K102a5. Fill the vessel with tears.
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A woman should fill one or two vessels with tears. (Usually, after that, her sentence must end, or the punishment depends on which vessel has more tears).
Lenje, Tunisia, Corsicans, Ladins, Albanians, Romanians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Voronezh), Western, Northern and Eastern Ukrainians, Poles, Ossetians, Abkhazians, Tabasarans , Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Estonians, Setu, Lutsi, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Khakas, Northern Khanty, Dolgans, (Nanais).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Lenje [one of the most popular stories on the Zambezi; when leaving, the chief says: if one of the wives gives birth to a boy, he must be thrown away; one has given birth to a boy, put it on a bed in reeds, old woman promised to take care of him; his mother called him Kalombe, but the old lady called him Mandu; his first cousin Ngoma ("drum") and her friends hear his song and try to get him out of the hole in the anthill where he hides like a rabbit; they dug it up, brought him to his mother; he came to his father, who is not going to kill him, gives him half of the village, slaves and cattle; he goes to marry the daughter of the rain god; sees an unusual a bird, follows her; meets an old woman, sleeps with her; she gives him the feather of this bird; then the feather leads him along the right road, removes dangers and obstacles from her (excrement; a herd of elephants; a mountain with steep rocks; buffaloes; snakes), teaches and guides him, completes tasks; he is asked to enter different huts, saying that this is the abode of the daughter of the rain god; offers the girl herself; the pen repeatedly reports about deception (the girl's mother herself, etc., take her form) and shows the right choice (which mat is the daughter of the rain god and which are not); he is given wine and food, but these are only transformed father-in-law and mother-in-law, he does not drink and does not eat; the rain god orders to get bark from the top of the tree; the other two applicants fall, the feather assures that M. will get the bark; then they bring the bride for M., but they also want to deceive: the daughter of the rain god in ash and covered with skin, and the maid wears jewelry from head to toe; the pen reports everything; the father-in-law orders her to dig a hole to hide M., but he tells the pen to grab his father-in-law, he is forced to let M. out of the hole; Información suplementaria the same episode when the pen takes his father-in-law hostage, with a tree (M. must throw off), with a bunch of dry trees (the father-in-law himself starts to burn, tells the fire to let M. go), with a hammer in the forge; father-in-law orders to fill the pot with tears, M. asks that other sons-in-law fill the second pot; the father-in-law has to order that the roof does not throw off M.; M. and his wife, servants, cattle, provisions leave; M. gives his pen to his wife and the skin of a wild cat; he goes ahead, she and her companions fall behind; a downpour gushes, but M. tells it to be sunny; when a liar comes out of the forest almost at the target, takes the form of the daughter of a rain god; M. discovers deception, because the imaginary wife does not have his pen; does not believe that she forgot it while swimming; the liar runs away, M. returns for his wife, she is solemnly accepted; after 10 days she says she cannot live here, incest is everywhere, leaves; M. rushes after her, follows her into the abode of the rain god; stays there; in the version of Sera's relatives, if one thunder thunders from one side of the sky and him the other answers, it is the son-in-law who claps his hands, and the father-in-law claps in response]: Torrend 1921, No. 18:97-144.
North Africa. Tunisia [The woman became pregnant and the old woman predicted that she would give birth to a daughter who would suffer a lot at the beginning of her life, but then be happy for the rest of her life. That's what happened. The woman gave birth to a daughter who was very beautiful and named her Sharakat Vuduat. Her son, Sultan Qamar Az-Zaman, saw her and decided to marry her. Sharakat Vooduat had a cousin, whom she loved very much. She told her that she was getting married and her mother found out. She replaced her fiancée with her own daughter. When the prince found out about the change, he became very angry, killed his cousin Sharakat, broke the wall and ran away from the palace. Sharakat was upset about the death of her cousin, then packed up and went in search of the prince. She walked for a long time, then sat on marble. The woman on the other side told Sharakat to shake the rock and see what was under it. Gulya's daughter was there. She asked her father about the prince. Gul got angry and gouged out her eye, then Sharakat went to her middle sister, whose father cut off her arm, and told the youngest that she needed to cross seven seas and seven lands, go through the land of ghouls and horrors and get to a forgotten grave from scratch, then fill 40 jugs and 40 vats with tears. All this can only be done with a staff, clothes, and a piece of ghoul. The youngest daughter gave it all to Sharakat. She did everything, but when she was left with only one jug, she was very tired and asked a black girl to look after the jugs while she slept. The girl dug up the prince, he married her because he promised to marry the one who would be the first to get him out of the grave. Sharakat smeared tar on her face and began working as a maid in homes until she found the prince's house. She broke the first nut that her daughter Gulya gave her, and it turned out to be a beautiful necklace. She exchanged it with the prince's black wife for a night she spent with him. His wife added sleeping pills to his coffee. He didn't wake up, and it was the same on the second night. On the third, he did not drink coffee because the servant asked him why his room was crying at night. The prince just pretended to be asleep, heard everything, recognized Sharakat, they lived happily ever after]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 85v Korovkina MS
Southern Europe. Corsicans [a childless woman finally gave birth, but her son is a snake; when he grew up, she asks him to marry; the mother brings the poor girl, the son tells her to take her back; the richer is the same; from a good family; the wife is happy: at night the husband becomes handsome; warns that if the wife talks, she will have to wear out her iron shoes and fill the vessel with tears before she sees him again; mother asks her daughter-in-law and she confesses; the husband has disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a snake walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts; they contain a golden spindle, a tow, a spinning wheel; the wife buys them from her new wife for three nights; on the third the husband does not drink a sleepy potion, he recognizes his wife; everything is fine]: Massignon 1984, No. 86:190-191; ladins [a noble but impoverished man sees a crow in the forest; he demands to give him his daughter, promises a lot of money; the raven brought the girl to the palace and ordered him to fill the vessel with tears in a day, and the conda would return without splashing the contents, pour feathers on him; twice she could not help but cry; the third time he fulfills the requirement; the raven turns into a prince, all is well]: Jecklin 1874:103-104.
The Balkans. Albanians [a childless old woman finds a snake, raises her like a son; he tells him to marry him the king's daughter; the old woman is lowered down the stairs twice, the Serpent heals her with a magic ring; the third time the king demands to build in the night, lay the road with velvet, come with his retinue; the serpent gets a wife, sheds his snakeskin at night, says his name is Speite, forbids to talk about his transformation; wife says to his mother, S. disappears; his wife goes to look for him, wearing iron shoes, comes to the mother of the Sun, who first hides her from her son, the Sun promises not to eat what has come, refers to the Moon, she refers to the Wind, that says that S. kidnapped a monster, carries him overseas; there the monster brings his wife S. to his palace; S. throws a ring into the jug, the wife finds out that her husband is near; the monster demands that his wife Sh. 1) the house was swept in places, not in some places, 2) fill two cauldrons with tears (S. advises to fill it with salt water); S. pretends to be a woodcutter and a carpenter, tells the monster what he makes a coffin for the deceased Sh. asks to try on, bobs up, burns; S. and his wife return to people forever]: Serkova 1989:21-31; Romanians [stepmother has two children of her own, she demands that her husband save her children from him first wife; the boy heard, said to his sister; they took ash and flour with them, poured them on the ground on the way; the father tied an empty pumpkin to the tree, it knocked in the wind, and he did not cut wood, but he was long gone; children returned home in the footsteps; the same next time; the third time the father took the children further, and the rain soaked the flour and the birds pecked it; the boy made an onion, the sister got a friction fire, they began to eat birds; the fox tells her not to shoot at her, gave her fox; then the same with the she-wolf and the bear; the children came to the palace, there was a giant chained to the wall behind a steel door; he asked for water; the boy did not give and told his sister to unlock any door except the steel one; the sister opened the door, brought the giant three mugs of water, who broke the chains; the sister was ready to be the giant's mistress and destroy her brother; to do this, eliminate his animals; to do this, she asked him to leave them with her when he went hunting - she was bored alone; they locked the animals in a room with a steel door; the giant chased the young man; he climbed a tree; throws the giant's hat, one sandal, the second, each time he sings, calling his animals, while the giant devours what was dropped; first only the fox, then the wolf cub, finally the bear cub hears; the bear broke door; the beasts decided to run like the wind, for if they thought they were too tired to fight; the giant chipped in with a log, but the animals ate him, and the young man took his heart and liver; he told their sister cook; left 9 barrels for her to fill them with tears and left]: Mawr 1881:52-56.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [stepmother did not like 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 his sister and his 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 the dog She did not have enough 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 (same); to 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 allow you to heat the bathhouse first 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 the lion begin it to soften, and the wolf and the bear tore it into the lepésia"; the sister put a line 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 it out, but they can't extract the tooth themselves; the wolf dragged the hare, he does not understand what they want from him, they tore it; 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 down him and to hell; if there are more tears in his barrel, he will let go; tears were only to 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 it apart, burn her body]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Pskov, Pushkinogorsky districts) [grandfather and woman have a mill with 12 gates; she took flour herself, grinded it, closed and opened by the hour; she was hysterical, the man was looking for a help; the naked promises to do everything, but tells me 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 him to run; told the naked that they had run to him; N. threw her comb (the forest, naked came back for the ax, cut through the course); N. waved her handkerchief, they flew across the lake; came to the hut: turn around there backwards, here in front; an old man came 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 his handkerchief; she waved, he went to her flew over; advises to ask I. to get 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 the mill of your father, his the animals will remain locked; while walking, the naked and N. weaved three ropes: silk, hemp, hair; N. suggests I. to tear them; hair I. could not tear; asks permission to heat them before death bathhouse; the raven is flying, reports how many doors the animals gnawed; the animals came running, tore her naked, N. tied two naked teeth in a handkerchief; I. chained her to an oak tree, put two barrels; let her cry in one naked, and at the other - on him; not far from the lake came out to the lake; 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 dismiss; 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; Russians (Voronezhskaya, Bobrovsky y.) [The girl wanders into the forest house, enters the rooms, and sees the Beast on a chain in the third. It asks for two vats of blood, drinks, gains strength, frees herself and makes the girl live with him ("or else I'll eat you"). Ivan hunts in the deep forest. He does not kill animals, but enhances his hunt - each animal gives its own cub. I. gathers a wolf cub, a bear cub, a lion cub, a crow, and a falcon. I. walks into the hut, meets a girl, finds out about the Beast. It sees the hunt and decides to put up. Three people live. I. takes care of the girl like a sister. The monster persuades her to pretend to be sick and send I. hunting to the mill for water and supplies so that the Beast can lock up loyal I. animals there. I. draws water, calls animals, but they're locked behind 12 doors. I. thinks the animals will catch up with him and returns home. The monster asks I. to heat the stove. A crow, a falcon, an eagle fly to I., tell him not to hurry, and report how many doors the hunt has gnawed through. The monster sends the girl several times to find out if the bath is ready. I. replies that one, two, three corners are flooded, delaying the moment when the Beast appears. She goes to the bathhouse, is going to grab I., a hunt appears, pushes the monster into the oven. I. leaves the girl on a chain, promises to forgive when she cries a vat of tears. She goes to another state, stays with an old woman. She is afraid of hunting, talks about a princess who cannot marry: a giant defeats grooms, but she does not want a giant. I. leaves the old woman hunting, tells her to watch his knife: if she is covered in blood, it's time to let the animals go. She comes to the capital city, invites the princess ("her height was heroic, her face was white as snow, her eyebrows were black as velvet, her cheeks were scarlet like cherry blossoms, her chest rises high") to marry him, she agrees. I. fights the giant, he grabs his hand, blood flows, the old woman starts hunting. Animals come running and tear the giant, I. cut off his head, marries a princess. She goes to visit her named sister (she sat on a chain for a year), finds an empty vat, lets her go, and invites her to go to her maid. The girl finds the Giant's tooth in the oven, sews it into a pillow and puts it in Ivan. The tooth gets into his ear, he dies. The princess buries him in a high tower (with the inscription "There is no stronger and braver than the Russian hero Ivan"). Hunting climbs into the tower, the bear removes the coffin lid, the hare pulls a tooth out of Ivan's ear, I. comes to life, plays the pipe, the animals dance, the princess rejoices]: Korolkova 1941, No. 8:45-49; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the widower marries a neighbor; she conditions that he will get rid of his children Ivan and Marika; he takes them to the forest, leaving the deck beating against a tree in the wind as if he were cutting wood; they returned home; next time the father took me further, the children stayed in the forest; they bake wild horseradish, go to bed with their heads in different directions; the bear, the wolf come, are surprised at the outlandish beast, leave; in the morning ash is good bread; on sycamore there is a magic shirt, gun, saber; I. pulls them out, becomes a strongman; breaks into the robber's lair, there is a princess; kills 11 robbers, the 12th pretends to be dead, I. left the body, lets the girl go to her father, leaves; the robber asks M. to bring live water, pour it into the keyhole; the door opens, the robber's severed ear grows back, M. takes the robber as her husband; to kill his brother, pretends to be sick, asks for wolf, then bear and other meat; the she-wolf, then the bear and other animals ask them not to kill, gives them a wolf cub, a bear cub, etc.; the robber suggests M. send his brother to fetch water from a spring between the mountains; they stop at noon, I. took out water; bring flour from mills that grind human bones, open every 12 years; I. is gaining flour , manages to jump out, the doors slam shut, his animals remain inside; M. bathes I. in fresh milk, he is confused, she tied him with horsehair, the robber took his shirt with strength; they gouged I. eyes, threw him into the well; people pulled him out; he wandered through the forest, fell his head into the swamp, there was living water, he saw the light; he bought good clothes, changed clothes with his grandfather; he gave him bottles of water, alone young , the other is old; came to M. and the robber under the guise of a beggar; when they fell asleep, took their shirt, sword, gun; ordered him to be given his pipe; began to play, the animals escaped from the mill, ran, tore robber; left M. two barrels to cry, one to cry for him, the other for the robber; in the neighboring kingdom of snakes locked the water; I. killed him, freed the princess, whom the gypsy was carrying the snake, cut off snake tongues, the gypsy cut off a piece from each tongue, demanded that the tsar marry the princess; at home, almost all tears cried out for the robber; I. shows the king not the tips of his tongues, but the tongues themselves, the animals tore the gypsy, I. took the princess; M. came, poisoned I., locked the animals; they escaped, the Fox brought living water; next time M. locked her verey again, put I. pitchforks in bed; the same; the animals tore M.]: Tales Verkhovyna 1970:232-243; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov) [after the death of their parents, Ivan and Hanna went to live in the forest, set up a dugout; snakes began to fly to G.; suggests getting rid of I.; let G. pretend to be sick, ask for fox milk; the fox gives milk and a fox; the same she-wolf, bear, lioness; then the snake offers to send I. for living (aiming) water to Baba Yaga; around the well 12 snakes; I. tried to approach, but the snakes spewed smoke, I. fell dead; the dogs began to push I., he came to life {we are talking about dogs; usually animals given by a fox, a she-wolf, etc.} act as dogs; forty got water, tells them to return through the sands and rivers, otherwise it will not reach; the serpent offers to send I. to the mill at sea, which grinds and bakes itself; there are 12 doors; I. will come out, and the dogs will be left behind with doors; I. goes to the house, and the magpie reports every day how many doors the dogs have gnawed; when the sister is going to slaughter I., the magpie shouts that the dogs are about to come running; I. asks for permission to climb the oak tree and hang down; the dogs ran up and tore the snake; I. shackled his sister, put him in the cellar, left the tub (ceber): when he fills it with tears, he will come out; since then his sister has been crying underground, her tears come to the ground - this is dew; G.'s tears are sinful, the tree does not accept them, they roll down to the ground]: Rudchenko 1869, No. 50:130-139; Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [The princess gives birth to a son, her parents drive her away, cut her off hands, the child is tied to the back. She wants to get drunk at the well, her son asks her to put her hands in the water - she lowers her hands, her hands grow back. They live in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a bast, but covered with feces"), the snake asks him to drink - buckets of water and blood are next to him, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother enter the barn. In his absence, she comes in, gives water to the snake, he becomes handsome, convinces her to destroy her son - send her for rings, which can be obtained by driving between two shifting mountains. On the way, Ivan enters the hut, where the girl embroiders, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, and by the mountains, the horse orders him to fit into his right ear. Ivan takes out a bandura from there, puts it between the mountains, the mountains stopped playing bandura, picks up his rings. The mother pretends to be sick again, sends her son for snake fat, he gets the girl's horse again, who tells me to hit the snake when he wakes up (?) , she has been "cowardly" for 11 days and dies for 12 days. Ivan cuts out lard, brings his mother, she demands bear milk, he takes the girl's horse again, the horse advises to tie his sword "ear to ear", the bear asks not to kill her, and milks milk for Ivan. The horse jumps 12 miles in one jump, Ivan sees a mother with a dove in the house (a snake turned around), a bird flies out the window, Ivan chases her, his mother asks her son to throw his sword so as not to hurt himself, he listens, a snake takes on his form, kills Ivan, throws bones in the field. He is seen by three mermaids, the girl's sisters from the hut, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, heals, gets up, then speaks (the ability to speak as a stage in returning to life; then it's not clear - something cut off and made the biscuit and ate it). He marries a girl from a hut, kills a snake, puts his mother in front of two buckets - him and a snake - to see who she cries more about - him or a snake. He returns, sees that the bucket is full of snake, leaves his mother]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 158:155-159; the Poles (Spiš, Zdziar) [when visiting the castle, the king treats a smok (dragon) chained to the wall with wine; the monster breaks its shackles and disappears, carrying the queen and warning that the king will find a wife if he fills his barrel with tears]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 422:135.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [the sister of 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 to the giant for fire; 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, mirror, tells her to run; abandoned objects turn into mountain, sea, forest; the woman in the tower tells her to fill her tubs with tears (she fills), throws her simple rope, she rises; the giant fills spitting, requires a silk rope, a woman lowers a simple one, but cuts it with scissors, the giant breaks; the girl works hard for the hostess; violates the ban on entering the seventh room; women from the first the rooms were petrified; in the seventh, a whirlwind rose, took away the shirt hanging there; Aldar's son finds her, comes for the girl; the petrified ones come to life, the hostess passes the girl off as Aldar's son]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:164- 172; Abkhazians [Baghdad sheltered three sisters whose relatives died; the eldest replied that she would make clothes for her husband's entire family from the wool of one ram; the middle one would feed her with a bottle of vodka and a loaf all her husband's guests; the youngest will give birth to golden and silver twins; B. joined the army, his wife gave birth to a boy and a girl, the sisters persuaded the old woman to replace them with puppies, the children were lowered in a jug along the river; B. ordered his wife to be left tied up at a crossroads; the old man noticed two children sucking goat milk, raised them; the sisters and the old woman found out that the old woman persuaded the young man to marry the prince's daughter, whose gaze turns it into stone; the prince ordered to fill the jug with tears, the jug is filled, the prince gave his daughter; the young man's sister is also married; his wife knows everything, told him to untie the woman, bring her to her; they all came to guests in B. said that they would eat what was cooked in words, not on fire; people began to speak, the water was cold; B.'s son told their story, the meat was cooked; the old woman and sisters of B.'s wife were thrown into the fire]: Shakryl 1975, No. 71:322-326; Tabasarans [stepmother tells Perikhanum to herd a red cow and spin wool; the wind carries wool, the cow tells them to follow the wind; P. goes through a golden, silver current into the cave ajdaha; there are snakes, lizards in his hair, P. says his hair is clean; the dough is dirty, P. says it is clean like her mother's; cleans the house, takes no treasures, Azhdaha shakes it on a swing, gold from her dress does not fall; he tells her to swim in a white lake, wash her hair in black, gives her gold, dresses and a horse that can be turned into anything; when she sees beauties, her stepmother sends her own daughter Aykhanum; she calls Azhdakha dirty, hides gold, it falls out on a swing; she is told to swim in a black lake, wash her hair in white, and a horn grows on her forehead; stepmother and A. go to the party, tells P. separate ash and millet, fill the vessel with tears; the mother teaches me to sift the millet through a sieve, fill the vessel with water and salt, put on a dress, take the horse given by Azhdakha; returning from the wedding, P. lost her shoe; Beck's son fell in love, found the owner of the shoe; his stepmother slipped her freak daughter instead of P.; P. flew in with a dove, A. ordered him to be slaughtered, the giblets were thrown away, a pine tree grew, A. ordered to do it a cradle from her, the old woman picked up chips; someone cooks in her house, she finds a girl; takes a thin horse for fattening, she is getting prettier; Beck's son calls women to spin and tell stories; P. says; everything is explained, stepmother and A. were put on horseback, whipped]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 49:444-450; Armenians [stepmother sends stepdaughter to herd a cow and spin wool; the spinning wheel fell into a hole in the ground below vishap's mother chews a piece of lead and spins; the girl asks for a spindle, she invites her to go down, tells her to wash her hair and comb her hair; replies that her hair is clean and soft; the old woman gives dung instead of bread, lizards instead of sauerkraut, the girl does not eat, but praises the taste; the old woman tells her to dip her head in white water, her hair turns golden; says that the cow is not missing, and oil will flow from one horn, honey from another; stepdaughter comes back, stepmother sends her own daughter; she drops the spindle, calls the old woman an old hag, refuses to touch her nasty hair, calls the dung dung and lizards lizards; the old woman tells her head to be dipped in black water, a donkey tail grows on the back of her head; the old woman says that blood will flow from one horn of the cow, pus from the other; the stepmother tells the cow to be slaughtered; mother vishapa tells her stepdaughter not to eat meat, bury the bones; when leaving for a mantis, the stepmother tells her to collect the scattered millet and fill the pelvis with tears; the old woman advises to sweep the millet with a broom, pour salt water into the basin ; where the bones were buried, there is a horse and outfits; when leaving the holiday, the stepdaughter lost her shoe; she glitters in the river, the prince marries the one whose shoe; everyone tries on her, only fits her stepdaughter; stepmother hides stepdaughter in tonir, dresses up his own daughter; rooster shouts about it to those who arrived; wedding; stepmother and her daughter were beaten and driven away]: Nazinyan 2014:45-50; Armenians (recorded in an Ararat village by a native from Persia) [the wife died, leaving her son and daughter; from the new wife a daughter; the stepmother tyrannites her stepsons; the red cow gives them her milk, they will be kind; the stepmother sends her own daughter, her milk is bitter, she withers ; tells her husband to slaughter a cow, the daughter will recover; the cow tells the children to smear her faces with her blood (they will become beautiful), bury her bones; introduces the old woman, she will help; gives one of his horns, he will be them feed; cow meat is delicious for children, like straw for stepmother; invited to a wedding, that old woman dug a hole where the bones are, got good clothes for the children; next time the stepmother tells the children to fill a cauldron of tears to cover half a liter of millet; after the wedding, the girl dropped her shoe; the prince asks her father to find whose she is; the prince marries his stepdaughter; she comes to see her stepmother, her stepmother replaces her his daughter; the prince sees a substitution, orders his stepmother and her daughter to be tied to the tails of mares; their heads have come off, they have been flaunted]: Khachatryants 1933:168-174; Azerbaijanis [the fisherman has an adult daughter Fatmazhykh and Kiyavyzhykh's little son; the mother died, the fisherman took the fanged Bash-khanum; she gave birth to a bald boy and a girl; ordered her old children to be taken to the forest; the father tied a board to the tree so that she could knock, and the children thought he was cutting wood; left; K. was thirsty, F. did not tell him to drink from the spring - you would become a horse; then a dog; K. got drunk from the third, became a bull; said that he would now feed his sister honey and the oil that he had in his horns; he took his sister; although his father and stepmother moved, the bull found them; F. said that his brother was run over by a bear and she came by bull; she was sent to scratch her hair, the bull fed her; the wind took the tow away; F. ran after her, ran into the hut; there Baba Yaga, with snakes and centipedes in her hair; F. asked for her tow, the old woman asked how she liked the hut; F. praised the cleanliness; the old woman blessed her; told her to wake her up when white, red and black water ran; washed her with three waters, F. became white-bodied, her eyebrows and eyelashes were black, her cheeks and lips were red; gave her tow; her stepmother sent her own daughter; she called the old woman ugly; three waters made her body black, her eyebrows and eyelashes white, and a red spot appeared on her forehead; then her stepmother pretended to be sick, asked for the bull's meat; he tells her sister to collect throw his bones into the well, where a beautiful outfit will appear; the stepmother and daughter went to the Shah's meeting, and F. ordered to separate the millet from the ash and fill the bowl with tears; the rooster and the chickens were separated, the rooster was separated, the rooster advised me to prepare salt water; wearing the dress that was in the well, F. came to the palace, showered everyone with flowers, and her stepmother with ash; when she ran back, she lost her slipper; Tsarevich Mamed ordered to look for the owner ; the rooster screams that F. is in a hole, tied arms and legs; M. married F.; the stepmother's daughter pushed her into the sea, put on her dress; in the morning the rooster screams: the sister was drowned in the sea, her catfish was swallowed, she was swallowed by the catfish, she was under The Shah carries his heart and asks for salvation; the fishermen caught the catfish, took out F.; M. asks the liar if she wants a golden knife or a seven-year-old mare; she does not understand whether she wanted a mare; she was put in one bag , and the puppy and the pan to another; frightened by the roar, the horse rushed, the body was scattered across the valleys; M. stayed with F.]: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935:3-19; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 27 [about the same in Kú ; nos 1901:74-83; the younger sister's horse secretly turns into a young man from others; she does not marry, meets an imaginary horse at night; burns his skin; he flies away as a dove, says she will find it, when she wears out her iron shoes and staff; at the spring, the maid says she is collecting water for Chamber-Tiar; the wife, disguised as a beggar, throws her ring into the jug; who recognizes him, comes for her; the devas want her eat, THU mother gives tasks; 1) sweep - do not sweep the room (collect garbage in the middle); 2) go to a neighbor behind bars (give meat lying in front of the horse, give grass from the dog to the horse, venerate a neighbor thrown behind her chest); 3) fill the cauldron with tears (add salt to the water); 4) fill the bag with fluff (the birds gave); during the wedding, THU tied the daughter of the devas to the pole instead of the padishah's daughter, runs with wife; she throws a comb (thorns), soap (slippery), a jug (water); Thu became a gardener, his wife a garden; a tree and a snake wrapping around him (the devas broke the net - they tore off their little finger); into flowers at the feet of the padishah; he gave them to the devas, they are grains, the chickens are pecking, two grains remain, turn into a boy and a girl, they play a wedding]: 105-109; Kúnos 1896 [when leaving, the padishah tells three daughters to take care of his horse; he only the youngest lets in; when he returns, the father gives the elders for the vizier and the chief mufti, the youngest for the horse; at night the horse turns into a man, the stall into a palace; the husband warns his wife not to reveal the secret , gives her three hairs if you need to call him; at the tournament, the older sisters are proud of their husbands, laugh at the youngest; she tells her husband that he is handsome, wins everyone; the youngest told the sisters about this , the husband immediately disappeared; the wife went in search, burned the hair, the husband appeared, explained that his mother was an cannibal witch; turned his wife into an apple, promised his mother not to harm her; the mother tells me to "sweep and not sweep the room"; the wife burns the second hair, the husband comes, explains what to sweep in the room, but not in the hallway; next time, fill the vessel with tears (water and add salt); no more hairs, the spouses run; the mother's sister sits in a jug, drives a snake; the husband turns his wife into a bathhouse, himself into a bathhouse attendant, pretends to be a fool; the same is the second sister (a spring and a person who takes water from it); the third time the mother chases herself; her son turns his wife into a tree, himself into a snake that wraps around the tree; the mother does not dare to kill her son, asks for permission to tear off his wife's finger, flies away; the spouses return to their father women; the husband remains human, his demonic nature remains in another world]: 74-83; Kurds [stepmother tells Fatima to herd cows and spin the wool; the red cow left from her mother spins for her; F. meets the old woman, looks in her head, replies that her head is cleaner than her head, F., her mother; she tells her to swim in a bright spring, dip her finger in black, run her eyebrows, dip her head in gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she refuses to clean the old woman, she tells her to swim in a black spring, she turns into an arapka; the stepmother pretends to be sick, tells her to slaughter a cow for her; the cow says F. and her brother, that the meat will seem bitter to her stepmother; the bones must be buried; there is a wedding in the village; the stepmother tells F. to fill two cauldrons with tears, only then go to the wedding; that old woman fills the boilers with water and salt, He orders to dig up cow bones, they turned into luxurious clothes; returning, F. loses his shoe; according to it, the padishah's son finds F., marries; stepmother throws F. in tandoor, dresses his daughter; brother F. becomes a rooster, shouts about it; F. find, the padishah's son marries her]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 17:207-211.
Iran - Central Asia. Persians [Mollabaji's teacher persuades girl Shahrban to push her mother into a barrel of vinegar and then persuade her father to marry her; he got married, she brought her ugly daughter; opened a barrel of vinegar, a red cow came out of there; M. gives S. more and more work, sends a cow to herd and spin; the cow chews cotton, turning it into yarn; the next day the wind picked up cotton, threw it into the well; the cow calls S. a daughter, tells him to climb into the well, do the opposite when asked; the diva tells him to hit him with a stone, S. looks in his head; replies that his head is cleaner than his stepmother's; does not break the house with a pickaxe, but sweeps the yard; replies that the manor, the diva's dishes are better than her father's; takes cotton, not gold; the diva orders to wash her hair in black water, her face and hands in white; at home, the stepmother sees that the moon is on S.'s forehead, on a star in her chin; M. sends her own daughter, she does everything wrong, the diva tells her to wash in yellow water, a snake appears on the girl's forehead, a scorpion on her chin, the gold she grabbed, turns out to be bricks; M. and her daughter, wrapping her face with a handkerchief, go to the wedding, tells Sh. to disassemble the mixture of peas, beans and beans, fill the bowl with tears; S. goes to the diva, he gives salt (the water will be like tears), the rooster ( separate the beans, etc.), a luxurious outfit, ash (pour on M. and her daughter), flowers (throw at the bride and guests); S. sees the prince, she runs away, loses her shoe; returning home, M. pretends to be sick, let her husband will slaughter a cow; the divas replaces the cows, tells S. to bury the bones slaughtered into the barn; the prince's servants are looking for the owner of the shoe; M. hides S. in the oven, but the rooster screams where she is; M. feeds S. with onions and garlic to she smelled bad and disgraced; the diva helps to get out of the situation, and M.'s daughter, who she imposed on the vizier, stained the room; M. and her daughter were thrown into the ditch, the divas cut the cow's skin, and Sh's mother came out of her]: Rosenfeld 1956:130-149; (cf. Persians [a childless woodcutter wants to kill a snake that promises to be his son Sabzkaba ("green caftan"); orders the ruler's daughter to be married Shakarhava ("sweet wish"); he requires 70 bags jewelry, etc., S. sends, receives his wife, takes off his snakeskin at night; warns her not to burn; otherwise, in order to return him, you will have to wear out 7 iron dresses, shoes, staffs; sister S. came, threw her skin into the fire; S. goes in search; meets women, girls, everyone says that their father S. went to S. and disappeared, they would kill her; one girl carries water S., S. throws it in jug ring; S. meets Sh., tells him to venerate his diva mother's chest; mother-in-law tells him to pour tears on the floor (S. performs); wash the black bag white (dip it in water when the white one flows) water); bring a sieve from her diva sister, she must break Sh.; S.: there are bones in front of the horse, straw in front of the dog, must be shifted; put cotton wool in every bell on the door; S. grabbed the sieve and ran away; at the wedding of the divas, S. and S. put hot candles in their arms, but they did not throw candles; at night S. killed the bride and groom, ran with Sh.; brother S. pursues, S. became a broom, S. became a rope; uncle (garden and gardener); father (mill and miller); mother (cypress and dragon); S. killed his mother, everything is fine]: Osmanov 1987:301-306).
Baltoscandia. Estonians (Pärnu) [brother and sister got lost in the forest; the devil (vanapagan) brought them home, raised them; taught the young man the art of a hunter; he wanted to kill a bear, a wolf, a fox, a hare, a kite; everyone asks not to kill, gives his cub; the devil met with the young man's sister, decided to get rid of his animals first; sent him to the barn for bread; the young man went inside with the animals, went out, the doors closed, the animals stayed inside; the devil wants to kill the young man, he asks for permission to wash in the bathhouse, then climb the tree to pray; during this time, the animals escaped, ran, tore the Devil; the brother hanged his sister by the legs in the bathhouse over two cauldrons - with coals and empty; let her go when she eats all the coals and fills the empty cauldron with tears; went to town; told the old woman to let his animals out if they began to tear; himself went to fight a 12-headed serpent that ate a man every day; now it is the princess's turn; instead of a severed head, a new one grows; the young man threw his shoe, hitting a sleeping old woman, she released the animals they came running, tore the snake; the young man cut off and hid his tongues, put pieces of the snake under the stone; the princess tied a piece of her handkerchief to each beast; the officer made the princess say that he had killed the snake; wedding, a young man sends a wolf, then a bear, then comes by himself; the officer cannot pick up a stone under which pieces of a snake are, does not know where the tongues are; the animals ordered him to be torn to pieces, torn to pieces; after death The young man reigns the king; the wife asks for his sister to be returned; she pierces the Devil's hidden tooth into the forehead of her sleeping brother; he is put in the coffin; the wolf licked, the tooth pops out the wolf's forehead, the owner has come to life, and the wolf has died; so the animals queues revived each other; the fox hid behind the cauldron, the tooth missed her forehead, fell into the fire]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 3:41-46; seto [dying, the king told his daughter to rule until her brother grew up ; she decided to lime her brother; pretended to be sick, ordered me to bring hare milk; the hare gave milk; next time a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness; her sister sent her brother to bring bread from the mills are where the witch is; he went, with him all his animals that gave him milk; he took bread, and when he sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors shut; the sister put his brother in the cellar, the witch must eat it; time, animals break doors one by one; this is reported by a raven, a dove, a swallow; each time a young man asks the cannibal for more time; the last time he asks for permission to light a pipe; the animals break in, a witch is killed; a young man, telling his sister to cry for his return a bucket of bloody tears, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where mourning; a man explains that every year a sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise it would flood the city, it was the turn of the royal daughter; the animals tore the snake, the princess gave her handkerchief to the savior; the coachman crept up, cut off the young man's head, told the princess to swear that she would declare him the winner snake; animals mourn, the fox tells them to pretend to be dead, a raven with a crow descends, the fox grabs the crow, tells the crow to bring water that connects the dicks and living water; he brings; the fox for testing the crow tore, glued it together, revived it; then the young man; the animals cast lots, falls on the bear, he brings the handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; meets the savior; the king orders to tear the coachman with four bulls; a young man gets a princess; goes to visit his sister; she cries a bucket of blood; puts a witch's tooth in his brother's head, he falls dead; he is put in the tower; the hare comes, the tooth pierces him, he dies, the young man comes to life; the fox takes a tooth out of the hare, throws it into the bush, the bush has dried up; the animals tore his sister; the young man became ruler over both kingdoms]: Sandra 2004:192-202; Lutsie (1893; informant 75 years old, I knew a fairy tale from my grandmother, who spoke only the Lutsi dialect) [brother with three dogs and sister; brother hunting, sister to the sea; hell waves from across the sea: come here; sister: go himself; on the third day he crossed the sea; now all the food reaches the line; the brother went to the healer, she told the devil; he will be on the stove; the brother tells his sister to boil water, poured it on the stove: there are many cockroaches; my sister feeds the scalded man in the morning; the next day the same thing (the hell outside the door, the fleas are divorced); the third time, the devil is under a pile of sawdust, scalded my mouth with boiling water; in the morning, damn my brother: you are my son-in-law, I must cure me; there is a mill on the island, there is flour dust in the ninth chamber, let the dogs bring it, it will cure me; when the dogs go there, the doors shut; a raven is flying, shouting to the guy: you will be sent to the bathhouse, take your time; everyone once the raven screams how many doors the dog gnawed; the guy tells the line to go to the bathhouse first; the dogs come running, broke the line; the brother leaves with his sister tied; if a tear flows down the belt, he is nice to her, and if resin, damn it; the guy 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 a damn tooth; the brother announced to 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; the dogs were buried separately, but they 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 an oak tree; the owner revived the dogs, played the pipe, the wife found out; his sister was torn apart by three horses]: Annom et al. 2018:126-130.
Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [when dying, the priest's wife gives him her ring, tells him to marry the one she suits; does not suit anyone, the daughter accidentally wore it, the pop wants to marry her, she runs away; the royal son on her marries, a son is born; when the prince left, the pop came unrecognized, stabbed the baby; the king father tells his son, the son writes in response, the pop changed both letters - supposedly the prince orders to cut off his wife's hands, tie to her and drive the dead baby away; the woman leaned to the river, the baby fell out, her hands grew, the voice said how to revive the baby with plant juice; he grew up, killed the youngest, middle son of the old woman; the eldest only maimed; the old woman arranged that the mother of the prince's son took the old woman's son as a lover; pretending to be sick, she gives her son difficult tasks; he defeats the heroes who guarded the garden and spring; the son of an old woman steals the cross in which the strength of the prince's son is; drives him away; he meets the princess, she promises to marry him; meets a blind and legless man; in the palace she throws the princess's ring into a bucket of water; she recognizes the ring, the king allows marriage, but the prince's son must return his cross; he steals the cross, kills his mother's lover, and ties her, two barrels side by side: to cry for it and to cry for his lover; gathers people, tells everything; mother cried for her son, he freed her]: Chuvash tales 1937:237-247; Kazan Tatars [brother has three dogs: lighter than wind, lighter than hops, heavier than earth; sister took snake yuhu is a lover; he offers to poison her brother; one dog overturns poisoned water, the other throws a bowl of porridge, the third breaks the bathhouse in which Juha wanted to burn the young man, carries him to the river, the young man comes to life; leaves her sister to fill the barrel with tears, dry like a ray, eat a brick; kills the 6-, 9-, 12-headed ajdaha, to whom the eldest, middle, youngest daughter of the padishah was given; each gives her ring; watchman says that he saved the princess, but he cannot lift the stone under which his heads; he was shot, the young man took the middle princess, lives with her in the forest; his sister came, put two of Juha's teeth in bed for his brother; dogs found and pulled his teeth out of the young man's ear (they made the bear cry and the hare put his ear to the young man's ear); the young man cut off his sister's head]: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 1:25-32.
Southern Siberia. 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 XX and made her a wife; began to live with her in the same house as her brother; XX gave the boy the name: Adygchy-Ool; the white dog overheard XX telling AT to put a fang in his brother's soup; he would pierce the boy into 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 falls to the ground; when the fang falls to the ground, it catches fire; next time XX and AT agreed to take 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 her right eye, blue under her left eye; if AT feels sorry for her brother, her tears will fill the white bowl, and if XX, the blue one; then Adygchi-Ool and his dogs came to the aal; the old people took him to their son; one day the cattle stopped mooing, people began to scream; the dogs ran away and brought blue and white wolf skin; the old people are happy - these wolves were destroying cattle; Khan gave AO his only daughter; when they came to see AT, only tears from her left eye filled the cup (i.e. she grieved for the demon); AO brought her home; she gave him a poisonous araki and he died; the dogs dragged the body up the mountain; the blue ran for the reviver with a potion; she brought it 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.
Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (Sherkal dialect) [husband and wife bought their son and daughter a toy - an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed the couple; the children hid under the floor; the horse asks where they are ; the comb, the flint, the skin scraper do not answer, it breaks them; leaves; the cow tells me to sit on it, takes it to the sea, tells her to slaughter it there, wrap it in its guts, climb into her stomach; the horse chases, sister throws flint (fire), crest (forest), whetstone (mountain), flint again (the horse burned down); brother and sister killed a cow, woke up in the house, there is a lot of food; they live on the island; pops out of a ball of foam dog; tells his brother that his sister will send him for fox milk; his sister sends him - he will recover from milk; the fox gave milk: if my sister does not drink, give it to my cub; my sister did not drink, the fox drank; then same with blue fox; dog for young man: sister hid the iron horse under your bed, lie down on the side; next time milk and baby wolverine, you have to lie back to bed and under the bunk beds there will be an iron horse; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold; in front of the threshold; the sister sends into the house behind seven locks; there the old man lets the animals in, closes the door; the young man returns alone; sister tells him to wash in the bathhouse, and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird reports three times that the animals are digging an underground passage; the animals have come, killed an iron horse; the brother nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near the eyes: if a brother will be needed, his vessel must be filled with tears, and if an iron horse, then hers; the brother married the king's daughter; took his sister to him; she put the tooth of an iron horse in his bed, his brother died; his buried in an iron coffin; the animals dug, broke it; the dog found a crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise we'll eat eggs; the crow brought, the dog crushed one egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he let the animals go, left only the dog; tied his sister to two sledges, tore it with horses; threw one leg into the forest, it grew into a swamp willow, the other to a hill, a forest tree grew; the brother lives well (with his wife )]: Steinitz 2014, No. 28:169-185.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [to have children, the old woman turns to ayyi, the old man turns to Abaasa; ayyy gives a boy and a girl, the abaasa threatens to swallow the old man, makes him give up what she does not know at home; spouses they hide children under the hearth; the abaas eat their spouses, do not find children; they grow up, a horse descends from the sky, takes them away, gives them flint, flint, an ax, they must be thrown into an Abaas pursuer; they turn into fire, into the mountains, into the sea; the abaas remain overseas; the horse tells him to be killed by crushing a louse on his head; parts of his body give rise to a city, buildings, property; his kidneys turn into a dog bear and a wolf -dog; in the absence of the brother, the abaasa comes, the sister agrees to become his wife, lures his brother's handkerchief, gives it to her husband; the brother is in a hurry, the interpreting rocks crush his dogs - the bear and the wolf; the horse brings brother to old woman, she gives a bow; a hawk fights a yokshokyu bird; brother shoots a yokshokyu in the wing; for promising to cure him, he helps open the mountain, freeing the bear and the wolf; they kill the abaas; brother hangs his sister by the legs, puts two plates under her eyes; during the night, the left one fills with tears, which means that the sister cries for her husband, not for her brother; he leaves, leaving the bear and the wolf; one-eyed, one-armed and one-legged abaasa fights with another over a woman; Er-Sogotoh (his brother's name is first mentioned) frees the woman, takes her away; the abaas pursues them, E. throws the comb, the forest grows; E. kills the abaas, marries a rescued woman]: Popov 1937:208-238 (quail. Efremov 2000, No. 2:79-135).
Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanai [Fuding is surprised that her 6 older sisters are swimming in the cauldron; they say that they will go looking for grooms, force F. to go; they come to the house of seven bald men; they cut off their heads, throw them away into a cauldron; F. turns into a needle; they sifted ash, the needle became F. then a wasp, flew away, then a duck; the younger bald man is also chased by a wasp, a duck; F. rushed into the river, turned into a hundred chebaks; the stalker does not know which fish to chase; F. comes to Mergen's house, he marries her; when bald ones come, he turns her into a flea; the bald ones promise to come again; M. sends F. to the house where he is 40 wives - let them be tied with a rope, sit quietly; you can hear the roar of battle; the younger bald man tears the ropes, enters the house; when he is ready to grab F., a bear (the same M.) enters the house, three days later wins, but strongly wounded, promises to return in 3 or 7 years; only the youngest F. and the elder wife decided to wait for M.; the eldest leaves to look for him, in 7 years F. is going to hang himself, at which time M. appears; but immediately leaves - his new wife, who cured him; F. turns into a duck, stops at a shaman tree, hears the conversation between the other two; M. at the sea mistress, overgrown with hair, in 3 days he will be completely overgrown, will begin destroy people; F. flies in with a wasp, washes off the hair with his tears; M. revives F.'s older sisters, takes them all as wives]: Chadaeva 1990:68-73).