Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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K137. The sister brings the women to revive her brother.

.29.32.-.34.36.

The

brother is killed, the sister dressed as a young man, gets women who can revive the dead, puts her brother's clothes on his body again, and the women who come revive him. Either the sister is killed, the brother lures women who can revive the dead, puts his clothes on the deceased sister, the women think it is their husband, they revive the girl.

(Ukrainians), Abkhazians, Stavropol Turkmens, Bashkirs, Karakalpaks, Telengits, Khakas, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, (Dagurs), North-Eastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts.

(Wed. Central Europe. Ukrainians (Kharkiv, p. Nizhnyaya Syrovatka, Sumy University, 1878-1893) [The princess gives birth to a son, her parents drive her away, cut off her arms, and tie the child to her back. She wants to get drunk at the well, her son asks her to put her hands in the water - she lowers her hands, her hands grow back. They live in an empty forest house. Ivan examines the house, finds a 12-headed snake on 12 chains in the barn ("tied with a bast, but covered with feces"), the snake asks him to drink - there is a bucket of water and blood next to him, Ivan refuses, forbids his mother enter the barn. In his absence, she enters, gives water to the snake, he becomes handsome, convinces her to destroy her son - send her for rings, which can be obtained by driving between two shifting mountains ("mountains are fighting"). On the way, Ivan enters the hut, where the girl embroiders, she gives her horse so that Ivan can get to the mountains, and by the mountains, the horse orders him to fit into his right ear. He takes out the "bandura" from there, puts it between the mountains ("yak zagra - ti mountains and ustykhly") and takes the rings. The mother pretends to be sick again, sends her son for snake fat, he gets the girl's horse again, who tells me to hit the snake when he wakes up (?) , she has been "cowarding" for 11 days, she dies on the 12th. Ivan cuts out lard, brings his mother, she demands bear milk, he takes the girl's horse again, the horse advises to tie his sword "ear to ear", the bear asks not to kill her, and milks milk for Ivan. The horse rides at a wonderful speed - 12 miles in one jump, Ivan sees a mother with a dove (a snake turned around) in the house, a bird flies out the window, Ivan chases her, his mother asks her son to throw his sword so as not to get hurt, he listens, the snake takes on his appearance, kills Ivan, throws bones in the field. He is seen by three mermaids, the girl's sisters from the hut, each of them steps over Ivan's bones, he heals, gets up, then speaks (it's not clear further - something was cut off and made a biscuit and ate it. He marries a girl from a hut, kills a snake, puts his mother in front of two buckets - him and a snake - to see who she cries more about - him or a snake. He comes back, sees a bucket full of snake, leaves his mother behind. Proverb: he lives and chews bread, but drives water under the table, and carries firewood with a rocker arm]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 155-159).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [hunter Chis-Ikuatla saw a 7-storey house, a tree and a bed nearby, he lay down on the bed; the youngest of 7 adaua came, CHI squeezed him out and threw it away, then hacked down the others; placed his sister on upper floor, he began to live with his mother downstairs; smells adaua; it turns out that the youngest adaui is alive, the mother took him by her husband; he advises her to pretend to be sick, send CHI for the heart and liver of a special kite ; he gives a feather, tells her to kill another kite; the same goes to a bull (gives a hair); a wild boar (bristles); then the mother persuaded CHI to allow her to bathe him, and the Adaui poured a cauldron of hot wax on him; stabbed the remains in a trough and threw it into the sea; a sister in men's clothes went in search of CHI, hired a servant to the prince; his daughter, believing that it was a man, wanted to take him as her husband; she asked for a delay; she accidentally pulled him out by the sea a feather, a fur, a bristle; a kite is looking in the sky, a boar is in the ground, the bull pulled the trough out of the sea; the sister followed her "bride", took her to the sea, overtook her, put her clothes on her brother; when she saw the dead, The princess wiped him off with a handkerchief and CHI came to life; tells the bride's retinue to go to his mother, and he and his sister will appear as beggars; no one can lift CHI's spears; only an imaginary beggar picked up, killed the Adaui; says spell, CHI's mother burns; CHI's wedding with the princess]: Shakryl 1975, No. 73:333-341; Stavropol Turkmens [after the death of a rich man, his children remained: a gray girl and a gray boy; their mother came together with a diva; he persuaded her to invite her son to try his strength: she would tie his thumbs with a belt; he stretched the belt; then she tied it again; a diva appeared, cut off his head; his head and He threw her torso into the steppe; the sister found, sewed the remains, put it on a tree, changed clothes with her brother; went to the city; the king will give her daughter to the one who knocks the ring off the pole; the imaginary young man knocked down, received princess; promised not to touch his wife until they came to his house; went forward, telling him to get to the tree: he would sleep in branches; the girl herself changed clothes with her brother again; the wife saw how the saiga ran into a sharp branch, and the other cured him with some grass; the wife cured the young man with the same grass; he learned about what had happened from a note left by his sister; the sister herself fell into a hare trap, became a hare; when the hunter took it out, the hare became a girl again, the hunter married her; the gray young man joined his wife, told her everything and went to look for his sister; hears the boy playing with money, says: I throw her with the hand of a gray uncle; this is how he found his sister; then he went to find out what happened to his mother, saw her in the arms of a diva, killed both; everything is fine]: A. K. 1875, NO. 5:29-33.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [Kiltyay Mergen and his sister live alone, parents are dead; KM warns her sister not to offend the cat; the sister is angry with the cat, hit it, it extinguished the fire; the sister sees smoke, comes to an old woman, she gives a scoop of coals, tells her to shake her along the way so that the coals do not go out, pour ash on the ground, promises to follow this trail in the morning; in the morning she asks if KM, his sword and dog are at home, the sister replies that no, the old woman asks to look in her head, sucks blood and bone marrow; KM notices that her sister is drying, she tells him everything, he stays at home, the old woman turns into a three-headed Azhdahu, KM kills him, but the sword bounced and killed him; his sister hid her brother's body in a hollow, changed into his clothes, came to town, wins archery under the guise of a young man, gets married the princess, with her silver stick; the other two kings have the same, the princess with copper and the princess with brass sticks; goes ahead, puts clothes on her brother's body, meets the princess in her in their own appearance; they see her husband lying down, each hit him with her wand, he came to life; the sister feels superfluous, leaves, marries the old woman's son; KM goes in search, hears a lullaby, whom the baby is called the son of a KM sister; visits her sister, returns to her wives]: Barag 1988, No. 52:367-373.

Turkestan. Karakalpaks [the boy and girl's mother died, the father took another, she tells her husband to get rid of the children; the father takes them to the forest, tells them to fill the bag with jida, the bag is full of holes; when they return home, brother and sister see that father and stepmother have migrated; find two worn horses; take care of them; horses are getting fat, brother and sister are growing up; come to live in a cave; while brother is away, the prince arrives; brother does not want to give up her sister, the prince kills him; his sister pretends to be obedient, kills the prince; comes to town in her brother's clothes; wins archery; three khans consistently pass off as an imaginary young man after daughter; the imaginary husband asks each wife to bring the father's dearest thing; the first brings a wand that revives the deceased no later than 3 months ago, the second brings a whip (revives a one-year-old dead man), the third is baba yaga {apparently jalmouth kempir}, reviving the deceased before the age of 3; the imaginary husband takes his wives, supposedly, to his parents; goes forward, changes clothes again with his murdered brother, hides in a cave, leaves a note to his brother; wives come, see her husband's body; he cannot revive with a stick or a whip, Baba Yaga swallows and regurgitates a living young man; he reads the note, understands how he should behave; the sister comes out of the cave, tells everything; the brother meets the impoverished and widowed father again, takes him to live with him]: Volkov, Mayorov 1959:25-34.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Telengites (p. Saratan, Ulagan District) [Boodoy-Kyokshin tells Sister Boodoy-Koo not to kill the gray mare, not to go to Mount Bodiota; she stabbed the mare, put her liver on fire, the fire went out, she went to the mountain, comes to the wife of the seven-headed Diellbegen for fire; she tells me to look in her head, pulls a red thread out of BK's clothes; D. follows it for BC, kills, sucks blood; brother found his dead sister, hides in a hole; D. has one head singing, the other laughs, etc.; his brother kills him, revives his sister with blood; kills D.'s eldest, youngest sons, the middle one kills him; he is killed by his brother BK Kuzyl- Taadyi; sister leaves dead in the rock; Ai-Kaan's daughter Altyn-Tana and Kyung-Kaan Kyumyush-Tan can revive him; AK and Boodoy-Koo, disguised as brother, go after them; disguised as brother Boodoy-Koo wins competitions and gets both girls; they are surprised that the imaginary man knows how to handle a needle; ask him to make a spit; Boodoi-Koo does not know how, goes over the mountain, where her brother's horse cut out for her skewer; Boodoi-Koo goes forward, puts her brother's clothes on his body, leaves the body as if his brother fell off his horse, runs away herself in the form of a hare; the girls see Bodo-Kyokshin's body, revive it with healing with water, he takes them as his wife; finds his sister's note, catches them, brings a hare, does not know how to turn him back into a sister; wives do not like the hare, they pour poison into his ears; the brother puts the hare in the chest on the horns marala; the hunter finds a beautiful woman in the chest, gets married; the brother finds out about it, everyone lives in peace]: Sadalova 2002, No. 301-307; the Altaians (Katun) [after the death of his parents, a teenage boy remains Altain Sain Salam and his younger sister; ACC regrets that he cannot bring home the meat of the killed animal on horseback; sees the heroic horse Aikym-Saikym, the sister explains what the horse is for him; the ACC brought it on horseback game for his sister; but when he galloped again, she fell off his horse and broke his neck; the sister told the rock to part, put her brother's body inside, put on men's clothes, and went to marry Sunny Khan's daughters and Moon Khan; "What winter was, she noticed from her frosty collar that it was summer, she noticed by her warmed shoulder blades"; each of the khans promises an middle daughter, whose arrow would fly through the eye of the needle, an iron hook, a mountain forest and will fall (at the feet) of the khan; the imaginary ASS fulfilled the condition and got the girls, but did not sleep with them on the way back; they were already thinking of returning to their fathers; sister jumped forward, told the rock open up, put a note in her brother's hand, describing what had happened, turned into a hare and ran away; Sunny Khan's daughter whipped the AAC, which came to life; Lunny's daughter completed the revival; the AAC fell wooden with an arrow in the leg of a hare, caught it, gave it to his wives and ordered him to feed him well; the hare chewed on their clothes; they killed him; the AAC placed the hare in three boxes one in the other, left a note to the doctor asking them to revive the hare, let the box go to sea; the box sailed to Moon Khan's possession; his doctor revived the hare, the hare became a girl, the khan's son married her; 7 years later, the AAC went to look for his sister and came to the yurt, where a boy was running; AAC sister saw Aykim Saikim's horse and cried; the horse saw her and started; brother and sister met and had a feast]: Radloff 1866, No. 2:12-23; Khakas [Pokhta-Kares killed by Hydat Khan; his youngest Pogana-Aryn's sister hid; read in her book that Lunar Khan's daughter Ai-Aryg or Solnechny Khan's daughter Kyun-Aryg has the means to revive the dead; dressed as Pokhta-Kares, she married these girls; when she lay down in one, then on the other, the sword stuck between herself and the girl; Kyun-Aryg had a whip with a golden handle and a golden shawl, they revived the PC, began to live with two wives; Ai-Aryg did not like the PA , turned her into a hare, she ran away; the PC could not catch up with this bunny, but then caught her in a noose and her sister took on a human image again; he put her in a taiga hut; AA tracked her down, came, offered The PA looked in her head, poured black lead into her ear; the PC did not notice her sister's wounds, put her in a coffin, tied her to a tree; Hara-Khan's son Hara-Pidekey found her, brought her home, shaman kamlal, his assistant spirits lead was extracted, the PA came to life, HP married her; her brother had been looking for her for a long time, came when her little son was at home; HP asked him to show him how his mother lulled him to sleep; he repeated the song, it says it all; a joyful meeting between sister and brother; Ai-Aryg was tied to the top of the tree, a fire was lit below; Pokhta-Kares asked Kyun-Aryg for a lavish wedding; everything is fine]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 11:130-135; South Altai Tuvans [hero Sharaldai met a bald man, who imposed himself as a brother, convinced him to tell him what his soul was; in a knife in the sole of his boot, in a bird in a box hidden in the horse's nose; wearing three red threads on his navel; when S. fell asleep, bald man broke and tore these containers, S. died; his younger sister Mashgaed Ulaan hid his body inside a rock; made barley porridge the figure of a young man; this the figure or M. himself wins competitions in which the winner is promised the daughter of the khan; each time he says, "Not me (I do this and that), but my brother Sh."; taming his brother's horse, pierces the ears of seven with an arrow darning needles; defeats heroes; makes a huge spit; having received the khan's daughter, leaves early, pulls out his brother's body, writes to him on his arm that she will turn into a hare, retires to the mountain; seeing breathless S., his wife revived him; the little black maid suspects a substitute, but the wife says that her husband has become taller and stronger in her homeland; S. finds a sister, asks her to accept the human again appearance; the maid offers to look for lice, pours tin into her ears; S. planted a box for his deaf sister, hung a wild ram around her neck; once he saw two boys - his nephews; one hunter shot a ram, the tin leaked out, he married Sh.'s sister; S. wanted to punish the maid, but his wife advised me to forgive her]: Taube 1978, No. 28:121-125 (=Taube 1994, No. 11:127-131); Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 6 (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 white rock; 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, the mangadhai licks her off the ice, language example, B. cut off his head; disguised as a man, goes to heaven to three Sunday girls; finds herself inside a bottomless monster camel; there are people swallowed 5, 10 years ago; B. pierces an arrow hole, people and animals come out; the resurrectionists suspect that this is a girl, but she avoids being checked; leads them to her brother's remains, runs away herself, chipping in with a hare; the Resurrections revive ZD, become his wives; he is going to shoot a hare, his sister tells him not to shoot, takes on a human form; two older wives tied a ball of red thread to the ZD belt, and they found the house where B lives .; they threw a gold ring in her mouth, she died; the youngest wife answers ZD that she was not to blame; 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; the body The ZD sisters put in a box, hung a blind red deer on their horns; the red deer came to Khartaganag Khan; a child and a golden ring fell out of the box; the girl grew up, the khan's son married her, they had a child; ZD found them , everything is fine]: 109-117; Dugarov 1990 [the elderly have a daughter Nogoondar, a favorite of the goddess Green Tara, and a son Sagaandar, a favorite of the goddess White Tara; he catches too many animals, his parents decide to destroy him; the father makes a trap pit in front of the house, the mother prepares poison; the horse warns of danger; S. enters the house, but cannot refuse to touch the poison with his finger, falls dead; the coffin with the body is thrown into the Black Sea; after that, Bukhara Khan stabbed the old people in the right eye, crushed them on their right hand, took away property, took them into slavery; Sister S. N., who was preparing wedding clothes for Khan's daughter; S.'s horse tells her to dress as a man, ride to the sea; on the way she kills a 15-headed mangadhai; promises to marry a 25-headed man, for he promises to save her for this brother; he immediately kills his former wife and sons, tells him to build a tower on the island and catch the coffin, but the sea has smashed everything to pieces, and N. hid in the hawthorn bushes; sees an ice floe, she tells her voice Brother to marry only Habsargalt Mergen; 3 heavenly swan fairies pulled out an ice floe, inside a coffin, containing the baby S. had become; he grew up, but 7 pot-bellied khans killed him again; horse: his 3 daughters of the celestial Eseren will revive; N. flies in as a bird, overhears 3 brothers and 3 sisters praise S. and N., who are better than them; in the form of a man, he marries three sisters; so as not to be exposed, agrees with the horse: when the elder maiden enters the imaginary man, the horse seems to fall off and ride along the Milky Way, and the owner follows him; N. invites three maidens to swim in a lake with living water and brings his brother's body there; they revived him, he pretended to be their husband, and N. returned in women's clothes; S. married the youngest of the virgins; one day she went to visit her father, and S. went hunting; N . did not follow the cattle and the hearth; N. went to look for fire, went to the old woman, she drank her blood, gave her smut, N. barely returned and died; S. killed the old woman with an arrow, put his sister in a box, tied her to her horns deer; an old man and an old woman found a coffin, and a little girl in it; she grew up, married H.-Mergen, gave birth to a whiny daughter; S. comes there, enters under the guise of a beggar, his sister recognizes him, he accepts his true appearance; comes to Buha-khan, whose parents are enslaved; he reveals himself to them; tells them to respond insultingly to Khan and Hansha in the morning; they run in, S. kills the hansha, becoming a snake, and Khan in a duel; returns Khan's appearance to his parents]: 266-282; Eliasov 1959 [brother Garyulai-Mergen and sister Agu-Nogon-Abaha; G. goes hunting, towards a 7-headed mangathai; asks: what is your soul or soul behind you your horse? G. looked around, the mangathai swallowed it, spit out his clothes; the horse picked up G.'s clothes and weapons, brought it to his sister; changed into her brother's clothes, met the mangathaya, asked him the same question herself, he looked around. she killed him with an arrow, caught and killed a horse; her horse tells her to cut the mangathaya's right thumb, containing her brother's bones; burned the bodies of the mangathai and his horse; asked the mountain to open, put it in preserving her brother's bone; dressed as a groom in a man's outfit, she went to the three daughters of the deity Esege-Malan, who can revive the dead; the horse warned not to drink tea from a dangerous woman, A. splashed it out on her tea, she died; killed a bear who ravaged an anthill, the ant khan promised to help; the horse lifted A. to a steep high mountain, where a source of living water, A. got drunk, became even stronger; revived people whose bones under the mountain; revived three invisible bars who were dying of fatigue; revived a dying dog, which may also be invisible; two more suitors came to E. to marry his daughters; A. called herself in the name of his brother - G.; E. invites them to fight each other; the invisible bator fights instead of A., wins; shaman: imaginary G. is a girl in disguise; E. arranges new tests; shoot at the target (bator- the invisible man wins); horse racing (the dog detained the rival horses); let each of the grooms spend the night in the barn with the bear (the invisible bator killed the bear, the other suitors killed themselves, E.'s daughters revived them); separate red and white millet (ants separated); the imaginary G. received daughters E.; said that he must first visit his herds; on the way, daughter E. again tests her husband: they put fire on him sleeping, a snake; he does not pay attention; A. took G.'s bones from the mountain, put his clothes and weapons next to him, left a note for her brother in her clothes, became a hare herself, ran into the forest; E.'s daughters revived G., became his wives; G. found the hare, grabbed it, it became A.; E.'s daughters forgave A. her deception; they have a silver scoop with any food and drink in it; everything is fine]: 92-109; Dagurs [in the north Chunjina is the older sister Hungduledi Mergen; his fiancée is Tarelan, third daughter of Tulamir Mergen; in the south, Archuni Mergen with three wives; while XM is not at home, A. took his sister; she wrote about it in blood; XM jumps to save her; the horse orders to kill the guards and spies AM - a boar, an owl, a snake; the snake must be hit from the inside by cutting his heart; XM jumps into his mouth, hurts his heart, but the snake's blood poisoned him, he lies breathless; the horse turns to TM for help, he rides his 8-legged horse, but cannot defeat AM; his daughter unsuccessfully tries to revive XM; the heavenly maiden descends and revives him; XM marries both; kills AM's sons, after a hard battle, himself, then his three wives; brings his sister home, but during this time her heavenly wife and two children were taken to heaven by her heavenly father; XM climbs there from East Mountain through deer antlers that have grown to the sky; finds sons and wife; wife gives a hat to protect her head and feather to moderate the heat or cold; father-in-law offers challenges; strongmen hit XM with iron sticks at XM head (the hat is protected); he is put in an icy cellar, then in a hot cellar (the feather is warmed and cooled); he gets a wife, and their children go down to the ground back on the antlers of the deer; live well; sister XM married a good hunter]: Bender, Su Huana 1984:69-82.

Eastern Siberia. Northeastern (Verkhoyan) Yakuts: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 19 [when Eujuyen goes hunting, his younger brother Khudzhugur stays at home; seven Siberian birds arrive each time they ask , did Yu leave, go down to play; when Yu returns, nothing has been done, XX replies that he overslept; Yu hides, grabs one Siberian, he turns into a girl, B. marries her; she asks XX what to give him to return her fluff (feather clothes); XX replies that frogs, beetles, worms, snails; she collects them for him, he pulls out her fluff, she flies away; Yu flies on horseback to the upper world; a bird advises to become an ermine, pinch his wife's child; she arrives to scream, Yu plucks her fluff, she dies; Yu flies to Mr. Pleiades, Lord of the Month, Lord of the Sun, gets everyone's daughter; dresses her Siberian wife in her clothes; heavenly wives come, think that their husband is dead; the Pleiades daughter can turn a deceased person 3 years ago into a person lying unconscious; daughter of the Month - do how as if he just fell asleep, daughter of the Sun, so that he could run right away; each jumps over a corpse, reviving a woman; when they see that she is a woman, they fly away; Yu returns home with his wife]: 219-229 ( other translations of the same text in Khudyakov 1890, No. 3:74-80; Ergis 1964, No. 55:188-191); Western in the 1860s by Khudyakov: Verkhoyansky collection 1890:74-80); old brother, hunter Uchugei Udyuyeen ( Good Yudiyan), the youngest is homebody Ku h ae'an Khodugur (Khudugur); seven white cranes (Siberian cranes) began to fly to them and play since the XX; the older brother caught one- a Siberian bird and married her; soon she found her feathers, turned into a Siberian bird and flew away; HUGH flew to the cloud, found his wife, wiped off all her feathers and burned her, causing her to lose her hidden soul, died; then he flew to the heavenly shamans: to the daughter of the Pleiades, the Shy Shaman, to the daughter of the Sun, the shaman, the daughter of the Moon, to the Moonlight's daughter, a shaman with the Moonlight; promising to marry to the shaman and disguised his wife in their clothes, made them revive her; the shamans, seeing the resurrected woman and mistaking her for HUW himself, flew to the sky; HUW returned home with his wife, healed richly; XX became a strong hero; retelling to Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:176-181]: 224-225.