Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

I57. Thunder is chasing the enemy. .12.14.16.21.-.29.31.-.37.39.44.45.47.53.59. (.64.) .66. (.67.)

Thunder's opponents are animals, reptiles, and spirits living in burrows. They usually hide from him in various objects and objects, Thunder (god, angel, etc.) strikes their opponents or these objects with lightning.

Krachi, Egyptian Arabs, Germans {while link to Afanasieva, I'll find the original}, kachari, kachari, lakher, kooki, Zhuans, Birkhor, northern India (Hindi), Semangi, Tsoo, Lisu, Romanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Gagauz people, Poles, Czechs, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Tula), Western, Northern and Eastern Ukrainians, Belarusians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Adygs, Nogais, Terek Cossacks, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Eastern Sami, Finns, Estonians, Lutsi, Livonian, Latvians, Lithuanians, Komi, Udmurts, Chuvash, Mari, Mordovians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Khakas, Altaians, Telengits, Tofalars, Tuvans, Baikal and Trans-Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Eastern Khanty, Northern (?) and southern Selkups, Kets, Central, Western and Northeastern Yakuts, Western, Sym and Far Eastern Evenks, Evens, Nivkhs, Udege, Orochi, Nanai, Markovo, Menominee, Algonquins, Eastern Ojibwa, mikmak, seminoles, pech, bribri, trio, machigenga,

West Africa. Krachi [a species of lizards shows contempt for the thunderstorm god Saa; in retaliation, he throws lightning at them when he enters their homes]: Cardinall 1931:117-118.

North Africa. Egyptian Arabs [shooting stars - darts God throws at evil genies]: Lane 1860:223.

Western Europe. Germans [Thunder chases devils and hits where they hide - trees, houses, etc.]: Afanasiev 1994 (1): 264-265.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Kachari [the widow's six sons notice an unusual taste in rice; the mother says that the neighbor has given seasoning; this is the excrement of a huge snake; brothers find a snake in the forest; she suggests that they pick it off tree leaves without tearing them; they fail; they cannot hit the snake with arrows; swallowed; at home, a thorn pierces the mother's hand, she gives birth to a new son; he plucks the leaves without damaging them, kills them the snake, extracts living brothers out of it; they do not believe that the young man is their brother, they drive him away; he turns into Thunder, turns the brothers into various types of lizards; when they see them, he sends lightning every time; the mother tried follow her youngest son, hovered between heaven and earth; clouds are her tears]: Soppitt 1885:52-55; Lakher (Tlongsai, Hawthai) [lightning occurs when thunder axes collide in the air; their throws Khazangpa at the Pachichariapa lizard; sitting on a tree looking up, it swells and then exhales air; a stream of wind hits X.'s son's ass, then H. himself is angry, trying to kill the lizard]: Parry 1932:499; cookie: Das 1945 (purum) [The lizard tells celestial beings that not to fall into its tail; puts out its tail, they hit it with guns are thunder strikes]: 217; Parry 1932 [Wulai lizard climbs a tree and screams defiantly; in response, God throws an ax at it]: 499.

Burma - Indochina. Zhuang (Yunnan) [the sky was close to the ground, since then the tops of bamboo have been crooked as they rested against the sky; the thunder god emitted lightning, blinking his eyes, creating gusts of wind with his wings, blows legs - thunder, an ax and a chisel in his hands, destroyed everything with them; came to visit a man named Bubo; after eating and drinking, he decided that he should collect tax from farmers; B. offered him a choice of tops and roots ; he said that he was a celestial, so he chose the tops; B. planted a tarot, the thunder got rotten leaves and dry stems; the following year he chose roots and B. planted rice; the following year he chose roots, and B. planted rice; the following year the thunder promised to take both the tops and the roots, but B. planted corn and took the cobs; the thunder told his General Lumeng not to send rain anymore; B. told people to open the locks of the heavenly river, water irrigated the fields; then the thunder raised the sky higher, leaving only the sun and moon tree to communicate; B. led the people to take water from the underground dragon, but he was the thunder's brother and refused; then B. grabbed him by horns and told him to pluck his beard; the dragon gave him water; but in the third year there was drought again; the thunder sent General Lumang to repair the locks; B. climbed a tree into the sky, pushed L. into the river; one of the warriors, Qigao, warned that the thunder was going to kill people by drought; B. put his sword to the thunder's throat, making it rain; the thunder descended to take revenge, slipped on wet mats, caught and tied; B. went to get salt so that, after killing the thunder, he would pickle his meat; telling his children not to let him go, not to drink him, not to give him an ax; the thunder persuaded them (they gave him water with indigo paint, so he turned blue ), gained strength, flew out; gave his tooth, telling him to plant it: only Fuyi and his sister will be saved during the flood; the thunder opened the locks of the heavenly river, and the dragon released the waters of the underground lake; B. swam in an inverted umbrella; the thunder wanted to hack him with an ax, but B. cut off his legs himself; the thunder was afraid that B. would be in the sky with the waters of the flood, threw off the water; B. fell with his umbrella on the mountain, crashed, his heart bounced to heaven and became Venus; F. and his sister escaped in a pumpkin (which grew out of a thunder's tooth); came out when the waters came down; turtle, bamboo: you must marry; brother and sister: if you come alive, let's get married; they killed a turtle, cut bamboo, they were reborn; Venera-B. also told them to marry: light fires on two mountains, if the columns of smoke merge, then you can; sister gave birth to a piece of meat; they had it cut and scattered, people came out of the pieces; the thunder attached cockclaws to his feet instead of the severed feet; after the dragon's beard was pulled out, two pieces were left: his carp children had them ; Qigao has become an earthworm; when it crawls out, the thunder tries to cut it in half; if worms crawl out, it means a thunderstorm; shamans have become over turtle shells and bamboo stems know the future]: Miller 1994:137-150.

South Asia. Birkhor [yellow frogs jump and voice on trees during the rainy season; Ram and Lakshman {possibly perceived as one Ram-Lakshman character} throw arrows at them, producing thunder ; these are the stone axes sometimes found]: Roy 1925:498 (quoted in Elwin 1949:89); kamar [the evil Raja Kans raped all the beautiful girls; but Bijloki, when K. swung his sword to her kill, flew to heaven, became lightning, complained to Indra; he has been throwing his arrows at K. ever since, but only hits trees, houses and people]: Elwin 1954, No. V.6:68-69; Hindi (northern India, Mirzapur) [ the Khaiwars says lightning is God's arrow that he fires in pursuit of demons]: Crook 1892-1893, 185:47).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Semangi (batek tech) [Karei in gold clothes cuts down trees and kills spirits with a gold and iron sword; thunder is his voice, lightning is its reflection or shadow]: Endicott 1979:174.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tsow [the expression grandfather in heaven sings means "thunder thunders"; when this grandfather sings, the spirits of trees and rocks here and there imitate him in ropax, which makes the "grandfather" angry and splits trees and splits stones; Lightning is considered the gleam of the eyes of an angry "grandfather in heaven"]: Nevsky 1935:67.

China - Korea. Lisa [husband and wife live in a hut on the property; husband went to the village to buy groceries; at night a hairy hand sticks into the hut and tells the woman to scratch it; the wife told her husband; he cooked hot mites and a sword; grabs his hand with ticks, the spirit calls for help; others ask: cooked or raw? the spirit replies that it is cooked; others shout that there is nothing to be done then, run away; the husband pierces his sword into his hand, the spirit runs away; in the morning the husband finds a sword that has pierced a neighboring banyan; since then, lightning has often struck banyan]: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:570-571.

The Balkans. Romanians [St. Ilya strikes devils with lightning; God has decided to save some so that people themselves turn to God for help, and St. Let Ilya kill devils only on his own day; but St. Ilya does not know this and hits rampantly wherever devils hide, even in churches, dogs and cats]: Murgoci, Murgoci 1929:149-150; Bulgarians [black clouds lead challahs (lamias) {dragons}; When they see them, snakes climb mountains and fight off; they are fiery snakes sending fiery lightning arrows; challahs run, try to dodge, try to hide near the nests, then lightning kills them]: Marinov 2003:51-52; Macedonians: Ortenzio 2008, No. 6 [during the thunderstorm of St. Ilya chases a dragon in the clouds, and he tries to hide wherever he can]: 164; Douma 1893 [during a thunderstorm, Ilya rides across the sky in a chariot of fire and fires lightning arrows at the lamia to prevent it from destroying crops ]: 284; Serbs [during the thunderstorm of St. Ilya strikes devils (either the dragon is Azhdaja, or God himself beats the devils)]: Jankovich 1951:44; Gagauz people [during the thunderstorm of St. Ilya throws fiery arrows at shitans who hide behind humans, cattle, in people's homes; therefore, cats and dogs are expelled from their homes during a thunderstorm]: Moshkov 1901:56.

Central Europe. Russians, Serbs, Poles [Thunder chases devils and hits where they hide - trees, houses, etc.]: Afanasiev 1994 (1): 264-265; Czechs [lightning strikes only an evil spirit, dancing around a person; if an evil spirit hides in a person at the very moment lightning flies, it will kill both]: Grobman 2015, No. 203:59; Russians (Arkhangelskaya): Efimenko 1874:171 ( Pinega) [lightning, at the behest of God, chases devils; falls into trees where an evil spirit hides; goes through pipes and windows because it looks for a fleeing line; kills people and cattle because sees them as a demon], 185 (Shengursky y.) [(thunder) arrows chase evil spirits]; Russians (Tula) [during a thunderstorm, Ilya strikes evil spirits; devils hide behind people, cattle, trees; once the hell began to tell God that he will hide behind someone (lists: man, cattle, stone, man) and he will feel sorry to kill his creation; God says he will break the line, and take the righteous to heaven]: Kolchin 1899:14-15; Ukrainians: Abramov 1914 (Novograd-Volynsky) [thunder - God strikes an evil spirit with a fiery arrow]: 381; Kravchenko 1920 (Volyn) [during a thunderstorm, the Lord shoots an unclean one with an arrow, and he hides under a tree , in a pile]: 5; Chubinsky 1872 [The devil tells God that although he will hide under man, God will not kill him; God replies that he will kill a person at the same time, send him to heaven; the devil has listed all the objects, nodes with which he will hide, but forgot about the hazel; therefore, only under it you can escape from the thunder arrow (Podolsk Gubernia, Ushitsky Uyezd); lightning is a weapon in the hands of Archangel Michael, striking, like an arrow, a "butt" and young demons (Kholm Rus); {and a lot of data of the same kind throughout western and central Ukraine}]: 19-24; Fedorov 1903 (Voronezhskaya, Zemlyansky u., pp. Eater, Latanoe, Shumeiki) [Thunder - when the Lord goes across the sky to wash, and the Mother of God runs after Him to milk the cows and with the pomelo, which produces lightning, throws the pomelo and protects the bread; the prophet Ilya rides across the sky in a chariot of fire - the wheels knock, that is, thunder, and the chariot makes fire, or lightning. At this time, unclean souls leave the sky in the form of a flying serpent; whoever a serpent flies will be killed by thunder, and if into a tree or a house, lightning will light]: 258; Belarusians [1) Vinogradova 1998:138; fishermen do not leave a fish caught during a thunderstorm that has too red eyes - this is a devil hidden in a fish; 2) Duchyts, Sanko 2004:439; devils who hide in the water during a thunderstorm turn into fish; such fish are red eyes, these fish cannot be eaten; 3) Romanov 1891:7-8; during a thunderstorm, a man hid under a tree, noticed two fish in the hollow; stepped aside, and the thunderstorm broke the tree; there would be many devils if Perun hadn't been pursuing them]: Razauskas 2009:323.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bartsyts 2005 [God pursues the line and shoots him, who hides behind a tree, an animal, and even a person who must say during thunder and lightning, Yes God bless us]; Lukyanov 1904, No. 4 [George the Victorious is constantly chasing the line, firing his arrows into mountains, trees and other objects in which he hides]: 28-29; Chursin 1956 [in thunderstorm time heavenly forces (god Atha, St. George, angels) chase evil spirits and hit them with arrows or bullets]: 156; Ossetians [devils can only be seen if they want to; they are afraid only of wolves, lightning, fire and iron; lightning hits devils wherever he can catch up; when he meets the devil, he needs to show wolf claws]: Rahno 2020d:154; Adygi (Bzhedugi) [thunder pursues witches, genies, devils he kills, and the mother of thunder runs after her son and rattles, saying, "don't kill people, son!"] : Outlev 1965:190; Nogais [when the Sheitans try to climb to heaven, they stand on top of each other; struck by lightning thrown by angels, they fall, making thunderous sounds]: Aleynikov 1893:5; (cf. Karachays [Yoryuzmek found the Mother of Heaven in the sky, she put her wind chest in his mouth; he stayed there, protecting heaven and earth from evil spirits; thunder was his cry, mists were breathing, rain was sweat, lightning is a fiery lasso that he throws at enemies; sometimes the lasso, when it falls off, reaches the ground; when he cuts enemies with a sword, there are lightning]: Aliyeva 1994, No. 143:596); Terek Cossacks: Baranov 1899, No. 2 (art. Troitskaya) [demons try to penetrate into heaven; Ilya the prophet does not allow them to do so, chases them in a chariot and hits them with arrows; the roar of the wheels of his chariot causes thunder, and the flight of arrows causes thunder lightning; demons try to hide from Ilya on the ground: they enter animals or run along the road, so during a thunderstorm, in order not to be killed, you should not stay near animals and walk along the road; arrow, launched by Ilya, can also hit a person]: 171; Georgians (Guria) [with each lightning strike St. George kills one of the devils; if the devil tries to hide near a person, he may die from lightning]: Mamaladze 1893:113-114; Megrelia [God summoned St. George to heaven, sending an angel after him; seeing that St. George eats a whole bull, and at night he reduced his stomach because they don't eat so much in heaven; during a thunderstorm, St. George jumps across the sky; lightning is the arrow that hits the line; and he hides in the sea or with a fly under a tree]: Fähnrich 1997:79-81; Armenians: Bagriy 1930 (3) [during a devils thunderstorm hiding underground]: 127; Lisitsyan 1992 (Nagorno-Karabakh, 1920s records) [thunder comes from an old woman filling a bag with stones and rolling it across the sky, and lightning is a sword (staff) in the hands of angels (God) with which they chase and smash the evil spirits of kowls; from blows This sword, demons try to hide underground or hide under high rocks and trees]: 170.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami: Kert, Zaikov 1988, No. 11 [when the Devil rattles, God is chasing, bumping into trees and smashing them; God has a cart or chariot with all his possessions, he runs and it rattles]: 129; Potanin 1883 [Thunder chases sorcerers]: 747; Finns [during a thunderstorm, the devil runs away, hides under a tree or rock, and lightning strikes where he hid]: Jauhiainen 1998, No. E1401:210; Estonians : Eichenwald 1982 [the supreme god Uku (Vanataat, Vanaisa) thunderstruck evil spirits who could only hide from him in water]: 167; Loorits 1998 (2) (Saarema) [God (taat) in a thunderstorm chases demons (saadana ingleid); one of them, Külmking, hides in houses]: 71; Valk 2012 [broken stones are broken by thunder (pikne) that hit the line (vanasarvik); sometimes people see how black a dog, rooster or other animal of unusual color rushes under the building, and then lightning strikes; the fire from a lightning strike should only be filled with milk]: 44; Lutsie (Western 1933 from the latgalka in Russian) [the child is naughty, mother: to hell with you; hell take him away, he grew up in hell, and then began to walk the hell on the ground; hell goes to bed and tells you to wake him up if a thunderstorm breaks; at the sound of thunder the guy goes to wake up the devil and get a hat {what, why?} ; Ilya threatens: go away, don't touch; struck the line with lightning]: Annom et al. 2018:321; Livs [The thunder haunts all unclean spirits and especially the Devil; he often tries to hide in the oven under the cauldron, Therefore, during a thunderstorm, the cauldrons are turned over to prevent the Devil from getting in; Thunder also chases witches and sorcerers]: Loorits 2000 (4): 52-53; Lithuanians: Afanasiev 1994 (1) [Thunder chases devils and hits to where they hide - trees, houses, etc.]: 264-265; Razauskas 2009 [the girl was walking across the field, lifting the hem of her skirt, zippers gushed into her eyes; she heard a voice, "Lower the hem"; a male pike fell out from under her skirt, Perkunas hit him as soon as the girl walked a few steps]: 323; Veckenstedt 1883 (Samogites) [Perkunas pursues devils and sorcerers; when they gather on the mountain, he sends storm clouds at them]: 131; Vėlius 1998 [velnias stole a stone from Perkunas, laid it in the foundation of his house; since then P. has been chasing the foundation of his house; since then P.M. has been striking with lightning; V. climbs tall stones and trees see where P. comes from]: 54; Latvians [Velns (devil) likes to take on a pike appearance; if thunder strikes during pike spawning, there will be no fish in summer]: Razauskas 2009:323.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Limerov 2005, No. 23 [Yong threw the Devil to the ground, he hid under the fir, Yong ordered Ilya the Great to drive the Devil out of there; since then, lightning strikes fir during a thunderstorm], 24 [during a thunderstorm, Ilya Muromets, kneeling, rides across an iron bridge in a cart drawn by four pairs of horses; the sparks from under the wheels are lightning, the arrows from his bow are lightning; the goblin tries to hide under the fir, in the roots of a pine tree, on the boundary - where they argue]: 36; Ulyashev 2011 [Elijah the prophet was the youngest, his brothers offended him, he complained to Ena, who gave him a thunder arrow, told him to chase the Devil if he hid under fir or spruce]: 58; Udmurts: Vereshchagin 1886 [Shaitan hides from a thunderstorm in an eggshell, so the eggshell must be broken]: 79; Moshkov 1900 [Ilya Prophet and his son ride tarantas and sometimes they will meet and argue; lightning: Ilya the Prophet shoots at Sheitan; if he hides behind the best man, he still shoots, so the person killed by lightning is considered righteous; eggshells cannot be thrown at the whole view on the ground, because shaitan hides in it during a thunderstorm; if lightning strikes a tree, you can see a flame at the top - it's sheitan's blood burns]: 198; Perevozchikova 1988 [during a thunderstorm, a person notices roach in his sheath, throws it away, lightning immediately hits it; it was Shaitan, who turned roach; you can't wear an empty mottle, an empty sheath, Shaitan will climb there during a thunderstorm]: 45; Potanin 1884:222 in Plesovsky 1972 [during the thunder, the Votyaks drive the dogs out of the house, Shaitan hides in them; Thunder pursues Sh., he teases him, climbs a tree, stands upside down, shows Inmar a bare ass; if I. does not enters S., then burns a tree]: 44; (cf. Potanin 1883 [according to South Russian belief, witches climb crosses upside down to shoot stars from the sky)]: 816; Munkaćsi 1952:68-70 in Ulyashev 2011 [the hunter took refuge from the rain under the Christmas tree, saw a naked man who teased Inmar by patting his bare ass; I. could not hit him with lightning; the hunter shot Shaitan; for this I. made the hunter's gun hit without miss]: 59; Chuvash: Ashmarin 1984 [numerous stories about the devils that Toură pursues to hit them with lightning and thunderstone]: 27; Denisov 1959 [tour ă pursues evil spirits with thunder and lightning; to escape persecution, devils fly into a chimney, hide in trees or human hair; therefore, lightning strikes people, etc.]: 19; Salamis 2003 [Tour ă pursues the spirits of Usal and Shuittan; during a thunderstorm, they look for places to hide: they hide in the water, under the manes of horses, run into people's homes ( archival materials)]: 11; Marie: Moshkov 1900 [Kyuderche-Yumu rides three horses in a chariot, produces thunder, throwing stones at evil spirits; if evil spirits get into the water, then there into it impossible to hit]: 198; Ramstedt 1902, No. 10 (mountain) [during a thunderstorm, the hunter sees the devil dancing and hiding under a stone from lightning strikes; a man shot into the line and at the same time lightning hit the line; then the man met the old man; he thanked him for his help (he himself tried to kill this trait three times) and indicated where to dig the treasure]: 195-196; Mordovians: Smirnov: 289 in Endyukovsky 1932 [ Purgine Pass is armed with a rainbow and stone arrows; fights against devils who tease him; if Satan kills, his blood flashes and the object in which he was hiding lights up; Satan depicted as snakes]: 234; Harva 1952 [lightning and thunder axes are pirgine weapons with which he strikes evil spirits]: 158; Bashkirs [god sends an angel to punish Satan; angel directed and drove the clouds that thunder in the collision, punished Satan with a whip; at the end of the whip there are pebbles of fire that break and produce lightning; the devils hide from lightning in a person's home, so lightning strikes and there]: Rudenko 1925:300; 1955:315-316.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Valikhanov 1985 [thunder is the angry voice of God, lightning is the arrows with which he hits the devils]: 59; Castagné 1932 [during a thunderstorm, an angel shoots arrows into the line, and he hides in panic where hit, growls (thunder) in houses; lightning is the blows of a whip with which an angel drives clouds; Chokan Valikhanov writes that lightning is arrows fired at an evil spirit]: 54.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakasy: Butanayev 2003 [lightning is the arrow of the Stormbringer Kügürt-Chayachy or Ah-Khudai himself; he throws his arrows at the devils to cleanse the land; evil spirits usually hide under larch]: 51; Patachakov 1958 [if a thunderstorm broke a tree, an evil spirit was hidden in it, driven by heavenly spirits]: 96; Altaians: Alekseev 1992 [with lightning, according to all ethnic ideas groups of Altaians, bright deities chase evil spirits; God strikes a tree with lightning if an evil spirit hides behind him; in spring, during the first thunder, telengites burned juniper, They poured milk on the fire in the hearth, hid all the iron objects, covered the dishes with white cloth, and drove the dogs out of the yurt into the street because they could be a refuge for supernatural beings, who entered the home with malicious intent; the telengits did not touch trees broken by lightning (T.P. Yustukova's message)]: 34-35; Anokhin 1924 [evil fods do not like rose hips and other prickly plants, they crumble into dark places when thunder and lightning flashes]: 27; Potanin 1883, No. 2.16 [lightning strikes chipmunk and flying squirrel]: 141; telengites [lightning strikes chipmunk for stabbing out eyes of Tangre's youngest son]: Potanin 1883, No. 2. 17:141; Tofalars [if a tree breaks a tree during a thunderstorm, it is the Lord who came down to kill the Devil]: Katanov 1907, No. 48:609; Tuvans : Katanov 1907 [the dragon causes lightning when it waves its tail, thunder causes its cry; when Aza enters the tree, Purkhan chases him and splits the tree; the dragon's arrow (fulgurite) looks like a heart; useful only in the hands of an experienced shaman; in the hands of a weak one it is dangerous for the patient, for the shaman himself and his children]: 82; Potanin 1883, No. 2.2 [Uly-Kairakan produces thunder; winters in high mountains, and in summer climbs sky; throws lightning at a chipmunk, which for some reason he is angry with], 2.3 [Hormusta-Tost-Kara-Tengir throws lightning at people and animals who have done something contrary to the heavenly Kairakans]: 139; Tuvans : Potanin 1883, No. 2.2 [Uly-Kairakan produces thunder; winters in high mountains, and rises to the sky in summer; throws lightning at a chipmunk, which for some reason he is angry at], 2.3 [Hormust-Toast throws lightning- Kara-Tengir in those people and animals who did something contrary to the heavenly kairakans], 2.15 [lightning strikes chipmunk and flying squirrel]: 139, 139, 141; Trans-Baikal Buryats [Araahan Shudher u Ehirian Buryats are a hairy devil; shows a cookie to Huhedei Mergen, hides under the tail of cattle, flying squirrels, human clothes, the roof of a building, etc.; H. sends lightning that strikes the offender along with the object under which he fled]: Manzhigeev 1978:17; Baikal Buryats (Alar): Potanin 1883, No. 2.12 [Tengri produces thunder; tries to kill Arakhyn-Shitkur a, who hides behind a tree and then in a crack, and after a thunderblow teases T., jumping out of the crack elsewhere and showing him his finger]: 141; Sandschejew 1928 [during a thunderstorm, Jasal-Sagan-Tengri throws fire arrows at evil spirits]: 975; Oirats (durbuts) [Tengri rides a lu (dragon); when he pulls the lead, Lou gets angry and screams like a camel; T. throws an ayungo arrow at a one-legged tyrin, who runs so fast on one leg that the arrow barely reaches him]: Potanin 1883, No. 2.1:138-139; Mongols: Potanin 1883, No. 2.4 [1) lu is bo, shaman; 2) lu is a heavenly camel in which three people; one sits between their humps, hits a tambourine, which causes thunder; the other waves a white flap on which the Tangut prayer (lightning) is written; the third sips the excuse from the camel's mouth water flows: it's raining]: 139.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty: Karjalainen 1995 [Tremugan represents Pai (thunder) if he is moving as a large, black, loud screaming and capercaillie bird, but usually as anthropomorphic creature; the Rainbow is his bow, the ancient stone weapon found in the ground is his arrow, which he shoots to kill the cantah-ot spruce screaming in the trees of Forest Cobald; when they break in a storm trees, dragging along caught Forest Cobald, who in trouble tries to cling to trees and at the same time breaks and pulls them out; whoever finds a thunder arrow becomes lucky fishing and hunting]: 221-222; Kulemzin, Lukina 1977 (Vasyugano-Vakhov) [thunder and lightning - rolling across the sky and screaming of a bird that looks like a female capercaillie with wings in the form of two mallets; when she opens her red mouth, lightning sparkles; you can't get close to it, screams loudly; in winter it flies to warm lands or her throat freezes; Torum sends lightning from a rainbow to a tree where an evil spirit hides]: 124; Selkups: Golovnev 1995 (northern ones?) [Machil Vines boasted that he could hide under any tree, Nom would not reach him, invited N. to look for himself; N. began to strike thick trees with lightning; after a thunderstorm, he found scattered trees in the bushes the remains of M.; during a thunderstorm, N. is looking for M.]: 504; Pelikh 1972 (southern) [devils live in the ground, hide from Thunder behind the forest; Thunder hits the forest, breaks to pieces; the stone point is the arrow of Thunder]: 338-339; Kets : Alekseenko 1976 [Thunder was credited with the ability to hit evil creatures hiding at the butt of deciduous trees on its way]: 92; Anuchin 1914 [when the Kynsi, wanting to harm people, make their way from the north, covered by a black cloud, Doh strikes them with thunder and lightning; during a thunderstorm, you should not hide under a tree, because D. may not see the knots who took refuge there and, mistaking them for Kyns'ya, kill thunder; lightning is obtained from Doha's arrows hitting a cloud, like a spark from a flint hitting a flint]: 8.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts: Alekseev 1975 [Thunder - Shuge Toyon, "Axe Mister", produces thunder and lightning, chasing evil spirits]: 35; Tolokonsky 1914, No. 99 (place of recording not specified, mentioned mediation by A. Kulakovsky; probably central) [The devil, when creating the world, threatened God that he would settle wherever he wanted: in man, tree, animals, etc.; God replied that he would drive him away with lightning strikes and hit him those objects where the evil spirit has settled]: 84; Western (Vilyuan) Yakuts [Hara Sÿrk then j he (Thunder, formidable black) is at odds with the abasa, tries destroy the objects where they settle; during a thunderstorm, the abasa hides in the folds of a person's clothes; all garments must be removed and discarded one at a time until the thunderstorm passes; two people were driving during a thunderstorm on horseback; the front saw a boy in thin clothes, sat him behind him; the lightning shone more; the same in front of him; the boy asked to go into the man's mouth to warm up; the man threw him off; the fallen was struck lightning]: Popov 1949:270; northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts [during a thunderstorm, the Yakuts do not fall under a tree; the devil hides in the tree, hit by a thunder arrow]: Khudyakov 1969:276; Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Khatanga, Western 1928) [The winged man killed, ate people; Agda's boy (thunder) grew up, found him, burned him with lightning; but his soul remained; A. is still chasing Winged in the sky]: Osharov 1936a: 25-27; Western Evenks [spirit thunder pursues and kills opposing spirits with stone arrows and on the same basis kills people and cattle]: Rychkov, pp. 81-82 in Levin 1931:111; Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1969 [The Evenks believed that Malken lived in stumps and harmed humans; Exary sent lightning to Malken, which killed him in a dry barrel]: 222; Simonov 1986 [when she heard thunder, the informant said that she should not be killed, and "the devil went in that direction"]: 25-26; Far Eastern Evenks (Orochons) [Kandykakh is an anthropomorphic demon who has a huge mouth instead of a head; devours animals, hunters are left without prey; then Agda, the owner of thunder, in the form of a man with eagle wings, throws hot daggers - thunder arrows - into his mouth; they burn his stomach, he goes to the lower world for a while]: Mazin 1984:18; Evens [Helergun turned into a beetle on larch; the heroes of the sun hit it with lightning, a thunderstone, but H. is unharmed, takes the stone; the Fox sits on the second larch, also unharmed, carries thunder in the mouth]: Weaver 1986:164-165.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivhi [the lightning bird is at odds with the mountain man; fire comes out of its mouth; produces thunder when it flaps its wings; in winter, lightning birds hide under the ice, mountain people through the ice-hole they stab their horns; in summer, lightning birds smash stones and trees in which mountain people hide]: Kreinovich 1929:94-95; 1973:33-34; Udege people: Arsenyev (archive) in Bereznitsky 2003 [at their feet a person guilty of violating ancestral customs, an evil spirit tries to hide from the thunder Agda; striking an evil spirit, A. also kills a person; the soul of such a dead person does not enter the afterlife; his they are buried in a coffin without equipment, the burial site becomes taboo for other people]: 160; Podmaskin 1991, No. 11 (~2013:38) [dwarfs bugze live in caves, stole fat from Thunder; for this he chases them; the woman got a cup of fat from them that never runs out; the children told her where he came from; she went to the bugse], 12 [The thunder sleeps in the winter; at this time, the bugze dwarfs stole his fat; that's them friendship is over; he throws stone wedges at them that can be found in trees], 13 [The thunder sleeps in winter; at this time, the bugze is hunted, the fat is cut off; in the summer he grows stronger, drives them]: 122, 122-123, 123; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [Agdi's thunder is a snake with wings, sleeps in a cave in winter; his daughters are Sausalid's rainbow and Agdi Sauni's lightning; help father track down the evil spirit with mirrors, S. - only during the day, AS - day and night; A. fires fire arrows at evil spirits; Agdi Holoni's swift is his assistant; collects water from rivers with his beak, sprinkles clouds; when water accumulates in them, it rains]: 35; Orochi [asexual Agda's spirit of wind, thunder and lightning is a huge snake with legs and wings spewing flame from its mouth (Arsenyev's archive); during a thunderstorm, Enduri drives evil spirits and throws them at them lightning; stone axes were sometimes found in the roots of trees torn out during a thunderstorm, considered A. (Sternberg 1933:410); if people are guilty, A. throws axes at them too]: Bereznitsky 1999:31-32; Nanais [during a thunderstorm, the thunder dragon Mudur pursues buseu devils hiding into trees, people, etc.; in every tree broken by lightning they find a piece of white stone - a thunder ax]: Shimkevich 1896:127-128.

SV Asia. Markovo [lightning strikes only creatures and objects that the devil hides behind; silice-colored fragments of stone are called thunder arrows]: Dyachkov 1992:233.

The Midwest. Menominee [thunders come out to ward off snakes that are harmful to humans, snakes can't stand thunder]: Hilger 1960:49-50; Algonquins [Manabozo pursues Pap-Pook Kivis a (a character who in other episodes - a trickster who looks like M. himself); P. hides on a pine tree, ripping it off; M. runs up, a pine tree asks to cure it, which he does; so with several different trees; with a moose; A. hid under with the roots of a tree in the form of a snake, M. smashed the tree with lightning; in the rock, P. was finally killed, M. turned it into an eagle, the leader of birds]: Schoolcraft 1999:100-102; Eastern Ojibwa (southern Ontario)]: Laidlaw 1915:23 [during the storm, the hunter climbed under a leaning pine tree; after lightning hit a nearby tree, he saw two little black men about two feet tall; these were thunders; they climbed into the sky like an (invisible) staircase, and lightning struck again; thunder and lightning keep monsters on the ground and in lakes], 24 [toothy monsters hit by thunder and lightning are long 12 feet and a half or two in thickness; they look partly like snakes, partly fish; they move underground and in water].

Northeast. Mikmaq [Thunder - seven rattlesnakes living under a mountain seven miles high; produce thunder by shouting and rattling their tails when they fly across the sky; hunt snakes and frogs; if the snake hides under with a tree, hitting a tree; at this moment we see lightning]: Hagar 1897:104-105.

Southeast USA. Seminoles [little men live in tree hollows; therefore, trees are struck by lightning to try to hit them]: Gallagher 1994:61.

Honduras - Panama. Pech [a girl conceived from foam on the river, gave birth to nine boys without pain, they rose to heaven, became Thunders; if people are chased by something bad (for example, a snake), they destroy this evil by throwing stone, save people]: Flores 1989:74-75; bribri: Segundo Sánchez 1997:79-80 [at the thunder Alá wife - Rain; A. pursues evil spirits; they hide in caves, but duck and cancer they search for them and tell A.; evil spirits try to approach people, hoping that A. will not shoot at them with his Serbakan, but he still shoots; spirits for him are game; when he smokes dead , smoke can be seen above the mountains; this is the fog that appears in the spring after the 1997 storm period []: 46], 81-82 [same; the biggest game A. hunts is the water jaguar Díkum; killing a crossover the river of man, D. tries to hide, because he knows that A. will soon chase him; A. broke the cave in which the mother and grandmother of the land girl Iriria hid her; for this service he asked Sibö for a little corn, cocoa, referring to people (they are edible plants for him); S. agreed to give only those who do not follow the regulations].

Guiana. The trio [after losing a singing competition to Jaguar, the Lizard produces thunder; the Jaguar consistently hides in a hollow, under a rock, in a hole, but thunder destroys his shelters]: Magaña 1987, No. 16:135.

(Wed. Eastern Amazon. Spiking [Marušawa, son of Kuńarima, broke the vessels from which water poured in and into it male and female Pai (water spirits and Thunder at the same time); Pai asks K. for grass to draw lightning stripes on his shoulders and arms; K. does not give it, P. finds it himself; when his enemy Otter chases him, he throws lightning at her; the sky splits briefly and the upper world is visible]: Nimuendaju 1920: 1029).

Montagna - Jurua. Machigenga [Kurakuna ("Thunder", from Kech. kuraka - "leader" with the plural suffix -kuna) are good spirits that strike demons and spirits of diseases with their weapons; lightning is the brilliance of their crowns; their dogs - bears]: Baer 1984:165-166, 181.

(Wed. Bolivia - Guaporé. Siriono [Amêy's main deity, "grandfather", is associated with thunderstorm and rain, rain is his tears; lightning gives an angry look, thunder punishes someone]: Lunardi 1938:206).