Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

I38A. Dogs are women's husbands .13.16.19.21.25.26.29.33.34.40.

Human

women's husbands are dogs or psoglavans.

Shilluk, Sakho, Germans (conditionally north), Vatut, Kachin, Paywan, ancient Chinese, Dargins (Muregins), Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Buryats, Mongols, Shirongols, West Greenland ( Saqqaq).

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.

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.

Melanesia. Vatut [the brothers heard the sound of water in the roots of the breadtree; the elder shot, the water did not appear; the youngest fired an arrow with his left hand, the water poured in, carried away the brothers; the elder clung to the tree, the younger stream took to the mouth of the Markham River; women with dogs lived there; women found a young man, packed the dogs into the house, set fire, and the dogs died (some turned black from the fire, others turned gray with ash); the older brother came to the younger brother; the youngest took a betel in his mouth, touched his wife's genitals with his mouth and chewed a nut there; the elder told me not to do this; went upstream, became a stone; the younger one went down]: Fischer 1963, No. 11:144.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachin (jinpo) [overseas lies the Land of Dogs, where men have dogs of heads and women have ordinary heads, these women are beautiful; if an ordinary man gets there, all women try to take possession of it, and Psoglavtsy tear it apart; puppy babies are raised, human babies are killed; if a woman calls her husband a dog, after death she goes to Dog Land]: Elwin 1958a, No. 5:188.

Taiwan - Philippines. Paywan [Pungudan people stopped paying tribute to Qalu people with dried meat; they went headhunting, but when they approached the village, they saw a beautiful girl and decided not to attack, but to take a girl to marry; but it turned out that she did not have genitals, but a tail; and when it was time for dog weddings, the girl's genitals appeared; the girl said that her mother was human and her father was a dog; and when she gave birth, it turned out to be twins]: Whitehorn, Earle 2003, No. 7:66.

China - Korea. The ancient Chinese [in the far northwest lay the Land of Dongheads; 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.

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

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. Buryats: Potanin 1883, No. 70 [there are people in the east whose women are people, men are dogs; children will be born if people urinate in the first three months of spring, facing theirs side; therefore, at this time you can't pray east]: 323; Khangalov 1890 [(Unga Buryats); in the east, in the dog kingdom of Nohoy Hani uram, all men will be born dogs, but big; women - ordinary; perform the hurulha shamanic rite so that their sons are 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 a dog kingdom]: 19-20 (=1959b: 220, same in 1960, No. 129:362); Oirats (durbuts) [Kuner Khan lives west of the Russian tsar, followed by Shibit Ulus, then the ridge, behind the Nohoy-Erte Ridge (- erten , - ergeni), who have men with dog heads and women are people; one man came there, the woman told him to leave; he hid in a cave; wounded and then killed her husband with a gun- psoglavtsy; ran away with her to people; she began to lose weight; he began to feed her bones and she became prettier again; the Mongols do not urinate west in the evening, because this gives birth to normal children, whom they are they tear them apart and make sakiyus out of them]: Potanin 1883, No. 70:322-323; shirongols (Sanchuan) [1) there are Nohoi Bargasu people on the SV side; there are beautiful women there, and men look like big black shaggy dogs; the people are rich in sheep and goats; they only eat meat; 2) there are people with a dog's head and one leg; they walk hugging two at a time]: Potanin 1893, No. 19:351.

The Arctic. West Greenland (Saqqaq) [two sisters and little brother go for berries, brother drowns, girls are afraid to return 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]: Millman 2004:106-108.