J26A. Boys and puppies .28.29.32.35.

Among the children of a woman or two women living together are a boy and a puppy, or a woman was given a puppy and her son was thrown away. The puppy lives with a woman, helps her.

Ukrainians, Terek Cossacks, Bashkirs, Tundra Nenets, Northern and Southern Selkups.

Central Europe. Ukrainians [seeing the prince, the first girl promises to feed everyone one cow of bread, the second - to sew clothes for the entire army from one arshin fabric, the third - to give birth to 12 golden-haired sons; the king married a third, went to war; the midwife replaced her golden-haired son with a dog and threw him into the well; the second time she replaced him with a toad, the third time with a dry and ill baby; the king ordered him to plant his wife and her offspring in a barrel and throw them into the sea; when they got ashore, Pesinsky, Zhabinsky and Sukhinsky build a house and a bridge to another kingdom; they extract a golden apple tree with golden and silver apples, a wonderful boar who knows how to grow bread; playing with an apple, three golden-haired boys are lured out of the well; after learning about miracles from salt merchants, the king executes the midwife and returns his wife]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 9:40-45; (cf. Russians, Ukrainians [Hero puppy and wonderful children: a puppy (peasant son), who has been replaced by newborn wonderful children, helps their expelled mother, gets curiosities, finds and returns her mother's wonderful children, helps her return to her tsar husband (merchant)]: SUS, No. 707*: 178; {the Ukrainian version is Chubinsky; the Russian version is from Krasnoyarsk Krai}).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Terek Cossacks (art. Naurskaya) ["In the old days, when rivers were still flowing with milk and honey, and sheep grazed with wolves, when there was quiet and smooth everywhere, and God's grace, in a certain kingdom, an old man lived in a certain state with their old woman"; the old man and the old woman live in poverty, so they decide to leave their three daughters in the forest; the old man tells them to pick berries; says he will cut firewood; ties a block of wood to the tree, which swings in the wind and makes a knock; sisters think that the father is cutting wood; after a while they go in search of him; find a block; they reach the sea on which the king and his squad are traveling; older sister: "If only I was a royal wife, I would have given birth to a hero son for the king"; middle: "If I were a royal wife, I would give birth to three daughters for him: Hope, Faith and Love"; youngest: "If I were the king's wife, I would give birth for the king three sons: elbow length in gold, knee-length in silver, month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king marries the youngest, takes the rest of the sisters as her assistants; goes on a campaign; the queen gives birth three sons: "gold up to the elbow, silver knee-deep, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; midwife Baba Yaga kills babies, puts three puppies instead of them; writes to the king that puppies have been born; he is angry; the queen gives birth to triplets again; BYA replaces them with puppies, tells the king; he promises to punish his wife if everything happens again; the queen gives birth to three sons, hides one of them in the folds of her dress; BYA kills the other two, puts puppies instead of them and writes to the king; he tells him to leave the puppies until his arrival; BU manages to kill one of them; when he returns, the king sees a puppy and a son who does not have a moon on her forehead, no stars on her body (the queen erased these signs when she hid it from the BU); according to the king's decision, the queen is put in a barrel with her son and puppy and allowed into the sea; the king marries the daughter of the BU; the barrel swims on at sea, the prince asks permission to turn over from one side to the other; the queen does not allow it; the barrel is stranded near the island, the prince turns, the barrel crumbles; the puppy brings bones, the prince makes them a house; elders passing by say they are going to remember the queen; the prince asks to take him with them, they refuse, agree to take the puppy; tell the king about the house on the island; the king wants it to see, but the wife dissuades: "Well, this is not a big wonder; that's a wonder: in a certain kingdom, eight falcons are sitting in a certain state, singing royal and sovereign poems"; the puppy talks about this to the prince; he brings falcons; the elders going to the wake again refuse to take him with them, but take a puppy; tell the king about the house on the island and the 8 falcons; he tells him to saddle horses, but his queen holds: "Well, this is not so wonderful; this is so marvelous: in some kingdom - in some state there is a pig - a golden bristle"; the puppy talks about what the prince heard; he brings a pig golden bristles {no details}; the elders agree to take only a puppy with them; tell the king about what they saw on the island; the wife tries to dissuade him from going there: "Well, it's not so amazing; in in some kingdom, in a distant state, there is a golden horn deer, stubborn in the sky"; the king does not give in to persuasion, goes to the island; the puppy warns the prince and the queen; she tells her son that the tsar is his father, and 8 falcons are his siblings; the prince manages to bring the deer golden horns; the king recognizes the queen as his wife and the prince as his son; 8 falcons turn into princes "elbow-deep in gold, knee-deep in silver, a month on his forehead, stars over the body"; the king returns with his family to the capital; BYA and her daughter are tied to the tails of wild horses that carry their bodies through forests and mountains; "Was feast like a mountain, I was there sometimes, I drank honey, a burner: it flowed down my mustache, but it didn't get into my mouth. The fairy tales are over for you, but I'm honored with a korets"]: Vostrikov 1904, No. 2:74-80.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [when leaving, bai asks four wives what they will prepare for his return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed him meat to a hundred servants; 2) I will sew sandboots; 3) I will sew mittens made of lice leather; 4) I will face two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; all fulfilled their promises; before the return of the bay, the youngest wife's babies were replaced with black a puppy; his mother and 40 servants were sent to the forest, and the children were thrown under the feet of mares; the youngest wife comes to breastfeed the puppy, finds a mare that feeds her babies; returned the children, let the puppy go; babies were thrown to the cows - the same; geese - the same; thrown into the water; bai ordered his youngest wife to break her arm and leg, gouge out her eye, lock him in a deaf log house; the puppy got out, saw a man, that looking for a way to bay; a woman promises to show way if he cuts a hole in the log house; the puppy led the man to the bay, hid and overheard the conversation; the person talks about the log house; the older wife: this is not miracle, near the lake a mare gets laid at every step, drinks on the lake at a watering hole; the black puppy returns to his mother, asks for a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats; second wife: diamonds and yakhonts at the top of the mountain; the puppy overhears again quietly; asks his mother for a tablecloth, brings gems; the third time the traveler cut through the door in the log house; the third wife: there are two boys in the river, go out to play in the sand; mother's puppy: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; boys began to play nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings them mother, Baya, is invited to visit, he understood everything; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she likes mares better, her hair was tied to them, where her back touched the ground, there were mountain ranges, where the hair is marsh grass hummocks, where the back is lakes; the second wife chose firewood, it was burned; the third was tied to the tails of 9 mares]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51 (western from a woman in Obdorsk/Salekhard) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); the youngest of seven brothers asks his sister to sew a quiver; the quiver is ready, the young man says he suitable for the oldest brother; this is how the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; when they go hunting for seven days, the brothers do not tell their sister to leave the house; on the seventh day, the sister goes out and sees them leaving in seven directions the tracks of brothers who have become animals: a lion, a wolverine, a wolverine, a polar bear, an ermine, a sable, a brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears bring her in; a woman speaks the girl, that her younger brother is angry, hides her; in the morning tells her to follow the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks along the hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee appears from it; takes her clothes scratches her face; a girl wears even more beautiful clothes from a bag given by her bear brother's wife; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white, a girl with black deer, husbands their siblings , come to their father; he sends them to their relatives; a witch falls into a hole; a girl comes to visit her bear brother, who takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges pulled by mammoths; sister's husband must kiss mammoths; on the way back, a witch catches up with a girl, mice are drawn into her sledge; goods brought on mammoths filled the house; mice bit the hands of the witch's husband, the old men handed them over; the girl gives birth to a son, a witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts a girl, hides her son under the chips behind the plague; seals the girl's eyes with glue; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch pulls her out, throws her into the lake, saying Water is your father, water is your mother; at the request of the witch, they left the blind, they migrated themselves; the husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; the half-dog brings game to his mother; he admits that it is not he who kills her, but the one who comes out the lake is a boy; the two of them grab a water boy; at the request of his mother, he descends a half-dog into the ice-hole to the owner of the water instead of himself; washes his mother's eyes; she knocks iron ropes off the sledge, from there Deer appear; a young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he recognizes his son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: 147-165; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr, West. Labanauskas) [seven brothers have an older sister; the youngest asks to sew a quiver, is satisfied, tells them not to go out for seven days while the brothers are hunting; on the seventh day, the sister follows the brothers' footsteps to the birch tree; traces of her seven animals, the youngest left as a bear; she follows his footsteps to the den; the Bear's wife says that she is to blame, leaving the day before the deadline, tells him to leave, walk along the lowland; the sister walks along the hill, sits down on a stump, from there a witch in clothes jumps out of the bark, makes him change clothes; takes a man with white deer, a girl takes what is dark; gives birth to a boy, the witch hides him under the chips, replaces a half-dog, seals the woman's eyes; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch throws her into the lake, says that the water is his father, the water is his mother; tells her to migrate; the woman raises a half-dog, real the child lives in the water; A half-dog grabs a child who has come out of the water, calls a woman to help; ice floes crawl into the plague; a boy out of the water advises giving the owner of the lake a Half-Dog instead of himself; they drown him, woman and son live well]: 61-64; Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 130 [Mos-ne has a son, Por-ne has a Boy in the Form of a Motley Puppy (PUG); P. shoved M.'s child into the barrel, lowered it into the water; The PUG leaves P., comes to live with M.; carries food to the dugout by the river; explains to M. that an old man and an old woman live there, they have a son, he plays with him; this is M.'s son; the PUG almost grabbed him, he escaped; they play also, M. grabs his son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., and not with his father from the dugout; M.'s son and the PUG go to the city where Ushing-Otyr-Oika lives; get rich; W. leaves his wife, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; the PUG took off his dog clothes, became handsome]: 338-339; Kuzakova 1994 [as in Lukina 1990]: 44-47; the Northern Selkups [Natanka (" girl") and Tomnank ("frog" + two diminutive suffixes) live in the same camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices sledge mother's leg leaning out from under the tire; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises his children to eat N.'s children; N. plugs the chimney with a rag (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves He carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or a drill; N. buries his brother, pulls a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under him; she steals all N.'s things, but she tells them to return; T. follows on skis from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to the camp, marry two men; T. replaces newborn N. with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her hunt for the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is the son of N.; they get to know each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds a giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N.; N. forgives him, telling him to wash himself 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (Western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps N.'s son, keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [the widow has two daughters, the Volkhov marries one for her a woman does not give her son; dies, leaving the eldest comb, the younger ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman transports sisters across the river; a wolf with her son is lucky on a log; they turned over, drowned; the old woman tells her deer veins to spin, throws her deer into the stove; a conscientious sister has deer, the other does not; the old woman tells one (who?) stay; both leave, the old woman makes the eldest come back, gives the sledge, tells the youngest to be planted in it when they reach the ringing birch tree; the sister disappears, returning to the old woman; the girl comes to the village lives with an old man and an old woman; she is married; she is pregnant; during childbirth, her mother-in-law covers her eyes with bread, throws the child into the ice-hole, brings a puppy; the same for the second time; tells her son to leave the woman (with puppies) in the forest; she chews a ring, a house appears; dogs run to the river, tell how two boys come out of the ice-hole, they play with them; the woman has a leg pain, she asks the dogs to take her to the ice-hole, lure her out guys away from the water; her leg has recovered, she takes her sons; her husband arrives, she tells him everything; he tears his mother with horses; a bump in the swamp is her head]: Pelikh 1972:351-352.