K102a4. The wolf across the river. .28.29.31.34.39.

A character hostile to a young man is behind a water barrier. The boy's sister or mother helps him cross and becomes his mistress.

Russians (Tersky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Pskov), Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov), Kabardian, Balkarians, Ingush, Kumyks, Lutsi, Khakas, coastal Koryaks.

Central Europe. Russians (Terevsky Bereg) [the shadr wolf devoured everyone, brother and sister left: Ivan Tsarevich and Marfa Tsarevna; the bull offers to sit on his back, takes the children away; they throw the comb (the forest, the wolf gnawed) flint (mountains, the same), "raft" is a river of fire; the wolf remains on the other side; the bull tells him to be slaughtered; the dog Heavy will jump out of the first blood, Light from the second; make a hut out of bones; And . goes hunting, M. is at home; the wolf seduces her from the other side, turning into a man; tells her to throw a bull bone, it turned out to be a boat, he swam across it; M. pretended to be sick, sent her brother for wolf milk ; she gave milk and gave a wolf cub; then the same to a bear (gave a bear cub); a lioness (a lion cub); a wolf to Marfa: you can't take him with animals; M. to his brother: send animals far away to the kingdom of far away; there the lake, there is a duck on it, an egg in the duck - let them bring it; I. sent dogs and animals; the wolf came out; I.: let it evaporate in the bath, the meat will be softer; the wolf allowed it; the bird to Ivan; quieter than the swamp, your dogs are still they are running there; they just ran; only they began to run back; not far away; close; the animals tore the wolf to pieces; I. found a queen, and M. became a seamstress; hid a wolf tooth in the feathers of Ivan's pillow; I.'s tooth entered head, he died and was buried; the animals escaped from the barn, dug up the grave; he began to rub hard against I.'s head, the tooth entered T., he died, and I. came to life; easily began to rub against T., L. died, and T. came to life; then the wolf cub; bear cub; lion cub; they began to rub against the ground: and the lion cub came to life; Marfa was burned at the stake, shot with ashes from a cannon]: Balashov 1970, No. 64:217-220; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [the old hunter will bequeath don't let your son wash the towel and 7 dogs; do not wash the towel for your younger sister; if you need to cross the river, wave to the other side, a bridge will become; one day my sister sees a line on the other side; he advises you to take a towel without asking and make a bridge; she did so; so that her brother would not notice him, the devil turned into a broom when he entered the house; the dogs rushed to the broom, but the sister persuaded them to recall: there would be nothing to pay for revenge; the next day, the brother suspects something is amiss; he cannot find a towel; the devil advises to pretend to be sick and ask for bear milk; the bear herself gave milk and a bear to boot; the same with the lion milk (lion cub); hell suggests sending it to an iron mill, where they grind in three minutes; brother jumped out, and dogs and animals remained behind the iron door; sister asks her brother to heat the bathhouse (she's damn is going to burn it in the bathhouse); bird: take your time, your animals gnawed only two doors; when your brother went to the bathhouse, the hunt came running, tore the line; brother gave his sister three tubs of water and three shocks of hay: when you eat the hay, I'll let it go; my brother went to the city, where the people are crying: the serpent got used to it, today the king's daughter will eat; the hunt rushed, gnawed off the three-headed snake's head, the brother cut off and hid its tongues; the same with 7- and 12- heads and snakes; the water carrier attributed everything to himself, but the guy showed his tongues; forgave his sister (she managed to eat two shocks of hay and drink two tubs of water)]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:86-90; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya) [the stepmother did not like her stepsons: the girl and the boy; the father took them to the forest; they came to the river, on the other side the old man waved his handkerchief, became a bridge; began to live with him; brother and sister grew up, the old man died; on the other side, a guy; teaches the girl to wave that handkerchief, crossed the bridge; before his brother arrived, the guy turned into a pin and ordered him to be plugged to the ceiling so that his brother's dog would not get his brother; The next day, the sister pretended to be sick: she goes to the Wolf Islands for the wolf's milk; the she-wolf herself gives milk and the wolf (obviously her wolf cub); the bear's milk (the same); the lionesses (the same); Falcon Islands, falcon's egg (same); bring flour from the damn mill; the animals came in, the iron doors closed, only the young man and the falcon stayed outside; hell is going to eat the young man, he asks for permission first heat the bathhouse and wash yourself; falcon: quieter than the swamp, your hunt has already gnawed two doors, started the third; the animals came running, broke the line; "How the lion beast grabbed him and the bear, how did they begin to soften it, and the wolf and the bear tore him into the lepésia"; the sister put the line tooth under her brother's pillow, he died, she threw the body into the water; the falcon noticed at the bottom, the wolf, the bear could not pull it out, the lion pulled out, but the tooth They can't extract it themselves; the wolf brought the hare, he does not understand what they want from him, they tore it apart; the wolf dragged the fox, she understood, pulled out the tooth, the young man came to life; buried his sister on the chest, put two barrels: for tears to hell with him; if there are more tears in his barrel, he will let go; tears were just hell; brother buried his sister with his head and barrel with her]: Smirnov 2003 (1), No. 7:76-85; Russians ( Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, s. Zasulye, 1928) [when he dies, the tsar gives his son Ivan the keys to all rooms, but forbids entering one room. Neither I. nor daughter Elena gives a blessing for marriage. I. unlocks the door, the wolf runs out, destroys the palace. I. and E. climb onto the balcony, they are carried away by a huge bull. The wolf catches up, eats the bull, returns the prince and the princess, forgives the escape. A thin bull appears, takes his brother and sister away, they doubt his strength. I. falls his ear to the ground, hears the chase, pulls a comb out of the bull's right ear with his right hand and throws it to the left, a dense forest grows, and detains the wolf. Ivan hears the chase again, pulls a handkerchief out of his left ear with his left hand, and a bridge across the lake appears. After moving, E. picks up the handkerchief, and the lake detains the wolf. The bull disappears, I. and E. spend the night with the old man, stay with him, I. hunts, E. cooks. The old man dies, leaves his guns and dogs Katay and Valya behind. E. sees a great fellow on the lake, throws a handkerchief, well done, goes down the bridge to her, hits the ground and turns into a wolf. She offers to surrender to him and kill her brother, she agrees. The wolf offers to pretend to be sick: I dreamed that in order to heal you need to get a nightingale, a bear and flour from under the millstone of the mill. If he dies, his golden tooth could kill I. I. gets everything, feels sorry for the crow, the nightingale and the bear along the way, the last two give him a cub. At the mill, the wolf locks I. inside and is going to eat it, he asks for permission to twist the cigarette. While twisting, the crow tells how many doors his hunt has gnawed, she breaks through and tears the wolf apart. I. reproaches his traitor sister, she hits him with the wolf's golden tooth, I. dies. Katay licks the place where the tooth hit, I. comes to life, the dog dies. The animals take turns reviving each other, dying on their own, the bear licks the nightingale, holds a frying pan in front of his forehead, the tooth flies out, falls into the pan, E. Ivan leaves her with a barrel and coals, says that if she cries for a barrel of tears, she feels sorry for the wolf, and if she eats the coals, she feels sorry for her brother. He comes to the city, settles in with an old woman, learns about the snake, the princess's turn to be eaten, with the help of his hunt I. wins the snake. She saves the second and third princess (snakes are torn apart by dogs and bears). She receives a personalized ring and towel from the girls, remembers her father's request not to marry. The water carrier forces the girls to admit that he is the winner of the snake. I. comes with animals to the wedding of the water carrier and the younger princess, the girls recognize him and tell her father the truth. I. shows snake tongues, a ring and a towel. The king orders that the water carrier's hand be cut off. I. marries a younger princess, returns for her sister, she cried a barrel of tears, I. feels sorry for her, brings her to herself, but settles separately. She enters her brother's room at night, hits him with a wolf's tooth, and I. dies. E. persuades I. not to feed or release animals. At the funeral, the animals are released without Elena's knowledge, they lick I., the tooth falls into Kataya, he dies, I. comes to life. Those present run away in horror. Animals lick each other, I. takes out a frying pan, pulls out a tooth, talks about his sister's actions and shoots her. She does not die, then animals tear her apart, burn her body]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Olonetskaya) [the tsar and queen hid their son and daughter in a hole from Tsar Samoyed; he found them, promised to return; the lioness gave a comb and flint; they threw the crest (forest), flint (river of fire); began to live across the river; until his brother's flint, S. could not cross the river; S. did a great job, persuaded his sister steal flint; once with his sister, offered her to play cards with her brother, the loser would be tied; S. ate the bound; then the girl split S. and he became a Russian man, became a Russian man, became good money]: Vlasova 2011, No. 19:50-51; Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsky district) [grandfather and woman have a mill with 12 gates; she took the flour herself, grinded, closed and opened by the hour; she hysterical, the man is looking for a help; the naked promises to do everything, but tells them to give it back, which the man does not know at home; the wife gave birth to twins: Nastya and Vanya; the father gave them a needle without ears and told them to run; said naked that They ran to him; N. threw her comb (the forest, the naked came back for the ax, cut through the course); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; came to the hut: turn back there, here in front; the old man came with with a gun and a dog; told them to serve I. and died; N. came to the river, naked with an accordion on the other side, offered to marry, told them to wave her handkerchief; she waved, he flew to her; advises to ask I. to get it hare's milk; the hare fed up and gave the bunny; N. poured out milk; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, the bear, the lioness; naked: let him go to your father's mill, his animals will remain locked; while he walked, naked with N. weaved three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests I. to tear them; hair I. could not tear; asks permission to heat the bath before death; the raven flies, reports how much The animals gnawed at the doors; the animals came running, tore her naked, N. tied two naked teeth into a handkerchief; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry in one naked, and the other for it; not far from the lake, an underdog with seven heads came out; he was just convicted of the Tsareva's daughter; (hereinafter in square brackets: I. saves her, marries; his wife feels sorry for N., asks to forge it off; N. throws them in the tooth in their heads - they die; animals revive with living and dead water; N. was torn, tied to the tails of horses)]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 43:86-89; northern Ukrainians (Chernigovskaya, Nezhinsky u.) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake he is lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan is crying; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, takes him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed in it; brother his sister and his sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they appeared dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; his sister went to the river to wash, snakes from another the shore asks to get a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask the animal milk; when I. comes up, the serpent turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let her milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before he died climb the ash tree; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [a good guy must bring a bride; someone shouts that everyone in the village will die; the guy goes to search, lies down with his skull under his head; he turns into a scary dog; the guy asks to let him live for three more days; three days later, the bride is brought in, the dog appears, the shots do not harm him; the guy runs, hides in the house; there the girl says that there were three sisters, the father wanted to get along with them, but God turned him into a dog; he exterminates good people and horses; the girl gives a towel to create a bridge across the sea, a whip (destroy it), two chureks; halves of the second turned into dogs Jansit and Myrsit; the guy settled in with an old woman, who became his mother; a dog from the other side asks to steal a towel from the guy, make a bridge; the old woman agrees when the dog promises to become her husband; dog hides under the bed to eat the guy, but the dogs attacked him and bit him; the guy returned home to his bride; everything is fine]: Sokolov, Broydo 1936:113-117; Balkarians (West 1959) [the wife died, the husband looked for one, did not find it, decided to take the daughter who most resembles her mother; the daughter ran away, climbed an apple tree, ate an apple, became pregnant, gave birth to a son, he grew up quickly; deer He told him to be killed, a house would come out of his skin, greyhound dogs from his kidneys, a bridge from his tail, if necessary; across the river, emegen asks a woman to bring him to her place; she does not want to take him as a son, she agrees to take him husband; put her deer tail, emegen crossed the river across the bridge; emegenes taught the woman to pretend to be sick: you need 1) lamb tour meat; the young man got it; 2) water from a rock that opens and then closes (one girl helped to get it); 3) swim in the cauldron (the emegens covered the second, began to cook the young man; the tour hit the upper cauldron, the girl pulled out the young man; the young man killed the emegenes and his mother, married a girl ]: Malkonduev 2017:470-472; Ingush [cannibal Akhkepig ("half a penny") killed his father, mother and two brothers; third brother and sister fled into the forest; the bull put them on his back, went across the sea; A. tried draw in the sea; the bull went out, but lost his strength, ordered him to be slaughtered, his skin put his hair out, his legs hooves down the four corners (there will be 4 towers), his ears should be thrown into the sea (people will appear), two eyes will become two hounds, throw a liver and a heart into the sea (weapons and gunpowder, as well as gold will appear), bile will become a hatred of enemies; in one tower there will be a girl; if you gather to her, throw her kidneys on the ground, she will appear horse; that's what happened; A. asks his sister to swim, promises to become a father, mother, brother (she rejects him); agrees when he promises to be her husband; sister hides A. in her tower ; he rushes with a dagger at his brother; he asks not to injure his body; A. pierces him with a bear's claw, the young man dies, they bury him; the hounds dug the grave, one pulled out his claw, the young man came to life, the hound died; the other pulled someone out of her - she died herself; the first pulled out her claw with a stick, everyone is alive; the brother tells her sister to become a thorn growing in abandoned places; the hounds tore A.]: Malsagov 1983, No. 35:156- 159; the Kumyks [the wolf ate everyone; the rich man hid his son and daughter in a hole under the hearth; the wolf ate him and his wife, heard voices, found the children, left them on the roof of the house; the gray horse invited the children to sit on it, flew to the sea, the wolf caught up with her, ate her, brought her children back; the black horse carried her across the sea; brother and sister live there, the girl goes to the sea to get water; the wolf sees her, asks her to look in the mirror, then he she will fly across the sea, promises to marry; she hides the wolf in a chest, who advises to affect the sick, send her brother seven mountains to bring milk from the old women; the old woman explains that her sister has a lover; tells Walk 40 doors in the cave for 20 minutes, if you don't have time, you won't go out; the young man passes, takes out the milk, but his dogs are left outside the door; he brings milk, the wolf rushes at him, the swallow flies to the dogs, says that the owner is in trouble; they break out, kill the wolf; the brother walled up his sister in the room, promised to let him out when a puddle appears in front of the window, reeds on it, ducks will swim in the reeds; after many years it it happened that my brother released his sister, the tsar married her]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 35-38 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 65:195-199).

Baltoscandia. Lutsie (1893; informant 75 years old, knew a fairy tale from her grandmother, who spoke only the Lutsi dialect) [brother with three dogs and sister; brother hunting, sister to the sea; hell waves across the sea: come here; sister: go by yourself; on the third day he crossed the sea; now all the food reaches the line; the brother went to the healer, she told me about the devil; he will be on the stove; the brother tells his sister to boil water, poured it on the stove: There are a lot of cockroaches; my sister feeds the scalded one in the morning; the next day the hell is the same (hell outside the door, the fleas are divorced); the third time the devil is under a pile of sawdust, scalded his mouth with boiling water; in the morning damn brother: you are my son-in-law, I must heal me; there is a mill on the island, there is flour dust in the ninth chamber, let the dogs bring me, it will cure me; when the dogs go there, the doors shut; the raven is flying, shouting to the guy: you will be sent to the bathhouse take your time; every time the raven screams how many doors the dog has gnawed; the guy tells the line to go to the bathhouse first; the dogs come running, broke the line; the brother leaves, tying his sister; if a tear flows down the belt, then he is sweet to her, and if resin, then sweet to the devil; the boy came to the king, began to play the pipe, the king has three daughters, the third fell in love, married him; the brother went to his sister, brought him with him; she picked up the hell tooth; my brother told everyone: just don't let my sister into my bedroom; she snuck in, put her tooth under her brother's pillow, the tooth pierced, my brother died; my sister asks me to kill the dogs, otherwise the body will be dug out of the coffin; dogs they buried them separately, but they got out, their sister threw them into the water, they got out again, asking the crow, the magpie to bring alive and dead water; they began to dig up the owner; the tooth jumped out twice, killed two dogs, the third took refuge, the tooth pierced the oak tree; the owner revived the dogs, played the pipe, the wife found out; the sister was torn apart by three horses]: Annom et al. 2018:126-130.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [the elderly have a son (he is younger) and a daughter Altyn-Tan; the old man is dead, his mother is also preparing to die and tells them not to go to Mount Ah-Tag in front, not to extinguish the fire - you will not be able to light it again; but brother and sister went; only AT went up to the top, there was a house with a black woman in it; AT asked for fire, but she asked to go into the house first; AT did not go in, ran away; when the children ran through the taiga, after them Hara-Hashta chased, black, with a long beard and huge eyes; brother and sister reached the old woman's yurt; she replies that she will not be able to resist the Aina, refers to her middle sister, she refers to her older sister; this the eldest gives AT a golden shawl: if you wave, the waters of the river will part, you can cross to the other side; brother and sister crossed, XX could not cross and returned; brother and sister set up a house; the boy is studying hunt, asks his sister what the animals are called; three geese fly and shout: there is a baby on the other side of the river, you have to pick it up, he will be an assistant; AT went to the other side, but the child turned into the 20th century and made her a wife; began to live with her in the house where her brother also; XX gave the boy the name: Adygchy-Ool; the white dog overheard XX telling AT to put it in the soup cooked for his brother a fang; it will pierce the boy's throat; we'll eat him and his dogs; the white and blue dog agree to pretend to fight: the cauldron will be knocked over and the fang will fall to the ground; when the fang falls to the ground, it catches fire ; next time XX and AT agreed to bring his brother to a house in the woods, where XX would be waiting for him to kill; the boy managed to climb onto the roof and called the dogs; they jumped out of the ground, bitten to death XX; blue dog: We'll tie AT to the wall, let the bowl be white under the right eye, blue on the left; if AT feels sorry for her brother, her tears will fill the white bowl, and if XX, the blue one; then Adygchi-Ool and the dogs came to the aal; the old men took him to their son; one day the cattle stopped mooning, people began to scream; the dogs ran away and brought blue and white wolf skin; the old people are happy - these wolves destroyed cattle; Khan gave AO the only daughter; when they came to see AT, only tears from her left eye filled the bowl (i.e. she grieved for the demon); AO brought her home; she gave him a poisonous araki and he died; dogs dragged her body to the mountain ; blue ran for a reviving potion; brought arrows in her ear, but she had arrows in her sides, she died; white revived both her and her owner; Altyn-Tan was tied to the tails of three mares]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 16:321 -335.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (village. Palana, Western 1958 Zhukova) [the old man puts a chiruch (fishing gear), falls to the water to drink, he was pressed against the sand; let him go when he promised to give the children; sent his son and daughter to the chiruch at home; they ended up at the kele; they they try to leave on their own; they ask for a deer, he takes them away; the bear is the same; every time Kele catches up and returns; a pot-bellied calf offers to take them, Kele kicks him sleepily, the calf flies to the sky descends overseas; turns into a house; in one room two dogs become friends with her brother; sister sees a kele on the other side, throws a comb, it turns into a bridge, the kele crosses, becomes the girl's lover; on his advice, she serves her brother poisoned food, the dogs splashed a bowl; the wolf gives the young man two cubs as companions, the bear two cubs, the fox goes with the young man himself; Kele asks to heat the iron bath, the Fox tells not to heat it hot; the young man manages to get out of it, the dogs stayed inside, but broke through the iron door; Kele washed himself, it turns out that dogs, wolves, bears tore it; the corpse was burned along with bathhouse; sister finds kele's fang, put her brother in bed, he died; Fox wolves, bears pull the fang out of the young man's body, he comes to life; brother hooked his sister with a fang, burned it in the house]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 137:422-430.