J46. The enemy is sinking .10.-.13.15.-.17.19.21.22.24.26.-.37.39.-.50.52.58.-.64.66.68.72.73.

Antagonists die when they fall into the water from a shore, from a bridge, or try to swim across a water barrier. See J42, J44 motives.

Nama, Zulu, Xhosa, Ronga, Chagga, Maragoli, Sakata, Jukun, Bobo, Dagari, Joluo, Kalenjin (Nandi), Amhara, Bilin, Somalis, (Sudanese Arabs), Old Testament, Basques, British, Irish, Scots, French (Upper Brittany), Walloons, Germans (Mecklenburg), Upper Arapeche, Lepcha, Rai, Garo, Bori, Dafla, Apatani, Zyaray, Loda, Sangihe, Tetum, Miao, Taunyo, Moldovans, Hungarians, Russians ( Arkhangelsk, Bryansk), Belarusians, Poles, Kabardian, Ossetians, Lucky, Nogais, Lezgins, Rutulans, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Persians, Bakhtiyars, Baluchis, Uzbeks, Scandinavians, Norwegians, Western Sami, Lithuanians, Udmurts, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Tuvans, Tubalars, Kumandins (?) , Shors, Buryats, Mongols, Darkhats, Nenets, Ents, Kets, Southern Selkups, Central, Northwestern (Olenek) and Northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts, Western Evenks (Kiren), Sym Evenks, Baikal Evenks (Baikal region, northern Transbaikalia), Nanai, Orochi, Udege, Wilta, Tundra (?) Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Northern Alaska Inupiat (Kotzebue, Noatak), Central Yupik, Koyukon, Kuchin, Southern Tutchoni, Helmet, Dogrib, Chipewayan, Bellacula, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Halkomel, Puget Sound, Okanagon, kordalen, quinolt, lower chinook, clackamas, takelma, western sachaptin, ne perse, clamate, modoc, vishram, tillamook, upper coquill, koutene, winnebago, menominee, northern ojibwa (Sandy Lake), northern solto, Western and Eastern Ojibwa, Western Forest Cree; Western Marsh Cree, Eastern Cree, Steppe Cree, Steppe Ojibwa, Naskapi, Seneca, Mikmak, Passamaquoddy, Sarsi, Blackfooted, Assiniboine, Teton, Arapahoe, Shayens, Skidi Pawnee, Choctaw, Chiroki, Yurok, Kato, Lassik, Pomo, Vintu, Maidu, Monache, Northern Payut, Goshiute, Western Apaches, Papago, Diegueño (Ipay), Tiwa (Taos), Mountain Poles, Masateki, Chinantecs, kamsa and ingano, waiwai, oyampi, colorado, napo, saparo, shuar, uitoto, okaina, bora, barasana, kabiyari, makuna, tatuyo, chikuna, tariana, bar, katawishi, urubu, tenetehara, tupinamba, amuesha, machigenga, piro, marubo, siriono, nambikwara, iranshe, chamacoco, kaigua, chiripa, mbia, nyandeva, apapokuwa.

SW Africa. See motive J42. Hottentots (namas).

Bantu-speaking Africa. See motive J42. Zulu; ronga; chagga; braid [the woman left her little daughter in the garden, two birds carried her to the land of cannibals, one leg longer than the other; one of them took her, raised, married, she gave birth to one normal child, and the other ugly with one leg shorter than the other; cannibals decide to kill the woman and this child so that people do not breed stronger than them; one warns a woman; her mother's son with one half of an iron body goes to look for his sister; hits the river with an iron rod, crosses the dry; meets his sister; she tells him to smear himself with clay, to act as a servant cannibal chief; brother and sister and her child run away with their sister's hair scattered in different directions; they respond to cannibals from different sides; they cross the river dry and then the brother fills it with water; brother throws a rope to cannibals, lets go in the middle of the river, they drown; the rest eat the one who warned the woman]: McCall Theal 1882:120-124; maragoli [the peasant plowed the plot and burned down uprooted grass; a bird flew in: who plowed my father's field, let it be as before; the field was overgrown again; the peasant sacrificed a sheep to his ancestors, but did not help: each time the field was again overgrown; then he began to guard and grabbed the bird; it asked it not to kill: she would give it uvudugi (something edible and sweet) instead of excrement; soon all the pots in the house are full of uvudugi; one day the adults left, telling the girl to remove the manure; she called the other children, promising to feed them something extraordinary; took the bird and began to crush it; everyone was full; the bird flew away; the brother went in search; helped the old woman collected firewood; she brought it home, began to hide it from her 8 daughters; when he became a strong boy, she showed that he began to herd cattle; he drove them to his homeland; asked the river to part; when the best animals crossed, the waters closed so that the sick and thin ones would drown; the bird reported this to the old woman and her people; they ran to the river: how did they cross? the guy told the waters to part, and when the pursuers went on a dry bottom, the waters closed and the pursuers drowned; then towards the old man: where are you driving my cattle: the guy tells the "wasps of his father" to attack old man; the bull roared, wasps flew out of him and bit the old man to death; the sister heard her brother's voice from afar, but the mother did not believe her and killed her with a stick, and then saw her son herself; the brother told the animals step over her sister's body and she came to life]: Kavaji 2005, No. 4:202-207; sakata [younger brother does not tell her sister to marry the man who has come to marry her; she goes out; on the way to his village he throws away the members of his body, one head remains; they come to the village of head creatures; they always eat those who come, leaving only their heads; the brother accompanies the girl, tells her to run at night; the heads are chased, but the brother is strong because he has a skin disease, throws his pursuers into the river, they drown; the girl and brother return home]: Colldén 1979, No. 15:166-167.

West Africa. Jukun [Fatsumate is beautiful; when leaving, parents mix seeds with clay, tell their daughter to sort them out; other girls deliberately invite her to the forest for brushwood; tell ants to do the job, F. I have to agree; Dodo appears, the girls climb the tree; everyone goes down, says that she is not F., passes; F. is left alone, asks the hawk, the vulture to help, they refuse (she did not give take the chicken away, drove him away when the vulture was pecking carrion); the dove agrees to help; F. leaves him clothes and jewelry, goes down, says that F. stayed upstairs, runs away; Dodo runs after the one who has flown away as a dove, falls into the river, drowns; otherwise he would still eat people; F. gives the pigeon a black thread, since then it has been around his neck]: Meek 1931:477-478; bobo (Burkina Faso) [man asks his sister to sweep his yard; she sweeps, hit something, the fire hit the tail of the cow, the tail was burned; the brother demanded a new one; the girl came to the old woman; she asks to rub her back with a stone, gravel, broom; girl puts it in her left hand, gently rubs her back with her right hand; the old woman says where the cows are grazing with her tails in a pile; you must choose the right one; the cows will chase; you have to throw sand and brushwood with her brooms, a stone, an egg; gives these items; the abandoned one turns into 1) a sandy space, 2) a forest, 3) a mountain, 4) a river; the cows are drowning; the girl gives the cow tail to her brother; the neighbor herself asked her brother to allow sweep, set fire to the cow's tail, against her brother's wishes, went to look for a new one; does not want to rub the old woman's back, then rubs it with a broom; then, like a good girl, but she throws an egg in front of her; trampled cows]: Sanon 1968:270-273; dagari [no one will help a childless woman put a bunch of brushwood on her head; she asks God, the wind raises the ligament; God gives two fruits, tells them to bury houses, of which a son and daughter are born; a daughter rejects grooms; A boa constrictor borrows two sticks from the forest, puts it on the body, has arms and legs; occupies the monkey's face, it becomes human; occupies the vine bark, it becomes his pants; the tree has a bark shirt, others have different flowers, these are other garments and shoes; The boa constrictor gets his wife, gives away everything he borrowed on the way back; a year later, the woman gave birth in the hole of the husband of snakes; the other wife of the same husband, whose wife was the girl's mother, came to her, was four days old, liked Boa; walking down the hole, politely addressed her husband's father, also a boa constrictor, that missed it; returned with a basket full of corn, peanuts, etc.; mother envied, also went; insults her father's boa constrictor; drives snakes; returning, she goes the wrong path as her daughter told me to follow; boa constrictor- her father strangles her, cuts her to pieces; the daughter cries, sings, feeling sorry for her mother; the boa constrictor asks, who each time replies that it is a smoky log in the fire; when he fell asleep, the daughter asked God to revive her mother from pieces , she has come to life; both are running; by the river an old woman asks to rub her back; the daughter rubs, the mother continues to run; a hole opens in the old woman's back, the old woman allows her to remove a pebble, a straw broom, a chicken egg; After catching up with her mother, the daughter throws a stone (mountain), a broom (forest), an egg (lake); the boa constrictor threw himself into the water, his body is bloody after overcoming the mountain and the forest, he was eaten by fish]: Hien 1995:124-148.

Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [various animals marry Awuor; each time the groom picks up and eats a red fruit that has fallen from a tree; laughs at mother A. when younger sister A. calls her mother one-eyed and one-legged, offers to dance and fall; reports A., who orders to drive the groom away; Hyenas kill Zebras, put on their skins, do not eat fruit, do not laugh at the old woman; A. agrees to marry; in the house her husband finds out that she has come to the Hyenas; gives birth to many children; the mother secretly comes to visit her; A. tells the bird to throw sesame on the way back, not to listen to her singing; the bird bites sesame, falls silent, the old woman has time to return; for the second time she asks the bird to sing more, the Hyenas catch up with her; A. brings her mother's meat; A. asks the children which of them are her children and who are the father's children; locks his fathers in a hut, sets fire, runs with his children; asks the water to part by the river; when Hyenas approach, asks the river to part again and then close the waters; Hyenas drown]: K'Okiri 1970:75-102; kalenjin (nandi) [when the cannibal ate ate people, the pregnant woman hid in a hole; when he left, gave birth to a son and daughter; went to work for other people, got grains, fed the children; the next time she leaned the basket to his thigh, the basket disappeared; once again, the owner cut the woman's thigh and she died; the children grew up, the sister was kidnapped by cannibals {it is clear that snakes}; the brother weaved a beautiful basket, went to look sister; when he came to the woman (she is an ogre), he said that she could take the basket; then asked her back, the woman did not give it; the guy cried, blood flowed from one eye, pus from the other; the woman returned basket; the guy went on, found his sister; she told me not to look into the pot or put it on the fire; that's exactly what he did; there was a big snake in the pot; when he put it on fire, everything caught fire, he grabbed her sister's child and ran; the sister followed them; said that she would pretend that her child had been stolen and she was running after her; towards the snake, the sister told them so; when the snakes saw that everything had burned down, they they chased; but brother and sister had already crossed the river; the snakes drowned in it]: Chesaina 1997:85-87; Amhara: Gankin 1979, No. 70 [Bilcho is an adopted son; stepmother tells his daughter to push him into a jug, cook; he confronts, cooks his stepmother's daughter, puts on her clothes, feeds her stepmother meat, runs away; his stepmother yells to people to hold him, B. explains that she asks for beans, chickpeas, peas, barley and wheat; He tells monkeys to be given edible roots; one monkey says they are asked to detain B.; he throws them the fruits he has collected, runs away; asks God to drain the river; on the other side asks them to fill it again; stepmother asks how he crossed; closed his eye, put his hand behind his back, tied a yoke to his neck, crossed on one leg; stepmother does so, drowns; during the dry season, a tree grew in this place; the goat ate leaves, began to speak; the shepherd stabbed her, her meat and skin began to speak; the sieve was plugged with a cloak of skin, burned the sieve, ash asks the thieves to smear its face with it, calls the owners, the thieves were caught]: 87-89; Ethiopian 2002 [shepherd Blčo beats others; he was pushed into a hole, covered with earth; he has two golden needles with him; he dug a passage with them and went out in the land of cannibals; sleeps with a woman; hears , as she tells her daughter to cook it; the daughter asks B. to shave her head, cut her nails, see if the water boils; he demands that the girl do it first; pushes her into the cauldron, cooks, puts it on clothes; the mother ate her daughter, B. told her so, scattered flaxseed, the cannibal rushed in pursuit, slipped; asks 1) diggers, 2) people who collect beans to detain the fugitive, they can't hear well, they ask B. again, he says that the woman asks him to let him go; feed him beans and let him pass; then the monkeys, one of them heard the cannibal, the monkeys chased, but stayed in the field to eat sugar cane; B. asks God to separate the waters of the lake, runs dry, the waters behind him close; he tells the cannibal that he crossed the lake with one eye out, cutting off his leg and arm; she did so drowned]: 44-46; bilin [the girl went to get water; when she returned, her mother says that she is not her mother, but her mother-in-law, her father is not her father, but her father-in-law, etc.; her brother says he is her husband; she sharpened her razor, she stabbed her brother, ran away with her seven friends; on the way she refuses meat and jewelry, gives everything to her friends, says that she is her brother's killer; they come to the ogre's house; the old woman tells them to run ; by the river, a girl says that if she did evil, let the water carry her away, and if not, let the waters part; the waters parted, her friends crossed the dry land to the other side; the cannibal asks how they crossed ; the girls tell him to tie a white stone to his feet; the cannibal drowned; the girls climbed a tree because of the rain, the son of King Dschaga stopped under it with seven companions; his brother's killer pulled skin over his head an animal to look like a monk; the youngest of her friends wrote, the girls were noticed; the prince took the imaginary monk as a servant; when the girl was secretly swimming, a dumb servant saw her, but could not tell her master; the interpreter told the prince to hang a cow's skin in the door; if a girl saw her and said wuhir, I must say: be my monk; if hetekay says, be my wife; she said hetekay, the prince took her wife, they have seven sons]: Reinisch 1883, No. 51:178-183; Somalis [parents have daughter Falaad and son Baricade ("white ass"); mother sends them to her parent for fire; imaginary grandmother asks to go into the house, the children do not dare, they return; the mother goes by herself, enters the house, where the cannibal Dhegdheer eats her; the husband asks his wife's relatives to send him a woman to run the household; The same cannibal comes and eats it; the children find their father's remains in the pot; hear the cannibal gather and eat them, run away; D. orders thorns to pierce their feet to be bitten by a snake; F. she stabbed her leg, D. grabs her, the girl replies that she wants to catch her brother for her, D. lets her go; B. is bitten by a snake, he replies that he wants to catch his sister, is also released; the children ask the sea to let them in, the sea breaks up, promising to drown them if they stain the bottom; children pass by, and D. violates the ban, the waters close, it sinks]: Hanghe 1988, No. 4:118-122; (cf. Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 20 [ same No. 23, 24:120-125, 125-127; Fatima is so beautiful that her brother Muhammad decided to marry her himself; F. asked her mother to help put a jug of water on her head; she replied that F. should first name not her mother, but her mother-in-law; the same with her father (father-in-law), brother (groom); F. told all the girls in the village that it was decided to pass them off as brothers, took them all away, they came to the cannibal giant; F. ordered nothing to eat, hide the food in a cooked hole, but the youngest girl tasted it; F. told the cannibal to bring it in a net or in a calebass without a hole in water from the seventh sea; the girls ran away, but the youngest could not; the cannibal I came back, learned from the youngest that the girls had run away, ordered piles of gold; silk fabrics to appear in front of them; each time F. told them to take only a little and run on; the river; F. asked the crocodile transport, on the other side she will give one girl to be eaten; when they have swam, F. tells the crocodile to transport their mother (i.e. the cannibal) first; when they are in the middle of the river, F. shouted that the crocodile prey had on his back; he dived and ate a cannibal; the girls settled in a cave; an old man with 6 sons nearby; F. asks him how to remove his skin - to pierce a thorn; she plunged, her skin slept, F. put it on, in In the form of an old man, she returned to the cave; the camel looked like eating foliage from the bush, the girls drove him away; the young men consistently began to come to find out what was going on; each took a girl; when Wad al-Amin came up, only an imaginary old man in the cave; the old man says he is unable to herd cattle; YES agrees that he should herd pigeons by the river; F. takes off the old man's skin by the river; the slave sent with her is delighted, but he cannot even herd him tell nothing; the imaginary old man said that the slave was sick, let his chest be burned; so several times; then AM himself went, saw everything; at home he offered to play chess, the winner would remove the skin from the loser; F . won, but did not fresh AM; AM won, F. took off her skin; the whole village gathered for the wedding], 36 [cannibals with tails live in Dongola; one came to the village, got married, his wife gave birth to a son, he had his ate; the next time the wife gave birth to a daughter, hid it with neighbors, killed and buried a lamb, said that the baby was dead; but the husband heard the children calling to see the lamb's grave; he was told everything; he went to look; each neighbor sent the girl to the next one, answered that he did not have her; on the edge of the village, an old woman replied that her daughter was here; the cannibal took her away, took her to the edge of the forest in the morning; sent her daughter for the forgotten with a knife; his mother sent him to Bakhit, who has melons on the island; he put the girl in the boat; shouted to let the ogre climb on a date palm tree; he jumped without looking, hit the crocodile, he ate it; everyone is happy, the girl was passed off as B.]: 110-114, 165-168).

Western Asia. See motive J42. The Old Testament.

Southern Europe. The Basques [Ezkabi (Fidel) is hired to serve; the owner leaves for 7 years, telling them to take care of the horses; the white mare explains that the owner is the devil, the horses are transformed people, tells them to run; tells moisten her hair, it turns golden; E. covers it; the owner chases; the mare hits his hoof three times: fog, hail, river; the pursuer drowns; E. is hired as a gardener to the king, the younger princess in fell in love with him; his father settles them by the mountain; the unrecognized E. smashes his enemies; his older sons-in-law make fun of him; the king is sick, almost blind, sends them for medicine; the older sons-in-law disappear; E. meets an old woman, she gives bottles of medicine for blindness and old age; sells them to her older sons-in-law for golden apples given by their wives; at the celebration of their return, E. tells everything, shows apples, takes off a casing from his head, everyone sees his golden hair; the king gives him the crown; options: E.'s head is really covered with scab; when E. goes for medicine, E. pays the debts of the poor man whose corpse is beaten in front of the church; buries him; not talking about a white mare; the old lady gives everything; the younger princess falls in love when she notices E.'s golden hair]: Webster 1879:111-120.

Western Europe. The British (Norfolk) [the poor man has three daughters; the eldest goes to seek fate; shares a cake with an old man who sends her to a house with a green door; the old woman takes her for service, forbids her look into the chimney and at the clock; in the morning, the hostess's daughter arrives on a cat, tells her to cook a sandwich; the girl asks to wait for her to wash the hearth; the old woman cuts off her head, hides her body in the chimney, her body in hours; the same with the second sister; the youngest immediately rushes to make a sandwich; when the housewives leave on black cats, the girl finds, carries away the remains of the sisters, telling the gooseberry bushes to delay the chase; bushes they don't answer the witches, they cut them down; one said the girl ran across the river; the witches threw themselves into the river, drowned]: Gerish 1896:414-415; Scots [Campbell. Tales of the West Highlands, vol. 1:32-34; sparrow and mouse quarreled over a seed; a war between birds and animals began; the Queen of Tetertyne killed the Snake when she was ready to kill the Raven in a duel; he takes him through valleys and lakes to his first, second, third sisters, the third becomes a young man; gives him a bag, tells him not to open it on the way; the young man opens, a palace with a garden appears; a giant puts them back for promising to give their son, who will be born when he is seven years old; the young man becomes king, marries, seven years later the son is a giant; the boy's mother gives in place of her the son of a cook's son; the giant asks what his father would do if he received a rod; he replies that he would drive dogs and cats away from treats; the king has to give his promised son; the young man grows up in a house a giant who offers him a choice of one of two daughters; the young man demands a third, Red-haired Mary; the giant demands 1) clean the barn (M. does everything), 2) cover the house with bird feathers (the same), 3) get it out nests on a pine tree and cook magpie eggs (M. cuts off his fingers and toes, they turn into steps of the stairs, the young man pulls out eggs, his fingers grow, except for his little finger, which the young man did not touch when climbing); 4) recognize the bride among her sisters (she does not have a little finger); M. tells her to run, leaving apple slices to answer; M. tells you to take the mare out of the ear, throw behind 1) a branch of thorn (thorny thickets; the giant runs home for an ax, then carries it back, because the crow promises to steal the ax), 2) a pebble (a mountain, a giant runs home for a pick and a hammer), 3) a bottle of water (lake, giant sinks); M. tells do not kiss anyone at home, a young man is kissed by a dog, he forgets M.; M. hides in a tree, the wife and daughter of a shoemaker see her reflection, take it for their own, refuse to carry water, since they are so beautiful; shoemaker takes M. into the house, says that Korolevich is getting married, takes M. with him to a feast; two pigeons fly out of her glass, tell the story of M.; Korolevich marries M.]: Shustova 1994:363-373 (episodes of escape- persecution is retold in Clouston 1887:440-441); the British [the king left, at which time the queen gave birth to a boy, decided not to baptize, but to call Nix Nought Nothing; when the king went home, the giant offered to carry him across the river, said that he needed nothing or nothing in return; when he returned, the king found out about his son; decided to give the giant the son of a poultry house; the giant carried the boy, asks what time it is; he replies that just at this time his mother is picking eggs for the queen for breakfast; the giant killed him; the next time the same time (the gardener's son; mother is picking vegetables for lunch); when carried the queen, he replies that at that time the king father was sitting down for dinner; the giant's daughter fell in love with NN, helps him; the giant demands: 1) clean the stable (animals and birds performed); 2) drain the lake (fish drank water); 3) get 7 eggs from the nest at the top of a smoothbore tree 7 miles tall; the girl cut off her fingers and toes, made steps out of them; NN took out eggs, but one broke; the girl tells me to run, the giant catches up, she tells me to throw the comb (thorny thickets), the dagger (the fence), the bottle (the wave, the giant drowned); leaving the bride, NN went alone to the castle; the poultry house bewitched him, he fell asleep, his parents did not know, the king orders him to marry someone who could wake him up; the giant's daughter climbed a tree, the gardener's daughter saw a reflection in the spring, decided what was her own and what was needed try to marry a sleeping young man; the poultry house taught him to spell for a while; the gardener also saw the giant's daughter, brought him to see his daughter's groom; he is sleeping, the giant's daughter is trying to wake him up; tells their story out loud, naming the young man NN; the king and queen hear that the gardener's daughter was forced to spell NN; the poultry house was executed]: Jacobs 1890, No. 7:33-39 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 102-107); French: Delarue 1957, No. 327 A and B (central France) [the widower has a son and daughter Furon Furelle; he remarried; the stepmother took the children to the woods, hung a wooden shoe on the tree to knock on the tree in the wind, and the children thought she was cutting wood, she left by herself; the children came to the house; the devil's wife fed them and put them to bed; hell came back, promised to fry them; they heard, swapped lines with the children and rings (those are gold, and FF des soies des balai); the devil fried his children in the stove; when he grabbed, he chased FF; FF asked the laundresses to transport them across the river; they spread canvases on the water, children crossed; when the hell went, the laundresses removed the canvas, the devil drowned]: 306-307; Lopyreva 1959, No. 10 (Picardy) [the woodcutter and his wife are starving, decide to take their two sons and daughter to the forest; their dog Courtillon-Courtillet the first time he finds his way home on scattered peas; the second time he does not find it, the crumbs of cottage cheese have been washed away by the rain; they come to the ogre's castle; KK orders to change the straw necklaces that the cannibal wore on the children, and the gold necklaces of the ogre's daughters; he eats his daughters; the dog takes the children, the ogre follows the turtle; he does not recognize them when 1) the dog turns into a river, the children into laundresses; 2) in the clover field, sheep , a shepherd and a dog; 3) in a meadow, two cows, a shepherdess; the shepherdess replies that the children have just swam across the river; the turtle refuses to swim, the cannibal puts a canvas on the water, steps on it, drowns; children together with parents live in an ogre's castle]: 23-29; Sébillot 1894, No. 4 (Haute-Brittany) [two women were giving birth from church in the evening, lost their way, came to the ogre; his wife hid them in chests in a barn; one gave birth to a boy Pierre, the other a girl to Françoise; the cannibal found them but did not eat them; when P. grew up, the cannibal sent him to cut the forest with a wooden ax; F. went to bring him lunch; the woman gave her a magic wand; on her order, the trees fell; the same when Pierre was told to fill the pool with water, carrying the water with a pen; F. overheard that they wanted to cook and eat them; put the cannibal's son in P.'s place, told the wand to leave the house; the children ran away, the cannibal ate his son, chased the children; F. tells the magic wand to divide the waters of the river to dry; when the cannibal ran after him, the waters closed and he drowned; P. F. came to Christians, grew up, P. married and F. got married]: 49-51; the French (Haute-Brittany, 1879) [the boy {rather a young man} collected brushwood in the forest; the gentleman gave him money on the condition that through He will come to the same place for a month; a month later the young man did not find a master, and there were three girls on the pond, dressed in white, gray and blue; the one in white sent him to the master and taught him when he would offer food, refuse: I must serve you, not you; the gentleman is happy; in the morning he gives me a lead ax, a paper saw and a wheelbarrow made of oak leaves; you must cut down the forest and stack logs in a day; girl in white gives a magic wand, everything is done; the next day: in a day, there should be an orchard and a duck pond on the hill site (the same); then: get the dove from the top of the marble tower with steep walls; girl: cut me into pieces, cook me in a cauldron and make a step out of each bone; the young man did not put the little finger of his left foot in the cauldron; when he went down, the girl was whole The young man admitted that hid his little finger and she allowed her to keep it; when the master offered to choose a bride among three sisters, the bride taught the young man to recognize her by not having a little finger; after the wedding, the master hung up the bed newlyweds over failure; asks three times: son-in-law, are you sleeping? the wife will tell her not to answer for a third time, and then race away on a horse named Little Wind; then the master asks her daughter; the third time she did not answer, ran away, and the master and wife cut off the ropes; Having caught up with the young man, his wife reproaches him: you have saddled the Big Wind, now someone will die; chase; the wife has turned the horse into a garden, herself and the young man into gardeners; the gentleman and his wife ask if they have seen the fugitives; in answer: three pears for su; - That's not it! - Four for soo! next time: church, altar and priest; he mumbles when asked by the pursuers: Dominus vobiscum; for the third time, the river, the boat and the carrier; -Just transported them; the gentleman and his wife got into the boat, she sank and they drowned; the couple rode home safely]: Sébillot 1880, No. 31:197-205; Walloons [the young man lost cards, decided to drown himself; someone helps him recoup with the condition that in a year and 6 weeks the young man will come to Mille de Plomb Castle; the young man came to the old man, the animals obey him; the pig carried him, he broke the ban on speaking, fell into the sea, swam to the shore; at the giant subordinate to the bird; he tells the eagle to take the young man; on the way, the supply runs out, the young man cut off a piece of his caviar; by the pond he sees the three daughters of the castle owner bathing, steals the youngest's clothes, returning for promising to become his wife; the owner says that the young man must redeem his soul by 1) getting the ring from the bottom of the well; to do this, he cuts that girl in half, the upper part dives and brings the ring connects to the bottom; because a drop of blood was lost, one finger is missing; 2) squeeze and grind wheat from a huge field in a day; 3) create a sea with all types of fish (the girl helps to perform); it is necessary to recognize the bride three times under the veil among her sisters; the young man recognizes by the missing finger; the wedding; the young run; turn into peasants; into a chapel and St. A virgin; a girl creates the sea, her father drowns in it; the young man's family does not recognize his wife, she disappears, he forgets her; she serves in a cabaret; the first person who wants to stay with her asks for a glass of water, he remains in this position and is released only in the morning; the same with the second; the third is her husband, he recognizes his wife; their wedding again]: Laport 1932, No. 313:43-44; Walloons [the lumberjack has two boys 12-13 years old and daughter Marie, and with them the little dog Courtillon-Courtillette Siivon-Sivet; in winter, the woodcutter invites his wife to take the children to the forest so as not to watch them starve to death; the dog heard everything and told the children; tells them to put peas in their pockets and throw them along the way to find their way back; the children spent the night in the forest, and in the morning the dog took them back home; the next time the children in the house found nothing but white cheese; at night, the rain washed it away; Jean and Pierre climb a tree, see nothing; M. noticed the illuminated palace; an old woman opened it: the Devil lives here; the children were left overnight in a room where the Devil's three daughters sleep with gold necklaces; the dog tells them to exchange necklaces; at night the Devil put his daughters in the oven; the dog put the children on his back and ran; in the morning the Devil rides a pig; the dog turned children as laundresses and themselves into the river; next time: a field of alfalfa, sheep, a dog and a shepherd; then two cows and a cowshed; the devil tried to cross the river on a canvas laid on the water, but drowned; happy the children returned home]: Carnoy 1883:252-254; the Germans (Mecklenburg) [the king chased the doe; is about to catch up, but cannot aim his spear; the companions are behind; rode after her across the bridge, the bridge behind him collapsed, and the doe became an old woman; she took him to the castle, where her three daughters are; the elders are angry and ugly into the mother, the youngest is beautiful and affable; the witch wants to marry him to the eldest, and he wants the youngest; the elders are watching him; the king and the youngest are fleeing, the middle one is pursuing; the youngest has turned herself into a rose bush and the king into a rose; the mother sent the eldest, the youngest turned herself into a merry-go-round, and the king into the owner sitting and reading a book; the witch herself is chasing; the girl is a lake, the king is a duck; the witch lured the duck with bread, grabbed it, but slipped off the shore and drowned; at the gate, the king left the bride and went inside; his the father is already dead, the mother is alive; they began to celebrate, the king forgot the bride and everything that happened to him; the girl created a dress with stars for herself; she does not sell for gold, only for the night with the prince - now the king; mother sprinkled him on a sleepy potion; the next day, a gold-sewn handkerchief; the servant told the king not to drink before going to bed; the king saw the bride and remembered everything; wedding]: Bartsh 1879, No. 3:477-479.

Melanesia. Upper arapesh [the cannibal spat on the old woman, killing her; put on her skin, came to two women at night, asked for their babies; ate one, leaving rotten instead; the other, a girl , raised; she ate man herself, fed her pork; the Month began to come to her, copulated, they ran to the island; the cannibal asks how they got there; On the board; they pushed her into the sea, her spirit became a cannibal crocodile]: Mead 1940, No. 38:381-382.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai: Allen 2011 [Salewaceo's wife's six brothers knew how to turn into tigers, bears and other animals, they hunted like that; he was afraid of them; he returned home to his wife; the brothers thought he might be They treated their sister badly, killed him; the sister took revenge by placing poison in the lake in which the brothers were diving, they lost their ability to metamorphoses; then the brothers decided to kill their cousin ( their father's brother's son), take possession of his wife; they lowered the stairs down the cliff to the bee's nest, sent him for honey; he asked for all their clothes, moistened them with honey, hid them in a cave, climbed into it himself; when the brothers threw away the stairs, the man stayed in the cave for several years, eating honey, which he soaked in his garments; one day he saw a monkey, grabbed its tail, she pulled it upstairs; brothers at home They harass the abandoned wife, asking all the time if her husband has returned; he secretly returns, his wife has fed him, he killed his fourth brother, they are fleeing with his wife; he separates the waters of the lake, goes dry; tells his brothers that you can cross the lake with as many clothes as possible; brothers come back, get dressed, clothes immediately pull them down, they drowned]: 175-180; Ebert, Gaenszle 2008 [y Orphans Khosipa (X.) are two older sisters, the elder Tõwama and the younger Khliyama; their uncle Saphopte (an owl; they are all birds too) is angry; K. teases him, he tears his throat, eats him, leaves only bones; sisters they revive him by putting his seed in a calebass with beer; they find it difficult to get some rice, cook it, he accidentally knocks the pot over; he falls asleep; they think he is dead, they bury him with a knife on his grave; he wakes up, gets out of the grave, tells the banana to grow and ripen immediately, eats bananas; the cannibal Cakrodhoma asks to lower her banana, tied to the boy's long hair, pulls her hair off, brings her to for himself, telling his daughter to cook the prey, goes to call her brothers; the daughter is surprised how long his hair is; he says that he poured boiling oil on them; puts her head in boiling oil, pushes her head in boiling oil, pushes her with a pestle, puts on her clothes; K. eats her daughter; H. shouts to her what she ate, runs away; throws ash (a cloud of fog), a shard (a mountain), an egg (a river) behind her; K. asks how he crossed; we must tie our hands and feet, go into the water; the river carried her away; then motive F7]: 83-92; lepcha [King Pid-no has seven dangerous demons in his service; Tashey-thing arranges that the merchant lost his childless wife; after that the woman gave birth to a son; she forbid him to leave the house; he saw a wonderful flower in the fox's teeth, chased it, got it, returned it, took it to the king; the demons advised him to send the young man to bring many of these flowers ; the beggar promises to help the young man; the young man passes through the land of pigeons, parrots, peacocks; each king promises him a daughter if he brings him a flower; the beggar whirlwinds the young man across the sea to the palace of the five demons (they have one, two... five heads); bushes with precious flowers in the garden; the young man hides, sees the demon take out parts of the girl's body, splits with living and dead (white and black) water; when he leaves, he disassembles it again; the young man revives her, they take water and the demon's knife, flowers, come back; demons swim across the sea, drown; the young man receives the daughters of the king of pigeons, etc.; brings flowers to the king; he orders to create a palace, a garden, forest, decorate the palace; pigeons, parrots, peacocks perform everything; the king orders to explain the source of the Tisla River (this requires going to heaven); the wife dismembers the young man, says that he will return in a week from heaven, he will tell; when he revives a young man, he says that his heavenly father did not recognize him, he will tell the secret to seven brothers; seven demons allow themselves to be dismembered, die; the young man becomes the royal adviser]: Stocks 1925, No. XXVII: 420-427; garo [Jerang boy, an orphan, climbed a fruit tree in the woods; a pair of Matchadus (werewolf tigers) came up; they asked them to shed fruit; said they were in dirt, let J. give them the fruit, holding it between their toes; steal it, bring it home, tell his son to cook it, and leave themselves; the son of cannibals asks why people have light skin; J.: we wash in boiling water; the cannibal let J. out of the cage, undressed him, and he scalded him to death with boiling water; put on his clothes and smeared him with soot; his parents ate their son, thinking that J. was eating; the imaginary son asked where the parents hid their treasures; they answered and left, and he hid them on the other side of the river; asked the cannibals to teach him how to swim; swam across the river and said who they ate; said that the river could be swim across in leaky jugs; cannibals drowned; J. brought the treasures he had obtained to the cave; there was a boa constrictor, J. killed him, filled his skin with treasures and climbed into it himself; two daughters of a peasant chased parrots; J. answered the one he liked best; she went into the cave, J. got out of the skin of the boa constrictor; taught the girl to ask her parents to pass her off as a boa constrictor; her father resettled her, and a boa constrictor was brought to her from the cave, where there were a young man and treasures; on the wedding night, the servants spied: the girl was a young man, there was wealth in the house; the elder sister also demanded that she be passed off as a boa constrictor; he ate her at night; and the descendants of J. became kings, queens and brave warriors]: Rongmuthu 1960:100-194; bori [Tani married Doini-Alye, daughter of the Sun; their two sons see a mother sitting on bunk beds above the hearth, on a platform, on a roof; each time she answers that their father did not repair bunk beds, etc.; flies from the roof to their father; brothers follow her; help Forest Birds, Wild Cats, Wild Boars, Old Woman in their work, they show the way; the Old Man drives them into a tree, cuts it down; the brothers jump on others, the Squirrel hides them in her quiver; when the Old Man crosses the river across the bridge, the Belka advises you to jump on it, the bridge collapses, the old man drowns; the Old Man's wife caught his bones, explained blew; dust that got into the water became leeches, into the forest - all kinds of insects]: Elwin 1958a, No. 1:307-309; dafla [Appa Pili (rakshas) lured two children into a cage, saying that inside bananas, brought them home; put them to cook; the children blew bubbles, pretending that the water was boiling; jumped out, stopped cooking the AP children, put the dog in their place, ran away; AP began to eat what was cooked, Woman-Up smelled her own; the children ran to the river, climbed a tree; the youngest admitted that they had climbed the vine; the Up man climbed, told his wife to beat whoever fell with an ax; the older brother cut off the vine, AP fell , his wife killed him with an ax, drank blood, then realized the mistake, began to cut down a tree; the children told him to fall on the top of his head across the river, ran away, the tree was carried away by the river; AP asked the spirit of the river for help, he held out The hand is like a bridge; when it is in the middle of the river, the spirit pulled back his hand, AP drowned]: Bori 1995:54-57; apatani [people put the ogre under lock and key; he asks the sisters Biinyi and Biine to let him go; Biinyi answers that she should go to feed chickens, pigs; Biine releases; the cannibal tells his sisters to get into the basket, brings them to him, turning into different animals along the way; tells the sisters to get into the cauldron; Biinyi It sounds like the water is already boiling, Biine says this is not true; the ogre and his wife go to the granary, the sisters get out, put the cannibal child in the cauldron; Biine shouts to the cannibals that they are going eat their son; sisters run away, ask the grasshopper mantis to hide them, he hides them in the ground; the cannibal turns into a dog, sniffs; the sisters run on, climb a tree; Biine admits that they climbed the vine; Biinyi asks a white chicken for help, who throws her sickle, she cuts off the vine, the cannibal breaks, his wife cuts off his penis and testicles; cuts down a tree; stupid Biine tells it to fall down the slope (if it were up, it would be easier to hide behind the mountain); sisters resort to the river; Popi Sa (embodiment of wisdom) lets them across the bridge, brings it down when a living cannibal steps on it; water takes him away, he turns into a dangerous spirit; sisters return home; their parents and older brother ask for feathers, fly away; sisters go look for them; the snotty boy tells him to wipe him off, says The disappeared can be seen through a bamboo shoot; sisters see parents and brother; Biine slides on chicken manure, falls under the house, the manure eater spirit eats it]: Blackburn 2008, No. 1:59-63.

Burma - Indochina. Zyaray [the prince's youngest wife asks Heaven to send her children; Heaven sends 7 pills, she swallows them not separately, but all at once, gives birth to seven twins; the eldest is Reng, the youngest is H'Bia Rang Kö nyi' ("beautiful gilded"); on the advice of his elder wife, the prince lowers the pumpkin twins down the river; they are picked up by Rökai's cannibals; while HBK distracts the cannibals, others under the pretext of clearing They make a boat in the forest; the day they are going to eat them, the brothers sail away; cannibals throw the rope and hook, the brothers cut it off, the cannibals drown]: Dournes 1982:158-159.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Loda (Halmahera) [two women went fishing, one pushed the other into the water, crushed it with a horn, dismembered it, brought the meat home; answers the son and daughter of the victim that she is cooking fish, tells watch the brew; the mother's flesh says from the cauldron that she is their breasts, their mother; the returning woman says that the mother stayed to smoke the fish, tells her to watch over her own child; the children fried it on frying pan, ran; the bird pointed the log to cross the river infested with crocodiles; when the children passed, cut the log with its beak; the stalker failed, was eaten by crocodiles; the bird tells me to follow the road to the right, the children turn left to the cannibal Kine-kine-boro; he has a basket behind him, with a man upside down; the children called K. grandfather, came to his house; in the morning they loaded the boat with food and valuables, they sailed away; K. saw a sail in the distance from the tree, threw his hair like a lasso; the children had difficulty cutting their hair, the tree sprung, K. fell on his wife below, both exploded]: Baarda 1904, No. 12:438-441 ( retelling in Dixon 1916:229-231); Sangihe Islands [Inang-i-Bake took the princess away, who was unwinding the thread along the way; the girl's two brothers came for her, told the witch's daughter they wanted to be hired workers; she asked to slaughter a pig (i.e. a girl); they stabbed her, one ran away with her sister, the other sawed the bridge; the witch's son found his sister's finger in food, rushed across the bridge, the bridge fell through, he drowned ]: Adriani 1893:52 f in Dixon 1916:227-229; Timor (probably Tetum) [buffalo gave birth to a baby girl; she grew up, met by a prince; buffalo forbids young people to meet; seeing them together again rushes at them; running away, the prince throws a bamboo vessel of water behind him; Lake Táci-Métan ("Black Sea") forms, the buffalo drowned in it; the prince married a girl]: Anonimo 1955a: 82.

China - Korea. Miao [the girl lost her goose, she went to look for it; the tigress turned herself into an old woman, the tiger cub into a granddaughter; feeds the girl with rice; leaves her to sleep; the girl feels like her body the granddaughter is covered in wool, changes clothes with the tiger cub; at night, the Tigress ate the tiger cub thinking that the girl is eating; the girl imitates the voice of a tiger cub, asks to go to the yard, offers to tie a rope to her - if A bear will appear, draw her into the house; ties a rope to a stone, tells her to be responsible for herself; runs away; sitting in a boat, the girl advises the Tigress to cross the river with stones tied to her; the Tigress drowned]: Lin Lin, Ustyn 1959:412-415; taunyo [fisherman and wife caught a sink; someone cooks and cleans the house; a fisherman waited for a girl who came out of the sink, broke the sink; the Shell girl became a weaver ; kings made her the main queen; promised to give a gold chain if she gave birth to a son and a silver chain if she had a daughter; the courtiers put a shell, threw away the newborn boy and girl; they became to feed the pig, she was slaughtered; then the cow was the same, but she managed to put the children in the pot and lowered it down the river; the queen was sent as a maid to the backyard; the cannibal picked up the pot and brought it to the cave; they grew up, the mirror told them their origin; walking as a cannibal, the girl picked up the leaves of fire, grass, river grass, mountain grass; brother and sister ran, the cannibal was chasing; sister threw mountain grass (mountains appeared), fire and grass (fire), river grass (river); the cannibal drowned, but asked her to take at least one craft from her; the young man took a craft and one fang; ties his fang under the rooster's wing, puts his rooster against the royal, he wins; the young man asked to give him a maid, told him everything; the king returned his wife, the midwife repented]: Zapadova 1977:281-285.

The Balkans. Moldovans [a childless man complains to an old man with a knee-length beard that he and his wife do not have a child; he sends him back home, an adult worker son, Fat Frumos; FF goes to look whose loud scream he heard; this is Belief a hero; on the way he quietly eats the food of a blind old man; he guesses that he calls FF his son, says that V. has a sister Ilyan-Kosynzyan; gives a horse and two dogs ; V. is sick, FF asks IC to find out the reason; he tells how an old woman in a tree asked to throw a hair at his horse and dogs, went down, started frying frogs, became a monster, took him out insides, putting various rubbish, said that he would die if he told her what happened; V. dies; FF burns hairs, horse and dogs defeat the old woman, FF makes her tell her where the heart and kidneys are V.; FF takes living and dead water there; kills an old woman; revives V., gets AI; she is carried away by the Serpent; FF follows her, takes 1) drinking the river, 2) eating the earth from hunger, 3) freezing in fire, 4) running with millstones on his feet, 5) a sharpshooter, 6) encircling with ropes; Serpent 1) leaves them in a hot house (Freezer cools); 2) tells you to eat and drink a lot (Eat, Drank); 3) compare hills (The encirclement ties them with ropes, smooths them); 4) deliver water from afar faster than the messenger Serpent (The Runner pulls them out, falls asleep, the Shooter wakes him up); the Serpent gives him IR, tells him to go by sea, Freezes him freezes; wedding]: Botezat 1982:235-245; Hungarians [the king gathered the nobility, went hunting, got lost; God did not answer him; the devil immediately volunteered to take him to the road if the king gave what she does not know at home; this is a newborn daughter; 10 years later, the king tried to replace the princess of the daughters of the pig; she said goodbye to the pigs, the hell understood the deception, killed the girl; the same with the daughter of a shepherd; had to give his own; the devil tells her to clear the grain of ash in 2 hours; the devil's son tells the devils to do the work; the same the next day; on the third, build a church with a tower to heaven and God himself is a priest; this impossible, they are running; the son's mother is catching up with the line; the young man turned Mary into a field of wheat, and he drives away the birds; pretends not to understand the devil's question, talks about sparrows; the father is chasing the church and priest; for the third time they catch up with the devil and the devil together; the lake and the duck; both rushed into the water and drowned, so now the devils are gone; the king became pious, and after death handed over power to his daughter and her husband]: Jones, Kropf 1989, No. 37:188-195.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the old man found 9 eggs in the forest, gathered them in a mitten to pick them up on the way back, but there are no more eggs; the old woman is angry; the same 19 eggs; when 33, he took it home, and they fell and crashed, 33 fellows appeared; my father had nothing to mow, they went to mow the royal protected meadows; the tsar took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone steals hay; only Ivan does not sleep; he came out of the sea a golden-maned mare with 33 foals, I. saddled one foal; he teaches him to catch his mother (roll over him when the mare runs up to him and grab her); the night is bright with the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each with one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second has 19, the third has 33; Ivan's mare teaches to go with the youngest, to quilt her until she gives flint, lash and magic shawl; mare: the old woman will put the brides to bed, they will wear white hats and you wear black hats; you must change them; the sword will roll and cut off their heads under black hats; then you have to run; the old woman is chasing on a chariot of fire; Ivan waved his handkerchief - the bridge; when the old woman waved again on the bridge, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Ivan killed their brides out of envy, rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became the king's groom, the other grooms are jealous; they say to the king that Ivan ran to get him a princess; the mare brings him to the garden, chipped in with an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they they gallop to the king; the princess demands to get the wedding dress first; when the princess is gone, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured people out of the cathedral, Ivan grabbed the dress and galloped off; the princess: rejuvenate, you have to jump into a cauldron of milk, then with boiling water, then with cold water; Tsar: let Ivan be the first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar cooked; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:183-193; Russians (Arkhangelskaya): Onchukov 1906, No. 56 [the princess found a louse in her hair, put it on a sheep, it became the size of a sheep, a sheep on a ram; the skin was made, shoes were sewn ; the king promises to give his daughter for someone who guesses what they are made of; Damn it; the king left the key in the princess's clothes, sent her to {?} goat; Damn it, the goat replies that the princess is at home; The devil overturns the key, rushes in pursuit; the princess tells the goat to fall to the ground, listen; throws a comb (forest; cut through the road), flint (mountain, Damn made his way), flint (river of fire); Damn asks for a towel, pull it; the princess let go in the middle, the devil drowned; the princess married in another kingdom]: 147-148; 2008, No. 44 (Arkhangelskaya) [Wu old parents have two daughters, one finds a golden stone in the forest, collects a lot of berries, the eldest does not succeed. The eldest kills her younger sister, buries her under a birch tree, and takes a stone for herself. At home, parents heat the sauna. Father, brother, mother and sister take turns calling the youngest to take a steam bath, and she tells everyone that she was killed by her sister. The dead woman comes to the gate, asks her brother to let her in, is afraid of wolves who want to eat her. Her brother lets her in on condition that she becomes his wife. She agrees. He makes two dolls, they say that his brother is ashamed to marry his sister, the girl falls through the ground. She runs to the hut, hides from Yagabiha in a hut with her grandmother under a needle. The girl runs on and hides in a hut with a bearded old man under a cream. They flee from Yagabiha, go through the mountain, Yagabiha returns to the field for a shovel, digs up the ground and continues to chase. The old man and the girl run to the river, they have a "tailor's pipe", they "spread it out" and sailed on it. Yagabiha jumped to them, but she was thrown into the water and she dies. On the other side, they found themselves with the emperor... (no longer knows)]: 159-161; Russians (Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [iron wool bear eats people; the tsar ordered to build a high pole; placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful upstairs with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, began to gnaw a broom with annoyance; he told me to go to the field, there was a pole; the bear began to rock the pole, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, sat on a horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore him, brought him to the mouth of I. and E. to the pole; the same for the second time (the geese carried them, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third goby; covered the bear's eyes three times with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the goby tells him to slaughter him, collect his bones, hit him, a fist man will come out of them - himself from his fingernail, a beard with elbow; the peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, interrupted everyone and locked them in the same room without telling E. to go there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; to lime I., sent him for wolf milk; the she-wolf gives with the wolf cub in addition; the same with the bear; the lioness; E. sends a firebird for eggs; she swallowed a fist-man; E. and the chieftain was going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash himself in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the fist man had escaped; he ordered the animals to tear the chieftain, and E. tied the naked one to the tree to be eaten flies and mosquitoes; brought I. to a heroic girl; I. hardly defeated her, married her; at night she put her hand on I.'s chest, he called the peasant; the man beat the girl until he tamed her; the wife persuaded I. free E.; she looked for I. in his head and let a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw, pulled it out, began to die on its own; then the bear cub; then the fox, but she threw the tooth into the frying pan and it crumbled; And . ordered to tie E. to the horse's tail and open it across the field]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 202:94-97; Russians (no place of recording) [when dying, Ivan Tsarevich's parents (I.) order to pass his three sisters off as the first to marry are Falcon, Eagle, Raven; I. goes to visit his sisters, meets Marya Morevna (M.), gets married; she does not tell you to look into the closet; I. looks in, there Koschey (K.) is in chains, asks for a drink; I. drinks him, he breaks his chains, takes M. away; I. meets his sons-in-law, leaves them with a silver spoon, a fork, a snuffbox; I. takes M.; K.'s horse tells him that we will have time to sow wheat, squeeze it, bake bread, and we will still catch up; K. forgives I. twice, cuts it into pieces on the third, puts it in a barrel, throws it into the sea; the Eagle pulls it out, the Falcon and the Raven bring living and dead water, revive I.; M. finds out that K.'s horse is from the mare on which Baba -yaga flies around the world every day; gives a handkerchief to cross the river of fire; I. does not touch chicks, honey, lion cubs; Baba Yaga tells mares to herd three times; bird, bees, lioness drive those who have run away; the bee tells you to gallop off on a lousy foal; I. makes a bridge with a handkerchief; Baba Yaga pursues, the bridge collapses, she dies; I.'s horse kills K., I. burns the body with his hoof; I. and M.'s wedding]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 159:376-382; Belarusians (Gomelsky district) [the son is Ivan, the father is a drunkard; the neighbor took I. as an employee; he grew up, went on; hired a serpent; this is the serpent Chavolay; after 6 years I. left, C. gave him a book, ordered him not to open it, otherwise he would eat it; I. got lost, opened the book, cattle flowed out of it; C. appeared: eat; agreed that C. put the cattle in the book back, and I. promised not to marry; at home I. refuses matchmakers; still others say that they have two good dogs will fight off C.; during the wedding, C. appears; I. jumps away; the horse has fallen; the hut: turn your back to the forest; Baba Yaga fed her, put her to bed, gave bread with her, showed the way to her sister; she has the same thing, the oldest sister has the same; every dog, from afar, senses C.; every pernet and food appears; the third baba yaga gave a handkerchief to wave at the sea - a bridge appeared; when on the C. Bridge, wave again - the bridge disappeared, C. fell into the sea; I. woke up, three dogs nearby: Lomigor, Lomikamen, Lomizhelen; two kingdoms ate a 12-headed serpent, in the third he was led to eat a princess; I. and his dogs killed him, The princess tied her wounds with a handkerchief; the servant cut off I.'s head, ordered the princess to say that he had killed the snake; the dogs grabbed the viper, forced the viper to bring water growing and living; revived I.; the princess's wedding with her servant is being prepared; I. sends dogs, the princess recognized them; at the feast, the tsar sees the princess's handkerchief on I.'s hand; the servant was beheaded; wedding]: Romanov 1886, No. 9:73-77; the Poles [ the enchanted princess languishes in a mountain castle, a witch watches her; her lover, the prince, walks in vain under the walls of the castle; the visionary took pity on him; she flew to the princess with a dove, told her to take it A comb, a brush, an apple, a sheet and run; when the witch flew on a shovel to Bald Mountain on Thursday, the princess ran away; sees a witch on a rooster; throws a comb (the river, the witch has swam across), a brush (forest), apple (mountain), sheet (sea); the princess ran to her father's castle; the prince is already there, the wedding; the witch swam and drowned; the sea disappeared and the witch's corpse was in the field; they tried to bury him, but the land rejected; then the wind carried him to its castle]: Woycicki 1920:79-81.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [the mother is dead, the girl Gulez and the boy Inal are left; the witch stepmother decided to eat them; they ran away, the witch is chasing, the children threw the comb (forest), scissors (7 iron walls), the mirror ( sea); the witch asks to ford, the children indicate a deep place, the waves took the witch away; I. wants to drink; G. does not allow drinking from the trail of a camel's hoof, cowhide; he drinks from sheep, became a lamb; prince saw G., took her home, got married; the witch's daughter pushed G. into the sea, put on her clothes, took her place; asks the prince to slaughter the lamb; a lamb by the sea calls his sister, says that they sharpen knives, heat the water cook his meat; G.: I can't help, I'm in a whale's stomach; people told the prince, caught the whale, g, returned it, the lamb became human, the witch's daughter was kicked out]: Kardanov 1961:63-68; Ossetians: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:142-153 [(a long story in which the hero flies in a wooden blue car); father suggests finding a Nart fandyr, a silver bell, a golden goose; hunters tell 1) to get drunk from bitter river, praise its taste; 2) eat sour apples from an apple tree; 3) throw a roe deer carcass to a damask wolf; 4) a hare to an ironbilled kite; 5) a silk dress to the Zaliag snake; 6) lubricate the gates of the fortress; The one-eyed giant tells the guards to hold the thief, but they say he was generous to them and the giant was not; the stalker giant drowns in a bitter river], 164-172 [the sister of three brothers goes to play with her family daughters of the Sun; they detain her, throwing a bead into her hearth, she sparkles like a fire is burning; returning to the extinct hearth, the girl comes to the giant for fire; he pours coals into her sieve; the giant comes to the brothers on an ash trail; the brothers go, supposedly, to look for firewood, the giant goes to bed; the mouse gives the girl scissors, a comb, a mirror, tells her to run; abandoned objects turn into a mountain, a sea, a forest ; the woman in the tower tells her to fill her tubs with tears (she fills her), throws her a simple rope, she rises; the giant spits, demands a silk rope, the woman lowers a simple one but cuts with her scissors, the giant breaks; the girl works diligently for the hostess; violates the ban on entering the seventh room; the women from the first room are petrified; a whirlwind rose in the seventh, carried away the shirt hanging there; Aldar's son finds her, comes for the girl; the petrified come to life, the hostess passes the girl off as Aldar's son]; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [the old man has three daughters; they all refused to treat his lower back - there is a lot of work; the old woman agreed to help; when the old man undressed, apples fell out of his bosom, the daughters were picked up; he told them that tomorrow he would take them to pick apples; tells his wife to give bags of holes in their daughters; two sticks are hanging on a tree in the forest, they are knocking in the wind, the daughters think that the father is cutting wood, and he is long gone; night has come, the girls came to the house of four Elmauys; the youngest girl also noticed a girl with with golden claws; climbed into the attic and lit the wick to make the light fall into the house; estyrnak and elmauyzy are helpless in the light; in the morning the elmauyzes say that they will go to the wedding; let the girls slaughter and cook one of them, they will feed their estyrnyk daughter; the girls killed and cooked the Elmauyz daughter, attached her head to the doll, ran away; finding golden claws in the cauldron, the Elmauyzes rushed in pursuit; the girls throw the comb, appeared thorny bush; the Elmauyz ask how they moved; stripped naked, climbed; they climbed; the girls threw the mirror, the lake appeared, the Elmauyz drowned; the girls returned home and listened to their parents ]: 165-168; Lucky [Aimisey's girl climbed a pear, a witch asks her to throw pears to her; shakes a tree, A. falls into the witch's basket; at home her three daughters Ahrazhat, Khhaja, Mallajay feeds her mother with halva so that she can't eat Aimisey; the witch starts sharpening the knife, all four girls run away; they cross the river on a pole; the witch steps on a pole, falls, drowns; girls get married]: Kapiyeva 1991:271-273; Lezgins [the serpent asks the poor man to give him one of his three daughters; the eldest, middle refuse, the youngest Tavat Khanum agrees; the serpent asks him to step on tail, turns into a young man named Sad-Eskander; the old woman persuades TX to ask her husband how to burn his skin; the third time he replies, TX burns it on onion peel, SE disappears; three years later comes to the spring, SE's sister gives her water, she throws her ring into the jug, SE recognizes it; explains that the locals are Azhdaha, the old woman wants to marry him off as her daughter; SE and TH run away on their wedding day on horse-wind; they throw razors (mountain of razors), salt (salt mountains), barley (barley to the sky) behind; TX mistakenly pours water from the jug forward, the sea overflows in front of them; the horse carries it to the other side, the old woman drowns; SE leaves TX in the cemetery, hires a merchant for two hours; he cuts the horse, puts SE inside, the parrot bird brings the horse's carcass to the rock where there are gold and yakhonts; SE scares the bird, not He drops gold to the merchant, comes to the old man; he tells the huge birds to take SE to his wife; SE finds TH, the tsar is amazed at his wisdom, gives him the throne]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:158-164; Rutultsy [ a childless woman gives birth to a donkey; he asks the mother to marry the padishah's daughter; he demands to build a golden bridge, bring clothes for the bride in eggshells; everything is done; at night the donkey sheds its skin, turns into a young man named Rizwan; an old woman persuades the padishah's daughter to put her skin at the door for the night, burns it; Z. flies away with a dove; the wife goes looking, throws the ring into the maid's jug, who collects water, R. recognizes the ring; Aunt R. gives them horses, they jump away, azhdaha chases, R. spills water, a sea forms, Azhdaha asks how they crossed, the fugitives reply that by hanging it around their necks stone, azhdakha sinks; Azhdakhi's sister is chasing, R. throws salt, a salt hill grows; R. and his wife return home]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 60:523-526; Georgians [from an evil stepmother brother and sister run away to an old woman; she asks the young man to get a branch from the Dariachanga Garden, then the whole garden will be moved here; on the way, the mother of the virgins says that D. turns everyone into stone; the young man brings a branch, the garden behind him; the old woman offers to get D. herself; the young man knocks on D., who turns him into stone; his dog comes running to his sister, who makes the stones turn into people, D. marries her brother; the stepmother offers the king himself take D.; he tells the young man to level the mountain across the sea; D. makes a bridge across the sea from his braids, invites the king and the viziers to step on it, throws them into the sea, they drown]: Chikovani 1986:94-98; Azerbaijanis [one woman has a tiny son, his name is Dwarf; decided to go with the other children for firewood; the mother gave them a piece of bread and butter to take care of him; K. tells others to collect and carry his share of firewood, and then himself; the children are lost; K.: Where you can hear dog barking, dogs will tear it up, you have to go where the light is; this is the diva's house; when he is going to eat the children, he asks if everyone is sleeping; K. says he is awake - his mother cooked scrambled eggs for him; the diva cooked; carried water from the river with a sieve; the divas went to the river, and the children ran away and crossed to the other side; divas: how did they cross? K.: tied a millstone to his neck; the diva drowned]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:474-477.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1958 [the dervish gives pomegranate to be eaten by the Shah's childless wife and the apple by the vizier's wife; the vizier gives pomegranate to his wife, she gives birth to daughter Bibi-Mehrnegar (B.), the Shah's wife - son in in the form of a black snake named Mirza Ustu-Humar (M.); the shah orders the vizier to give his daughter for his son; at night, the serpent sheds its skin and becomes a young man; at the request of her father-in-law B. burns the skin; M. says that she does not finds it before she wears out seven iron dresses, a pair of shoes, staffs, chews seven boxes of chewing gum; on the way she meets seven divas, throws each one in a box; throws it up a ring in a jug that the maid carries for M.; she pours water into M.'s palm, he recognizes the ring; to prevent his aunt from eating B., M. disguises her as a maid; opens it, promising the divas not to kill B. ; the aunt demands 1) sweep the yard with a broom covered with pearls so that no one falls (M. performs); 2) water the yard with a sieve (the same); 3) take the "play-dance" box to my aunt's brother, bring it from him" grab and plant"; on the way she opens the box, cannot put the dancers back; burns the hair, M. comes, puts it back, tells her to do everything against her aunt's orders; accordingly, B. throws the horse's straw , bones to the dog, calls a hole of mud and blood honey, opens a closed door, closes an open door, greets everyone, leaves one box, grabs another, runs, doors, etc., refuse to detain her; M. marries her aunt's daughter, cuts off her head at night, B. says goodbye to all objects, forgets about the stone (a measure of weight); B. and M. run, the stone wakes up her aunt, she pursues; the fugitives throw 1) a reed (thickets) reeds), 2) needle (needle forest), 3) salt (salt marsh), 4) sea foam (sea); aunt asks how they crossed; M. replies what's on the stones; she steps on foam flakes, sinks]: 15-24; 1987:43-48 [asks for the snake the lumberjack to marry him; agrees the youngest of three, Mehrnegar; the groom is the enchanted Snake King, who takes the form of a young man at night; the sisters ask the youngest to ask how to burn him skin, steal, burn; husband tells M. to put on iron shoes, take an iron staff, flies away in the form of two pigeons; M. comes, throws his ring into a jug of water, her husband recognizes her; tells her to pretend maid; mother-in-law is going to marry her son to his sister's daughter, tells M. to bring water with a sieve (the husband makes sure that the water does not spill out); sends a letter to his sister to bring scissors; the husband orders on the way Call everything differently (dirty water is clean, etc.); M. grabs scissors, runs, objects do not hold her, because she praised them; the husband kills the snake bride, runs with M.; throws needles (forest), salt (salt mountain) ), a wineskin with water (sea); the pursuers died in it, the couple returned to M.'s house], 267-278 [the dervish gives the childless padishah to eat an apple in half with his wife; a son was born, but he is breathless; the same dervish tells him to make a hole in the sword that fell out of the womb with the child and hang the sword around the boy's neck; he came to life, and if the sword was removed, he lost consciousness; the boy was named Jantig ("life by the sword"); he grew up to him they gave the keys to all but one of the gardens; he broke the door, in that garden there was a portrait of beautiful Chelgis ("forty braids"); D. followed her; he was joined by Minutochetr and the Stargazer, who also want to marry C .; towards a girl with a boy; every day the dragon demands one young man to eat, otherwise it does not provide water, the girl hopes to appease the dragon with food; D. cut the dragon, a dove flew out of it; impostors tried to attribute the feat to themselves, but the girl smeared D. with her hand soaked in dragon blood and identified him; D. married the girl to the Stargazer and went on with Minutot; elsewhere, ships carrying grain from across the sea, they die; this time the ship must have the only son of the padishah; D. sailed by himself, a dragon appeared from the sea, D. cut it, a dove flew out; D. married Minutochet to the daughter of the padishah, went on; the man invited him to dinner; his mother was C.'s wet nurse; the old woman would tell C.'s secret if she was not heard, otherwise she would be petrified; D. overhears the old woman speaking alone; we must climb a tree, throw 7 dates to seven divas, they will eat and fall asleep; C. in the ear of one of the divas; you have to throw a candy, C. will come out to pick it up; D. grabbed C., they jump away, D. gives C. an armful of swords (as the old woman taught) , they turned into a mountain of swords; then salt is a mountain of salt; the divas cut themselves, their wounds were eaten away by salt, they died, only the White Div continues to chase; a jug of water is the sea and a rock with a cave; D. advises a diva put his head into the cave, then he will fly up; instead, the divas fell, drowned; C. washed his hair, two hairs fell into the well, D. did not pick it up; from the well they sailed to the padishah's garden; he smelled C., sent the old woman behind her; the old woman began to serve C., found out the mystery of the sword, threw her sword into the well, brought C. to the padishah; she demands to postpone the wedding for 40 days, a time of mourning; Stargazer sees that star D. goes out, goes in search with Minutochet; they took the sword out of the well, returned D., he came to life; killed the old woman, took C.; she gave Minutochet and Stargazer through her hair - if you want to eat, they create any fruit he wanted; D. brought C. to his father; she warns that his father wants to kill D.: there will be a carpet-covered trap pit, poisoned tea and pilaf; D. jumped over the carpet, changed dishes, his father died himself; D. reigned], 322-336 [the dervish gives the childless Shah an apple; let him eat in half with his wife, she will give birth to twins, let him give one; the boys Abrahim and Esmail grew up, the dervish took Abrahim; the dervish went ahead, and a stone rolled up to Abrahim (E.) with the inscription "this is a diva"; then, with instructions, to ask the dervish to dance around the boiling oil boiler himself to teach him to push him into the cauldron dervish; when the dervish died, E. locked the rooms, freed the gazelles, revived petrified people and horses; the wind horse tells him to leave soon - the dervish has a brother; E. touched the golden water, his hand and hair became golden; the diva's brother is chasing, the horse tells you to throw needles (a field of thorns), salt (salt desert), water from a wineskin; the water spilled out in front; the horse swam across the sea, and the diva died in the whirlpool in which the mill; E. hired a gardener to the palace; the padishah's three daughters asked for bouquets; E. tied the bouquet for the youngest with his golden hair; E. and the princess opened up to each other; daughters sent watermelons to the padishah: barely ripe, ripe and overripe; padishah: let everyone throw an apple at the chosen one; E. pulled a lamb's stomach over his head; the youngest chose E., they were placed in a stable; the elders chose the sons of the vizier and the vakil; the padishah fell ill, he needed gazelle meat; E. summoned those rescued gazelles; sold one to his older sons-in-law, asking him to give him his head and legs; the meat given to his sons-in-law is bitter; from the broth brought by the younger as a daughter, the padishah recovered; moved her with E. to the palace; enemies attacked, E. defeated them, opened up to the padishah; E. went to visit her parents; the old woman invited her, he fell into a hole with swords and spears; only the ointment that the old woman has will cure; she is the mother of those two divas; Brother E. saw that the tree planted by E. was withering; Brother E. met a rolling stone, instructing him on how to defeat the sorceress; he killed her when she became a cat; pulled out, cured E.; their mother went blind, helped by the same ointment; feast and celebration]; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 6 (Kerman) [the wives of the vizier and king are pregnant; the king offers to marry children if they will be of different sexes; the vizier has a daughter Mer Niga (Eye of Grace), the king has a son, a black serpent Miz Mast, or Humar (Sleepy Head); on the wedding night, H. takes off his skin and appears as a young man; in the morning again puts on leather; the king tells his daughter-in-law to prevent her husband from turning into a snake; the prince tells his wife that his skin can be burned in a fire made of egg shells, a broom handle, and hair from a dog's tail; in in this case, he will disappear and they will not see each other; MN burns his skin; the prince says his wife will find him by trampling seven pairs of iron shoes and wearing out seven paper cloaks; after wearing out the last pair, MN meets slave; she says that H. is going to marry; MN throws the ring into the jug, tells the slave to get it into the hands of H. along with water; after recognizing the ring, H. finds MN; she faces death if they recognize her; MN pretends to be a slave; H. gives her her curl, tells her to burn her hair every time his help is needed; the mother of the bride X. (this is his aunt) tells the imaginary maid 1) sweep with a broom to which the pearls are attached without losing a single pearl; they immediately crumble, MN calls H., he does everything; 2) bring water in a colander and sprinkle the floor (X. performs); 3) fills the box with stinging insects, says that it is full of pearls, tells you to take it where it should be; throw bones on the horse on the way, straw the dog, do not open the closed ones doors, do not close the open ones, do not go to the hole with dirt and blood; MN looked into the box, insects crawled over it; H. collected them; ordered them to do the opposite of what his aunt told him to do; MN opens and closes the doors, greets everyone, gives bones to the dog, horse straw, says that she would like to taste honey from a sweet pit; the aunt orders the door, the dog, the hole to catch the girl; they refuse; on the wedding day, the aunt tells his wife to put candles on the fingers of the slave (i.e. MN) to illuminate the path for the bride; the prince tells his wife to say goodbye to all things; after the wedding ceremony, cuts off the bride's head; takes many ; she forgot to say goodbye to a pound weight; the kettlebell talks about the bride's murder and escape; Aunt H. and her husband (they are divas) follow the fugitives; turning to God in Solomon's name, H. throws reeds, which turned into reeds; the needle is a grove of needles; salt is a salt marsh; sea foam is the sea, with a clot of foam floating in it; aunt: how did you get there? H.: stepped on a rock in the middle of the sea (this is foam); the pursuers jumped on it, drowned; everything is fine]: 25-32; Marzolph 1984, No. 327 (Mazendaran, Khorasan, Kerman, Azerbaijan, Markazi) [stepmother persuades her husband get rid of the children so that she and he get all the food; or the children eat halva, fill the pot with mud, and some halva on top - the father is furious; left them in a deserted place; they ate bread and want to eat the youngest; he finds an underground dwelling for a diva; he intends to eat the children, but when asked if they are sleeping, the youngest answers each time that they must first bring food; treasures; a saddled horse; water in a sieve; either the children burned the diva and his mother in the stove; or they swapped places with the diva's children and he ate their own children, not those who came; or they put flour soaked in water in his pants and he thinks that diva is dirty; children run away and bring home the diva's treasures; he chases and drowns trying to cross the river]: 74-76; Bakhtiyars [every day a person brings seven partridges from hunting for himself, his wife and seven daughters; invites his wife to take his daughters to the mountains, and they will get the partridges alone; the father took his daughters into the forest and left; from now on he cannot get a single partridge; the girls have come to the diva Alla Zingi; he waits when they fall asleep to eat them; to stay awake by themselves, she cuts his leg and sprinkles salt on the wound; asks if the girls are sleeping; the eldest Tamti: I'm awake; AZ: what do you want? seven horses with saddles; divas bring horses; then seven bags of jewellery, ten bags of salt, ten bags of needles and shoetails, ten bags of syrup and melted butter; sisters sit on horses, they take what the diva brought with them and jump away; throw salt, needles and awls, then a wineskin with syrup; AZ licks the syrup, thinks it's T.'s blood; sisters crossed the pond; divas: how did they cross? T.: leave your foot on a white stone; but it's just white foam, the divas are drowning; the sisters dressed as men, came to town; seven princes offer them to play ball; the sisters lost, the princes got them in property, but after discovering that they are girls, they marry them; parents are looking for sisters, they come, they don't recognize them; daughters open up and keep them]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 51:317-320; Baluchis [the old man went for brushwood, saw a jug, smashed it, from there buzlangi; told the old man to give his daughter; the old man married him to the youngest; took her away, ate her in a day or two; told the old man that his wife was ill, let him will let the eldest take care of her; the eldest told her to be left on the roof of the house; filled her old shirt and pants with earth (a scarecrow), ran away herself, taking various items with her; buzdangi returned from hunting, pulled his wife the edge of his shirt, the ground fell into his eyes; he went up to the roof, looked like a girl, ran after him; she threw a needle (lots of needles), a large bag needle (the same, the buzlangi crossed again), salt (all the ground is covered with salt, the buzlangi crossed again), poured water out of the fur, and put it on a millstone on the sides, a river formed; buzlangi: how did you cross? girl: tied a millstone to her back; tied the buzlangi, drowned; the girl came to live with an old woman; the prince saw the girl, married her]: Zarubin 1949, No. 8:64-67; Uzbeks: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986 [ chasing a pheasant, the youngest of the old man's three sons enters a cave, spends 40 days with a peri; when the young man returns home, peri tells him to ask his father to build a house for him, build a yurt; coming to son, the old man sees only a cat next to him; secretly peeks, sees a beautiful woman; before a relative's wedding, the old man tells his daughters-in-law to sew dresses, bake cakes; other peri do everything on the orders of his wife young men; peri replies to other daughters-in-law that he will make clothes out of paper; they also make paper dresses, peri sends rain, dresses get wet; the old man asks his son where he keeps the cat's skin; when he finds out, he throws her into the fire; peri flies away, telling her husband to wear his iron boots and staff; the young man comes to the house of Almauz Kempir (AK), where his wife and boy are also; the young man asks the boy for water, he does not give water in the jug turns into blood for the first time, pus the second time; peri tells the boy to give water to a stranger; the young man throws a ring into the jug, recognizes it, goes to her husband; when AK is at home, turns it into a flower, hides in her hair; then passes her husband off as a younger brother; AK tells her to look for hay in her hair, sucks the young man's blood; peri tells her husband to give the dog meat, the camel hay (AK did the opposite); when AK fall asleep, tie her hair to a pole, take a comb, scissors, a mirror, run; the doors, the camel and the dog refuse to detain the fugitives; they throw the comb, answer AK that two teeth must be pulled out, made of they have axes, cut through the road; the same is scissors; AK has only four teeth; they throw a mirror, it turns into a river; the fugitives answer that you need to tie stones to your neck and put stones in their sleeves, walk along the bottom; AK drowns; young man and peri live in their own home]: 166-178; Ostroumov 1990, No. 3 (Tashkent) [after the birth of his third son, the king drove his wife away, took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mare; older, middle The prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir takes a foal every time; the youngest shot her little finger on her hand; on the same evening the young queen gave birth to a daughter and fled; the prince noticed that she did not have a little finger; the father did not began to listen to him, drove him away; he stays with an old woman, she has a daughter for marriage; he goes to look for his mother, the old woman gives a comb, a razor and a whetstone; gives a merry wand, where he turns with a blade, to go there ; he found his mother, bought it out of slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; he sees his sister in the crack in the guise of Yalmauz-Kampir, she goes through the heads of the parents and brothers eaten; the fox tells him to run, stays beat him into the drum while the YAK goes for poison; the prince runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a razor (mountain), a bar (sea; the YAK swam, but the fish dragged her to the bottom, and then transported the prince ashore; ordered take care of the merry wand; the young king finds that old woman's daughter, marries her; when he sails across the sea over the place where the monster-fish crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they sail out on fish; feast]: 13- 20.

Baltoscandia. The Scandinavians [Prince Yarmerick and his dairy brother and peer Gunno were captured by Warehouse King Ismar; they managed to gain the king's trust; during the mourning ceremony, they set fire the tent and ran; they sawed the bridge supports, and they themselves swam across the river, those who rushed in pursuit jumped across the bridge, it failed, the young men who swam finished off]: Saxon Grammar 2017 (1), 8. 10. 1-4:298-300 (retelling episode in Aarne 1930:10); Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:84-96 [the young man dreams of a princess, goes to look for her; pays for the burial of a man executed for diluting wine and left in a block of ice; someone catches up with him, becomes a companion and assistant; opens a rock, invites the trollich to sit down, she sticks to the bench; takes the sword she owns with her two sisters, for this he frees the trollich; the second trollich has a ball of gold thread; the third has an invisible hat; a ball thrown across the fjord turns into a bridge; on the other side they wind it up, the stalker trolls drown; in the palace, the princess suggests 1) hide the scissors from her and return it at noon the next day, otherwise she executes them; slowly picks them up; the companion threatens the ram with a sword, on which the princess goes to her troll lover, who says when she comes; wearing an invisible hat, the companion flies with the princess on the same ram; when she gives the scissors to the troll, the companion quietly picks them up; in the morning, the young man returns them to the princess; 2) the same with her golden ball; 3) bring what she thinks; the companion flies with the princess to the troll; the troll flies back with her on his ram; the companion kills a troll, tells the princess to give his head in the morning - she thought about a troll; the companion teaches the young man to pretend to be asleep on his wedding night, and when his wife takes out the knife, cut off his head, beat her and rip her skin off a troll; they fly home on the troll's rams, taking all the riches; the companion promises to come in five years; comes and demands to divide everything, including a son born to a young man; he brings his sword, his companion stops; says that when the young man freed him from the block of ice, he was as happy as he is now when he stopped his hand with his sword brought in], 150-157 [the youngest of the three princesses wants a wreath; no one can do this; she sees a polar bear (BM, white), he has one; agrees to marry him for a wreath, he will come in three days; the king puts guards in vain; gives instead of the youngest the eldest daughter; BM asks if she sat softer, if she saw better; she replies that the father did; he sends her back; the same with the middle one; the youngest answers no; BM comes to his wife at night in uniform men; she gives birth to a daughter three times, he throws them away every time; she asks for permission to see her parents, BM tells me to listen to her father, not to do what the mother advises; the mother advises you to focus on husband with a candle at night, father is against; she shines, fat drips, the husband says that in a month he would remain human, flies away, she grabs his wool, then falls; goes, comes to the house where the old woman and the girl, the girl plays with scissors that create fabrics, gives her wife a BM; in the second and third houses the same (a vessel with an inexhaustible drink, a magic tablecloth); BM must marry a trollich; the wife buys three nights for his magic objects, but the trollich is put to sleep by BM; on the third night he did not drink the potion; tells him to file the bridge, the trolly carriage falls into the river, it sinks; husband and wife are reunited, those three girls were their daughters, whom their father kept to help their mother]; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 70 [28 options; while hunting, the king bent down to drink, the hell grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give The one who did not leave at home is a daughter; when she is 20, the king left not to see what would happen; the goat tells her to climb into the barrel, takes the barrel away on a sleigh; meets three groups of devils, sings well, the cheerful devils go further; the king ordered the ribbon to be thrown across the sea, the goat crossed it, bringing the queen; the devils followed; they threw a ribbon, pulled them, all the devils drowned], 71 [about the same; the goat hides the girl on the cart in straw], 72 [wolves are chasing, drowning at the river crossing]: 155-157, 157-163, 163-164; Lebitte 1965 [the king leaned to the water for a drink, someone grabbed his beard, ordered promise to give what is not left at home in 18 years; a newborn daughter is at home, 18 years later her father took her to a palace overseas; a goat offers to take the girl home; three answers to the matchmakers on their way, whoever carries hay, sings a song to them; calls the king, he sends a ship with silk ropes; the matchmakers run to the sea asking for the same thing; the king throws them ropes from the tow, in the middle of the sea they are torn matchmakers are drowning]: 146-148; Western Sami [the guy was hired as an employee for a giant; he suggests first testing his strength by hitting his head against a pine tree stump; the guy made a hole in him in advance, his the head has gone into a stump; the giant has only scratched the bark; now: who shouts louder; the guy makes a wooden hoop: you have to put it on your head, otherwise my scream will burst; the giant refuses competition; who will throw a hammer higher; the guy looks at the sky: which cloud is better to throw it at; giant: don't throw it at all, this hammer is my grandfather's legacy; at night the guy put instead of himself on the bed is wooden blocks, and he lay down elsewhere; at midnight the giant began to hit the bed with an iron hammer; when he left, the guy threw away the logs and lay down; in the morning the giant asks how he slept; guy: louse bit; the next night the giant set fire to the bed; the guy in the morning: the sound of the wind seemed to be heard; the giant decided to send the guy, gave him a bag of silver and then more gold; going to the house, the guy left half, for not to convey; seeing this, the giant and his wife set off in pursuit; the boy threw a leaf behind, which turned into a forest; a chair: a mountain; a giant ran after the storm; a piece of sulfur was a lake; a giant with his wife and daughter tried to drink it; there was not much left, the giant tells his daughter to shut his ass; then the crow jumped so ridiculously that the daughter laughed, the water poured out of her and the giant himself, and they all drowned]: Poestion 1886, No. 22:93-97.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts: Vereshchagin 1886 [three sisters got lost in the forest, came to Kukri Baba; she offers them to eat a scab from the head of the child she holds in her arms; they feel nauseous; promises to let them go if they will climb over the stupa; the youngest cannot; the rooster offers to carry her away, K. catches up; the same is the hare; the dirty horse carries away; K. tries to cross the river on a log, the girl pushes him, K. drowns; the girl knocks to his house, no one opens it; lies down in the hayloft; someone ate it; the boy finds his hair, they sing, "I knocked, you didn't open it"; the hair is thrown into the oven, the voice is from there; ash into the yard, the voice falls silent]: 165 -166; Klabukov 1948, No. 32 [Egypt's evil widow tries to lime Anna, the wife of her adopted son Ivan; A. runs away from sister E., throws her brush, a forest grows, a walnut grows a river; the stalker asks how to cross; Spread out her handkerchief and swim; she drowned; A. called E., drowned her in the same way]: 84-89; Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 24 [stepmother tells her husband to take her away three stepdaughters into the forest; father tied a mallet to a birch tree, she knocks in the wind, the girls think he is still cutting wood; they came to Mustan the Witch; the eldest replies that she slept to her mother's right, the middle - on the left, the youngest - what's on the stove; throws salt into the chimney, the fire goes out, M. cannot make a fire to cook the girls; they drowned M.'s daughter, ran away; throw a sharpener (mountain), a comb (thicket), a mirror (sea); said M. that they swam across with a stone tied to his pants; M. drowned; the padishah's son married the youngest, two viziers to the elder and middle; the eldest promises to dress the whole city, the middle one to feed everyone with meat one bull, the youngest is to give birth to a child with silk hair, pearl teeth, silver ass; the elders did not fulfill their promise; replaced the baby with a puppy, gave the child to a fisherman {then it is clear that there were children two}; the husband ordered his wife to be blinded, his arms and legs broken, put her under the door, spit on her; the husband talked to the fisherman, found out the truth; he gave a tree leaf to heal the crippled; the sisters and their husbands were hanged]: 203-207; Yarmukhametov 1957 [Akhmet is told that he is more cheerful and courageous than his brothers; his mother is forced to say that his 10 brothers are gone and gone; A. comes to his mother 10 genies and promises her sons to get it for they are 11 daughters of a padishah, which is prevented by 10 batyrs; they turn out to be brothers A.; A. enters the girls' room, tells the genies to go up there one by one, cuts off everyone's head, takes their sleeping girls off their sleeping girls personalized rings, he keeps one for himself, gives 10 to his brothers; 5 batyrs claim that they defeated the genies; the padishah gives them daughters, but during the wedding, the warriors cannot raise the heads of the genies, and A. this it is easy to do; the daughters of the padishah recognize their rings, marry brothers; the father of the genies wants to get the daughter of the padishah of the Sun, and he will give her only for the horse of Padishah Almazov; the father of the genies kidnapped A., ordered get that horse; the old man tells you to take the horse away, but not touch the bridle; A. grabs it, the bells are ringing, he is captured, Padishah Almazov demands the nightingale Padishah of the Month; the old man tells not to take the cage, A. did not take it, gave the nightingale in exchange for the horse, but the nightingale returned to him; gave the horse in exchange for the daughter of the Sun, the horse also returned; the old man told me to go from the fork to the right, A. forgot and went to the left; A. fell asleep, woke up - there is no girl, no horse, no nightingale; the old man gives a handkerchief, a comb and a mirror; putting his handkerchief on the water, A. crosses the river, takes the girl, horse, nightingale out of the diva's palace; he chases, A. threw the comb (forest), mirror (sea); the diva swam, drowned; A. gives the girl to the padishah genies, remains a worker, tells me to find out what the genie's soul is; genie: in a broom (the girl adorns the broom); four eggs under the duck in the nest on an island under the protection of four wild boars; A. fights wild boars, the main boar wants to eat a reed sprout, A. wants to eat a roast lamb; the shepherd gave him a lamb, he killed wild boars, brought eggs, broke two, a genie agreed to take him home with his girlfriend, where A. broke the rest of the eggs; 11 brothers with wives, nightingale and horse return to their parents]: 14-31; Bashkirs ["A long time ago, when the goat was a colonel, and the ram is an officer, they say that an old man and an old woman lived"; the old man and the old woman go to visit, tell their four daughters not to extinguish the fire and offend the cat; when the cat asks for porridge, the girls beat her with a spoon on the head; the fire immediately goes out; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, ask the old woman for fire; she agrees to give it, tells them to collect ash in the hem and sprinkle it on the road - by she will come to their house for the night; in the evening she comes to their house, eats her younger sister at night (the old woman was uber-ebi); the next day she comes again, eats another sister; the two survivors girls run away from home with a scallop, a mirror and a sharpener; the old woman goes in pursuit; the older sister throws the sharpener, a huge mountain grows up, over which the old woman can hardly climb; the girl throws scallop, a dense forest appears; an old woman makes her way through it; a girl throws a mirror, a large lake overflows; an old woman screams from the shore, asks how the girls swam; they say: tied stones to her necks; the old woman ties a stone and drowns; the youngest sister asks for water, the eldest warns that you should not drink here; the youngest drinks water from a hole from a goat's hoof, turns into a goat; sister goes on with her, marries a merchant; his older wife starts to get sick, the healer advises to eat the goat's heart; the goat tells her sister to save her bones; the goat is eaten, sister puts the seeds in a cloth, they turn into a bird; the bird sings at the bazaar, the merchant gives it a piece of butter; it flies up to her sister, puts oil in her mouth; the bird flies up to the needle merchant, Sings again; he gives her a pack of needles; the merchant's elder wife hears the bird singing, opens her mouth; the bird throws her needles, the woman dies]: 1989, No. 14:92-95.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [three naughty girls went to the forest; the father gave the elder comb, the middle needle, the younger mirror; they went to the witch's house, where the little girl who had previously been kidnapped was; they took her and ran; the abandoned comb became a forest (the witch made an ax and saw out of her two teeth), the needle became a mountain, the mirror became a lake; how did you get there? - With a stone around her neck; the witch drowned, the girls returned home]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 1989:66-68; Kyrgyz [Khan's daughter Kuluke Madylgen cut and sewed a fur coat from her father's intestines; khan could not determine from why it was made; when the daughter explained, the khan announced that he would give his daughter to someone who could figure out what the fur coat was made of; the red-eyed old man said that the intestines were lice; the khan had to give his daughter; the horse said to M. for her to take him, a white camel and a slave Kuita, a sable hat from her clothes, a damask knife from utensils, and to dress in men's clothes; when they left, the old man said: "Go where I pull along spend the night where I pull across," drove forward; the horse: this is the old sorcerer Jelmoguz; the horse told me not to turn around - the old man will attack, spreading a black-striped tiger, eat Kuita; and so it happened; then the old man appeared and asked: "Are you going, beautiful Madylgen? Go where I pull along, spend the night where I pull across", drove forward again; it happened again with the white camel; now the horse warned that the old man would attack M., told me to sit tight; he would ride below the cloudy sky, above the cranked grass, so that M. closes her eyes more tightly, and when she hears "open your eyes", let her open it; she will see how thin (like a dorsal) yurt curls out of a small (like a heart) yurt brain) smoke, this is the old man's house; in the old man's house, a three-year-old warned M. that when the old man comes home, his eyes will come out; you need to cut them out with a damask knife, let him do the rest; horse flew over mountains and deserts, descended near the city, M. settled on its outskirts; the city's khan named Akimkan had forty wives, but not a single child; he went hunting, his hunting eagle sat on a grass hut, the horseman sent for the eagle saw M., fell unconscious; when he returned, he told the khan that he had seen an angel in the flesh: boy, but the voice is gentle, his face is beautiful, girl, but dressed like a man; the next day everything repeated, the khan went to the third, fell in love, but could not determine whether the man or the woman was in front of him; asked for advice from 40 wives, one advised to give the stranger 40 twigs of meadowsweet and instruct them to cut them for spindles, the man cuts smoothly, the woman is uneven; the horse: put the rods in the left nostril, pull them out of the right nostril, they will become smooth; another wife advised to arrange jumps; the man has sleeves and floors they flutter at random, and the girl will ride shyly, picking them up and pulling them up; the horse taught M. to dissolve the floors and sleeves when jumping; the younger wife advised to invite a stranger to drink vodka and poison guest, and Khan's vodka and honey; when the guest gets drunk, it will be easy to determine his gender; horse: at every sip, say to yourself: "Sweetness to me, and hops to a gray three-year-old"; in the afternoon, one elder went into the yurt and exclaimed: "It is cruel to allow the horse to experience such torment, let the owner cut it himself"; when she heard him, M. shuddered, her sable hat fell from her head and everyone saw her beautiful hair; horse:" Blame only yourself" and disappeared; A. married M. in a separate yurt; when it was time for her to give birth, A. went hunting; 40 wives sent a slave, paid a witch, who replaced the boy who was born and the girl was puppies, the children were thrown into the river; they were caught by a gray three-year-old who rushed; Akimkan left M. with her puppies on a deserted island; a few years later, a three-year-old brought her children to M. on the island, ordered cross to the other side; "Before the crossing, an eyeless old magician will appear, ask him to be transported too, led to fill both of his boots with sand; seat the children in front and the old man in the back; when we enter the water, hit me with a damask knife; when the old man falls into the water, stab my belly with a knife, when I die, don't cry, cook my meat and eat it, name my son Aytomush, and my daughter Kyuntomush; stick my 40 ribs in the ground, they will turn into an iron yurt with 40 bars, live in it"; as it happened, M. and her children settled in a yurt, Aytomush grew up as a hero; met Akimkan, who hunted; he told his wives that he had met a young man named Aitomush; soon the khan was attacked by enemies, he sent a messenger to Aitomush with the news that if he defeated his enemies, he would marry two girls, Apal and Yupel; M. drove the messenger away; his khan again sent - the same; Aitomush woke up from the noise, drove and defeated enemies; Khan with horsemen came to him, saw M., found out and fell unconscious; took her and her children; an old witch at the crossroads of 9 roads put on a stake, 40 wives hanged; Khan put his son on the throne, married his daughter and healed happily]: Kebekova, Tokombaeva 2007:27-34; Kyrgyz [the old man and the old woman have seven goats and three daughters; the old man is angry for daughters: they drank all the milk from the goats, he and the old woman did not get it; tells the old woman to get rid of their daughters; finds currant bushes, brings home a few twigs with berries; daughters they eat, they want more; the old man suggests going with him for berries, tells the old woman to make three leather buckets without a bottom; takes his daughters to the currant bushes, suggests filling the buckets with berries as long as she is chopped brushwood; fits the ratchet like an ax sounds, leaves, migrates with the old woman and goats; one of the girls discovers that the buckets are bottomless, patches it up with branches and grass, the buckets are filled; girls go to the sound of an ax, find a ratchet, hurry home; in search of parents, they search the neighborhood, stumble upon a house in which an exhausted girl; he explains that the old cannibal woman ate everyone and her keeps blood to drink; girls run to the station, find their father's whetstone there, throw him, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find a comb at the station, that turns into a forest; then a mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they ended up on the other side, girls; swam across, tying trousers on their ankles and filling them with sand; the cannibal follows advice and drowns; girls are found by a childless khan with 40 wives, asks what their skills are; the eldest: can feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress a lot people; youngest: to give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; khan the youngest, marries the youngest; when the wife is going to give birth, the khan goes hunting, demands that a messenger be sent to him with with news; 40 wives hire a witch, who throws children in a box into the river, replaces them with puppies; two messengers arrive to the khan, the first speaks about the birth of children, the second speaks of puppies; the khan orders his wife and puppies to be sealed in a bucket and hang it on a tree; the girls' parents live on the bank of this river; the old woman discovers that goats come with an empty udder, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters and now drinks all the milk; the old man watching goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck goats in the drawer; old people bring children, slaughter one goat in joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life is getting better, they they install a golden pole in the yard; the old khan, hunting, stumbles upon old men with children, complains that even lonely old people have found children, but he has not; he misses at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason they accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; the witch comes to the children, tells the young man that it would be good to tie a golden horse to the golden pole; the sister dissuades his brother, who is stubborn , then the sister teaches how to master the horse; the brother gets it; the khan meets the children again; the witch also advises you to find the Sapan-Tash stone, which makes wishes come true; then you can get subjects to form a khanate and make the young man's old father a khan; the sister first dissuades, then teaches the brother; he takes possession of the stone and the girl she marries; with the help of the stone, the twins appear subjects, a khanate is created, an old kozopaz becomes khan, and a golden bridge is being built across the river to the khan's estate with 40 wives; brother and sister visit the khan, bring him a cart of gold, in exchange they ask a bucket hanging on a tree; the khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to the twins; the mother of the twins is half-dead in the bucket, she is brought to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission adopt his sister, recognizes his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to immense horses, and also executes a witch; a young man with a golden head and a silver ass becomes the khan of two khanates]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal report. May 17, 2020: retelling of the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu Abyshka Zhana Kempir" (Old Man and Old Woman with Seven Goats) performed by J. Alymbayeva, Department of Manuscripts and Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, date of recording September 10, 1984, inventory No. 1a (2), recording time 31 minutes); Kyrgyz [the old man sent three naughty daughters for berries, giving buckets of holes; the girls missed all day, and when they returned, it turned out that their father had migrated; the girls came to the yurt, there was a girl in it; said that her mother was baba yaga {apparently jalmouth- kempir}; baba yaga was delighted and in the morning told her older sister to fry her youngest for lunch; the sisters cooked Baba Yaga's daughter, ran away; when she saw what her daughter had eaten, Baba Yaga set off in pursuit; the older sister quit comb (forest); baba yaga pulled out two teeth, made an ax out of one and a ketmen out of the other, cut the road; the second sister threw a needle (mountain); baba yaga cut through the road; the third sister cut a mirror ( lake); baba yaga: how they swam; girls: tied stones to her neck; the old woman did so and drowned; the sisters returned to their father and never parted]: Muchnik 1944:70-71; Karakalpaks [elderly spouses childless; the beggar promises the old woman that she will have three sons, but she will have to give one to him; after 10 years he takes the youngest; in the garden, the skull asks him to bury, promises to help; the sorcerer falls asleep at 40 days, tells not to open the fortieth room, feed the piebald horse, beat the black horse; the young man opens, there the girls argue who is fatter (the sorcerer will eat that one); the skull tells you to feed the black horse, beat the piebald, take it from a jug of water, a comb, salt; a young man rides a black horse, a comb becomes a forest, salt becomes salt springs, a jug of water becomes a sea; a sorcerer drowns; a young man disguises himself as a shepherd, takes a piece of hair a horse; is hired by a blacksmith, lives with an old woman; the khan's daughters choose their suitors; the young man puts on a lamb's stomach, the youngest still throws an apple at it; the other two son-in-law are defeated, the young man burns the horse's hair appears, they smash enemies; the khan moves his younger son-in-law and daughter from the hut to the palace]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:14-20.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; he turned into Dzhelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised his three daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw a comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise him, he carries them; J. says they are worms; The beaver tells him to pick up stones, drops him in the middle of the river, J. drowned; the Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by and married them; the older sisters promise their husbands to sew clothes, cover; the youngest is to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the elders throw the boy into the lake, replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouges out his eyes; her leave one; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same grass, recovers; cannot lure her son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving him on on the shore of a bow and arrow; gives his milk, tears into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying, when they scream, the mother cuts off her ear, nose, lip; E. shoots, the arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakai, who refuses to marry E. his daughter; E. kills him, takes his form; Khan orders to catch him a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to milk the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Milk", the milk milks by itself; the khan orders to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them with sour cream, dogs licked; gives seven daughters to Jety-Tas (Seven Bald Men), but the youngest marries imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose An arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked her and killed her; she was buried]: Potanin 1883, No. 84:341-348; tubalars [The seven-headed Jälbägän asks Lisenko how to get across the river; he advises making a raft, rocking it in the middle of the river; the raft fell apart, J. fell into the water]: Radlov 1898:221; The Kumandins [the old man and the old woman went to work, their three daughters stayed at home; Diellbegen came; they boiled water, went up to the roof; D. began to look, looked into the chimney, they poured boiling water on it; ran to their father, D. then, they threw flint (stone rock), flint (iron rock), crest (forest); each time forty following D. indicates where the girls ran; they reached the river, D. fell into water (and drowned?)] : Baskakov 1972:129-130; Shors [Mashmoruk lives alone, Chelbegen with three children; C. asks M. to come look in his head, put it in a bag, brought it to the children; poured it out - there is only dry rotten in the bag; the next time it was the same, but C. did not want to rest (so that M. did not run away along the road, but apparently stopped); there was only ice in the bag at home; M. brought him the third time; C. left, M. asked his children to show him father's sword, ordered me to lie down to find out which of them was beautiful, cut his throat, chopped the meat, began to cook, covered his heads with a blanket; C. began to eat, called the children - they did not answer; C. found heads, began to call M. he was in the basement; C. down, and M. was up at that time; so several times; M. called out to C., poured boiling water into his face; advised him to rub himself against the cedar bark; his skin was torn off; M. went across the river; C.: how did he cross the river? M.: picked up the full hem of the stones and made a bridge out of dry hogweed; C. drowned]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 6:227-231; the Buryats [beautiful Tebek-Nogon-Abaha tells the maids to comb out a louse from her head, she's the size of a man's head; T. fattens her, she grows up as a bull; promises to marry the first to know about this louse; the 58-headed mangathai makes the maid reveal the secret; T. pretends agrees, runs away overseas; tells Mangathaya that she crossed with stones tied to the hem; he drowns, she sends a stone hail that pierces all his heads]: Ediasov 1973, No. 10:92-94; the Mongols [ the boy liked to play money, one of them gold and the other silver; the money was gone, the father said that his son forgot them at the camp; the father tells me to take the horse calmer, the mother the fast stallion; he has eight legs ; at the camp, an old woman, the horse tells me not to get down, grab the money on the move; the witch caught up, killed the horse 8 legs, dragged the boy into her hole, forced her to work on the housework; the sheep tells her to gut, take her all she has inside is to sit on her calf, run; the boy throws sheep droppings, giblets, gum; the witch stops every time to wash off the dirt; the calf swam across the river; the boy answered the witch that he moved with a stone tied around his neck; the witch tied and drowned; the calf tells him to be killed, the boy does not want to; the louse presses on the calf, he falls dead; the next morning the boy in the yurt, around the herd and trees]: Mikhailov 1962:155-157 (=Mikhailov 1967:167-170); darkhats: Potanin 1883, No. 160 [the man caught a bird, then the animals began to come by themselves, the hunter became rich; the wife met with the merchant, he asked to cook a bird, her two sons accidentally entered, the youngest ate the head, the eldest wing; the mother began to beat them, they ran away, lost each other; the youngest lives with the old woman, sells hay, pays for him at exorbitant prices; Noyon's daughter lures him to her, gave him a drink, he regurgitated the gems first, then the bird's head; Noyon's daughter threw him away, he returned to the old woman, happiness is gone; the young man leaves, takes to judge those who are arguing over the father's inheritance: who will get an invisible hat, a wishful box and a staff with which you can walk on water; he threw a stone, told him to race, took possession of things, came back to Noyon's daughter, she took everything away again, leaving only a staff; he came to live with another old woman, pretended to be asleep, saw that it was a shulmusikha with one eye in his forehead; pretended to wake up shulmusikha again took the form of an old woman; replied that the flowers on her box made her wishes come true; fell asleep; the young man burned her eye with a hot staff, ran away, crossed the sea with the help of a staff, shulmusikha she followed and drowned; the young man came to Noyon's daughter, turned her into a horse by the power of flowers, the maids into donkeys; promised Noyon to find his daughter if he gave him her box; it contained all the magic objects; the young man restored Noyon's daughter to her human form, but left only one eye; gave a second eye after receiving Noyon's daughter as his wife; noyon made him a senior dignitary; he found father and mother, and made a father boss, mother maid; older brother caught forty, agreed not to kill, she became a girl, her father gave a piece of cloth, she made wishes come true, the fabric was changed in ail; then he gave a baton, she became beat the deceivers, they returned matter; servants and cattle came out of it]: 535-539; Sanzheev 1931, No. 7 [the young man Zeiben forgot his two gold-silver ankles at the former camp, returned for them in his octopus horse, I saw a mangyska there, grabbed his ankles; the mangysk pursuer consistently cuts off the horse's 8 legs, its back, front, head, C. climbed the golden aspen; The fox twice offers to cut down aspen instead of mangyska, seals her eyes; C. runs away on a goby, he splashes droppings into the eyes of a mangysk; C. finds a fragment of his father's sharpener, a comb, a mother's needle; throws behind, a forest, a mountain, river; Ts replies to the mangysk that he crossed the river, tied stones to his feet, the mangyska drowns; the goby tells him to be stabbed, C. refuses; orders to kill a red louse on it, immediately dies; in the morning at this place a yurt, woman and herds]: 96-98.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Castrén 1857, No. 2 [two women live together, one has two daughters; the childless woman asked the other to go to tear the grass on the insoles, stabbed it, fried it, ate it, left her head to the other times; told the daughters of the victim that the mother was tearing the grass and would come back, went to bed at the exit from the house herself; the eldest girl found her mother's head; realized that the childless would eat them too; left two birds in the plague, and herself runs with her sister; after 7 days, the cannibal wakes up, sets off in pursuit; the eldest throws a whetstone, a river with high mountains appears on both banks; after 7 days the river has dried up, the cannibal again set off in chase; the older girl threw her chair (mountain for 7 days); the comb (dense forest for 7 days); the girls run to the freaky, there are 7 crows; the eldest politely asks about the way to people; the crow sends to the blue sea, there you have to ask 7 seagulls; the eldest is polite and with seagulls, the seagull sends her to the strait where the old woman has; the old woman asks what her face, arms, legs, etc. are; the girl praises her (face like the sun, hands and legs are thick and shiny, etc.); the old woman screams, the beaver comes, transports the girls across the strait; the cannibal comes running, scolds the old woman, crows and seagulls (the old woman's face is like the ass of an animal, a crow and a seagull carrion pecked, etc.); an old woman calls a beluga, a cannibal sits on her sharp back, a beluga drowns her; the girls ask the old woman how to get to people; she teaches her how to find a copper boat near the shore, she herself will bring it; but let the younger sister not pick up knives, axes and drills, of which there are many at the bottom of the boat, otherwise she will die and the boat stops; when you reach the goal, you must tell the boat to return; after crossing the seas, the boat swam up the river; in one place two larches close branches above the water; the younger sister took an ax to cut down the branch, but fell dead and the boat stopped; the older sister sent the boat back, became beat the budin and ask the youngest where to bury her; she tells me not to leave her on the fir - people will go, I'll be frightened; in the birch tree - the same; in the spruce tree - the children will break branches; the eldest is tired of carrying the youngest's body, left in a wolf's lair under a birch tree; she goes on, sees colorful and white deer grazing; two men came, the eldest with a white deer put the girl on his sledge, brought her to the camp, married her; one day I went to look for the missing deer; at the wolf's lair I heard the howling of cubs and the girl crying; told his wife, who realized that it was her sister; they killed the cubs, brought their sister, put them by the fire, and she woke up; married a younger man who had a colorful deer]: 164-169; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr; the author heard from her mother) [the nenka has a good plague, the savage has a straw plague next to him; the savage calls the nenka to tear the straw for bed; in the evening she returns alone, Nenka's daughter sees her mother's head in an armful of straw; fills the bakari with ash, leaves it so that they can be seen from under the canopy, ties a bird to them, runs away; savage opens the canopy, the bird rushes around, the savage's eyes covered with ash; the fleeing girl throws her mother's scraper (an iron mountain, a savage climbs it), a cutting board (wide ladder, the savage crosses), a comb (forest); the girl asks the old beaver to transport her across the river, tells the beaver that her face and parka are beautiful; the savage says that the old beaver's face is crooked, her belt is poorly tied, she advises her husband to push her out the savage from the boat, the current takes her away; the girl grows up, the savage meets her, makes her change clothes; husbands a man with white deer decorated with chorea, the girl leaves his elder brother with dark deer, unadorned; brothers bring brides; a girl gives birth to a son, a savage is cut out by a little man; the brothers' father asks the savage to hand him a knife through the fire, pushes him into the fire; her ashes turns into mosquitoes]: 30-34; Ents: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 12 [husband hunting, giant guy enters the plague, calls the hunter's wife to tear the grass together; suggests looking in each other's head; lice Parnay are beetles and other crawling insects; Parnay tells them to eat, the woman slowly throws them to the ground; when she puts her head on Parnay's lap, she pierces her awl into her ear; carries her body home, wrapped in grass; The eldest daughter of the victim notices her mother's hair; Parne takes the corpse into her plague, cooks, eats; the eldest girl takes a knife, scraper, comb, awl, runs away with her sister; Parne pursues, the girl throws the scraper ( mountain), a crest (forest), asks the old man to transport them across the river; says that his back is like the ice of a lake, his head is like white grass, his legs are fast; he carries the girls on his back; Parne says his back is The old man is crooked like the handle of a scraper, his legs like rotten knots, his head is like a shaggy bump; the old man throws it away into the river, the current carries it away; the old man warns the older sister not to give the younger sister an awl; she gives the girl sticks it in her ear, dies; the eldest wants to bury her with trees, she asks not to do so (people will harvest the forest, her head hurts from the sound of axes); the sister leaves the corpse in den; rests by a stump, a witch jumps out from there, walks with a girl; sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl on a sledge of a man with black deer; a witch eats her husband and many other people; the old father of these brothers makes a fire, throws Kleinitsa into the fire, calls the daughters-in-law to extinguish; people push the witch into the fire, her hair flashes, the ashes will turn into mosquitoes and other insects that have burst eyes in wasps], 13 [Parne and the woman live in the same plague, the woman has two girls; Parnay calls to go to tear the grass, suggests looking in her head; pierces an awl into the woman's ear, she dies; she carries it wrapped in grass, cooks, eats; the eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; the girls leave their glasses in bed for themselves, the eldest takes a thimble, a comb, a scraper; they run away, the abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into the forest, a thimble into an iron hill; the eldest tells the old man that his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back is straight like the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; Parnay says his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back is like stone and clay; he throws Parnay into the river, which drowned; sending the girls, the old man tells me not to take anything at the end of the island; the youngest asks a toy, a spike grabs, her eye leaked out, she died; tells her not to leave it on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, Parne appears out of it; they go together; Parne sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl with black deer; the brothers' father asks her daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from there two go out a bear cub and a living little sister again; a bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears by kissing them; Parne brings mice, these are her deer, the old man kills them with a kick; an Enets woman gives birth to a bright boy, Parne is a witch; makes an Enets woman leave in an abandoned camp, gives her a witch; takes the boy, throws her into the water; the witch has grown up, helps a woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that his hand sticks out of the water; a woman comes up, the boy asks to catch him, calls him mom; the plague floods the water, this the water father comes for the boy; the Aenets woman gives him a witch, the water goes away; the father comes for his wife and son; the brothers' father makes a fire, asks Parne to cast a spike through the fire, pushes a fire; her ashes turn into mosquitoes], 14 [hunter Moreo has a wife, a daughter and a son; Parnay comes, calls his wife to tear up the grass; the girl takes a mother's scraper, an iron braid, a comb, a thimble; the witch brings a bundle of grass, the girl notices her mother's hair in it; runs away, throws objects (the braid is a mountain, the crest is a forest); asks the old man to cross the river, says that his back is like a lake smooth, his legs are beautiful like a sled sledge; Parnay says that the back of a humpback, his legs are oblique; the old man carries a girl, drowns Parne]: 65-76, 82-88, 94-95; chum salmon: Dulzon 1964 (Kureika) [Hun and Sausage went to cut in autumn hay, K. began to look for lice in H.'s head, put a sharp bone in her ear, brought her home, covered with hay; the children noticed their mother's braids; they hear K.'s children say that they will eat their eyes tomorrow; K.: small eyes, and I'm big; my younger brother closed the smoke hole in a leaky park to make K. think it was still a starry night; the children told all objects to answer that they had gone into tagan's butt; ran themselves to her grandmother; K. woke up, asked the ladle, the frame from the hearth, where the children; they say that they were well fed, they did not say; Kleinitsa says that they had gone into the butt of the hearth; K. set off in pursuit; hare, fox, the wolf and the bear carry the children on their backs, are tired; the sisters and their younger brother left the bear in the den; they reached the river; the pole, on the orders of their grandmother, transported them across the river, and K. turned them over in the middle of the river; her watermen killed her; her grandmother began to teach her granddaughters how to hunt a bear; the eldest failed, and a bear came out to the youngest; together with her grandmother and older sister, they caught it; the grandmother punished her granddaughters when they they walk on the water, do not take a spatula with burbot liver near the ice-hole; the youngest did not listen, the hell took it to him; the eldest left her grandmother; K. a jumped out of the stump, offered to look for lice in her head and killed girl X., took her skis; the eagle revived H.; she spoke her skis, which K.a took, quickly caught up with her and took her skis; they met the old man's son Yryket and the old woman's son; they asked for an awl, fix the ski; K. passed off X.'s awl as her own, and went on a sledge, and H. walked; K. began to live with the old man's son Yryket, and H. with the old woman's son; the old woman asked H. to sew a ski reed skin for her son, that I went to my brother for glue, glued together the strong skis, and the old woman's son hunted a lot of deer, and K. took glue from the larch uncles; they gave her sulfur, and she made bad skis; they fell apart while hunting, the son of the old prince Yryket could not get anything; H. went to her brother, who asked her husband to put larch at his house; her brother's children, cubs, began to climb it, and K. brought children she put her brother - pike, small shirts and perch in a box of water, and old man Yryket accidentally drank them; H. came out of the plague, began to scrape the bed with a deer, K. did the same, got up thunder killed K., and to H.'s brother came down from the larch, began to live together]: 114-125 (=Kryukova 2013:202-213); 1966, No. 2 [the woman and Sausages went to cut the insole; began to look for lice from each other; K. the woman put a wand in her ear, killed her; at home she told her daughter that her mother would come later; the girl closed the smoke hole with a plague with holes (like stars), ran away; K. threw Kleinitsa, she showed where the girl ran; by the sea, the girl asked her grandmother to transport her; she transported her; sent the front olatines for K., told them to shake up in the middle of the sea, K. drowned; sent the back oatines, they they transported her grandmother's grandchildren; the girl took the porridge from the shovel, he took it to his shovel; when she ran out of food, she wanted to eat it, but the hawk took her away and saved her]: 15-17; 1972, No. 75 [cousins live together, one is married to a woman, has two daughters, the other to colmas, has one daughter; Kolmasam calls his friend to prepare an insole (honeysuckle bark); offers to look in her head, pierces a twig into her ear, is lucky a corpse on a sledge; the eldest daughter of the victim notices her mother's legs, realizes that Kolmasam is eating her; she promises her daughter that they will also eat the children of the victim; they put kolmas on the icy roof of the dugout a blanket with pierced holes, Ermine, Fox, Wolf, Bear carry them on their backs; Kolmasam thinks he sees stars, goes out at noon, Kleinitsa points her direction; old man Ekhorot carries children on poles; tells grandchildren to overturn the pole when they transport colmas; it sinks]: 83-86 (quail in Alekseenko 2001, No. 133:240-244); southern Selkups: Dulzon 1966, No. 53 [baba yaga offers forest a woman should go to tear her tow; she warns her two daughters that Baba Yaga will offer to look for lice from each other, kill her by stabbing her in the head, be lucky on a sledge under a pile of tow, the red braid will be visible; tells her to cook food, put her sister in the back, gives a ball, beads, earrings; the daughter of a forest woman hears Baba Yaga promises her daughters to eat sweat and the children of the victim; the girl, taking her sister, runs for a rolling ball; the youngest cries, wants milk, the eldest leaves her, then comes back, the sister turns into an iron doll; by the river, the girl asks the old woman on the other side for a boat; replies that she full breasts, smooth hair, beautiful legs; a boat carries fugitives; a stalker says her breasts are wrinkled, etc.; an old woman gives a boat full of holes, Baba Yaga drowns; a girl gives the dog beads, earrings, she barks that a new daughter-in-law is coming, the old woman's son takes her as his wife; tells her to sew a fur coat "like animals have ears, legs, legs and tail"; that dog turns into a woman (her husband's sister), her skins are sewn together by themselves; the girl first feeds her sister, then her husband; he throws the body against the tree, the iron skin bursts, the girl flies away as a bird; the older sister goes, sees the house, there is her younger sister and husband; the sisters' husbands - brothers; the older sister brings her husband a bag of fur as a gift from her youngest]: 145-155; Pelikh 1972 [the widow has two daughters, the Magi marries one for her son, the woman does not give it back; dies, leaving the eldest comb, younger ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman carries sisters across the river; a Magi and her son are carried on a log; they turned over, drowned; see motive J25]: 351-352.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (a summary of several texts, including archival ones; at least the central and northeastern ones are Indigirsky) [fisherman Lyybyrda (var.: Aigyn-Taigyn or old woman Tebenekeen, old Yuchei) hears a man's voice in the forest; goes and sticks to a mushroom (horse skull); Mongus takes the fisherman and fattens him to eat him; It is impossible to slaughter a fisherman because the knife is stupid; the fisherman sends M. to Bolona for a large knife, that to Haranai for a grindstone, and the last to transport the stone; And . sends M. across the river for a bridle, M. drowns]: Ergis 1967, No. 83:177; the northwestern Yakuts [the old man and the old woman caught only four fish; decided to eat fish themselves, take their two daughters into the forest and quit; the father went with them to pick berries, hung his fur coat on a stump, left himself; the children ate the berries, began to play with a stone instead of a doll; then left the doll and dishes, began to pick berries again; when They came back, the dishes were filled with cooked fish; the sisters hid and saw that the doll was working; ran away; suddenly there was fire behind them; the eldest threw the comb, it became a stone mountain; the fire stopped; a strong wind began, the youngest threw a thread, an impenetrable forest formed; suddenly a man ran after them, but the girls had already reached the old woman Dalah Bridge; she threw her leg across the river, and they came over to her; when the pursuer ran down her leg, the old woman removed her leg and he drowned; the girls stayed with the old woman]: Gurvich 197:174; Central Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.1 ( Bayagantai ulus) [two orphans went to pick berries; the eldest found a black stone, the youngest white stone (var: the youngest wants to take white, the eldest suggests taking black; there is only one stone, in shape like man); girls began to live in a hunting lodge, put a stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into a child; when they return, they find baked fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; a child tells objects to move themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes fish out of her mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest puts it quietly in her bosom; the sisters cover the child runs away with a hot slide; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaas cross, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; the sisters come to the abaasa with one hand and one with her foot; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in the closet; the youngest becomes the size of a needle sawdust, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, her sister pulls, tears off his head, carries it with him; hangs it on larch, his head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a tree broken by lightning, his head calms down; a frog lives in a silver yurt, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband comes, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds a girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; a girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, yurt, cattle; sister married Thunder's son; hides the youngest; Thunder's son finds her, gives her cattle; presses on the way home frog worms, leeches and frogs; husband tells wives to lie on the roof; The frog put a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 459-465; Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 23 (Western 1936, Churapchinsky district) [parents caught only four fish and decided to take their daughters to the forest; while they were picking berries, the father put his clothes on the stump, left; the girls went to the fork in the road, there was a child in silver and a child in an iron cradle; the youngest wants to take the one in silver, the eldest insists that it be in the iron cradle; the sisters live in the house when they come back, there is fish in the house; the youngest does not eat; hides with a needle, Sees a baby come out of the cradle, turn into a giant, spew an iron whorl, pierce his ass, boiled fish fall out of there; becomes a baby again; the eldest does not believe, she stays look; agrees to throw a boiling pot of boiled berries over the abaas; sisters run, a giant with a cauldron on his head chases; the youngest throws a needle (forest), a thimble (forest again), the eldest throws a handkerchief ( cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask the old woman Talas-Talas to lower her golden walkways; she stretches her legs like a bridge, the sisters cross; when the abaas ask for her legs, TT hesitates, then stretches out alone, the abaas are drowning; the sisters entered the house, the exit disappeared; the youngest made a hole, came out with a needle, a thimble; the eldest stuck her head, told her head and ass to swell, got stuck; the youngest pulled, tore it off; I tried to leave my head on a birch tree, willow, waist, pine tree, spruce - my head cries; when she left it on an aspen, she laughed; the youngest comes to the Frog's house; she asks to sew a bag for her husband, she does not know how to; the same mittens, torbaza; the girl hung the torbaza high, the frog could not reach; the husband found the girl; promised to marry the one who would not freeze in the yard overnight; the husband wrapped the frog in moss, put his wife in bag by the chimney; she is alive in the morning, the frog froze; the man married a girl]: 253-271; Yakuts (recording place? Verkhoyanskiye?) : Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [poor parents go with their two daughters to pick berries, leave them in the forest; they find a hut, a black stone nearby and an iron cradle; the younger sister suspects that this is an Abaasa child; at home, the stone turns into a baby; sisters find baked crucian carp near the house; the youngest hides in the crack with a needle, sees how the baby turns into a giant, commands the fire to ignite, the fish to bake; the eldest the sister hides, sees the same thing; they throw a pot of boiling water over the child, run; the youngest throws a needle (thicket), a thimble (forest), a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask old woman Talas-Talas ("walkways") throw the bridge; she stretches out both legs, the girls cross; the abaas says she is busy; stretches out one leg, cleans it, it drowns]: 64-71; Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [younger sister forgot when grandmother toys migrated; older sister, younger brother said that they worked and did not know where the toys were; Ostyak said he poured it out behind; the girl saddled a deer, took the dog, came to the old place, there Bear; he asked the names of the deer and dog, tied the girl and dog to the tree; the girl tells the Bear three times that her deceased parents did not take urine and feces bedding when they were going to fresh the vazhenka ( i.e. you have to cook everything away); The bear goes to cut away; Crossbills can not untie the girl's fetters, their beaks are bent; the fox freed, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; The bear wants to eat The fox instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut her with an ax; the fox dodged, the Bear cut his legs, eat his bone marrow; since then, the tip of the fox tail has been white, the bear has no bone marrow; the girl went to the river, called her father, mother, uncle; everyone refuses to transport, saying that the girl is a crybaby; she tells the rock to slide down, crush them all; the ostyak carves out a scoop, transports the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings - "lower, taller"; The bear enters the water, drowns; tells his heels to become bars, his legs with sharpeners, his back is soft, his skull with a stone for rubbing paints, shovels with a paint stone, blood with red paint, feces with black paint; now it's all in the mountains; the girl has become the wife of Ostyak; she carries water, he pours out every time, says that she wears feces, urine; the girl asks the birds to carry her away; cranes, swans refuse, shamanic gasha birds give her feathers to fly with them; the ostyak tells her to fall, promises to make a dress, a bib, an occipital an ornament, a hat, a fringe on her belt; she says she does not need it, does not fall; she sits at the door of an old woman; she asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringes on her belt (" smelly"), hides in a needle; sons smell, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she flies away, catches up with gasha, they swear that their mother released her, shoot her, injure her shoulder; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, says how many stands; when on 10 stands, the girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha has come; the woman pretends that the child is dirty, goes out with him, hides in the storage shed; gasha gnaws on the stands; they managed to gnaw three, the woman sang three times, the third time G. came, killed two gashes, the third ran, leaving a fang; G. comes to people, steps over through the fire, everyone laughs; he looks - people's teeth are intact; when through the third fire, he sees a toothless man; asks him to take out his lice, stabs gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, tells others that grandfather fell asleep, leaves]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 42:45-51; Western Evenks (Kirensky) [the old woman lays her leg like a bridge across the river]; Baikal Evenks (Baikal region) [migrating, parents throw it away the girl's toys; she comes back for them, sees the Bear; he asks her to make a spit to fry her liver; she runs, asks the Woodpecker to transport her across the river; tells the Bear that she crossed her gut; Bear stretches her gut, throws an end to the girl, walks along it like a rope; the girl cuts off her gut, the Bear falls into the water, sings that his gut will become willow bark, blood will become red clay, ribs will become shelters , radial bones with axes, skin in places where moss grows; the girl decides that so be the case; see motive J44]: Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 14:45-50; Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia, p. Chapo-Ologo, 1948) [two orphans went for berries, found an iron cradle with the baby; the youngest told me not to touch it, the eldest brought the child to the plague; when they returned, there were a lot of fish in the plague; the next day they hid and spy; the child got out of the shaky, became a giant, sat down, a bunch of fish appeared {i.e. he threw it out of himself}; when the girls entered the plague, there was again the child shaky; they knocked over the cauldron on him boiling fish soup, rode on deer; Mangi catches up, a cauldron on her head instead of a hat; one of the sisters threw a comb (thicket), Mangi made his way; threw her bag (the rock is the same); on the other side, old woman Acekai, the girls ask her to stretch out her legs, crossed them to the other side, the old woman removed her legs; when Manga asked her to stretch her legs, the old woman removed them in the middle of the river; Manga screams: make ladles out of my hands, a bucket from the back, paint from the blood, a shuttle from the spine; then drowned; at this time the girls reached the fork; one tells me to follow the left path, the other on the right; turned to the left, came to plague, it has an old woman without arms and legs; turned one into a needle, the other into a thimble; cannibals came, saying that it smells like gifts; the older sister laughed, she was eaten; when the cannibals left, the youngest asks , are there any toys; the old woman gave a bird's wing; the girl flew to the top of the plague, then to the tree, then flew away; reached the river, sat on a stump, found an old bone in her pocket, began to gnaw; in the morning the deer run , they are chased by a handsome guy, he married her]: Pinegina 2019:87-91.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [the boy asked his older sister to sew a ball (made of fish skin, full of wool); the sister did not want to play, agreed, the ball disappeared at dusk; the sister tells her brother to hold her pendants robe; someone holds the door, dragged his sister into the house, the pendants came off; the boy fell asleep in the house in the dark; woke up at night, saw that an evil spirit (this is a ball) was sleeping at the hearth, frying his sister's fingers; brother slowly took his finger and ring; in the morning his spirit was gone, the brother buried his fingers with the ring; grew up; a duck flew in, became a sister, told her not to look for her; the brother went to look, met two children, these were his sister's children and evil spirit; the sister hid her brother, told her husband that the smell of man came from him; in the morning the sister, her children and brother sailed away in the boat; an evil spirit catches up, tells the turtle to drink water; the brother asks the Master of the River to save them; he releases water, the evil spirit drowned]: Hodger 2011:29-35; the Orochi [six sisters live in the sky, the seventh eldest is in the house; sisters come to her, the youngest smears her ass with coal, camlates; the eldest laughs others see a man on her teeth; run away on skis; the eldest does not have skis, she tells her younger sister to break her ties on her skis, eats her; so with five sisters; the sixth throws a comb, then a stone, they turn into a thicket, into a cliff; a girl asks an old woman to transport her across the river; she stretches her leg like a bridge; the same goes for the stalker, but the old woman throws her into the water; she wants her head became a marsh hummock, her hair became marsh grass, her bones became a river blockage, her eyes became beads, blood became a red stone, pus a blue stone, all her ashes a gnat; see motif J44]: Aurora, Lebedeva 1966, No. 56: 204-206; Udege people: Kormushin 1998, No. 1 [older sister goes for firewood; Dzangdalafu enters the house; head - marsh bump, hair with smoke, eyes - green beads, tick hands, vise fingers , skewer legs, stomach - blacksmith's bells, buttocks - barrier stones in the blacksmith's furnace, scrotum - bells, penis file; scoops up a bowl of ash, blows winds, hidden does not laugh, D. leaves; the next day, the older sister stays, laughs; D. looks for lice from her, asks her to pick it up, pulls it out, puts a sewing in her hands, a tube in her mouth, takes her heart away; the youngest comes running to mother D., who gives her heart , she revives her sister; both return to D.'s mother, ask him to put her son to sleep in a leather; the girls crumple him, he sleeps; they run to the river, ask for a good man to transport him; he throws a bridge, the youngest hides in his pants, the eldest in the hallway; when D. crosses, well done, turns the bridge over, D. drowns; tells the intestines to become reaches, the testicles to scratch (?) , tibia bones (?) - drowns, ass - decay; well done married sisters, the old woman became their mother]: 104-108; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [an evil spirit flies into the mouth of Ege, the eldest of seven sisters; sisters create figures, they jump , grimacing; when E. laughs, the sisters see a man on her teeth; the sisters run away, E. tells the ski belts to break, catches up, swallows the sisters; the youngest escapes, she had mounts with with an iron chain; throws a sharpener (mountain), a crest (thicket), ash (fog; it takes a year for E. to overcome every obstacle); the old woman allows the girl to cross the river across the bridge, hides the bridge; E. demands it, the old woman puts it, in the middle he collapsed, E. fell into the rapids; says that her hair will become mud, her teeth will become boulders, her bones will be creases from trees, her blood will become mosquitoes and midges]: 156-157; Wilta [Old Man : "We need to take our girls to the forest to get lost. When we're alone, we'll catch three trouts, we'll leave one to eat tomorrow, we'll catch two, and we'll eat them all. And this is how children eat half. The father took his two daughters to pick berries. He put his hat and jacket on the stump and left. The sisters came to the broken house, a small child was sleeping in the cradle, they rocked it, and stayed overnight. Fresh fish at the doorstep in the morning. We decided to watch secretly. The child got up, went to the doorstep and began to take the fish out of the anus. The girls ran away, and the child turned into a healthy old man, chased them. On the other side of the river, grandmother and girls ask to stretch their legs. They ran over her legs like a bridge. Old lady: "You go faster, my little sister lives there. You'll go into the house." On the shore where the grandmother was sitting, the old child also asks to stretch his legs. She pulled it out, he began to cross, and when he came to the middle, the birds flew in and began to peck at the old woman's knees. The man fell into the water and said: Old lady, you can make a boat out of my back, an oar out of my hands, a pot from my head, a stern paddle out of my legs, and a kettle out of my testicles. I swam downstream. The girls came over. Old woman: "When the sun goes down, you will sit quietly, you will not talk or cough. I'll cover for you. My brothers are coming." Brothers enter the smoke hole: one eye in the middle of the forehead, arms in the middle of the chest, and a large mouth. They say it smells human. The old woman had a hard time convincing her that no one was there. In the morning, he gives the girls wings and tells them to fly high. The younger sister is flying higher and the older sister goes down. Someone grabbed her, pulls her, and the youngest is pulling her towards her. She tore off her top to her lower back, put it on her back and flew to good ground. I left it on a tree broken by thunder. She looked around and her sister was crying, she took her again. Found a tree broken by a bear. I looked around - half of my sister was smiling happy. The youngest flew to the house, the man shot, the wings fell off, the girl fell off. She agreed to marry, the house is rich. My husband went to see what happened to his older sister. There are two bears playing there. One has a front part from a person (like a person), and the back is from a bear. "Whoever has a human head must be his wife's sister." I went into the house and saw a girl at the door without a lower part, one back torn off. And a man sits in the middle of the place of honor. The house is full of wild deer meat and dried fat. "Take dried meat for your little sister," the girl suggests. The youngest's husband refuses gifts to the brothers, but agrees to tell his wife how her sister lives. Younger: I'm the one who tore half off and the devils ate half. Husband: Apparently, the bear connected the back of his sister to hers and she became like a bear. Their backs were bearish and the front parts were human. They saw me and ran to their house. When we entered our house, they became real people. I went to their house, she sat half by the door, and her husband was a young man, a real man. The youngest is afraid to visit the eldest. A few years later, the husband went back to his wife's younger sister. There is no one in the house, the fire is a little burning. The owners have returned - just human beings. My husband went hunting and never came back. His wife remembered him once saying that he would go overseas to look for people who killed his parents. He sailed to the island, put his spear into the seal, which left with his spear. It goes on top of the water, does not fall under water. He sees lots and lots of houses. A bald man came out of one: "What kind of person? Mergen manga or what?" {From this episode, the man's name is Manga}. A person carries a bunch of firewood. The manga lay in the middle of a tree split by thunderstorms. When the man started stepping over it, Manga squeezed him (killed) him. He put on his clothes and pretended to be a lumberjack worker. People: There'll be a wedding tomorrow. Many people came to marry the girl, all dressed in silk clothes. Healthy, tall. They try to move a stone the size of a deer, they try, they suffer, they can't. Manga's relative recognized him. The manga picked up a rock, threw it to a relative, who caught it and threw it back. He says that since they were little, the rock has grown. Whoever will pick it up is a good person. When the party was over, a relative married a neighbor's daughter and took him away, and Manga sailed in a boat to those who ate his parents and killed everyone. These people scooped water out of the bay, Manga home in shallow water, as if skiing, the proposed girl did not take the proposed girl. But when he got home, there were already two wives there, and he started living with them]: Sam et al. 2012:134-143.

SV Asia. Russified, probably, tundra Yukaghirs (from the Russian-speaking mestizo, p. Perekhodsk, Nizhnekolymsky District) [when Yagishna comes, old parents run away, leaving their little daughter; Y. catches old people, finds a girl in the house, agrees not to kill her yet, if she watch the fire; does not tell you to open a closet sealed with crap; the girl finds half-alive deer in it, takes it outside, throws a rope across the river, crosses it to the other side herself and drags deer; Y. asks how she crossed; Drank the river; she drinks, the river does not dry out; I ask why the girl held on to the water from the cliff; To the tree, then to the bush, then to the bush, then to blade of grass; blade of grass breaks, I burst, carried downstream; shouts to the girl: My head on your cup, My fingers on your forks are thick, My joints are on the stands, My ass on your foot, Mine your feet on stone trees, My back and bone on a chipboard]: Bogoras 1918, No. 3:112-114; Chukchi (Western 1958) [parents died, sisters went to get water, the youngest brought home a stone god, a boy; he cried, she breastfed him; the eldest told him to leave the boiled meat for him to migrate; the sisters ran to the river, on the other side, the beetle catches lice in torbas, the stone god chases; the beetle grandmother stretches out her leg, the sisters cross to the other side; God also asks to sweep her leg, there is a beetle in the middle of the river He throws him into the river, he drowns; in front of the sisters there is a fork in five roads: freezing, spirits, dead, swampy, people, the youngest insisted on following the road of the dead; the eldest persuaded them to let them go: we let's bring you some delicious people; sisters came back and came to people]: Portugalov 2009:35-37.

The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate: Curtis 1976 (20) (Kotzebue) [mother was fishing, left the baby unattended for the whole day; at night he bit off her chest; people are running across the river; the foreman forgot the knife, the quick-footed orphan agrees to run after him, grabs a knife, runs away from the monstrous baby; the man puts a spear across the river, throws off the baby when he steps on him; since then, fish of the same species the sternum is in the shape of a baby]: 259-260; Frost 1971 (Kotzebue) [the mother ignored the baby for the whole day; at night he bit off her chest; people run across the river; the foreman forgot the knife, fast-footed orphan agrees to run after him, grabs a knife, runs away from the monstrous baby; the man puts a log across the river, throws off the baby when he steps on him; the head of a siren appears from the water; says that takes the baby for himself, that everyone who tries to swim across this body of water will die; people regularly disappeared there; so they sacrificed many items, they no longer drowned]: 53-61; Hall 1975, No. PM79 ( Noatak) [husband and wife forget to grease the baby's lips; at night he devours parents; the woman's parents and other villagers run away; the old man forgets the knife, promises his daughter to the one who brings it; one person agrees; a knife grabs, the baby is next, getting closer; two trees lie like a bridge over the river; a man runs across to the other side; when a baby is on the bridge, people destroy it; the baby swallows nelma; since then, these fish have a hill under their jaw, with that baby in it]: 291-293; Lynch 1995 (Kotzebue) [the mother forgot to feed the baby; at night he bit off her chest; people run across the lake with a log through the water ; one person forgot a jasper knife, an orphan agrees to run after it, grabs a knife, runs away from the monstrous baby; manages to shove a log, the baby falls into the water; he is picked up by a woman who is below fish; hunters die in this lake; then it is sacrificed, after that people do not disappear; people establish a new village, this is the current village of Kotzebue; an orphan becomes a good hunter]: 27-30; central Yupik (Nunapitchuk, lower reaches of Kuskoquim) [Yaqutgiarcaq ("Birdie") is the eldest of three children, she has a younger sister and brother; her sister says that their parents call them, they leave in a boat, but N. all picks cranberries; when the sisters go out to the river, the parents are already gone; they eat the fish head they have thrown; the father's skewer replies that the parents have gone this way; the sisters come to the dugout, in she is an old woman, she asks to look in her head; her lice are voles and mice, she bites through them; N. says they need to pee; the old woman suggests doing it in her pot, hand, ears, mouth, N. every time replies that they do not do this; the old woman ties a rope to them, lets them out of the dugout; the sisters tie a rope to a stump, run to the river; ask two Cranes to stretch their legs across the river, for which they they will paint them with ocher; Cranes stretch out their legs, children cross them; respond to a cannibal running on all fours who have crossed on two shells (clam sells), two pieces of birch bark, divided in half a blade of grass; every time the cannibal falls into the water; the sisters ask the Cranes to stretch out their legs, then remove them when the cannibal is in the middle of the river; the cannibal drowns, their mouse spits up; sisters paint the Cranes legs are black, forehead is red, body is blue clay; sisters come home; parents cry, do not believe when son says sisters are back; sisters enter the house, who were in it turn into partridges, owls into owls (hawk owls), now hunt partridges]: Fienup-Riordan, Kaplan 2007:13-29.

Subarctic. Koyukon [contrary to the rule, a menstruating girl leaves her little sister in the cradle for the night; goes out to the potlach participants; a baby girl kills everyone by sucking her heart sleeping and lungs, chases her sister; she crosses a river on a log; the stalker asks how the sister crossed; she shows the log, pushes it when the pursuer steps on it; the cannibal girl swallows a pike, it turns into a pike's liver; a girl comes to an empty village, gropes into the house in the dark, stumbles upon an ogre who has eaten all the inhabitants, runs away; he comes to her fire, eats up a murdered child; she sticks an awl near his head so as not to fall asleep; in the morning she puts hot coals in his shoes, mittens and park; goes for firewood, ties the rope that the cannibal tied to her to the fir; runs away; a cannibal comes up, he is cold without clothes, she hits him from behind and from the front, a blackbird and a snipe fly out, people don't eat them; a man comes up to her, says that his first wife is angry (she is a she-wolf) and he It would be better to visit her here; builds her a house; kills an angry wife, brings the girl to him; they have a son; the husband finds his wife murdered, finds only someone's footprints on a log, which means that the murderer has descended from heaven; makes arrows by splitting fir, making a chain of arrows, it turns into fir to the sky; he climbs into the sky, gives three old women ear pendants, who tell us where the killers went; kills murderers, tears off old women's pendants along with their ears, goes down to the ground, cuts down fir; his son says that he became friends with his older brother, a son from his first wife, who went to live separately when his father brought new; wolf son leaves]: Attla 1983:173-211; Kuchin: McKennan 1965:98-100 [while husband is hunting, wife in the woods gets meat from ceftree (probably copulates with him; the word means insects, snakes, worms, eels); Jateakuyt, the eldest of two sons; tells his father about the mother's behavior; he cuts off her head; the body pursues him, the head pursues his sons; D. throws at I run a stone, an awl, a knife, a beaver tooth received from my father; they turn into a mountain, thorny thickets, a mountain range, a river; accidentally a tooth falls in front, not behind the fugitives; the Swan carries them across the river; the head calls the Swan her husband, asks him to be transported; the Swan throws it into the water, it turns into a big fish; the brothers play ball, he falls into the boat; the owner of the boat invites D. to take the ball: takes him away; the younger brother left on the shore turns into a wolf; the owner's eldest daughter refuses to marry D.; the youngest goes out, makes him handsome; see motive K27], 112-113 [woman brings up a baby found under a tree; he turns out to be an ogre, devours children; Giateaquoynt lays two trees as a bridge over the river; asks the Raven not to let the cannibal jump back when he steps on the bridge; brings down the bridge, the ogre swallows a big fish; now he is the bone that every fish has in the throat]; southern tutchoni [two sisters sleep outside; one wants a blue star as her husband, the other a red star ; wake up in the sky, their husbands are Stars; sisters make a rope out of straps, go down, find themselves on top of a tree; a moron (usually Wolverine) lowers them, takes them as wives; brings rotten things from hunting tree instead of meat; sisters run away; Crane stretches its legs like a bridge; sisters cross the river asking the Crane to bend its legs when Wolverine goes; Wolverine sinks; sisters come to mother]: McClelland 1987:311-312; helmet: Teit 1917a, No. 13 [two sisters admire the stars; one wants a red husband, the other white; they wake up in the sky, one under a red blanket, the other under a white blanket; husbands are good hunters; sisters dig a hole through the sky, go down a rope, find themselves on top of a tree; Moose, Wolf and others refuse to help; Wolverine lowers them; they promise to get along with him if he will bring venison; they run; he catches them; they push him into the river; the bird stretches out his legs like a bridge over the river; the sisters cross it; the Wolverine reaches the middle, the bird removes his leg, the Wolverine falls, drowns; sisters go home; then become beavers]: 457-457; Moore 1999 [two sisters look at the stars; one wants a blue star to be husband, the other wants a red star; wake up in the sky with their husbands ; they dig a hole, weave a rope, go down from the sky to the top of the tree; animal people pass by, Wolverine is the last, lets the girls down; while he hunts, they run away; ask for a long-legged bird (snail yellow-legged, Tringa flavipes, less yellow legs) stretch his leg through the canyon, cross to the other side; Wolverine pursues, calls Ulita "skin leg", he throws him into the river]: 358-167; dogrub [the giant Naba-Cha caught and brought a young Cree named Ithenhiela ("with-foot-caribou"); an elk named Hottah lived in N.'s home; ordered him to take a lump of land, a bunch of moss, a stone, a branch; carried I. on his back to Big Water in the west, where the good Nesnabi lived; tells you to throw objects behind, hills, swamp, Rocky Mountains appear; H. carries the young man across the Yukon; when he carries the giant, he drops, he drowns; I. comes to a man who gives him 7 arrows, tells him not to go after them in a tree if the arrows are stuck; a young man climbs into the sky; two blind old women have taken the magic belt of the heavenly leader Hatempka ; a young man comes to old women; copper blades protrude from their backs; he throws a bag of feathers between them; old women pierce each other; the young man returns the belt to the chief, marries his daughter; the northern lights there are "I. fingers"]: Bell 1903, No. 3:80-84 (paraphrase in Clark 1960:99-103); chipewayan [a man sees his wife coming to a tree, calling her husband, copulating with crawled snakes; he calls the serpent in her voice kills, lets his wife eat their boiled blood; she runs to the tree, comes back, attacks her husband; he cuts off her head, runs away; asks the grasshopper woman to transport him across the river; she stretches out her leg like a bridge; The head chases her husband, asks him to stretch out his leg for her as well; the Grasshopper throws his Head into the water, the Head disappears]: Petitot 1886, No. 14:407-410.

NW Coast. Bellacula [a girl steps into bear crap, scolds bears; a man comes up, tells her to relieve her need; she puts copper jewelry under her; he doesn't believe, he really demands says her excrement smells worse than any animal; takes her as his wife; he is the son of a Black Bears chief; gives her lamb, then says it was human; winter goes by like one night; in spring the husband says that his wife's brother will shoot him, tells him to make a blanket out of his skin; the brother goes in front, the sister is called to carry the skin, becomes a bear if he wants; in the village he asks for bone needles, every time says that the old one is broken; the younger sister sees her inserting needles into her skin's jaw instead of her teeth; the woman turns into a bear, kills her mother, tortures her sister (something sexy, Latin); takes out her heart and lungs, hides it in his hands; brother comes, younger sister tells the Bear to shoot in the palm of her hand, she falls dead; brother and sister run, put a log through a deep ravine; Bear comes to life, chases, falls off a log; brother and sister come to the village; Toadstool and Loon send a boat for the Bear, tell crayfish and worms to bite her, she falls into the river, crayfish and worms eat her; brother tells my sister should take one road, go the other by himself, if the roads come together, they will get married; that's what happened]: Boas 1898:111-114.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [see motive L1, L14; a girl marries a Bear; her younger brother kills a Bear; she turns into a Bear herself, kills everyone but her younger sister and younger brother; they join Married to each other, the Bear is killed twice, she comes to life each time; they flee; Loon and Diver transport them across the river; the Bear chases the fugitives; transporting her, Loon and Diver break boat, fish eat Bear]: Farrand 1900, No. 8:19-23; shuswap; halkomel (Lower Fraser River): Boas 1895, No. III.3 [Woodpecker and Eagle brothers, both have a son; Woodpecker's wife has teeth in her vagina; Coyote she envies young men, turns her wife's excrement into waterfowl; she lures the sons of Woodpecker and Eagle far upstream; they go to heaven, they are taken prisoner; various animals and birds they try to climb to heaven in vain; Woodpecker's wife's uncle makes a chain of arrows, it turns into a path; the first ancestors climb into heaven, fight against celestials, free young men, return; destroy a chain of arrows before the Snail descended; she jumps, has been boneless and slow ever since; the Eagle and Woodpecker cut the supports of the Coyote house, the house collapsed, the Coyote and his wife died; the Bear decided to avenge the Coyote; turned into a dog, came to the Robin Girl, hid; the eldest sons of Eagle and Woodpecker came to marry her, the Bear killed them; the same with the middle sons; the younger ones grow up, train; Raccoon helps them get between a Quartz woman and a Grizzly woman (they start fighting); Grizzly, then Lynx, chases them; a seagull carries them in a boat across the river; when the Grizzly approaches, the Seagull does it in the boat hole, water draws in, Grizzly dies from cold water before the boat docks on the opposite bank; there are two blind women, Duck and Partridge, they are Norka's wives; he decided to help them; pretended dying, he ordered himself to be buried; when he learned that only the Partridge was loyal to him, he left only her wife; Bison was the guardian of the entrance to the world of the dead; he missed the son of the Woodpecker and the son of the Eagle; the dead play; those who came they took the brothers, brought them home, they came to life; Eagle's son married a thrush woman; she cheated on him with his uncle Woodpecker; Eagle's son left; at the festival she spat in baskets, which were filled with berries; Salmon came with his slave, the Thunderbird; he stole Thrush and put them in a boat; Woodpecker and Mink took the form of salmon, climbed to the top of the Thunderbird; he let the Thrush peel them; the salmon all fell off the shelf , became so dirty that Thunderbird told them to be thrown away; Thrush went into the water, the salmon became Mink and Woodpecker, took it away; etc.]: 30-34 (=2002:111-121); Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [from Grizzly's older sister daughters, the youngest Black Bear has a daughter (World Cup), a son and a young son; World Cup daughter notices her mother's chest in her aunt's cauldron; Grizzly replies that the World Cup will come later; World Cup children lead Grizzly children to swim, they drown (grizzly they don't know how to swim); World Cup children run away, putting a rotten tree in Grizzy's children's bed, as if someone is sleeping there; they climb a spruce tree, the Grizzly comes running, the World Cup children say that her children are with him, ask to open their eyes, dazzle leaving behind what had been scraped off the bark of the spruce; the man carried them across the river in a boat; carrying the Grizzly, he knocked over the boat, the Grizzly drowned; the older brother threw the younger brother's hat into the fire; he cried, the water in the river began to get up; brother and sister ran away, the youngest stayed, the fire remained under the water; when he saw the fisherman, the youngest became a fish, bit off (tore it off?) hook; when he becomes a man, he comes to the fisherman, he complains that the hook is missing, the boy says he has found it; stays with the fisherman; finds a piece of wood in his bed with a hole in the female, throws it into the fire; the fisherman says that his wife went out and burned down; that he is the first man, and the creator forgot to make him a wife; the boy cuts down two women, from birch and alder; the fisherman replies that he wants alder, it is his color ( i.e. with red juice); the boy finished the woman, the first man got a wife]: 258-261; Puget Sound; okanagon; quinolt; lower chinook; clackamas; takelma ; sachaptin; ne perse; clamate; modoc [the old woman insists that her granddaughter go looking for her husband; she gets tired of it, she kills her grandmother; marries Moose; he is married to Kamennaya The woman is afraid of her; they run, the Crane stretches its leg across the river, they cross the river; the Stone Woman is warned to step cautiously; she steps carelessly, he throws her into the water, she drowns]: Curtis 1912:240-242; kordalen [the Eagle Chief has two daughters; he tells everyone to bring him bones if they eat meat; tells daughters to throw bones into the ice-hole, leave without looking back, so nightly; one looks, the bones turn into dentalium shells; the sisters pick them up, go to live in the forest, build a house; ask people for threads, as if the father asked for it, lower the ligaments of the shells; the chief watches them, tells people to leave, leaving the girls alone; they take their shells, come to people who give them boiled blood; the youngest eats, the eldest only pretends; the youngest is missing somewhere, the eldest sails in a boat to Coot (Fulica americana); gives her dentalium, since then coots have this shaped nose; Coot gives her grandson Woodpecker as her husband; she gives birth to a boy, everyone loves him; one night four cannibal sisters kidnap him; his mother goes to look for him, the Skylark teaches what to do; the mother finds her son as an adult boy; assures that she is his real mother; he invites her to jump right in his footsteps, she does it, now he is her believes; they leave the stuffed young man, run away; cannibals drive animals to the stuffed animal, but the shooter does not shoot; realizing the deception, they chase; the woman unfolds her belt, they cross the river along it, she turns it back; cannibals turn their own, but cannot cross them; the woman unfolds her belt again, advises her to cross, filling clothes with stones; pulls her belt, cannibals drown, turn in terns; mother and son live by the river; mother says she will become a robin and son a hell-diver; showers him and herself with shells, so these birds are white speckled; robin will live near people, sing when someone dies]: Reichard 1947, No. 24:165-170; Vishram [the cannibal puts a boy and girl in the basket; they run away on the way; the old man carries children across the river; the cannibal rushes after them into the water, drowns]: Spier, Sapir 1930:274; tillamook [four brothers hunt, the fifth watches the house; an old gluttonous man comes; eats all the food, then chases the brothers; a long-legged bird has the river warns not to touch her sore leg, carries her brothers; they make the ulcer even bigger; the glutton touches her, the bird throws it into the water, he sinks]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 24:112-113 ; the upper coquil [there were a lot of Resin Women (LF), they're tall, 8-10 feet, also Resin Men; the lucky player went to get firewood for the steam room, put it in her basket, carried it to make him his husband; he clung to branches, climbed a tree; she did not find him, but he found himself, promises to go down and lie down with her if she fills her deer skin with dentalium shells; she is does; he goes down to see if he can carry everything away; sends her for a woodpecker headdress, takes the skin off the dentium; she runs after him, repeating everything he screams or says about himself; he is sent a boat from the other side; LJ thinks he's in the steam room, throws it into the water, the ones inside have drowned; she tries to cross the river after the boat, sinks; people shared the dentarium]: Jacobs 2007:140-143:143-145; coutenay: Boas 1918, No. 51 [two brothers hunt; the elder one kills a wild sheep, dries meat on fire, he doesn't like the taste; he cuts, gives and eats his flesh, eats it all himself; the younger brother comes up and hears the elder say that he loves his younger brother, so it will take him two days to eat him; stalks the younger one, kills by hitting his intestines; the older's wife the brother goes to look for her husband, covers his clothes with sharp creams; when the husband throws his intestines, they tear; she runs home, talks about what happened; people leave, the ogre's wife remains with the child; the cannibal comes, tears the child in half; the wife offers to wash the meat, goes out, runs away; talks about all people; The crane hides in a hole by the river cliff; when the cannibal chases his wife, he kicks him with his foot into the water, he sinks], 76 [a young hunter kills mountain sheep, dries meat; sees two slices, eats them, likes the taste; it turns out that he cut off his flesh; he gradually devours himself, bones remain and entrails; three days later, the older brother goes looking for him; the youngest says he loves him, but kills and eats him; this is how he kills all the brothers; the youngest was warned of danger by his guardian spirit; he runs away, people are with him; the ogre's wife remains with the child; the ogre comes, holds the child tightly, tells him to dance; the woman pretends to want to wash the child, runs away; people dig a hole by the cliff, one of them pushes the ogre into the water, he drowns]: 83-85, 273-279.

The Midwest. Winnebago [see motif L5; heads without bodies chase the Hare; he jumps across the river; heads fall into the water, sink; he pushes them, the powder turns into fish that bite the legs weakly into water]: Radin 1956, No. 11:73-74; Menominee: Bloomfield 1930, No. 110 [Deer and Moose live together, go for berries, both have two children; Olenikha is fat, Moose kills her, brings meat home ; puts the Deer in a bag, hangs it in the chimney, says that their mother is left to pick berries; the mother's meat, while frying, shouts to the eldest son that she has been killed; the eldest Deer kills Moose, puts them on stakes, leaves to stand against each other, putting pieces of venison in his teeth; runs, taking his brother; Moose scolds the children; chases the Deer; they ask the Old Heron to transport them across the river; the Heron asks to look for them in his head, gnaw a louse; A deer gnaws cranberries; The Heron stretches its beak like a bridge over the river; Moose calls the Heron dirty, refuses to gnaw the louse; The Heron turns its beak, Moose drowns (to this point pp. 493-497); boys come to the sea; an old man arrives in a dolblenka, asks the elder to see what is in his eye, takes him away, the younger brother stays on the shore; the old man gives his daughter to the young man as his wife ; wife teaches how to stay alive; father-in-law and son-in-law hang moccasins in the winter forest to dry; son-in-law replaces them, father-in-law throws theirs into the fire; son-in-law comes home first, and his wife and his wife return to where left the younger brother; the older one meets the younger one when he carries the bear; now he is a strong man; the brothers stay together]: 493-501; Hoffman 1896 [the old woman throws the ball, the boy follows him, comes to her; she tells him to fast for strength; gives him a ball that will carry him across the river; sends him to steal gold and the magic bridge from the Villain; the boy crosses the river, in the Villain's house he turns into a weak child; a boiling pot does not harm him; he pours boiling water on the Villain's maid, burns his house; steals a magic bridge, puts it across the river; the Villain and the Water Spirits step on him; he removes the bridge, his opponents fall into the water, die]: 223-228; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II14 [see motif F34; a woman has a bear lover; her husband kills her, buries her under the hearth; a dead mother chases her sons; abandoned the sharpener turns into a mountain, the awl into many awls; the crane asks to remove his lice; these are toads; the young man bites through cranberries; two Cranes stretch their necks like a bridge; the mother refuses with disgust bite through toads; cranes remove their necks, she sinks; see motif K27]: 364-366; Western Forest Cree [husband notices that the wife wears clothes decorated with shell beads and when she returns, she wears them simple clothes; watches, sees her approach a tree, knocks on the bark, calls her "husband", a snake crawls out to her; at home, the hunter sends his wife to bring prey, puts on her dress and jewelry, calls the snake to do so with a signal, she cuts off her head, cooks meat; gives two sons amulets that can be used to create obstacles in the path of the pursuer; the wife returns without finding the prey left; the husband says that cooks her lover's meat, cuts off her head, rises to the sky, turns into a star; the children hide in the underworld; the wife's head asks objects where the children have taken refuge; a knife, a cape, a pot, a skin the bison is silent, a pebble from under the skin shows where the children have run; the elder carries the youngest, throws the first pebble (fire, the head is burned, but passes), then a thorny bush (a monstrous snake paves the way under thorns), rocks (a monstrous beaver gnaws); the fourth amulet falls in front of the boys, a stormy river appears, another snake carries the boys to the opposite bank; transporting head, throws it into the water; the eldest son tells her to become a sturgeon; the older brother is Wesakitchak; he was taken away by a giant; the younger brother was left alone, turned into a half-wolf, killed by a monstrous sturgeon - his ex mother; V. married the giant's daughter; he and his daughter could not destroy him; Kisemanitou sent a flood because people went bad, saved V.; created a new pair of people out of clay]: Vandersteene 1969:44-48; Western Swamp Cree: Brightman 1989:9-13 (Stone Cree) [The hunter's wife leaves all day long, telling the children she's for firewood; housework is not done by the time her husband returns; sons they say that the mother meets snakes; the husband goes, cuts off the snake's head, brings it into the house; runs away; gives the sons an awl, flint, a towel (?) , tells me to run; the wife finds the head of a snake, goes to the forest, finds the body of a snake; chases her husband, they go up to the sky, she kills him, he turns into the Big Dipper (that's the way she killed him up in the air, that's where the Dipper now); the husband managed to cut off his wife's head; the head is chasing the children; they throw an awl, prickly thickets appear; the head promises two snake-like creatures, worms to become them wife, if they make a move underground; makes her way, pursues sons again, they throw flint, fire behind; she promises marriage again, overcomes the barrier; Wisahkicahk throws a third the object, it falls in front, turns into a river; the Swan carries them, tells them not to touch his neck; the head touches his neck, the Swan throws it off, it turns into a sturgeon], 59-60 [the woman meets the Serpent; the husband He kills him, makes snake blood soup, gives it to his wife, explains what she ate; she runs to a tree, finds a decapitated Snake; her husband cuts off her head, she chases him; he runs on water, his head sinks; children ran away earlier]; Eastern Cree [the cannibal devours the family, fattens two little boys to eat later; the eldest makes a hole in the ground with his mother's awl, goes through it, carrying him to the younger one's back; throws a piece of wood, a rag, a stone, they turn into a forest, a rosehip thicket, a huge boulder; the Walrus transports the brothers across the lake; when he transports the ogre, warns him not to move and don't touch a sensitive spot on his neck; the cannibal moves, the Walrus throws him into the water, he sinks]: Skinner 1911:88-89; the Marsh Cree (Albany) [the cannibal eats the family, fattens the family, fattens two little boys to eat later; the eldest makes a hole in the ground with his mother's awl, walks through it, carrying the youngest on his back; squeezing through the hole, the youngest hurts his cheek; the eldest throws a piece of wood, a rag, a stone, they turn into a forest, rosehip thickets, a huge boulder that blocks the hole; the Walrus transports the brothers across the lake; tells them to warn if Thunder appears; tells them not to let them in arrows into the water, and if you fall into the water, do not reach it; when transporting the ogre, warns him not to move or touch a sensitive area around his neck; the cannibal moves, the Walrus drops him into the water, he sinks; his older brother's arrow falls into the water; Wemishus invites him to come and pick it up; takes him in a boat, the youngest stays ashore, he is raised by two polar bears; V. gives the elder brother to daughter's husband; always kills sons-in-law; V. leads his son-in-law to collect bird eggs; on the way there are interpreting rocks; the young man slips, V.'s head is crushed, but he makes it whole again; takes his son-in-law to the island collect birds' eggs, sails away in a self-propelled boat; the young man puts on the skin of a seagull, flying over the boat, defecates on V.'s head, flies back before his father-in-law; V. is surprised that his grandchildren shoot arrows, feathered seagulls; his father-in-law takes him to the winter forest; at night he wants to push his moccasins and knee pads into the fire; the young man replaces them in advance; his father-in-law smears his feet with charcoal as if he were wearing shoes, but freezes in the forest turns into a juniper; the young man finds his younger brother; reminds of a scar on his cheek, the younger believes that the elder is in front of him; lets go of his bear servants]: Skinner 1911:88-92; northern Ojibwa ( Sandy Lake) [see motive L35; the wife is cheating on her husband, he cuts off her head; throws her body into the sky; the head kills him, stalks his sons; they throw their father's bone awl, sharp stone, flint, beaver tooth, stone chisel; objects are pressed into obstacles, chisel into the river; Toadstool agrees to transport the Skull across the river, tells not to touch the sore spot on the neck; The skull touches, dumped into the water; sons they break it with a stone, it drowns]: Ray, Stevens 1971:48-52; the northern solto [see motive L5; the wife is cheating on her husband, he cuts off her head, leaves; the head chases her sons; the elder throws a needle, the comb; the head stays at the needle, the comb turns into a mountain; the Swan carries the brothers across the river, warns him not to sit on his neck, there is an ulcer; the head promises the Swan to be his sexual partner, if he carries it; she grabs his neck, he dumps it into the water; it sinks, turns into a sturgeon]: Skinner 1911:168-169; Eastern Ojibwa: Laidlaw 1915, No. 7 (Southern Ontario)] [hunter notices that his wife is embellished; the eldest son tells him that every time he goes hunting, his mother also leaves home; the hunter watches his wife; sees her come to the tree, knock, a handsome man came out of there; when he returned home, the hunter taught the children (both boys) what to do; when his wife returned, her husband killed her, burned her body; said to the children: if there is a red sunset, it means that her mother's lover killed her; when the children saw the red sunset, they ran; the mother (i.e. her spirit?) pursues; they threw a pebble (mountain), a thorn (thorny thickets), an awl (many awls pointing upwards); the mother overcame everything; by the river, the children asked a large snail to transport them to the other side; that stretched out and they crossed; when the stalker asked for the same thing, the snail clenched in the middle of the river and the woman drowned; the brothers settled by the lake; a man in the boat swam up; asked the younger one to shoot, the arrow fell into the boat; asked the elder to pick it up and sailed away with him; kept it in his house; once offered to roll down the mountain in a sleigh; the young man refused to sit in front, sat behind; the sleigh rides on stumps and stones, The young man picked up a stone and killed a man; came to where he left his younger brother; he turned into a wolf (or half a wolf); this is how wolves appeared]: 6-7; Radin, Reagan 1928, No. 40 (southeast Ontario) [ the hunter returns empty-handed; his wife's lover supplies her with meat; one day her daughter brings meat to her father; he cuts off his wife's head, gives her son and daughter an awl and flint, rises to heaven; the mother's head stalks children; they throw an awl and flint, creating a forest, a big fire; the Kingfisher agrees to transport the children across the lake if they remove his lice; when he carries his head, he pushes it into the water ]: 142-143; chippewa [an old man lives with eight sons; a fat boy comes, an old man leaves him; a young woman comes, says her parents are dead; brothers notice that she does not eat anything; stays alone at home, pretending to be sick, finds a human hand in her bag; the woman is sent for the dead deer, the old man and brothers leave; the fat boy guides them to the river, through which the pursuer will not cross; he will make the shore swampy, place thorns in the woman's way; they cross the river, the old man makes it wide, two pelicans at the waterfall will help; the woman asks the pelican moves her, hurries her, he throws her into the waterfall; Winabojo catches the corpse, pretends that the woman has just passed out, talks to her, then cuts off her head and leaves]: Densmore 1929b: 101 -103; ojibwa? (The origin of the text is not specified, but it mentions Lake. Upper) [two brothers finally decide to tell their father that a lover has been coming to their mother for many years; the father kills her, buries her in the ashes of the hearth; the mother's skull pursues her sons; the crane puts its neck like bridge over the waterfall; tells you not to step on a sore spot at the back of his head; young men cross, the Skull steps on the back of the Crane's head, which dumps the Skull into the water; the brains turn into sturgeon caviar ( the origin of sturgeon)]: Schoolcraft 1999:237-239; Steppe Cree: Ahenakew 1929 [see motif L5; wife cheats on her husband, he cuts off her head; tells the eldest son to take the youngest on his back and run; gives they have an awl, flint, a beaver's tooth; runs away to heaven, her Body chases him; her head chases sons running west; objects they throw turn into a barbed fence, a mountain (a huge worm gnaws through head gorge), a wall of fire, a river; two old bitch men stretch their necks like a bridge, brothers cross it; their heads step, causing pain to the Picks, they throw it into the river; the elder brother throws it at it stone, Head turns into sturgeon]: 309-313; Bloomfield 1930, No. 1 [see motif J35; wife has a snake lover, husband kills him, cuts off his wife's head; Head chases his two sons; older brother Visakechi carries (first?) under the ground, the youngest is on the back; they throw objects (not named), they turn into fire, a thorny forest, a mountain; the Serpent makes a passage for the Head through the forest; a beaver with iron teeth gnaws through the mountain; the fourth object falls in front of the brothers, turns into a river; the Serpent carries them; when it carries the Head, it says it swims too slowly; he dumps it into the water, it turns into a sturgeon]: 14 -16; steppe ojibwa [see motive J35; the wife has a serpent lover, the husband kills him, cuts off his wife's head; the head pursues his two sons; they throw an awl, a needle, a thread, a knife; they turn into a mountain, thorny thickets, the Horned Serpent, the river; the Head asks the Pelican to transport her for the right to have sex with her through the occipital foramen; the Pelican warns not to touch a specific place on his neck; prohibition broken, he throws his head into the river; the eldest son breaks his head with a stone]: Skinner 1919, No. 2:291-292.

Northeast. Naskapi (mistasini) [The cannibal kidnaps the baby, turns him into a young man; he is white, her own two black sons; she says they were born at night and he was born during the day; a real mother finds son, makes him a baby again, kills the cannibal's children, leaving their bodies standing as if alive; runs away; The seagull, although she says she has an ulcer on her back, transports them across the river when a woman gives her a bear fat; transporting a cannibal, dumps it into the water; she swims underwater; a young man pierces her spear; she turns into a beluga whale]: Speck 1925:24-25; seneca [see J35 motif; wife sucks her blood, to her I like the taste, she cuts off and eats her flesh; chases her husband]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 46 [husband and dogs rafts across the river; she jumps after him, falls into the water, drowns; see motif K27], 100 [husband gives the old man fish and peanuts by the river; he stretches his neck like a bridge; the husband crosses the river, runs to his aunts; the wife eats the brain out of her bones, puts pebbles inside, her bones rattle when she chases her husband; she scolds the carrier, he turns his neck, she falls into the river; aquatic creatures devour her; her stomach remains; her husband's aunts catch him and crumble him, finally killing the cannibal]: 231-233, 464-466; mikmaq [two sisters enter the teepee with talking bones; the eldest pees on the cervical vertebra; S. sucks it out, leaving only the bones; the youngest runs; Kigwaju hides it in her hair; the girl goes on, S. chases her again; the Crane asks her how she likes the parts of his body; she praises them; he puts his neck like a bridge over the river, the girl crosses; S. says that the Crane has a curve neck; he dumps it into the water]: Parsons 1925, No. 5:66-68; mikmaq, passamaquoddy [see motif K19B; two sisters run away from the Wolverine Man who wants to marry them; ask the Crane carry them across the river; praise the beauty of its legs, feathers, neck; the Crane carries them; Wolverine says the Crane is ugly; he throws Wolverine in the middle of the river, which sinks; then revives for new ones adventures]: Leland 1968:151-153.

Plains. Sarsi [the man has a wife and two sons; he combs his wife, paints her face, but every time she goes for brushwood and comes back, her hair is tangled, the paint is blurred, the clothes are dirty; he watches, sees her approach a rotten tree, knocks, says that she has come, snakes crawl out, wrap around her body; the husband tells his sons about this, tells them to run, goes to the tree, calls the snakes in the same way with a signal, kills with a stick, throws her bodies into the ravine, one escaped, but lost her tail; the wife finds only one snake, comes back, her husband cuts off her head, she falls into a tipi, her body outside, her husband runs away to in the opposite direction than the sons; they ran to the river, asked the water monster to transport them; he invited them to eat its parasites; they were frogs; the brothers snapped the seeds from which they had necklaces, the monster is happy, lay down like a bridge, the brothers crossed to the other side; the mother's head chased, saw through the frog, spat in disgust, the monster invited her to cross the river, threw her head into the water drowned; the brothers saw the raft, put a board from there, offered to take food, the elder stepped, threw him on the fruit, sailed; he shouted to the youngest not to go anywhere, wait for him; he returned, but the brother turned into wolf; they hunt together; the wolf rushed after the deer into the river, something dragged him under the water; the old man brought his older brother to the river, where there are fish on the shore; they started shooting at them, injuring the leader; the shaman frog goes, saying that she was called to treat the wounded fish chief; the old man killed him, dressed like him, went down to the fish, found the wolf's skin, revived it, he returned to the shore; the old man told everyone to close their eyes until he was heal the leader, killed everyone, returned to shore; other fish caused a flood; the old man on the raft tells the animals to dive; only the Muskrat dived, surfaced dead; the old man took grains of earth from under his claws and teeth, revived the Muskrat; this is how she dived four times; the old man invited the animals to run around a lump of earth, only the Wolf and the Otter agreed; the earth grew, they came back old, the Old Man rejuvenated them; so three times, after the fourth they did not return, the earth is great]: Dzana-gu 1921, No. 4:6-8; blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914 [as in Wissler, Duvall; sacred tube shells - faeces of the leader's son; lice on the bison's head is big beetles; the leader ties the children to the central pillar of the ritual building, paints them black and dedicates them to the sun; the young man kills the leader and parents by throwing stones in their mouths]: 83-85; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. V1 [The chief owns the sacred pipe; other children take away his sinks (from the pipe?) ; the chief tells everyone to leave, leaving the children; they go to the witch; she kills everyone but the girl and her younger brother; they run; the bison's skull is responsible for them; the girl agrees to take out Bison's lice and bite through them; bites beads instead of lice; Bison transports children across the river, they return to people; the witch says lice are bitter; the Bison throws her into the river, she drowns; the parents refuse the leader orders the children who brought them to be tied to a tree and left; a good old woman leaves her dog, he frees the children; the brother becomes a young man, kills buffalo with magic; people are starving; brother and sister feed them; kill their cruel parents by throwing pieces of hard meat into their mouths]: 138-141; blacklegs (blood) [husband gets a web to catch animals; his wife covers himself with incense, goes to A snake lover; her husband watches her, burns a lair of snakes; tells his two sons to run, gives them a stick, a stone, wet moss; hangs a web above the entrance to the house; the wife is entangled in her, he cuts off her head; her body pursues him; they turn into the Moon and the Sun; if the Moon catches up with the Sun, eternal night will fall; her head pursues her sons; they throw away the objects they have received, a thicket, a mountain, a pond form; first mountain sheep, then ants make a passage in the mountain; for this, the Head promises to marry their leaders; falls into the water, drowns; one brother goes north, the other south; one becomes the ancestor of the whites; the other, Napi, creator of blacklegs]: Grinnell 1893a: 44-47; teton (oglala) [a woman summons bears from hollows by hitting a tree with an ax; copulates with bears, then kills, feeds her own meat three children; her husband feeds his wife bear meat to death; her head chases children; they throw a whetstone, it turns into mountains; she asks the snake to cut the gorge; the children hide in a tree; she breaks it, they go down to the ground, sitting in a bird's nest; a man carries them across the river in a boat; the head climbs the paddle, he paddles it, drowns it]: Wissler 1907, No. 6:195-196; arpaho [severed head women chase son and daughter; they put a log across the river, their heads fall into the water, probably sinking]; sheyens [like an arpaho; when the Head crosses it, the daughter destroys it; The head falls, the abyss closes behind her; see motif K43]; skidi pawnee (skidi) [the hunter wants to marry another; cuts off his wife's head, roasts the meat, puts her head on a tree; gives meat to his son and daughter under the guise of venison; the head promises to kill them because they ate their mother; two Cranes stretch their legs like a bridge over a pond; children run across; the head of the Cranes is pushed into the water, it sinks; the children come to the village; the old man helps them, kills their evil father]: Dorsey 1904b, No. 32:115-124; assiniboine [the chief defecates with beads; little girls find them; the chief's brother advises leaving the children alone because owning with beads, they can harm adults; a good old woman hangs moss that indicates the direction in which the tribe left, but the children do not notice it; they come to the cannibal; she kills everyone but one girl and her younger brother; a bison's skull advises them to run across the river; two swans connect their necks like a bridge; a girl looks for lice from them, bites, says it's delicious; a stalker cannibal says lice they stink; the swans raise their necks, the cannibal drowns; the children meet their tribe, but the chief tells them to tie them to a tree and leave; the good old woman leaves her dog, which frees the children; after the bath, the children become adults; brother magically catches a bison; kills a bear, a giant; an old woman comes to live with them]: Lowie 1909a, No. 4:140-145.

Southeast USA. Choctaw [the young man invites the girl to go with him, brings him to himself, where the animals he feeds are attached to the trees; turns into a devil; the frog tells me to run, shows where; the girl swims across the river in a boat; the devil asks him to be transported too; she puts the paddle from the boat ashore, he steps on it, she turns the paddle over, it sinks, turns into gravel at the bottom of the reservoirs]: Mould 2004:97-98 ; teal [the hunter has three dogs; The Little Dog tells him his wife doesn't feed them; he tells the dogs to do whatever they want with her; the wife bit her finger instead of meat, she liked it, she cut off her chest, ate her little daughter, chases dogs; her husband is on a raft, pushed her away, she drowned; a man with dogs settled with old couple; they say they have an evil leader- player; Player offers running competition; Little Dog in human form wins; ball game, Little Dog wins again; hunter became chief]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 4:418- 420.

California. Yurok; kato; lassik; pomo; vintu; maidu; monache.

Big Pool. Northern Payut; gosiyute.

The Great Southwest. Western Apache; Taos tiva; papago; diegueño (ipai); tiva (Taos) [see motive J35]: Parsons 1940a, No. 24 [Apache hunter takes his wife hunting, kills a bison; wife cries, he shoots at her too, bakes her head; sends son and daughter to eat buffalo head; Head hisses: Children, don't eat me; chases them; brother carries sister on the back; snakes (?) Päkeleana transports them across the river, they sit by his horns; P. invites the Head to look for lice; these are frogs; The head rudenly replies that it does not eat lice; P. dives, the head sinks], 24 var.1 [from his wife The Apache chief is a snake lover; she feeds him the best meat; the chief watches her, kills both with arrows, places his wife's head on a tree, roasts her ribs; sends her son and daughter to taste bison meat; Head tells the mother not to eat; stalks children; the chief marries Coyoticha, the tribe migrates; Beaver asks the children to look in his head; there are frogs; the girl bites through the beads from her brother's bracelet, and the frogs fall into water; The beaver transports children across the river; The head tells Beaver that it has no arms; Grab the lice with your mouth! - Dirty creature! The head throws frogs into the water; the Beaver drowns it]: 70-73, 74-76.

Mesoamerica Mountain shelters [thunder lure into a hanging hammock]: Elson 1947 [above the waterfall]: 212; Foster 1945a, No. 1 [over the sea]: 199; chinantecs [people hear sounds inside the tree; Comet, Thunder is not they can cut down, the woodpecker cuts a tree; there are two eggs inside; the old woman takes them; every day she carries food to her reindeer husband; when she returns, the house is a mess; the Sun boy and the Moon girl rush to hide inside eggs, the girl hesitates, the old woman catches them; hunting a bird: Why do you kill birds for someone who is not your mother? The sun revives dead birds, kills the Deer, the old woman's husband; fills the vessel with wasps, they buzz, he tells the old woman that this is her husband's voice; but Luna says he's gone fishing; the old woman is chasing children; they throw the comb, mountains appear several times on the way (the origin of the mountains); the twins cross the river; when the old woman is in the middle of the river, they throw bola de acuyo at her; she falls dead, turns into agouti; many animals emerge from her blood; twins shoot wind guns at interpreting rocks, they disperse; a seven- or double-headed eagle takes people to the rock; twins do the cage, the eagle carries them away; at noon he sleeps, one head is awake; the twins strangle it with a noose, at which time the earth shudders; the eagle's eyes fall out, the moon grabs the right bright, the Sun is dim on the left; The vulture is unable to lower the twins on its back, it will now eat carrion; the Bat is fed seeds, the excrement grows into a tree, twins and other people descend it to the ground; the Moon wants drink; agrees to change eyes with his brother if he creates a source (the origin of the springs); drinks without waiting for the brother to bring the Rabbit Priest to bless the water; he throws the rabbit to her in anger in the face, it sticks to her, is still visible; the Sun and Moon rise to the sky]: Bartolomé 1984:13-16; the Masateks [old woman is pushed off the bridge into the river]: Portal 1986:51.

The Northern Andes. In addition to the rainbow bridge motif, the rest of the episodes are of European origin. Kamsa, ingano [the stepmother kicks the boy and girl out of the house; the cannibal feeds them; the Ant advises to pour boiling water over her and run away; the cannibal pursues them, holding her intestines in her hands; a man dressed in a rainbow kushma agrees to lie on a bridge over the river in exchange for a girl to lie down with him; the same episode with the cannibal; but when she reaches the middle of the river, the rainbow disappears; the cannibal falls, sinks]: McDowell 1989:116-117; ingano (San Andres, Zap. S.H. Levinsohn) [after his wife's death, the father took an angry woman; she smears soup for the children's clothes, says they have already eaten; promises to leave if her husband does not get rid of the children; he leads them to cultivate the plot and plant them there are plants; leaving quietly, leaving the calebasses hanging from a tree, they knock, the children think their father is working; when they run out of food and the fire goes out, the children climb the tree, see the smoke, come to the house; the rats say that there is a witch; the first time they quietly carried away the fire; the second time the girl laughed, the witch caught them, began to feed them; the rat sticks its tail, the witch thinks that the children are still skinny; then decides to cook them anyway; rats help throw a pot of boiling water over her; severed breasts turn into two dogs - Faster than the Wind and Jairo; the rest is burned, but the witch does not matter revives and haunts children, tells them to return their breasts; a man by the river makes a "Voy a extenderme" bridge - {see McDowell 1989 is a rainbow man}); when a witch crosses, he removes the bridge, she falls into the water, swallowed by a snake; brother and sister came to people; one person wants to take possession of his sister, kill his brother; they run again, dogs hunt for them; at the bridge tied to a six-headed sacrificed snake princess, dogs are killed by a snake; princess advises cutting off tongues as proof; after her wedding with a young man, dogs turned into doves, disappeared into the sky]: Weber, Meier 2008:21-36.

Guiana. Varrau [a man stumbles upon a rolling skull; it clings to his neck; a man escapes by rushing into the river; the skull sinks, and stinging ants crawl out of it]: García 1993, No. 93 [hunter I spent the night on monkeys in the woods; the Musimo forest spirit is walking through the woods, screaming, Hoo Hoo Hoo! Approaching the hunter's hut, he says to eat it; he replies that if M. sees him, he will die of fear; M. suggests that the hunter stick out his finger to make sure he is terrible; the hunter shows him the finger of the killed monkey; so he takes turns showing all his fingers, then the monkey's head; M. faints, then leaves in fear; the hunter climbs a tree; a lot of mussimo come, cut the hut with knives, they find only a monkey carcass inside; it is said that the monkey is dead, but the hunter was alive, spoke; they notice it on a tree; their axes and machetes break against the barrel, the gun does not shoot; one calls his relative Jotomo Jaburu, who knows how to climb trees with his feet forward; he climbs, the hunter kills him with an arrow, the spirits devour Hotomo, believing that they are eating a person; they think that H. is licking blood on a tree; they identify him head; spirits leave, leaving a trap under the tree, the hunter falls into it; smears himself with crap, the spirits decide that the game has rotted; in the morning the hunter leaves, sees the skull, puts an arrow in his eye socket; the skull jumps on his eye socket neck, refuses to get off, promises to eat, the hunter promises to hunt for him; asks him to get down while he relieves himself, or his crap stinks unbearably; his arrow is stuck in a tree, he climbs after it; quietly moves to another, runs away, crosses the river; the skull chases, asks how the person crossed, he says he's on the vine; when the skull is in the middle of the river, the hunter shakes vine, skull falls, sinks; poisonous ants rise to the surface]: 299-302; Wilbert 1970, No. 71 [the young man walked along the river, on the path a skull that looks like a basket; jumped around the young man's neck, tells him hunt, eats all the prey; the young man deliberately missed, swam to look for an arrow, hides; his head is chasing, mistakenly rushes at the animal, counts his fingers less than five; again, a deer again, not five fingers; jumping across the river, falling into the water, drowning, turning into piranha, big ants came out of her nostrils], 141 [after Wauta became a frog (she stole Haburi as an infant, made her an adult, he returned to his mother), H. went hunting birds; his skull jumped around his neck, refused to get off; H. asked him to get off for a while, ran; the skull mistakenly rushed for agouti, cut his throat, became counting fingers, it turned out not 5, but 2; the same with a deer; H. swam across the river, his skull, swimming across, drowned, became a caiman], 187 [Kororomanna killed a monkey, got lost in the forest; at night, hebu spirits became hit the trunks with sticks; K. began to hit the monkey's stomach like a drum; one of x. asked him to show his arm, leg, face; K. shows parts of the monkey's body; blows the winds; x. hears a sound, asks pierce his anus; K. pierced him with a bow; x. promises that other x. will avenge him, disappears; K. hides on the Euterpe palm tree; x. beat the corpse of a monkey, thinking that it is K.; he laughs; big eyebrows x. interfere they look up; one stood on his head, saw K.; x. trying to cut down a tree; their axes made of turtle shells, knives made of pods, break; the biggest x. climbs the tree with his feet forward; K. pushes him down, shouting the words that x. promised to shout, the other x. kill him, thinking they were killing K.; K. ran away; hid in the hollow, where the woman said that her snake husband would come; but in the morning a hawk sang, K. said that it was his uncle, the Serpent was frightened, let him go; K. found a fallen tree on the path with the baby in the hollow; it was child X., K. killed him, hid him; the woman. wrapped the ground in a bundle with K. followed by K., walked away; K. replaced her with earth with her own trail; the woman threw the parcel into the fire, burned herself; K. went on the path, his leg stuck, it was an x trap; they put it in the basket, walked away, K. ran away; He threw an arrow into the skull; he ordered him to be carried (in coryum tape, as women carry a load) and feed it; the skull became fat, the bark was torn from weight; K. asked him to wait until he found another bast ran away; the skull mistakenly rushed after the deer, killed him, counted his fingers - two, not five! The man laughs from the other side of the river; the skull jumped into the water, drowned, all the ants came out of it; the other x scoops the pond with his scrotum; K. poked him with an arrow, x. thought it was gadflies, then stuffed K. into deck; K. gave x. tobacco, became friends with him, he gave him a small package of fish, he brought it to his mother, there were a lot of fish; on the way, various animals told K. about his mother, carrying different fruits that K.'s mother gave them (rat - yam, aguti - cassava, paka - yam, deer - cassava leaf, tapiriha - pineapple (skull episode, p. 428-429)], 204 [after the lost hunter ran away from the musimo forest spirits, he came across on his skull, put an arrow in his eye, his skull jumped around his neck, told him to hunt; the man asked the skull to get off until he was out of need, shot a turkey, the arrow got stuck in a tree, he climbed after it , quietly descended from the other side, swam across the river; answers the skull that he had crossed the vine; when the skull climbed, the man swung the vine, the skull fell, drowned, and stinging ants climbed out of it]: 170-171, 293, 424-430, 473-474; waiwai; oyampy.

Ecuador. Colorado [man flees from the forest spirit; an iguana carries him across the river; then carries the spirit, dives in the middle; the spirit sinks]: Mix 1982:98-99.

Western Amazon. Napo; saparo; shuar.

NW Amazon. Uitoto; okaina; bora; barasana; kabiyari; makuna; tatuyo; chikuna; tariana [the hero and his uncle lure monkey people to Pouteria caimito L. fruit tree; create a river; bring down a tree with an arrow; caimans and piranhas devour fallen monkeys]: Brüzzi 1994:230-231; bar [like a Tarian; lake, grandfather, spear instead of a river, uncles, arrows]: Pereira 1980 (1) :254.

Central Amazon. Katawishi? (Lake Teffe) [Yuwaruna's black jaguar wife tried to seduce her husband's brothers; they killed her on the shore, the boy from his womb rushed into the river; one of her husband's three unmarried sisters saw a boy by the water who combed his moths; could not catch it; the father asked his daughters to bury them in the sand, leaving their hands ready; grabbed, the boy cried; does not listen to soothing songs; falls silent when the Owl sings, When you will grow up, you will avenge the mother killed by the jaguars; the grandfather hides from his grandson where his uncles are; the grandson pulls out his grandfather's gray hair, makes a rope, she reaches for his grandfather, he finds out that his uncle is not far away; The uncle sets fire to the house, cuts off the head of the sleeping grandfather, cooks; when the daughters of the victim open the pot, the boy kills them with a club; some uncles did not burn; the boy made a bridge over the river, said that to escape from the flood on a mountain on the other side; the uncles went, the boy brought down the bridge, they drowned; said that he would go up to the sky, he was the Rainbow; whoever does not want to die must answer; at midnight people slept, answered A lizard, a snake, a spider, a cockroach, a scorpion, a crab, a tree that sheds its bark every year; humans don't shed their skin and die]: Tastevin 1925:188-190.

Eastern Amazon. Urubu: Huxley 1956 [a pregnant woman goes to the Jaguars, they eat her; the Jaguar grandmother adopts her two sons taken from her womb; they learn about the death of their mother, decide to kill Jaguars; trees fall into the river, they turn into piranhas and crocodiles; they make an island on the river, fruit trees on it, they build a bridge to the island; when the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit, the brothers cut down the bridge, Jaguars are being eaten by aquatic creatures; because the youngest brother hesitated, two escaped]: 217-220; Ribeiro 2002:210-215 [Maïra inserted his penis into the gap as he passed by the tree because he did not have a wife; a tree swollen, a pregnant woman came out of it, the baby in her womb spoke, pointing the way to her father; asked her mother to pick flowers for him; one day she reached for a flower, she was bitten by a snake, she slapped on the stomach, reproached her son; he fell silent; she came to Mukura's house (i.e. the opossum); he offered to spend the night with him; it was raining at night, Mukura made a hole in the roof over the hammock by a woman, she was forced lie down in his hammock; in the morning he told me to go left from the fork, but she turned right and ended up in a jaguar village; the jaguar wives told me to leave as soon as possible, but she stayed; she was hidden under a vessel; the jaguars turned over a vessel; Maira's son turned his mother into an animal, she ran away, caught up, killed; two embryos were given to an old woman; she began to fry them, but burned her hands; the embryos turned into agouti; the old woman began to raise them; the jaguars wanted to eat them; they became boys, ran away, went to look for Maira, stayed with him; Maira's son offered to steal the forest demon's fishing hook; Maira's son bit off and took it away; Mukura's son was caught in the appearance of a piranha; the demon ate it, threw away the bones; Maira's son turned into ants, they collected bones, Mukura's son came to life; Mukura's son took the hook safely from another forest spirit; Maira praised them; brothers turned into hummingbirds, flew, set fire to the forest demon's beard, his head burned down; the brothers killed the hummingbird {real}, found a human in his stomach; when they approached the wide river, they fired arrows alone in the tail was different, it turned out to be a bridge, they crossed it to the other side, killed many bakers there; called the jaguars to pick up the meat; when they crossed the bridge with arrows, the brothers destroyed it; all the jaguars drowned, because they carried a load of meat with them]; tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915 [throw cassava pestas into the water, which turn into piranhas and water snakes; throw pigs to them to teach them meat; make a bridge over the river in the form of a chain of arrows; show the Jaguars the fruits growing across the river; the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit; the brothers tell the banks to disperse, the river turns into the sea; (var.: cut the end of the bridge); Jaguars fall into the water, eaten]: 282-285; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 14 [build a bridge over a dry swamp, fill the swamp with water, throw straw fans into the water to fan the fire, they turn into piranhas; they throw a monkey to see how quickly it is eaten; they invite the Jaguars to fish, step on the bridge, bring it down; Jaguars eat piranhas]: 137-140; tupinamba [Maire-ata leaves travel, his wife cannot accompany him because of pregnancy; follows, the son from the womb shows the way; she does not give him any fruit, he is angry, falls silent; goes astray, gets to An opossum; at night she conceives his second son; the possum turns into an opossum; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars; a Jaguar eats her, the twins are thrown into a pile of garbage; one woman picks them up; twins hunt for her; show the Jaguars an island in the sea, where they will find many fruits; Jaguars sail there; twins cause a storm; Jaguars drown, turn into jaguars and other cats; twins come to MA, he tests them; 1) walk between the crushing rocks; Opossum's son dies; MA's son revives him, both pass; 2) remove the bait from Anien's hook; Opossum's son is caught, A. tears him apart parts; MA's son resurrects him, both take off the bait; MA recognizes them for his sons]: Thevet, 914-915 in Metraux 1932:135-136.

Montagna - Jurua. Amuesha; machigenga [antagonists are lured into the river and killed with a knife hidden in water]: Baer 1984, No. 4:431; Pereira 1988c: 30; pyro [two jaguars eat Tsla's mother and his three brothers; they grow up in a jaguar house; offer to play by hitting their ears and falling into the water; jaguars fall, their hearts float up into pigeons; Tsla cooks them for the mother of the jaguars] : Matteson 1951:48; marubo [a jaguar killed a pregnant woman; father picked up a boy (it is clear from the following that five twins); they have grown up, killing larger animals, bringing them to their grandmother head, they learn the names of animals from it; they lured the jaguar into the water, he ran into hidden spears, they cut off his head, heart, liver; they met another jaguar, that brother of the first, killed one boy, he turned into a toad turtle; the brothers killed the jaguar, brought her grandmother's head, and she cried; they thought she was related to the jaguars, killed her, went west, went up to heaven]: Melatti 1984:153.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Siriono [while the Month was hunting, Jaguar began to remove lice from his son's hair, could not resist eating it; the Month asks everyone, they don't say, he consistently turns them into animals; hit The turtle, since then it has a cracked shell, a dent in its stomach; guajojo painted its face black, hit the stump, now these birds are sitting on stumps; the porcupine twisted its neck and legs, placed thorns on its back; He drove monkeys and ants into the trees, did not allow them to go down; scattered the animals, they no longer live together; shot them in the turtledove, since then her skin around her neck has been wrinkled; she said that Jaguar killed the son of the Month; A month apologized for shooting her; people saw the Jaguara and its female across the river; called her to cross the river by a long reed stalk (tacuara); when the male was in the middle, people swung the bridge, the Jaguar fell, was eaten piranhas; the pregnant female escaped, new jaguars from her; The month, grieving for her son, joined the reeds together, climbed this staircase to heaven; if it hadn't gone to heaven, there would be no night]: Priest, Priest 1980:8-11; guarazu.

Southern Amazon. Nambiquara [only Ne.àlusu owns cassava; one group of hunters goes to him for another; on the way they meet the evil spirit Haiêhru (Pentatomideo, an insect that gives off badly smelling liquid); he kills them by peeing in their eyes, roasts their meat; only 9 boys and 8 girls are left in Maloka; H. feeds them with animal meat; they ask for dad vento (Anolis punctatus) get a piece of meat that H. himself eats; this is a human ear; children open Calebas H., find their fathers' jewelry inside; dig a trap hole; H. falls through, they finish him off with arrows; they say to his wife, that her husband asks her to bring him food; they make a shaky bridge over the river; when she steps on him, two boys knock him over, the cannibal falls into the water; they finish her off with arrows; come to N.; the fog over the water is the crushed human meat that the cannibal had; the children began to think where to go now - underground, under water? Ne.àlusu heard them, invited them to clear the plot; the children did not cut down the trees, but wrapped them in a vine, knocked them all down at once, quickly returned; N. decided that they were playing off; the children were offended, smashed vessels with chicha, left; began to rise to heaven - boys in front, girls behind (girls behind so that boys would not see their genitals); in the sky they turn into Pleiades (var.: Southern Cross), honeycombs that they took it with them - into the Coal Bag; Inambu (Crypturus sp.) and the lizard Papa Vento (Anolis punctatus) climb too, but they are frightened, children turn them into birds and animals, boys cut off their inamba tail]: Pereira 1983, No. 46:65-77 (=1973:24-28); Iranian: Pereira 1985, No. 21 [husband, wife and little daughter go for honey; expanding the hollow, the husband injures himself with an ax, turns into the spirit of Ajna; the woman grabs her daughter, runs; the sukuri snake bridges the lake, the other snakes form a rope to hold on, the woman crosses; when A. crosses, the sukuri throws him into the water; snakes kill him, sukuri swallows], 25 [the forest spirit Mamsey and his wife call the man and his wife to the forest, kill, fry meat; bring it to two sons animals killed along with the meat; brothers find the mother's ear; they do a trap pit, they make a fire at the bottom, M. - the man falls through, dies; they make a shaky bridge over the river; they tell M. the woman that someone took her husband, left something for her on the other side of the river; they destroy the bridge, when M. steps on it; it falls into the water, turns into a buriti palm]: 110-112, 122-125.

Chaco. Chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 69 [Initiated young men secretly eat eels; a young shaman weaves an eel's spine into his hair; a grandmother looks in his hair, his little sister , says that there is an eel; the old man pretends to be asleep, but hears everything, tells others; the old men throw all the young men into the fire, the shaman runs away; runs away with his grandmother from the village; throws them on the way pursuers a snail, it turns into a river; throws fish into the river, piranhas appear in the river, devour pursuers; grandmother and grandson turn into woodpeckers], 70 [initiated young men ate eels; one weaved an eel's spine into his hair; at home, his sister looked in his head, noticed fish bones; the old man heard it; the old men threw the young men into the fire, the young shaman flew away in the form of a bird; ran together with his grandmother; threw a straw decorated with ribbons through which the shaman blows diseases, it turned into a lake with piranhas, who ate the pursuers; the grandmother became a white woodpecker, grandson of a capybara] : 234-241, 242-245.

Southern Brazil. Caigua; chiripa; mbia; nyandeva; see motive J42. Apapokuwa.

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