I38. Psoglavtsy. .11.13.14.16.17.21.26.-.35.39.-.41.

There are creatures that combine the characteristics of a dog and a person (usually people with dog faces or heads).

Bafia, Shilluk, Sakho, Algerian Arabs, Germans, South Yemen, Kachin, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians, Russian written tradition, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Ukrainians (Verkhovyna, Poltava, Mariupol), Dargins (Muregins), Zoroastrians, Swedes, Sami, Finns, Estonians, Livonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Maris, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Khakas, Altaians, Buryats, Mongols, Shirongols, Forest Nenets, Mansi, Southern Selkups, Chukchi, McKenzie Delta, Polar Eskimos, West Greenland, East Greenland (Kulusuk), Kuchin.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Bafia [Djam finds a fruit tree belonging to a psoglavk {he does not look like a human, but like a great ape, climbs trees}; bears fruit to his mother, she wants more, he brings her to the tree; she eats until she is unable to move; tells her to hide it in a termite; when she hears the curses of the psoglavnik, she curses him herself; he drags her to drown, the bird tells his son, he comes running with as a dog, a dog escapes in a tree; next time the same, but the son did not have time, the dog drowned his mother]: Binam Bikoï 1977:83-88.

Sudan - East Africa. Shilluk [two out of 10 hunters lost their way, ended up in a women's village; asked where their husbands were; one of the dogs jumped on a man and killed him, dogs were women's husbands; the second boy lived 5 months in this village; the dog gave him three cows, put him on his back, took him to the border of the country, told him what he saw, otherwise he would die; but the young man was silent; the dog appeared to him again in a dream, In the morning, the young man spoke about his adventures]: Westermann 1912, No. 82:201-202; sakho [a man came to a country where men are dogs; one woman hid him; while her dog husband was hunting, they ran away, climbed a tree; a dog ran, a woman told the man to kiss her, the dog died of grief; then the fugitives came to the land of giant snakes, then to the land of cannibals; there the woman tasted human beings, her man left, came to normal people; bought a cat, came to a country where there are many snakes, the cat killed them, he sold it for a high price]: Reinisch 1889, No. 4:113-116.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs [the merchant has three daughters; the youngest Aisha is the smartest and most unfeminine valiant; when leaving, the merchant tells his daughters to share any food with the cat; the eldest daughters did not share, the cat extinguished fire; A. went to get the fire, came to Gulya's hut; he sits on a donkey's head, donkey's head instead of a spoon; ghoul brought donkey meat, began to cook; A. calls Gulya a handsome young man, says he cooks lamb and interferes with the soup with a golden spoon; the ghoul gave fire, but scratched A.'s leg to find a way to her house by drops of blood; at home A. told her sisters to remain silent if a ghoul appeared; when he came, she answered his questions are as he likes: sitting on a golden chair, he mixed lamb soup with a golden spoon; the ghoul left; so many times; Father A. returned; A. dug a hole, covered it with her skin, threw brushwood into the pit; when the ghoul came, A. said she really saw it; the ghoul fell into the hole, A. set fire to brushwood; ghoul: if there was even one bone left of me, she would take revenge; A. began to shovel the coals, the bone scratched her on the cheek; after that, A. became even more inclined to male activities; the Sultan's son came to her; she agreed to the condition that she would put her ring on his finger; when he went hunting, A. put on men's clothes, met the Sultan's son, who did not recognize her, won and took away the ring; a week later she asked about the ring; everything was clarified; the Sultan's son left in disgrace; A. went on a journey; in Lions come out of the sea in a coastal country, devour people; A. put images of lions on the walls, the sea lions were afraid and left; A. sailed to Seksar Island; the man said that cannibals live there- Psoglavtsy, he ran away from them alone and hid, climbing a tree; on the other part of the island, a local inhabitant jumped on that man's back and refused to get down; told him to wear it, and he picked the fruit from trees; the man ran, the branches began to hit the person sitting in the eye, the man threw him off and ran away; in Yemen, A. defeated a monster with a crooked sword, whose name was Horath; began to rule this country under the name Dzou Horath]: Filleul de Pétigny 1951:24-38.

Western Europe. Germans [Adam Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis: There is a country of women on the east coast of the Baltic; women conceive from the wind or from drinking water; these women's husbands are dog heads]: White 1988:138.

Western Asia. South Yemen [the sultan will give his daughter only for jumping on horseback to the height of the wall surrounding the race site; this is done by Az'uz Kalb (Azuz Dog"); the sultan is surprised, but gives his daughter; AK - the leader of people with dog tails; when their son is 3 years old, goes to fight; if the wife sees a pack of crows, then he is dead, let him go back to his father with her son; crows fly wife leaves; meets on the way old man; he accompanies her; the child behind the woman's back bit the old man in the ear, asked his mother for another ear; the woman explained that he was an ogre like his father and other relatives; the man killed cannibal child, the woman returned to her father]: Canova 2002:139-143.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin (jinpo): Elwin 1958a, No. 5 [Overseas lies Dog Country, where men have dogs of heads and women have ordinary heads, these women are beautiful; if an ordinary man gets there, all women try them take possession of it, and the Psoglavtsy tear it apart; puppy babies are raised, human babies are killed; if a woman calls her husband a dog, she goes to the Land of Dogs after death]: 188 (=1958b : 206); (cf. 1958b, No. 6 [against the will of his parents, Choumoklang sailed to trade; his boat was stuck in the grass, others thought he was a sinner, threw him into the water; he sailed to a village of women; these women in In another life, husbands were called dogs; now at night dogs tear them apart, and in the morning the knot splashes living water and they come to life; C. ran away, got into the land of sinful men; they wear gold on their heads helmets; C. put on, screamed in pain, the helmet was hot; it was punishment for C. hitting his mother; Phara forgave him and returned him, C. became God himself]: 207-208).

China - Korea. Ancient China [in the far northwest lay the Land of Dogheads; they were descendants of Huang Di (to great-great-grandson H. Longming was born two white dogs, became the ancestors of dog heads), or descendants of the dragon dog Panhu; all P.'s male offspring had human torso and dogs of heads, while the daughters were very beautiful]: Yuan Ke 1987:206; Chinese (northern) [there is a country in the north where men are psoglavtsy, eat raw meat, and women understand Chinese, eat human food; or it's a country in the east in the south the sea; one man was captured there; he fled with many bones; threw them to stalking dogs, who took them home, the man escaped]: Eberhard 1968:463-464.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Bongard-Levin et al. 2002 [(Latin quote and translation from Solin; Solin. 52.27-28); Megasthenes says that different Indian mountains are inhabited by peoples with dog heads with claws, those who wear leather clothes do not use voices for human communication, but barking from their open mouths]: 183-184; Stahl 1982:196 [Simmius in Apollo: And I saw a famous tribe of Pollups, who a dog's head with the strongest jaws grew over their strong shoulders; they, like dogs, bark, and they do not know the glorious name e no donkey dog head with the strongest jaws; they, like dogs, barking, and no 000000000000speech of other mortals], 198 [Avla Hellius, with vague reference to Greek historians of the 6th-4th centuries BC, "people with dog heads and barkers who feed on bird hunting and wild animals" live in the mountains of India], 199 [in Zachariah Ritor's History (6th century AD, Syria) "dwarfs and dog-like people live outside the Caspian Gate on the other side, next to Bulgarians and Alans"; Slovenes: Arkhipova 1962 [a girl meets a psoglavtsy; hides on a pine tree, but they uproot it, imprisoned her in a castle, she is guarded by an angry cat; the old man teaches her to give meat and cut off the tail in which 9 devils sit; a girl crawls out through a hole in the ceiling and, following the cat, descends to the ground on a tree growing next to the castle; at home, she cuts off the heads of 12 people when they try one by one crawl into the house]: 177-179 (=Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:162-163); Kropej 2012:132 [dog heads are believed to have killed giants], 202 [it is believed that the Huns led by Attila were Psogloans]; Kropej 2012 [Psoglavtsy can have only one eye in the forehead or one in the forehead and the other on the back of the head; have one leg; Attila is considered the leader of the Psoglavtsy]: 201-202; Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, Bulgarians [songs and fairy tales mention dog heads; sometimes mix with cyclops]: Petrovich 2004:228-229; Bulgarians [a hero with an unusual appearance (half an animal) is the son of a bear ( the bear stole the princess, the son grew up, returns to people with his mother; the bear converges with the man, gives birth to a hero); the hero serves the king, with the help of an elder (heroes with wonderful abilities) performs dangerous assignments (to bring firewood from the forest on a lion, bear, elephant; collect tribute from wild people, from psoglavtsy); the tsar rewards the hero (gives half the kingdom, gives control of the country to the Psoglavtsy, etc.)]: Daskalova -Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 650A: 228; Greeks: Megas 2012, No. 304 [father tells his sons to guard his grave for three nights; either give three sisters first to marry them (cannibal, lion, eagle, or others); older brothers fall asleep, younger kills a many-headed monster; fights a dog head (many other episodes)]: 32-34; Schmidt 1877, No. 14 [Alexander went east, conquering everyone he met on the way; defeated one-legged winged animals; psoglavtsy; when he reached uninhabited lands, left his soldiers waiting for him and went alone; when he reached the sea, he fell asleep under a tree; when he woke up, he saw an island where magnificent a city surrounded by a wall; the beauty told me not to try to go any further - you will die; this is an island of the blessed who get there after death; yet she has indicated a hole through which to look at the dead; returning to his companions and taking the most faithful with him, A. entered the land of the dead with them; saw the enemy king in chains, darkness around; this is the area where the damned are; A. ordered them to return ; some picked up the land, and when they were born, they saw that it was gold]: 145-148; Hungarians [the queen is dead, the king went to war, the little queen remains; the Hofmeister wants to lime it so that give the throne to his son; in the stable, an unkempt foal tells the boy to bring him hot coals; swallowed them and became strong, telling him to take a silver outfit out of his ear, collect gold and silver, sit on it, brings him to the city; gives a whistle to call him, jump away himself, telling everyone to answer all questions "I don't know"; the king takes him to him; he serves in the kitchen, grew up; every time the cook leaves him to watch the soup, he spoils the soup (threw a cat into the cauldron; added salt; burned a pig); he was assigned to the poultry house, he beats eggs, releases chickens; assigned to the gardener; calls his horse and tramples the whole garden; he was made a swineherd; the royals must throw an apple at whoever they want as husbands; the youngest threw it at the swineherd; they were placed in a boardwalk; older sons-in-law hunt; Dunno every time calls a horse, sells silver and gold game to his sons-in-law for a hundred gold, they do not recognize him; the Dog Tatars attacked, Dunno smashes them; the king praises them, asks them to come to the ball; Dunno spoke, came to wife; everything was clarified, the king gave him the throne]: Ortutai 1974, No. 9:189-230; Romanians: Sveshnikova 1979 [căpcăuni - people with a dog's head; with two heads, one of which is a dog; with two snouts, one of which is like a dog; with a dog face on the back of the head; has four eyes located on the back of the head; swallows children with one mouth and large pieces of human meat with bones, from the other spits out bones]: 210-211; Gaster 1915, No. 92 [the rich man has sons Cuckoo and Mugur; Alexander the Great took them into his army, raised them; the army led by them killed the Psoglavtsy (dogs above the waist, women were stolen from people, men were fattened and killed); A. came to the country of women with an army; they are beauties and warriors, and their men are women; K. fell in love with a local woman, and M. remained indifferent to them; when A. led the army to the gates of paradise, Munura was allowed in, but K. was not allowed, because no one could enter heaven with his wife; the cuckoo and his wife turned into cuckoo; the cuckoo continues to call his brother ]: 284-287; Romanians (Bukovina) [the Psoglavtsy had three eyes: one on the forehead, one on the top of their heads, and the third on the back of their necks; people could not run away from them because their eyes on the back of their necks could see them; part Orthodox Christians believed that cinematography came to Slavic-Romanian lands from the East together with Tatars and Turks; they also believed that Psoglavtsy catch people and take them with them east to the country from where they came the place where these people are being eaten]: Kotsui 2019:40-42.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar promises a daughter and half the kingdom to someone who goes to Babylon City and gets a royal porphyd and a crutch; gol Kabatskaya Fedor Burmakov (ich) volunteered; the tsar paid his debt to tavern; gave him a ship and supplies for three years; when snakes sailed around Babylon; FB tells him to let it go, he took his tail out of his mouth, missed it; Virgin: the keys are on the throne, and what do you need, under throne; FB took out a crutch and porphyry, went back; two girls with dog heads: come in; one beat him, and he killed her; at the exit, the snakes do not move apart; FB jumped over him, but his friend stayed; birds with they rushed to the ship with iron noses; FB ordered to sprinkle gunpowder and set fire to the bird {so!} He raised everyone with fire; went ashore; an old man with a dog's head: why did he kill my daughter? then FB enters a house with a lot of food; Luke came crooked, asking him to heal his eye; FB: you have to screw your arms and legs to the floor; poured tin into his healthy eye; Luke created an iron tyn around; FB killed a goat, put on his skin, butted L., he threw the goat by the tyn; FB called out to him; L.: since I was defeated, here's my copper saber for you; FB touched his little finger, it got stuck, had to cut it off; L.: then there is my sister ; FB spent the night with the girl; she asks for help to defeat the lion; the lion asks for help defeat the girl; FB helped the lion (to do this, you have to turn to the Lord); the lion took him to his hometown, but warned him keep silent about riding a lion; FB gave the crutch and porphyry, got the princess and half the kingdom, boasted at the wedding; a lion appeared: now eat it; FB: it was hops that boasted, not me - try it yourself; the lion fell asleep, FB He shackled him, but said that it was his hops that shackled him; released him and the lion left]: Onchukov 2008, No. 48:169-173; Ukrainians: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970 (Transcarpathia): 154-156 [young man marries; wife in the third year stolen by the dogs; the husband goes in search, sees the wife kissing the dog head; comes to their house, fights with the dog head, the wife hits her husband with a log; he calls his dog, she breaks the window, tears The dog's stomach; the man finishes off his lover, kills his wife; marries another], 207-210 [three shepherd brothers spend the night in the woods; they hear a scream, Mikola answers, the dog giant comes out with one eye in his forehead, asks why his name was, leads him to him, locks him in the hallway, decides to fatten him first, then eat it; M. knocked out his sleeping eye with a log; the dog head hit the ceiling, fell from the attic through a hole nuts; M. throws nuts in the corners, then to the door, the dog head goes to the sound, opens the door, the brothers run out; the dog glavets throws a ring to Mikola, he puts it on his finger, the ring screams, the dog head runs to his voice; M. breaks the ring against a stone, throws it into the abyss; the dog glavets rushes after him, breaks; other dogs chase their brothers, they cross the river with the sheep, the dogs stop persecution]; Novitsky 1912 (Western 1875, Mariupol district of Yekaterinoslav Gubernia): 176 [=Dragomanov 1876, No. 3:2; There was no death, but one-eyed psoglavtsy; they caught people, kept them in pits, fattened and slaughtered like pigs; people asked God to send the Seven, she came with a scythe, killed the Psoglavtsy; they still exist in a distant country], 176-177 [the girl went to Kiev for a praying mantis; met two one-eyed psoglavtsy; they took her to the lion to the house where the lion and grandfather, also previously caught people; they left themselves; the girl poured boiling water on her grandfather, ran away with the people, leaving the watchman lion meat] (both texts quoted in Belov 2004:151-152 with reference to Dragomanov 1876:2; Ukrainian tales 1993:260-261); Rudchenko 1870, No. 45 (Poltava, Piryatinsky U., c. 1878) [Gypsy falls asleep on the grave, kills a hundred flies with his hand, asks the clerk to write a table "Ivan the Great Warrior beats a hundred souls in one fell swoop" (not a quote). He lies down on the road, the king passes by, demands to move, he does not move, telling him who he is. The king asks to beat the overseas army, he agrees if there is lard. Gypsies are fed, given a regiment of soldiers, everyone has an armful of straw in their hands, when they set fire to them, enemies see a fire army, flee into the sea, and drown. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to defeat three dogs, he asks for bacon, he is fed. He lies down at the gate, the dogs cannot enter, they notice the gypsy, they recognize him and invite him to go with them, he agrees on the condition that he becomes the main one, he blindfolds them in front of the river, as if He's going to order the river to cross them, kills them. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to exterminate the snake, he eats up, lies down at the gate, the snake recognizes him (the text of the sign). The serpent offers to be comrades, says that he is Luta (evil spirits), the gypsy says that he is Pra-Luta. They come to the Serpent's father, he offers to compete in the run, the gypsy exposes his "son" - the hare, who overtakes. Father Snake offers to compete in throwing a mace, the gypsy barely carries the mace in the field, the Serpent throws it up - it returns in 2 hours, the gypsy is afraid that if she does, she will not return. The serpent discourages him from throwing: his father has only 2 maces, it's a pity to lose. Father Snake offers to compete in whistles, the Serpent whistles - leaves fall from the trees, the gypsy blindfolds him - so as not to get out of his whistle, hits his forehead, his eyes come out of his orbits. The gypsy realizes that the Serpent wants to kill him, puts a bag of straw where he sleeps, covers him with his robe, the snake hits the bag, the gypsy says "the mosquito bit". The serpent collects a bag of money for the gypsy, he is met by gypsies, the gypsies say that it was the devils who came for the soul of the Snake. He throws his bag and leaves, the gypsy receives an award from the tsar]: 185-187; Russian written tradition [Russian edition of Serbian Alexandria (a list made at the end of the 15th century by Kirillo-Belozersky Monk Efrosin): Alexander, together with his army, "came to the land of dissenting people; the same people are as follows: their whole body is human, their heads are dogs, or they could speak like a human being and barking like dogs. And Alexander destroyed many of these people and traveled their land all in ten days, came to the sea to a certain, and then allowed the soldiers to rest"; "Alexander persecuted them {pagan peoples} to the high mountains that They are called Severn, and when he found a suitable place here, he walled them up in the mountains so that they would not go to lands inhabited by people. <... > the peoples that Alexander concluded are: Gotti and Magoti, Ninagosen and Agiyosi, Zanihi, Navanrisi, Fethi and Anevia, Afarzanias, Clemiadi, Zanetiri, and Teyani, and Martians, and Hamoni, Agrimatri, and Anuphagea, and Fardei, Ananeni and Salatari"]: Botvinnik et al. 1966:42, 55, 107, 120.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Dargins (Muregins) [there is a country where men turn to dogs at night]: Khanagov 1892:153.

Iran - Central Asia. Zoroastrianism (Bundhah) [Seven couples descended from Mashya and Mashyan, one of these couples, Fravak and Fravaka, and from those 15 couples, each of which became a race; of these 15, nine passed to the other Kishvars, and six remained in Hwaniras; of the 25 races descended from Mashya and Mashyan, there are some that live in the ground; in water; those with ears on their chest; those with eyes on their chest; one-legged; with wings, like a bat; forest; tailed; and those with a hairy body; various people live in Hwaniras: span tall; chest eyed; dog-like heads and whose eyebrows look like human; who eat tree leaves and drink goat milk]: Chunakova 2004:156

Baltoscandia. The Sami [pädnaknjunne ("dog faces") find people by smell, devour; the girl got lost, came to P.'s house, his wife hid her, her husband came back, smelled it, the wife told the girl run; the girl hid under the bridge, P. ran by, lost track; P. also has only one leg and one eye]: Læstadius 2002:233-235; the Swedes [Swedish stories about hundturk are the same as those Sami (about a girl hiding under a bridge), but there is no idea that they are half creatures]: Læstadius 2002:234-235; Estonians [where heaven meets earth, Russians hold back dog heads; if they break through, they will destroy all people (retelling in Toivonen 1937:97)]: Eisen 1919:234-238; Toivonen 1937 [(according to Loorits 1929:177-178; Virittäjä 1920:232); if the dog's face goes on the trail of a person, you have to put on your shoes with notes in the opposite direction, hide under the bridge; the dog face will stop at the bridge, say, From there he went, he went there]: 98; Pskovskaya set provinces [pininõnaga rahvas ("walking") run faster than a horse on their only leg]: Toivonen 1937:99; Finns [koirankuonolaiset, -kuontolaset - people with dog faces; man hid from dog face under the bridge; he stopped at the bridge, said, From there he went, went there, there was a way to heaven]: Toivonen 1937:97-98; the Livons [psoglavtsy (su'd-purmõd) appeared from communication women with bears (and wolves?) ; they are more ferocious than all animals, they live somewhere far away; enemies once arrived, people fled backwards; enemies let psoglavtsy hit them, but people sprinkled salt on their tracks]: Loorits 2000 (4): 86; Latvians: Aris 1971 [stepmother turns off all the lights in the house, sends her stepdaughter to pick fire to the Psoglavets castle; on the way, the stepdaughter, in response to their requests, milks the cow, shears the sheep, unravels the horse; gives bells, tells him to dance until he gets fire; the mouse tells him to take the fire itself in the kitchen, take the smaller of the two wallets; the cow, the sheep, the horse answer that the girl ran to his castle; stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not help the animals, takes a large purse, it's hard to run with him, the animals tell the dog where the girl ran, he tore her apart; stepdaughter married the prince]: 213-216; Aris, Meedne 1977, No. 327 [Children and a dog. The dogs caught the children, fed them nuts to eat. The kids roast the dog's wife and run away. The dog chases them, sees the reflection of children in the water, laps the water until it bursts]: 277; Lithuanians [in ancient times, the role of a "weapon" that exterminates people was played by one-eyed cannibals "Peseglavtsy"; Death later appeared in the world]: Belova 2004:152.

Volga - Perm. Marie: Akzorin 1991, No. 116 [the man went into the forest, the dogs put him in a hole; they have one eye in the middle of their head, one arm, one leg; they fed him nuts; he pushed the stones away, ran]: 178; Toivonen 1937 [by Ödön Beke, Tscheremissen Texte zur Religion und Volkskunde 8; pi-nereške ("doggy") with one leg and one arm live in the Siberian taiga; from one person will be saved, from two - no, they'll sniff it out and eat it]: 99.

Turkestan. The Kyrgyz [episode from the Manas epic; 600 hunters sent by Manas were returning with their loot; the Div Cyclops captured 400 of them and started throwing them into the cave; Kutu Mergen hits the Cyclops with an arrow in the eye , frees 92 prisoners who languished in a cave for 2 to 7 years; one of them described how he arrived in the Italian country, where women are beautiful and men are like dogs]: Abramzon 1971:360; Kazakhs [one family lived in an area illuminated by the moon and covered with ice; their men were gray dogs, hunted, and women were human; a Kazakh came to such a man's house; invited the woman to run with him; they loaded the property onto the sleigh; not finding his wife's house, the dog chased; the wife successively threw things on the ground; every time the dog took the thing home, returned; when things were over, reached warm places where the dog could no longer chase]: Kaskabasov et al. 1979, No. 28:58-59; Uighurs [8th century AD Tibetan commentary on the northern provinces: 5 Uighurs talk about their wandering; the first dogs, red and black, came down from heaven; married a she-wolf but had no children; then they kidnapped a Turkic (drugu) girl; she gave birth to children, the male children were dogs, female - people; the race of people from the red dog is Ge-žir gušu, from the black dog - Ga-ru gu-šu; their mother became the mistress of their wealth, herds and food; in the same source: two army warriors Ž ama hagana got lost in the desert, came to the land of the Sun; there a woman and her dog husbands helped them return home; Plano Carpini: Het'un place a dog country north of Tatarstan]: White 1988:134-135.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas: Butanayev 2003 [dog-headed Mokhsagals are stupid and afraid of rain; when they entered the yard, they should have hid in chicken coops]: 108; Butanayev, Butanayeva 2001 [Khakas killed dog heads]: 108; Butanayev, Butanayeva 2001 [Khakas killed dog heads cannibal giants mohsagala (from Mong. moss, moss - "dog"), digging hunting holes]: 24; the Altaians [two heroes got lost; went into the giant's cave; he had one eye in his forehead, fried a dog head; he made them his own as shepherds, every day he brought a man with a dog's head, ate it; when he returned without prey, he ate one of the heroes, fell asleep; the second heated an iron rod, burned his eye; he closed the iron door; the hero clung to the ram from below, went out with sheep; came to the village of women whose husbands are dog heads (nokhoy-ertyns); they said that the giant Kirgis was hunting them; the man brought NE to the one-eyed cave, NE killed him; asked the man to be their khan, gave the giant's sheep, gave a wife; the man returned home]: Nikiforov 1915:245-246; Buryats: Potanin 1883, No. 70 [lives in the east a people whose women are people, men are dogs; children will be born if people urinate facing them in the first three months of spring; therefore, you should not pray for east]: 323; Khangalov 1959b [(Unga Buryats); in the east, in the dog kingdom of Nokhoi Hani uram, all men will be born dogs, but large; women are ordinary; perform the hurulha shamanic rite, for their sons to be born human; the Buryats considered it a sin to urinate at night while facing the SV, because as a result, this person's son may be born in the dog kingdom]: 220 (same 1960, No. 129:362); Oirats ( dyurbuts) [Kuner Khan lives west of the Russian tsar, followed by Shibit Ulus, then the ridge, beyond the Nokhoi Erte Ridge (- erten, - ergeni), who have men with dog heads, and women are human; one man came there, a woman told him to go; he hid in a cave; wounded and then killed her husband, a dog chief with a gun; ran away with her to people; she began to lose weight; he began to feed her bones and she is prettier again; the Mongols do not urinate to the west in the evening, because this gives birth to normal children, whom they tear apart and make sakiyus out of them]: Potanin 1883, No. 70:322- 323; Shirongols (Sanchuan) [1) there are Nohoi Bargasu people on the NE side; there are beautiful women, and men look like big black shaggy dogs; the people are rich in sheep and goats; they eat only meat; 2) there are people with with a dog's head and one leg; they walk around hugging two at a time]: Potanin 1893, No. 19:351; the Mongols ["four strangers" are the Tsod people with one leg, the people are girls, the people with an eye in their chest, the people with a dog's head]: Shara Tuji 1957:178: Zhukovskaya 1994:80.

Western Siberia. Forest Nenets [the girl, contrary to the ban, makes threads from her veins when everyone has already gone to bed; Valkalshuta (a man and a dog half) enters the plague, offers to work together, goes for a vein from the dog's back leg; the girl washes her face with cold water, lies down; V. tries her foreheads, the sleeping forehead is cold, the girl's forehead is still hot; takes her away]: Turutina 2004:88; Mansi [{source?} ; human illness and death are the business of dog-headed demons living in the Lower World]: Kosarev 2003:68; Southern Selkups [dog-headed people came to Vasyugan's upper reaches from the north; there were few of them, they lived in those parts, then disappeared]: Tuchkova 2004:144.

The Arctic. The Eskimos of the McKenzie Delta [two sisters swam for berries, left their brother in the boat; he woke up, tried to get off the boat and drowned; the sisters were afraid to go home, went at random, got to dog heads; the eldest was married by a caring husband; she gave birth to a dog-headed son, then a man; her husband and his relatives took her to visit - it turned out to be the one who married her younger sister; her Her husband is cruel to her, but she also has two children; the sisters run; first they run to the eldest's house, where their dog-headed sons are strangled; others come to their parents; they all managed to sail across the island in a boat; the eldest feels sorry for her husband, the youngest says it would be better if her husband killed her right away]: Ostermann 1942:36-39; West Greenland: Grønnow 2009 [ekkillik (pl. ekkollit) - dog people, live in hinterland; especially in Thule (polar Eskimos) and East Greenland folklore; they have an upper human and a dog's body; sometimes attack a village on the coast; lousy, they excellent scent; armed with a bow and arrow]: 198; Millman 2004:72-73 (Rittenbeck) [a shaman goes to search for a country where the Caribou live when they leave the coast; makes himself invisible to Dog heads, so they don't bite him; comes to the ice house where the caribou live; when he returns, he is silent about what he sees, otherwise people would go there to kill the caribou, and the shaman's guardian spirit is punished would turn it into a larva], 106-108 (Saqqaq) [two sisters and little brother go for berries, brother drowned, girls are afraid to go back to their parents, come to dog heads, get married there; both give birth first a dog head, then a normal boy; mothers do not want to look at the former, fathers at the latter; the older sister overhears that dogheads are going to eat them after feeding them; they kill dog heads sons, run away with normal ones; on the way, children are strangled; sisters resort to parents, tell them to leave in umiak, dog heads bark on the shore; sisters marry normal people, although they regret dog-headed husbands]; East Greenland (Kulusuk) [husband killed, wife gives birth to son, he immediately demands a wife, mother swims with him to look for a wife; they get to the Psoglavtsy, the wife tries to bite off the husband's genitals, he kills her; elsewhere, the wife has long nails, they rip off the meat from her husband, the boy kills her; in third place, the wife is childless, the husband kills her, people are outraged, they force him take a woman no one wants; she's boring, her husband cries at the graves of three previous wives]: Millman 2004:131-132.

Subarctic. Kuchin [the older brother has two wives; he ties up the younger brother, lowers the deck into the sea; the young man asks the seagull to swim in front of him, the sea calms down, brings the deck ashore; the white wolf tries to gnaw through the fetters, the marten succeeds; the young man comes to a village where there are only dogs; there is meat there, but the smell of a dog makes it impossible to eat it; he enters the dark passage, sees the feathered skin of an eagle hanging, puts it on, flies to the village; children recognize eagle skin, pierce it; adults invite him to live with them; these people are dogs below the waist; the young man stays in the house where the girl marries her, his they feed mouse legs, mice are deer for them; local people do not know what sleep means; the young man falls asleep, others think he is dead; when he wakes up, he says that he has learned the secret of sleep in a dream; throws his eyes into the fire the hare, the people around him fall asleep; these people hunt polar owls, ask him to catch owls; he shot one, she fell into the house where his wife scratched her to death; the prepared mouse fell into the fire and burned down; dogs believe that the young man is to blame, tell him to leave; he comes to a deer hunter with second eyes on the back of his head and his skis curved at both ends to walk both ways; his with a sword he killed all dog dogs; the young man puts on eagle plumage again, flies over the sea, creates an island to rest if he wants; flies to his brother, who promises him one of his wives, but the young man grabs him for his hair, lifts it, throws it into the river, he drowns; the young man comes to his two wives, one has parasites caresses, the other has mice; he cleaned the women from them, slept with both; pierced his chest with one eagle feather, she gave birth to a boy; one day he went hunting, grabbed him by the heel, dragged him into the water and drowned by a huge pike; it was his older brother]: Petitot 1886, No. 5:56-67.

(Wed. Central Amazon. Munduruku [(europ.?) ; munduruku and a rubber collector sail to the sea, enter the land of dog people; dog people chase them for mistreating their grandchildren (Munduruku dogs); they sail by ship from sea to heaven, where they meet Karusakaibë; he sends the munduruk back to earth]: Murphy 158, No. 50:126-127).