Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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K125. One of the items is a traitor.

.14.-.17. (.20.) .22.27.28.30.34.-.37.39.43.-.45.58.59.66.

The pursuer asks various items where the hero hid or ran. Everyone is silent, one of the items gives out a hero.

Moroccan Arabs, Portuguese, Sicilians, Sardinians, Scots, Irish, Palestinians, Khmu, (Ponape), Greeks, Macedonians, Northern Ukrainians (Chernihiv), Eastern Ukrainians ( Kharkiv), (Russians), Persians, Altaians, Buryats, Kets, Northern Selkups, Taimyr Nenets, Central (?) Yakuts, Dolgans, Evens, Nanais, Orochi, Udege, Wilta, Forest Yukaghirs, Modoc, Western Forest Cree, Steppe Cree, Montagne, Carinha na Orinoco, Machigenga.

North Africa. The Arabs of Morocco [beautiful Lunja sees pigeons asking for something, she feeds them grains first, then her mother's jewelry; she goes after the pigeons, who explain that their mother is a ghoul; L. must ask God to make the needle's eye pass through it, to venerate the long breasts of the guli cannibal; she says she is now the sister of her children Aissa and Moussa; in another country, a son Sultan and relative (cousin) L. hurts the rest of the children; the old woman teaches her to throw the ball through her window, the sultan's son will come in, she will shame him that he does not go to save L.; the young man puts his mother's hand in hot soup, frees for promising to tell everything about L.; he comes to the country of the ghouls, the old woman talks about the cave where L.; arranges a meeting for them; the old woman says that it is too early to run, the gulya will catch up; tells L. henna is all in the guli cave; she forgot about the mortar in which she crushed henna leaves; the Sultan's son took L., the mortar woke up the gulya, she rushed in pursuit; catching up, Gulya asks what the Sultan's son is eating so as not to lose strength; L. replies that grass and wood; gulya eats them in vain; what the horse eats - his knees; gulya eats his knees; dying, tells, when approaching the house, to drive along the red road, not along the white road, drink from the muddy, and not a clean stream; if you make a mistake, he meets a big bird, it will offer food, you must eat a handful (mouthful), throw the other into the hem; the Sultan's son insists on driving along the white road; drinks from clean a stream, but L. is from a muddy one; eats everything, and L. drops it into the hem; the bird tells us to show that it has been eaten; L. shows what has been thrown into the hem, the young man cannot, the bird swallows it with the horse, flies away; L. kills the dog the Sultan's son, puts on her skin, comes to his father in the guise of a dog, who tells his servants to take care of her; every day a bird flies by, the Sultan's son curses his parents from her belly, who hold L. a dog; a beggar hears this, the sultan brings the imaginary dog to the palace, the son of the bird shouts for his father to kill the bull, the birds fly off, we must ask the white dog to regurgitate what she has eaten; she is so full that she cannot take off, belches a young man on horseback; at night he asks for a dog and hot water; in the morning he is beautiful in his bed; wedding]: El Koudia 2003, No. 11:72-80.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [the girl is enclosed in the tower; she lowers her hair, the prince goes up to her room; once a witch saw it; she called the girl, imitating the voice of the prince; the girl let it down hair; the witch got up and began to persuade her not to hang out with the prince; went down and left; when the prince got up and the girl told him everything, he told him to run immediately; the girl said goodbye to with all the objects, but forgot about the broom and the broom; took a glass of water and bags of pebbles and sand with her; when the witch came, the table and chairs replied that the girl was sick, but the broom with the broom said that she ran away with the prince; the witch set off in pursuit; the girl threw sand (sand wasteland), pebbles (wall), poured water (the river, the witch stopped chasing); the prince told the girl to wait for him in the tree, and he she will go to prepare their solemn arrival; a black maid came for water, saw the girl's reflection in the source, took it for her own, broke the jug - why does such a beautiful woman need it; came for the second time - same; the third time with a brass jug, he did not break, she looked up, saw the girl, climbed to her, offered to comb her hair, put a pin into her head, turning the girl into a dove; when The prince returned, the black woman said that she had darkened from the sun while sitting in the sun; every time a dove flies to the gardener and asked how the prince was doing with black Mary; the gardener told the prince, who told catch a dove in a ribbon snare; dove: you can't catch me in one; the same is made of silver; when the snare is golden, the dove was caught; the imaginary wife asked me to kill the dove, but the prince refused; once he felt and pulled out the pin, the girl was born; replied that she would like to make steps out of the maid's bones to climb into bed and pull her skin onto the drum]: Pedroso 1882, No. 2:6-9; Sicilians [seven pregnant women steal yuyuba in a witch's garden; she hides, notices her ear alone, mistakes her for a mushroom, a witch grabs one of the women; lets go for promising to give her a child in 7 years; Angiola is born; the witch asks her to remind her mother of the agreement; the mother advises her to answer that she forgot to remind her; so many times; the witch injured A.'s finger, the mother had to send her daughter; the witch loves A., keeps her in the tower without entrances; when approaching, asks to lower the braids to climb them; the prince sees this, calls A. in the same words, climbs to her; they give food to all the items in the room, forget the broom; they run, taking three magic balls and a dog; a broom tells the witch what happened; the witch chases, A. throws balls, they turn into a mountain of soap, a mountain of nails, a river; the witch stops persecution, orders A.'s face to become doggy; prince settles A. in a forest hut, occasionally visits; the dog promises to restore A. beauty; comes to the witch, caresses, she agrees to give a bottle of water; After washing, A. becomes more beautiful than before; wedding]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 7:47-51; the Sardinians [the witch envies her daughter's beauty and imprisones her in a tower; to go up to her, tells her to let her down braids and climbs them; the prince sees it and gets to the girl himself; fearing the arrival of her mother, she turns it into two lemons; then into a spindle; before running away with the prince, the girl feeds all the objects in in his room, but forgets the scoop (una palettina); he tells the witch everything; the girl gives the prince a ring; after parting with her, he forgets her when his mother kissed him in his sleep; the prince marries another; during a feast, the witch's daughter sends a dove to throw him a ring; he remembers everything]: Aprile 2000:169.

Western Europe. Scots [Inery was spinning at night, wanting help; 7 little women in green came in; they began to work quickly, dawn is approaching, her husband can't wake up; the old man teaches fairies to shout "Berg- the hill is burning!" , they will run out, everything they touched must be turned upside down; A. locked; spinning wheel, spinning wheel, loom, water respond that they have been knocked over, stopped, etc.; freshly baked bun rushes open the door, but A. managed to grab it; sprayed her husband with water and he woke up]: Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1967:190-195; Irish [the water in which they washed their feet should not be left overnight in the house; mother with They left them as their daughter; they knocked on the door. - Key, open the door! - I can't, I'm tied to an old woman's bed. - Dirty water, open the door! The pelvis split, the water spilled, the door opened; three men brought in huge bags of wool, and the three women began to spin quickly; the daughter decided to go to the healer; pretended to cook for water tea; the healer taught me to shout: Mount Sliabh na MBan is burning! Those who came rushed to the mountain; the mother and daughter poured out the water and closed the door with a bolt; when they arrived, the water replied that it could not open the door, it was under their feet]: Danaher 1967, No. 39:127-129.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with ghee; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents about the promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills him with honey and oil; the old woman comes when almost everything has been dismantled; takes the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking for L., she lowers her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her the witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells her to give the melon, the daughter hides one a seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run, spraying all objects with henna except a mortar and a pestle; everyone replies to the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and a pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog chew), the brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish the urine), the mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house, the young man tells L. to wait for him to cook everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now stabs them into him, turning them into a dove; the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins; wedding; maid burn]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166.

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Ponape [Tai lived under a rock; he was gray, bags under his eyes, affected by elephant disease; swam to the leader's daughter, left gray hair, bags under his eyes, elephant disease on the way, was handsome; daughter the chief agreed to marry him; when they were sailing in the boat, he took back everything he had left behind, became an ugly old man; told the stones to fly in on the rock, the girl was locked in a stone house; at night he called other demons to eat the girl; sister T. Litepin Malekelek heard her cry; told her to become an ant and get outside; told her to run, politely addressing all the trees; but on the way, the girl wrote to one of the plants and it got angry; T. chased, asking the trees; everyone kept silent, because the plant said that the girl ran and rushed into the sea; the girl asked the sea to detain T., asked the reef to rise from the sea; climbed the reef, I met two women, asked me to hide her; when T. ran up, they threw ash in his eyes and then advised him to wash them, but muddied; T. went blind and died; the girl ran home]: Fischer 1954: 263-269).

Burma - Indochina. Khmu [a man with two younger sisters {it's not clear whether family or classification} goes to catch frogs at night with torches; women devour them raw, throw a stone into the water like a frog jumped and swam away; he runs away, telling all objects not to give it away, but forgetting to warn the grass under the log; the sisters find him sleeping in the men's house; pull out and eat his eyes, leave his body face down, as if he is sleeping; his mother is looking for, finding a corpse; the older brother puts a bumblebee in a vessel, tells his sisters that his soul is in the vessel {more precisely, invulnerability, unvulnerability; or rather, evil spirits who have taken possession of his sisters}; this makes it clear that he is of the same nature as the sisters; they say that their soul is in open bamboo at the spring (bamboo that has no leaves); confess that they have 12 perfumes; they say they ate seeds olives and mangoes (i.e. eyes); older brother shuts bamboo when all 12 souls are inside; throws bamboo into the fire, sisters die; he forbids people to take fire from this hearth; one old woman violates the ban so perfumes continue to take possession of people]: Lindell et al. 1977, No. 7:51-55.

The Balkans. Greeks [the old woman cannot cook lentil soup for a long time; when she has cooked it, she put it in the river; the prince's horse does not drink, he turns the pot over in anger; the old woman wants him to fall in love with gold-haired Anthousa; he comes to the house without entering; hides, sees the dragon mother telling A. to lower her golden hair, climbs it; the same brother A.; when they leave, the young man calls A. in the same words; A. hides him; runs away with him, blindfolded with all objects; forgot about the mortar; she tells the mother's dragon that her daughter ran away with the prince; mother chases a bear; A. throws a thin one, then a thick comb (a thicket of thin, then thick trunks), a handkerchief (sea); on the shore, the mother teaches that A. should make two birds out of the dough, when the prince leaves her in the tree, goes to her mother, she will go to his mother, she is his he will kiss, he will forget everything; at the prince's wedding, the female bird tells the story of A., and the male replies every time that he does not remember; the prince remembers everything, marries A.]: Megas 1970, No. 22:42-46 (something like that the same, but easier in Vazhdaev 1982:155-159); Macedonians [all daughters died, son Kostadin remained; mother got bogged down in the swamp; the wolf pulled her out for promising to give him his unborn child if a girl was born; Tentelina was born, grew up, the wolf meets, asks her mother to remind her mother of the promise; she first really forgets, then her mother told her to answer again what she forgot; under the threat of being eaten, T. goes to the wolf; he put her on a tall poplar; when she comes in the evening, calls, she hangs her hair, he climbs it; K. tells her mother to reveal the truth, goes for T.; the old woman teaches what to do; T. is afraid that 12 elves tell the wolf to escape; the old woman tells everyone to give a piece of bread; forgot about the wolf sitting in the boot; the wolf brings other wolves to eat T.; they chase children; they throw a lump clay (swamp), comb (thorny thickets), soap (mountain); other wolves angrily ate kidnapper T.; children returned to their mother]: Martin 1955:7-14.

Central Europe. Eastern Ukrainians (Kharkiv) [The Tsar makes a "zalizny" wolf for children - Ivan and Oleksandra. He comes to life, parents hide their children in the oven, the wolf eats the king and queen. The wolf asks at the pot, then at the bowl, the grip, where the children are hiding, they do not know. The chisel says that the owner hit him on the cheeks and head, promises to point out that if the wolf throws him over his head, it ends up in the oven. The children ask the wolf not to eat them, promise to consider them their elder brother, he takes them to the graves, and goes for the prey himself. Cranes ask the royal children if they are sitting of their own free will, they answer, the birds carry the children away. The wolf discovers the loss, goes in pursuit, the crane asks Ivan Tsarevich if the wolf is far away, he replies - "the axis is far away", the wolf blows on the wings of birds and pear them, the cranes fall, the children promise again listen to the wolf, ask them not to eat them. He leaves them on the graves, a bull appears, takes the royal children, asks them to take with him a comb, a handkerchief, a spoon, and a brush. When a bull asks Ivan if the wolf pursuer is far away, he replies that he is close and throws a brush - the forest grows as thick as a brush, then a comb grows a forest as thick as a comb, then a spoon - a mountain grows, a handkerchief grows a sea. A wolf cannot cross the sea]: Kharkov collection 1898, No. 3:127-128; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky district) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake he is lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan is crying; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, takes him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed in it; brother his sister and his sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they appeared dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; his sister went to the river to wash, snakes from another the shore asks to get a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask the animal milk; when I. comes up, the serpent turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let her milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before he died climb the ash tree; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282; (cf. Russians: Afanasiev 1958, No. 201 (Voronezh, Bobrovsky District) [the tsar leaned to the well to drink water, the tsar bear grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know in the house; and at this time, the queen gave birth to twins: Ivan Tsarevich and Mary Tsarevna; the children were hidden in an underground ward; the parents died, the tsar bear came, the palace is empty, a chisel is stuck in the wall; replies that it is necessary throw: wherever he sticks, dig there; the king bear found I. and M., took them to his place; the children asked for a drink; when the king bear went to get water, the eagle picked up the children and carried them, but the king bear scorched his wings; the next time the children want to eat, the eagle carried; the third time the children are carried by a dristun goby; defecates three times in the face of a catching bear; then gives I. a comb and a towel; the abandoned comb turned into the forest, the bear gnawed; I. waved a towel - the lake of fire; the bear stopped chasing; the goby brought him to his house in the clearing; tells him to slaughter and burn it, scatter the ashes in three ridges, a horse, a dog and an apple tree; I. took a horse and a dog, brought a wolf cub and a bear cub from hunting; once he did not take the dog with him; the six-headed serpent flew in, became handsome, asked M. to build a bridge over the lake, took it away, and locked the dog and threw the key into the lake; I. went to look; in the open field, a hut on chicken loaps, on dog heels; I.: turn backwards to the forest, in front of me; in front of me; in the hut Baba Yaga, bone leg from corner to corner, the nose has grown into the ceiling; Baba Yaga tells you to break three twigs from that apple tree, hit the castle, it will stop, you can pick up the dog and go to the snake; the dog, the wolf and the bear tore the snake, I. returned M.], 202 (Bryanskaya , Karechevsky district) [iron wool bear eats people; the tsar ordered to build a high pole; placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena the Beautiful upstairs with food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, annoyingly began to gnaw the broom; he told him to go to the field, there was a pole; the bear began to rock the pole, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, sat on the horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore him apart, tore him apart, brought I. and E. into their mouths to a pole; the same for the second time (the geese carried them, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third goby; covered the bear's eyes three times with droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the goby tells him to slaughter him, collect his bones, hit him, a fist man will come out of them - himself from his fingernail, a beard from his elbow; the peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, killed everyone and locked them in the same room without telling E. go there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; to lime I., sent him for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives in addition to the wolf cub; then but with a bear; a lioness; E. sends a firebird for eggs; she swallowed a fist-man; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash himself in the bathhouse; the animals came running and told I. that the peasant -the fist escaped; he ordered the animals to tear the chieftain, and E. tied the naked one to the tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; brought I. to the heroic girl; I. hardly defeated her, married her; at night she put it on her chest And . hand, it's bad for him, he called the peasant; the man beat the girl until he tamed it; the wife persuaded I. to release E.; she began to look for I. in his head and let a dead tooth into his head; the lion cub saw, pulled it out, became die himself; then a bear cub; then a fox, but she threw her tooth into the frying pan and it crumbled; I. ordered E. to be tied to the horse's tail and open it across the field]: 90-93, 94-97).

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Osmanov 1958 [the dervish gives pomegranate to be eaten by the Shah's childless wife and the apple by the vizier's wife; the vizier gives pomegranate to his wife, she gives birth to daughter Bibi-Mehrnegar (B.), the Shah's wife - son in in the form of a black snake named Mirza Ustu-Humar (M.); the Shah orders the vizier to give his daughter for his son; at night, the serpent sheds its skin and becomes a young man; at the request of her father-in-law B. burns the skin; M. says that she does not finds it before she wears out seven iron dresses, a pair of shoes, staffs, chews seven boxes of chewing gum; on the way she meets seven divas, throws each one in a box; throws it up a ring in a jug that the maid carries for M.; she pours water into M.'s palm, he recognizes the ring; to prevent his aunt from eating B., M. disguises her as a maid; opens it, promising the divas not to kill B. ; the aunt demands 1) sweep the yard with a broom covered with pearls so that no one falls (M. performs); 2) water the yard with a sieve (the same); 3) take the "play-dance" box to my aunt's brother, bring it from him" grab and plant"; on the way she opens the box, cannot put the dancers back; burns the hair, M. comes, puts it back, tells her to do everything against her aunt's orders; accordingly, B. throws the horse's straw , bones to the dog, calls a hole of mud and blood honey, opens a closed door, closes an open door, greets everyone, leaves one box, grabs another, runs, doors, etc., refuse to detain her; M. marries her aunt's daughter, cuts off her head at night, B. says goodbye to all objects, forgets about the stone (a measure of weight); B. and M. run, the stone wakes up her aunt, she pursues; the fugitives throw 1) a reed (thickets) reeds), 2) needle (needle forest), 3) salt (salt marsh), 4) sea foam (sea); aunt asks how they crossed; M. replies what stones; she steps on foam flakes, sinks]: 15-24; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 6 (Kerman) [the vizier's and king's wives are pregnant; the king offers to marry children if they are of different sexes; the vizier has a daughter Mer Niga (Eye of Grace), and the king has a son, a black serpent Miz Mast, or Humar (" Sleepy Head"); on the wedding night, H. takes off his skin, appears to be a young man; puts his skin back on in the morning; the king tells his daughter-in-law to prevent her husband from turning into a snake; the prince tells his wife that his skin can be burned into a fire made of egg shells, a broom handle and hair from a dog's tail; in which case it will disappear and they won't see them; MN burns the skin; prince says his wife will find him by trampling seven pairs of iron shoes and wearing out seven paper cloaks; after wearing out the last pair, MN meets a slave; she says that H. is going to marry; MN throws the ring into the jug, tells the slave to get it into H.'s hands along with water; after recognizing the ring, H. finds MN; she faces death if found out; MN pretends to be a slave; H. gives her her curl, tells her to burn her hair every time if his help is needed; mother brides X. (this is his aunt) tells the imaginary maid 1) sweep with a broom to which the pearls are attached without losing a single pearl; they immediately crumble, MN calls H., he does everything; 2) bring water in a colander and sprinkle the floor (X. performs); 3) fills the box with stinging insects, says that it is full of pearls, tells you to take it where it should be; throw bones on the horse on the way, straw the dog, do not open the closed ones doors, do not close the open ones, do not go to the hole with dirt and blood; MN looked into the box, insects crawled over it; H. collected them; ordered them to do the opposite of what his aunt told him to do; MN opens and closes the doors, greets everyone, gives bones to the dog, horse straw, says that she would like to taste honey from a sweet pit; the aunt orders the door, the dog, the hole to catch the girl; they refuse; on the wedding day, the aunt tells his wife to put candles on the fingers of the slave (i.e. MN) to illuminate the path for the bride; the prince tells his wife to say goodbye to all things; after the wedding ceremony, she cuts off her head; takes away many; she forgot to say goodbye to the pound weight; the kettlebell talks about the bride's murder and escape; Aunt H. and her husband (they are divas) follow the fugitives; turning to God in Solomon's name, H. throws reeds, it turned into reeds; the needle is a grove of needles; salt is a salt marsh; sea foam is the sea with a clot of foam floating in it; aunt: how did you get there? H.: We stepped on a rock in the middle of the sea (this is foam); the pursuers jumped on it, drowned; everything is fine]: 25-32.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Brother Borolda-Mergen tells Sister Babosh-Aar, in his absence, not to fry the liver of the maral, not to hide behind a sable blanket, not to go to a wooded mountain; she roasts the liver floods the fire, the girl comes to an old woman, whose ears serve as bedding and blankets; searches for spiders and centipedes in her head; gets fire; at home she notices that her fur coat is at the hem the thread is attached, cuts it off, hides in the rock; the old woman comes along the thread, asks objects if the BA is alive; the cauldron, the fire, the bed answer that no, otherwise the cauldron would not be cold, the fire would blaze; skin warmups under the bed give BA, because if the BA comes back, it will make them work again; the old woman is ready to get her out of the cliff, but her brother kills her with an arrow; swallowed people come out of the womb alone happy, others are not (the old woman's stomach was warm)]: Garf, Kuchiyak 1978:164-168; Buryats (SE Buryatia) [Zer Dalai sees a lung among the herd, it has turned into a 50-headed mangadhai Asuri Shara; they decide to fight in 3 days; ZD hides sister Bashalay, a bird and a dog in a white rock; a mangadhai kills him; asks all the objects in the yurt where the inhabitants are; the doorknob says it's in a white rock; B. runs away from the mangadhai, pours blood out of the tueska, mangadhai licks her from the ice, his tongue is frozen, B. cut off his head; disguised as a man, she goes to heaven to three Sundays; finds himself inside a bottomless monster camel; there are people swallowed 5, 10 years ago; B. pierces a hole with an arrow, people and animals come out; Sunday women suspect that this is a girl, but she avoids testing; brings them to the remains of her brother, runs away herself, chipping in with a hare; the Resurrectionists revive the ZD, become his wives; he is going to shoot at the hare, his sister tells them not to shoot, takes on a human form; two older wives tied a ball of red thread to her ZD belt, found the house where B. lives; threw a gold ring in her mouth, she died; the youngest wife answers ZD that it was not her fault; he asks the elders what they want: the tails of 70 horses or the tips of 70 ribs; tied them to the tails of stallions; put sister ZD's body in a box, hung them on the horns of a blind red deer; the red deer came to Khartaganag Khan; they fell out of the box a child and a golden ring; the girl grew up, the khan's son married her, they have a child; ZD found them, everything is fine]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 6:109-117.

Western Siberia. Keta: Dulzon 1964 (Kureika) [In autumn, Hun and Sausages went to cut hay, K. looked for lice in X.'s head, put a sharp bone in her ear, brought him home, covered with hay; the children noticed braids mothers; hear K.'s children say that they will eat their eyes tomorrow; K.: small eyes, and I am big; younger brother closed the smoke hole in a park of holes so that K. thinks it's still a starry night; the children told all objects to answer that they had gone to their grandmother's butt; they ran to their grandmother themselves; K. woke up, asked the ladle, the frame from the hearth where the children were; they say that they were well fed, they did not speak; Kleinitsa says that they went into the butt of the hearth; K. set off in pursuit; the hare, the fox, the wolf, the bear carry the children on their backs, are tired; the sisters left the shaky and younger brother in the bear's den; reached the river; the pole on the orders of her grandmother, she transported them across the river, and K. turned them over in the middle of the river; her watermen killed her granddaughters; the grandmother began to teach her granddaughters to hunt bears; the eldest failed, and a bear came out to the youngest; they got it with their grandmother and older sister; the grandmother told their granddaughters, when they walk on the water, not to take a spatula with burbot liver near the ice-hole; the youngest did not listen, the hell took it to her place; the eldest left from her grandmother; K. a jumped out of the stump, offered to look for lice in her head and killed girl X., took her skis; the eagle revived H.; she spoke her skis, which K. a took, quickly caught up with her and took her own skis; they met the old man's son Yryket and the son of an old woman; they asked for an awl to repair the ski; K. passed off Shilo X. as her own, and went on a sledge, and H. walked; K. began to live with the old man's son Yryket, and H. the son of an old woman; the old woman asked H. to sew a ski reed skin for her son, she went to her brother for glue, glued together strong skis, and the old woman's son hunted a lot of deer, and K. and took glue from larch uncles; they gave her sulfur, and she made bad skis; they fell apart hunting, the son of old prince Yryket could not get anything; H. went to her brother, who asked her husband to come to his house He put larch; his brother's children, cubs, began to climb it, and K. brought her brother's children - pike, small shirts and perch, put them in a box of water, and old man Yryket accidentally drank them; Kh. she came out of the plague, began to scrape the bed with a deer, K. did the same, thunder rose and killed K., and to H. his brother came down from the larch, began to live together]: 114-125 (=Kryukova 2013:202-213); 1966, No. 5 [ when Baba Yaga comes (translated by the narrator), Casket and Totabol hide behind the olatina and under the focal chock; Kleinitsa gives them away, B. puts them in their pants, carries them to their daughters; tells them to eat more; K. fills his sleeve and dumps, T. eats, gets fat; while B. hunts bears, K. asks her daughters to give him a drill, drills a hole in the stone plague wall; kills daughters, hangs their meat, runs away through hole; T. gets stuck, K. carries his head; B. mistakenly eats his daughters' meat; pursues K., who creates larch trees, climbs to the top of his head; B. regurgitates an ax, cuts the trunk; The hare is called to help; puts the chips back while B. sleeps; when she wakes up, K. asks her to open her mouth and eyes: "First (now) lie down at the butt of the tree and expand your mouth with a stick, and expand your eyes with chopsticks!" ; throws sand in his eyes; goes down, kills with a horn, burns; puts T.'s head, he comes to life]: 23-27; Nikolaeva 2006 (pos. Kellogg) [Sataka and his younger brother Betaka hear Dootam skiing, becoming ermines, hiding under logs; D. asks all the items in the house, each replies that S. and B. treat him well, will not give them away; Kleister gives them away because he was often fried; D. tells the brothers that he will not eat them, brings them to his house inside the mountain, leaves them with his daughters, leaves, closing the exit; S. told D. sleep, drilled a hole, went out with an ermine; B. ate a lot, got stuck; S. told him to become a worm, he also went out; B. came back, killed the girls, cooked them, put their heads to bed as if they were sleeping; the brothers ran away, D. ate her daughters; D. catches up with the brothers, they climbed the tree; ask D. to open their eyes and ears, throw sand there, run away; D. fell behind, froze to death]: 75-79; the northern Selkups [hell enters the house, looking for a boy hiding behind a pole; the bucket, the cauldron do not give him the boy, the pole gives him out, because the boy cut her with a knife in the morning; the devil swallows him, but the boy cuts his belly with a knife, gets out; his mother barely washed him from the damn feces]: Tuchkova 2004:245 (apparently Tuchkova, Wagne-Nagy 2015, No. 17 (Nizhnyaya Baikha, Turukhan) [hero - Puchika-Churika]: 97-98); Taimyr Nenets (written by the author) [ Vadlecha lives with Tudlach's older brother; he eats all the fish alone, laughs at him; V. cries, the Abychi giant comes; the ladle, the boys are not given out to the trough, the talnik cutting log says where they are hid; Abychi brings the boys to the cave, tells his wife to cook them, leaves; T. sharpens a knife, cuts the giantess and her child with it; replaces the child with his brother, dresses up as an old woman, feeds the giant with meat; kills when he falls asleep; brothers come home]: Nenyang 1997:86-88.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (place of registration not specified; central ones?) [Chaachahaan is preparing to slaughter the bull; Alaa Mogus comes, eats the bull, C.'s three sons are hiding, AM asks all the items in the house where C. and his sons are; everyone replies that AM has not used them for a long time, AM them breaks; only the poker says that C. always shoves her into the fire, shows where the hidden ones are, AM swallows her sons, Chaachahana carries her home in his bag, he cuts the bag, runs away; the wife says that the bag empty, AM thinks she has already swallowed C., cuts her stomach, regrets killing her in vain; AM brings C. again, gives it to her daughters, goes for salt, at which time her daughters got into a fight who will eat C., killed each other; C. digs a way out, AM answers from the yard or from the house; AM gets stuck in a dig, C. leads the lion to bite him; C.'s living sons get out of A.'s stomach]: Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:104-111 (=Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976: 69-80); dolgans [abaahs came, living in the plague hid; the ladle refused to give them away, they draw fat with it, feed it; A. trampled on it; the cauldron said that food was being cooked inside it, refused to answer; the wooden hook agreed to give it away, it gets nothing, it only burns on fire; since then, after making a new hook, it has been smeared with fat; for the hook, a piece of fat is thrown into the fire, pumped it over the smoke; make sure that not burned]: Popov 1958:83; Evens [Chengge woman lives with two young children, an old man and an old woman live next door; C. caught fish, the old man stole, put sticks in a bag; C. killed a seal, an old man volunteered to fresh, took the meat, put stones in a bag; C. killed three wild deer on the mountain, brought meat to the children; fed the house and all the items with reindeer fat, told them not to tell them that the oan and the children had left to the mountain; the old man came, every object answered that they had been fed; a log by the hearth: I was not fed, C. went to the mountain; the old man came, demanded meat, C. threw a stone in his forehead, he returned to the old woman, she refused to treat him, they quarreled and got into a fight, almost burned down when they fell into the fire]: Novikova 1987:72-74.

Amur-Sakhalin. Nanais: Hodger 2011 [the seven Mergen Brothers have a younger sister Pudin; the brothers say that flocks of cannibal squirrels will arrive now, hide P. in a hole near the hearth, and lubricate all household items with interior with the fat of a wild animal, forgot a torn fishskin sneaker; a bag of beast blood is placed on the sisters's chest; throwing arrows one at the tail of the other, they make a chain of arrows, go up to heaven; the sneaker gives out to squirrels, where P., they pierce their spears at the hearth, one is bloody, they think they have killed P., leave; P. harnesses the dog into the sledges, leaves; the sledge turned its bump, the Frog came out from under it, P. asked to spend the night; complains that the frogs are interfering, the Frog replies that they are her relatives; two Mergen come, P. did not have time to put on her robe, turned into a red branch; the eldest M. sat on the Frog's can, the youngest took a branch reddened, began to cut, blood flowed; the eldest took the Frog away, she put on P.'s robe; P. remained to tie the wound; the younger M. forgot the knife, returned, married P., they catch up with the Frog and the elder M., P. takes away his robe, gives it to her fish skin; before that, the Frog asks hazel, reddened, bird cherry, everyone says that it is ugly in any robe; the Frog replies that he will kindle them, toys for children, cleaning chips; Mergen's parents cover the floor with silk, the Frog walks on it, P. turns it so as not to get dirty; the father-in-law wants to keep warm, the Frog heats the stove, sparks fly to his father-in-law; P. asks the brothers to send good firewood, the bundle falls from the sky, the father-in-law is happy; the frog serves the father-in-law frog caviar, P. the porridge and butter thrown by the brothers; the father-in-law wants to see the relatives of the daughters-in-law , The frog brings frogs, brothers to P., gives silk and fur clothes, returns to heaven; The frog swallows spoons, ladles to simulate pregnancy, she is driven away, she jumps into the lake; P. gives birth to an heir son]: 67-77; Shimkevich 1896 [seven brothers go hunting; their younger sister goes to fetch water, a hare rushes to her, she runs into her house, the hare digs into her chest, drinks blood, runs away; girl breaks her older brother's cup so as not to forget to tell about what happened, but forgets; the next day she cuts her finger - the same thing; she loses weight; the younger brother watches without noticing the hare; the next one hurts him; on a bloody trail comes to an old man and an old woman; they say that the hare, hell, went to call other devils for char; brothers hide their sister in a hole under the hearth, forget to give porridge to the youngest of Burkhanov, who shows the hell where the girl is; the devils agree to leave her with the elderly to feed her; they send her on sledges to a rich woman; she marries successfully]: 67-70; Orochi : Arsenyev 1995 (1) [Egde hunted, broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; E. smeared oil on the whole tree, hid his sister (named Bolige at the end) in the ground under a fire, began to let him into the sky arrows, they pierced each other's tail, E. rose to the sky; squirrels came, all objects were silent, there was an old street in the corner, it was not smeared, he said where B. was; squirrels pricked the fire with a spear, but E. He poured blood in advance; when they saw blood on their spear, the squirrels decided that they had killed B., left; B. broke the street, came to the house where Gilenyr's owner; he still laughs, she asks if he wants to marry her; I agree if G. leaves a bunch of fish and the fish are arranged one by one; (apparently, G. did); came to his mother; she tells him to make a seven-legged shovel out of birch bark so that she can come home and bring birch bark herself; he did, the old woman and B. made a farce out of birch bark; B. sat on a shovel, covered it with birch bark; put it on the ice, the shovel carried B.; the frog invited B. to her bump; drove the lizard, the snake, and more frogs; but B. made her farce out of birch bark; two brothers came, the Frog said that it was just her and the dog; B. hid under the reeds; the youngest began to slaughter it, bleed; the eldest took the Frog and all the property; the youngest said he forgot the knife, came back, B. came back there naked; he repaired her frog clothes; they caught up with her older brother and the Frog; B. took away her clothes from the Frog; the brothers' father asks the Frog cook chumiza, she cooks sand; tells B. to cook; she did not know where the chumiza was, went to the taiga, her seven brothers gave her chumiza, did not tell her where she got it; they gave porridge to the Frog, hot porridge; her father-in-law ordered B. bring firewood, the brothers gave it again; the father-in-law went with B., she showed him her brothers, he was happy; they ordered not to send B. to the forest anymore; the old man and B. began to live well, drove the Frog away]: 122-125; Margaritov 1888 [knocking down pegs (a type of game) with a stick, seven brothers accidentally injure a squirrel that comes to play with them; she promises revenge by bringing other squirrels; the brothers hide their sister under the hearth, putting a bag of blood is on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce each other's tail, forming a chain; they climb into the sky, the youngest is the last, picks up arrows; old boots give out to squirrels, like the brothers left, where the sister is hidden; squirrels pierce her wineskin, think they have killed the girl, leave; the sister goes to look for her brothers, comes to the Frog; she takes her clothes, puts her on herself; the girl hides inside a stick; two brothers come, the eldest sits next to the Frog, the youngest at the stick, scolds her with a knife, blood sticks out on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for a knife, finds a naked girl, she is not manages to hide in a stick again, tells his story; at his older brother's house, the Frog shows his brothers' father-in-law - they are frogs; he chases his daughter-in-law away; the girl calls her brothers, Enduri sends them from heaven; they give them rich clothes, stay for three days, return to heaven; the girl is recognized as the wife of her younger brother]: 29 (quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:403-405, in Sangi 1989; 285- 287); Udege people: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 31 [when the squirrel army approaches, seven brothers hide their sister Bele under the hearth, go to heaven themselves; they smear various objects with bacon, forgot smear flip-flops; they told the squirrels where the girl was; squirrels hit the hearth with spears, saw blood on their spears that the brothers had sprayed there beforehand; left; Bele harnessed the sledges, they caught on the swamp bump; there, emende, her relatives are frogs; began to live together; two brothers came, B. turned into an angelica; her elder brother married E., she wore a silk robe b., left her fish clothes skin; the youngest cut the angelica with a knife, saw blood; returned from the road for a forgotten knife, saw b., married; the brothers' father asks to make a fire, cook porridge, show relatives; e. burns lilacs ( sparks fly to her father-in-law), cooks sand, brings frogs; brothers B. cook ash firewood for her, let millet cook porridge, come to her; they say they married seven stars, fly back to heaven], 107 [(Arsenyev's manuscript); hunter Egda broke the squirrel's leg, which promised to come for an answer; he hid his sister under the hearth, poured blood on top, oiled the whole tree in the house, and started shooting arrows into the sky, who pierced one another, went up to heaven; when they saw blood, the squirrels thought they had stabbed their sister; she came to Gilenyt, he wanted to marry her, she drove off on the ice on a shovel; the Frog invited her live with her, she gave her her jewelry; two brothers came, she became grass, one took the Frog, the other cut the grass, noticed blood, came back for a knife, took the girl, the Frog had to give it to her jewelry and clothes, take your own; The frog tramples on his father-in-law's expensive bed, the girl folds; The frog cooks sand, brings crackling firewood, brings a lizard, a snake, a frog - his relatives; seven brothers they give their sister chumiz, cut good firewood, show themselves to their father-in-law; The frog is driven into the swamp]: 227-235, 474-476; Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010 [Huna Ziti's seven brothers disappear one by one; she comes to the cannibal; at night she tries to pour hot fat and lead into her ear; H. does not sleep, does not give; the cannibal falls asleep, X. pours fat on her, finds the bodies of her brothers, revives her by mixing the same potion with water; the next once the brothers disappear into the sea one by one; the tit tells them to throw crushed birch bark into the sea; for aquatic life these are clothes, H. hears children's voices, everyone asks for clothes; a whale pops up with with human hands; the tit tells them to be cut off; swallowed people come out of them like their sleeves; H. rips open the whale's belly, from there the rest of the people come out, inhabit the earth; the brothers H. also come out; the younger one kills a squirrel, a shamanic spirit; H. tells his brothers to hide in the sky, hides in ash herself; each brother shoots seven times at the sky, it goes down, they climb there, the sky rises; hordes of squirrels are looking for H. , old torn boots give it away (so you can't store used shoes); squirrels scratched H., but ash blinded them, they left; the brothers went down, made X. winged skis, she flew them, found them seven girls, brought them to her brothers as wives; H. flies away, finds a husband, gives birth to a son, gives him gifts received from his brothers; the boy finds his mother's brothers, they recognize him by gifts; everything is fine]: 138-141; Wilta [=Medvedev 1992:321-327; seven Pudin brothers tell her to prepare to receive matchmakers, but she does not want to marry; to protect her, the brothers turned her into a needle and flew away like white birds; when they enter the house, the matchmakers do not find anyone; the carnation in the bunk says that his brothers and sister did not treat him, explains that the pudin has turned into a needle; the groom took the needle to him, but she does not turn into a girl, he threw her away; the pudin became a girl, walks home through the taiga, hears voices, became a wooden shovel; the man picked her up; she was afraid of being locked, began to stump in the barn, the man did not lock the barn, the powder she ran away; came to the house in the woods, there was a frog; she asked for her to try on her clothes, she became powder herself, and the powder remained in her lower robe; fell asleep, became a frog; the imaginary powder sent her for water; the matchmakers arrived, took the imaginary powder; the imaginary frog brought water, turned into a hook pole above the hearth; one of the boys came back, cut the pole with a knife, blood came out; he deliberately left the knife, he ran to the sledges that were leaving, then said that he had forgotten the knife and came back; there was a girl, the guy married her, and the imaginary pudin became a frog again; the frog was driven into the swamp, and well done, brought his wife]: Sangi 1989: 289-294.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [old man Beaded Beard drinks from an ice-hole; a fabulous old man (CC) grabs his beard, he promises to give his two children (boy and girl); hides them under the floor, runs away with an old woman; a trough, a teapot refuse to answer CC, where the children, the bank says it's under the floor; he takes the children, tells him to look for lice, these are mice and ermines; a foal comes, takes the children; CC regurgitates an ax, kills a foal, takes the children again; they are carried away by a calf, CC does not catch up with him; the calf tells him to kill a big louse, he will die, his skin, his hoof head must be hung, spread out, they turn into a rich house and two dogs; while the brother is hunting, the sister catches CC with a hairnet from the river, hides it under the headboard; the dog warns the brother that his sister wants to kill him, into a cooked one CC spat food for him with it, the food became fire, the dog defeated him, killed the SS; his brother killed his sister with an arrow]: Kurilov 2005, No. 30:293-297 (=Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 25:79-83).

The coast is the Plateau. Modoc [(Quail in Lévi-Strauss 1971:48-51); the red-haired Tekewas has a husband and five brothers; the eldest is married, the youngest named Tutats hides his mother from her; T. finds him when he finds him hair; makes her accompany her to her house, sleeps in the woods, lies down with him; he leaves a deck instead, runs to his brothers; an old spider raises his brothers to the sky in a basket, does not tell her to look down; the youngest looks, the basket falls into the house set on fire by T.; the mother pulls the hearts of her sons out of the fire, they turn into mountains (the youngest's heart is in St. Shasta); the mother finds the corpse of her daughter-in-law, next to her two living babies; turns them into one boy; he notices that he has a double shadow, fires an arrow, chipping off his younger brother; secretly She brings him up, asking his grandmother for things and food as if for herself; she notices that now he has only one head; he confesses, brings his brother; the brothers want to kill the duck, which tells them about their fate parents; T. swims on the lake like a monstrous duck; brothers cut off her head, turn it into a duck whose meat is inedible; they ask for help from water, fire, trees, onions and arrows, all household utensils, but they forgot about the awl; they go through the hearth; the grandmother finds her daughter's head, the awl tells us where the brothers have gone, the grandmother follows them underground; they go west; the Duck is their other aunt, she has a bloating on her head; they press him down, since then birds and animals do not carry cubs on their heads; they kill Snake, Duck's husband, turn his remains into rocks and snakes; turn live pebbles into ordinary pebbles; younger brother would like serve the Month, the eldest to the Sun; the elder defeats the Bald Eagle, turns him into a bird, his servants Raven and Louse into a crow and a louse; they meet a one-legged giant, defeat him five times, kill him, he now wanders through the mountains, dreaming of shamans; brothers turn into two stars appearing in the sky before dawn in early spring]: Curtin 1912:95-117.

The Midwest. Western Forest Cree [husband notices that the wife wears clothes decorated with shell beads and when she returns, she wears simple clothes; watches, sees her approach the tree, knocks on Bark, calls her "husband", a snake crawls out to her; at home, the hunter sends his wife to bring prey, puts on her dress and jewelry, calls the snake with the same signal, cuts off her head, cooks meat; gives two sons amulets , which can be used to create obstacles in the path of the pursuer; the wife returns without finding the prey left; the husband says that he cooks her lover's meat, cuts off her head, rises to the sky, turns into a star; children are hiding in the underworld; the wife's head asks objects where the children have taken refuge; a knife, cape, pot, bison skin are silent, a pebble from under the skin shows where the children have run; the elder carries the youngest, throws the first pebble (fire, the head is burned, but passes), then a thorny bush (a monstrous snake makes its way under the thorns), rocks (a monstrous beaver gnaws); the fourth amulet falls in front of the boys, a turbulent river appears, another snake carries the boys to the opposite bank; carrying his head, throws it into the water; the eldest son tells her to become a sturgeon; the elder brother - Wesakitchak; he was taken away by a giant; his younger brother was left alone, turned into a half-wolf, killed by a monstrous sturgeon - his ex-mother; V. married the giant's daughter; he and his daughter could not do it destroy; Kisemanitou sent a flood because people went bad, saved V.; created a new pair of people out of clay]: Vandersteene 1969:44-48; steppe crees [wife adorns herself every time her husband goes hunting; he watches her; she goes to the forest, hits the tree, says Husband, I've come; the Serpent crawls out, they copulate; the husband puts on his wife's skirt, calls the Snake with the same signal; cuts off his head, cooks the meat, gives the broth to the wife; says what the soup is made of; the wife runs to the tree, sees that her lover has been killed; comes back, the husband cuts off her head; hides his two sons under the ground, tells her utensils do not answer the questions of the Head, flies away, turns into a star; The head asks where her children are, the stone answers; Visakechi's elder brother carries (first?) under the ground, the youngest is on the back; they throw objects (not named), they turn into fire, a thorny forest, a mountain; the Serpent makes a passage for the Head through the forest; a beaver with iron teeth gnaws through the mountain; the fourth object falls in front of the brothers, turns into a river; the Serpent carries them; when it carries the Head, it says it is swimming too slowly; he dumps it into the water, it turns into a sturgeon]: Bloomfield 1930, #1:14-16.

Northeast. Montagnier [a young man kills a caribou; a neighbor cooks meat for him in her urine, the meat is tasteless; the mother tells her son to kill the caribou away; they grease everything in the house, forget about the crest; he says to the neighbor that the mother and son ran away while she was going to buy meat; the young man throws needles (pierces the stalker's legs), the knife (turns into a mountain with a narrow passage), fat (the ice cracks because of fat); the stalker falls into water, turns into white whales]: Desbarats 1969:16-19.

Guiana. Carinha on Orinoco [two hunting brothers hide from the cannibal Tarunmio, climbing a tree above the pond; she grimacing, one of the brothers laughs; T. causes the wind to break the branches; one brother falls with a seed, T. eats it; the other with a frog, T. brings it home; her daughter takes him as her husband; he creates piranhas by throwing pieces of bark into the water; T. enters the water to eat fish, they themselves they devour her; her head remains, she rises into the sky, turns into the Morning Star; the wife avenges her mother; the husband tells objects in the house not to chase him, forgets the spindle; the spindle and his wife catch up with him; the baby in the woman's belly wants a flower; she asks her husband to climb a tree to get a flower, at which time she cuts off his leg; it turns into Orion's Belt ("Thot-Who-Without Legs"); the woman turns into voletolo]: Civrieux 1974:87-89.

Montagna - Jurua. Machigenga [a shaman with his son and son-in-law successfully repels daily kashibo attacks in the forest; the niece asks her son to be her husband, the shaman says he is still young; the niece feeds leftovers to ants; the shaman dies; the dead man comes home; the wife tells all plants and utensils not to tell that she has prepared a shelter for herself and her children in the hollow of a tree; skips the tuber of a red sachapapa; that says where the woman has disappeared, the dead man pulls him out, comes to the hollow; the ants say that they are the only ones who live there; the dead man tries to light a fire, but his blood floods him; at dawn he flies into the sky a comet; a mother with three daughters (married, a girl, a girl) return home; the youngest misses her father; when she hears a bird screams, a woman asks her to show her her husband for whom his daughter is crying; the man goes out from the forest, tells me to close her eyes; when a woman opens it, she finds herself in the sky; her husband's hair is not lice, but worms; she climbs to the ground]: Baer 1984, No. 14:463-469.