i87ad. Hidden in the hollow of a tooth. 27.29.33.
Agiant hides a stalked person in his mouth-usually (possibly always) in the hollow of a tooth.
Serbs, Moldovans, Ossetians, Avars, Kumyks, Lacks, Georgians, Turks, Kyrgyz.
The Balkans. Serbs (Herzegovina) [a bear stole a woman, she gave birth to a son, ran away; the bear let the young man travel after he was able to pull out a beech; Medvedovich eats food brought for many ploughmen, they give him iron from the plows, he tells the blacksmith to forge a club, hides that half of the iron, M. throws the club into the sky, it falls on his back, breaks; he kills the blacksmith, takes the iron he stole goes to another; the club does not break; M. likes the girl, her father says that she was promised to Barbel; from behind the mountain, he first shows a mustache, he has 365 bird nests, W. puts his head on the girl's knees, M. hits him three times with a club, it seems that insects are biting; W. chases M., the man throws him across the river with a shovel, the other hides him in a seed bag, tells Barbel that M. long gone; W. stops chasing; the sower throws M. into his mouth with a handful of seeds, M. hides in the hollow of a tooth, daughter-in-law picks out the stuck tooth with two stakes, the sower remembers M.; tells how ruined his tooth; he and his companions went to get salt, they spent the night in a cave, it turned out to be a human skull in a vineyard; the watchman threw it from his sling at the starlings, and then the man ruined his tooth; "Here you have it a whole box of lies "]: Karadzic 1853 to Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:9-15 (=Arkhipova 1962:180-184); Moldovans [three brothers took an oath to watering; three days from head to tail; eldest in the evening reached his front hooves, the middle brother reached his hind legs at sunset; the youngest reached the tail at dusk; the mare drank the sea; one fish began to fight, swallowed the mare; the eagle carried the fish to the top of the oak tree; the bone fell into the eye of the sleeping shepherd; the fishermen threw a seine into his eye, took out the bone the third time, the shepherd threw it away; the gypsies broke the camp on it; the wolf pulled the bone, the gypsies thought that earthquake; killed a wolf; half ripped off, but they can't turn it over; the furrier sent a boy, he turned the wolf over and ripped him off to the end; the gypsies ran to him, the boy was frightened, rushed away from them; the old man sowed sunflower, put seeds in his mouth, the boy was in his tooth; sneezed, the old man let the dog in his mouth, it smelled the wolf and ran away; the old man asked his wife to joke with a poker, she pulled out the boy; he ran to his father, who makes him a shower heater]: Botezat 1981:368-371.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Dzagurov 1973, No. 31 [strongman Dombay twisted a fallen buffalo by the tail and threw it somewhere; his wife brags about her husband; another woman: there is even stronger than him; D. goes to look the strongest; the giant sends to his brothers - cannot fight without their permission; the middle refers to the elder, the eldest to their mother; she has one fang touched the sky, the other went underground; D. rushed suck her breasts; the mother of the giants says that her sons were going to make kebabs out of D., tells her to run; the giant pulls 20 arb of salt, hid D. in the hollow of his tooth; tied the pursuers with his hair when they ran up; D. asks why the old man was one-eyed; he said that there were 12 brothers, they went into the cave to spend the night, it turned out to be a skull; the dog grabbed the skull, ran up to the house; the girl went out she kicked her skull; the brothers died, the narrator lost his eye; D. no longer boasted of strength]: 76-79; Libedinsky 1978:123-127 [Soslan brags about his strength, throws the bull across the river, goes to search equal; the mother of three Waigs hides him under a sieve, releases him at night; the Waigi chases him; the one-armed and one-eyed waig hides him in his mouth, ties the three pursuers with his hair; tells how he, his father and six brothers went into the cave; it turned out to be a horse skull that the giant faked on a stick and threw it against the goat's horns; the skull crashed, the giant killed Waiga's father and brothers, tore off his arm and knocked out his eye; S. returns to the sledges]; Miller 1881 []: 93; Avars, Kumyks, Lucks [sartu say there are people stronger than him; he comes to the giants, they play them like a ball; he runs, meets two more (var.: ploughman), one drags 9 arbs with salt with one hand, crumples a bull's skin with the other; hides the fugitive, usually in the hollow of a tooth, drives away the pursuers; tells how he lost an eye ( tooth), spending the night with his brothers in a skull, which they mistook for a cave; a giant on horseback hit him with a whip (var: forged with a stick), he was the only one who survived, although he lost an eye (tooth)]: Gamzatov, Dalgat 1991:22 -23; Lucky [Isa beats his wife, says that there is no stronger hero than him; a neighbor advises to send him to the other side of Kunzunt; Isa shoots a mountain, it turns out to be a dev, Isa runs, asks a ploughman named Yarmagomed hide it; he hid it in his mouth; without answering the deva's question, picked up the plough with the bull and killed him; forgot about Isa, who could hardly scream from his mouth; says that one day he with friends spent the night in the cave; then it turned out to be a skull, the shepherd forged it with a staff and abandoned it; his comrades died, but Y. only a tooth was knocked out; returning home, Isa no longer beat his wife]: Khalilov 1965, No. 61:180-182; Georgians [the hunter pulled all the stuck arbs out of the mud, drank all the loaded wine, shoved the arbs by the bootlegs, offers his hand to the woman who threw the buffalo over the wattle fence; she agrees if he finds out why the river is bleeding; there, in order to stay awake, the knight leans his forehead on the edge of his sword, blood is shed; if he falls asleep, he will carry the woman for a month, and now the devil will carry the woman; the hunter promised to wake up, it's hard did, the knight grabbed the devil; asks the hunter to stab him with a dagger; the hunter killed the deva, and then the knight; the woman agrees to marry him if her nine brothers agree; the devil pours water on the ground, the hunter was washed away, he picked him up; he is one of the woman's brothers; their mother carried the hunter with the horse across the river; the brothers have an evil father; the hunter struck him three times with a sword, cut off three hair; when he woke up, found his severed hair, chased the hunter; by the river, a fisherman hides him in a hole in his tooth, a horse in another; a dev ran up, a fisherman easily killed him with a net handle, took out the hunter; tells how lost two teeth; he and his brother took refuge from the weather in the eye sockets of the skull; the shepherd threw him into the wolf, the brother disappeared, the fisherman himself hit a rock, lost two teeth; the hunter finds bones, asks God for to revive this creature for a minute, but not to give it an eye; a freak appeared to the sky; instead of a hand, the hunter gave him a rock, which easily broke it; turned to the bones again; the hunter found that shepherd, began to ask Show how he launched that skull; the shepherd was tired, he threw a mountain hunter who killed himself; the shepherd began to be shamed, but nothing can be done]: Chikovani 1986:266-270; Turks [bouncer hunter every evening she shoots an arrow through his wife's earring; he really only hunts hares; the neighbors dressed the boy as a bear, the hunter is frightened; the old woman advises the hunter's wife to send him to an Arab over the mountain Kaf, he supposedly shoots better; the lioness guards the gorge; the old man gives magic bread to tame it; the hunter throws pieces to the lioness, the birds, the dragon; the Arab is a monstrous giant; the hunter ran away from him, threw the bread is a wonder, he hid it in the hollow of a tooth; told the Arab that he did not see anyone, he went back; the diva tells us who broke his tooth; there were 40 brothers; they were met by a giant who was knee-deep in the sea; he caught whales, cooked them in the sun, swallowed them; chased brothers, killed several, and broke the narrator's tooth with a stone; the hunter swore that he would no longer brag, received diamonds and gems from the diva; the firebird brought him home; he lived happily with his wife]: Aganin et al. 1960:80-85.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz [returning from his grandparents, the boy met a man and gave him two sips from his wineskin; he emptied it in one sip and demanded more koumiss; when he heard what business, the boy put both of their boots by the boots and brought them to his home; let him go; asked his wife if there were any people stronger than him; wife: there are many of them; he went to measure his strength, met a lame peasant; he put it in a seed bag, and then accidentally put it in his mouth; the man hid in the hollow of his tooth; the peasant's wife noticed him there and brought it to the kids to play; in the evening a peasant came; said that they were 12 brothers; they and their horses hid from the thunderstorm in the cave; it turned out to be a goat's skull; the dogs started to gnaw because of it, and the shepherd threw it away; the narrator alone survived; man stopped looking for those who are stronger than him]: Sulaimanov 1998:76-84.