; the tree is high, don't get down; the bird put the children on its wings; boy: the bird stinks, I'll cut off the wing; the girl doesn't mind: you have to be together; the wings are cut off, the bird fell, the children crashed to death ; the turtle revived the boy, who does not want his sister to be revived, but the turtle also revives her; sister: let's eat the turtle! went to buy firewood; the brother tells the turtle to leave, but the sister catches it; they come to the blacksmith and ask him to cook a turtle; he has swollen testicles, the children offer to cure it, burn it, run away; they come in a peanut field, a boy tells a story, people understand that this is about how he maimed a blacksmith; the blacksmith puts the boy in a bag, leaves for a while; he tells the blacksmith's children that there are peanuts in the bag; those they untie the bag, get inside instead of the boy, the blacksmith throws the bag into the fire; the boy screams that he burned his children, runs away; comes with his sister to the village, gets a wife; sister: let's kill her; brother does not I may disagree, they kill the girl, run away, climb trees; two old men come, the sister pees, they think it's raining; the brother poops, they notice them, they cut down the tree with axes, it starts to fall, two lizards restore it; a sister kills one lizard, a tree is cut down again, but a second lizard restores it again; a sister kills a second lizard, people cut down a tree, brother and sister go up to heaven, since then they have been making rain and thunderstorms]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 95:170-177; bambara [a boy of 8 years old Kama Kamasoro has a sister of Fatima Kamasoro 15 years old; when dying, mother and father told his sister everything obey her brother; (hereinafter F. tries to object to K every time, but he reminds her of her parents' will); K. tells F. to make him a bow and arrow to hunt rats; hit a rat, and she hid in the barn; K. set fire to the barn and killed the rat, the grain burned; ate the rat, left its head on stone; their only slave ate it; K. killed the slave to get a rat's head out of her belly; F. hid the cow, but K. tied A bag of gold at her foot, found a cow on an ash trail and stabbed her to have a wake for her father; tells F. to go wandering with him; comes to the lion, he offers to hunt together; K. climbs on a tree asks the antelopes who have come why they were not there before: the lion waited for them; the antelopes ran away; then the lion hunts F., and K. stayed with the lions; he killed them, made stuffed animals; wrapped the lion {in cloth?} , carried it, exchanged it from the chief for jewelry for his sister, saying that it was selected meat; when he later unwrapped the bag, the living lion jumped out, but told him not to be afraid: he would go to pay K.; when the lion was ready eat K., a big bird took K. and F. under its wings and carried it away; K. broke the bird's wings, K. and F. fell and crashed; the turtle took the amulet and revived F.; she advised not to revive K., but the turtle revived and him; K. roasted the turtle, but F. refused to eat it; they came to the king, where there is eternal darkness; every time the sun is about to rise, the big bird says three magic words and the sun hides again; K. and F. stopped at the old woman's house, she gave porridge, K. broke a plate of porridge on the old woman's head, forcing her to serve two roasted roosters; K. mockingly responds to the bird's three cries; she comes to eat it, K. cut off her head; plucked the bird (F. could not do it, the feathers were too big), fried it; F. said she could not eat it; the sun was rising; the leader would give the hero half of the kingdom, but let him show the bird's head; the impostors bring only feathers; K. comes to dance; someone Sambou says he is too small, let him dance after him; K. hit him, he fell, ran away; K. took out his head the birds and showed everyone; the sun (at the sight of the bird's head) disappeared again; K. hid his head, the sun appeared again; K. refused to take half of the kingdom and the leader's nine daughters; took one for himself and the other as servants sister; they are on their way again; the leader's daughters cannot walk so fast, K. killed them; the chief was told that he sent soldiers; K. broke an egg, a tree grew, K. and F. climbed on it; the chief ordered him to cut tree; monitor lizard hits its tail and the felling overgrows; K. killed the monitor lizard; the tree collapsed; rope and chain descended from the sky; K. climbed the rope, and F. climbed the chain; they were not seen again]: Zeltner 2013:47-62; lobes [This drives three cows; when it rains, he tries to hide in a house; only a third cow breaks through the door; there is a dintinker cannibal; this replaces the pots of ointment that D. gives him and his son; at night she kills her son; in the morning she tells S. to bring milk in a leaky vessel; S. notices holes, sends d. to bring water in a leaky jug; leaves with cows; the bird teaches d. to cover holes with clay; not finding S., D. follows; the woman asks S. to wash her back; he reluctantly agrees; she gives him a stone, a stick, a broom, an egg; thrown behind, they turn into a forest (broom), a mountain (stone), a stick (thick trees), the sea (egg); d. swims across the sea in a boat, comes to S.'s house in the guise of a girl; S.'s father tells his son to marry her; d. tries to poison S.; rushes with an ax; S. climbs a tree, d. cuts the trunk; The frog offers to chop for it, the felling overgrows; the same second, third frogs; S. played the flute; the animals that his father bought him {not named} heard, ran, tore up d.]: Anpetkova- Sharova 2010:127-131; background: Herskovits 1958, No. 17 [Azizã is a sea creature, another name for these creatures is Djehun; when A. went ashore, the hunter killed him, brought the king a severed tail , but woman-J. went to sea; this woman, the daughter of the murdered man, took the form of a beautiful girl, came to the king, promised to become his wife if he shot and hit the calebass she put on her head; the king did not get there; the same happened to other kings and hunters; only the old hunter who killed Father J. got there; she married him; the hunter has 6 dogs; the wife asks how he will escape in case of danger; he replies that will turn into a river, a tree, a sand, a vessel; the mother hears, tells him to be silent; he did not say about the last transformation into a horse; the wife leads to the seashore for leaves; the husband climbs a tree, the wife calls their Yehwe relatives, they begin to nibble, cut the trunk with their legs, arms, hair, teeth; when the tree is ready to fall, the hunter breaks one of his seven calebas, the felling overgrows; for the last time dogs hear, come running, drive away all Yehwe; the hunter asked the fortuneteller what sacrifices to make; Yehwe killed the hunter's parents and all relatives, but he survived; Yehwe has not been killed since then], 51 [ Kpadunu hunter leaves his mother water with a magic remedy; if the water turns into blood, the dogs must be let down; climbed a tree to watch the animals; the tree belonged to Yehwe, she began to cut it down; when ready to fall, K. smashed one of the three calebas, the tree was intact; the third time K.'s mother woke up, saw blood, let the dogs go; they ate 12 Yehwe, and K. ordered the 13th, a pregnant woman, to let go, because she did not cut down the tree and asked others to leave the person alone; K. took the pregnant woman home], 63 [Zinzu leaves her mother water with a magic remedy; if water turns into blood, the dogs must be let go; comes to Yehwe, who eats with all parts of his body; Z. tells him this, he rushes at him, Z. climbs a tree; many Y. cut down a tree; every time it's ready to fall, Z. breaks one of seven calebas, the tree recovers; pregnant J. advises leaving Z. alone; mother Z. sees blood, lets the dogs go, they eat all Y. except the pregnant woman, she gave birth to new Y.], 65 [Sagbo and Zinzu brothers found themselves in the forest without fire; saw smoke; Z. came to a giant (Yehwe) named Zogbano with 32 horns; saw that all parts of YZ's body were lying separately and eating; when YZ noticed Z., he gathered into one person; Z . got fire, left, began to play the flute about how YZ was watching; he went to look for the player, Z. denied it was him; put out the fire, came for him again; so three times; a girl came to the village promised to marry whoever hit a pea on a calebass on her head; only Z. hit, the girl became his wife; at night she turned into a giant, wanted to swallow him, but Z.'s 42 dogs barked; in the forest, Z. saw a tree, wanted it to be his wife instead of that monster; the tree turned into Djeluba's girlfriend; she made a condition that he would not remember that she was a tree; she did not cook; Z. returned home, had nothing to eat, went to his first wife, said that the second was just a tree; when Z. was in the forest, the first called the second tree, she returned to the forest, became a tree; the second went to the forest to her relatives; his mother gave Z. a drum, did not tell him to be beaten; the man asked to be beaten, all Yehwe Zogbanu ran to the noise, Z. climbed a tree, they knocked him down, he flew away with a partridge; mother hears him talking to his wife, that he could turn from a partridge into an ant, a leaf, a river, sand; then his mother told him to be silent; in the morning his wife took Z. into the forest; he told his mother to let the dogs down if the water turned red; Z. climbed on tree for leaves, YZ ran in, the water turned red, but mother was not at home; friend Z. found himself in the forest, drove away the monsters; the wife said that everything happened without her knowledge; at home told Z.'s friend that Z. was dead; friend hanged himself; getting rid of him, his wife took Z. back to the forest; his friend's wife told Z., who found the body, brought it home; went with his wife to the forest; she asked him to climb the baobab to get leaves; the monster gathered, began to cut down, Z. successively broke 7 calebas, the felling overgrown every time; when the tree collapsed, Z. became an ant, a partridge, etc.; again a man, rushed to run, climbed a tree, who was his wife; the notches were immediately overgrown; his mother let the dogs down, they tore the monsters apart; the tree wife refused to return, but sent her four tree children, who are now as humans; Chief Dada Segbo ordered dogs to become man's best friends; sacrificed his Z. to a deceased friend; they still honor the Adiku tree, Z.'s wife], 66 [Sagbo and Zinzu brothers work in the fields , found themselves without fire; saw smoke; S. went, did not find it, returned; Z. came to Azizã; saw that all parts of his body were lying separately and eating; his mouth asks why Z. came and what he saw; Z. replies that behind the fire and saw nothing; on the way back she sings about what he saw; one of yehwe came disguised as a young girl; she would marry someone who falls into the calebass put on her head; Z., she falls chooses him as her husband; they go to the forest for firewood, Z. tells his mother to let the dogs go if the water turns red; the wife brings Z. to where yehwe lives; when Z. climbs the baobab, the wife calls all 32-horned yehwe; they they almost knock down the baobab twice, but Z. breaks two calebasses, the felling overgrows; the bird flew, woke up Z.'s mother, she released the dogs, they, at Z.'s request, spared the pregnant yehwe, because she advised others do not touch a person; the current yehwe comes from it]: 186-190, 240-241, 271-272, 275-284, 284-287; goals [{this is a German retelling of the text, the full text is only for a goal; it is not clear exactly how they are trying knock down a tree, so the text is not included in the G8 motif}; the girl rejects the grooms; the forest spirit borrows various parts of the body from others along the way, comes handsome, the girl goes with him, he returns borrowed, the girl is forced to live in his lair; the girl's mother gives birth to twins, goes to look for her sister; by the river, one makes a bridge of arrows, the other crosses in clouds of smoke; they come to sister, they live with her, their two big dogs protect them; while the spirit is gone, the brothers pour rice to the rooster of the spirit so that he does not raise the alarm, run away with their sister to their parents; the spirit again appears under the guise of a beautiful woman, one of the brothers takes her as his wife; the wife takes her husband to the forest to collect fruits; when the husband climbs a tree, takes his true form, tries to cut down the tree; the husband restores the tree by witchcraft; so several times; husband's dogs come running, killing her imaginary wife]: Westermann 1921, No. 20:101-102; felupe [while the woman was fishing, the eagle took her little daughter; she grows up beautiful in his nest on a tall tree; the hunter notices it, the chief sends warriors to cut down the tree, each time the eagle arrives, the tilted tree straightens up; the warriors shot the eagle; the chief tells all the mothers of the missing children get together, exhibit the food that the children were fed; everything brings meat, that girl's mother is rice, she was poor; the girl takes rice]: Nikolnikov, Katasonova 1976:119-121; tangale [{long episode text, p. 384-422, about two orphan brothers, the elder's mother is alive, the youngest is not}; the youngest plants a bean cake, it grows into a tree; the elder's mother tries to cut it down, but the tree recovers]: Jungraithmayr 2002:404; dark [one of the three brothers became so long that when he snored, a girl came out of his nose, three days later an adult, gave birth to twins Fearless and Cautious, fell ill; when she died, told them never to argue with each other, gave them a pair of shoes that could quickly take them to the afterlife of Rokerfi; many years later B. offered to go there; old Dundukulma moved them across the Sirathi River; a person going to Rockerfy must pass 12 cities; in one of them, a man received them in a gold house, slaughtered them for two cows; B. offered to kill him, and O. could not argue, promising mothers should be unanimous with their brother; they killed the owner, took the valuables, moved on, climbed the tree; the victim's brother raised the alarm, told the king; spread a prayer rug near the tree; B. wrote to him on the head; people began to cut down the tree; when it had already bent down, the lizard hit the trunk with its head and the tree recovered; B. killed the lizard; the bird picked up the brothers and their property and took them away from danger; from her two wings, English and dark; B. killed a bird, they fell on a rock and crashed; at that time, the sorcerer revived people, revived O.; he asked to revive the bird, but not his evil brother, but the sorcerer revived everyone; it turned out that the sorcerer was a snail; B. was going to fry it, went to get the fire, but O. let him go; the brothers went on; on the tree there was a monster Kamyoko, near the tree there was a slit gong; B. began to beat him; O. ran to hide in the house a cockroach, and B. cut off the monster's head; O. went to tell the king; he promised murderer K. half his kingdom and half his property, including his wives; B. came when O. was already on the throne; the king told him to bear his head a monster if he was victorious (O. brought his head); B. brought the heads of his seven sons but they did not fit; O. remained king and B. was poor]: Turay 1989:165-191; Songhai [dying, father, then mother They tell the daughter not to let her younger brother cry; the boy beats other children, kills animals; brother and sister run into the forest, climb a tree; the king's people cut him down, the lizard tells everyone to cut him down Overgrown once; the brother kills the Lizard, but the Eagle picks up the children, takes them away; the brother kills the Eagle, the children fall, break; the Turtle revives the sister from the bones; she asks her not to revive the evil brother; The turtle does not listen, the brother comes to life, kills the Turtle]: Hama 1967:258-259.

Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [Obong'o has a talking Sijenje bull; S. and all the cattle are gone; O. went to search, came to Lang'o country; all the people he met are pointing the wrong way; O. sang, S. answered from afar; so a few once, S. found; in the country, L. offers poisoned food and drink, S. warns the owner each time; everyone went to the leader's funeral, the Kaki hyena (a particularly ferocious type of hyenas) remained to protect the cattle; O. crept up, cut off her tail, her strength was in it; there was still a blind old woman, O. promised to cure her, dripped aloe juice into her eyes, she died in agony; O. brought his cattle back; K. became a beautiful girl, came to O.'s country; all men are interested in her, every time she asks which animal the man killed, rejects everyone; O. replies that he cut off K.'s tail; she immediately chooses him as her husband; suggests following with firewood, do not take dogs with you, because he is afraid of them; suggests O. to climb a tree, break off branches first; turns into a Kaki hyena, begins to cut; O. calls dogs; the bird distracts K., asks , why kill a handsome man; at this time, the felling overgrows; O. calls the dogs again, they hear and come running; seeing them, K. became a beautiful woman again, but the dogs tore her apart]: K'Okiri 1970:11-31; shilluk [beautiful Animo lives with her father and brother Akwot; the lion takes the form of a man, comes to them, he likes Animo; Aquot tells her to see the guest off; he asks several times what this is terrain; when Animo replies that she does not know the area, the companion runs away; Animo tells the palm tree to bend down, pick it up; the lion returns in lion form, digs the ground, the palm tree begins to fall; Animo tells her Get up again; calls for help; young men hear, don't believe them; old people hear, Aquot brings a squad of men, they kill a lion, return Animo]: Westermann 1912, No. 85:208-210.

North Africa. Kabila [the old man bought 7 apples for 7 daughters-in-law, ate half of one apple on the way; the daughter-in-law, who got half, gave birth to a boy named Amar half, the rest were normal boys; brothers went hunting; caught two lions; good jinnia offered them black milk (supposedly, her goat is afraid to graze, because there is a predator all around, eats coals near the hearth), brought them to her; the brothers left lions to protect ginnia, went to clear the forest of predators, spent the night with the cannibal ceriel; she ate horses and six brothers; A. asks her to bring him water first with a sieve, ran away; calls the river a river of oil and honey, she opens a dry bottom, A. crosses, the river flows again; ceriel calls the river in swear words, tells the dog to drink it; the dog bursts, the river continues to flow; the sheikh teaches ceriel to call the river a river oil and honey; the river parts, ceriel crosses, A. climbs a tree; ceriel cuts the trunk with an ax all day, casts a spell in the evening, goes to rest, in the morning the trunk is intact again; the sheikh teaches: it is necessary say, "in the name of God"; she does so, by morning the notch does not overgrow; A. asks for permission to shout 7 times; lions hear, come running, eat ceriel; A. warns not to let a drop of her blood touched the ground; one lion dropped a drop, but another managed to catch it in the air]: Dermenghem 1945:63-67; Algerian Arabs [a rich brother has a son, the poor has 7 daughters; occasionally a rich man sends to the poor the leftovers, telling the maid to take the food to the "forgotten grave"; she leaves it in the cemetery; the poor went on a journey, saw the castle, climbed a tree, watched; 40 cannibals and cannibals came, said" Open, constipated so that I could go", the door opened; they left in the morning; after saying the same words, the man got inside, ate a little, took gold, came back; his wife took a measure from the wife of a rich brother; she smeared her with glue, a gold coin stuck; the rich brother took the poor man to shave, put a razor to his throat, making him tell everything; came to the castle, collected a few bags of gold, ate so full that it was difficult to get up, hid under a pile of dried dead bodies; a blind cannibal found him, poking his hot head; he was eaten, his heart was hung from the lintel; the poor moved to live in his brother's house; went in search, saw his heart : it beats, suffers; took the heart, went home, drops of blood left a mark; cannibals followed the trail, turning into merchants, mules and buttered wineskins; the imaginary caravan spent the night in the house where the now former poor brother and where the rich lived; the maid went down to the hallway, where the wineskins were stacked, and saw them moving; understood everything; so as not to arouse suspicion among the merchants talking to the owner, she spoke about this is in the song; he understood; no matter how long he went out, took his family out, set fire to the house; the cannibals burned down, except for one mule; his nephew begged him to leave him; his mother gave her son a spinning wheel: if you stick it in the ground, a tree will grow; one day the mule carried it and began to rise to the sky; the young man stuck the spinning wheel, it grew even taller; the mule began to chew on the tree; as soon as he went to rest, the recess in the trunk overgrown; past the caravan; the young man asks to tell his uncle that the mule has become a cannibal; the cannibal ate the caravan; the next time the young man turned to the "caravan of heaven"; the cannibal looked up in vain, and the caravans understood; uncle I came with the warriors, the cannibal ran away; the young man was lowered, replaced with a scarecrow; the wind threw him to the ground, the cannibal ate; became a beautiful girl, came to the village: I will marry the one who will defeat me in martial arts ; that young man did not want to participate, but others convinced that the girl was the one who succumbed to him; every night he goes out into the yard, eats one sheep; his uncle decided to see if the cannibal bit him on the shoulder; explained that accidentally - scratched with a comb; nephew does not believe; everyone else is gone; a boy was born; father: your ears are crispy, it would be good to eat; the man killed the cannibal son, galloped away; the cannibal ate the son's brain, chased her husband; his horse kicked her; when she died, she said that her bone would dazzle him; many years later he was driving in this place; the horse stepped on the bone, she ricocheted and knocked out his eye]: Belamri 1990:11-23; Tuareg (central Niger) [man wanted to see something amazing; came to a stream of oil, then to the buttocks, then to the eyes that were fighting with each other; djinnija (woman- genie) asked if this was surprising, the man replied that it was nothing special; Ginnia became a woman, invited her to her place, she had many children; she fed the traveler, he went to bed, she sharpened the knife, but The rooster sang; when he saw that the man had gone on a camel, Ginnia ran in pursuit; she was a giantess to heaven; he left the rooster, she ate it; then began to bite off and devour the camel's legs, one at a time; when she ate the last leg and the whole camel, the man climbed the tree; she tore off his penis, turned it into an ax, began to cut down a tree; the Chameleon (considered a wise and good animal) asked for cut him down, told him to cut down, the tree was the same as before; the man called the dogs; one wife wanted to let them off the leash, the other said they should not; finally they let the dogs down, they came running, they tore the woman apart; to go down, the tree had to be made below {it is not clear who did it}; the man divorced his wife, who prevented the dogs from letting down]: Rasmussen 1998:269-270 (retelling), 279-284 (subline).

Melanesia. Bukavak [two unmarried women caught an eel, put it in a calabasa with water, made them a husband; their young sons were looking for water to drink, found an eel, fried it, ate it; the mothers decided to leave them, but left the fire and the baked tarot alone; the boys went to look for their mothers; told the mango tree to pick them up, threw the pig's fruit with an obsidian knife inside, the pig died; the youngest went for fire; the fire at Okémo cannibals; she tells the boy to carry his child, carries fire herself; the child is in ulcers, with sharp bones; O. devours pig meat; while he goes to wash the giblets, the boys cook the remaining meat, carry on a tree, they put child O. in a pot; she eats him; calls people from the village to cut down a tree where the boys are hiding; the felling overgrows; one child throws chips into the fire, they no longer grow; the tree falls, running over O., other people go home; boys turn into parrots, fly into the forest; when the weather is bad, they are in the mountains, and when the weather is good, by the sea]: Lehner 1931a, No. 16:65-68; Cooney: Egidi 1913, № 3 [old Ivania threw away twin boys Tsiluila and Tsaifika; they hid in a dry tree branch under which people were harvesting; they ate everything; they cut down the tree, cutting down the tree overnight overgrown; the child took away the chip, the trail remained; then the women took away all the chips; the tree fell down; the branch in which the twins hid, I. took home for fuel; the twins quietly eat yams and others blanks; I. finds and scolds them; there is no water; I. goes to the spring, removes the plants that have clogged the entrance, lifts the snake, collects water, puts everything back; before that, he levels the earth (the origin of the plains and plateau); Okemala spies, tells the twins, they kill the snake, the river flows out; they did not level the ground, so the river is rapids; I. became a rock, the twins first became two palm trees, then also rocks] , 4 [Oafodevaya had a leech stuck to his leg; when it fell off, he left it in the branches in the garden, found two boys Tsiluila and Tsaifika; they climbed into the hollow of a yaleva tree; the women hung it on it the crops from the gardens, the brothers took everything; they began to cut down the tree; at night, the brothers put the chips back; the child took the chips home, it did not grow; people began to take the chips, knocked down the tree; Ivania wanted pick up the branch, it turned out to be heavy; the brothers asked to take them; they ate everything secretly at home; they stuffed game, brought them to Brother I. Folia to bake meat in ash; when they returned, there was nothing there; because F. ate their meat, they killed him; I. said they killed their grandfather; they went to the sea, became two rocks; I. also became rock]: 998-1002, 1002-1008; motu [the huge Eagle took the girl to his nest, took her as his wife, they have a son; the boy sees the smoke of the village in the distance; the Eagle allows his wife and son to go to visit their relatives, tells forks to follow the left path; the son wants to follow the left path, the mother says he is on the right; they come to the huge Snake; the woman deliberately drops the fish she has taken with her parents as a gift, tells the Snake that she has lost them; while he crawls to collect fish, she runs with her son, the Serpent easily catches up with them; next time she runs home, but the Serpent crawls there, stays in her house; she sends her two sisters to hunt with The serpent, herself and her son, come running to the Eagle; the Serpent tries to knock down the tree; when it is ready to fall, the Eagle spits, the tree recovers; so several times; the Eagle lifts the Snake into the air, throws it unharmed; then he lifts him so high that he can't be seen from the ground; throws it, the Serpent breaks; the Eagle tells his wife and son that they are now safe]: Romilly 1889:107-120.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert Islands [{the text seems to be authentic, but most of the other texts in the collection are of European origin}; all three sisters were named Ikuiku by their mother's name; parents live in the south islands that don't tell them to go north; they go, come to the house of old Atutababa; she tries to put them to sleep by removing insects from her head, then decapitating and eating them; the eldest is the first to understand the danger; And . does not let the girls go, otherwise he will kill them right away; they ask them to go to the beach to relieve themselves; A. goes with them, also relieves themselves, asks them to bring leaves to wipe themselves off; at this time, the sisters run away, climb on tree above the water; A. sees the reflection, dives, then hears laughter, notices the sisters; sings to cut the trunk and the tree fall; younger I. pees and sings her song, the tree recovers and becomes higher; next time the tree restores the middle I., then the eldest; A. tells the heron to shake the sisters off the tree with its tail; the heron is forced to obey, the eldest falls, rushes to run, resorts to men; they tell A. to listen to their song first, lift it high into the air with a song, throw it on the rocks, it crashes; the heron brings two younger sisters; everyone is happy]: Koru, Gullivan 1986:81-93; Tuvalu (Niutao): Koch 1966:71 [the boys were catching birds; the Finemata spirit frightened the birds, they flew into the forest and then back to the sea; the boys ran into the forest, again to the shore, again into the forest, and came across F. which baby; had time to climb the tree; F. grimaced that to make the boys laugh and they would fall; they did not laugh; began to cut a tree with an ax; one of the boys overgrown the felling every time ; the axe went dumb, F. ran after another, the boys went down and returned home], 72-73 [11 boys collected shells to play (they are put in a bowl); one found a good stone bowl; the boys carried it with herself, but she got heavier, and then rolled into the forest; the boys behind her, there was the cannibal Taukinotoe; he went for firewood, the boys climbed the tree; T. noticed the boys when they saw their reflection in the water; became grimacing to make them laugh, but they did not laugh; he cut the tree with an ax, but one of the boys immediately overgrown the felling; the boys asked the birds to carry them away, they carried them away, but for the youngest the bird was too weak, could not pick it up; T. caught him, began to feed him at home; the boy asked for time off because of need, refusing to relieve himself in the house; T. tied a rope to him, the boy bandaged him her to the tree; the bird brought him home; parents are happy], 74-75 [~ (72-73)].

South Asia. Nepali [the gold-haired princess has seven brothers; one hair is lost, her parents promise to pass her off as the one who has found her; finds her middle brother; the princess hides in a tree; father, mother's name, she says he can no longer call them father or mother, both fall dead out of grief; the middle brother demands that his sister come down, tries to cut down a tree, but it only gets taller {and felling, obviously overgrows}; younger brother asks her sister to pick him up; she lowers his belt; she has only three sesame seeds from food; brother drops two, they turn into cows; brother and sister go down, pick up cows, find a hut in the mountains, stay in it; the prince hunts, sees a boy with a cow, praises the cow; the boy says his sister is beautiful; she smears her face with soot, hides her hair under a handkerchief; the prince asks for water, I splashed water into the girl's face three times, saw a beautiful woman, married her]: Heunemann 1980, No. 6:75-78.

The Balkans. Bulgarians: Karaliychev, Valchev 1963 [the girl has a younger brother; she overheard her mother negotiate with her father to kill them; children run away, father and stepmother chase; brother throws soap (slippery), the sister is a comb (many ridges block the way), {apparently they pour something out), then they throw a razor, the pursuers cut their legs; in the forest, the sister does not tell her brother to follow the bear (become a bear) wolf (wolf), he steps on a deer trail, becomes a deer; his sister climbs a tree; the prince sees its reflection, then notices it herself; the servants cut down the tree, go to rest, the deer licks the trunk, felling overgrows; to lure the girl, the old woman harnesses a cat and a rooster into the wagon; the girl goes down to explain that this cannot be done, she is grabbed; the deer breaks the wall of the house where she is being kept; to him horns were gilded, sister married prince]: 281-283; Mladenova 2006 [brother and sister flee from cannibal parents or evil stepmother; flee from the chase (magical escape); despite warning sisters, brother drinks from the footprint of a deer foot, becomes a deer; sister climbs a tree (poplar); the prince notices her, but she refuses to go down; the old woman lures her, starting ridiculous in front of her eyes do some homework in a way (the girl goes down to show how to do it); the royal son marries the girl, the deer brother stays with her, a) takes on a human form, 2) is slaughtered, and from his sister's bones grow into an apple tree or cypress tree or into wonderful objects; a gypsy, a maid, a stepmother's daughter pushes the girl into a well, where she is swallowed by fish or turned into fish; takes her place; wants to kill a deer who knows the truth; a deer complains to her sister at the well; they notice this, catch fish, her sister (with her baby born) takes her seat next to the prince]: 56-57; Gagauz people [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his children from his first wife; he took them to the forest, hung an empty pumpkin on the tree, she knocks in the wind as if he was still cutting wood; the children went to look for a home; boy wants to get drunk from a wolf trail, his sister does not say: you will become a wolf; he drank from a bull, became a goby with golden horns, silver hooves and tinsel hair; on the poplar by the well there is a golden swing, a girl climbed onto the poplar, sat on a swing; the prince sees her, she refuses to get down; he tells her to cut down the poplar; at night, the goby brings food to her sister, licks the felling; to lure the girl out, the woman sifts the flour through the underside of the dough, puts the pot upside down, the tripod upside down, the firewood standing; the girl went down to show how to cook hominy, caught, the prince married her; the goby went with them]: Moshkov 1904, No. 52:90-92; Romanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 450:265-266.

Central Europe. Belarusians [the woman tells her grandfather to cut down a stump, make a cradle and swing it in the forest; the stump has become a boy; asks him to make a shuttle on the river to catch fish; when his mother brings him food, she sings a song ( Ivanka, son, golden shuttle, silver merry man); the snake found out, told her daughter Alenka to melt the stove, went to call I.; he did not hear mama's voice; the snake told the blacksmith to forge her tongue to make her thinner - did not help; threatens the blacksmith, he made his tongue very thin; I. swam, the snake dragged him into a bag, brought him home, told A. to fry, went to invite guests; I. pretends not to know how to sit in the oven, A. began to show it, he fried it himself; the guests ate A., roll on bones; I. on the roof, asked the geese to throw it on the feather, they threw it off, he flew with them; tired, sat on the oak tree; the snake was already here, brought it from the blacksmith's axe, began to cut; the oak is ready to fall, the bunny is fart! cutting down the thicket; the snake cuts again, the ax broke; the snake ran after another, cuts again; ducks are flying, I. asks to throw it off, they threw it off, I. flew away with ducks, returned home]: Romanov 1887, No. 49:268 -269.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [a daughter is born after a son, she has two teeth; brother watched her sister get up, devour cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; brother leaves, gets to a one-eyed maiden ; at night, the ram tells you to dazzle the deva with a hot skewer, slaughter the sheep, pull her skin over him; the devil lets the sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; the dev promises to adopt him; tells him not to herd on the mountain a black maiden; a young man kills him, his deva is grateful; the same with a red devil; with an eagle; she asks to give birth to her; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding her parents' heads; she gnaws off her brother's horse's legs one by one, he agrees that he came in three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; the sister goes to sharpen his teeth; the mouse wakes up her brother, says about the danger; he leaves a stone in bed, a bag of ash above him, climbs the poplar; his sister cleans his eyes of ash, gnaws poplar; the fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, gnawed overgrows; the same happens to the Bear; the young man calls the eagles, they eat the cannibal; three drops of blood fall on the leaf, the leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret it if he does not; the young man hides it in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants offer to guess what is in their chests; the young man does not guess, must give his eagles; the leaf says that cotton wool is in one, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, gets chests and eagles, marries a beautiful woman]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46:182-187; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 33 [stepmother wants to throw children into the oven; boy and sister go to his mother's grave; voice tells them to take a comb, a brush, and soap; the stepmother sent soldiers in pursuit; the abandoned comb became thickets of thorns, the brush with snakes covered the ground, the soap by the sea; the children walk along the steppe, the boy is thirsty; the sister does not tell you to drink from a deer hoof, he drinks, turns into a deer; the girl climbs a poplar, shahzade sees its reflection; tells her to cut it; during the night, the felling overgrows; the old woman begins to bake bread by putting the baking sheet is upside down; the girl goes down to help her, the shahzade picks her up and the deer, gets married; while swimming, the arapka pushes her into a deep place, puts on her clothes, says she has turned black, waiting the husband's return; asks to slaughter the deer; the deer brother tells his sister how knives are sharpened to slaughter him; the sister replies that it is in the stomach of a fish, her son is at her chest; people hear shahzade eavesdropping, The sultan and her child are taken out, the arapka is tied to the tails of 40 mules]: 131-134; Kúnos 1901 [after the death of the padishah, his son and daughter went bankrupt, went on a journey; the sister warns his brother in vain not drink dirty water, he drinks, turns into a deer; the sister climbed a tree above the spring, the padishah's horses see her reflection, are frightened; then the servants also see; she refuses to get down, the padishah tells cut down the tree; when the servants went on vacation, the deer licked the felling, the tree became intact; the next evening; then they called the old woman; she pretended to be blind, put the cauldron upside down, poured water by; the next time you cooked not meat, but ash; on the third day you slaughtered the sheep, poking it with a knife from behind, rather than cutting her throat; the girl went down, grabbed her, she agreed to marry him, if he took her faen brother; the black maid pushed the padishah's wife into the spring, she was swallowed by fish; the maid took her place, saying she had darkened in the sun; pretended to be sick: meat would cure her deer; he says to his sister: the knife is sharpening, the water is boiling, laugh, sister; sister in response: I am inside a fish, a golden saucer on my hand, a silver sandal on my leg, a small padishah at my chest; the padishah heard the spring was drained, the fish's belly was ripped open, there was a wife and son; the deer licked the fish's blood, became a young man again; the maid's padishah: 4 swords or 4 horses? maid: let swords against my enemies, I choose horses; she was tied to the tails of horses, torn]: 1-11.

Iran - Central Asia. Kafira (prasun) [the giant took Kime's seven daughters one by one; the latter resorts to a tree growing in the middle of the lake, calls her mother, asks where to escape; in a tree A gap opens, a girl goes inside; a giant tries to cut down a tree, but the felling overgrows; later the girl gives birth to the god Mandi (=Moni)]: Snoy 1962:85.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [nine brothers went to war, the sister stayed with her witch stepmother; she sends her to the forest where the 9-headed serpent lives; the girl climbs an apple tree, the snake chews on the trunk; the Bear, then the Fox they offer to chew for him, make the trunk thicker; at this time the Cuckoo screams for the brothers to approach; they cut off the snake's head, burned the witch]: Lebitte 1965:105-107 (about the same in Kerbelite 2014, No. 41: 94-97).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the boy Altyn-Sak ("goldgrandmother") has a goldgrandmother; his father brought cattle to the lake; a witch in the water grabs animals by his beard, by the lip; lets go for a promise to give the fact that the old man has one thing is a son; the old man migrates, burying his son's goldgrandmother in the old camp; the son goes after her, choosing a thin foal; he has become a good horse; the boy asks for his grandmother, that tells him to get off the horse; the horse picks up his grandmother himself, jumps away; after him; her horse (previously said that Ubyr is chasing in a mortar with a pestle) calls the boy's horse brother, asks him to slow down his run, he refuses; when she hears what her horse says, she ate him; the boy's horse tells him to climb a tree, hides himself in the water; Ubyr coughs up the sharpener and ax, cuts the trunk; the fox offers a rest, throws an ax and a sharpener into the water, the felling overgrows; the second, then the third fox; the crow refuses to call the boy's dogs Akkulak and Sakkulak, because he wants to drink his blood; the sparrow calls, pecking out lead poured into the ears of dogs by an old woman; ubyr rushes into the water; dogs say that if black blood comes up, they killed Ubyr, and if red blood, it is them; blood is brown first, then black; dogs come out water, one ear torn off; then the horse comes out; the boy returns home on it; they live richly]: Zelenin 1991, No. 98 (108): 428-431; Udmurts [man leaned over the ice-hole, Vu-peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give his 12-year-old son; his father ordered him to take the horse that would look at his son, which was the skinniest; V. chased him on a good horse, did not catch up, ate it; the boy came to to one, to her other sister, each gave a puppy; came to sister V., there V.; V. became a fire in the oven, one of the dogs was lying in the snow, extinguished the fire; V. became a feather bed, the dog lay on her; V. closed dogs in the barn, chasing the boy; the boy's horse became a tree, V. began to cut him, went to bed; the bear put chips back, threw his ax into the lake, ran after the dogs; they killed V. in the lake where he rushed behind an ax; V. was burned, the boy returned home]: Klabukov 1948, No. 27:69-73.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Algan-bay has sons Bergen, Mergen and younger Kuim; he wants to give them their cattle, they refuse, he and his wife leave, the cattle turn into wild animals; B. and M. dream that they are grazing foreign cattle, K. - that Urker (Pleiades) looks into the yurt; he refused to tell a dream, the brothers drove him away; K. lives with an old man, he herds Khan Shigai's oxen; K. kills them, cuts them; he goes to the khan himself, he tells me to spend the night in the stable; the girl tells me to saddle horses, runs away with K.; realizes that he is not the one she was going to run with; reads in a divination book that K. is her betrothed; the khan falls in love with his wife K. the viziers suggest pretending to be sick, sending K. to die for medicine; when K. leaves, the wife of the creators around her 9 fortress walls; Khan's people destroyed 8, went to bed, by morning the walls were intact; K. must bring 1) aiboken milk (if it is chased, she runs to the moon); the horse says that she swallowed its former owner; iboken sends Lan from K., she contains aiboken milk; khan says that recovered; 2) the milk of a water cow of three genies, they are beyond 6 dangerous mountains, one is fiery; iboken tells K. to kill the dragon that devoured the chicks of the Samruk bird; she takes him to the house of giants; in the house each daughter, her mouth shut so that she does not eat alone; K. cuts off the heads of giants, removes locks; brings a water cow and three girls; khan died, K. became khan, all wives gave birth to him sons; the eldest son Arpalys kills a giant, finds and brings K.'s parents, other sons find and bring his brothers]: Tursunov 1983:99-112.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty (b. Tromyegan) [the grandmother does not tell her grandson to go to the hut; he goes, comes to Menk-Iki's house; he nails him to the wall, goes after the cauldron; the grandson asks M.'s children to let him go, promises to do it the ladle and trough eat its meat and fat; kills them, cooks them, hides on aspen, taking bags of ash and hot foot; M. comes back, sees children's meat, cuts aspen, sits down to rest; animals and birds they come to spoil around the aspen, the felling overgrows; the same again; the grandson asks M. to open his mouth to jump there; throws ash and foot; burns the corpse, the ash turns into mosquitoes]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. they used to kill his father, grandfather and all relatives, stumble upon him ate; the boy steals his sword and 97:87-88 (= Lukina 1990, No. 33:132-133); the southern Khanty [hunter's dogs are bear and wolf; leaving, he does not tell his sister to take revenge on the floor and scratch her head; she does this, filled the dogs ears with tin, put them on a chain; her lover, a seven-headed menkv, comes; then chases her brother, who climbed the larch; menkv cuts, tired; the hare offers to chop it for him, the larch becomes stronger than it was; the same fox brought land and sand, the larch became even stronger; the same otter; the brother asks the sparrow to call his dogs; the bear and the wolf do not hear; the raven hear; the bear fell off the chain, helped the wolf fall off; after three years of battle, the wolf, bear and their owner killed the menqua, burned the corpse; the prince gave the hunter the youngest of 7 daughters; sister put a menqua tooth in bed; the hunter was buried, the animals dug his tooth, tore his sister to pieces]: Patkanov 1999, No. 3:328-330; Kets [when Baba Yaga comes, Kasket and Totabol hide behind the olatina and under the focal chock; Kleinitsa gives them out, B. puts them in his pants, carries them to their daughters; tells them to eat more; K. fills his sleeve and throws them out, T. eats, becomes fat; while B. hunts bears, K. asks her daughters to give him a drill, drills a hole in the stone plague wall; kills daughters, hangs their meat, runs away through the hole; T. gets stuck, K. takes him away head; B. mistakenly eats the meat of his daughters; pursues K., who creates larch trees, climbs to the top of his head; B. regurgitates an ax, cuts the trunk; the hare calls to help; puts chips back while B. sleeps; when wakes up, K. asks her to open her mouth and eyes; throws sand in her eyes; goes down, kills with a horn, burns her; puts T.'s head, he comes to life]: Dulzon 1966, No. 5:23-27 (quail in Alekseenko 2001, No. 125:222-225).

Subarctic. Southern Tutchoni [Clever (=Beaver) sees a woman making skin; realizes that human skin kills a woman, she turns into a hole; people disappear one by one; Clever comes to a slippery slope; Wolverine put a sharp horn below; Clever hides a bag of blood under his clothes, pretends to run into a horn; seeing blood, Wolverine brings Smetly home; children notice that game opened his eyes; Clever kills Wolverine, his wife and children with a stick; newborn cubs jump out of their mother's womb, hide in a tree; Clever makes a fire, they extinguish it with urine; Clever cuts the trunk, they tell the felling to grow; Clever refuses to pursue, tells the cubs to stay small, no longer eat humans]: McClelland 1987:305-306.

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [the little boy wants to see his grandfather; the father allows his wife to take his son to her parents, tells him to go only to open places; the woman enters the grove, which turns into a huge forest; they lose their way, they come to the house of four women; they shove them into the fire; the boy puts out the fire with urine, runs away with his mother at night; the mother turns her hair (from her head or pubis) into four trees; hides with his son at the top; cannibals cut down three trees; when the fourth is cut down, the boy starts a stream of urine, the felling overgrows; the father sends four dogs (grizzly, rattlesnake, wolf, puma), they cannibals are killed; mother and son first return home, then come to her parents]: Teit 1909a: 635-636.

NW Mexico. Tarahumara [the younger brother took his wife, treated animals well; the elder did not like animals; chased the youngest, who climbed onto the poplar; the elder began to cut, the felling overgrown; went for a big one water, taking the youngest's wife; the youngest sent the animals to look for the fugitives, they did not find them; the Ant swam across the water in the shell, found the Big Brother and the woman on the top of the poplar, returned, reported; the Younger sent flying animals, they brought the Elder; he ran away, turning into a lion (cougar); asked the bees to let him eat; mosquitoes helped him open el encino wider, the lion was bitten by him, caught; collected firewood, set fire, told a good Leo to tear up the bad, he ripped his heart out; he tried to escape to heaven, Aguililla caught him; he was thrown into the fire again, Little Brother lives in the sky]: Olmos Aguilara 2005:252-255.

Honduras-Panama. Rama: Loveland 1990:46-47 [Adam, his brother and sister lived together; there are snakes on the seiba (apparently he has an affair with sister A.); A. cuts seiba, by morning the felling is overgrown; the third time brother came and sister, the tree fell, A. was cut by a snake, many snakes arose from it, hid one sister in the house under a pot; moved out; A. came in her absence, he did not have the staff he used to kill creatures, the snake bit his finger, crawled away; A. is sick; with the Mouse (or Shrew, Gopher) A. sailed to the land of snakes; there they found a snake that bit, they learned how to recover from it; since then, some people have been bitten the serpent recovers, some die; (=1986:250)], 47 [Adam's wife Eve met the Serpent; moved out, hides the Snake in a box; A. found the key, opened it, the Serpent flew away, began to live at the top of the seiba; on the third day A. cut down the seiba, the Serpent flew to E., she hid it under the pot; A. lifted the pot, the Serpent bit his finger; the clairvoyant told him to go to the land of snakes; A. swam there, recovered, returned with the help of the Mouse].

Western Amazon. Aguaruna [people climbed from the ogre Willow into a tree; he cut it with a stone ax; the monkey Machin sent I. to swim, replaced his ax with an unusable fake, put it back chipped chips, felling the thicket; hit the trunk so that I. could hear blows; told people to go down, threw a real ax into the river; I. broke the fake; began to dive, M. moved the ax deeper into the river, I. did not was able to dry it; I. pulled his waist and mutilated his penis; M. invited everyone I. to go pick fruits from a tree on the other side of the ravine; when everyone stepped onto the bridge of vines, he brought it down; all I. died]: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1977 (2), No. 84:666-668.

Chaco. Caduveo [The Jaguar kills the anteater, refuses to share it with the Ant; the water vessel is flowing; the Jaguar must leave to drink; the Ant asks the Hawk to pick up the meat on the tree; the Jaguar asks Throw him a piece, the Ant throws the bone, knocking out Jaguar's front teeth; the Jaguar cuts the tree, but the Hawk heals the felling; the Jaguar leaves]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990a, No. 34:62-63.