I139. Throwing an axe. 16.26.-.29.31.32.35.
Two (less often three) men or women are at a distance from each other, but they regularly throw something to each other or give something to each other. This is a sign of their unusual size, strength, and dexterity.
British, Germans (Hessen), Miao, Bulgarians, Croats, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan), Belarusians, Westerners Ukrainians, Chechens, Lithuanians, Komi-Permyaks, Udmurts, Mari, Southern (?) Khanty, Southern Selkups.
Western Europe. The British [Giants throw tools back and forth]: Baughman 1954 in Thompson 1955-1958, No. F531.3.2.3.; Germans (Hessen) [two giants lived near Caldern who often threw each other pieces of rock to another; two of these stones still lie in a field near Caldern, and one bears a giant handprint]: Lyncker 1854, No. 60:39-40.
China - Korea. Miao [two brothers live 30 or 30 from each other; they did not divide the property, they have one ax and one sifter for two; but each has a pair of wind baskets and a broom; if needed an instrument, one flies to another, taking baskets under his arms and a broom instead of a tail]: Graham 1954:36.
The Balkans. Croats (northern Istria) [giants passed or threw a hammer to each other from mountain to mountain; {several options}]: Smirnov 1998:368-369; Bulgarians (Staraya Planina) [Lord, having destroyed the first world - small people, created a world of tall and big people; they were called "Zhidovtsi"; they could serve each other everything they needed when one was on one mountain and the other on the other; one plowed Mount Nogae, broke his ralo and, since he forgot his Teslo at home, asked another, who was plowing on Mount Gyrkov, to give him his own repair; he filed]: A.T. Iliev 1891:202 in Smirnov 1998:356-366; Bulgarians (The Trojan part of Staraya Planina) [Kral Marco in St. Yumrukchal (the tallest in Staraya Planina) and his sister (on a lower mountain) cut wood with one ax; when one chop, he will throw an ax to another]: Smirnov 1998:366-367.
Central Europe. Russians (Pomors, Solovetsky Islands, 19th century) [brothers named Kolga, Jozhga, and Konchak had one ax and one cauldron for three; they threw them across the sea to each other as needed; and similar variants]: Smirnov 1998:350-352; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, Kargopol) [Konyra and his two brothers Zalaznykh Taray and Zalaza had one ax for three and threw it to each other as needed]: Smirnov 1998:353-354; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Konosha District, 1994) [the village of Valdeevo in the former Kargopol district was founded by two brothers Isaac and Konur; they had only one ax, and when they cut down the forest for their homes, they threw an ax from one bank to other]: Drannikova in Smirnov 2009:360; Russians (Zaonezhye; P.I. Ryabinin-Andreev, self-recording) [Andrey and his wife began to build a hut on the west bank of Garnitskaya Bay, and his brother Zakhar began to build a hut on eastern; on Sundays, oatmeal pancakes were baked, and two had one pan; one daughter-in-law sintered and the other passed it like this: she would go ashore and throw the frying pan on the other side on the ice; thus they threw an ax and a saw until everyone bought it for themselves]: Smirnov 1998:456; Russians (Olonetskaya, P.N. Rybnikov, 1860s) [two lived along the mountains in Tolvuy, Kizhi and on the Pudozhsky shore of Lake Onega sisters, baked pancakes, threw them from mountain to mountains; now hordes of evil spirits live there; {and other northern texts}]: Smirnov 1998:357; Russians (Vologodskaya, west of Totma) [Yermak's homeland was a little to the west; Yermak and his son had one ax and, if necessary, handed it to each other]: Cvbhyjd 2009:264; Russians (Pskov, north of Pskov) [such heroes were they threw an ax 10 km across the forest to each other]: Smirnov 2009:365; Russians (Tverskaya) [heroes played throwing iron stupas to each other]: Pletnev 1903:7 in Koroleva, Chetina 2019: 129; Russians (? Vitebsk, Sebezhsky district, now Pskov region) [the wasps had one ax; they threw it from the settlement to the settlement three miles away so as not to waste time walking]: Smirnov 1998:362; Russians (Kaluzhskaya) [in Meshchovsky Uyezd near the confluence The Ugrians in the Oka preserved the memory of the shank; two brothers Golyaga threw an ax to each other 30 versts]: Smirnov 2009:355; Russians (Nizhny Novgorod, Lukyaninsky u.) [Atamansha Marina is an atheist and Stenka Razin lived on opposite sides of an impenetrable forest; when M. decides to see S., he will throw him six miles (a big staple), and he will throw him an ax for her]: Mamakin 1890 in Neklyudov 202:33; Russians (Ryazan) [legend is attached to three mounds where they see the settlements of the former Vozhskaya serif; they were inhabited by three heroes; they had one ax for all; how chop one firewood, then throws an ax to another, and that to a third; {and other Ryazan texts}]: Smirnov 1998:360-361; Belarusians (? , Smolenskaya) [heroes live in some towns on Khmar and Sozh; the hero of the Ryadnyansky Kurgan is a friend of Gorodchans to whom, to his neighbor; they throw snuff horns; Akulinsky and Kholoshchevsky heroes throw axes]: Dobrovolsky 1897:379 in Smirnov 1998:361-362; Belarusians (Brest, Pinsk districts) [wasps were 20 meters tall, the axe was served to each other across the river]: Smirnov 1998:363; Western Ukrainians (Galicia) [downo were so big that they gave each other an axe across the mountain]: Yu.A. Yavorsky 1915 in Smirnov 1998:363; Poles (border) with Slovakia) [the Velkoluds were the predecessors of today's people, they fed axes to each other from mountain to mountain]: Smirnov 1998:364; Poles (Gdynia) [two giant brothers settled on different shores bay; when one finished work, threw an ax to another]: Smirnov 1998:371.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Chechens [Techa and Tsai sledges lived 4-5 km away and loved each other; playing a pandura and singing melodies, I. tore off a rock three or four arbs in size and threw T.; she danced on it a stone, making one pothole with your foot and the other with your hand.]: Dalgat 1972:289-290
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians (20 texts, all groups: Zemaites, Dzuki, Aukshaits) [giants throw an ax from mountain to mountain; in one variant, one of the giants dropped an ax into the Curonian Bay and asked for another give him your own]: Smirnov 1998:469-370.
Volga - Perm. Komi-Permyaks [called the "Old" Juchkimi. As if they had only one rocker, they threw them to Oshmys. Used one]: Koroleva, Chetina 2019:129; Komi-Perm [strongmen Perya and Mizya, playing, threw axes and large stones that still lie in the Lepye River]: Belitser 1958:351 in Koroleva, Chetina 2019:132: The Udmurts [another uncommon legend says that a hero girl lived on the mountain under which the village stands; another similar one lived beyond the Kama River, on a mountain that is located near the Tatar village of Kulyukova, on the right bank of the River. Ika; Zakamskaya Mountain is still called Kyz-Tau (Maiden Mountain); these two heroes handed each other a comb in the morning; the name of the girls has not been preserved in the people's memory]: Potanin 1884:195; marie [ heroes Oran, Izhmari and Durnaran from Mount Orvui ("peak-fortress") exchanged huge boulders with hostile heroes on a neighboring mountain]: Koroleva, Chetina 2019:151.
Western Siberia. {Russian borrowing?}. Southern (?) Khanty [on the Lower Irtysh, you can see two mountains along the banks; two hero princes lived there; the eldest on the right side was called Tsingaida, and the youngest on the Ldeva was Teboret; they had one ax, which in the case needs were transferred to each other]: Baturin 1897:83 in Smirnov 1998:354; the southern Selkups [two hero brothers lived on Keti; one robbed a Russian, took a saw and an ax; then the tree was still broken with a stone; the brothers lived on both sides of the Angi River and threw an ax and saw to each other]: Sokolova 1982:133 in Smirnov 1998:355.