J25A. Son of the grave. .17.19.20.22. (.29.) .30.33.42.43.

Mother dies or is murdered. A baby or newborn in her womb is buried with her. He comes out of the grave, meets people, returns to the grave, or he's found in the insides of a dead mother. After all, the baby stays with people. See J25 motif. (In Georgian and Turkish versions, the boy born is not the central character; the story ends with the mother's revival).

Arabs of Iraq, Kuwait, Susure, San Cristobal, Maevo, Kanaka, Easter Island, Khmers, Viets, Georgians, Turks, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Bukhara Arabs, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks (Pyanj), Uighurs, Itelmen, Tsimshians, quarry.

Western Asia. Iraqi Arabs (Lower Euphrates Shiites) [wealthy landowner Hassan went on Hajj, taking his slave Ahmed and his pregnant wife with him; along the way, people fell ill with cholera; H.'s wife gave birth to a boy and died; H. ordered his wife to be buried with her newborn, because there were no women left to feed him; then H. also died; all the camels and gold went to A.; a year later he was again at the grave wife H.; found a boy alive in her; his mother's body disappeared, leaving only one breast that fed the baby; A. named the boy Rejab; when he reached the age of 16, they went to his father's homeland for R. inherited his property; it was taken over by Hamed, Hassan's evil brother; at night an old man came up and sold Rejab two tips: beware of the one-eyed man and stay awake on the new moon; R. came to Hamed, who found himself one-eyed - a month ago, a hunting falcon pecked out his eye; married a beautiful daughter; by law, R. had a preferential right to marry his cousin; R. dressed as a gypsy, came to the bride and sold her sweets with a laxative inside; soon she ran to the "house of dawn", which was far away; R. grabbed her and took her away; the sheikhs recognized him as Hassan's son, and no one wanted to help Hamed; R. kept him alive, but took away his father's possessions]: Campbell 1950:43-55; Kuwait [the man was walking with his pregnant wife; along the way she gave birth to a boy and died; the husband left her in the cave, put the baby on the mother's body, putting her left breast in his mouth and her mother's left hand on it; stoned the entrance to the cave; one day, passers-by noticed that the stones were spread apart and that children's footprints were in front of the cave; into the cave, the husband saw that the left side of the deceased's body was imperishable and her chest was full of milk; he took his son and raised him]: Dickson 1949:287-288.

Melanesia. Susure [Suburten sent his wife Mamilup to the garden with his nephew Teome; M. could not seduce T.; T. hears coconuts coming down at night, becoming girls, singing; When sending T. home, S. tells him to take two green coconuts into the boat; along the way they turn into a good wife and a bad wife; the bad one, Mehue, T. tries to kill; nailed her with pegs under a tree, piercing her limbs and chest; her stomach is swollen, T. is preparing to pick up her son, but son Kuluhob and the snake Dolak were born in his absence; K. freed his mother, they left; D. sailed away on the ship, gave birth to many snakes, they became Europeans; a good wife gave birth to a son Manup; K. and M. meet each other in the forest, shooting at one bird; T. asks M. to bring K. to the village; he runs away every time; men can't catch him, catches him old woman; K. is brought into the house for initiations, along with other boys he receives a loincloth; girls choose husbands; K. is the last to come out, all the girls leave the chosen ones, choose K.; other boys jealous, they do nasty things to him; jumping from palm tree to palm tree, K. went to his mother M.; she gave him food in a red bowl, he became a cassowary, the bowl was a red throat; (then K. again a man, swims away to white, brings cargo goods)]: Lehner 1975, No. 3:746-752; (cf. Vedau [pregnant Garawada goes with her mother-in-law to the forest for fruit; climbs a tree; mother-in-law is unhappy that G. eats ripe fruits and throws green fruits; says that it is enough, tells her to go down; when G. goes down to the fork, mother-in-law tells the branches to close, leaves; G. cannot move; gives birth to a boy, he falls to the ground; sucks wild ginger stalks dabedabe; he is going to go to people, mother teaches sing him "I sucked dabedabe shoots, my mother Garavad"; he forgets the words, comes back, learns his song again; comes to boys throwing darts; throws his own but misses, but hurts him another boy's hand; the boys run away in fear, talk about what happened in the village; the boy's uncle hides in ambush, grabs him; from his song he understands that he is a nephew; men release G., but she runs away to the sea, turns into a crab; the boy stays in the village with his uncle]: Ker 1910:21-25); San Cristobal: Fox 1924:109 [the woman and her newborn daughter died, buried {the child is named she, although it does not directly say that the girl is}; the daughter climbed out of the grave, came to the children to play, returned to the grave at sunset; people began to guard, and on the third day they grabbed the girl as she tried to return to grave; the child says her mother is waiting for her; she is told to call her mother; the mother goes out, everyone returns to the village; this child is the ancestor of the Adaro clan], 336 [the heavenly spirit kills the pregnant woman; Suganainoni was born to already dead mother; to avenge her, he rises to heaven in a column of smoke; kills the spirit, returns home after adventures]; Maewo [the cannibal Taso killed Qatu's pregnant sister, corpse abandoned; the twins who got out of his mother's corpse ate shoots, drank rainwater; found an uncle's pig, took the food he brought her; K. caught them, taught them how to hunt; they said that if a bunch bananas will ripen from above, then T. is killed, and if from below, T. killed them; hiding in the men's house, they threw hot stones at T. who entered, finished him and his mother off with clubs, the house was burned]: Codrington 1891, No. 10:398-402 (paraphrase in Jonker 1903:251, in Dixon 1916:132-133); Kanaka: Leenhardt 1932:206-236 [Chief Naou's pregnant wife dies, he leaves her in the house, tells her to move the village to a new one place; son grows up in the grave, his mother teaches him to get tarot, yams, cook them on fire, go to the party to sell them; she herself has become a spirit, her body has decomposed, she talks only at night; boy meets his father, tells his story, the father is happy; wants his son to stay with him right away, but the boy goes to his mother for the last time; when people hear crying, they look into the house, but only see a boy there; mother and son will see each other again when the son dies], 439-440 [two sisters go to the plantation, they are noticed by an ogre, one runs away, he kills the other, she is pregnant, the boy grows up on the mother's corpse, feeds with the sap of trees; the sister of the killed finds him; he grows up, kills the ogre with a spear in the eye].

Micronesia-Polynesia. Easter Island [Ana Vaero was home to the chicken Vovo, daughter of Aoro Ngaru; the Mir and Honga chief of Tangaloa met her while she was sleeping; fishermen killed the chicken; old Nuahu heard crying a baby, found a child in chicken giblets in a puddle; the boy grew up asking about his father, N. replies that he has no father; he comes to his father's other sons; they can no longer slide on the waves, understand that they are being looked at; he was beaten, thrown into the sea; he hid in a cave; he swam with a hollow in a tree trunk; he was seen by two women; he lived with their father, worked in the garden; after that the plants began to bear fruit well, the fish were caught; people realized that he was the leader, carried him to Hanga Roa; on the way he killed his enemies; organized a holiday in honor of his father, and climbed to heaven by rainbow]: Fedorova 1993: 200-201.

Burma - Indochina. Khmers [the soothsayer told the king that only the son of a worker could threaten his power; the king wants to execute all pregnant women in the capital, but the soothsayer finds this particular firewood collector; her head was cut off, her corpse was thrown away; the baby in her womb survived, was born, vultures and crows took care of him; the bishop's cow shepherd (the head of Cambodia's Buddhists) found the child, brought it to its master; he told the shepherd to raise the boy; when the boy was 7 years old, the soothsayer told the king that he was alive and in Phnom Penh; the bishop told the shepherd to take the boy and run; he hid the boy in a stump; soldiers they drove elephants through the grass to trample him, but one elephant covered the boy with its trunk; the next time the shepherd and the boy hid in the cave, and the spider closed the entrance with a web; the warriors thought that in the cave There is no one; they returned to the city, the boy stuck a banyan branch into the ground: if he is destined to grow up, let the banyan grow up; he has grown; the king is dead, the young man reigned, and built a monastery on the site of his mother's murder ]: Nevermann 1956:100-107; Viets [the peasant's pregnant wife died; came to an old neighbor to buy honey; when she came for the second time, she explained that she did not have milk to feed her newborn; the old woman recognized the deceased; the husband dug up the grave, took out the baby; one of the neighbors cautiously agreed to feed him; the boy grew up to be an ordinary man, and his mother was no longer seen]: Sun 1957; 117-119; (cf. Burmese [the pregnant queen died, her daughter Muenun was born at a funeral fire; the king orders to build a palace in the cemetery, but not allow M. to visit people; Prince Nanda from the other side of the river is in love with M. , his father forbids him to swim across the river; the Rain Cloud (DT) crocodile carries him into his mouth; the Crocodile, rejected by DT, turns into a woman, persuades M. to go to bed on the right, not on the left N.'s hand; this brings misfortune, N. suffocated in the mouth of the DI; M. dies of grief; the smoke from the funeral fires of N. and M. joined together to form a rainbow]: Aoun 1957:93-95).

(Wed. Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [the elder brother's wife tells her husband to drive away his younger and his wife; they have a daughter, her tears are pearls, laughs - violets and roses fall; the prince hunts, the servant enters the hut, amazed at the girl's beauty, the prince takes her to marry; on the way, his uncle gives her salty food, takes her eyes by the water, dresses his black daughter in her clothes; explains to the prince that she she fool from waiting; a blind woman in the forest cries with pearls, an old man picks her up; exchanges violets and roses, an uncle's necklace for a girl's eyes; she dies, her son sucks milk in his mother's coffin; the prince finds a son, he rips off the necklace from his imaginary wife, puts it on his mother, she comes to life; uncle and daughter are torn with horses]: Chikovani 1954:244-249; Turks [a girl was born in a poor family (var: princess); three (or more) ) dervish (peri; dead mother) predict that where she passes, the grass will turn green, her tears will become pearls, if she laughs, roses will fall from her lips, gold will appear in the water that she washes; they they give her an amulet (bracelet); the girl grows up, marries a prince, goes to him accompanied by another woman (sister, maid, neighbor, black woman, etc.; the vizier decides to replace her beauty with her ugly daughter); thirsty, her companion gives her water in exchange for her eyes; takes her place; the blind lives with others; roses are needed in the palace, they fall from the girl's lips, they are sold in exchange for her eyes, the girl sees the light; (the padishah sees the grass turning green under the girl walking); the liar steals the girl's amulet, she loses consciousness, is put in the tomb; (she has a child, he sucks her chest dead mother); the prince finds and revives her]: Eberhardt, Boratav 1953, No. 240:291-294).

Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens: Karryev 1983:403 [Dzhigali-bek has three sons in the fortress country of Chandybil - Genjim, Momin, Ady-bek; only A. is smart; he dies leaving his pregnant wife; she also dies; J. dreams, where he is told to go to his daughter-in-law's grave; finds a boy sucking his dead mother's breast; gives him the name Rowshen]; Lebedev 1954, No. 1 [pregnant dies; a boy is born in the grave, goes outside to play; people They try in vain to catch him; they leave a grandmother and a doll at the grave; the child takes the money, which means that it is not a girl, but a boy; they leave a saddle smeared with glue; he sits down and sticks; seeing people, he tries return to the grave, but the adhering saddle gets stuck; he is caught, given the name Gyor-Ogly (Son of the Grave)]: 115; Uzbeks, Tajiks [in Turkmen, Uzbek and Tajik versions, Kir-ogly's mother dies while pregnant and he is born in a grave]: Basilov 1980b: 641; Bukhara Arabs [Uzbek sister Hajib sees a young Turkmen groom; agreed with him; asked her brother to buy her the employee, he bought a young man, his sister began to sleep with him; G. found them, wanted to slaughter the young man; the sister said that all the fault was on her; G. married them; she was pregnant; her husband took G. to visit his relatives; while the wife died; her husband also died; the child was born and raised in the grave; three years old began to get out; people threw a dice and a doll; the child took the bone means a boy; Hajim was told he took the boy, called Gurogli ("son of the grave"); a certain Reyhan Arab fell in love with Gajum's wife; ordered Gurogli (hereinafter G. - Guroglu) to ask Gajum's wife to give him water; grabbed her and took her away; from the stallion R. mare she brought a foal to a mare kidnapped; she also gave birth to a foal; Elijah the prophet took it, raised it, gave it to G.; told him that he was marrying Peri; G. found the kidnapped aunt; she advises not to take her away (old became), and daughter R.; G. took her away in the same way (asked for a cup of water) as R. when he kidnapped Gajdum's wife; she cut the leg of R.'s horse, he could not cross the river in pursuit of G.; G. married the girl Gajuma instead of being kidnapped; (hereinafter about how G. kidnapped Avaz Khan; how he married Peri)]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 29:184-190; Tajiks [Padishah Ahmad has an intelligent wife Dilmokh and a beautiful sister Gulmokh; the powerful and old padishah Raihonarab demands her as his wife, A. is forced to agree; but G. runs away, A. gives R. his daughter; G. died in the desert, the servants buried her; the mare A. fell into the grave, there boy, he sucks mare's milk; he was found, called Gurguli ("grave hero"); he grew up, arrogant with A., steals his horses; A. tells him to leave so that no one gives him water; G. leaves for the mare who fed him; R. finds out that he did not receive sister A., but his daughter, gathers an army; G. throws a lasso on him, R. refuses to raid, allows his horse to be let in with the mare G.; a foal was born , G. fed him with milk from various animals and women, the foal gained extraordinary abilities; G. sent the waters of the springs, built the country of Chambuli Maston, people moved there; son G. Avaz wins A.; feast]: Ulug-zade 1967:76-96; mountain Tajiks (Pyanj, West 1898) [when dying, the Shah leaves the throne to the vizier, leaves his pregnant wife in his care; he tells the servant to take the woman to desert, rip her stomach open; boy Sherzod sucks a dead mother's breast, then he is fed by a lioness; comes to people on a lion; Shah's daughter Gulshod takes him to her; the Shah orders him to hack beloved; S. defeats his army, becomes Shah; G. orders not to kill the Shah, but to put him in prison forever]: Semenov 1900 (2): 16-19 (=Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 23:103-105).

Turkestan. Uighurs [a shepherd's pregnant wife dies; a new shepherd notices that a goat goes to the cemetery every day; watches her, she bleats, a child comes out of the grave, sucks milk; the old man advises leave a lamb grandmother and a doll at the grave; the child grabs his grandmother; the next time the shepherd and the old man throw a carpet over him; when the young man grows up, he does any job overnight; when asked if he did it himself answers, I don't know; the seven-headed dragon demands the eldest of the khan's three daughters; the old man gives the young man a horse, he kills the dragon; the Khan's commander takes the feat for himself, marries; the same with another dragon and the middle daughter, she marries a herald; the khan promises the youngest and the throne to the one who cures him of his illness; two sons-in-law come to the magic garden for grass, receive it from a young man, not knowing that it is the one who lives with an old man; a young man gives his seal on both his thigh; Khan recovers; an eight-headed dragon is given his youngest daughter; a young man kills a dragon, sends the girl home; a few years later she sees his ring on the finger of a young man who sleeps in the stable; demands that all grooms pass in front of her, chooses a poor groom; they have been accommodated in a stable, they have a son; at the feast, the young man shows three rings, which the khan's three daughters gave him after killing dragons, shows his seals on his sons-in-law, wears appropriate clothes; the khan gives him the throne]: Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:133-152.

SV Asia. Itelmen: Lukashkina 1991 [Kutkha Akovac's mother invites him to marry Iyanoch; they come to marry; a son is born, I. is pregnant again; they return to K.'s house; mother I . warns not to stop if the child cries; K. violates the ban, goes to fetch water for the child; the terrible Kacham tells I. to take off his clothes, puts on himself, kills I., buries him in the snow; Kuth brings home Kacham; in the spring a boy comes out of I.'s womb; he takes flies in his mouth, they buzz, I. wakes up; the boy hunts with onions, comes to Kutha's house twice when it's empty, lies on his skins, takes the crush and meat, brings his mother; Kuth decides to guard the thief; the boy explains who he is, talks about I. and Kacham; Kuth heats the stones, burns them Kacham rips off her clothes; everyone comes to I., who says she can't leave the hut because she is half naked; Kuth gives her clothes]: 84-90; Jochelson 1951, No. 38 [Legizne comes to pregnant wife Ememkut 'a Sinanevt, kills her, hangs her on the rafters, puts on her clothes, ties a cauldron to her stomach as if she is pregnant; in spring S.'s body thaws, falls, her baby goes out, revives his mother; secretly comes to his father's house, collects crumbs of food for his mother; L. and E. notice his traces; E. watches for him, catches him; he brings him to S.; E. drives L.; she comes to her grandmother, pretends that her son-in-law has come, eats the food offered by her grandmother]: 250-252; (cf. Menovshchikov 1974, No. 177 [The mouse lures Kutha to him, does not let him drink until he agrees to give her youngest daughter Nyaa for her son; she does not know how to live with mice, she is kicked out with the little ones son and daughter; she dies; children steal food from K., make a fire in their mother's ears, use her mouth as a cauldron; K. finds and catches them; the shaman revives N.; K. does not like grandchildren, N. leaves with them]: 527 -532).

NW Coast. Tsimshian: Barbeau, Beynon 1987 [The world is dark (gloomy), there is no sun; the chief came in and saw his wife with her lover; he thought it was his nephew; he told his wife he knew everything; she was shocked and soon died; the coffin was hung from a pole; the chief is surprised that his nephew shows no signs of grief; tells him to watch; people see a woodpecker flying up to the coffin every evening and flying away in the morning; hear laughter from the coffin; the chief came to see for himself, but cadaveric worms fell on him; the woman gave birth in the coffin, the baby got out; when the coffin was opened, there was a decayed corpse; the chief ordered one of the sisters to take care about the baby, as if it were his son; she has her own son of the same age; they grew up like brothers; the chief's son caught two ducks, took off their skins; wearing them, the young men learned to turn into ducks, fly; flew to the chief, who had daylight; we must fly between two mountains that converge and then diverge; the brothers agreed that whoever flies would marry the leader's two daughters; they flew by and went down to the lake in front of the chief's house; each of his daughters took one of the ducks that turned into men at night; both gave birth to a son; from the eldest Txamsen ("Smart"), from the youngest Lugabula ("Lazy"); time at home, the missing young men mourn their loss; two babies were seen on seaweed in the sea; chief: they returned the missing; they grew up, one of them took the form of a crow to steal the sun from the leader sky; flew to where the chief's daughter took water, turned into a needle, she swallowed it with water; it was the same Txamsen; the baby cries, wants a ball with light to play; once rolled the ball out of the house , became an adult man, then put on a crow's skin and took the ball away; saw spirit men fishing in the light of torches; they refused to share the fish, T. tore the ball, and daylight spread across the world, the sun has appeared, the spirits are gone]: 1-5; Boas 1902 [the chief's wife has a lover; she pretends to be dying; she is left in a coffin in a tree; the husband spends two days under the tree; larvae fall out of the coffin; she makes them, cutting a wooden spoon with a knife; every night a lover comes, knocks, says, Let me in, spirit; a woman gets pregnant; the chief is informed of what is happening, he sends his nephew to kill lovers; a woman's son sucks a dead mother's intestines; grows up in a coffin; picks up arrows that children fire; the leader's nephews find and catch him]: 7-10 [he grows up, gets the sun; see motif A26]; 1916, No. 29 [it burns when it goes to melt resin from fir trees]: 214-216.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [pregnant woman dies, buried; husband cries at the grave; in spring he sees a boy coming out of her, picking flowers, hiding again; his father makes bows and arrows, laying them out, forcing the son continues to move away from the grave; shamans grab and treat the boy; he asks to pour hot resin over him and his cousin (or rather not uk.); now both are really alive; many people died trying marry Xmandamlkit and Tsabol, daughters of two heavenly leaders; Son of the Dead wears chikadi skin, brother wears woodpecker skin, both fly to heaven; The old mouse teaches how to slip between the interpreters rocks where lightning strikes; Woodpecker feathers are scorched; I. and C. come to the spring; imaginary birds allow themselves to be caught; tell them to forget that the girls hid them under their clothes; at night they turn into men; parents recognize them as sons-in-law; both are good hunters; they return home to earth with their wives; heavenly women have a lot of meat in their small bags; people feast]: Jenness 1934, No. 11:149-154.

(Wed. The Great Southwest. Hopi [girls and boys climb a rock, a pregnant girl falls, crashes, is left there; after her death a boy is born; the Rattlesnake finds him, raises him, wears him first to suck mother's breast, then feeds him boiled corn; when the boy is older, he sends him to his mother's parents; he explains who he is, they are happy; he hunts for grandparents]: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 15:141 -146).