J47B. Two ropes. .19.21.26. (.29.) .38. (.65.)

The character runs away from the pursuer, a strong rope (chain, etc.) is lowered from the sky. A rotten rope is lowered to the pursuer, it breaks, the pursuer falls, breaks. (In all traditions taken into account, fugitives, at least in one option, first climb a tree and only then climb a rope down from the sky).

Yakamul, Olo, Kachins, Bhutan, Koreans, (Ossetians), Japanese (including North Ryukyu), (Huanuco, Ancash, Peru coast).

Melanesia. Yakamul [two friends went fishing; Masalai overheard their conversation; in the morning he called the man in the voice of his friend and got into the boat with him; after catching fish, the man looked around and saw that the boat was empty: masalay ate the fish raw; the man did not betray himself, but asked his imaginary friend to wait in the boat while he sailed ashore for a bucket of fish; told the crabs on the shore to answer for it; saw two sisters in the sky -stars, asked them for help; they lowered the rope; masalay asked him to pick him up; the stars lowered the rotten rope; it broke off and the masalai broke; the ants gathered his body again and he came to life, began to press ants; gone; relatives think man is dead; star people, turning into flying foxes, brought him down to his house on earth; but the star sisters who saved him are upset that they lost him; during holidays still use the products (yams, tarot, etc.) that gave stars; a man who came down from the sky taught people songs and dances]: Slone 2009:100-102; olo [the hunter fell asleep soundly; his saw the masalai (spirit), put it in his bag and carried it away; the masalai lived on the island and swam with the bag on his back; when he woke up, the man cut the bag with a bamboo chip, put a floating block in it, and reached the tree; domestic masalaya saw that the bag was not game, but a block; the masalai returned to the shore; the man climbed the palm tree; the masalai cut it down with an ax, and the man moved to another; so several times; the stars noticed the man and lowered the stairs for him; the masalai asked him to go down; they lowered the rotten one, it fell apart, the masalay fell and crashed; the stars brought the man to his house; the man arranged a celebration, warning that guests only he could see would come; when they returned to heaven, the stars lit the lights; they had not lit their lights before and they could not be seen at night]: Slone 2009:110-112.

Burma - Indochina. Kachiny [mother went to buy firewood, told her daughters not to unlock the door; Tiger pretends to be a mother, says her eyes are red with pepper, her hands are dirty from work; the girls open, hide on wood; the eldest advises to smear the tree trunk with oil, but the middle one advises to make notches on it; God lowers a golden vessel on a rope from the sky, picks up the girls; he raises the tiger in a clay vessel with a rotten with a rope, the Tiger falls, breaks; the older sister becomes the sun, the middle moon, the younger star]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 29:104-106; Bhutan [parents have a daughter Boded; they decided to leave, leaving her: the harvest on the plot is scarce, and there are Shinpo demons around; they told B. to dry the grain, driving away the birds from it; the raven screams that the parents are leaving; B. rushed into the house, but they have not yet left; the crow no longer listens; finally, he screams that his parents are gone; no one is at home, the girl climbed a peach tree to see if they can be seen on the road; someone asks to throw him a peach; she threw it; "fell into the manure, go down, throw it more"; same; "give it in your hands"; D. held out a peach, Shinpo grabbed {man} her, put it in a bag and took it to his house; there is an old hungry dog; whispers: if you feed a little, I will give three words of wisdom; B. she had food with her, she fed the dog, who told her to take three bags of seeds out of her ear: they will come in handy when you run; Shinpo tells B. to grind rice and say "I'm here" every now and then; the louse promises to be responsible for her: let her take her out of her hair and leave her in a spit; when the saliva dried, the louse died and stopped responding; Shinpo rushed in pursuit; B. threw the seeds of pepper trees, a forest of pepper trees grew; then - pine seeds; bamboo; shinpo is about to break through bamboo; the moon has risen; B. asks her to lower her iron chain, not a wool ladder; the moon Acho La La answers every time: wait, I'm still washing; I'm making breakfast; having breakfast; cleaning the dishes; looking for a chain; straightening it; the moon lowered the chain, B. climbed; shinpo asks him to lower the chain; the moon answers the same as to the girl (I wash my face, etc.); lowered the stairs made of wool; when he climbed half way, cut off the stairs; the shinpo fell, fell deep into the ground; you can see a girl milking a moon cow on the moon]: Choden 1994:35-40.

China - Korea. Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 78 [a woman returns at dusk, carrying tortillas to her children; a Tiger meets her on every hill, consistently demanding that she give her tortillas first, then her garments; on The last hill has nothing more to give, the Tiger eats the woman (obviously takes her form); her three children do not open the door at first because they do not recognize their mother's voice, they see a rough paw; the imaginary mother explains that hoarse, hands are rough from work; asks for her younger one; sister and brother spy, see her eat him; hide in a tree in the yard; the Tiger first sees their reflection in the well, then looks up; The brother explains that they climbed in, lubricating the trunk with sesame and castor oil; but the sister says what they did on the trunk; at the brother's plea, a strong rope descends from the sky, and the children climb it; The tiger asks God to lower his rotten rope, believing that he will do the opposite; it broke off, the Tiger fell into a millet field, since then the roots of the millet have been red; first brother became the Sun, sister Moon; but sister I was afraid to walk at night, so they changed; so that they would not stare at her, the Sun Sister dazzled the beholder with her light], 82 [the first wife gave birth to a good Kongjwi, died; her father remarried, new gave birth to an evil Patjwi; after the death of her husband, stepmother tyrannitis K.; tells P. to fill a small, K. - a huge vessel full of holes (the toad plugs the hole); cultivate P.'s earth with an iron, K. wooden hoe (the ox eats the hole) weeds, digs up the field); peel rice (sparrows perform); squeeze millet; fairies lower a rope from the sky for K.; P. asked her to lower it too, her rope is rotten, she fell, broke]: 118-122, 130-134; Choi 1979, No. 100 [The tiger ate the mother, puts on her clothes; her three children do not open the door because they do not recognize the mother's voice, they see the shaggy paw; when they open, the Tiger eats the youngest; the other two asked permission go out of need, ran away, hid in a tree; two ropes, new and rotten, came down from the sky; brother and sister took to heaven, brother became Sun, sister Moon; Tiger climbed on a rotten field, fell into a millet field ; since then, the millet stalks have been red with his blood; options: The tiger tied ropes to the children, when they came out, they tied them to a mortar; the Tiger fell into the well, drowned; the sister was afraid to shine at night, asked give her a day; embarrassed, became a bright Sun not to be looked at; three sisters run, turn into Sun, Moon, Stars]: 27-28; Pak 1991 [a woman returns at dusk, bringing roasted beans to her children; The tiger ate her, put on her clothes; her three children do not open the door at first, because they do not recognize their mother's voice, they see a rough paw; the imaginary mother explains that she is hoarse, her hands are rough from work; the children unlock; while her sister and the middle brother eats beans, the Tiger climbs under the blanket, eats the youngest; the children ask for more beans, the Tiger gives the boy's fingers; the sister asks for permission to leave out of need; in the yard he climbs the willow with his brother; The tiger first sees their reflection in the well; the brother calls out to him, he looks up; the brother explains that they climbed in with soyoil on the trunk; then says what they did on the trunk of the notch; upon plea sisters, an iron chain descends from the sky, children climb it; the Tiger asks him to lower his rusty chain, it breaks, the Tiger fell into the stubble, since then the roots of the corn have been red; the sister has become the Sun, Brother Month; to They did not stare at her, the Sun Sister throws needles at the looking eyes]: 46-51; Choi 1979, No. 450 [a childless woman prays for a hundred days; gave birth to a girl Kongjwi; died, the father took another wife, that daughter Patjwi; the father also died; K. works in the field; the ox came down from the sky, plowed the field, fed her; the stepmother and P. go to the party, filling K. with work; sparrows, toad and ox do everything; the ox brought K. a luxurious dress and shoes; while running away from the holiday, K. lost her shoe; the official tells her to look for someone to suit; the stepmother brought her own daughter, but her lie was exposed; the official married K.; var.: two fairies raised K. sky; P. prayed to be picked up; climbed upstairs, the rotten rope broke off, it fell into the millet field; var: when K. cried, they lowered the rope from the sky and lifted it to the sky]: 193-194; Koreans (Hebei, Funing County, Korea; Western 2004 from a 68-year-old woman, teacher, lower secondary education) [there was no sun or moon; an elderly widow earned money selling sweet buns; gave birth son and daughter (the older one); when leaving, tells her daughter not to unlock someone else's door; on the way back, the woman was met by a tiger; first demanded a bun; then, each time she returned, she ate her arm, second leg, second leg, second whole; the tiger knocked, the boy wanted to open it, the girl asked why her rude voice (tore it off while selling buns); asked me to stick her hand, it was covered in wool; the children hid in a tree in the yard; the tiger jumped into the yard: how did you get in? girl: you have to smear oil on the trunk; the boy is naive: we have to make notches on the trunk; my sister prayed: "O Grandpa Sky, feel sorry for us brother and sister, lower a good rope, and if you don't feel sorry for us, then rotten." The sky was good, my sister and brother went to heaven; the tiger also asked, the sky lowered rotten, the tiger almost caught up with the children, but the rope burst; the tiger broke into a stubble, millet {in the text "sorghum", but obvious anachronism} turned blood and has since turned red; sister and brother decided to become the moon, and let the brother be the sun; however, at night she was frightened, her brother agreed to change; ashamed of people and They did not stare at her, her brother gave her a needle to stab her eyes (rays)]: Bai Gengsheng 2007a: 10-11.

(Wed. Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians: Britayev, Kaloev 1959:107-109 [Aldar takes the sister of three brothers; leaves her to play the harp; the mouse tells her to run, runs along the strings; Aldar kills the mouse, catches up with the girl; the next once she sews ash into her hem to leave a trace; the old woman lowers a simple rope from the tower to the girl, she rises; Aldar wants silk, the rope breaks, he breaks; the brothers take his wealth], 164-172 [The sister of the three brothers goes to play with the seven daughters of the Sun; they detain her by throwing a bead into her hearth, she sparkles like a fire is burning; returning to the extinct hearth, the girl comes for fire to a giant; he pours coals into her sieve; the giant comes to the brothers on an ash trail; the brothers go 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 the tubs with tears (she fills her), throws her a simple rope, she rises; the giant fills her with spits, demands a silk rope, a woman lowers a simple one, but cuts it with 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; in the seventh, a whirlwind rose, took 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]).

Japan. Japanese (everywhere from Tohoku to North Ryukyu): Ikeda 1971, No. 333A [a cannibal comes to a woman, eats all her food, then the woman herself, takes her form, goes to her children; they ask put her hand into the hole, it is said that the mother's hand was softer; the cannibal returns, rubbing her hand with tarot leaves; the mother's voice was softer; the cannibal drinks butter (honey); the children let her in; she lies down in bed, eats a baby; one of the children asks for food, gets a finger; children say they need to go to the yard, untie the ropes that the cannibal tied to them, climb a tree; How did they get in? - After dousing oil on the trunk; 1) she falls, breaks; the children take the living mother out of her belly; 2) she sees their reflection in the pond, tries to drink it; the children ask the gods to lower the rope from heaven, they rise, turn into stars; the cannibal asks too, her rope is rotten, it breaks, it falls, breaks, her blood stains the roots of the millet]: 91-92; Markova 2000, No. 17 [father died, mother went to the grave, told the children not to unlock strangers; the witch knocks, the children ask her to show her hand, she is hairy; the witch shaved her hand, sprinkled it with buckwheat flour, but her voice is hoarse; then she drank a bean broth, her voice became like that mother; two older brothers sleep separately, the youngest with the mother; they ask what she gnaws, she says the roots; they ask for them, they see the child's pen; the brothers climb a tree above the pond, the trunk is poured with oil; the witch tries to catch their reflection with a net; then looks up, climbs the trunk, slides; began to make notches with a sickle; the brothers ask God to lower the chain from the sky, climb the gold chains; God lowers a rotten rope to the witch, she climbs it, the rope breaks, her blood stained the roots of buckwheat; her older brother became a month old, the younger brother became a star]: 71-73.

(Wed. The Central Andes. It is possible to borrow from Chinese migrant workers in the second half of the 19th century. Pariarca, Tantamayo County, prov. Huamales, dep. Huanuco [when hungry, the husband asks his wife where to fry the corn; the children answer; parents put the children in the basket, leave them hanging on the rock above the abyss; condor, vulture {urubu? } , domínico, warak bird refuse to help (children called them an eater of cows (fallen), donkeys, worms); the sparrow descended to the plain where the wild eye (Oxalis tuberosa) grew; they asked for their skunk feed them, he made a fire for them, it went out; he lit it again, ordered them not to go out, not to go across the river where the cannibal Achkay lives; the fire went out, the children came to Achkai; she invited them, cooked stones, mashed them like potatoes, but the children can't eat stones; took the boy to bed with her, the girl upstairs with Martina, daughter A.; the boy screams, A. explains that he is taking out her lice; in the morning she says that sent the boy for firewood; told me to bring water; the girl hears A. telling M. to throw a flower into the boiling water, and when the girl leans down to look, push her into the cauldron; the girl herself pushes M. into the cauldron, finds his brother's bones in bed, runs away, taking them; asks the ploughman to hide them, he hides them under lumps of earth; A. comes, eats meat, calls M., she answers from her stomach; A. curses his bowel movements to turn into M., but it does not work; A. rushes in pursuit; the ploughman whips her; the girl asks the skunk to hide her, he streams into A.'s face; the girl runs to the deer, who hits A. with a digging stick; St. The maiden washed clothes, ordered God to lower the gold chain, he lowered it, pulled the girl to the sky; for A. he lowered the rope and mouse, the mouse gnawed the rope, A. fell, shouting that she would become nettles and various thorns; there have been nettles and thorny shrubs ever since]: Howard-Malverde 1986:6-9 (=1989, No. 1:9-15); Margos County, Dep. Huanuco [when hungry, the husband asks his wife at night where to fry corn; the children ask again; the parents ate corn secretly from them, so the father hung the children in a bag over the abyss; they consistently ask flying birds for help; falcon (cernícalo), pajaros dominicos (small colorful birds), another falcon, galninaso vulture answer that there is no time, whoever is flying will help then; Condor brings the children to the plain, says that the cave has everything they need; the matches are over, the children see smoke, the girl came to old Achkay; when she found out that the girl has a brother, she tells him to bring him so as not to run after fire every time; cooks and eats stones, calling them potatoes; at night, the sister hears her brother's screams, A. explains that she takes out his lice; kills him herself, puts him to cook; tells the girl bring water in the basket; she cannot; A. goes to get water by herself, tells the blackberries, toads, huaychau to raise the alarm if the girl looks into the vessel; they themselves tell the girl that her brother is cooking in the vessel, they say pick up his bones, run; dominico, skunk, gallinazo, falcon, deer answer A. that they did not see the girl (she asked them to do so); Condor replied that the girl was close; the girl asked God, he let him down the gold chain, picks it up; for A. lowers the chain with the rat, it gnawed, A. fell, turned into thickets of prickly blackberries; God placed the boy's bones in a box, left it in the church, ordered not to be ahead of time peek; sister looked in, brother is almost alive but turned into two puppies; since then dogs have been smart as humans, and people love puppies; the girl has turned into the moon, so we say mother moon]: Weber, Meier 2008:117-140; Marañon upper reaches, Conchuco district [synopsis of four versions: A (Pomabamba), B (Chavin de Huantar), C (Marañon upper reaches), D (western tributaries of Marañon); drought and frost destroyed the harvest; parents decide to leave their young son and daughter; they understand that they heard them, tie their children in a bag, throw them into the abyss; the bag hangs on a thorny plant; The swallow is unable Free the children, Condor brings them to the valley; they dig potatoes in the Achikai field; she feeds the boy potatoes and peppers, the girl with stones and dried frog sauce; the girl sleeps with Oronkai (Mulyu-Valka) - the daughter of an old woman; the boy is with A.; when the boy gets fat, A. strangles him, devours him; explains that he screamed when she searched in his head; tells his daughter tomorrow push the girl into a boiling pot, cook the pot, telling the girl to bring water in a broken vessel; the frog turns into a woman, teaches the girl to repair the vessel, push O. herself into the cauldron, put the remains brother in a bag, run; A. devours his daughter, she answers her from her belly; Condor hides the girl under her wing, hits A.; Skunk hides in a hole, streams into A.; Fox, Deer also help the girl; Gorlinka promises to revive the boy, puts his remains in the basket, does not tell the girl to open it; she sees A. approaching, opens it, the boy turns into a white dog; the vicuna gives the girl a golden rope; on it a girl and a dog climb into the sky; A. vicuna gives a rope on which a parrot sits; he cuts off the rope, A. falls, asks his assistants to spread the blanket; her screams echo, can still be heard; her blood turns into a lake, the body into a mountain, flesh into various plants: legs and hands into cacti, nails into blackberries, hair into nettles, eyes into potatoes and ulyuku, teeth into corn, fingers into eye tubers and mashua; ( variants A and D; B names the places where A.'s flesh and blood fell); in the sky, a white dog turns into a Pleiades or the Morning Star; a girl becomes an Evening Star]: Mejía Xesspe 1952:237-242; Caruas (dep. Ancash) [the widow died; left alone, the little brother and sister saw a sparrow with a potato flower in its beak, followed him; Achiqueé lived in the same village, decided to kill the children and take possession of potatoes herself, called into her house; at night she tried to kill the boy; the girl grabbed him and ran; Gallinazo hid them under her wings, hit the stalker in the face to blood; the girl promised him excellent eyesight and plenty of food; the same is Puma and other animals (all awarded); the last is the Fox, refused to help (it will smell disgusting, hunters will easily find it); Jan Jerónimo lowered the rope from the sky, brother and sister got up, they still live in the sky, there are a lot of potatoes; CX lowers a rotten rope and a rat for A.; the rat gnaws through it; A. asks to fall into the pump, but falls on a rock; tells her blood to become rocks, blood dried up the vegetation; this is how the Andes and the sands of the coast appeared]: Arguedas, Izquierdo Rios 1947:130-134; prov. Korongo, north of Ancash depot [when hungry, parents are going to secretly eat corn; children hear, ask for it; parents put them in a bag, throw them into the abyss, bag caught on a thorny bush; they ask for a sparrow, which is too weak, the condor agrees to take it to the pampa where potatoes grow; there is no fire, the children go to look for it; they come to the old woman; at night the girl left sleep downstairs, hears her brother screams; in the morning a girl hears an old woman teaching her son Antuk Tubuk to push the girl into a boiling pot; she pushes him herself, the old woman eats her son; the girl runs, taking her brother's bones , meets St. Virgo; she tells me to put the bones in the box, not to open it, the boy will be reborn; but the girl opened, the bones have turned into a dog; the fox promises to tell the stalker if the girl ran if the old woman will bring water in the basket; someone else if she peels the stones like potatoes; the girl throws earrings, needles, necklaces behind, the old woman spends time collecting them; God lowers a chain and a straw rope from the sky, a girl with a dog climbs a chain; an old woman climbs a straw rope and thinks it's gold; the rat gnawed the rope, the old woman fell and crashed]: Weber, Meier 2008:71-78; Karas, Callejon de Huilas (dep. Ancash) [Achik has a son and daughter; she does not find another child for dinner, eats her own son; the girl wakes up screaming of her younger brother; in a dream he tells her to run; she puts her down his body in a bag, runs; Condor hides it under his wing, hits A.; Skunk hides it in a cave, streams into A.; angels lower a rope from the sky, take the girl to heaven; for A. they lower the rope with rats; those cut the rope; A. shouts, Not to the plain, but into the swamp; falls on rocks; turns into prickly plants]: Angeles Caballero 1990:22-24 (24-27: other versions with Achik, Achkai, Mama-Galya in Tarika ( Caruas, Ancash), Jauja, Pomabamba, Chavin de Huantar, Alto Marañon, Canta, Comas (Jauja), Pakcha (Jauja); no versions from southern Peru); Quechua (Callejon de Huailas, Ancash) [during earthquakes, witches rejoiced - I wish they could always dance; during the hail of fire, they walked covered with long stones; one saw a weaver with oil on his face; said that she had come to eat him; he advised me to close all the holes in the house, burn coal below, he would jump from the second floor, the witches would eat it; when everyone gathered, poured pepper and salt, everyone suffocated, only one slept through the hole in the wall, settled in a cave; two orphans came there; at night the girl hears her brother crying; the witch replies that she is taking out his lice; in the morning she tells me to bring water in the basket; she cannot, the witch goes by herself, tells him to bring water in the basket do not open the cauldron; the girl lifts the lid, finds her brother, puts the witch's son into the cauldron, runs away, carrying her brother's body; the witch eats meat, calls her son, he answers from her belly, she chases; the old man hides the girl in a weaving stark, the witch looks for her, he hits her, the girl runs away; the ploughman hides in the field, beats the witch, tells the girl to run to where the green cross is, under it a source of blood, where she will descend from heaven basket; the girl goes to heaven; the witch also asks, a dilapidated basket on a rotten rope descends to her, the parrot cut it, the witch fell on a rock; her blood spread all over the world, especially through ravines that did not exist before]: Weber, Meier 2008:79-90; Quechua (Ancash, Prov. Wari, Quechua del Sur de Conchucos) [parents got angry with the children, put them in a bag, threw them into the abyss, the bag caught on blackberry bushes on the rock; they ate blackberries; asked for a gallinazo, a falcon, The condor took them out of the abyss; the condor carried the boy first, then the girl to where the potatoes were; the girl noticed the smoke, came to the witch for the fire; she ordered her brother to be brought and potatoes brought; cleaned them, let the girl clean the stones; lay down, taking the boy, the girl lay down with the witch's daughter; the boy cries; the witch replies that she is taking out his lice; that the beard of her vulva pricked him; in the morning the girl hears a witch promising her daughter that they will now eat her sister; the girl herself pushed the witch's daughter into the cauldron, took her brother's bones, ran; the witch calls her daughter, "Rosa!" She answers from her belly; Galinazo, the falcon, says they didn't see, the condor said he saw the girl; God lowered that gold chain; the witch lowered the straw with the parrot; the parrot gnawed, the witch fell on the rocks her vulva's stubble became blackberry thorns]: Weber, Meier 2008:91-99; the coast of Peru (or rather, the area is not specified) [The fox tells Skunk he wants to go to the moon; ordinary and golden hang from the moon ropes; The Skunk agrees to climb with the Fox if he gives him gold; halfway the golden rope becomes normal and vice versa; the guinea pig descends the usual towards the Skunk, gnaws the corn cob, hits the rope, the Skunk falls; this is where all the prickly plants grow; skunks have been living in burrows ever since; the fox does not return to the ground]: Herrera Gray 1963 in Toro Montalvo 1990a: 246 -248.