H48. Fever sisters. 27.-.29.31.32.34.-.36.58.

Diseases - female sisters (less commonly male brothers), usually children of an evil spirit.

Bulgarians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Voronezh), Crimean Tatars (?) , Abkhazians, Terek Cossacks, Georgians, Eastern Sami, Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians, Komi-Zyrians, Mordovians, Altaians, Khakas, Nenets, Nganasans, Baikal Evenks, Evens (Yana estuary), Western (Vilyui) Yakuts, varrau.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [two sisters decide to become fevers in order to eat delicious food (the sick are pampered); the poor eat bitter medicines (garlic, etc.), the sisters do not like it; they get married, their children are ill; fatal - men, long non-fatal - women]: Karaliychev, Todorov 1969 (5): 30-43; Toporov 1977 [Bulgarian conspiracy against postpartum illness: Yermenok's 9 sisters are the first kutsa, the second blind blind, second kutsa, then know: 9 Yermenok sisters: Meya, Pukhneya, Zhelya, Korkusha, Neveya) of the body (organ) affected by them (T, then dumb, deaf, tooth, nose, humpback, crooked, crooked]: 46; Stoynev 2006 [illnesses - 2, 7 or 12 sisters, living on the edge of the world with samodies and snakes]: 340; Romanians [conspiracy: the sun has ten sisters, I have ten diseases; the sun has nine sisters, I have nine diseases; and so on until "no sisters" and "no diseases"]: Toporov 1977:48.

Central Europe. Belarusians [cholera has two daughters who give people bloody diarrhea, and mother cholera causes seizures and blindness]: Belova 2012:451; Ukrainians [cholera is three sisters dressed in white savanas]: Belova 2012:451; Russians: Afanasiev 1994 (3) [9 or 12 winged fever sisters]: 81; Toporov 1977 [St. Simeon sees 12 ugly simple-haired maidens coming from the sea; they reply that they are fevers, daughters of King Herod (Popov 1903); their names relate to the action or part of their bearers bodies (organ) struck by them (Shaking, Ogney, Ledey, Gnetey, Grynush, Glyadei, Deaf, Lomey, Pukhney, Zhelya, Korkush, Nevey)]: 46-47; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the man rode a horse along rivers, and 12 brushwood sailed along the river in a boat; one promises to turn into a fly, sit on a spoon with cabbage soup, the man will swallow and get sick; the man heard this; he put a spoon of cabbage soup in a bag and hung it in a smoke collector; in the spring untied; a dry and stunted fly fell, crawled to the shore; other brushwood: sister, what's wrong with you; fly: hit the cunning]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:31-32; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Shenkursky y.) [fever is divided into 12 genera or species, representing them as the 12 sisters of Herodic Daughters]: Efimenko 1874:192; Russians (Vladimirskaya) [12 maiden sisters send fever to humans]: Firsov, Kisileva 1993:123; Russians (Voronezh) [Fevers (12 pieces) gather under an oak tree, brag to each other how they destroy people, their conversation is accidentally overheard by a man who came to the forest for with firewood. One fever climbs into the kulesh (millet soup) and enters a person, the second gets through the hand in the bath, the third in the cold, the fourth drags by the legs in rivers, the fifth penetrates with a cold wind, the sixth hits the head, the seventh picks up in a dream, the eighth penetrates with apples, the ninth through the bones when a person lifts weights, the tenth with kvass, the eleventh with noodles, the twelfth with honey. The first says that the man's wife has already cooked the kulesh, and the fever will kill him in a third spoon. The man returns home, and pours a third spoonful of kulesh into a bag of tobacco, ties it, quilts it, and squeezes it. The fever screams and groans. The man tells his neighbor Vanka that he has caught a fever, he asks him to see, hits him with a hammer and a bag ("bubble"?) bursts, the fever runs into the forest, talks about his adventures. She says that there is no need to go back to the village, because people are unfriendly, she goes elsewhere]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 47:189-190.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Crimean Tatars [all diseases have the embodiment of women who attack those they hate; {whether women are sisters, it is not said}]: Kondaraki 1875:135-136; Abkhazians [hunter Khavia Amartsan overhears how in the swamp The fevers agree that one of them will jump into a bowl of water that HA's wife will give him; HA poured the water from the cup into the wineskin, tied it, hung it over the fire, and later threw it away ; since then, fevers only torment people, but do not kill people]: Khvartsky 1994:44-45; Terek Cossacks: Baranov 1899, No. 3 (no place of recording) [there was no fever before; Ivan the Baptist, dressed in camel skin, he was walking along the road and met 77 girls in expensive dresses; they mocked him; they said they were daughters of King Herod; Ivan the Baptist: "Because you laughed at me, be anathemas cursed three times! And let a disease take over you that will shake you, writhe, break you, shiver, dry you. And wherever you show up, you will make all people very sick and curse you. You will not die until the end of the age, and you will walk invisibly between people and torment them; but people will swear to you forever"; since then, Herod's 77 daughters have been wandering around the world and spreading diseases]; No. 4 (v. Troitskaya) [from a prayer for fever: "On Mount Sinai, under the Mavrian oak tree, there were three saints: Guriy, Ephraim, Trofim. The sea is excited, 77 simple-haired maidens get out of the sea. And their holy fathers recosha them: "Are you Rygorovi? (?)" She also answered: "No, we are the daughters of King Herod and we go to God's servant (servant) (name), to outrage his body, to break his bones." After hearing this, the holy fathers picked up three bars of iron and gave each virgin 77 wounds. They, the virgins, cursed themselves with God-Savbaoth that "we will not return to the servant of God (name) for a century"]: 172, 175-176; Terek Cossacks (v. Ardonskaya) [from a "gypsy conspiracy against fever" (according to Maria Kudrevtseva): "Fevers, fevers, leave, let the slave go (they say the name). You, oppressors, sultry girls, shakers, stop torturing! You are seventy-seven, I will pay you all: Mashka, Dashka, Gashka, Pashka and Mashka; Fenka, Stenka, Dunka, Grunka and Akulka, and you all sixty-seven younger sisters"]: Gusev 1893:323-324; Georgians [ batonebi (plural number from batoni - "mister, lord") - spirits of infectious diseases (measles, whooping cough, smallpox, etc.), children of the deity Nana]: L.C. 1980:165.

Baltoscandia. The Sami [the merchant drives through the battlefield of birds and animals; the eagle asks him to be cured; after a year or two he tries to take off, three years later he puts him on his back, takes him to his brothers and mother; brothers in copper, in silver houses reject what was brought; in gold, the parents of the eagle give him golden eggs; the eagle tells the house to throw them from hand to hand; he throws them along the way, a golden house appears, and eggs they become soft; to hell with them, says the man; the devil grabs them; for a promise to give what you do not know, he takes the merchant home to the golden house; to meet the wife and the baby; he grew up, went to look for the Devil; dwarf chakli teach you what to do, how to identify a bride; Devil has 39 daughters who are ill; the devil tells you to choose three times, the young man chooses the one he is the same age each time; the young run; the wife turns herself into a duck husband in a pen; The devil can't catch up with them, tells them not to marry for three years; the son's father involuntarily marries; at the last minute a duck arrives, turns into a girl, marries a guy]: Charnolusky 1962:270-277; Finns [Tuoni has three daughters; the first is a dwarf, carrying souls across the river of death; the second is Loviatar, the mother of nine fevers; the third is also related to disease, sitting on the rock of the last river of death, under with fevers]: Bonser 1928:355; Estonians: Paal, Kaida 2014, No. 3.5.1. (Koeru) [Herod and Herodias had 7 daughters, whom the devil turned into various diseases], 3.5.2. (Moustweh, Ranna) [Herod's 7 daughters - 7 different diseases]: 163-164, 164; (cf. Finns [illnesses - 12 brothers, sons of the old Launavater woman]: Afanasiev 1994 (3): 81); Lithuanians [at night the maidens ask if people are sleeping; they answer that they are sleeping, they are told to sleep, they all die; Var.: People say they don't sleep, they stay alive]: Kerbelite 2001:149.

Volga - Perm. Komi-Zyryans [Western 1923 in the village. Prondor, P.G. Doronin's list; the duck is swimming, does not know where to lay its eggs; four are swallowed in the depths, kept the last two under its wing, of which the ducklings Yong and Omöl hatched; the mother asked them to get the lost eggs from the bottom, break them on her body, took off herself, killed herself against the water; E. dived, O. shouted, the water was covered with ice, O. broke the ice with thunder and lightning; E. hit the egg he had brought about the mother's body, land arose; brought a second egg, angel assistants came out of it; O. brought two eggs covered with mud; one threw up, the moon appeared; from the second he made helpers - evil spirits; E. did useful birds and animals, O. - reptiles; E. sculpted Adam's man, blew, revived; O. sculpted a woman, could not revive her, E. revived her; his wife gave birth to 12 daughters, killed them herself at the instigation of O.; E. cursed, she became death, her daughter became ill; from rib A. E. created Eve; O. seduced her, so the offspring were bad; E. made the first heaven, O. higher than the second, E. the third, etc., seven in total; E. destroyed the lower six with thunder and lightning, over O. and his assistants into forests, swamps and rivers; E. asked the demon leader Anthus if he and his army could climb into three pots; threw pots into hell, one crashed, some of the demons remained on the ground]: 39-41 (=Limerov 2005, No. 2:17-20): Plesovsky 1972; Mordovians [Shaitan has 13 daughters - 12 fevers and one chickenpox]: Devyatkina 1998:299.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Karunovskaya 1935 [Erlik's daughters are trying to lure a shaman, take away his soul]: 177; Nikiforov 1915:121 [Erlik has seven daughters], 257 [(approx. Potanin); according to Altai belief, a shaman descending into Yerlik's kingdom meets seven impudent girls trying to seduce and destroy him with shameless gestures]; Khakas: Butanaev 2003 [Daughters seven "irliks" were called "huu hut" - a letter. dried old woman (i.e. skin and bones). In Khakass, the word "huu" has several meanings, including "white swan". But in this case, the term "dried, faded, dry" is used. For example, "huu pass" - skull (letter: dried head), "huu chazy" - dry steppe, "huu söök" - skeleton (letter. bare bones), etc. form: demonic (Aina Chillig) - with tin eyes, with awl-sharp copper noses and flat bridge of the nose, like a grinded bar. They had bald heads, with ears the size of a winnower. In addition, they had lush breasts dragging along the ground and a clumsy face that looked like poplar bark (Head of the Hakniiyali Foundation. D 58. L. 122). Because of their copper faces, "huu huts" have additional names: "Chis Hanzar hu-hut" - Copper Bone Dried Old Woman, "Number Sibeldey Huu Hut" - Copper Skinny Dried Old Woman , "Chis Hyyazin Huu Hut" - Copper Spiteful Dried Old Woman (Head of the Hakniiyali Foundation. D. 146. L. 79), The images of witches with copper noses "zhez tumshuk" are characteristic of the mythology of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, which indicates their ethno-cultural ties with the Turks of Sayano-Altai. The head of all the "huu katas" was the eldest daughter of seven Irliks, "Chik Cheekei Huu Hut" ("Eating Demon"). She lives on the seventh underground "tama", at the confluence of the seven seas, in a heptagonal copper yurt with seven Irliks. She has a disgusting appearance that she can change (khubulgat töreen). Her nose is bronze and her teeth are copper. Cheek-cheekei is so full that she can't be covered by seven armfuls. She wears steel shoes and a shabby leather coat. Chik-cheekei sweeps seven braids of colorful snakes and adorns himself with diamond earrings (Hakniiyali Foundation. D. 91. P. 75). She is the mother of seven daughters, who are called "saryq khys" (letter: yellow maidens). The eldest of them is named Chilben-Saryg. The hair of the "yellow maidens" looks like yellow hemp. Virgins ride salt horses. At night, they mischievous and steal people's souls]: 104; Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 37 [hunter Hara spent the night; two girls came up and advised us to leave this place: our son-in-law is going to visit; they left; H. to his He put the log in place; the black man came up, began to crush the log; H. shot him; crying was heard: where will you go from hunter X. by the fire, people, H. listens; the guests agree on how to kill him; these are diseases; the fever promises to climb into the sour cream from which X. will cook porridge; X. examines the spoon, the mosquito on it, H. recognized the fever; lured him into a sheep bubble, kept it in smoke for seven days, then released it; she told others; no more diseases dared to approach H.]: 541-543.

Western Siberia. Nenets [ha is called Father of Seven Deaths, his children bear the names: Smallpox, Scurvy, Cough-tuberculosis, Eyelessness, Scabies, Rubella Measles, Bonecrusher, Hoof]: Golovnev 2004:315 ; nganasany: Simchenko 1996 (1): 111 [in the underground icy world of Mother of Ice, there are nine Mother of Boys Ice that gnaw people; their names coincide with the names of Kocha diseases], 115 [diseases - sons of Syrada-Nyama (Mother's Ice); people are the same for these guys or old people as deer are for humans; var.: these guys only devour people who have shamanic gifts, because shamans prevent Ice Mother from taking them to to yourself in Bodyrbo-Mow people].

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia) [the tsar has three daughters, they rode a cart to church, the cart shook, for which Tangara made the sisters invisible; dogs and cows began to disappear ; one man turned into a dog and overheard the conversation; one sister promised to be black disease, another fever, and the third rubella; the sage realized that the sisters would become terrible diseases; they solved it kill; the sage sat down at the table in white clothes, began to eat white soup with a golden spoon; a black speck appeared in the soup; the sage threw it into the chest and closed the lid; the black disease was gone; the sage's wife became ask her husband where the chest is; fever sisters heard and released her older sister; and if she had been in prison for three full years, she would die and smallpox would disappear]: Pinegina 2019:167-168; Evens (estuary Yana) [Mamaney had 7 daughters; married a young man, his stepmother called stepdaughters devils; gave birth to a son; the sisters really decide to become devils; to do this, you have to find something unfinished in the house; they find a log stand; each one climbs under it, becomes invisible, turns into a beast: an ermine, a mouse, a lizard, a field mouse, a fly larva, a moth, a snake; then they become human again, they say , who became what (smallpox, measles, etc.); ate the boy, licking him to the bone; the stepmother came and said, Devils come out, they wiped it off; left his father]: Gurvich 1974:269; Western Yakuts (Tylgyninsky Nasleg of Vilyui District) [smallpox spirits, seven sisters, come to Mastakh Ulus and dance in the middle of the lake; when he hears this, shaman Suor Wala turns into smoke and flies into the sky; then he turns around with a Russian needle, hides in the cracks of a tree and overhears the sisters' conversation; seven Siberian girls tell each other where to go; none of the sisters want to stay in Mastakh Ulus for fear shaman; in the end, they decide to leave their older sister and advise them to kill the shaman as follows: when they turn into fire, fall into the porridge he eats; the sisters turn into fog and disappear; the shaman goes home and asks household members to cook a large salamaat pot; household members comply with the request; when they are going to remove the pot, coal the size of a human eye falls on the salamaat; shaman jumps up, grabs the coal and lowers it into the bottle; after plugging the bottle, the shaman puts it in an iron barrel and, having cut down the ice-hole, drowns it in water; the shaman wraps the barrel with a rope, the end of which he ties to the stick on the edge of the ice-hole; smallpox spreads all over the earth with the exception of Mastakh Ulus; when the shaman hears the songs and dances of the sisters again, he runs to the ice-hole, pulls out a bottle and goes to the lake shore; shaman opens the bottle, the coal in it turns into a blue flame and disappears; the shaman breaks the bottle to the ground, and he, turning into a Russian needle, hides in cracks on the lake shore; to the girls Their thin older sister comes and tells his people what the shaman did to her; the sisters dance and leave; when she arrived home, the shaman tells his people how they defeated smallpox; before he dies The shaman will bequeath to bury him in such a way that his head and hands are above the ground, with a tambourine and a mallet in their hands; people fulfill his will]: Ergis 1960, No. 198:297-301.

Guiana. Warrau [nine girls went to the forest, then went to play savanna, the eldest offered to play with diseases; each became one of the diseases: fever, smallpox, cough, ulcers, diarrhea, etc.; one bird reported this to people; scam girls went to heaven to Cheb; from there they went down to their mothers, they fell ill and died; people decided that Chebu would now send them death]: García 1993, No. 4: 35-36.