i87A1. Small or big - dialogue .29.32.-.35.

The two are engaged in a dialogue, contradictory characterizing the size of creatures and objects.

Abkhazians, Abazins, Kabardian, Karachays or Balkarians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogais, Svans, Georgians (Imereti), Armenians, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Mongols (Khalkha), Northern Khanty.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians (Western 1934, Duripsh) [damn: what's the news? Kobluch: 8 dogs cannot eat a mosquito's thigh; devil: dogs are small; Kobluch: they ate eagles that flew into the owner's yard; hell: eagles are small; Kobluch: when they sat on the roof, their wings touched land; devil: the palace is small; Kobluch: each room will accommodate 8 camels; devil: camels are small; Kobluch: the tops of the pines ate; devil: small pines; Kobluch: when brother looked at the peaks, he lifted his head, so that the hat fell; hell: little brother; Kobluch: he took stones out of the well with his hand; hell: the bottom is close; Kobluch: you will throw a stone in the morning, it will not fly until the evening; hell: the day is small; Kobluch: the cow that conceived in the morning returned in the evening with a running calf; hell: you won]: Khashba, Kukba 1935:16-17 (=Bgazhba 1983:305, =Shakryl 1975, No. 89 [other translation; instead of Koblukh, just "Abkhaz"]: 395 -396); Abazins [Kabizhchikun ("little bald man") met Satan. - What is the news? - Ten men killed one mosquito. - Maybe it was a small mosquito? - Small or big, but ten shepherd dogs couldn't eat his thigh. - Were they puppies? - I don't know, but when we stood on our hind legs, they caught eagles floating in the sky. - Were they not eagles, but chicks? - One chick's wing covered ten houses. - Were the little ones at home? "Each one could hold ten camels with camels." Were camels small? - Without going down the mountain, they drank water from the river in the valley. - Was it not a river, but a stream? "If you throw a stone at him in the morning, the circles only started to go apart at lunchtime." Was the day short? - Maybe short, but a cow that took a bugai in the morning returned with a calf in the evening]: Tugov 1985, No. 120:335-336; Kabardian people [Satan: Where are you coming from? Kuytsuk ("little bald man"): from the haymaking; Shaitan: what's interesting? K.: nine mowers killed one mosquito; Satan: but he's tiny! K.: Maybe tiny, but nine guard dogs could not eat one of his legs; Satan: they were pooches; K.: maybe pooches, but each, standing on its hind legs, could catch a soaring eagle; Shaitan: They were not eagles, but sparrows; maybe sparrows, but everyone's wing will cover ten houses; Satan: houses are tiny; K.: each has twenty giants; Satan: not giants, but dwarfs? K.: everyone ate an ox for breakfast and drank a well of water; Satan: the boy's well was dug with a stick; K.: if you lower the bucket in the morning, you will hear a splash the next morning; Satan: the day was short; K.: in the morning the shepherd took calves to the mountains, and in the evening he brought a herd of bulls; Satan: you can't even harness them into the arba; everyone could drag as many as eight of our oxen could not; Satan: that you're all having fun - beshmet in patches, charyks are full of holes! K.: But I'm going wherever I want; Shaitan turned blue and burst with anger]: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 197:111-112 (=Kardanov 196:49-51); Karachays or Balkarians [(second half of a longer text); Chopai, to shut Satan's mouth, began the story; When I kicked the calves out, the wolf slaughtered the eagle and ate it; Satan: Yes, and the eagle must have been such an eagle (licked his lips; I mean small); C.: So it was that two His wings were like two rooms; Satan: The rooms were like this; C.: Camels ran freely inside; (logical pass: Satan: Berbluzhats were small); C.: If they entered the lake, the water was not rose above their knee; Satan: The lake was such a lake; C.: If you throw a stone at it in the morning, it did not reach the bottom in the evening; Satan: The day was like this; C.: In the morning, a cow that walked all day with as a bull, she returned with a calf in the evening; after that, Satan cringed and died; C. began to dance]: Malkonduev 2017:888-889; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the giant gives the poor man a cow with the condition that in three years he will ask him questions; if he answers, a cow with his offspring, if not, will take his property and family; questions: what is alone? me; what are two? my eyes; three? triangular arrow; four? a horse about four horseshoes; five? Whoever has five hundred sheep is not poor; six? Who has under 20 hay six times does not need food; seven? Who has seven who go for hay does not need food; eight? who will harness eight pairs of oxen, feed themselves; nine? I wasn't here at nine o'clock; where was I? at Terek; what did you move through Terek on? caught a donkey, made a saddle out of a hat, cinch bars out of leg bandages; probably it was not Terek, but a stream? if a donkey screams from one bank, you can't hear it on the other; is the little baby? his skin made a fur coat and hat for Uryzmag; is Uryzmag small? When a rooster sings at his foot, he can't hear his head; was he deaf? When ants were plowing in the underworld, he heard a noise; were they close to him? did shepherds get to them in a year; were they bad shepherds? they walked for a whole year and the wolves didn't even get a kid's ear; were the wolves bad? they only have enough buffaloes in the steppe for one grip; bad buffaloes? they lacked an iron yoke for one team; the giant fell silent; the poor man told him to turn into a stump with a damask ax planted in it]: 380-382 (=Kapieva 1991:356-359); Dzagurov, 1973, No. 62 [poor man was a giant's farmhand; when he asked for money for his work, the giant said, "If you give me ten answers to my ten questions, I'll give you your pay"; then the giant asked the first question: Well, one, one? Farmhand: If you take one person, there is no one like me; Two, two? There's nothing I wouldn't see with my two eyes; Three, three? The three-pinned arrow goes both into the sky and into the ground; Four, four? The four-wheeled arba rolls both in the mountains and out of the blue; Five, five? If I grab you with five fingernails, where else would you go? Six, six? Why does someone who plowed arable land on six bulls still call himself poor? Seven, seven? How can seven brothers who have mowed their mows still call themselves poor?! Eight, eight? When a farmhand has worked for a person for eight years, he must pay for the work; Nine, nine? Why does someone who milks nine cows still call himself poor? Ten, ten? I wasn't here at 10. The lame mosquito was my horse. I jumped it to the other side of Terek; giant: And if Terek was small, what then? Farmhand: Where did little Terek come from, when the eagle could not fly from one bank to the other; Or maybe the eagle was small, what then? Where did the little eagle come from when it covered an entire Nartovo village with one wing! Or maybe the village was small, what then? Where did the small village come from, when the donkey screamed from one end, he could not be heard screaming at the other end; or maybe the donkey was small, what then? Like a little donkey: with millstones and pounds of salt on his knees, he caught a hare; Or maybe the hare was small, what then? Like a little hare: a fur coat and hat for a Nart man came out of his skin; Or maybe the Nart man was small, what then? Like a little man: a rooster sang at his feet, but his head could not hear him singing; Or maybe he was deaf, what then? How deaf: when a bull chewed gum around the corner, he could hear it; Or maybe the mountain was close, what then? How close the mountain was: another shepherd couldn't get to it in a day; or maybe another shepherd was a boy, what then? What a boy he was: after all, he caught a wolf in his back legs with whom you could not help; the giant burst out of anger, and the poor man's son took his cattle]: 305-307; Dzutsev et al. 2011 [hell gave a poor man of several goats, forbid slaughtering black, gray and white; goats have bred; the poor man tells him to come for a debt on Monday.. (like this all days of the week); hell suggests a verbal duel; One - I'm not better than me; Two - I have two black eyes; Three - Fung (table) on three legs; Three more - Three faces at the arrow; Four - Four horseshoes at the horse; Five - Fingers on hand; Six - Six times 20 would have from your flock, I would be rich; Seven - Seven times let the enemy be unlucky in choosing a wife; Eight - Eight days I have not been here, I was in deep sea; - How did you get out? "I caught a lame mosquito, made a cinch out of bandages, a bridle out of a belt, sat on it and flew;" Was the sea small? - The eagle flew from one side to the other, sat down to rest on a rock in the middle of the sea; Was it an eagle? - It rained heavily over the large village of sledges, the eagle covered it with its wings, the drop did not fall; - Is the village small? - If the donkey was crying at one end, you couldn't hear it at the other; was it a donkey? "He carried three blocks of salt from afar to the mountain, chased the hare, kicked it with his hoof, which fell into the abyss;" Was it a hare? "If the rooster screamed at his back leg, his head could not hear;" Was he deaf? - Two ants were quarreling underground, he heard an argument; the goats were left with the poor man, the hell paid for the work]: 152-155; Sokayeva 2016: No. 1 (Ossetians in Turkey) [Uaig called three orphans to spend the night with him, otherwise he would eat; they cried, went to their neighbor Uastyrji; he went to ask his neighbor to shelter them, the neighbor refused - she had guests; the man with cotton ears was the same; then W. hid himself in the chimney; Waig comes, asks what is one; W. rattles out of the trumpet - God; - Two? - Two eyes. - Three? - Triangular arrow. - Four? - Four-wheeled cart. - Five? - Five huddled together (sheep). - Six? - I haven't been here on the sixth, where have you been? - I jumped across a big river. - Who was your horse? - Gadfly. - With a whip? - Fire serpent. - What was the river like? - The falcon would only fly halfway through. - Was it a falcon chick? - He could cover the village with his wings. - Is the village small? "If a donkey screamed at one end, you couldn't hear it at the other." Was it a donkey? - With a bag of salt on his back, he caught a hare with his hind legs. - His skin made a man a fur coat and hat. - Is the man small? "When a rooster crowed at his feet, his ears could not hear him." Was he deaf? - I went to listen to Dalimons (underground] demonic creatures). Waig turned into a stump out of anger. The girls cut it down in the morning and burned it in winter], 2 (Ossetians in Turkey) [the devil gave the poor goats, did not tell him to slaughter black, white, gray and red ones; the poor man told him to come not on Monday or Tuesday (so until Sundays); hell: what's one? - There's no one better than me. - Two? - My glasses. - Three? - Triangular arrow. - Four? - A horse with four horseshoes. - Five? - Five fingers. - Six? - If I had six and twenty black cattle, I wouldn't be poor. - Seven? - Let my enemy have six released wives. - Eight? - I haven't been here for the eighth time, I've been to Terk, Turk. - How did I cross the big river? - I caught a lame gadfly, made cinches out of footbands, a saddle out of a hat, a bridle from my waist. - Is the river small? - If an eagle flew from one bank, it couldn't fly to the other. - Is the eagle small? - When it rained over the village of Nart, it covered the village with one wing, but did not fall a drop. - Is the village small? "When a donkey screamed at one end, I couldn't hear it at the other. - Carrying three salt stones, I caught up and caught a hare. - Bunny? - His skin was used to make the sledge elder a fur coat and the rim of his hat. "When a rooster crowed from his leg up, he didn't hear it." Were you deaf? - I heard two ants arguing in the underworld. - Maybe he was smart? - Died from madness. Damn it, the poor man got the herd]: 147-148, 148-149; Chetita 1989 (p. Roro, Leninogorsk District, South Ossetia) [After a predetermined period, the shepherd asks the owner for his share. Host: Okay, since you don't want to serve me anymore, I'll let you go, but only on one condition: if you can answer all my questions, I'll give you my whole flock, and if not, consider you for nothing served all these five years. Shepherd: I agree, ask what you want. Host: What is one? Shepherd: Our Lord alone is all-good, he alone distinguishes the righteous from the unrighteous. Host: Then what would be two? Shepherd: The shepherd guarded your countless flock with two eyes, followed her relentlessly on two legs so as not to lose a single lamb. Host: But you'll have nothing to say about three. Shepherd: Our old Ossetian table stands on three legs, which satisfies the hungry and instantly makes the tired drunk. Host: What would you give me a damn about four? Shepherd: During all four seasons, I asked you to let me go as is customary, but you did not heed my request and my heart was filled with bitterness. Host: But you, I'm having tea, won't be able to say anything about the five. Shepherd: We have five fingers on each hand that help us live and bring us joy. Owner: They say that an eagle once stole an ox from sledges, what size should that ox be? Shepherd: Why do you believe fairy tales! Another time, the mosquito will also present itself as an ox. Host: What a mosquito there is! Uryzmag himself plowed the land on this will. Shepherd: The owner of Nart's treasures did not need to plow the land, etc.]: 58-59; Ingush [people drove a grumpy woman out of the village; she was met by Satan, who was going to the village to quarrel people; Satan: "Where are you going?" ; woman: "I'm leaving this village"; "What is happening in this village?" - "Seven dogs chewed on an ant's leg"; "How small they were, dogs" - "They were so fat that one dog ate two rams"; "How small sheep were!" - "The rams were so tall that the human hand did not reach his back"; "How short this man was!" - "No matter how deep the well was, he took out water with his hand"; "What a shallow well it was!" - "The stone thrown in the morning only reached the bottom in the evening"; "Well, it was a short day!" - "It was such a long day that the calf kicked out in the morning became a cow in the evening!" ; "Let me get rid of the misfortune of the people who expelled you," said Satan and went on the other road to another village]: Sadulayev 2004, No. 107:285-286; Nogais [khan will give his daughter for someone who tells 40 tales; those who tried but could not are beheaded; the herd says; the khan interrupts him: did the rabbit take the rabbit for a hare? - Maybe a rabbit, but his tibia could overlap the palace. - Maybe for a yurt, but 40 atans (a bare camel) were supposed to carry it. - 40 tailaks? (one-year-old camel). - Maybe Taylaks, but they could swallow the tops of 40-girths of pine trees. - Ant girths? "Maybe ants, but when old people looked at the tops of those pines, hats fell off their heads." Were the old men dwarfs? - Maybe dwarfs, but they drank water from the bottom of the well. - Were the wells ditches? "The bucket thrown there in the morning reached the bottom by evening." Were the days short? "The heifer was calving in the morning, and by evening the calf became a three-year-old ox." They drove it to the forest to buy firewood. (Tales continue, Khan is forced to give up his daughter)]: Nogai 1979, No. 42:168-172; Swana ["Oh, you are unhappy Chkintulda! The axe will be plugged in the thigh: cursed be the devils! What are you, Chkintulda, an ax for what? - I want to cut off the firewood; What are you, Chkintulda, brushwood for? - To make a bed for yourself and your wife! Do you have a wife, Chkintulda? - And what do I need without a wife! Are you, Chkintulda, your wife pregnant? - Otherwise, what do I need it for! Did you, Chkintulda, have your wife cleared? - How could it be otherwise! Do you have a son, Chkintulda? - And what do I need my daughter for! Chkintulda, do you have a daughter? - Otherwise, I only need a son! Did you, Chkintulda, have your son died? - And how could (I) raise two! Did you, Chkintulda, have you (your) daughter died? - And then she needs nothing without her brother! Is your wife also dead? - And then she needs nothing without children! Will you arrange a funeral, Chkintulda? - I'll slaughter big red and black bulls! It won't be much! - Not a little, but a lot: the skin can cover the church! This church was small. - Not small, but very big, night and day the beaver couldn't get around it! It was a little beaver! - Not small, but very big: I could jump over the spruce tree at a time! It was a low spruce tree! - Not low, there was enough across the sea! It was a little puddle! - Not small, all the light surrounded her; the sun was not enough to illuminate it! It was a little sun! - Not small, very big: all the light (it) illuminates! Damn this Chkintulda! We couldn't do anything with him: today we'll go to a resident who is close <... > It'll be a good dinner tonight!" ; C. came to that inhabitant before the devils; the devils wanted to kill the bull, C. kidnapped him; the devils went to another man; C. came before them and made porridge; the devils climbed into it; C. poured porridge into wineskin, tied it and hung it over the hearth; the devils burned down]: Nizheradze 1902, No. 5:15-21; Georgians (Imereti) [the wolf gave the poor a cow with the condition to come in three years and ask three questions; if the old men will not answer, he will eat them; after three years, an angel came in the evening looking like a beggar and stayed overnight; wolf: what does alone mean? - Unmarried. - Two? - Husband and wife. - Three? - Husband with wife and child. - How did I fly across the big sea? - Saddled a fly. - Is the sea small? - An eagle flying from one side could not reach the other and drowned. - Was it not an eagle, but an eagle? - When he flapped his wings, he covered three cities. - Are cities small? "The rider barely walked around them in three months." Was it not a horse, but a foal? - When she was dead, the owner made three fur coats and three hats out of her skin. - Was the owner small? - When the rooster sang, he hardly heard it. - Was he deaf? - When ants were arguing in the ground, he heard them speak. The wolf is gone. The beggar said he would not show up again and disappeared]: Kagan 1898a, No. 22:64-66; Armenians [the fisherman's worker let the fish go, he drove him away; he met the monster; promises to give a cow for three years, which will provide the employee and his family with food, but then he will come, ask questions if they answer badly, take it with him; before the monster arrives, a guest appears, calls to answer instead of the hosts; dialogue monster with a guest: where are you from? - From the other side of the sea. - What did you drive? - Saddled a lame flea. - Is the sea small? - You can't fly an eagle. - Is an eagle a chick? - The shadow of its wings will cover the city. - Is the city small? - Can't run across a hare. - Is the hare tiny? - You can cut a sheepskin coat, hat and a pair of mittens out of the skin. - Will a dwarf wear them? - Put a rooster on his knee, he won't hear the crow. - Is he deaf? - He can hear a deer stinging grass in the mountains. The monster is gone. The guest said he was the saved fish]: Tumanyan 1984:101-106 (=Harutyunyan 1986:127-129).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs ["In ancient times, when a goat was a commander, a duck was a sergeant, a turkey was a desyatnik, wolves were trustees, and crows were bosses when magpies were senators, and sparrows as soldiers, roosters as officers, and chickens as tolmachi, lions with horses, snakes with whips, and foxes as matchmakers, they say a khan lived"; Khan announces that he will give his daughter to someone who can convince him of his a fairy tale; many try unsuccessfully, they are executed; Erense sesen comes to Khan, begins to tell tales; among other things, he says that he exchanged ducks for a camel that could drink water without tilting heads and without bending his knees; Khan says: "It seems that your well was above"; E.-S.: "Maybe at the top. In any case, in the morning, the stone thrown at him reached the bottom only in the evening"; Khan: "Apparently your days were too short"; E.-S.: "Maybe short. But only the mare, who was a foal herself in the morning, was screwed in the evening"; the khan decides to turn the conversation in a different direction, asks E.-S. about what he did to the camel mentioned earlier; E.-S. continues tell tales, Khan gives him his daughter and half of his kingdom]: Barag 1992, No. 59:107-116.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks (west. A. Alimov in the village council of Madeli, Muinak district of the Karakalpak ASSR from a 73-year-old resident of the village. Yrysnazar Nurnazarov in 1963, during a folklore expedition. Original in the manuscript collection of the Karakalpak Folklore Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, No. 50412. In 1965, it was published in the Karakalpak Khalyk Yertekleri (Karakalpak Folk Tales) [translated by Ruslan Doutaliyev; the ruler announced that he would pass off his daughter as someone who would tell forty a fairy tale; a shepherd undertook to tell. "Once I caught one hare, and one and a half batman (batman is an ancient Asian measure of weight, from 2 to 16 pounds) of fat came out of it. I smeared my boots with this fat, it was enough for one boot, but not for the other. I went to bed with my boots under my head. At night I see my boots fighting. I hit the boot that didn't have enough fat twice and the one I smeared it once. I got up early in the morning, and my unoiled boot turned out to run away. I put one foot in the rest of my boot and couldn't step. I put both feet in one boot, stepped once - crossed the mountain, stepped the second - crossed another mountain and ended up at someone's wake. I see that at this wake, my runaway boot delivers meals to guests. He was frightened of me, brought me two dishes, brought me three more in a hurry, so I got five in total. I ate everything, ate and left. I had a mare, and somehow she fell off the leash. I climbed a high mountain, looked from there, I can't see my mare. Then I found a needle without an ear on my collar, stuck it away, saddled the needle, looked, and the mare grazes behind seven ridges. I approached the mare, and suddenly a river appeared in front of me. I saddled my scabbard, began to row with a knife and began to sink. Then I saddled a knife, and started paddling with my sheath - I crossed the river. I got to the mare, and it turns out that she gave birth to a foal. I caught a mare, sat on horseback, and sat the foal in front of me - the mare does not go, she lay down on the ground. Then I saddled the foal, and sat the mare in front of me and reached the lake. I wanted to give my mare a drink, and the lake is covered with ice, kicked and couldn't break through the ice. Then I tore off my head, took it by the throat, started hitting it - I broke through the ice. Then the khan says: "What you call a lake is probably not a lake, but a small puddle." "Maybe a puddle, taksyr, a black bird was flying from one side of it, tired of waving its wings, and hardly flew to the other side," the shepherd replies. Khan: "What you call a black bird, go owl." "Maybe an owl, only one of its wings will come out of a nightmare, cover an entire yurt," the shepherd replies. "What you probably call a yurt is probably a hut," Khan says. "Maybe a hut, only when the bull roars at the entrance, then this roar barely reaches the rubbing (rubbing is a place of honor in the yurt in front of the entrance)," the shepherd replies. "Okay, you've told so many tales, but Tell me why your nose fell through? - Khan asks. - They say that Khan should be as smart as forty horsemen, and I see you are not smart enough for one person. On the head, which was broken with ice as thick as the nose would survive," the shepherd replies. Khan, realizing that he could not talk to the shepherd, agreed to give his daughter for him]: Mambetnazarov 1977:267-268; (the same text is included in the 100-volume edition of Kazakh folklore; it was recorded during" Karakalpak Expedition"; apparently, the authors of this publication simply consider Karakalpak folklore to be part of Kazakh folklore; Ruslan Doutaliev, personal communication 23.03 and 12.06.2018); Kazakhs (text taken from publications: Otirik Engimeler/ Kurastyrgan Karta Kantarbayuly. Almaty, 1962 (Tales and tales. Collected the Kantarbayuly Map) [Six wolf mothers and their six cubs, together twelve in total, ate one crane. There is only one tubular bone left from this crane. I would say that this bone is small, but it will support a six-panel white yurt. I would say that this yurt is small, but we loaded it into six white and six black camels. I would say these camels were tiny and they plucked the top of a huge poplar that touched the sky. I would say that this poplar is short, but the sparrowhawk, having flown out in the morning before reaching its top before reaching its top in the evening, had to return. I would say that the days at that time were short, because a cow that was walking in the morning gave birth to a calf in the evening]: Babalar Sozi 2011 (92), No. 11:182, translated by Ruslan Doutaliev.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Mongols (probably Khalkha): Mikhailov 1962 (no place of recording) [the freak was riding, the horse tripped over the gopher's mink; the freak began to smoke the animal; the khan's shepherds asked what he was doing he studies; the freak replied that he wanted to smoke a gopher; the shepherds: "We didn't even guess it!" ; freak: "Where are you? You can immediately see that you are as smart as grass on a bare rock"; the shepherds got angry, tied up the freak, threw him into the steppes; the horse gnawed through the rope, the tired freak decided to lie down; the khan's wives came across him; the youngest asked him what he was doing; freak: "What do you care?" ; the eldest asked him what he was doing; freak: "What do you care?" ; older wife: "Where is your family?" ; "At the North Sea"; "What is the sea? Does it look like a puddle?" ; "It looks like you can't jump over it"; "Will the lark fly over?" ; "Maybe. But it should be a lark whose feathers can cover the roof of the house"; "But is this house certainly no more than a nest?" ; "Maybe. Only if a dog barks in one corner in such a house, you can't hear it in the other"; "But is this dog a puppy?" ; "Maybe. Only a puppy that can overtake a hare"; "But is this hare still a hare, of course?" ; "Maybe. Only such a hare will jump over a dozen loaded camels in one fell swoop"; "But are these camels still camels, of course?" ; "Maybe. Only each of them with ten huge bales will overcome the mountain pass"; "But is this pass certainly no bigger than a mound?" ; "This time you, hansha, guessed it. This is not a pass, but a mound the size of a baby skullcap"; "So it's a skullcap. There are no such hills. Probably that pass is as high as a hat"; "Maybe. Only this hat is as flat and bad as that of the Manchu Khan"; "How dare you say that about the great khan?" ; by order of the hansha, the freak was thrown into prison; the khan passing by said: "Tell me what prevents you from leaving prison?" ; freak: "A tree that grew in the forest prevents me. They cut it down - it became a log, sawed it - became boards, put together - became a throne for the Manchu Khan"; the khan marveled at the wisdom of the freak, ordered him to be released]: 48-49; Bese 1964 (khalkha, southwestern Mongolia, Govi-Altai aimag) [the khan's shepherd meets the boy, he sharpens him; the shepherd ties him to a tree; the khan's wives demand his release; the boy lets them go of sharpness (compares them to the heads of a goat, sheep and camels), as well as to the lamas who have come up; a khan comes and asks the boy where he is going; boy: was going to cross the ocean; khan: maybe it's not an ocean, but just a puddle; boy: however I crossed it less; but I traveled in the king, the bird Garuda, would it be called a puddle? khan: it's not Garuda, it's probably a lark; boy: the beam of the building (baiši) is made of this bird's radius; khan: maybe it's just a hut; boy: the dog barking in front of her is not heard inside her; khan: it's not a dog, it's probably a puppy; boy: he catches a hare without moving; khan: it's not a hare, it's probably a hare; boy: he jumps over a standing camel; khan: it's not a standing camel, it's probably a camel; boy: he carries ten bags of sand across the northern pass; khan: it's not a pass, it's probably just a hill; boy: the hat of a man climbing ahead, falls at the feet of the man walking behind; then the khan took the boy away; asked: what is this skein of yarn; boy: when he is with us, he is a sheep with a star in his forehead; when does he get to lamam, it takes shape and color and becomes yarn; Khan: What is this throne? boy: When he was on the mountain, a pine tree fell, was sawn and turned into a throne; Khan, pointing to a silver dagger on his belt: what is this dagger? boy: for a man of your rank it's a dagger, but for me it's just a crappy thing; Khan: Go!] : Bese 1964:55-57 (original), 64-67 (translation); ["The story <... > is the only text which I recorded from an intellectual. According to the inhabitants, this is a well known story in that region. It was told by <... > teacher, 27 years old, born in Khaliun {Govi-Altai aimag, southwestern Mongolia}. He had spent three years studying at the teachers training college in Ulanbator away from his native place"]: 49.

Western Siberia. Northern Khanty: Steinitz 2014, No. 37 (Kazim dialect) [- Rogovoy Strug, little nephew, your body has lost so much weight. - Uncle, I crossed Pechora by boat without oars. - Is Pechora not so small? - Pechora is big, a bird that has arrived from a distant country falls in the middle of Pechora. - Is the bird not small? - The bird is big, if you put it in a house of four-planted boards, the tail feathers will come out. - One month, what is this? - One person living further up the Ob River inhabits one village, one city. - Two months? - The bird I saw with my two eyes didn't sing or fly. - Three months? - The bird shot by my three-feather arrow didn't sing or fly. - Four months? - I walk on the ground with my four arms and four legs. - Five months? - In my village, in my five-house house, I don't need an ax, I don't need a pot. - Six months? - With my six-legged son, I wander through the land of nay 'ev, on the land of worth {heroes, heroes}. - Semb months? - While the seven-month winter was done, the seven-month summer was done, the man's barn with the barn and the house with the house are being filled. - Eight months? -While the eight-month winter was done, the eight-month summer was done, the man's barn with the barn and the house with the house were emptied. - Nine months? - You're without a father, without a mother! Nine months of winter is not done, nine months of summer is not done, have you heard anything about it? - Then my uncle became a forest spirit, Rogova-Strug became an ostyak]: 206-208; Nikolaeva 1999, No. 11 (Obdorsk) [- Why is your throat soot? - Did you eat raw fish. - Was it delicious? - Your throat is dry. - Why are your legs crooked? - I passed 7 seas in a boat without oars. - So the seas were small? - Who knows. A blue, green bird flew and fell in the middle of the sea. - So the bird was small. - Who saw it, but seven guys covered its wing like the roof of a house. - So the guys were little. - Who knows. They say it's the size of a net on the Ob. - So the nets are small. - Small or large, but placed on 7 fathoms and the tops are visible. - So the water is shallow (small). - Small or large, but blue is green the fish swims there, you can't see the tail, you can't see the head]: 156.