J40A. Avenged captives. 34.36.43.-.47.

Returning after a long absence, the hero finds parents or other close relatives in humiliating slavery, tells them to defiantly show disobedience and punishes those who he humiliated them.

Buryats, Far Eastern Evenks, Puyallup, Northern Ojibwa, Western Marsh Cree, Kickapoo, Montagne, Nascapi, Assiniboine, Biloxi.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Buryats [the elderly have a daughter Nogoondar, a favorite of the goddess Green Tara, and a son Sagaandar, a favorite of the goddess White Tara; he catches too many animals, his parents decide to destroy him; the father does before the house is a trap pit, the mother prepares poison; the horse warns of danger; S. enters the house, but cannot refuse to touch the poison with her finger, falls dead; the coffin with the body is thrown into the Black Sea; after Bukhara Khan stabbed this from the old people in the right eye, crushed it on his right hand, took away property, took it into slavery; Sister S. N., who was preparing wedding clothes for Khan's daughter; S.'s horse tells her to dress as a man, ride to the sea; on the way she kills a 15-headed mangadhai; promises to marry a 25-headed man, for he promises to save her for this brother; he immediately kills his former wife and sons, tells him to build a tower on the island and catch the coffin, but the sea has smashed everything to pieces, and N. hid in the hawthorn bushes; sees an ice floe, she tells her voice Brother to marry only Habsargalt Mergen; 3 heavenly swan fairies pulled out an ice floe, inside a coffin, containing the baby S. had become; he grew up, but 7 pot-bellied khans killed him again; horse: he will be revived by 3 daughters of the celestial Eseren; N. arrives as a bird, overhears 3 brothers and 3 sisters praise S. and N., who are better than them; in the form of a man, he marries three sisters; so that she is not exposed, negotiates with a horse : When the elder maiden enters the imaginary man, the horse will seem to fall off and ride along the Milky Way, and the owner follows him; N. invites three maidens to swim in a lake of living water and brings her brother's body there; they he was revived, he pretended to be their women, and N. returned in women's clothes; S. married the youngest of the maidens; one day she went to visit her father, and S. went hunting; N. did not keep track of the cattle and behind the hearth; N. went to look for fire, went to the old woman, she drank her blood, gave smut, N. barely returned and died; S. killed the old woman with an arrow, put his sister in a box, tied a red deer to her horns; the old man and the old woman they found a coffin, and a little girl in it; she grew up, married H.-Mergen, gave birth to a whiny daughter; S. comes there, enters under the guise of a beggar, his sister recognizes him, he takes on his true appearance; comes to Bukha-khan, whose parents are enslaved; opens to them; tells them to respond insultingly to Khan and Hansha in the morning; they run in, S. kills the hansha, becoming a snake, and Khan in a duel; returns Khan's appearance for parents]: Dugarov 1990:266-282.

Eastern Siberia. Far Eastern Evenks (probably Uchursky): [In the depths of bygone years, a young man appeared at the mouth of five deep-water rivers with thundering valleys and blazing capes, under a sprawling tree Tyvgunay; he does not know where he came from; he made a bow, saw two ducks, but does not shoot (maybe they belong to people, it will be bad if I kill); they fly away, sing: grateful they did not kill; one says left a thimble on the hummock, tells him to take it - it will help; T. came to the camp, there is a rich leader; promises a daughter to someone who pulls a pierced bow out of the ground; no one can; T. did not try, returned under his tree; a man is sitting there, saying that he is his older brother (his name is Cholbon Chokuldai), looking for it for several years; T. talks about the leader, his daughter and bow; CH: enter my horse's left ear, there's food; go to the right - there are clothes; T. gained strength, dressed in armor, both drove on a huge heroic horse; HC pulled out his bow, the shaft broke, the arrow flew to the sky; the brothers flew on horseback to the upper world find out where the arrow hit; there are people like mosquitoes, cattle like spiders; smoke from the ground, there is half charred old man and old woman; old man: liver disease, give me some liver; old woman: for dressing they gave it to me, if I give it to you, I will be hit on the head with a gold poker; then the same about the brain (they will hit me on the head with a poker); then the old woman: when you were young and you were defeated by heroes, flew to the upper world, taking us with me, I left a two-year-old boy HCH on the larch, and a six-month-old T. under a branched tree; when I heard the brothers break into the plague, my parents were happy; mother: in this the country has invincible heroes; they are lying now because a death from the middle world has ripped half of their bodies off them; they roast us on fire and ask us who we left at home; gathered shamans to find out if those who failed to predict were being killed; the brothers fed their parents, came unnoticed in the plague of heroes; the shaman began to spin: the young men who released death are here; the heroes do not believe, they want to cut off the shaman's head; she asks the young men to show up so as not to be killed; two heroes Singkeltuken Eden (SE) and Begaltukan Eden (BE) ask the brothers to return their full bodies for it is shameful to kill a cripple; they did it; during the battle, HC sees nothing, begins to weaken; his horse tells him to hit him with a silver hatchet, then he will see a raft with a smoke smoke attached to his horse; he was divorced by an old woman, she must be killed; HF did it; SE offers to take a break, leads him to her, offers to sit down; HH fails and flies down; SE turns to someone below: I let you down the strongest hero; in response: if he drives cattle in front, they would keep them alive for several days; HCH throws lumps of clay, they turn into cattle; HH leads to plague, where people are smoked and eaten; the old woman says HC: if you smell this country, you won't return to the ground; HC and the local leader look at each other for 30 days without closing their eyes; then the leader closed his eyes, three days later the second; HC saw a bell above him and far above the hole in the upper world; became a spider, then a bird, crawled, flew; jumping into the hole, became human again, then the bell rattled; the monster leaned out: and let the people of the middle world continue They come to me with cattle, then sometimes they can come back; so shamans take cattle as payment; HF led SE to fight against a rock where heaven and earth come into contact; there the sky is like scissors; HF was the first to jump, the sky cut off the tip of the horse's tail; when SE jumped, it was cut in half; HCH found T.; he was barely alive, his enemy BE too; BE fired an arrow, telling him to hit a fish into the sea and bring it to him; the arrow did it, the fish - HCH soul; T. sends an arrow to the larch for a little swallow; it is about to slip into the hole in the upper world; T. remembered the thimble, threw it, he plugged the hole, the arrow brought the swallow; BE: none of us will win, we will not fight anymore, we will exchange souls; T. and HCH took their parents and returned to earth; T. married a girl who gave a thimble, and HC married the daughter of a hero whose bow he pulled out]: Myreyeva 2009:128-145.

The coast is the Plateau. Puyallup [the girl just gave birth, left the baby in the thickets, went to the party; he was picked up by spouses who already had a daughter; the baby grew up immediately; the girl provokes him to shoot at her, he has to do it, she hurts, she screams, he leaves altogether; she gets to a cougar woman, who is going to make him her husband, gives berries, but they are lizards; a crane woman helps him run; he comes to the singing woman, she falls silent; he and the singing sister ask her to continue, she sings, this lights up the earth; the rock, the water, the road answer that they will not be able to hide from the fire; Spruce says that You can sit at its top; from the top of his head he climbs into heaven with a bow and arrow; meets a dawn man, then a twilight man; each has five daughters, both inviting him; at the fork, a young man at the fork Mistake goes to Twilight's house; his daughters grease him dead; try to feed the dead with flesh; he marries four; the eldest lies in a coffin-like box; Split Foot comes ), the eldest takes him away; Dawn sends her daughters to bring the young man from Twilight; the daughters of Dawn and Twilight fight, the eldest daughter of Twilight has the leg of Shattered Leg in the arms of Twilight; the daughter of Dawn is more beautiful; daughters Twilight is driven away, but after 5 days the young man finds his way to Dawn; he is washed and fed; looking into the basket on the wall, the young man finds the youngest daughter of Dawn; stays in bed in the morning; when he finds out what is going on Dawn marries him to his youngest; the young man accidentally makes a hole in the ground, sees his real mother below, who has given birth to a new boy; Dawn agrees to let his son-in-law and daughter go, the Spider lowers them into basket; the young man's younger brother is blind, fat dog; the elder and his wife make him healthy and beautiful; so is the boy's mother (she was blind, only for the fifth time she believes that her son really came); she and the younger brother were slaves to Blue Jay; he tells his younger brother to wipe him off; in the presence of his older brother, the younger brother puts hot smut in his ass, he flies away; the young man's wife gave birth to fused twins; Blue Jay cut them, they died; their mother killed everyone in the village out of revenge (the name of the village of Flytown); the Spider took the couple back to heaven; everything they brought from heaven remained]: Thompson, Egesdal 2008:78-83.

The Midwest. Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Wai-Mishus has two wives; one scratches her body with raspberry stems, accuses the other's son of attempted rape; the young man's name is Iyas; V. leaves him on the island, tells the seagulls to kill; The seagull carries I. on his back, defecates on V., returns to the island; The green-horned snake transports I. to the other side; asks to let me know if a black cloud appears; I. is silent, The Thunderbird carries the snake, I. manages to jump ashore; revives the snake from pieces of its skin; The fox helps I.; an old man with a huge leg presses the sleepy travelers; The fox bites his leg, pus pours out, the leg becomes normal, the monster dies; ropes hang from the sky between the two rocks; I. throws roots to them, runs through himself; the woman and her three daughters have teeth in their vaginas; I. sticks a stone, breaking their teeth, women grateful; two blind old women with sharp elbows kill travelers; I. throws clothes between them, old women pierce each other; I. revives them, cuts off their tips, heals their eyes; comes to his mother; tells her Throw another wife's child into the fire, who is bullying her; lights the ground with arrows, he and his mother are unharmed, V. burns; I. turns his mother into a robin, himself into a toad]: Ray, Stevens 1971: 112-120; Western Swamp Cree [grandfather takes Ayās to the island to collect bird eggs, tells him to move away, sails away in a boat; Horned Serpent says he is grandmother A., tells him to sit between horns, lucky across the lake, asks me to say if a storm cloud appears; A. denies that the cloud is close, says that it is only the noise of water being cut; jumps off the shore, lightning strikes the Horned Serpent; in the morning A. collects blood in a birch bark vessel, the Horned Serpent is reborn, sends to grandmother A. Frog; she does not repair his moccasins well, the stitches are wide; the next grandmother The mouse repairs well, warns of two blind old women with sharp elbows; A. comes to their house, says he is going to go out he gets out of the teepee in another place, the old women pierce each other; from another old woman A. feeds poisoned food to a fox hidden under her clothes, throws a fox at the old woman, the fox kills her; A. comes to a scabbed woman who cuts wood; a bird tells her that her son is back, she does not believe it at first; says A. that those people burn her face and hands every night; A. tells her to ask for baby, throw him into the fire, call him; A. says he will burn the earth, his grandfather and his people do not believe; he fires arrows, everything lights up; A. turns into a crow, his mother into a woodpecker; the woodpecker has a black woodpecker back and white apron on the chest]: Brightman 1989:105-112; kickapoo [the chief has two wives; one does not love the other's son; he shot a bird; the woman puts it between her legs to scratch it; complains to her husband that the young man wanted to rape her; the husband tells everyone to sail across the sea, leaving his son alone; the young man climbs a tree; the cannibal comes up with his dogs; these are cougars; he climbs after the young man, he collides him, shouts to the dogs to grab the prey; cougars devour the owner instead of the young man; two blind old men sing: This is how I will hit the Abandoned; the young man ties the ropes on which they they go to the water; old people fall, accuse each other, fight; the young man invites them to attack him from both sides; they kill each other; garfish transport the young man across the sea; he meets his mother, tells her to burn her baby; except her, burns everyone in her father's village; turns one person into a crow]: Jones 1915, No. 10:75-89.

Northeast. Naskapi [Chief Ayashi has two wives; the youngest is afraid that he will make the eldest son heir; asks the young man to shoot the partridge, puts it between her legs, scratched; Ayashi is lucky the son collects the eggs of birds, throws him on the island; his mother expels him, showering her with hot coals; the Seagull is unable to lift the young man; the Horned Serpent (catfish) carries him; he lies as if the sky is clear; jumps off ashore, Thunder hits the Snake; a hook hangs above the path; the fox rises to the sky, pulls up the hook, the young man runs past; two dogs guard the path; the fox turns into a weasel, the dogs bark, Ayashi them kills for unreasonable anxiety; a young man comes to two women; they have toothy wombs; he first introduces flint, breaking their teeth, then copulates; returns home; turns his father into a frog, his mother into robin]: Speck 1915c, No. 1:70-74; Montagnier [like Nascapi; Chief Ayasheu; Raven, two Loons unable to carry a young man, a horned creature transports; a fox digs an underground passage under the lying across the path with his Big Leg; under his clavicles hanging on a rope; a hook crawls after the young man, he throws his caribou leg at him; in the house of two blind old men with sharp elbows, he throws his jacket at the door; old people they pierce each other; the young man sends his mother to hit his father with her head; shoots, the ground lights up, the father and his younger wife die in the fire; the young man turns his mother into a robin, himself into a hawk]: Desbarats 1969:6-12.

Plains. Assiniboine [woman asks her stepson or her husband's younger brother to shoot a partridge; puts a wounded woman between her legs to be scratched]: Lowie 1909a, No. 7a [husband takes her son to the island collects seagulls eggs, throws them there; a young man collects feathers, flies across the strait; on the way his two chasms, which close and open; he runs past, throwing fish at them; meets his mother, with whom her husband mistreats; tells her to throw her second wife's baby into the fire; lowers the sun from the sky beyond the rays; father burns], 7c [(no details about the episode of alleged rape); older brother leaves the youngest on the island; he kills the enemy; gives a scalp to a horned water snake and an old woman, the snake's wife; he swims on a snake; he advises him to hide under a log; the older brother sends a huge mosquito; the mosquito sting gets stuck in a log; the hero kills his sister's husband, who mistreated her; produces heat, the older brother dies; the brother's wife scratches the back with a badger's claw, makes her his slave parents]: 150-154.

Southeast USA. Biloxi [Uncle Tuche tells him to be in ritual isolation in the house; his uncle's wife asks to shoot her squirrel; T. shoots through a gap in the wall; his sister pulls out the squirrel's claws, alone forgets; uncle's wife scratches his body with it, accuses T.; uncle tells him to bring special arrow poles, white turkey feathers, deer tendons; Rabbit, Deer help T.; he kills the evil Old Man who he unfastened it; the uncle asks the Eagle's chick to play with it; the eagle gives the chick, which devours the baby; the uncle takes T. to the other side of the sea to burn grass, leaves it; the woodpecker lowers T. his tongue like a rope climb a tree when a cannibal approaches; An owl makes a ladder out of tree mushrooms, one mushroom attaches weakly; a cannibal climbs mushrooms, falls, her dogs rush at her, thinking it's T. {this episode on p.103}; they let her go in the morning; T. comes to her, marries her daughters; she tries to kill him; he falls into her trap; she asks where to strike; he replies that head; she does not believe, wants to hit her ankle; he hits her with an ax, cooks her body; she comes to life; her daughters put hot iron into a hole in her head, she dies; T. and his wives swim across the sea to crocodile; T. throws him food, then fires arrows in front of him, then flies ashore with his arrow; tells his sister to throw his uncle's baby into boiling water; kills his uncle's people; turns in the thunder, sister in a snipe; toads sing in the rain as T. told them]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 28:99-107.