I90. Guiding thread. (.14.19.24.26.-.32.34.-.36.38.55.)
The character goes to the goal, following a ball of thread rolling in front of him. {The motive is not completed}
Kabila, Irish, French (Upper Brittany), Kalmyks, Abkhazians, Karachays, Terek Cossacks, Komi, (Mari), Chuvash.
North Africa. Kabila [Luna replies to the woman that they are both beautiful, but her daughter will be more beautiful; when the girl is 8 years old, her mother takes her to the mountains, tells her to wind the thread, the ball rolls, the girl runs after him , gets to a snake that used to be human; he raises a girl, a prince marries her; she returns for a forgotten comb, sees a snake drinking blood; an offended snake consistently kidnaps the seven sons she gives birth to; she comes to apologize, the serpent has already become human, gives her sons back]: Taos-Amrush 1974:76-82.
Western Europe. Irish [the young son of the King of Ireland meets the giant of Lake Léin in the forest; he offers to play cards, the young man wins two estates; the next time, a hundred bulls in golden horns and silver hooves; on the third day she loses her head; comes to an old woman with her teeth sticking out of her mouth; she washes his feet, feeds him, gives him a rolling ball, he will lead to her middle her sister, she sends to her elder; she says that there are 700 iron stakes around the giant's castle with their heads set, the latter is free, telling the giant's three bathing daughters to hide the clothes of the giant's three bathing daughters, who has there will be a yellow lily on his chest (others are white and blue); the young man returns his clothes for promising to save him; the giant will invite the young man to sleep in a pool of water, the Yellow Lily (ML) takes it out every time puts it back before the giant wakes up; feeds, the young man should not eat the meat that the giant gives him; the giant suggests 1) finding the pin lost by the giant's great-grandmother in a 500-horse stable, which has not been cleaned for 700 years (JL cleans, finds); 2) make a roof of bird feathers over the stable so that everyone is different (JL does); 3) get an egg from a crow's nest at the top of a giant tree more precisely a smooth pole; the JL tells her to kill, peel the bones from the meat, make a ladder out of the bones, then collect all the bones back; the young man does everything, but forgets to take the last bone, the JL revives, but she lacks the little finger of her leg; the giant lets the young man go; at home, the soothsayer advises the king to marry her son to the daughter of the King of Denmark; they come to the wedding, the giant with the JL also comes; the JL turns two grains into a pair of pigeons; a male bites a female, pushes her off the table, she says he did not do this when she helped him clean the stable; the same about other episodes; the young man remembers JL, takes her as his wife, King of Denmark with his daughter - guests at this wedding]: Curtin 1975:1-14; French (Haute-Brittany) [retired pilot is fishing; his little son Francais hid in gear and is with him; the ship comes up, asks take him to the harbor; when the pilot got back into the boat, the ship sailed and the boy stayed there; he was kidnapped to be the husband of the Princess of the Naz Kingdom; married a princess of the same age at 18; custom countries forbid seeing his wife without a veil before she becomes a mother; F. and his wife come to visit F.'s parents; his mother advises his son to look at his wife; F. lifted the veil and a drop of hot the wax fell on the princess's cheek; she was horrified; when she returned to Us, both deny everything, but the king notices the burn mark; he drove his daughter away and told the sorcerers to make his son-in-law the ugliest man in the world; he waddled to the fairy, who saved him from the most terrible deformities and sent him to another who would make F. handsome; she corrected all the shortcomings and gave him a ball to follow and two self-piercing spears: against enemies and against predators; on the way, F. shared bread with a lion, a bear and a leopard; brought the ball to the castle; someone's hand serves food; the girls offer to dance with them, but the fairy did not warn to do this; one let her shoe call her; once three figures meet her; f. called the girl and they disappeared; so F. got to his parents; called the girl again: how to take revenge on his father-in-law? she ordered 29 sailors to be taken on the ship, she would arrange the rest herself; F. sailed to Us and demanded that the city be given to him; {the last page in pdf is ruined}]: Sébillot 1880, No. 28:180-188.
Central Europe. Russians; Ukrainians.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [shooter Heeche-Mergen hides the clothes of one of the three swan girls who have come to swim; gets married; Tsarkin Khan wants her, the adviser suggests sending H. to the Ganges for the tigress's milk; the tigress is H.'s wife's cattle, he brings milk; a lame and crooked drunkard offers to bring an invisible thing from an unknown country; the wife gives a ball; H. follows, shows his wife's crest to the woman, this is his wife's sister; she gives another ball, it leads to her older sister; she asks all the creatures, knows only cancer with an iron claw; this is in the forest beyond the outer sea; H. hides, sees his father tell Murza to serve food; when he leaves, H. asks Murza to join the meal; on the way back, H. exchanges Murza for a folding palace, a cane with his army, Murza returns every time; H. drives Khan away, reigns]: Vatagin 1964:115-128; Abkhazians [Prince Alyks's servant met a girl in the forest house, brought her wife; the prince demanded her for himself, A. did not give her; to get rid of A., the prince orders 1) ask the prince's late father, where he hid a golden ring and a golden cauldron; his wife gave two coils of thread, they rolled, A. behind them; across the sea, a wide bridge to paradise and two hairs for those going to hell, the place of the deceased the prince is in hell; there the prince carries sandbags, the devils hit him with sticks; says that the ring is in the hole in the pole, the cauldron in the basement; A. showed the prince; 2) what no one in the world saw; on the same reels A. comes to his older sister, who was carried away by the Adaui; he sends the Adaui to his younger brother, who is the youngest; one person knows, sent A. across the sea; there is a palace, everyone entering demands "Mishka, feed me", food appears; A. offers M. himself a drink too; he is grateful, stays with him; M. takes away the peasant's axe, throws it into the sea, they crossed it; on the way, A. changed M. to a box that fulfills his wishes and returned to him; at home M. creates a palace, hits the prince with a stick, shoots a cannon, the prince fled to another country, everything went to A., his wife and M.]: Shakryl 1975, No. 27:139 -143; Karachays [the dragon Azhdagan-Jelimauz lay in the middle of the sea; on its crown they built a nest of Ala-Qaz ('Scarlet Goose') and Kara-Kaz ('Black Goose'); they had no eggs; for the thousandth year Jelimouth's legs began to grow, he began to move; the goose, afraid that the dragon would throw them off his back, dived twice before reaching the bottom; the third fell into darkness; reached a bright spot, there was black the creature Kara-Pooh advised him to go to his older brother Kaiyr-Khashkhy ("The Angry Lord") for advice to give a gift; the goose gave the right wing; the KH sent one-legged Obur-Katyn to his older sister (' Werewolf woman'), took her left wing; OK sent Erk-Jilan to her older brother, told her to go until the ball made of her hair stopped; ED sent Kart-Chopp to her oldest brother, took the second her leg, gave part of her skin, she carried the Goose to the goal; "Our father is Kara-Kuzgun ('raven'), and our mother is the Turtle, they were the rulers of the sea surface, but the dragon cut their bellies , deprived power; to pacify the dragon, you must summon Kart-Choppa; to do this, you must cut off the dragon's gallbladder, cover its middle eye with it; you can cut it off with hair growing on the crown the dragon under your nest"; everything was done, the dragon roared in pain, the vaults of heaven opened, an old man in a green robe with a golden staff came out; the geese dived in fear, emerged 9 months later, dirty; Kart-Choppa sat on their nest, scraped off the dirt from the geese feathers, told them to make a cake out of it, eat one half, soak the other, and smear the dragon's back; this caused the dragon's body to rot, seemed spine; KC plunged his staff into the dragon's crown; he screamed, the sky shone; KC hit the dragon's middle eye with a three-hepatic stem, it burst, the other two opened; smelly spilled out of the middle liquid, it turns the sea white; if the dragon's eyes close again, everything will darken; when storm clouds appear, May Allah save the Dragon from closing his eyes]: Karaketov 1995:64- 67; Terek Cossacks (art. Borozdinskaya) [the tsar's eldest daughter asks to let her go to the "unhappy" garden; there a storm rises and takes her away; the same with her middle daughter; when the youngest began to ask, she was chained to bed, covered with iron canopy and left in the garden in a room with 12 iron doors; a 12-headed serpent arrives, takes the girl along with the bed; Ivan Tsarevich calls to find the kidnapped, takes three generals as assistants; sees how 12-, 9- and 6-headed snakes fly out of the passage to the underworld one by one; I. tells the generals to lower him on a rope into the underworld and wait above; comes to a city where all tailors; those they give I. a ball of thread and tell him to throw it in front of him; the ball leads to the palace; the princess says that her husband is a 6-headed serpent; hides I. in the room, in it a tub with strong and a tub with powerless water; I. tries both; changes tubs in places; takes a kladenets sword from the royal daughter, hides; a 6-headed serpent who has arrived drinks powerless water instead of strong water and falls asleep; I. cuts off his heads; princess gives I. a ball of thread; he rolls to the palace in which her sister; I. drinks strong water, moves the tubs of water, kills the 9-headed snake; the princess gives a ball of thread; warns that the younger sister's husband - 12-headed serpent, he shackled his 12-headed father in the basement; with the help of a ball of thread, I. finds a crystal palace; meets the princess there, drinks strong water, changes the tubs; a snake that has arrived falls asleep; I. cuts off his 9 heads; the serpent growls, his father hears, breaks 6 chains; I. princess: "Run to your father-in-law soon; if he asks what this noise is, you say that a strong storm has risen, turned it around The root is a large oak tree that stood by the window: this oak tree hit the palace and broke all the windows; yes, take an iron pitchfork, hot; when my father-in-law says: "Raise my eyelids with a pitchfork, I'll see what is being done" , if you are in the eye with a pitchfork, and I will come to help you; the princess runs to the basement; I. cuts off the remaining 3 heads of the snake; the princess says to her father-in-law what was ordered; father-in-law: "Take a pitchfork, yes raise my eyelids - I'll see what is being done"; the princess stabs his eyes with a hot pitchfork; I. comes running and killing him; regrets not seeing such a palace on earth; the princess gives him a silk shawl with with the words: "Wave them - I give you this palace"; I. waves his handkerchief, a golden egg appears in his hand; with the help of a ball of thread, I. returns with the princess to her sister; she also gives him a silk shawl; I. waves at them, gets a silver egg; throws a ball of thread in front of him, goes with both princesses to their older sister; waves her handkerchief, receives a copper egg; when he reaches passage, I. alternately ties the sisters to the rope, the generals raise them; saying goodbye to the third princess, I. takes off her personalized ring; I. ties a stone to the rope; the generals raise it to the middle and let go; they tell the king that they saved his daughters; the younger princess refuses to marry the general and tells the truth; the king does not believe, but postpones the wedding; I. wanders; the time of rain climbs into a huge nest in a tree; there are three chicks; I. covers them with his last hollow and warms them; the chicks tell the vulture bird about their savior; she offers I. help, orders to prepare 12 barrels of game and 12 barrels of water; during the flight, I. feeds and wateres it: "When the bird looks to the right, it will splash water on it; if it looks to the left, he will throw a piece of meat"; there is not enough meat for the whole journey; I. cuts off meat from both calves, feeds the vulture bird; it flies into the light, falls to the ground; asks I. what kind of delicious meat was the last time: when she finds out, she expectorates both calves and puts them on I.'s legs; he heals, goes to the king; the youngest princess recognizes I. by the ring on her hand; the king orders the generals to be tied to horse tails and let them go across the field, the youngest daughter marries I.; I. waves silk with scarves; three palaces appear; one of them I. gives to the elder princess, the other to the middle princess, and lives with his wife in the third]: Butova 1889, No. 3:128-141; Chechens [the father is blind, the eldest son reaches places where the snow is red, brings medicine from there, the old man is dissatisfied; the middle man is the same where the white grass is; the youngest father tells him not to pick up anything on the way, he picks up a golden pen, a ball of thread; 1) seeing a feather, the prince demands to get a bird; the horse teaches you to tell the bird that Timar (the young man's father) is blind, pour intoxicated into the river, scatter millet; the bird got drunk, came to peck, the young man brought it; 2) seeing the ball, the prince wants the girl who has washed him; the horse teaches that the ball will lead to the girl; I must tell her that T. is blind; the horse prances, the young man picks up the girl; 3) she promises to marry the prince if he buys in milk sea mare; a horse tells you to wrap itself in cloth; in a battle with a horse that has come out of the sea, it gnaws on its meat, and he only tears off the cloth; the sea horse agrees to drive mares and foals out of the sea; the first A young man bathes with hot milk, the horse cools the milk; kills the prince with hot breath; with a bird's feather, the son restores his father's vision and youth, passes the girl off as him]: Malsagov 1983, No. 15:95-100.
Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [Akkanidi comes to the house where Nynas, chief among the Spolokhs, lives; becomes his wife; he gives her a ball, A. follows him to his mother; N. tells her that it must be said that his mother should transport her across the river; N.'s mother never sees him, because he appears only at night; weaves the base of the night sky, and A. weaves stars on it; N.'s mother covers the ceiling with a blanket N.'s bedroom, he thinks it's still night; jumps out, burned by the Sun; A. tries to obscure him, the Sun is enough for his son Peyvalke, throws it to the moon - mother A.; A. is seen on the moon with with a rocker arm and buckets of water on his shoulders]: Czarnoluski 1962:68-79; Eastern Sami: Haruzin 1890:348-350 [the old man pulls birch bark, the Frog tells her to marry, otherwise he will stab her to death with scissors; they Sons Hewn Stump, Reindeer Yoke, daughter Vostroeye are born; The frog and her children ate the old man and his old woman; she manages to tell her daughter to collect her 99 bones, hit the Ostroeye, the hundredth will fall out bone, put in a bag, run, a house will emerge from the bones; an old woman's daughter plays with the sun, embroiders a silver belt; stabs a sleepy match Stump, Yoke, they lose sight and hearing; The eye has other eyes on the back of the head; The Frog and the Eye sew the old woman's daughter into seal skin, throw it into the water; she ripped her skin with a knife, came to a house with blood on the floor; she turns into a spindle; Ninas asks show up, promises to marry her; she opens; he says that Flashes are cutting here, gives a ball of thread, he rolls to his mother; The flashes scream, Ninas's wife is coming, but the Sun will soon take her; mother N. transports her across the river; at night she hangs a silver belt over her bed, N. believes that they are stars, although it's already a day; she goes out, the Sun grabs her hair, N. tries to hold her, dies; she gives birth Daughter to the sun; (hereinafter about the Sun's son-in-law)], 353-356 [two brothers tell her sister not to leave the house; once they did not leave her wood or water; she went to get water; a man came out of the lake, took her away; finding a bucket by the shore, the brothers weaved a rope from birch branches, the youngest went down to the bottom; tells the hut to turn to the forest with windows, to it with a door; the old woman says that the meat has come; lets him eat half a pig; he throws it on the floor the ring, the dog barks, the old woman goes out to see what is going on, he hides the meat; the old woman gives a ball of wool, rolls to the old woman's younger sister; she sweeps the floor with her tongue, takes bread from the oven with her hands; gives a ball he goes to her older sister (the episode with the pig, the ring and the dog repeats); the old woman tells me to take the first horse, it is small, ugly; the man takes another one, comes to his sister, there are three boys shout that an uncle has arrived; takes his sister away; Stallo-steel catches up with a man, kills; the old woman revives; the same with the second horse; the third time a man takes a little one; the old woman gives two dogs, tells them to leave them halfway, throw them bread; sister tells them to leave, S. almost catches up, but dogs grab it and eat it; brother and sister kill two children, take the oldest third with them; brother and sister they get up; when son S. climbs, the rope is cut off; S.'s son went on reindeer, the younger brother of the rescued sister hired him as a worker; the young man recognized his mother; the brothers killed him by knocking down a tree on him; healed good]; Finns []: Rakhimova 2000:194; Lithuanians [a girl ties a thread to the button she is dancing with; she comes to the grave by thread]: Kerbelite 2001:262.
Volga - Perm. Komi [the bear needs babysitters for the cubs; the fox advises taking the hunter's daughters; Yoma gives a basket, a spindle, a silk ball; the younger sister sees the basket, it rolls, she follows it, gets to bears; the same middle one - runs after the spindle; the ram offers to take the youngest home; bears catch up, beat, return the girl; the same with the middle sister - tried to run away on a goby; the eldest goes to the bears herself; asks to take gifts to her father; while the bear and the cubs are not at home, she dresses three stupas, puts her younger sister in a chest; on the way, the bear wants to look into it, the girl says that She sees far, does not tell them to open it; the same with her middle sister; then she sits down by herself; the bears come back, take their stupas for girls; then they push them, their stupas fall on them]: Plesovsky 1975:38-44; (cf. marie (meadow) [stepdaughter spins, stepmother throws away a ball, stepdaughter follows him; consistently helps three old women with housework; the third tells them to climb a pine tree; seven goats come to butt with gold and silver horns; some fall dead, the girl takes them to the old woman on a hauler; so three times; returns home; the dog barks, the rich sister goes; the stepmother asks why she does not say, she goes dead; sends her daughter, she does not help old women, goats cut down a pine tree, kill her; dog: Dead sister goes]: Sabitova 1992:186-189); Chuvash [Eagle asked do not shoot a person at him, heal his wing; he feeds him cows, sheep, his wife swears; the eagle raises the man to the sky, throws him, picks him up, now the man also feels afraid; the eagle takes him to the sky to his sisters, the middle man gives a casket, the person opens it along the way, silver falls out; the old man puts it back from his elbow for promising to give what he does not know; during this time, his son Ivan was born and raised; comes to the lake, hides the dress of one of the three swan maidens swimming; I. gives it away when she calls him not a brother, but a sweet one; gives a ball, I. comes to her father; 1) to give the stallion and the mare a drink (these are the girls' parents; I. beats them, gives them water); 2) identify the youngest of the sisters (she blinks an eye); I., marries; when he comes to his parents, he forgets his wife's request not to kiss the child in the cradle (this is an old man with an elbow) forgets his wife; they want to marry him, the cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo turns into an old wife, he remembers, returns to her]: Chuvash tales 1938:89-94; Tatars [father, new wife, son and daughters decide from her lime her stepdaughter; her brother takes her to the forest for berries, hangs a club that the wind hits the tree; the girl thinks that her brother is cutting wood; in the evening he does not find him; asks everyone she meets if they have seen them her ball rolling; herd, cow, sheep, goat shepherds each answer what they saw, ask to get the herd for a day, for which they give a horse, a cow, etc.; comes to the witch's house on the edge of the village; she asks her to push, pull her hair, etc.; the girl does otherwise, gently; does not take the gold she sees in the witch's hair; in the bathhouse; she gives her a chest, at home the girl finds jewelry in it; dogs they bark that the one who goes to death returns rich; her own daughter does not herd the herd, says that she does not need a horse, etc.; literally does what the witch asks for; takes gold, it falls on sex when the witch asks her to dance; gets a black chest; dogs bark that the one who goes rich returns to death; a snake from the chest strangles the girl]: Nasyrov, Polyakov 1900, No. 3:24-29.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tomsk Tatars [stepmother throws her stepdaughter Fatima's ball out the window; she follows him, helps guard cows, geese, sheep, horses, and gets one animal from the herd each time; old woman promises to return the ball if she heats the bathhouse and washes it; the old woman replies that it should be washed with manure, soared in stakes; she makes flower soap, hovers with a birch broom, does not take money from the chest; receives a chest of gold; at home, the dog barks that F. goes with cattle and wealth; his own daughter does not help the shepherds, literally fulfills the old woman's request, secretly takes valuables from the chest; the dog barks that the girl is lucky reptiles; snakes from the chest bite stepmother and her daughter, they run away from home]: Tomilov 1995:160-163; Buryats [Tume-Ulan-Khan promises a daughter to someone who hits three metas with an arrow: a load of firewood, a black stone, a gold plate with a hole; NC hits, gets a wife, everyone (and wife) constantly stains with snot and bowel movements; gets a second wife, the daughter of three sorry lamas; continues to deceive them at night; somewhere leaves every night; they sew the end of a ball of thread to his fur coat; they walk along it to the palace on top of Mount Orgil-ula; there they see a man praying the size of a mountain to the hem of which they are sewn thread; in the palace, the NZ receives the blessing of three Shibegani Burkhans and the name Abai-Geser-Bogdo Khan]: Khangalov 1959b: 241-267.
Western Siberia. Mansi: Kupriyanova 1960 [an old woman enters, calls Mos-ne to come to her tomorrow; a grandmother living in a stump gives M. a ball of thread; M. follows him to the house where the owner uses his skull like a bucket; there is an old woman sitting there, taking off her hair from her head to look for insects; M. tells her about it, she is frightened, her face forms on the back of her head, her chest appears on her back; this is how she lives]: 118-119; Lukina 1990, No. 186 [sister tells her brother to drink wolf and pork milk, he gains strength; tells him to marry a swan in golden plumage; the old woman gives a handkerchief, a ball of thread, a cup, a ring; the young man sits in a cup, throws a ball, blindfolds, finds himself on the seashore; seven Swans bathe with their wings removed, the young man steals one wing; gives it when the Swan calls him husband; she flies away, teaches how to go before her get there; her father tells the stallion to be tamed (the young man tames, following his wife's advice); the father and mother want to eat them, send them after the worker; the wife turns her husband into a house, herself into an old man, the worker does not recognize them; parents and young people reconcile; the boy's sister's lover kills him, they take the corpse to the forest; his wife lets him down three dogs, they find him and revive him; he kills his sister and his lover]: 477-482; northern Khanty (Malaya Ob) [seven stone-eyed heroes come; each of the seven sons of old Lampaska, old man Vampaska, asks his father for his shell; he does not give, his son dies, his scalp they throw him into a tree; the youngest daughter-in-law gives birth to a boy, he grows up quickly, notices scalps on the tree, goes to take revenge; on the way he hits a bear who comes out to meet him three times; he turns into his grandfather, suggests the shell, the young man rejects it; then he gives him a ball of thread; when he comes to the sea, the young man throws a ball, crosses the bridge to the other side; the stone-eyed heroes promise him a sister as a wife, lock him in a stone house, they set him on fire; the young man's heavenly father lowers his shell and sword, the young man kills the heroes, throws their scalps on a tree, brings his wife home]: Lukina 1990, No. 35:136-141; the Kets [after the flood, the Kets lived on their own land; swifts began to fly to them for tinoa; Bogdahan ordered to catch one, tie a thread to his leg; swimming along it, B.'s servants found the land of the Kets, forced them to pay tribute]: Anuchin 1914:15; southern Selkups [the old man is going to shoot hazel grouse, he asks to take him home; after a few years he grew up asking the old man to go to another village, where the king, he has three daughters, to marry one of them; every time the king cuts the old man into pieces, sends him home, Hazel grouse revives him; the youngest agreed; in the evenings Hazel grouse took off his skin, gave it to his wife, became human; went hunting; envious sisters found, burned his skin, the husband disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a ball, she walks along the thread to her husband's sister; she teaches her to hide behind the mirror, hold her husband by the finger; the third time she held it, the husband stayed]: Bykonya et al. 1996: [without pagination] (retelling in Tuchkova 2004:238); Tuchkova 2004 [a ball of thread leads the hero home; usually the father or mother gives the younger hero a ball saying that he will bring him home]: 270.
Eastern Siberia. Yakuts [(fairy tale fragment); an old woman gives Badam Samalakh a silk ball, he rolls; BS follows him to the golden chambers, marries]: Priklonsky 1890:173; Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man sold his fur and went home; leaned over the ice-hole for a drink, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise a son whom his wife was supposed to give birth to; the boy Goodey grew up instantly; the father gave with an iron staff; came to the lake; three swans took off their outfit, became girls; G. hid her clothes alone, gave it for a promise to become his wife; gave a ball that would lead to three plague; where white dresses are a witch with her daughters, where black is the water who kidnapped her, where the red ones are herself; I must say, "Ayalik, open it"; the water tells the plague to have 1000 deer by morning (A. performs); go around the deer (this is the water itself, you have to hit with an iron hammer, he died from blows); A.: we must run away from the witch; left two thimbles with saliva responsible for them; the witch's daughters are chasing, A. turned G. into a wolf, herself into a bear; then an ant pile and a frog; a hunter and a hut; a witch is chasing, A. became a lake, G. became a perch; the witch became a bull, drank the lake with the perch; he pierced his belly with needles, went out with water, the witch died]: Suvorov 1956:7-14.
Japan. Japanese [someone comes to the girl at night; she sticks a needle and thread in her lover's dress; finds a needle in the bark of an old cryptomeria; tells her parents; people cut the trunk, felling in the night it overgrows; all trees come to visit Cryptomeria; she says that shrubs have no place among trees; in revenge, he advises people to burn chips; a bridge has been made out of fallen cryptomeria ; the trunk was moved after the girl whispered something to him; when she stepped on the bridge, the girl died]: Markova 1991:172-174; Japanese [unknown young man visits his only daughter in a rich woman at night family; the nanny or mother advises him to put a needle and thread into his clothes; in the morning, the nanny walks along a thread stretching along the ground to a deep body of water or a hollow tree; (1) finds the snake dead or dying, for snakes can't stand iron (version 31); (2) hears a snake and his mother talking: "I told you not to go to a human girl." "I may die from an iron needle, but I will have an heir from a girl." "But people will give her sake at the party and the baby won't be born." Upon learning this, the girl does not give birth to an heir to a snake (42 versions); (3) a dying serpent predicts the birth of a son of amazing strength with three scales under his arm, he will become a famous warrior or monk (16 versions). This option also tells about a female snake visiting a young man at night and giving birth to a hero before death (3 versions). (3) is included in the genealogy of ancient and noble families claiming to be descended from snake. In (2), where the nanny learns how to get rid of the fruit, the girl drinks a certain infusion or eats rice cakes at the holiday ends with "why do we eat and drink this and that"]: Ikeda 1971, No. 411C: 103-104; The Taira House 1982 [in Kyushu in Bungo District, Katayama Village, an unknown man visits a girl at night; the mother sees that her daughter is pregnant, tells her to mark the man's clothes; the daughter sticks her in the gate of the caftan is a needle with a ball of thread; follows the thread to a cave in the mountain; there lives a serpent, the girl's needle pierced his throat; he predicts that their son will become a great warrior; the serpent was god Takachio, worshiped in the land of Hyuga]: 361-362; Harima-fudoki [Shidehiko said goodbye to Otohimeko's wife, sailed by ship; a man of his appearance comes to her every night; O., attached the thread to his clothes went along it to the lake at the top of the mountain; a snake sleeps in the lake, his head is on the shore; becomes human again, invites her to her; O.'s maid tells her family; they find O.'s corpse at the bottom of the lake , they bury him]: Popov 1969:138.
The Northern Andes. Guajiro [a man's relatives die, he grieves at his wife's grave; she comes on a horse, tells her not to meet her yet, they go together; their horse rushes through the darkness, over the sea; in the country beyond by sea, a man lies down in a hammock next to his wife, puts his hand on the beer and corn porridge brought to her, falls asleep; waking up at noon sees a boa constrictor next to him, a prickly avocado under his head; a man walks along the road in a deserted place, a tree tells him to move on; on the seashore he sees the Sun, he moves east, a fiery mirror in his hands, tells the person to move away so as not to burn; lets him drink from the inexhaustible vessel; tells them to go further west; women (these are forest turtles) tell a person to leave, he brings them misfortune; bird boys are afraid of him, hide; the same other locals; lame (also a bird) sends to the old man; this is the Sun, he invites him to his house; in the morning he goes to do his daytime work; in his absence, puloi, the spirit of man's wife, comes, eats him; when the Sun returns, makes her regurgitate and to revive man, blinds her; since then puloi, that is, enchanted places, are dark and silent; man wants to go home, the Sun tells his daughter Spider to take him away; when he reaches the great darkness, the Spider gives a ball of threads tells you to follow him; the thread ends up unraveling in the cemetery from which the man traveled]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1986 (2), No. 76:728-732.