Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

I132A. The girl on the sun swing. .27.29.32.

The girl sits on the swing and they take her to the sky.

Bulgarians, Gagauz people, Lezgins, Mordovians, Mari.

The Balkans. Bulgarians [a Sun man fell in love with Maria, she does not leave the house; her stepmother washed her child's diapers, spread it out, it began to rain, she sent M. to collect them; when she saw M., the Sun did not Many people came in, burned; the mother of the Sun advises him to set up a swing on a curved willow for Easter; M. will sit on them, you will take her to heaven; stepmother then shouts for M. to chase {} mother-in-law and father-in-law are 9 years old, Brother-in-law Ognyan is 4.5 years old, her husband is one and a half years old; M. is silent, the Sun is tired of waiting for a year and a half, took Wife Denitsa; during the wedding, M. held candles and her fingers lit up; DD: even if you are dumb and deaf, but can't you see that your fingers are burning; M.: forgive my crap, my stepmother punished me; Sun: I don't want DD, I wish M.; DD prayed to God to become a bird, he turned it into swallow]: Smirnov 1976:26-29; Gagauz [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to a bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; the same middle; the youngest goes to the old woman for advice; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on her, was going to shoot the bear; father blessed her to herd horses for three years; The sun fell in love with her, but does not understand whether it is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates on- masculine, she takes only things for men at the bazaar; three years later she shows the Sun her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a gold swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; the palm advised the girl is seven years old to be silent; then the Sun took another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took a hobur; hobur tells me to play the violin, follows the sieve, but in fact sharpen his teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, follows; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to the sky, drank water), brush (forest), stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); the girl brought a sieve; the second bride: hey, dumb, bring a pot; girl: so that you lose your tongue; The sun slaughtered the ram, heard it, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the pipe, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Lezgins [an angel in a dream tells the poor man that he should send one of his three daughters to heaven as a shepherd; only the youngest agrees; dressed in men's clothes, the wind lifted her and the dog to the sky from the top of the mountain; the father and son have sheep in the sky; the father says that the boy, the son suspects that the girl; she withstands all the tests (hit the target, the dog changed the violets at night - violets will wither under the woman, but not under the man); seven years later she was released; from the sky the young man saw that she was still a girl; on the holiday everyone swung on a swing, the dog did not let the girl in, but she sat on them, the swings took her back to heaven; she had to marry; her mother-in-law did not give her keys; fell asleep, the girl took her keys, began to open the rooms; in one jug with the moon, the sun, rain, wind; she took off the lid, saw the ground where her mother and father jumped into this jug; flew and turned into sunlight; the guy jumped into a jug of snow out of grief, turned into snowflakes]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 20:235-237 (=Khalidova 2012, No. 10:37-39).

Volga - Perm. Mordva [a sloppy, negligent girl goes to the shore of Sura to rinse her clothes; a thunderstorm begins; out of fear, she offers herself to be Vere-Pasu's daughter-in-law - Nishka Pasu (synonyms here); c a silver shaky sky descends, she sits in it, rises; thunder is her father-in-law, the cloud is her mother-in-law, lightning is her husband; Vere-Pass - Nishke passes allows her to unlock six barns, the seventh is not unlock, and if unlocked, look over your right shoulder; in the first cold, in the second there is fog, on the third Friday (old man), on the fourth, Sunday, in the fifth winter, an old man, in the sixth, an old man in the sixth; in the seventh he sees her native land, her father and mother wake her up; the VP-NP lets her go for an hour, tells her not to tell her story or take anyone with them; her younger brother followed her, thunderstruck]: Paasonen 1909, No. 3: 30 in Endyukovsky 1932:236-237; (cf. Paasonen 1947, No. 2 [the wife is childless; finally the woman becomes pregnant but cannot be born for three years; promises a daughter to be a daughter-in-law to the heavenly god if she gives birth; when the girl has grown up, her mother does not let her out at home to walk with her friends, but her father let her go; the whirlwind took her to heaven; her heavenly father-in-law forbids her to look into the far barn, look out the lower window; she looks, sees her home below; her eyes turn red from tears; she explains that it was the herons who flew, littered her eyes; then that the mother of the wind; the heavenly god asks the mother of the wind; she replies that her daughter-in-law did not listen and began to watch her on earth girlfriends play with eggs]: 5-14); Marie [an old man's mare and an old woman brought 41 foals, they have gone overseas; the old man sends his daughters to search, the eldest is ready to go; the father tells me to go a roundabout road; she puts on a bear skin himself, walks in a straight line; the daughter sees a bear and comes back; the same middle daughter; the youngest hits the imaginary bear with a rod, rolls on her cart; she disguised herself as a man overseas, began to live the old woman, that son Ulem; he suspects that there is a girl nearby; they caught 10 horses, then 20, then the others; the mother advises W. to take his friend to the bathhouse; the girl tells her dog to steal W.'s purse; while he ran after him, she washed herself; brought the horses to the sea; for W. to help transport them, admitted that she was a girl and ordered a silk swing to be sent for Easter; began to rock her family, then the others, then flew to Wu on a swing. ]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:33-36.