K108. Animated wife cheats on her husband, ATU 612.

.11.12.14.-.17. (.21.) .22.-.24.27.-.33. (.38.52.)

The wife dies, her husband revives her, she goes to another man, is punished.

Bondei, Hausa, Baule, Malinke, Kabila, Egyptian Arabs, Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Italians (Tuscany, Molise), Sardinians, French, Bretons, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Grimms) , Frisians, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Qatar, (ranks), Viets, Ancient India (Panchatantra), North India (Hindi), Dogri, Bengalis, Punjabi, (Muria), Java, Timor, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Poles, Slovaks , Czechs, Russians (Karelia, Novgorod, Pskov, Orel), Ukrainians (Kiev), Belarusians, Georgians, Turks, Kurds, Yagnobes, Yazgulyams, Pashtuns, Finns, Estonians, Veps, Latvians, Lithuanians, Swedes, Danes, Chuvash, Mari, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, (Japanese, Itza).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Bondei [husband and wife agree that if one of them dies, the other will be buried with him; wife dies, husband goes to the grave; Warrior God (mpuna, angel of death, Islamic influence) asks God for permission to revive the woman; she is naked, the husband goes to the chief for clothes, he takes his wife, tells her husband to be tied; an old man comes, takes away his amulet, both (husband and wife) turn into bones]: Dammann 1938, No. 6:308-310

West Africa. Hausa: Hassane 2013 [Musa young man and Fouréra girl from two hostile villages flee to another country, vowing not to part; F. died of thirst, M. remained sitting by his body; eagle brought an amulet to revive F., promised M. to feed him when he required it; M. and F. come to town, M. revived the princess, was awarded; F. became the guard's mistress; when the prince died after falling off his horse , stole an amulet for her lover, M. could not revive the deceased, and the lover could; demanded that M. be executed as a reward; an eagle flew in, M. promises him his remains to be eaten; the eagle releases a lizard from his beak, tells bring the stolen amulet, when trying to do so, she was killed; the cat was left to eat boiled beans; the mouse brought the amulet; releases a snake to bite the princess; M. revived her, her lover is not; there is no lover and F. executed, the eagle is full]: 88-96; Radin 1952, No. 75 [parents do not marry their daughter; she asks the young man to stab her mother with a knife; he refuses; she asks for a knife to cut a pumpkin, cuts her mother's throat, runs away with young men; dies in the forest; animals and birds gather to eat it, the young man does not give it; the eagle brings water, gives two feathers, moistened them with water, revives the girl, warns the young man that she is evil, gives water and feathers, says that he will get his own; the young man revives the king's dead mother; other people; becomes rich; the wife falls in love with a slave; after learning her husband's secret, gives her lover feathers and water; he demands as a reward for revival the husband of his mistress; leaves him in shackles in the forest; the Eagle tells the Cat and the Mouse to return the magic objects; when the slave sleeps, he keeps feathers in his mouth; the mouse bites him, he spits them out; the young man gets feathers, as a reward for revival, he asks to give him his slave and his ex-wife; shackles them in a clearing in the forest; prepares a large fireplace with hot coals; animals push the chained there again and again until they are baked; Eagle and other animals receive the promised feast]: 274-278; baule [husband and wife agree that if one of them dies, the other will hold the corpse in their arms until it decays; wife dies; the devil tells her husband that his wife would not remain faithful to him; the husband offers to revive her to make sure otherwise; eight days later the husband died, the wife threw the corpse into the bushes, went to the party; the devil revived her husband, proved to him that he believed his wife in vain]: Himmelheber 1951b: 33-34 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:137-141); raspberries [Kamale and Douga swore not to leave each other even after death; K. dies from hunger, D. remains at her body to drive away the vultures; Vulture persuades D. three times to abandon his idea; then revives K., warning that she will not be loyal to D.; D. dies one day; now K. sits by the body, driving away the vultures; first refuses Vulture's offer to go dancing, then agrees; Vulture revives D.; warns that if K. hugs him again, he will die; D. comes to dance, K. rushes to him, he kills her with a sword]: Jablow 1961:165-171.

North Africa. Kabila, Arabs of Egypt: El-Shamy 2004 (1), No. 612:343; (cf. Tunisia ["The Emir and his wife are cheating." Once upon a time, a sultan had 7 sons, he decided to check them out, pretended to be sick and told each of his sons that he needed his wife's liver. Everyone agreed except the youngest. The youngest ran away with his wife. I met 40 guli and got them food and water while hunting. The leader of the guli thanked him, pointing out the palace. The prince settled in the palace with his wife. There was a black servant in the palace. The prince went hunting, his wife fell in love with the servant and decided to get rid of the prince, became ill and sent him for a fragrant apple and bitter olive. The prince went to the ghoul, who directed him to his sister. Gulsha said his wife just wanted to get rid of him. He returned home, found his wife with his servant, killed him, and took her and returned to his father, repented to him and divorced his wife]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 5 in Korovkina MS).

Southern Europe. Spaniards [two neighbors agree that if their wives give birth to children of different sexes, they will marry them; this is what happened; the husband offered to travel, left his wife to sleep by the tree; captain The ship took her and sailed away; her husband found her, but the wife said that it was a stranger who was trying to kidnap her, he was torn apart by horses; his friend had revitalizing grass; he folded his dicks, put grass, revived executed, gave grass; he revived the deceased royal son, married a princess; the captain and his wife come, they do not recognize him; he tells his story, tells his story, tells those who came to sea to drown]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 612:641-645; Catalans [wife falls ill and dies; husband sees a snake crawl with a flower in her mouth, reviving a woman; she runs away with a soldier (sometimes with one of her husband's friends), husband finds her; the soldier hides something in her husband's clothes, accuses him of stealing; the husband is hanged, someone revives him with a snake flower; he takes revenge on the kidnapper (or traitors)]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 612:610; Portuguese [twin brother and sister are in an incestuous relationship; or a man takes a lower class wife in fulfillment of a vow taken during the shipwreck; both promise to be buried together if one of them dies; a woman dies; lying in the grave, a man sees one rat (a snake, a cricket) reviving another with grass; a husband revives his wife; a wife cheating, telling her to kill her husband, he is revived by the same grass; a man revives a queen or prince, temporarily vested in power; exposes ex-wife and captain (robber)]: Cardigos 2006, No. 612:148; Italians (Abruzzo): Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 612:140; Sardinians (Nurra) [Peppino is the son of a wealthy merchant; against the wishes of his parents, he married Mariorsola, the daughter of a poor carpenter; the father immediately sent his son on business, after which M. became seriously ill; A year later, P. returned, M. recovered, but soon fell ill again and died, telling P. to read funeral prayers for the dead; P. almost forgot, then asked the sacristy to open the crypt; two lions broke into the church, one killed the other and then revived it with grass; P. revived M. with the same grass; hearing the voice of the deceased in the morning, P.'s mother fainted and killed herself; the same with the maid; P. and revived them; M. forgot by the sea the ring, P. followed him, but M. also approached the shore, the king of Muscovy saw it and took it away on his ship; P. sailed for her, but when she became queen, she refused to deal with it; ordered the servant to put it silver spoons in P.'s pocket; spoons were found, P. was waiting to be hanged in prison; told the confessor everything, giving him the grass to revive him; P., who came to life, came to the king of the seven crowns, revived his deceased his wife; he made him heir; the King of Muscovy and M. also arrived at the coronation; at the feast, P. tells everyone to tell stories, tells his own; asks the King of Muscovy what such a thing deserves woman; that: you have to hang her, burn the corpse and scatter the ashes to the wind; that's what they did]: Calvino 1980, No. 194:691-695.

Western Europe. Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353; Germans [poor young man entered the service, turned out to be brave, the king made him first adviser; princess She married him on the condition that if one of them died, the other would be buried alive with him; while in the crypt, the husband killed the snake; the second revived it with three leaves, revived the first one; the husband revived his wife with them; Once on a ship with her husband, the wife persuaded the captain to throw her husband at sea, so that the king would then make the captain heir; the servant, to whom the husband gave the leaves, picked up and revived the drowned man; the king put his daughter and sailor in a leaky shuttle and let her go to sea]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 16:59-61 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:54-56); French: Cosquin 1887, No. 82 [Victor the Flower is the son of London merchant; having arrived in Lyon, fell in love with the shoemaker's daughter and married; his wife died; he cries for her grave; the lady in white gave him an ointment, he revived the deceased; while V. is away, the wife marries the colonel, goes with him to Algeria; V. gets a job in the same unit; his wife recognizes him; first asks Colonel to promote V. to leave; but V. stays; then throws him silverware (un couvert), silver is found, V. must be shot; he asks an old soldier named La Ramée to aim at the heart and then revive it with ointment; he walks for several days, but then carries out an assignment; V. came to life; went to Paris, began to serve the king, the princess fell in love with him, he became a marshal and husband of a princess; ordered troops from Algeria to arrange a review; accused his ex-wife, demoted the colonel, and put him in his place La Ramée; then married him to the princess's sister]: 342-344, 344 (Upper Brittany, Sébillot, III, no. 3) []; Bretons []: Luzel in Cosquin 1887:345.

Western Asia. Arabs of Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004 (1), No. 612:343

(Wed. Tibet - Northeast India). Meitei (ranks) [King Shalmo went hunting accompanied by a servant; they only caught a dove, the king sent a servant somewhere to fry it; he came to the court of Princess Upempu, the daughter of King Kabo ; was so amazed by the girl's beauty that the dove was burned; the princess crushed edible seeds and baked them like a dove; the servant brought them to the king, he liked it terribly; S. met W. and they fell in love each other; the king brought his wife to him, went hunting again; the old wife found a new one in the bedroom, pulled her out, sprained her arm and drove her out; the king found W., but she refused to return; Then he killed his old wife, threw the body into the river, it turned into an oyster; W. returned to her parents, but they ridiculed her, saying that they should have obeyed them and marry the one they offered; W. committed suicide; S. appeared and found out that his wife was dead, also committed suicide; on the way to the world of the dead, both souls met on the lake shore; Lakong Louonba, one of the gods of the world of the dead, advised Sh. to bathe so that the souls of S. and W. could be reunited in the world of the dead, and at that time he kidnapped W.; after becoming his wife, W. gave birth to two sons; when S. found out what had happened, he turned to Korou Nongningthou, to the king of the world of the dead, asking him to return W.; KN agreed and started a war with LL; he was defeated and flew away, turning into a butterfly; L. came to Sh., bringing her sons with him; S. said he was dead only for her sake, and she betrayed him; cursed her: let your first child turn into a cuckoo; that's what happened]: Singh 1985:297-301).

Burma - Indochina. Vietnam {the difference between versions may be due to different translations, but most likely different records}: Landes 1886, No. 84 [the couple promise each other that everyone will follow the first to die ; the wife dies; the husband carries the deceased along the river, meets Buddha, who takes three drops of blood from her husband, revives his wife with them, sends the couple home on a crocodile; the wife runs away with a rich merchant; the crocodile carries her husband after, the wife refuses to return; Buddha takes three drops of blood from her, she dies, turns into a mosquito; he keeps trying but cannot drink three drops of blood]: 207-208 (=Nikulin 1970:29-42, =1990: 21-25; =Vietnamese tales 1992:134-136); Sun 1957 [Ngok Tam grew rice, his wife Nhan Diep grew silkworms; she wanted to live comfortably, without worries, but did not dare to talk about it with her husband; died suddenly; in despair, the husband put the coffin in the boat and sailed along the river; he was met by the Tien Thai medical spirit; invited him to become his student, but NT could not leave his wife; TT reluctantly agreed: let NT cut a finger and spills three drops of blood on his wife's body; on the way home they met a wealthy merchant; he invited her to his ship and took her away; she is happy; when NT found her and saw what his wife really is like, he got rid of his love for her and demanded that three drops of blood be returned; she did, but immediately died again; she turned into mosquitoes that are all trying to get blood]: 113-116.

South Asia. Panchatantra [the brahmana's wife died but was revived by the deity after the brahmana agreed to give her half of her life; she fell in love with a lame man singing a song; she carries him in a basket; she pushed her husband into the well; the royal servants took the basket, thinking that it contained property; the woman went after them; the king touched her with loyalty, gave her two villages; a good man pulled the brahmana out of the well, he came to his wife, she declared him an enemy of her husband, the king sentenced him to death; the brahmana demands to give what he gave; the wife, out of fear of the king, says that she gives, dies immediately, the brahman everything tells the king]: Syrkin 1962:384-387; northern India (probably Hindi) [Moti Rani, Hari Raji's beloved wife, died; he decided to kill himself; put the corpse in a boat and sailed to sea; when he is close to deaths, Shiva and Parvati flew by; P. reproached S., who agreed to revive MR on the condition that her husband would give her half of his life; the water fairies took MR when XP was sleeping; he came to another king, showed He was favored to find that the pearls were fake; one day, the water maidens and MR came to dance to the king; XP stepped on MR's clothes, promising to let go if they gave him what they belonged to him; she fell dead; After finding out what was going on, the king department XP daughter and the throne; {the episode of his wife's betrayal seems to have been missed}]: Crooke 1895, No. 201:85; Punjabi [the young king's servant admires the flower in the pot every day; the king wants buy a flower; the owner refuses: his wife gave the flower, if it blooms, then she remains faithful; then the servant says that when he was a boy, his merchant father took a man for him, who cared for him; they came to a show of wandering dancers; the dancer recognized that man and asked the king to kill him; the king ordered the man to be captured; he asked the dancer to first gave him back what she took; she said she was returning and fell dead; the man said that he and the dancer were married and agreed: if one of them died, the other would spend the rest of their lives in hut on the grave; the wife died; the fakir said that if her husband gave her half of the rest of her life, she would come to life; the man gave it; his wife left him and became a dancer; then the servant says that knowing this story, did not want to take a wife; the father insisted and he set a condition: every morning he would hit his wife five times with shoes; the merchant's daughter agreed; first asked to postpone this ritual for a day, and then hit her 10 times; 15 times; then said that let her husband earn money first, and not use his father's money; the man went to trade and found mangoes in one place that instantly grow out of abandoned seeds and bear fruit; he took a seed with him and bet on all his possessions in the city; the mango grew but did not bear fruit, the man became poor; someone taught him how to earn money by cutting sickle grass; his wife in men's clothes came after him, took not only the mango, but also the land from this place; threw land, a seed on him, the mango bore fruit; she won; took her husband, who did not recognize her, to to herself; when she left, told her to stand for her; did not return; he brought wealth home; she showed him the sickle with which he cut the grass; the man was so shocked that he decided to leave; his father gave him a flower in a pot, with who the story began]: Swynnerton 1892:176-188; Dogry: Brown, no.75 in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 612A: 89-90; the Bengalis [the king expelled his son for some reason; the prince and his wife came to the forest; the wife was bitten by a snake and she died; the hermit agreed to revive her if the prince gave her 20 years of his life; he gave it; they came to town, the prince's wife became a dancer and left with a wandering dancer; once the dancers gave a show for the king (this is not the prince's father); everyone is delighted and gives gifts; the prince gave the ring he once received from his wife; the dancer recognized him and asked him to grab the owner - her ring was stolen; the prince went out and told the whole story; as proof, he took back his wife's years and she died immediately; the king married him to his daughter]: Devi 1915:43-46; (cf. muria [the wife reproaches the raja for not letting her see her mother; then he took her to her mother; he saw a fakir in the Rani forest and fell in love with him; he advised me to ask the raja to bring water and push him into the pond; Rani left with the fakir, thinking that her husband had drowned; a man from the Lamana caste drove by the loaded cattle; pulled out the raja, who called him savior, became his servant; once stray the dancers gave a performance, the former Rani and her husband recognized each other; when the local king asked what reward the dancer wanted, she asked Lamana's servant to be hanged; he told the king everything; rani and the fakir was nailed with iron nails to an iron pole, and her husband was married by the king to his daughter]: Elwin 1966, No. XIV. 6:315-316).

Malaysia-Indonesia. Java: Bezemer 1904 [the wife is dead, the husband does not leave the grave; Nabi Isa resurrected her after her husband promised to believe in him; the husband fell asleep, the prince came, easily persuaded the woman to go with him; the husband heard, jumped up, demanded his wife back, but both the prince and the wife refused; then Nabi Isa appeared, the woman fell dead again]: 84-86; Kahlo 1967 [(known throughout Indonesia); young the wife dies; the husband asks him to be sent on a boat to sea with the deceased; Allah promises to resurrect his wife if her husband gives him half of the rest of his life; on the island, while the husband sleeps, the wife agrees to the offer of a wealthy merchant; at the trial, the husband calls out to Allah, the wife falls dead, the husband gets his years back; the kidnapper is expelled, the husband receives his wealth]: 48-62; Timor [Lucia dies; her husband Luis keeps her bones, wants to die next to them; the old man revives her; while Luis is sleeping, the chief invites Lucia to go with him, she agrees; at the chief's wedding, Luis demands the return of his wife; touches Lucia's chest with a ring , she turns into dice again]: Pascoal 1967:160-161.

The Balkans. Romanians [the poor young man earned money, became a merchant, the princess fell in love with him, but soon died; the candles in the church suddenly went out and the man saw a book in front of him; from it he learned how to revive the deceased; they went to another country; there his wife left him for the general; the man asked the local princess to help; the wife tells the general to hang his former husband; his last request is to read his book; the king appears, orders the execution of the general along with the traitor]: Bîrlea 1966:414; Hungarians, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353; Bulgarians [the princess promises to go beyond whoever follows her to the tomb, if she dies first, promises to follow her husband into the coffin if he dies; an orphan marries, the princess dies, he is buried with her; he sees a snake reviving the victim with grass a snake, revives his wife with the same grass; on the ship, the wife falls in love with the captain, they throw her husband into the sea; the hero is saved, the perpetrators are punished]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1004, No. 612:221.

Central Europe. Russians (Novgorod, Pskov, Oryol), Ukrainians (Kiev) Belarusians [Lively unfaithful wife: husband orders to put himself and his wife in the grave; sees a snake with uses a blade of grass to revive another; revives his wife in the same way; she pays him with ingratitude]: SUS 1979, No. 612:166; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Virma; brief summary of the text from the archive Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences) [the husband revives his deceased wife, she cheats on him and becomes the wife of a colonel; the first husband serves as a soldier in the second husband's regiment; the wife hides the colonel's watch in the clothes of her first husband, he is accused of theft, tried, shot; with the help of a magic book, a soldier comes to life, wanders; cures the tsar's daughter; marries her; takes revenge on a colonel, kills his first wife]: Razumova, Senkina 1974 , No. 387:392; Russians (Pskov) [the wife of a wealthy merchant met with a colonel who stayed in their house; died; the husband is inconsolable; dug a passage from the house to her grave; voice: put three on his wife's body a piece of paper; his wife came to life; ran abroad with the colonel; the husband went to pick them up, hired them as soldiers; his ex-wife falsely accused him of stealing a gold watch; the soldier gave his friends those three sheets of paper: when his they will shoot and bury him, put him on his body; at the grave of the guards, but friends gave the guards a drink, dug up and revived the former merchant; he cured the sovereign's daughter, the Tsar made him a general; the general ordered shoot that colonel with his wife]: Chernyshev 1950, No. 19:46-49; (cf. Russians [epic about Mikhail Potyk; MP concludes an agreement with his wife Avdotya Likhovidyevna or Maria Lebedya: whoever dies, another should follow him into the coffin; in the absence of the MP, the wife dies; he climbs into her grave, lives there for several days; a snake crawls, he cuts it with iron bars; she leaves a snake as collateral, crawls away for living water; MA cuts the snake; with the water she brings, revives the snake and wife]: Miller 1891:10-11); Poles [husband promises his wife that if she dies, he will go to the grave himself; she dies shortly after the wedding; once in the tomb, the husband sees one snake (bird) revives the other with healing leaves; then he revives his wife himself; or gives her half of his life; the wife runs away with her lover (captain, officer) and he condemns her husband to death; with the help of a faithful servant or a friend is saved and an unfaithful wife and her lover are executed]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 612:196; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Georgians [husband and wife swear that if one dies, the other will grieve at his grave; wife dies, husband fulfills his promise; passer-by advises her husband to ask God to give half of his days to the wife; she comes to life; the husband falls asleep, the wife leaves with the passing rider who invited her; the husband complains to the king, who orders the impostor to be executed; gives him the last word; the husband asks God to give him back his wife's years, wife falls to dust]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 124:242-244 (=Glonti 1974:360-361); Turks [(part of a longer story); a person enters a country where, according to custom, he is buried together with his deceased wife; he sees how one snake revives another with some grass; revives his wife; they get out of the graves; when they sail on a ship, she pushes him into the sea; he is saved and revived the same servant with grass; the father of an unfaithful wife executes her]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 120:137-138; Kurds [seeing a man crying at his wife's grave, the prophet Isa suggests that he give his wife half of the remaining 30 years of life; while her husband sleeps, a lively woman agrees to go with the Shah's son, says that the sleeper stole her, offers to kill him; the husband comes to the palace, they do not believe him, Isa appears, testifies, tells the woman to return the 15 years she received from her husband, she dies]: Farizov, Rudenko 1959:46-48.

Iran - Central Asia. Jagnobtsy [husband and wife agree to stay on the grave of the one who dies first; the wife dies; the old man agrees to revive her, giving her half of her husband's life; she immediately leaves with a passerby a rider; tells everyone that her first husband is not a husband, but a kidnapper; the king is going to execute him, he asks for a delay in order to find that old man; it was Khoja Khizr, he will appear, the woman turns to dust]: Andreev, Peschereva 1957, No. 17:102-104; Yazgulyam [the spouses agreed: if one of them dies, the other will guard his grave; the wife is dead; a radiant man approached her husband and revived his wife; soon she saw the prince and left with him while her husband was sleeping; her husband found her, but his wife said that this man was the thief who stole her; the judge ordered her husband to bring a witness; the husband met that radiant man; he came and brought his wife to ashes]: Edelman 1966, No. 17:213-214; Pashtuns [the prophet Isa asks God to bring back to life the deceased wife of a man named Fakir, to whom he swore he would not leave her graves; while F. sleeps, the resurrected wife falls in love with the prince who passed by, says that F. is the robber who kidnapped her; the shah orders to judge the case, F. takes Isa as a witness; he appears, sends the woman back to the grave]: Lebedev 1972, No. 18:182-186.

Baltoscandia. Finns, Estonians, Veps, Lithuanians, Danes: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353; Latvians [husband wants to die with his wife; in the crypt he sees like a snake revives the other with leaves; the husband revives the wife; she leaves with the officer and orders her husband to be killed; the husband's friend revives him with leaves; the husband revives the princess, marries and becomes king; conducts a review troops and severely punishes an officer, i.e. his ex-wife's new husband, for his soldier, with whom the king had previously agreed, appeared at the review inappropriately]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 612:306; ( the reference to Swedes in Uther 2004 (1), No. 612 is not relevant; Liungman 196:183: Swedes have only a motive for revival; a person sees a mouse reviving another by bringing an elixir in the bubble]).

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi, Marie: Uther 2004 (1), No. 612:352-353

Turkestan. Kazakhs [Suleiman's wife demands to build a palace out of bird bones; the Nightjar did not appear, the Berkut was sent for him; Kozoda tells him a parable; the daughter of the Crimean Khan rejects the grooms, agrees at the proposal of Padishah Rum; the couple agree that if one dies, the other will remain on fire on his grave; the wife dies, the padishah sits on the grave for 12 years; the prophet Musa persuades him not ruin himself; then resurrects his wife, taking half of the rest of the padishah's life and giving it to his wife; a hanzada comes up, sees a beautiful woman and her pale husband next to her; the wife says that there is a villain next to her, in whose hands she falls; the hanzada and the woman leave, leaving the bound padishah; M. tells the hanzad about the woman's infidelity, he leaves her; M. returns the woman to the grave, and the padishah half of his life, that marries again; the Golden Eagle retells S. this story, but he is furious, sends Hawk for the Nightjar, the Nightjar arrives, says he decided what was more; 1) plains, if the hills from the top of which you can't see the neighborhood is considered plains; 2) deserts, if oases in which springs are not accessible to the thirsty are considered deserts; 3) the dead, if those whose minds sleep, are considered dead; 4) women, if men, consider those who listen to their wives as women; S. lets birds go]: Kanbal Shal 1985:167-171; Kyrgyz [when married, the spouses agreed to die together; seven to eight years later, the wife died; husband climbed into the grave; after a while the woman came to life; offered not to return to people so as not to frighten them; the couple settled in the forest on an island in the middle of the sea; the husband hunted, they had two sons; when the eldest is seven and the youngest is five years old, the khan's son, who came to hunt, saw a woman, offered to go with him; she agreed to the condition to kill her husband; the khan's son asked her to find out how to kill her husband; he replies that only by tying his hands with a rope by the thumbs, and then clicking on the fontanel on the crown; the husband agreed to play tying his thumbs; the woman called the khan's son, he beat her husband, but could not kill her; then the wife clicked her husband on the fontanel; the khan's son and the woman left his body in the forest; however, the horseman woke up, found and asked his children, asked him to untie him hands, bring food; the woman rushed after the children, her husband grabbed her and brought the woman home; the sleeping khan's son cut off his head, hid his body, locked the woman, told the children to play; one of the people of the khan's son he went in and guessed what had happened, but the horseman cut off his head; then shot the others; brought her to his people, buried the khan's son, installed two birch trees on both sides of the tomb, everyone they were tilted peacefully, tied to the tops by that woman's legs and released; the woman was torn; the dzhigit stayed with her sons]: handwritten fund of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, translated by Ruslan Doutaliev; recorded in Tonskaya parish, 1927

(Wed. Japan. Japanese [spouses agree that if one dies, 1) his or her body (head) should be kept in the house; 2) the other will not remarry; the wife dies; a beggar comes into the house; the widower asks answer him, Yes, if a voice from the coffin asks if the husband is here; the beggar opens the coffin out of curiosity, is haunted by the spirit of the deceased or by a rolling head; or a beggar asks the deceased whether it is possible to leave, answers, Not yet, and then, out of boredom, replies that it is possible; the husband marries again, the spirit comes to harm the new wife, but she escapes or loses her head; the husband comes home, he is haunted by a rolling head, he swims away in a boat, his head jumps past the boat into the sea, turns into an abalone shell]: Ikeda 1971, no. 612A: 155).

(Wed. Mesoamerica European borrowings. Itza [husband wants to be buried with his wife if she dies; if he dies, the way will bury his wife; wife agrees; dies; husband sees a mouse in the tomb, she has a flower; he fans his wife, seven years later for years she comes to life; they go outside; on the seashore, the husband falls asleep on his wife's lap; the wife leaves a stone under his head, leaves with another man who called her; the king promises to take with his son-in-law someone who will revive his deceased daughter; that man revived her with that flower; ordered her to find a traitor, cook her in boiling oil]: Hofling 1991:166-183).