K120a2. Not a mother, but a mother-in-law .13.14.21.23.28.30.31.33.
Family members want to marry their daughter to someone they don't want to marry (they usually want to marry her brother). The girl refuses to treat her father, mother, etc. as appropriate close relatives, but calls her relatives (mother-in-law, sister-in-law, etc.) or enemies; or the relatives themselves demand that the girl treated them as relatives.
Mundang, Sudanese Arabs, Bilin, Kabila, Tunisia, Kirati, Rajastans, Baiga, Muria, Oriya, Kannada, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Turkmens, Bukhara Arabs, Tajiks, Yagnobs, Khufs, Yazgulyam, Sarykoltsy, Lithuanians, Kyrgyz.
Sudan - East Africa. Mundang [while her sister sleeps, her brother measures her waist with a lace; promises to marry only the one that fits his bead belt; he only fits his sister; father, mother react to the daughter's words only when she calls them her father-in-law, mother-in-law; the girl runs away with her faithful friend; the brother catches up with them, cuts off her sister's hands and thumbs; a friend helps her reach the village chief, his wife sheltered them; they move on; the boa constrictor agrees to make the cripple healthy, for this purpose swallows and regurgitates it, the severed hands and fingers are back in place; the girls offer themselves to marry the boa constrictor, he refuses; asks the former cripple, if she gives birth to a son, to send him to him, he will become his friend; if the daughter, send her to his wife; the girls come to the chief; he tells all courtiers to jump over the fire ; those who insulted the handless fall, burn; the old woman advises to stop the extermination, because there will be no subjects left; the leader marries a former handless woman; their son has grown up, the leader leads him to a boa constrictor; everyone is happy ]: Louafaya 1990:164-171; Sudanese Arabs: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 20 [Fatima is so beautiful that her brother Muhammad decided to marry her himself; F. asked her mother to help put a jug of water on her head; she replied that at first F. should call her not mother, but mother-in-law; the same with her father (father-in-law), brother (groom); F. told all the girls in the village that it had been decided to pass them off as brothers, took them all away, they came to the cannibal giant; F. ordered not to eat anything, hide the food in a cooked hole, but the youngest girl ate it; F. told the cannibal to bring water from the seventh sea in a net or in a leaky calebass; the girls ran away, but the youngest could not; the cannibal returned, learned from the youngest that the girls had run away, told them to have piles of gold; silk fabrics; each time F. tells them to take only a little and run further; the river; F. asked the crocodile to transport, on the other side he would give one girl to eat; when they swam, F. tells the crocodile to transport their mother (i.e. the cannibal) first; when they are in the middle rivers, F. shouted that the crocodile was on his back; he dived and ate the cannibal; the girls settled in a cave; an old man with 6 sons nearby; F. asks him how to skin him off - pierce a thorn ; she plunged, her skin slept, F. put it on, returned to the cave in the guise of an old man; the camel looked like eating foliage from a bush, the girls drove him away; the young men consistently began to come to find out what was going on; everyone took it for the girl; when Wad al-Amin came up, only an imaginary old man came up to the cave; the old man says he is unable to herd cattle; YES agrees to herd pigeons by the river; F. takes off the old man's skin by the river; sent from Her slave is delighted, but he cannot tell him anything; the imaginary old man said that the slave was sick, let his chest be burned; so several times; then AM himself went, saw everything; at home he offered to play chess, the winner will remove the skin from the loser; F. won but did not fresh AM; AM won, F. took off her skin; the whole village gathered for the wedding], 22 [Muhammad wants to take his sister from his wife; agree to take off a jug off her head only if she calls him fiancé; the same mother: mother-in-law; father: father-in-law; she throws the jug, asks the carpenter to make her a dawn-palm (wooden case, DC), comes to Sultan, remains to work with other slaves; the Sultan's son wants to choose a wife, the girls come to dance; DC takes off his cover, dances unrecognized; for the third time, the Sultan's son grabs her hand, he has her golden ring remains; he goes in search; he is baked bread for the road, the DC puts it in his own ring; this bread is at the bottom of the bag; when the Sultan's son finds the ring, he tells him to return; plays with DC four games of checkers, the loser will be taken off his clothes; DC wins the first three, but forgives the Sultan's son in the name of himself, his mother, his father; for the fourth time he wins, takes off the cover, throws silk blanket for a girl; wedding; once a former DC sees her parents among the poor; forgives them, settles them in a separate house]: 110-114, 118-120; bilin [the girl went to get water; when she returned , her mother says that she is not her mother, but her mother-in-law, her father is not her father, but her father-in-law, etc.; her brother says he is her husband; she sharpened her razor, stabbed her brother, and ran away with seven friends; On the way, she refuses meat, jewelry, gives everything to her friends, says that she is her brother's killer; they come to the ogre's house; an old woman tells them to run; by the river a girl says that if she did evil, let the water carry it away, and if not, let the waters part; the waters parted, the friends crossed dry to the other side; the ogre asks how they crossed; the girls tell him to tie a white stone to his feet; the cannibal drowned; because of the rain, the girls climbed a tree, and King Dschaga's son and seven companions stopped under it; the brother's killer pulled the animal's skin over her head to look like a monk; the youngest of her friends wrote, the girls were noticed; the prince took the imaginary monk as a servant; when the girl was secretly swimming, a dumb servant saw her, but could not tell her master; the interpreter ordered the prince to hang a cow's skin in the door; If a girl, when she sees her, says wuhir, I must say: be my monk; if hetekay says, be my wife; she said hetekay, the prince married her, they have seven sons]: Reinisch 1883, No. 51:178- 183.
North Africa. Kabila [gold-haired Zalgoum's brother caught her hair from the source; before that, the horse refused to go to the water; promised to marry the one who owns the hair; the mother went around all the girls in the village, only Z. had such hair; her brother was going to marry her; her parents had to agree; the mother tried on her daughter's wedding dress, saying that her brother's fiancée had the same figure; the mother gave clay and sends Z. to renew the walls of my brother's room; swallow: give me clay for my nest, I'll name my brother's bride; Z.: why do I need it; mother sends wheat to peel, crow asks for grains (same); sends cook couscous; the cow asks to leave some for her calf; Z. it seems strange and she gives seeds to the crow; she says that the bride is herself; Z. runs away from home; hid in the grotto, closing the entrance with a big stone; the shepherd's goat butts the stone; the shepherd hears the song Z. (go away the goat and tell my father from my mother that Z. is here); father came; Z.: you were my father and now my father-in-law; father: stick out your hand; Z. stuck out, he kissed her; same mother (mother-in-law); brother (husband); that compartment his hand with a sword; threw his hand on the roof - let the sun dry it or take it away by birds of prey; when he went to that spring, he pricked his knee, it became inflamed; no one can help; the prince found out about the girl in the cave, promised a reward to whoever lured her out; an old healer; she made a fire, put the pan upside down, began to cook clumsily on purpose; said that she could not see anything from her old age; Z. went out hiding the prince grabbed her, she agreed to go with him; the prince hid her in the upper room of the palace, but the jealous wives found her; noticed the absence of a hand; suggested to the prince: let everyone paint their nails with henna; Z .: I do it late at night; wives: who will sew and sew the best clothes for the prince; the crow asks Z. for a thread, found a dried hand on the roof, brought it, sewed it, grassed a cure, his hand grew; Z. she managed to make the best clothes; she gave birth to two sons, who grew up and went to find her parents; Z. with them, told them to hide her luxurious outfit under rags - from dust and robbers; entered her brother's house disguised as a beggar; his wife and child are there; his brother is lying, his swollen leg is black and thorn; Z. easily pulled it out with the hand that her brother had once cut off; he recovered; remembered his sister's curse: you Only the hand you cut off will heal; Z. ran away, all the inhabitants chased her, but she threw a handful of bran into their eyes; she returned with her sons to her husband and told him her story]: Mammeri 1996, No. 5:82-98 ; Tunisia [The king has a son, Salif, and a daughter, Lulja, are adults, and one son is small. While hunting, Salif left his horse by the river, but the horse suddenly stopped drinking and made a strange sound. Salif looked into his mouth and found hair. He swore he would marry the owner of this hair, even if it was his own sister. I asked an old lady to find this girl. It was L. Salif insisted on getting married. At first the parents were against it, then they agreed. On her wedding day, L. persuaded her younger brother Zarif to grab a comb to comb her hair and give it only to her when she came to him alone. He did so. L. and Z. ran up the mountain together. The king came and tried to persuade her to go down. She replied that when he was her father, she had to obey all his orders, and now it is more difficult to comply with his demand than this mountain gets higher and the mountain is higher. Same thing when mother and brother came, until the mountain was very high so they could hardly see each other. Gradually, the mountain shrunk and L. and Z. went down and followed the road. From a distance, they saw two slides: one white and the other black. We decided that Zarifa would be white and Lulje would be black. White turned out to be salt, and black turned out to be dates. Zarif was thirsty. They went first to the lake of mules, then to the lake of donkeys. Each time L. kept her brother from drinking this water. When we reached the lake of gazelles, she could not hold it, he drank water and turned into a gazelle. They continued their journey and met the hunting emir. He took Lyulja and the gazelle to the palace and married her. The emir had two more wives. They hated L. When the Emir went to war, L. was pushed into a well where a huge snake lived, and Lyulja was then nine months pregnant. They then decided to slaughter the gazelle. The Emir came back and asked about Lulja. They said they didn't know. But he noticed that the gazelle was still running to the well, looked into it and saw that L. was there with a baby in her arms, and a snake wrapped around her. Then the prince put the food in a wooden bowl into the well, the snake rushed to her, and the prince pulled his wife and child out of the well. The Emir divorced his two wives and found a magician for the gazelle who turned her back into a human]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 73 in Korovkina MS
Tibet - Northeast India. Kirati (? eastern Nepal) [the gold-haired princess has seven brothers; one hair is lost, her parents promise to pass her off as the one who found her; finds her middle brother; the princess hides in a tree; father, mother's name, she says that he can no longer call them father, mother, both fall dead in grief; the middle brother demands that the sister come down, tries to cut down a tree, but it only gets taller {and felling, apparently overgrown}; the younger brother asks his sister to pick him up; she lowers his belt; she has only three sesame seeds from food; brother drops two, they turn into cows; brother and sister go down, take cows, find a hut in the mountains, stay in it; the prince hunts, sees a boy with a cow, praises the cow; the boy says his sister is beautiful; she smears soot on her face, hides her hair under a handkerchief; the prince asks for water, splashed water into the girl's face three times, saw a beautiful woman, married her]: Heunemann 1980, No. 6:75-78.
South Asia. Rajastans [the prince sees women's hair in the river; decides to marry only its owners; the prince's mother shows him all kinds of girls, but the hair is suitable only for two; these are the prince's sisters Sona and Rupa; they climbed a tree above the river and asked the tree to hide them; the king asks them to come down; daughters: what are we going to call you father-in-law? the prince himself (what are we going to call a husband?) ; the tree began to grow, then split by lightning and the girls in it disappeared]: Coyaud 2013:118-120; baiga [six sons are married, the youngest seventh is still single; brings a mushroom, says he is getting married whoever eats it; the younger sister accidentally eats it, her brother wants to marry her; she climbs a tree, it gets tall; the mother asks if she should call her daughter or daughter-in-law, she replies that she does not know; so with all her relatives, the last one is her brother; at night she asks to be allowed into the house; only her brother hears and opens it; sleeps with her; kills her and herself with an ax]: Elwin 1944, No. 4 : 385-386; Muria [7 brothers are married, sister Balosundri is single; older brother wants to marry none; she ran away, took a boat to sea; parents and brothers came ashore singing, asking her return, because everything is ready for the wedding; B.: you used to be parents, and now father-in-law and mother-in-law; you used to be my brothers and wives, now brothers of my husband and wife's brothers; the elder sings last brother; B.: used to be brother and now husband, Tony, my boat; B. drowned]: Elwin 1944, No. 17.4:381-382; oriya [the merchant's eldest son is married, the youngest is not; leaves Annona reticulata's fruit lying down (Annona reticulata ) - whoever eats, I'll marry him; my younger sister ate it; the wedding is being prepared, the girl sails away in the boat; answers all relatives "You used to be father and mother, now father-in-law and mother-in-law", etc. ; the boat fell into a whirlpool, the goddess of water carried the girl away]: Mohanti 1975:97-98.
Central Europe. Russians (Pinega, 1927, Shardomen village, schoolgirl) [Masha's youngest daughter has 7 brothers and 6 sisters. She goes to the forest for berries and never comes back. Her mother, brothers, sisters, daughters-in-law call her to the bathhouse ("go to the bay, the bayenka is heated, made, your broom hangs on the stove pole"), she does not come. At night, Masha asks to be allowed in, but her father agrees only if she calls him father-in-law, mother if she calls him mother-in-law, brothers brother-in-law, sisters sister-in-law. Masha is ashamed to name it and leaves. Her father finds her dead under a birch tree in the morning]: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 109:213-214.
Iran - Central Asia. Turkmens [the young man says he will marry someone who fits the ring, even if it is his sister; the sister goes into the reeds; all her relatives are looking for her, but she does not tell the reeds to part, for it is not her mother, father, younger brother, younger sister, but mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law; but the younger sister remains, the girl asks her to bring a mirror and a comb from home; both walk along the steppe, the eldest does not tell you to drink from the rivers, otherwise the youngest will become a jackal, a wolf, a keik (goat); she drinks, becomes a keik; the sister climbs the plane tree, her son sees her; his mother pretends to be blind, not washes and stains clothes; the girl gets off to help her, the son of bai takes her as his wife, promises to take care of her keik sister; the slave calls her to the river, drowns her, swallows her by fish, puts on her dress; says she is tanned , who lisps, croaking in response to the crow that she spat, putting his stomach on his head; asks her husband to slaughter the keyik; he complains to his sister; she answers, tells her to ask the son of the bay not to do so; he hears a voice they catch fish, get their wife, a boy born with her; Keik became a girl again; a bald slave was tied to the tails of mares; her father killed his sons, her mother killed her husband because they were the first to open the bag; in mother found her daughter's head in a bag]: Stebleva 1969, No. 21:66-71; Bukhara Arabs: Vinnikov 1969, No. 9 [father wants to marry daughter; she runs away into the reeds; father tells the reeds to open up; girl: was father, now you are a father-in-law; the same is mother (mother-in-law), brother (husband); goes out to the younger sister; both go away, the youngest drinks, becomes a gazelle; the maid sees in the pond the reflection of a girl who has climbed a tree, takes it for her own; the emir marries a girl, promises to feed the gazelle from a golden feeder; the emir's elder wife pushed a new one into a pond, swallowed by a fish; while in the belly of a fish, she gave birth Hasan and Hussein; the elder wife pretends to be sick, tells the gazelle to be slaughtered; the emir watches the gazelle as it talks to the swallowed one by the pond; takes his wife and children out of the fish, and executes his eldest wife; they have achieved their object of desires and goals], 60 [the father promises his son to give him a wife; he wants a sister to marry; before the wedding feast, the daughter ran into the reeds; the mother asks to go out; daughter: you used to be me mother, now mother-in-law; the same is father (father-in-law), brother (stranger); the fish swallowed it, she gave birth to twins inside the fish; {the informant clearly missed a large passage}; people were going to slaughter {obviously younger} brother; he calls his sister; sister: I can't go out, let the butcher go blind, his knife be stupid; so with all the butchers; the king asks his wife's {madsham} brother where his sister is; fish in the stomach caught a woman and her children out of her stomach; everything is fine]: 69-71, 330-331; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [bai tells him to marry him a wife as beautiful as Myrambi, the daughter of a poor neighbor; they do not find one ; parents promise to give M. bay; M. gives rice to magpie, then chicken; they tell M. that it will be given for bay; M. stuck a needle in the ground, it turned into a plane tree to the sky; M. sings, telling the plane tree to pick it up away from the ground; the plane tree began to pick it up; the mother asks me to return - you were told a lie; M.: you were my mother, now you are an enemy, everyone in the world is angry; the same with father; with older brother; younger brother cried, M. felt sorry for him, tells the plane tree to let her down, her brother to grab her pigtail, got up with him; brother and sister found themselves in the endless steppe; brother and sister followed it; the old man warns do not drink from the lake (you will become frogs), from the stream (gazelles), get drunk from the river; brother drinks from the stream, makes a gazelle; the goat transports them across the river; M. fried the partridge, the padishah's nuker came and brought him this partridge, M. became the padishah's favorite wife; he left, the two older wives began to rock the pregnant M. on a swing on the pond, cut the rope, M. fell; the wives told the padishah that M. was peri, flew away; the eldest wife says that she is sick, asks the torturers to let him drink first; M. replies from the pond that she has Shohusain and Mohusain (Ali's sons) on her chest; the padishah tells the giant drink the pond, returns M. and the children, the gazelenok becomes a boy again; the wives were tied to the tails of mares and the stallion was allowed to see them]: Amonov 1972:50-58 (=Amonov 1961:59-67, =Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:189-195 , =1960:218-225, =Osmanov 1989:297-305); Khufs [the father has two sons and a daughter; the eldest asks the father to give him a wife; the father orders to stick a flower in the hair of whoever he likes; the son chose a sister; the old woman told her that she was being married to her brother; the girl went up to the plane tree and told her to grow up; mother asks the plane tree to be shorter; girl: you served as my mother {in the sense that you are no longer my mother}; the same with my father; with older brother; when her younger brother came up, she went down and went with him to another country; asked him not to drink from the stream - you would become a wolf; then a horse; a dog; the fourth time the boy got drunk and became a lamb; them the king met, brought it to him; the old wife put a new one on the swing, shakes, she falls into the pond; when the king returns, she tells me to slaughter the lamb; he cries by the pond: The damask knife is sharpened, Leyla's brother into the cauldron they put it down; the tsar heard, threw a rope to his wife and pulled it out; tied his former wife to a horse, who smashed her to pieces]: Sokolova 1959, No. 21:83-86; Yazgulyam [girl cooked noodles by the river; forty: in the evening you will be passed off as your brother; the girl planted a seedling, threatened to tear it out if it did not become a big poplar; climbed it; brother: go down sister; girl: you were my brother, became my husband; same father (became father-in-law), mother (mother-in-law); then the girl went down, came to the old woman, hid under the basket, the mother came, did not find her; the girl went to the cave]: Edelman 1966, No. 21:217; Yagnobtsy [young man promises to marry a girl who looks like his sister; does not find it, decides to take her sister herself; the sparrow talks to her about it, gives her a magic wand, the girl flies away on it; refuses to return in return at the request of her mother (she is now her mother-in-law), her younger brother; but then she takes him with her; they go, the sister forbids the boy to drink from different rivers, for he will become a marmot, a bear, a pig; he drinks from a river that turns half into a goat; sister climbs a tree above the water; the maid thinks she is so beautiful, refuses to carry water; the old woman persuaded her to go down, the king married the girl ; while hunting, other wives persuaded her to swing on a swing, cut off the rope, the girl fell into the pond; another wife says she is sick, asks to slaughter the goat; the goat asks for permission to go to the pond, sings about that Bibi-Mo (i.e. his sister) has Hassan and Hussein (newborns) in the arms, let the knife turn around and prevent him from slaughtering; the maid tries to slaughter the goat, hurts herself; the king hears, tells him to bring cattle, that drinks water, the pond dries up; feast; other wives tied to horses]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 45:206-210; Sarykol residents [parents want to pass off their three sons for their three daughters; the youngest climbs on plane tree, tells her to grow high; father, mother, brother ask her to return; she answers everyone that yesterday was a father, and today her father-in-law, yesterday a mother, and today a mother-in-law, yesterday a brother, and today a husband; The plane tree goes to heaven; a needle sticks into the house of three brothers, cooks in their absence; only the younger brother does not fall asleep, the brothers make the girl a sister; they tell me to watch the fire, the bead falls into the hearth, the girl takes her for coal; she comes to ask the old woman for fire, she gives her, tells her to bake cakes at home, comes on a goat, sticks a needle into the floor, tells her to dance, the girl stabs her legs, the old woman eats cakes, dipping them into blood; brothers guard, only the younger one kills the witch, her corpse is burned]: Pakhalina 1966:103-106.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [old people have two daughters (only one beautiful) and two sons; the younger brother decided to marry a beautiful sister; in winter she went out to rinse her scarves and the door was locked; she consistently addresses all family members; everyone answers the same way: if you call it not a mother, but a mother-in-law (not a father, but a father-in-law, not a sister, but a sister-in-law, not an older brother, but a brother-in-law, not a younger brother, but sweet), I'll open it; she has to call her brother cute; when she enters his room, she asks the earth to open, her brother has one hair left in her hand; in the hut, two daughters of the witch sew, hide the girl under with a needle (more often turned into a needle); the witch arrives, believes that a person's smell is because of her arm or leg left between her teeth; the witch returns, finds the girl under the beds; the girl asks show how to sit on a shovel, pushes the witch into the stove, the witch's daughters give her a brush, a whetstone, a towel; the witch gets out of the stove, chases, the girl throws objects, they turn into a forest (the witch tells shackle an ax for a blacksmith, cuts through a path), a mountain (shackle a shovel), water (the witch drinks, bursts); the girl was hired to work on the estate, married a panych]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 44:102-107.
Turkestan. Kyrgyz (western 1959 p. Zhapasaldy, Ala-Buka District, Jalal-Abad Region) [The old men have three daughters and an older son; one of the sisters is married; the brother took an apple, swore and swore: I will marry whoever he falls; the apple thrown fell into the middle sister; once she was a guard a cornfield, a crow began to bite corn, a girl threw a lump at it; a crow: your older brother to marry you; the girl ran away from home, climbed on a rock, cried; saw a man coming up , prayed: "Open up, Talkamysh, open, I'll get inside"; the stone opened; the girl's parents are looking for her, that man said he saw her hide in a stone; parents asked Talkamysh ("reeds") open up and release their daughter, but she asks the stone not to open and the stone listens to her; the mother turns to the "daughter", who tells the "mother-in-law" to leave; the same with her older sister ("go away, sister-in-law!") ; the girl lets her younger sister into her and they leave together; they are thirsty; water flows through a goat's horn riverbed; the eldest asks not to drink; next time she allowed her to drink, her sister became as a kid; they came to the palace of a rich horseman; he has an evil wife; he decided to marry a girl; went hunting; the wife took the girl to the water and pushed her; told her husband that the girl had left unknown where; asks to slaughter the kid; he runs to water: "Sister, sister, they want to slaughter me!" The older sister replied: "My dear, poor thing, how can I help you, covered me waist-deep with sand, I can't get out"; the rich horseman overheard, did not water his cattle of all four types for seven days - camels, goats and sheep, cows, horses; on the eighth he took the animals to a watering hole, the cattle drank all the water, the bottom appeared, the horseman pulled out the girl; it turned out that the stone in which she was hiding was that His name was Talkamysh; the kid became a girl again; the feast for 40 days]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:80-84.