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K177. A wandering heroine.

.11.-.17.21.-.23.26.-.37. (.58.)

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girl or woman goes on a journey to find or return her fiancé or husband, or flees from danger and her journey ends in a successful marriage.

Swahili, Hausa, Mofu-Gudur, Mungaka, Kordofan, Nubians, Arabs of Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Berbers Morocco, Spaniards, Aragon, Portuguese, Catalans, Sicilians, Italians (Turin, Veneto, Calabria), Ladins, Corsicans, Irish, British, Scots, French, Walloons, Bretons, Germans (Grimms, Schleswig-Holstein), Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Marsh Arabs, Mehri, Valbiri, Murinbatu, Oenpelli, Monumbo, Cooney, Vogeo, Vedau, Kanaka, Gilbert Islands, Tibetans, Lavrung, Lepcha, Mustang, Vieta, Arakan, Kashmiris, Punjabi ( Hariyana), Himachali plowmen, Assames, Bengalis, northern India (Hindi), Sinhalese, Athoni, Chinese (Henan), Koreans, Greeks, Ancient Greece, Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Albanians, Bulgarians, Russians ( Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia, Kiev), Czechs, Kalmyks, Abazans, Ossetians, Ingush, Kumyks, Avars, Dargins, Lezgins, Rutultsy, Armenians, Georgians, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Vakhans, Shugnans, Uzbeks, Norwegians, Faroese, Swedes, Danes, Eastern Sami (Western Sami), Karelians, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Mari, Komi, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Kyrgyz, Northern Selkups, Southern Selkups, Mansi (Northern), Tundra Nenets (Gydan, Taimyr, etc.) Ents, Northern, Eastern and Southern Khanty, Western Evenks (Ilimpic), Sym Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Nganasans, Kets, Central Yakuts, Negidals, Nanais, Udege, Orochi, Wilta, Niwhi, Ainu, Japanese (Tohoku to Kyushu), Tanaina, Kwakiutl, Nootka, Chilkotin, Shuswap, Lillouet, Thompson, Kutene, Puget Sound, Upper Chehalis, Cowlitz, Quinolt, Okanagon, Kerdalen, Kalispel, Katlamet, Clackamas, Tillamook, Koos, Yakima, Ne Perse, Kalapuya, Takelma, Modoc, Menominee, Mississauga, Northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake), Eastern and Western Ojibwa, Steppe Cree, Potauatomi, Hurons, Seneca, Onondaga, Mikmak, Passamaquoddy, Grovantre, Santee, Iowa, Arapahoe, Caddo, Choctaw, Screams, Alabama, Koasati, Yurok, Vilyot, Karok, pomo, vintu, yana, achomavi, maidu, chumash, kawaisu, serrano, western and northern shoshones, goshiyute, utah, southern payut, chemeuevi, havasupai, walapai, lipan, western apache, mojave, maricopa, diegeño ( ipay), papago, cocopa, kuna, guayabero, shikuani, sanema, yanomami, yanomam, oyana, napo, canelo, aguaruna, shuar, candoshi, desana, tucano, barasana, macuna, tariana, bare, uitoto, tupi of the Central Amazon, thorny, tenetehara, urubu, tupinamba, eseeha, surui, vaura, kalapalo, kuikuro, kamayura, trumai, bakairi, iranche, paresi, bororo, matako, toba, pilaga, chorote, nivakle, maca, northern and southern Tehuelches.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Swahili: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425A: 251

West Africa. Hausa [one daughter from an unloved wife, the other from a beloved; a daughter from an unloved one lives in a hut on a pile of manure, gives her father a cowrie, asks to bring King Agadez's son from the bazaar; in the bazaar, a man asks about this, he is beaten for a long time, left in the evening, the son of King Agadez promises to come on Friday; the father beats his daughter, talks about Friday; the young man arrives on Friday night, where he spits, there is silver; women found silver, out of envy they stuck needles in bed, the young man died; King Agadez tortured the girl's parents, but felt sorry for her; var.: the name of the girl Lahidi, the young man was Ba-Komi ("Nothing"); the daughter of his beloved wife stumbled into envy bed of thorns; B. has disappeared; L. goes to look for him, hears cannibal spirits talking under the tree; the latter says that if their bowel movements are given to the king's son to drink, he will recover; L. comes disguised as a doctor, B. drinks medicine, regurgitates thorns; L. takes a B ring as a reward, returns to himself; B. comes to kill L., she shows the ring, B. marries her, gives cattle to her father]: Tremearne 1913, No. 44:278-282; mungaka [the girl rejects the grooms; the father dried the termite and promised to give his daughter for someone who guessed it was; a man came, said it was a termite, got the girl and took her away, telling him not to take any flint with him , not a knife; on the way, the husband turned into a leopard, but his wife was not afraid; he left her in the house and promised that the man would bring her food and water; she gave birth without seeing the child, and he was taken away that night; then the second; the wife asked permission to visit the parents; the leopard allowed, but recalled the ban on flint and knife; the mother gave a knife and flint; you have to stick the knife in the bed with the point up; who came up it will come, hurt, scream; by screaming you will know whether it is a beast or a person; the wife screamed that her husband is human; he forgave her; then she lit a fire - a handsome man next to her; he cried out and disappeared; the wife went to look, came to the house where her leopard and her new wife; the former hired her mother-in-law to work, she pushed her around, the leopard did not stand up; but when he found out that his mother wanted to kill her, he killed his mother and a new wife, took the old one; immediately their grown children appeared, who were taken away from the woman after birth]: Meyer 1942, No. 4:149-154; mofu-gudur [seven sisters are getting married; consistently They ask those who herd chickens, goats, donkeys which one is more beautiful; everyone says that the youngest is; the sisters go swimming, tell the youngest to swim for the acacia; she wanders through the acacia, her skin becomes tough as acacia bark; now those they meet regret that a freak goes with the beauties; girls easily find suitors; the old woman chooses the youngest to marry her son; he is dissatisfied, does not want to accept the bride's water; the clairvoyant notices from the mountain that when this girl rubs the grain, she removes her hard skin, becomes beautiful; the black ant advises slaughtering the black chicken, telling the vulture to grab it, take the skin away; he does not have time; the red ant advises slaughtering the white chicken, the vulture takes the skin away; now the beauty herself does not want to cook, supply water, hides in the room; but the young man goes in takes a beautiful woman as his wife]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 16:112-117; Sudan - East Africa Kordofan (ethnicity not specified) [a rich man unfairly took another man's money and son, made him his servant; took him to the city, where he was going to give three daughters of the impoverished man for his acquaintances; The poor man argues why he could kill a rich man; and killed him; told his acquaintances that he was dead; when he came to the scene of the murder, he saw a magnificent watermelon growing there; decided to present it to the Sultan; but when the cook cut the watermelon, blood poured out from there; the poor man told him everything; people sympathize with him; the eldest daughter Fatma notices that they are not treated as before, comes to the city and finds out what case; tells the Sultan that if he kills her father, they, daughters, will kill him; he does not take the threat seriously; F. found 7 more girls, 10 of them; they took out horses and weapons; when the Sultan took out the father of the girls from the city to execute him, the girls rode and began to defeat the Sultan's men; he hurried back to the city; two younger sisters fell in battle, but the Sultan's people lost great; before F. close the gate; she promised to return and threatened to destroy the whole city if something happened to her father; F. ordered the horses to be killed and their weapons left, took the girls to another country; they met the old one shepherd; F., at his request, cleaned his lice; he replied that it was necessary to stab thorns into his head, then it was easy to tear off his skin; F. did so, put the skin on herself and turned into an old man; they came to ghule; she crushed the bones of those she had previously eaten to feed those who had come; F. noticed this and did not tell me to eat; asked Gulya to bring water to the sieve; the girls ran away; on the banks of the Nile they asked for a crocodile transport them; they fed them lamb on the way; he transported them; unable to collect water into the sieve, Gulya rushed in pursuit; the crocodile took her too; but since she did not give him lamb, but hit him in the face, he drowned her; the girls spent the night in the cave; the son of the Sultan and seven noble young men with him were nearby; the Sultan's son was lost; the young men began to look for him, releasing their horses; the horses came to the cave, the girls drove them away; the boys they found the girls, brought them to their parents, married them; the Sultan's son also came there; one of the girls advised him to look in that cave too; he brought an imaginary old man to him; he said to herd goats and he can't do sheep, but geese can; when the Sultan's son sent a slave to take lunch to the goose shepherd, he saw a beautiful woman at the spring; F. quickly pulled on the old man's skin, and when they sat down to eat, asked the slave to show her tongue - there was an insect on it; cut off her tongue and the slave could not tell anything to the Sultan's son; so with 4 slaves; after the fifth, the Sultan's son followed and saw everything; in the evening he ordered to bring the imaginary old man for dinner; he said he was too weak, and the Sultan's son ordered him to be brought; began to play dice: whoever wins can do what he wants to do to the other; the third time the Sultan's son won, cut the skin with a knife and F. came out from under it; agrees to become the wife of the Sultan's son if her father is released; the Sultan's son and the husbands of F.'s friends came with an army; at first, the Sultan decided that F. was not among those who came; but during she went out to battle with her friends, killed the Sultan's people and captured him; he had to let Father F. go and give a big ransom]: Frobenius 1923, No. 20:224-237; the Nubians {synopsis of the Nubians and Arabic Sudanese versions} [brother wants to marry his sister, Beautiful Fatma; F. and his companions run away, get to the cannibal, they manage to send her away, run away again, they cross the river to crocodile; F. meets an old man (in two out of five versions, an old woman), peels off his skin with a thorn, puts him on himself; the girls hide in a cave, they are found by young men, taken away, the Sultan's son gets an imaginary the old man, whom he tells to herd geese (pigeons, goats); the slave, followed by the Sultan's son, sees F. bathing with the old man's skin off; the sultan's son plays chess or another game with an imaginary old man, the winner gets the right to skin the loser; F. wins first, but then the Sultan's son wins; wedding]: Goldberg 1997:34; Sudanese Arabs [Hadariya's man's wife with daughter Nayya and another with three daughters; H. died, half-sisters persuaded N. to ask his father to get a young man named Green Beans (ZB); he has 7 fathers and 7 mothers, his palace is guarded by ants, hyenas, lions, slaves; the old woman commands take and throw millet (Pennisetum glaucum) to ants, something to smoke to slaves, meat to lions and hyenas; ZB began to show different things and ask if N. was better than them; Father N. spoke every time which is better; ZB wrote that it was foolish for N. to want him as a husband, that he would marry a slave; N. told the old woman to sell her, ZB bought her; she went home, leaving a note: it is foolish for the ZB to hope make N. a slave; ZB found N. and married him; sisters persuaded N. to find out how to kill ZB; that: you need to burn the seven-headed snake, spray the ashes on the bed; the sisters did so; the ZB fell ill, his relatives took him away; N. went, met an old man, asked how men in their country could be killed; old man: stab a thorn into his head; she stabbed, put on the old man's skin and clothes, asked the birds what they ate; alone said that ZB was sick, another, that if you burn their liver and wings and mix them, he would recover from this drug; N. killed birds, prepared a potion; cured ZB; asked for his sword and scourge as a reward; brought him to home; ZB came, saw them, was surprised; went back; N. followed him; the sisters followed her, robbed and blinded her; the nomads picked them up; she began to weave carpets, asked to sell them to cannibals, exchanged the carpet for eyes; ZB came, N. admitted; they burned the sisters, all is well]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 13:91-94; Nubians: Kronenberg in El-Shamy 2004, No. 432:211-214; 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 F. should first call her not mother but mother-in-law; then But with her father (father-in-law), brother (groom); F. told all the girls in the village that it was decided to pass them off as brothers, took them all away, they came to the cannibal giantess; F. ordered not to eat anything, hide the food in the cooked the hole, but the youngest girl tasted 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 younger that the girls ran away, told them to have piles of gold; silk fabrics; each time F. tells them to take only a little and run on; the river; F. asked to transport the crocodile, on the other side he will give one the girl to eat; when they swim across, F. tells the crocodile to transport their mother (i.e. the cannibal) first; when they are in the middle of the river, F. shouted that the crocodile prey was on his back; he dived and ate the cannibal; the girls settled in a cave; nearby an old man with 6 sons; F. asks him how to skin him off - to pierce a thorn; she plunged him, her skin slept, F. put it on, returned to the cave in the guise of an old man; the camel comes to eat foliage from the bush, the girls drive it away; the young men consistently began to come to find out what was going on; everyone took a girl; when Wad al-Amin came up, only an imaginary old man came to the cave; the old man says that he is unable to herd cattle; YES agrees that he should herd pigeons by the river; F. removes the old man's skin by the river; the slave sent with her is delighted, but he cannot tell him anything; the imaginary old man said that the slave is sick, let his chest be burned; so several times; then AM himself went, saw everything; at home he offered to play chess, the winner would 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], 21 [by the river, Fatma's older brother's horse slipped on strands of hair; his brother promised to marry the one whose hair it was, even if it was F.; F. persuaded seven girls to run with her, otherwise their brothers would do the same; before the wedding night, she went out to pee, pierced a pre-prepared wineskin with water, heard the murmur of a stream, the girls had time to leave ; they came to the cannibal in the desert; she offered them milk and one of the girls tasted it; at night F. replies that she is awake; asks them to go to calm the dogs in a distant village; and other tasks (not named); In the morning they asked the cannibal to bake bread for them on the fire that was burning there; this is the sun; the cannibal tried it, but did not bake the bread; when she returned, she found only the one that drank her milk; she broke her neck and ate it; the girls asked the tree to become small, climbed it, then asked it to rise tall again; stuck knives around; lowered the cannibal's rope, picked it up and threw it several times; knives they pierced her and she died; the girls moved on; F. began to look for the old man in his head; asks how to kill him; old man: stab a thorn into the crown; F. did so, put on old man's skin; girls began to live in the cave; merchants passed by, their camel began to chew the straw that closed the entrance; the merchants dismantled the girls; one of them was crooked; says to the merchant: they took the curve, but left the flower; the Sultan's son heard came back, took the imaginary old man; when they were driving, F.'s jewelry rang; "These are my bones"; F. chose to herd geese rather than sheep to be able to swim; the slave sees her taking off the old man's skin; it makes him speechless (apparently by witchcraft); at home he points to F., but cannot say anything; F.: he is crazy, he should be burned with iron; burned to death; this is how almost all slaves died; the Sultan's son himself went to spy, climbed a tree, stole F.'s ring; offered to play checkers at home: the winner would remove the skin from the other; F. won twice, but did not exercise her right; then the Sultan's son won; married F., but hid her from people; one day F. came out, people fell breathless with her beauty; she sprayed blood on them from her little finger, everyone came to life; everything is fine], 22 [Muhammad wants to marry her sister; I agree to remove the jug from 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 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 a silk blanket for a girl; wedding; once a former DC sees her parents among the poor; forgives them, settles them in a separate house], 23 [Fatma the Beautiful saw a camel come to eat crops; not knowing that it was her brother Muhammad's camel, tied him with strands of her hair; M. swore to marry the one whose hair it was; the parents agreed on the condition that M. would bring dowry from distant places; told F. to flee along with the six daughters of her mother's sisters; one of them was lame; they saw big and small lights; F. said that where big, there was a cannibal, but the girls did not listen; the cannibal gave food to the crushed human bones soaked in her milk; F. told me not to eat; the lame did not listen, the others quietly threw the food into the dug holes; in the morning the girls said that they should bring water with a net, a calabass without a hole, with an unburned vessel; she could not, came back, fried and ate the lame girl, rushed in pursuit of the others; wants the wedding to meet (the girls start dancing at the wedding, but again they run) so that the river with the crocodile; he transports on the condition that he is given one of the girls; but on the other side they ask to transfer the cannibal first, they say that she is his share, the crocodile dives; the girls live in a cave; a camel approaches her, followed by his owner Wad al-Nimair, he tells the girl to go out; so one girl every day; F. secretly came to the VN garden, asked the old man how to skin him off (a thorn in her forehead), stabbed a thorn, put on his skin; the imaginary old man agrees to herd only pigeons; and only a dumb slave with him; by the river F. took off the old man's skin, bathed; at home, the slave gestured to talk about what he saw; F. explained that the slave had a headache and wanted to be cut off; the slave had his head cut off; so all but the last slaves were beheaded; VN went with him himself; stole F.'s ring while she bathed; the slave is the same as with the previous ones, but VN refuses to cut his head, but offers to fight; the winner will open the belly of the defeated; VN loses three times, but F. does not touch him; for the fourth time won, took off the old man's skin, married F.]: 110-114, 114-118, 118-120, 120-125.

North Africa. Moroccan Berbers (Fez): El Fasi, Dermenghem 1926 [When leaving, the merchant asks his three daughters what to bring each of them; the elders ask for bracelets and shoes, the youngest asks for "a passion-filled attire love" (Le caftan d'amour tacheté de passion); after a long search, the merchant met an old man; he teaches him to go to a tree by the sea; he will get 7 dishes, he must eat; then drink sea water; he appeared from the waters man: what do you want; when he learned about the caftan, he told me to dive; the man on the throne gave a piece of sandalwood: let his daughter close herself and burn it; she did it; the servants took her to the palace of the Caftan of Love ; every evening she is given a sleepy drink; her husband spends the night with her but she does not see it; gets permission to see her sisters and parents; sisters made her talk; told her not to drink sleeping pills, and when the husband falls asleep, light a candle; wax dripped on the man's face; he forgave her, but promised not to let her go to his parents again; but the father came and persuaded him to let his daughter go again; now her sisters persuaded her to find out her husband's name; her husband was silent for a long time; finally became a giant, said his name was Kaftan el Houb (Robe of Love), threw the woman far into the desert; she dressed as Talib and under the name Xi Ali began to read in the mosque; the Sultan brought the imaginary Talib closer; the Sultan's daughter fell in love, fell ill with love; rabbi: to cure her, she must hang Si Ali's little finger severed around her neck; the princess is better, but not for long; cut off the earlobe (same); bring the brain; Si Ali was taken to a deserted place, she went to the stream and disappeared; Love Caftan: now you've seen everything, live quietly and enjoy happiness]: 225-245; 1928 [father goes on Hajj; to find out which of his 7 daughters is the smartest, he offers them 7 eggs: if you take them with you, they will break, and if left, they will go bad; six daughters figure out how to cook eggs; the youngest offers to hang them from the ceiling - they will remain; she stayed behind the main one; the ball fell into the well; the youngest went down to get it, found an underground passage to a neighboring house, where there are 40 robbers; alone at home; she asks him to get something, cleans the stairs, takes the property; so with three; then she brings the sisters, they put the robbers to sleep with hashish in the drink, painted them as women, put radishes in the ass, they put black porridge in their pants; the next day, the sisters take the robbers to the bathhouse - they will wash themselves and surrender to them; the robbers prepare a pot of resin and butter to cook the offenders; they ask not to enter them into the steam room while they hear the cup ringing; they tied this cup to the mouse's tail; the mouse is running, the sound is heard; the sisters spread soap on the steps, climbed through the hole in the wall, bribing the stoker; next time The robbers took turns sticking their heads into the sisters' yard, putting a brand on their forehead with a hot iron; the robbers are fleeing; the younger sister sold them to the Sultan as her rebellious slaves - look stigma; when the father left, all the sisters asked for clothes and jewelry, and the youngest asked for the Pearl in Hand; the father brought two boxes from the guli; when the youngest daughter received them, the maids came out of one, the other is a black servant; now she is the wife of the Pearl in Hand (JR), lives in a house where the robbers were; a black woman puts her to sleep in the evenings, then JR comes; two doves say that sisters and parents miss her; she was released and her sister found out that she was in the robbers' house; found a glass tube through which ZhR entered, broke it; when the JR appeared, he was badly injured; JR told the black woman slaughter his wife in the desert and bring her bloody shirt; when the maid brings her sword, the rooster rushes to the blade, pours his blood on the young woman's shirt, the rooster's head grows and he flies away; JR regretted that she hastened to kill; his wife pulled a lamb's stomach over her head, dressed up as a man; hears two doves talking; JR can be cured with the leaves of this tree and our blood; the woman killed doves, gained leaves; cured JR - Sultan Ghoulay; stayed with him forever; he forgave the maid for her disobedience]: 7-32; Moroccan Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425A: 202; Arabs of eastern Algeria [of the seven daughters, the king loves the youngest, and the sisters are jealous; when the father leaves, each asks for something to be brought to her, etc., and they persuade the youngest to ask for a rose bush; On the way back, the royal camel did not budge until the king went to look for the bush; the old man tells us to slaughter the ram and leave it at the entrance to the cave; if the ram is caught by a white dog, feel free to enter, and if black, then the king will die; black but white came out and took the ram; the king came in to meet the prince, he is the rose bush; tells us to go home, and he will arrive in the form of thunderstorm and rain; every time leaves gold under the younger princess's pillow, the sisters take it away; finally, the youngest notices gold; the sisters stick needles, the Rosebush hurt himself, flew away, saying that she would not return again; the princess goes to searches; lion and lioness say they fell asleep when the sky turns red and black, the moon will hide behind the clouds; RK will heal their liver and heart; the princess waited, killed lions, took the liver and heart; she irrigated With broth, the prince's body, the needles fell out; the prince recognized the girl; the wedding; all the genies rejoiced]: Scelles-Millie 1963:291-297; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 78 [Once upon a time there was a woodcutter and had seven daughters. Every day he bought food and clothes for his seven daughters. One day he went to cut wood, and suddenly a black genie appeared in front of him, saying that the woodcutter was preventing his master, Al-Shazili Ben Adili, from sleeping. But the woodcutter said he needed to cut wood because he should buy something for his youngest daughter Aisha today. Then the genie disappeared, and then reappeared and asked the lumberjack to marry Aisha for his master, then he would reward him with wealth and he would no longer have to work. The woodcutter came home and told me everything. Aisha cried but agreed. Then the black genie Bilyal came to pick her up, closed her eyes, and she found herself in a beautiful palace surrounded by a garden. Her husband only showed up at night and she never saw his face. One day she went for a walk in the garden and caught a pigeon and he had a letter. Her older sister wrote to her that her mother was dead. Then her husband let her go home, but warned her not to listen to her older sister's words. At home, she found out that all her sisters were married. They all started talking about their husbands and she had nothing to say. Then the older sister found out from Aisha that they had been living together for five years, but she had never seen her husband's face. She gave her a candle and matches and advised her to light it when he slept. When Aisha returned to the palace, her husband once again warned him not to listen to her sister's advice, but she did not listen and saw that he was very handsome and had a key on his chest, which read: "The key to seventh room." She took it and opened this room, entered it and found herself at the market. Every time she went to the merchant to buy something, he would tell her, "This is for Aisha, the lumberjack's daughter, if she was patient." While she was walking like this, a drop of wax fell on her husband's face and he woke up. She apologized for her behavior, but he did not accept it. They went back to bed, and Aisha woke up alone in a deserted place in the morning. She saw a shepherd herding his sheep and offered him all her jewelry and clothes in exchange for his clothes and flock. So Aisha disguised herself as a shepherd. One day she heard a woman lament that she could not file a complaint to the king because she had no ink and could not write. Aisha asked her to bring her coal and complained to the king. The king was surprised at this complaint and appointed Aisha as his scribe. The Queen became jealous, on the advice of the old woman, she was sick and they say that only "the healing story and tears of a slave" can cure her, and only a scribe can get this medicine. Aisha left the palace, and Bilyal with a magic carpet was already waiting for her there. She flew it to the gray-haired sheikh, who immediately greeted her as Aisha, Al-Shazili's wife Ben Adili. He told her his story. He was married and his wife brought him juice every day, and somehow he felt unwell that he couldn't even get out of bed. Then he made his wife drink this juice. She fell asleep, and he sat on a large bird that came to pick up his wife and found himself in the palace where the blind genie lived with his children. He cut off their heads and took them with him. When his wife woke up, he served her a meal. When she lifted the lid, she saw her genie husband and their children's heads on the platter. The sheikh tied her to the wall so that her tears would become a cure for the suffering. While he was telling this story, she cried a whole pitcher. He gave it to Aisha and ordered him to say to the king's wife at the end of the story: "Welcome Aisha, Al-Shazili's wife Ben Adili, when he saw me." Bilyal took her back on the flying carpet. Aisha told the cork everything, honestly admitted her deception, apologized, and left the palace where her husband was waiting for her, who was captivated by her courage and loyalty to him], 85 [The woman became pregnant and predicted she is an old woman that she will give birth to a daughter who will suffer a lot at the beginning of her life, but then be happy for the rest of her life. That's what happened. The woman gave birth to a daughter who was very beautiful and named her Sharakat Vuduat. Her son, Sultan Qamar Al-Zaman, saw her and decided to marry her. Sharakat Vooduat had a cousin, whom she loved very much. She told her she was getting married and her mother found out. She replaced her fiancée with her own daughter. When the prince found out about the change, he became very angry, killed his cousin Sharakat, broke the wall and ran away from the palace. Sharakat was upset about the death of her cousin, then packed up and went in search of the prince. She walked for a long time, then sat on marble. The woman on the other side told Sharakat to shake the rock and see what was under it. Gulya's daughter was there. She asked her father about the prince. Gul got angry and gouged out her eye, then Sharakat went to her middle sister, whose father cut off her arm, and told the youngest that she needed to cross seven seas and seven lands, go through the land of ghouls and horrors and get to a forgotten grave from scratch, then fill 40 jugs and 40 vats with tears. All this can only be done with a staff, clothes, and a piece of ghoul. The youngest daughter gave it all to Sharakat. She did everything, but when she was left with only one jug, she was very tired and asked a black girl to look after the jugs while she slept. The girl dug up the prince, he married her because he promised to marry the one who would be the first to get him out of the grave. Sharakat smeared tar on her face and began working as a maid in homes until she found the prince's house. She broke the first nut that her daughter Gulya gave her, and it turned out to be a beautiful necklace. She exchanged it with the prince's black wife for a night spent with him. His wife added sleeping pills to his coffee. He didn't wake up, and it was the same on the second night. On the third, he did not drink coffee because the servant asked him why his room was crying at night. The prince just pretended to be asleep, heard everything, recognized Sharakat, they lived happily ever after] in Korovkina MS; the Arabs of Libya [the Sultan's daughter buys a magic mirror from a Jew; it tells her that her happiness is in the dog, which should be in the garden; the princess brings the dog into the room; she turns into a young man; the mother spies, throws the dog's skin into the fire; the young man disappears; the princess gathers the old people, to tell stories; one saw three ships at sea; a dog jumped ashore, turned into a young man, threw three apples: for the east, for the west and for the princess; the princess asks the old man to take her there where he saw it all; lovers reunite]: Panetta, l'Arabo parlato, p. 102-105 in Novak 1969, No. 245:237-238; Egyptian Arabs: Artin Pasha 1895, No. 5 [the king announced he is marrying three daughters; let each throw a handkerchief at her chosen one; the eldest threw at the prince, the middle at the emir, the youngest at the goat's horns; and so on three times; persuaded her father to pass her off as a goat; in marriage, a goat turns into Prince Charming, tells them not to tell anyone about it; older sons-in-law went to war and returned victorious, wives greet them; the younger princess sees her husband and greets her too; the sisters think she has an affair; her father wants to execute her, she has to tell her everything, her husband disappears; the princess started to keep the bathhouse and asked the women to talk about their misfortunes; one day an old woman came and told me something else; she was washing, saw a mule that took two jugs of water, stamped his hoof, and began to go underground; the old woman followed him, 40 goats came in, another on horseback goat; turned into a young man, began to mourn their fate; the princess told the old woman to bring her to that place, went down, rushed to the prince, he said that the spell was broken and she could return to the palace; all good]: 87-102; Spitta-Bey 1883, No. 10 [father is dead; three brothers built a palace for mother and sister; the old woman advises the girl to ask her brother to bring a singing nightingale; the elder leaves the brothers a rosary - if they decrease in size, then he is dead; the oncoming teaches him to wait for the nightingale to return to the cage and fall asleep, not to show himself to him sooner; but the young man hurried, the nightingale shook off the sand on him, he died; the rosary shrunk; the same with his middle brother (left the ring); younger Mohammed waited for the nightingale to fall asleep, ban the cage; ordered the brothers to be revived; he revived many blacks and Turks who had died earlier; M.: where brothers? then the nightingale revived the others; the brothers returned home, brought the nightingale; the man tells Mohammed that his turban is dirty; the mother explains: this means that the sister will behave unworthily, she must be killed ; M. refuses, leaves home with his sister; M. entered the cave of 40 thieves; they divide the food into 40 servings, M. quietly takes one; after confusion, the robbers realized that they had a young man with them; M. said he was a thief; volunteered to be a servant, stabbed sleeping robbers, brought his sister; found and brought two lion cubs; his sister found that one of the robbers, a black man, had just been wounded, went out and became with him to live, gave birth to two children; to get rid of her brother, she asked him to get the grapes of paradise; M. greeted the cannibal, she gave a balloon, he rolled, we must follow him; he reached the Garden of Eden, brought grapes; the black man advised to send M. for live water; M. hears the conversation of two turtles: only living water will heal the princess; M. filled the vessels with living water, immersed them on a donkey, came to the king, cured the princess, married her; left her one vessel of living water, the other took her sister; she spoke to him, and the black man came up from behind and decapitated her; the lions ran away; the black man put the pieces of his body in a bag, loaded her on donkey, let him go; disguised as a black man, M. came to his sister, killed her lover and children, buried his sister alive; his father had already died and he moved all his property to his wife's house]: 123-236.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 425A [the childless queen wants at least a crocodile; he bites off the nurse's nipples; finally, Mariquita's girlfriend has agreed to feed him when her breast is covered iron; he grew up, asked to marry the girl; Mariquita's older sister goes first; the crocodile tells her not to sleep, he will come at midnight; she falls asleep, he killed her; the same with her middle sister; M. does not sleep, crocodile says that this girl would spell him; took off seven crocodile skins, became handsome, told his wife not to touch her skin; M. told her mother-in-law, she came in, burned her skins; the husband flew to the castle. will find, wearing out 7 pairs of iron shoes and the same number of her son, whom he will give birth; they are almost worn out; St. The virgin gave M. three nuts with valuables inside; the eagle carried M. and her son on her back from the eagle castle to the castle Go, you won't come back; M. opened the first nut, in which the spinning wheel, sells her husband's bride for the right spend the night, but she gives the young man sleeping pills, he does not wake up; the same second night (spindle); the third time a golden egg, the servant threw away the sleeping pill, the husband recognized M., the spell was removed; told everyone that I found the lost key and I don't need a new one anymore], 425E (Ciudad Real) [the poor man has three daughters, one dress for three; he goes for brushwood, picks rosemary, hears a voice: who is dragging me by the beard? the door opens, someone asks him to bring his daughter, gives clothes, offers to eat 3 nuts and 2 figs; the father brings the eldest daughter, who eats two nuts out of three, her voice sends her; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest gives two out of three to her father, asks her to stay; her husband is with her at night, but she does not see him; she asked for time off for her sister's wedding, her husband tells her not to tell anything, not to kiss anyone; then to her father's funeral; there she kissed her aunt, who asked her, advised her to light a candle at night; a drop of wax woke her husband up, he says that in two days the spell would be broken, teaches her to find him, not to be afraid of animals along the way, choose a room by the road for the night; she gave birth, her husband's mother praised the child, her husband's crocodile skin came off, everything is fine], 432 (Extremadura) [a widow with two daughters cares for the daughter of a widower neighbor; she persuaded him to marry a neighbor; his new wife is a witch, trying to harm his stepdaughter; the father asks what to bring the girls from the fair; the wife's daughters ask for new clothes, the husband's daughter asks for two measures of thyme seeds; she sowed thyme in a flower pot, it grew beautiful for sore eyes; at night she puts the pot on the windowsill, calls the prince; a beautiful bird arrives, turns into a young man; in the morning she leaves a bag with with money; so nightly; stepmother sends her own daughter to spend the night in her stepdaughter's rooms; she pretends to be asleep, sees everything; stepmother tells her daughter to stick steel knives into the pot; the bird screams that it is fatal wounded, flies away; aunt teaches the girl to take a healing ointment from a doctor and go to the royal palace; the prince recovered, the girl came back, called him in the usual way; he flew in and wanted to kill her, but she showed who was the doctor who saved him; brought her to the palace; wedding]: 241-246, 253-258, 294-298; Malinovskaya 2002 [the poor man goes for the bars, grabs the willow, the dragon tells him to bring him what he meets first at home; he thinks it will be a dog, the youngest daughter comes out; he sends first the eldest, the middle one, the dragon rejects them; at night he sheds his skin, becomes handsome; the dragon's wife visits the sisters, they are jealous they burn the skin, the husband tells me to look for him in a gilded castle, wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes; the wife and son come to the old woman, who tells her to wait for the Moon Eagle to return; the Moon sends to her Sun Brother , he goes to the Wind Brother, the Wind takes her to the castle, where her missing husband marries; the wife consistently kindles three coal given by her husband, each fulfills the wish to have a beautiful spinning wheel; for three spinning wheels, the wife buys three nights in the prince's bedroom; on the third night, the prince does not drink a sleepy potion, returns to his wife and son]: 233-237; Aragon [the prince looks like a crocodile, a pig, etc.; the third daughter of a poor man agrees to marry him; at night he turns into a man; the wife violates the prohibition to report it, either her mother sees her son-in-law in human form, or his animal skin is burned; the wonderful husband disappears ; the wife finds it and returns it]: González Sanz 1996, No. 425A: 81; Portuguese: Braga 2002 (Algarve): 99-102 [the three sisters decided not to be afraid to spend the night in a house where strange noises are heard; the youngest comes last; scream from the ceiling: I'm falling! girl: well, fall; leg falls; then the rest of the body in the same way; an old man appears; when she finds out that the girl is not afraid of him, gives her an inexhaustible purse with money; if anything, you have to call him Querecas; someone goes to bed with the girl at night; she is afraid that it is old K., lights a candle, but sees a handsome man next to him; a drop of wax falls on his face, he wakes up, says that the spell is almost It was over, and now she would never see it; the girl went to that house and called K.; he gave her three balls of thread, we must go where they went; she went to the palace, persuaded the gardener to let her in gave birth to a boy; the queen said that the newborn looked like her missing son; she noticed a sign on his back, turned the key, the spell broke, a prince appeared {the key is not very clear}] 167-168 [the woman's son is a raven; there are three daughters next to the family; the raven marries the eldest, she refused, the raven pecked out her eye; the same with the middle one; the youngest agrees; at night she throws her husband's feather outfit into the fire; he says so that she asks the birds to give him new feathers; becoming a bird again, she flies away; the wife will find him, wearing out her iron shoes; she wanders for a long time at the source of crows and teaches: to take away the laundress's feather outfit, who will come to wash, wash herself; there is a house nearby, there is an old man; he must be killed to free all the birds from the cages; she asked the old man to go to the window and pushed him into the sea; the birds turned into princes whom he bewitched; including her husband], 169-170 [an enchanted prince flies to the window of the youngest of the three sisters as a bird, dips himself in a bowl of water; envious sisters put razors in the water; the youngest saw blood, went to look for the prince; came to the mother of the Month, she hid it; Month: I smell a man; the mother of the Month asks him, he does not know, sends him to the Wind; the Mother of the Month gives a golden reel; The wind sends to the Sun, the Mother of the Wind gives a gold spindle decorated with diamonds; the Sun shows the way, his mother gives a golden spindle; at the palace, the girl begins to wind yarn on a reel, the queen buys it for the girl's right to spend the night in the prince's room; the spinning rod is the same; the girl tells the sick prince everything, who recovers immediately; the wedding; {the end is clearly crumpled}]; Shishlova 1971 [the queen had a bear cub; grew up, began to marry three daughters of a blacksmith; the eldest, middle one does not want him, the youngest marries him; when the son was born, the bear's wife told his mother that at night the husband becomes human; after that, the husband disappears, telling him to look for him in the Green Meadow; the sorceress tells you to ask the Moon; she tells you to ask the Sun, the Sun at the Wind, the Wind leads; the girl rushes around the bear's neck, he becomes human forever; everyone is happy]: 220-227; the Portuguese (Coimbra) [the childless queen regularly prays to St. The virgin give her a child; the shepherd drove the herd past; the queen: even a lamb! gave birth to a white lamb; he grew up and told his mother that he would marry his eldest daughter do rei do conselho (Chairman of the State Council?) ; came to marry in the form of a prince, but said that he asked the girl to marry a kid; in marriage he saw a knife from his wife, but took it away and stabbed her himself; the same with his second daughter; when with the youngest, he threw off seven skins, became a prince, told his wife not to say he was an enchanted prince; but she told his mother; prince: now the witchcraft will last another 7 years, look for me on the South River (o rio Sul); my wife has come to the kingdom of the Moon; Moon's mother hid it first; the moon does not know, she sent her to the Wind and the Sun; they also do not know; 7 years have passed; the old woman pointed to the door to the Sul River; many birds will fly; the one who rushes to her feet is her husband; wife: is that you? the spell ended, the couple began to live in the palace]: Coelho 1879, No. 25:60-82; Catalans (incl. Mallorca): Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 425A [the heroine pulls a thyme out of the ground, the prince appears in the form of an animal; he lives in an underground palace; the heroine, despite the ban, looks at the prince when he receives human appearance; the prince forgets everything and disappears; the wife finds him when he should remarry; she shows him a bunch of thyme, he remembers her, the couple reunite], 432 [the prince flies to a girl in the form of a bird becomes a young man, flies away in the morning; the stepmother teaches her own daughter to break the glass in the window; when he flies away, he is wounded; the girl overhears the conversation of animals, from which she learns about what happened and how to cure a prince; comes to the palace dressed as a doctor, heals the prince and says who she is; wedding]: 93-94, 98; Sicilians: Calvino 1980, No. 188 (Acereale) []: 671-675; Gonzenbach 2004a [1870] , No. 2 [Maruzza is a princess; the king learns that when she is 11 years old, she is in danger; puts M. in the tower; she makes a hole with her bone, a green bird flies into him, turns into him man; explains that he is an enchanted prince; visits M.; father thinks that the danger is over, takes her from the tower; the old woman takes her to the castle of 12 fairies, the prince also flies there; says that since she came to this place, he must now fly for 7 years, months, days, hours and minutes; he will become human if she waits for him all this time in this castle; she waited, but is very fool; the prince spat in her, left her; the fairies made her beautiful again; the prince fell in love with her; she sets different conditions for their meeting; the last thing: let him be brought in the coffin to the sound of funeral bells; spits in his face; he hers finds out, she says they're even; wedding]: 9-17; Tremearne 1913 [the queen meets the emperor's son with three golden balls to be dipped in milk poured into a golden basin; servant broke the glass, threw the fragments into the milk, the emperor's son cut himself, disappeared; after overhearing the demons talking, the Queen found out how to cure the prince, married him]: Pitre, vol.4, p.342 at 283; ladins: Uffer 1973, No. 27 [Childless spouses finally have a son; this is a bear, they love him, he has grown up; the princess saw him, asked him to give it to her; at night he turns into a young man; one day someone heard that the princess is talking to someone; when the bear understood this, he ran away, ended up with an old woman who put him in the basement on a chain; the princess went in search; the old man wrote something on a piece of bark, told him to throw the bark the dragon guarding the bridge; if the dragon reads and laughs, you can pass; the dragon laughed; gave a pipe; let the princess ask the old woman for a job, she will herd the sheep, but they will turn into hares and they will scatter; if they play the pipe, they will gather again and become sheep; you have to bring hot water to the bear, then he will break the chain; the old woman tastes the water that the princess carries to the bear; she gives her try cold water, and took the hot water in advance; the bear and the dragon who arrived in time grabbed the old woman and forced them to return to their human appearance; the dragon and bear also became people; princess wedding with ex-bear]: 106-109; Wildhaber, Uffer 1971, No. 53 [=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 44:122-125; the miller's two eldest daughters are evil, the youngest is kind; in winter, the father went to the city, the elders asked for dresses, the youngest asked for a bouquet of wildflowers; on the way back, the miller went into the castle; the doors opened and closed themselves; the cat grinded coffee, set the table, and other cats gathered; the miller was taken to the bedroom; in the morning he saw a rose in the garden, tore it off; a snake crawled out of the well, wrapped it around him; promised to kill him if he did not give his daughter; the father brought a rose to his youngest daughter; the younger ones scold her, she agrees go to the snake; the cats greeted her courteously; at night someone came to her bed; on the third night she lit the light: this is a prince whom the witch turned into a snake; drops of candle fat fell on his skin, so the witch's spell did not completely disappear; the prince disappeared, saying that the girl would find him by wearing out two pairs of iron shoes; the old woman advised to place the iron shoes in warm cow manure, they soon fell apart; the girl came to town, stayed at the Queen's house, gave birth to a boy; heard a voice: if the rooster doesn't scream and the bell rings, I will stay until morning; the queen ordered all the roosters to be killed , tie the tongues to all the bells; then the Queen's son appeared, turned into a snake by a witch; married the girl]: 179-182; (cf. ladina [the widow's son learned his skills from a carpenter; after the death of the master, he was going to marry his daughter; but the carpenter's widow is a witch, she is against marriage, sent her daughter to Black Mountain as a maid to dragon; the witch doctor gives the young man ointment; if you anoint your left hand, wings will grow to fly over the black wall around the mountain; if the right hand, you will have the strength to defeat the dragon; the young man killed the dragon, led the bride to the witch doctor; he warned that the bride's mother would rush in pursuit, gave her three seeds; if left, a mountain would emerge from each; after overcoming two mountains, the mother refused the chase, gave her daughter three nuts - let split if she is in trouble; the young man brought the bride to his mother; the rich woman wants to make him her husband herself; persuaded the widow to tell her son to leave her former bride and take her; the carpenter's daughter consistently splits three nuts, each wearing one silk dress more beautiful than the other; the woman bought the first two for gold; when the third appeared, the young man returned to his former bride, and the new contender chased away; wedding]: Uffer 1973, No. 45:221-228); Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 11 [the son is a red pig; demands him to marry; the girl marries him; confesses to his mother that he is done at night handsome man; mother snuck into the room, grabbed the pigskin thrown off and threw it into the fire; three times the skin jumped out of the fire, but then burned; the husband says that his wife will not see him without wearing out the pair iron shoes; the wife wears shoes, consistently comes to three old women who give nuts (apparently walnuts), almonds and another walnut (hazel); the first nut contains silk thread, for which she buys night with her husband at his new wife; she gives her husband a sleepy potion; in almonds there is a silver thread (the same); in the last nut there is a gold thread; neighbors heard the wife try to wake her husband up the previous night, said to him; he did not drink potions; the couple reunited and returned to her husband's parents], 86 [a childless woman finally gave birth, but her son is a snake; when he grew up, he asks him to marry; mother brings poor girl, son tells her to take her back; richer is the same; from a good family; the wife is happy: at night her husband becomes handsome; warns that if the wife talks, she will have to wear out her iron shoes and fill her the vessel tears before she sees it again; the mother asks her daughter-in-law and she confesses; the husband has disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a snake walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts; they contain gold spindle, tow, spinning wheel; the wife buys three nights from his new wife for them; the third husband does not drink a sleepy potion, he recognizes his wife; everything is fine]: 25-27, 190-191; Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 18 (Piedmont: Turin) [Queen hates stepdaughter; the king agrees to place her daughter in a lonely castle in the woods; the queen puts watchmaids; the prince sees the princess, the fairy gives a book with which a man can become a bird and vice versa; the prince arrives in the form of a canary; the queen spies, hides pins in his pillow; the prince's servants take his wounded man to his palace; the princess makes a rope out of sheets, goes down, goes in search of the prince , spends the night in a tree, hears four witches talking; one of them says that the prince will be cured by the ointment, and it must be removed from under one of the tiles that paved the floor; under the guise of a doctor, the princess cured the prince and asked his father-king as a reward for his shield with coat of arms and a bloody outfit; when the prince is back in her room, the princesses show them and explains how it happened; she was also invited to the wedding father; when he returned home, he ordered the evil wife to be captured]: 52-57; Widter et al. 1866, No. 12 (Veneto) [the witch wanted to marry the king, but he chose another one, so the witch made the son born was covered in piggy skin; the son grew up and asked his father to marry him the eldest of three sisters; when the groom lay down in a puddle at the wedding and then sat down with the bride, she called him a real pig; in the morning she was found dead in bed; the same with her middle sister; the youngest did not disgust the groom, but called her a treasure; at night he took off his pigskin and turned out to be handsome; forbid his wife to talk about it; The prince comes to the tournament three times; seeing his daughter-in-law next to the handsome man, the prince's mother calls her a libertine and wants to kill her; when she finds out about the skin removed, she burns her; the prince disappears, the wife goes in search; The evening star (Stella d'oro, man) gives a nut, sends it to the Sun; he also gives a nut, refers to the Wind; the mother of the Wind hides it, asks her son, who says that the prince lives behind the mountain, they are with the Sun they will go there tomorrow to dry their clothes; the mother of the Wind gives a chestnut; the prince remarries, in his house an unrecognized wife was hired as a goose; split a walnut, wearing an Evening Star dress; gives it to a new bride overnight with the prince; she puts sleeping pills; the same on the second night (the dress is like the sun); the most beautiful chestnut dress; the prince just pretended to fall asleep; found out that his wife had worn out iron in search of him shoes; returned to her and drove the new bride away]: 249-254; Braga 2002 (Calabria) [Gubernatis in Mythologie zoologique, II, 301, nota 2 mentions a one-story text recorded by Grego in Cosenza, in which There are also episodes of wax dripping on the young man and a ball of thread, followed by a girl in search of her missing lover]: 102; Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250.

Western Europe. French (Ardennes, Vendée, Quebec) [the king has Florin's daughter, his wife is dead, he married a widow; she has an ugly daughter Tritonne; T.'s godmother is the Soussio fairy; the king chooses a bride for her son; although the stepmother hid all F.'s jewelry, the king only likes her; but when the prince comes, the stepmother replaces F. with her daughter; the prince does not see her but gives her a ring; realizing the deception, the prince refuses to marry T.; for this, the fairy turns him into a blue bird for 7 years; in this form he regularly flies to F., leaves her jewelry; after learning about his visits, his stepmother leaves razors and scissors on the windowsill; prince wounded and disappears; the wizard heals him and persuades S. to allow the prince to be human again for several months; F. goes in search, the good sorceress gives her 4 eggs to break in if necessary; after breaking the first, F. climbs ivory mountain, the second overcomes the glass valley; comes to the palace when the prince is due to marry T.; buys T. the right to spend three nights in the prince's room; for this he gives the jewelry and jewelry brought to them, which were in the third and fourth eggs; on the third night, the servant does not allow the prince to take sleeping pills; fairy S. is defeated, I. turned into a pig]: Delarue, Tenèze 1964, No. 432:112-114; the French (Pyrenees) [a green man with one eye in his forehead; he has three daughters; the youngest is 10 years old and she is the most beautiful; flew in a huge raven, demands one of his daughters as his wife; all three do not want to; the raven pecked out his only eye for man; then the youngest daughter agrees; the big raven regained his eye, his crows took the girl to the castle; at night, the husband is human; the sorcerer has bewitched him and his people; the girl will become a real wife in 7 years; before that she should not see her husband; there is a sword between them on the bed; one day the young queen leaves the castle and comes to the laundress; she washes her black underwear; the queen touches her and it turns white; laundress: this is the end of my trials, and you will come to me for help; the day before the end of my term, the Queen she lit a candle and looked at her beautiful husband; she had to leave the castle, and the sorcerer chained the king to the top of a cliff in the middle of the sea, where a white wolf guarded him during the day and the black wolf at night; the Queen came to that a laundress; she gave her iron shoes, an inexhaustible supply of bread and wine, and a golden knife to cut off the blue grass; she would find the king when her shoes were worn out; the queen came to a country where the sun always shines; one or two blue grass warns that they are not the ones that sing night and day and break the iron; finally she found her shoes burst, she sailed in a boat to the rock, put the wolf to sleep with grass, stabbed him with a knife, the chain broke, the king was happy, the crows took human form; the king's friend sailed for them on ships]: Carlin 1991:271-279; Bretons: Lopyreva 1959, No. 39 [a toad clutched the face at the well an old man, demands his daughter as his wife; only the youngest agrees; the Toad takes her to his castle; the sisters spy, see Prince Charming; burn the skin with a toad; the husband scolds his wife, runs away; she follows him, he She is beaten, three drops of blood fall on his shirt; she tells the stains not to go away before she comes to wash them off; she walks past lions, the hare brings her to the castle; she helps the laundresses wash away the stains, is hired by a shepherdess; buys three nights from the new bride with her fiance for three gold balls that her husband left her when he ran away; the new bride gives him a sleepy potion; the servant tells him about it, he does not drinks a potion; marries his ex-wife]: 166-173; Sébillot 1908a, No. 72 []: 1-6; Irish: Curtin 1975 [Coluath O'Hara, king of Desmond, has three daughters; in the absence of a father the eldest envelops herself in a veil of darkness, wants a handsome man as her husband; he immediately arrives in a golden carriage drawn by two white and two black horses and takes her away; the same is the middle daughter; arrives in a carriage with four black horses; the youngest wants the best white dog in the world, he comes with a servant in a carriage drawn by four white horses; the husbands of older sisters are human during the day, and at night seals, the youngest's husband is a dog during the day, handsome at night; when he leaves, he tells his wife not to shed tears if the child is born and something happens to him; she gives birth to a son, he is carried away by a crow; the same with the second; when he gives birth daughter, a tear drips into the mother's handkerchief; the husband returns, scolds his wife for it; daughters and husbands come to their father; mother spies, sees with two older seals, with the youngest handsome man; throws dog skin at fire; the husband says that if he spent three days in his father-in-law's house, he would remain human, and now he must leave; the wife follows; in the first house she meets the first kidnapped son, the old woman gives scissors, turning rags into a golden dress; in the second, she gets a comb that turns bad hair into golden curls; in the third, a daughter, she has no eye, the mother pulls out a handkerchief, it does not have a tear, but an eye daughters, the girl finds it; the hostess blows a whistle calling on all the birds; the husband pulls out his reed, goes to the lower world, he must become the husband of the Queen of the Land of Youth (Tir na N-og), who bewitched him; wife pulls out another, follows; the woman turns the poultry house's daughter's rags into a luxurious dress; she reports to the queen; the queen demands scissors, the dog's wife asks for a night with her husband for them, gets it, but the husband sleeps; the same is the second night (tidies up the poultry house's daughter's hair, gives the comb); the dog's wife whistles on the whistle, all the birds arrive, including the bird of song and new tales; wife the dog asks the bird how to kill the queen; she says that there is a ram in the holly, there is a duck in it, an egg in it, only the queen's husband can cut down the holly; the dog's wife hides a fox in the box, and a hawk in the other; spends the night in exchange for a whistle, leaves a letter to the servant for her husband; he wakes up, cuts a holly, a fox grabs a ram, a hawk a duck, an egg breaks, the queen dies; the former dog and his wife remain to rule the country Tir na N-og]: 15-25; McManus 1915 [when leaving, a noble man forgets to lock the house where his daughters are; the eldest says she will marry an officer, the middle one a soldier, the youngest a white deer; in a week grooms take their wives; the youngest answers the Deer that he wants to see him as a man at night and a deer during the day, and not vice versa; a year later she goes to visit the house, the husband warns him not to drop his tear; at home she gives birth to a boy, his they take it away; the same year later, gives birth to a girl, drops a tear into her handkerchief; when she returns, the Deer's house is in ruins; she follows her husband's cart, consistently gets to his three sisters, who give her scissors to make clothes, a magic tablecloth, a comb that makes her hair beautiful; she finds her children in the homes of her sisters, her daughter has lost her eye, she inserts a fallen tear into her eye socket, her eye recovers; her husband leaves over a mountain of needles; the wife has been serving with a blacksmith for a year, he forges her iron shoes; she crosses a mountain; in that world her husband has a different wife, she sends her husband's clothes to wash, on which her earthly wife separates splashed blood; blood does not wear off, laundresses are executed; earthly wife easily washes off stains; buys three nights with her ex-husband for magic items received from his sisters; the new wife gives her husband sleeping pills; On the third night, the servant tells him what happened, he does not drink sleeping pills; the husband explains to his earthly wife that life is new in a mole, an egg must be thrown at him, it is in a duck, a duck in a lamb that kills with his gaze; a servant kills a lamb, an earthly wife throws an egg at a mole; a new wife dies, a family reunites]: 185-191; Scots [an old poultry house consistently tells three princesses that they will see theirs fate from the back door of her house; carriages come for the older and middle, the Black Ox comes for the youngest; takes her on her back to the locks of his three brothers, they give an apple, a pear, a plum, they must be broken into in extreme need; in the gorge he says that if there is a blue fog, he won, if the red fog dies; everything turns blue, the Black Ox turns into a Black Knight, but the bride becomes invisible to him; seven years she works for a blacksmith, for which he makes her iron shoes climb a glass mountain; only she washes blood off her Czech shirt; he must marry someone who can do it; the laundress says that her daughter washed her; the princess consistently breaks an apple, pear, plum, and jewelry in them; for them she buys her laundress the right to spend the night near the Czech Republic, but she gives the Czech Republic sleeping pills; old hunter reports that he heard singing; the Czech Republic does not drink the potion, remembers the princess, the laundress and expels her daughter]: Kharitonov 2008:419-428; Scots: Campbell 1890, No. 3 [three peasant daughters wash clothes; the crow asks the elder if she will marry him, the eldest refuses contemptuously; the middle sister, the youngest, agrees; chooses that the husband be human during the day and a crow at night, and not vice versa; gives birth to three sons successively, each time music sounds, the child disappears; she rides in a wagon with her husband and sisters, replies to her husband that she has forgotten the comb; the husband flies away as a crow, she goes looking for him; consistently sleeps with three women (these are her husband's sisters); the third warns her to wear horseshoes to cross a poisonous hill; she almost catches up with her husband, he leaves her a ring and a feather; in town, her husband must marry the daughter of a noble man; the wife hires to cook for the wedding, throws a ring and a feather into the food; the husband finds him, demands to find the one who cooked, recognizes her as a real wife; they they return, taking three sons from their husband's three sisters], 12 [the farmer has lost his cattle; the dog promises to find if he gives her daughter; the eldest, middle, refuse, the youngest marries a dog; the dog brings his wife into his world, turns into a person; a pregnant wife wants to visit her parents; the husband warns him to return before the child is born; remove the bridle from the horse, let him go; if necessary, wave the bridle, the horse will return; she gave birth to her parents; music was heard, everyone fell asleep, the child was gone in the morning, the wife returned to her husband; so three times; the third time the father ordered me to tell everything; the horse did not appear; she came on foot, only her husband's mother at home; said that her daughter-in-law would still catch up with him; the wife stays in a house; the hostess says that her husband is going to marry the daughter of the King of Heaven; gives scissors (they cut their own hair); the next sister gives a needle (she sews herself), the third gives a thread (she enters the needle herself); the woman stops at the poultry house, shows the work of magic objects, the servant of the daughter of the King of Heaven tells her that she buys each item in exchange for allowing her to spend the night with her husband; gives him sleeping pills twice; the second time the eldest son hears his mother trying to wake his father up, tells his father; he does not drink sleeping pills, returns to earth with his wife and three sons]: 64-67, 208-213; the British [{episodes of the initial acquisition and loss of a magical spouse in obvious There are no views, but given the general similarity of the story to the Scottish versions, they were probably also in some English}; the eldest daughter asks her mother to cook for her way, goes for fate; comes to a laundress witch; on the third day a carriage arrives, a girl gets into it, leaves; the same with her middle daughter; a black bull comes for her; she sits on it; on the way he tells her to take food and drink from his ears; they stop at the castle; they give her an apple, tell her to break it only in case of emergency; in the next castle they give a pear, in the third, a plum; the bull brings it to the deaf place, tells you to wait for him; if everything around him turns blue, then he defeated the Old One, and if red, then his Old; everything turned blue, the girl is happy, the bull has returned, but did not find her; came to the blacksmith; after working for he is 7 years old, got iron shoes to climb a glass mountain; saw a handsome man give two women (mother and daughter) his bloody clothes; whoever washes would become his wife; they they can't, the girl's clothes immediately became clean; but the old woman said that she washed her daughter; the girl opens an apple, then a pear, a plum; in every fruit of the treasure, she gives them to the old woman's daughter for the right to spend the night with her suitors; she puts sleeping pills every time; on the third day he was told that someone was grieving at his bed; he quietly poured out his wine, saw a girl; they had begun to live well, and the laundress and her daughter were burned]: Jacobs 1894:20-27 (translation of another version to Shereshevskaya 1957b: 158-161); the British [a young wife never sees her husband, he only comes at night; she is told that he must be a freak; she lights a candle and sees a handsome man; he immediately turns into a bird and says that she will only find him again if she is a laundress and serves 7 years and one day; gives three feathers that they will fulfill any wishes; she only orders her feathers to wash and iron the laundry themselves; one of the servants (butler) takes an interest in her, gives her money; she says she needs to remove the clothes from the ropes, so that the wind does not shake him all night; he goes by himself, and she tells his feathers to prevent him from moving away from the ropes; the same with the coachman; with the footman; when they have shared after a while impressions, the girl caused a quarrel between them, remained in good standing with the owners; after 7 years and one day, her husband took her; everything is fine]: Jacobs 1894:37-42; Germans [the eldest daughter asks to bring her pearls, the middle one is diamonds, the youngest is a singing skylark; the father saw a lark in the castle, wanted to grab it, a lion jumped out; he gives a lark for promising to give what he sees first at home; the first the youngest daughter comes out; she went to the forest, there is a queen who turns into a lion during the day; she comes to her older sister's wedding; when the wedding is average, the lion does not want to go, because he will become a dove if he is the candlelight will fall; it happened; it follows a dove that drops blood drops and feathers; when the trail disappears, the sun asks (gives a casket), a month (gives an egg), the wind (only the south wind knows that the lion fights the dragon - the enchanted royal); tells you to cut off the 11th vine and hit the dragon; then you must jump on the neck with your husband, he will fly; you have to throw a nut, an island will appear in the sea, the vulture she will rest; but the dragon, becoming a woman, took the lion away; there is a golden dress in the casket, the girl buys the bride's night with her husband, who is intoxicated with sleeping pills; there is a golden chicken with chickens in the egg; this time the husband poured out a potion; they sat on the vulture, throwing a nut into the sea, flew home; their son is now older]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 88:292-296 (=Grimm, Grimm 1987:232-236); Walloons: Laporte 1932, no.*425E [when leaving, the king promises bring the eldest daughter a blue silk dress, the middle daughter is red, the youngest is a singing laurel; it is owned by a witch, the mother of the Good Lion; she is ready to give it if the king gives off her daughter as her son; the king does not agree but DL takes her away himself, leaves her in the care of the maid for a year and a day; returns her older sister for a year and a day on the occasion of her older sister's wedding; then her middle sister; then takes her as his wife himself; a son is born; DL's mother gives him drink potions and he forgets his wife; the princess is hired to take care of turkeys; she asks her for a blue silk dress, the princess gives her the right to spend three nights with DL, but he sleeps; the same with red dress; when he gives a singing laurel; the hunter told the Good Leo about the strange poultry house; on the last night, DL does not drink potions, finds his wife again; the sorceress was cooked in oil], *425F [], *425G [youngest daughter asks for a singing leaf; a white wolf brings it to the king and he leaves his daughter in the forest; the wolf becomes the girl's husband; leaves her in the care of a servant; lets her older sister go to the wedding, teaches when to come and call him; middle sister; princess is late; witch gives her three nuts; they wear a precious bracelet, necklace, crown; for them, the princess buys an hour of walk with her husband from her new wife (or time in bedroom), but he doesn't feel or remember anything; for the third time he calls him the way he taught her (White Wolf, go look for me!) , he awakens; the plot is known in many versions]: 53-55, 55-56, 56-57; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), Welsh, Friesians, Flemish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250.

Western Asia. Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait: El-Shamy 2004, No. 425A: 251; Palestinians: Bushnaq 1987 [a poor infertile woman asks God to give her any a son, even an animal; gave birth to a camel; named Jumail; he grew up and ordered him to marry the Sultan's youngest daughter, Princess Ward; the sultan asks for gold worth her weight for her daughter; D. brought the servants to the cave, they they brought much more treasures from there; when V. came to her husband, he appeared as a beautiful young man; he is the son of the king of genies; if V. talks about this, she will lose him; enemies attacked, D. defeated them, but the wife said that the rider was her husband; he was missing; the Sultan built baths where women could not pay but had to tell stories; an old woman told me how she spent the night in a tree; land opened up, the prince and his entourage came out; his wife came and hugged him; witchcraft is destroyed, the prince can live on earth in human form]: 188-193; Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 12 [going on Hajj, the merchant promises three gifts for daughters; the elders ask for a bracelet, a dress, the youngest (from another wife) Sitt il-Husun, the Chief of the Birds; the merchant's camels stopped in Aqaba, he remembered that he had forgotten about the youngest's gift, returned to Mecca, found The house of the King of Birds, it is empty, the merchant called him three times; at home, the King of Birds began to fly to C., spent the night with her in the guise of a young man; the sisters asked S. to find out what was dangerous for him; it turned out that the glass was broken; they put a glass, he is wounded, flew away; S. goes in search, hears one dove say to another that the King of Birds can be cured by rubbing his feet with pigeon blood and feathers; S. killed a dove, found cured her husband; her sisters tell her to 1) sweep and clean the whole city, 2) fill 10 feathers with feathers; her husband teaches her to turn to spirits, they do everything; 3) bring a wicker tray from the ghoul; the husband tells me to shift barley for horses, meat for lions, fix a stone terrace in Gulya's house; she takes a tray, a wall, lions, horses refuse to detain her; S.'s wedding with the King of Birds, they fly away together]: 117-121; Syrian Arabs [the woodcutter thinks how to carry a log home, and suddenly sees a camel; he loads it, brought him home; every day the camel brings a golden egg; then tells him to marry the king's daughter; the king demands a bunch of grapes that don't run out of berries; a carpet that will cover all the streets; a golden castle; everything is fulfilled; the king gave his daughter, at night the camel turns into a young man; tells no one to tell; attacked enemies, the princess's husband fights at night, smashes them; the king tied his wound with his handkerchief; the princess found out, told everyone, her husband disappeared; the king built baths, the fee was a story of the extraordinary; one old woman She told me how she spent the night in the tree; the earth opened, the prince came out, holding three apples in his hands: one for a dove, one for a dove, one for my wife, who could not keep the secret; his wife came and hugged him; he explained that the underground witch cast a spell: if a woman deceives him, he will remain underground; his wife went underground with him, he passed her off as a maid; the witch tells him to sweep with a broom to which beads are attached; if one bead is lost, he will send it back to the ground; the husband collected the fallen beads, attached it back; the witch has a sister in another country; let the girl carry her chest without opening it; the girl dropped the chest, snakes and monkeys got out of it; the husband gathered them back; wants to marry the princess's husband to another woman, and let her dance at the wedding; husband: ask the witch for a lamp and wick; during dance husband threw a lamp at the witch and she burned down; the spell was removed, the princess and her husband returned home]: Abu Risha 2015:30-35; Iraqi Arabs [the poor man lives what he prepares and sells for fuel thorn; found nothing, began to look for vegetable waste to feed the children, found a pumpkin; put it on a shelf at home; in the morning the pumpkin gives gold and tells him to marry him the Sultan's daughter; the vizier advises not to execute the man, and to give him an impossible assignment; the sultan demands a palace of gold and gems, the palace arises; a marriage contract is concluded, a bird flies in to the princess, turns into a young man; forbids the bride to tell about him; one day she goes to a public bath, and women whisper that her husband is a sparrow; she screams that he is human; a bird flies in, grabs her gold comb and bracelet, flies away; a woman builds another bath, where you can wash for free, but you have to tell stories; the old woman went to the river to wash her clothes; a rooster comes out of the river, she grabs his tail, he drags her to the underwater world, where the palace is; 40 doves turn into female maids, and the prince mourns for his lost wife; the old woman talks about what the owner of the bathhouse saw, brings her herself, the son of the genies recognizes his wife, returns to earth forever as a human appearance]: Stevens 2006, No. 11:45-57; Swamp Shia Arabs (Southern Iraq): Yaremenko 1990, No. 3 [when the Sultan goes to Hajj, his youngest daughter Fatima, whose mother is dead, asks for an "od al- marasi"; Od al-Marasi gives three nuts and a mirror; F. breaks the first walnut, a palace appears; a servant comes out of the second, O. himself comes out of the mirror; he breaks the third walnut, a bath appears; daughters The Sultan's young wife throws pieces of glass into the bath; O. is wounded, disappears; F. arranges a bathhouse, lets the women wash for an interesting story; one talks about a boat in which a wounded young man swims; F . hears pigeons talking - they must be burned, the ashes will cure O.; F. comes disguised as a doctor; O. recovers, lives with F. in another country], 21 [the sultan's daughter rejects suitors; sculpts from amber and others rubbing a handsome young man, begs God to breathe life into him; the father agrees to marry him his daughter, his name is Sultan Ambar ("amber"); the king's daughter in a distant country sits on a vessel, flies in it, puts the young to sleep, takes A. away, makes them forget the past, husbands; the Sultan's daughter tells her father to buy her steel boots and an iron motor, goes in search of her husband; receives as a reward 1) a hen with chickens collecting pearls for finding a prince kidnapped by a black slave (the slave was burned); 2) a pearl dress with diamond threads for healing the prince (he eats all the time, she extracts snakes from him, he recovers); 3) a diamond bird with agate eyes for healing the princess from madness (witches put that potion, burned the witch house); comes to kidnapper A .; buys three nights with A. for three treasures; the first two A. sleeps; his wife's tears stain his clothes; the tailor explains what's going on; the third night does not sleep, remembers everything, runs away with his wife; the witch's vessel loses her strength, she cannot chase]: 32-35, 117-124; Saudia [the merchant went to Lebanon; the eldest daughter asked for a silk dress, the middle daughter asked for a colored bird, and the youngest Juvana asked for Filfil Daru; when the merchant arrived, he was told that the FD was the ruler of their country; the merchant was allowed to see him; he ordered him to go to the roof at night, he would fly to her; the FD brought J. to his country; forbids him to take the keys to three rooms; gives J. a sleepy drink every night; a friend told J. that she must be pregnant, let her spill a drink and encourage FD to drink the rest himself; he fell asleep J. took his keys, opened the rooms; in the first, a carpenter makes a cradle, in the second, a seamstress sews clothes for the boy, in the third, the cook cooks food for the child; in the morning J. happily talks about this to her husband; in response, he orders J. to be taken to the desert and killed; the servant brings pigeon blood; J. reaches three houses; the mistress of the first says that her brother FD and his wife will come today, let the stranger leave the house , because she is unclean; the same is in the second house; the mistress of the third left J. for the night; she gave birth; the baby's stomach has three keys imprint; love has returned to the FD, he admitted to the sisters that the woman in labor was his wife, which he wanted to show; all is well]: Juhayman 1999:20-24; mehri [the man has three daughters; when he returned from the trip, he was told that his youngest daughter behaved shamefully; he sent her servant kill; the girl said she was innocent, the servant let her go; Prince Ahmed bin Hobsa saw her, built a palace for her, began to sail to her by ship; the envious sisters found out, came to visit, put it broken glass in the bath for bathing; the prince was wounded, returned to his parents, nothing can help him; under the guise of a doctor, his wife came, gave drugs and the prince recovered; asked for a golden ball and a wand as a reward; One day, the prince saw a boy playing with them; this is his son; it all became clear, the prince stayed with his wife]: Müller 1909, No. 20:37-41.

Australia. Valbiri [a long story about traveling women and a "depraved man"; episodes: a man's testicles slip away, turn into a person, go away; the penis becomes an individual and shows the way to the owner; then the genitals return to their place; the penis crawls underground, performs incest, the clitoris cuts it off; the dead man's penis becomes an individual; women meet people whose hearts shine through their bodies copulate with them all night; the original man rapes women again; his penis is cut off, turns into an individual; the man is killed by his next victim; women go further, copulate with the Raven, the Lizard; everyone goes to the ground]: Waterman 1987, No. 4715:127; Murinbatu [Kunmanngur sends his two parrot daughters to look for a suitable husband; they meet Tjineemin; they have to stay with him for the night, he copulates with them; they run away; they lure him into a channel filled with water at high tide, he swims out; they pull the rope up the mountain, they cut off the rope, T. breaks, the sisters return to their father; T. recovers himself, with a large group of Ravens and other bird-people comes to K.; pierces him, his wife and daughters at night with a spear, runs away; K . goes bleeding, sinks into water, turns into a Rainbow Serpent; bird-people fly away to become birds; sisters (it is not said that they are injured) and their mother turn into birds, and have been flying ever since where the steppe fire took place, picking up lizards, etc.]: Robinson 1956:5-9; oenpelli [two sisters are approached by a man whose snakes protrude from all the holes in his body; the sisters' dog attacks him, throws snakes; further adventures: sisters consistently meet three men asking the elder's permission to get together with the youngest, who are refused; sisters become invisible, hide in the trunk of a fallen tree; lure the applicant into a hole, he becomes the Rainbow Serpent; another challenger is killed and eaten by the spirit; the sisters marry the younger brother of the third contender, who kills spirits with lightning]: (source?) in Waterman 1987, No. 4720:127.

Melanesia. Monumbo [Kain ("snake") turned into a snake, lay down on the path; Daria walked along it, brought the snake to her; gave birth to a son with a human head and the body of a snake; while K. was fishing, D. killed and cooked a son, she broke her husband's weapon, crashed the boat, ran away; in different villages, many men offered themselves to her as husbands, but she went to Kamadonga; to stop her pursuers, she wrote, drew a line - a river appeared; Kam. did not have cultivated plants, D. cooked bananas and tarot for him; he did not have genitals, she made them for him from pepper tree fruit and betel nuts; let him see her genitals, met him; went to Lubou on an island near the island. Manam also gave him genitals; walked along the shore, turned the stones into fish, became a fish between the stones herself; Ngapem shot her, surprised that the arrow that pierced the fish was smeared in tarot; he brought the fish home; while N. was gone, D. (in the form of a human being) removed fire from her genitals, regurgitated bananas and tarot, baked and fed her husband; N.'s children also ate and slept; and N.'s younger brother's children cried from hunger; N. told his brother to go ashore; If he sees Daria fish, he should not converge with it; but he got together; became a Pakei tree; bananas, yams, tarot grew on it; fell and rotted; two brothers sailed in a boat with a dog; the dog jumped out, I ate by the tree, came back; they tied a rope to the dog, found a tree; they brought it home, gave it to the old woman, she became young; people sharpened their axes, began to cut the trunk, it remained intact; they broke off the sliver was burned; and so on, the trunk was cut, the tree continued to hang on the vine; this vine was the hand of a character; they sent a boy upstairs, the tree told him to call his mother to meet her; the boy's father was told to call his wife; the men left; another came with two wives; hid the beautiful one, let the tree meet with the ugly one, the tree fell; the man from Dagoi came when all the cultivated plants dismantled; Daria advised him to make tops out of vines, exchange them for bananas; people in this village do so]: Höltker 1965, No. 2:72-77; Cooney [Boboi has two wives, the eldest has two infant twins Tsilokoma and Tsigomona; after hearing about the famous Kesa and Alobo, the sisters decided to go to them; on the way, the youngest hung the eldest's bags with the eldest's children on a tree branch and left (one option, she literally performed the eldest, who actually asked for food for the children); the sisters came to Katsima-Feuyatsi; he replied that he had two names, Kesa and Alobo, and Katsima Feuyatsi a third; the sisters stayed with him and his sister; he cut down a tree, a branch sprung it, pierced it, the corpse swam away along the river; his sister turned into an Abuli animal; Kesa and Alobo came, married the sisters; more about the adventures of the abandoned twins]: Egidi 1914, No. 6a: 81-83; Vogeo [Maragoag lives with her mother; brings fish and pig meat; once she harvested meat and left; M. caught up with her; she ordered her leg to be pierced with a thorn and died; night fell and M. fell asleep with his head on her back; her mother got up, split herself, created a mansion in which a platform, slit gongs, a sink horn, ornaments; a vegetable garden nearby; when M. woke up, he ended up in a man's house, and his mother disappeared; before that, she made her son a flute to lure women; M. began to play, and two girls, Murarumba and Sararumbe, came to the sound; the flute calls, calling them by name; girls: the bird sings, calls us; M. hid, the girls entered the house, saw how beautiful everything was; M. went out to them, married them]: Anderson, Exter 2005:55-58; vedau [mother tells two daughters to wash their brother and cook for him; the elder sister insists that his mother told him to cook food from his brother; she kills him, cooks meat; the father drives his daughters away in anger; they are starving, collecting grasshoppers in a basket, lizards, snakes, come to a house where the man is in ulcers; the eldest sneaks to take a gun to make a fire, but the spark falls on the man, he calls the girls to his place; eats everything himself, makes the girls work for in the garden; they ask the Uapanipani crane to cook, eat, take food, run away; the man is chasing; they ask the Uapanipani crane to save them; he picks them up, brings them to their parents; they are happy]: Ker 1910:64-68; Kanaka [two sisters from Kasaméyeu weave mats, do not help their mother, she tells them to cook their own meals; the eldest goes to marry Chief Soouma; she wants to make his house rich, gives birth son; Révaridiri, covered with ulcers, takes off his skin, takes the form of a chief, takes the woman and her son to him; her husband's younger brother finds them; the husband kills R.; once beats his wife, she hangs herself; like her predicted that a fly would fly to her younger sister, the tree was drying up; the sister came, revives the hanged woman, both returned to Kasaméyeu]: Leenhardt 1932:414-420.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert Islands [Nei Auti (Pleiades) woman lived on earth and Rimwimata (Antares) man in the sky; NA took to heaven, watched the stars play Bo Ano; the players drove her away, she cried; her parents comforted her by giving her fragrant oil; the fragrance reached the sky; Katimoi was sent for her from heaven, told her that she should only approach R. in heaven; she saw two men, handsome Kama and R., who changed his skin, sat in front of K.; R. became handsome again and ran after him, both continue to run across the sky]: Maude, Maude 1994, No. 4:134.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [Bird Husband]: Ting 1978, No. 425N (this is a Chinese index, but all the sources listed that can be identified as belonging to the texts refer to Tibet); lavrung [the woman's knee is swollen, the Frog came out of there, promised his mother to marry the princess; he comes to the palace, the dogs are barking, the princesses do not see anyone; The frog comes in, notices that the youngest more beautiful and looks friendlier; makes the king give it to him, becoming huge, laughing, screaming, causing a storm, a flood; sends his wife and mother to the races, takes off his frog skin himself, is beautiful rider; next time the wife secretly returns, burns her skin; the husband says he now falls under the power of a nine-headed demon, is carried away by the wind; the wife finds him, the husband says that the demon sleeps when lies with open eyes; gives his wife a spear, she pierces the demon's heart; they free prisoners, return home]: G.yu lha 2011:383-389; lepcha [wife died leaving her four-year-old daughter; a witch came, one breast dragged along the ground, the other was thrown behind her back, became a man's wife, gave the girl coals for food; then she feeds her daughter rice, her stepdaughter with rice broth; she herds three sheep; each once Le-pono-kup ("king boy") appears, feeds her delicious food; the witch puts on her clothes, goes instead of them; when L. falls asleep on her lap, stabs an iron needle in his ear; the girl walks along on a bloody trail in a cave, gives birth there, wraps the child in the clothes of the deceased boy, puts his sword under his head; his spirit comes three times at night for his property, she does not give it away, she says that's all for a child; he tells him to go to the country of Rot-mung, return his heart from there; tigers, fleas, leeches will rush at her on the way; naked men and women will try to sew clothes from rags with their fingers, we must give them needles; she gives, runs across the bridge, a man and a woman bring it down before tigers, etc., reach him; in Rot-mung, a mango tree, on which the hearts of the dead, demons feed on them; the boy's heart is still fresh, the girl takes it away; in the cave she puts L. on his body; he revives, near the palace, cattle, jewelry; the couple are happy]: Stocks 1925, № XXXV: 452-455; Mustang [the ruler of the deities Lou has three daughters; a son was born; decided to go down to the ground to help the poor old people; became a goldfish, the old man caught it, the fish asked not to cook it, but to put it in the crack of the support pole, make sacrifices; to fulfill all her wishes, created a palace, became a prince again; warned not to invite the queen; but the woman invited; when she saw the prince, the queen took him to her place; then the herbs turned green and the streams flowed; King Lu sent his youngest daughter, who incarnated as a beggar girl, came to the palace and persuaded her brother to return; then in Lou's country, the herbs turned green, the streams flowed, and in the queen's country they dried up; seven beggars They see three daughters Lou and their brother come out of the lake, then return; this happens on a new moon once a year; told the queen; she asks to be brought to that lake; her husband first tells her to come in a year, then stay isolated for a year, chanting "Om mani padme hum", then studying singing and dancing for a year; then, disguised as a beggar, he takes her to Lou's country; there she sings and dances the best; the prince gets Parents' permission to marry her; their son descends to earth and the queen and husband stay in Lou's country forever]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 5:50-57.

Burma - Indochina. Vieta [Tu Khoi's maid found a gold button on the floor; swallowed it for fear that she would be accused of stealing; gave birth to a turtle son, the owner drove her away; the landowner sends the Turtle to herd buffaloes, they multiply; only the landowner's youngest daughter treats him well; while buffaloes graze, he flies, falls, turns into a young man; tells the mother to marry the landowner's youngest daughter; he demands a horse with nine manes, a rooster with nine spurs, bamboo vessels filled with grasshopper fat; The turtle does everything, gets a wife; the sister is spied on, they see a handsome man, ask his father and pass them off as turtles; they are only scratched; they kill the Turtle; he manages to give the bloody shirt to his wife, tells him to wear it to meet in heaven; sees the snake and fox fight, regain strength by touching the tree; the girl collects his bark, revives the deceased in a neighboring village, he turns out to be her husband; everything is fine; the sun has descended to incinerate the treacherous sisters, since then it has been especially hot on June 22]: Bystrov et al. 1962: 81-86; Arakan people [after living many lives in the land of celestials, punished: must live as a snake on a fig tree for three months; with a laundress and his wife, daughters Shwê Kyên and Dwê Py; mother I washed it under it, jokingly said: I'll give the DP if you throw off my figs; called them to their house; at the fork I regretted my words, asked the stump to remain silent, gave him a fig; the same with the anthill; the stump answered the snake, that he did not see anything, but the snake saw a fig and understood everything, I had to say it; the same anthill; the snake wrapped around the woman's hand, the mother told DP to go with the snake; once S. was summoned to a meeting of gods; the wife found empty skin, decided that her husband was dead; in order not to make a fuss, the skin was burned; S. appeared when he felt the fire; remained human; the Virgin herself gave S. a wand that fulfilled wishes; warned that the snake the blood should not touch him, otherwise he will become a snake again; the SC became jealous of DP, pushed her into the river and took its place; she was caught and brought to the nest by an eagle, where she gave birth to a son; Prince S. heard voices took his wife and child, giving the eagle a lot of fish in compensation; put his wife in a chest and gave it to his imaginary wife who came out to meet him; opening it, the SC was disgraced; asked the father to get him as her husband too snake; in bed, the boa constrictor began to swallow HK; the father refused to help; DP begged the prince to kill the boa constrictor, who cut it, but a drop of blood fell on him, he became a snake and crawled into the forest; DP followed him; {"to be continued" but not in the next issue}]: Houghton 1893b, #1:98-102.

South Asia. North India (Hindi): Crooke 1892-1893, No. 633 (Mirzapur) [six daughters told the king that they believed in their father and the seventh believed in themselves; the king drove her into the forest; she found an empty house with everything necessary for life, stayed in it; the king asks his daughters what to bring them; they also sent a servant to the forest, he found that house; the princess replied that she was washing, let the servant be patient; the servant understood that the princess asks her father for patience; when the king was about to return, the ship did not move; the king remembered that he had forgotten to buy patience; an old woman sold him something wrapped in a rag; received the bundle, the princess threw it away; later she was surprised that the rag was imperishable, unfolded the bundle, there was a fan; when she put it back up, the prince appeared; they began to live together; when the prince wanted to return to her country, the wife put the fan with the back side down; the sisters came to visit the younger one, saw the prince and, out of envy, poured broken glass under his sheet; the prince ordered him to put the fan on the back side down, disappeared and did not appear again; the wife went in search, spent the night under a tree; hears a conversation between a parrot and a starling; the parrot describes her story; the starling teaches you to take their droppings, cook them in lubricate the body with oil and this ointment - the glasses will come out; the wife came disguised as a doctor, cured the prince; when she returned, turned the fan, the prince appeared; they lived happily]: 171-172; Cosquin 1887 (Benares) []: 226-227; Rouse 1894 (the band is not a decree.) [wife expelled to the forest; hides her appearance, is hired as a worker in her husband's palace, attracts his attention, upsets his new marriage, becomes his wife again]: 86; Kashmiris [from a poor brahman Soda Ram is an absurd wife; when he saw the snake crawl into his bag, he brought the bag to his wife in the hope that the snake would bite her; but the snake did not bite, but turned into a Nagrail boy; he grew up, penetrated like a snake into Princess Himal's garden, became a young man again, swam in her pool; H. fell in love, told her father to marry her; N. created a palace and appeared in luxurious clothes; his snake wives want him back to the lower world; alone sold H. flowers, but N. understood the trick; another said that N. was from the lower caste; to check, you had to bathe him in milk; the brahmana would sink to the bottom and the street paver would float up; his wife grabbed N. by his hair , when it's too late, only a piece of hair remains in his hand, the snake wives took him away; one person sees the inhabitants of the lower world coming to the shore of the forest pond feast, N. among them; brings H. there; she refuses to leave N.; he turned her into a pebble, brought it to the lower world; the wives promised not to touch H.; she was allowed to boil milk; she knocked over a vessel of boiling milk; the snakes thought their name was to eat, scalded to death; wives bit H. to death; N. embalmed the body, left it on the shore; the holy man revived her, brought her to him; his son wants to marry her; N. crawled like a snake, son, knowing nothing killed her; H. went to the funeral pyre N.; the saint heard two birds talking: the ashes must be thrown into the pond, the dead will rise; so it happened, everything is fine]: Sadhu 2002, No. 8:23-26; Punjabi ( Hariyana) [the brahmana finds a ruby, brings it to the king, is generously rewarded; the king puts the ruby in the treasury; once he opens, the Ruby Prince (RP) comes out; the king thinks he has been deceived, drives the young man away; in People are eaten by the monster every day in the village; RP kills him; the king apologizes, marries RP to his daughter; she insists that he say who he is; he hides in the river, she sees only green a snake with a golden crown and a ruby on its head; the maid says that little men come out of a snake hole in the forest, led by their king; they dance, and one is sitting aside; the wife of the Republic of Belarus learns to dance, dances in front of men; their king promises any reward; she asks her husband back; the king reluctantly lets him go; RB becomes a man of normal height, returns with his wife to the palace]: Steel, Temple 1884, No. 43:304-312 (=Siddiqui, Lerch 1998:144-154); Himachali plowmen: Dracott 1906:15-19 [the witch bewitched Bunsi Lall Raja to be a snake, live underground; stepmother sent a Sukkia girl to the forest for with brushwood, the serpent asked S. to marry him; she told his stepmother, the stepmother ordered the room to be filled with silver, the serpent did it, sent a snake to his stepdaughter; at night he became human; the stepmother found out about this; persuaded S. to ask her husband's name, who warned that there would be trouble, but S. insisted, he said he disappeared; she was looking for him, came to the well, where BL's servants take water; BL would soon marry another girl; S. hands over her ring with the servants, BL recognizes it; BL's mother wants to lime S., tells him to spend the night in a room with snakes and scorpions (BL cleans the room), count the scattered mustard seeds, dividing them into two equal handfuls (BL tells the birds to do this), carry torches that are ready to burn it (BL comes to the rescue, BL and S. return to the world)], 20-30 [Raja asks six daughters, five answer that their blessed fate is in his hands, they owe him everything; sixth, what will happen will happen in no one; her father wants to kill her, then tells her to take her to the forest; there she sits in a palanquin, praying, Mahadeva her heard, sends servants to give her food; she sees a damp stain on the ground, digs the ground, finds water and lots of gold, builds a palace; the Raja finds out about her, returns her, asks forgiveness; when she leaves, asks her daughters what bring it to them; the sixth daughter wants a box; he buys it for an expensive price; the girl waves a fan over her, the prince comes out of the box; the sisters find out about it, pour glass on the couch, the prince is wounded, goes to his world, does not appear from the box; the girl goes to look for it, hears an eagle talking to a parrot under the tree; eagle: the windows from the prince's body will come out if you rub it with droppings from the eagle's nest; the girl dresses a fakir, comes to the prince's father, heals him, asks for his ring, bow and arrows as a reward; the prince reappears from the box, the girl shows him a ring and a bow and arrows, everything is explained, Tsarevich takes her as his wife]; the Assames [two wives, the eldest beloved, both have daughters; Champavati is the youngest's daughter; a voice answers her from the forest; her father promises to pass her off as someone in the forest; this is a boa constrictor; the morning after C. returns with lots of decorations; the eldest wife tells her husband to pass her daughter off as a boa constrictor; at night he swallowed the bride; father and stepmother want to kill C., but the boa constrictor swallowed them too, took his wife and her mother to her palace; his mother died, the beggar persuaded C. to burn snakeskin; the husband feels the fire, but C. rubbed it with oil; then the beggar persuades her husband to open his mouth wide: she will see the whole world there; husband: do you want me or do you want peace? C.: the world; she sees the world, but her husband leaves her for 6 years; that beggar is the servant of his demonic mother; his ring will protect C.; the demoness sends C. to another demoness with a letter asking him to kill C.; the son killed demonic mother]: Goswami 1960:91-93; Bengalis [a merchant asks seven daughters whose money they are going to live on; six answer that his seventh youngest is theirs; he tells him to take her into the forest; the old nanny goes with her; at night a tree hides them in a hollow from wild animals, teaches them to scatter crumbs by the pond; at night, peacocks come to peck at them, drop their feathers, the girl makes fans, their old woman sells, the expelled become rich; the merchant is broke; his daughter greets him and gives him money; when he goes sailing, he asks what to bring each of his daughters; the youngest answers the servant "Sobur" ("wait"; The Muslim name Shobur is "patient, persistent"), he realizes that she needs something called Sobur; a person sells Sobur, this is a box; left alone, the girl finds a fan and a mirror in it; touches fans, Prince Shobur appears; takes the girl as his wife; envious sisters pour crushed glass on his bed; his servants take him to his country; his wife, in men's clothes, calling herself Sannyasi (sannyashi, religious devotee), goes to look for him; cuts a snake that regularly devours the chicks of Bihangama and his wife Bihangani; they arrive, the chicks talk about what happened; the male explains that the prince will be cured their crushed dry droppings; brings a woman to the prince's country; unrecognized, she heals the prince, asks for his ring as a reward; returning back on the bird, touches the fan; S. appears, sees her ring; everything happy]: Day 1914, No. 8:124-137 (=Porozhnyakov 1990:100-107); Sinhalese [the king goes to his stepdaughter; her own daughter told her mother about this, she cut off her nails, ordered her nails to be put on the doorstep, told her nails to be put on the doorstep dug into the king's leg, he returned to the city; the crow tells his stepdaughter to shoot the crow, make a potion out of crow fat, come disguised as a doctor, the king will recover; the king's ulcers have healed, he gave the doctor gold ring; came to kill the girl (he thinks she is to blame); she tells everything and shows the ring; the king took her to the palace]: Volkonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 115:280-281; Sinhales [two sisters go in search of husbands; animals they meet offer themselves; sisters ask what they eat every time; reject bulls, jackals, marry two plowman brothers (they replied that they eat dried fish, and sisters said that this was their food); each of the sisters gave birth to a girl; the older sister became jealous of the youngest, because she lived well, and the eldest was poor; decided to kill her; invited her to swim, pushed into the river; married both brothers, fed both girls; the girls saw a white turtle in the river; the older sister's daughter tried to catch it, but the turtle sailed; and she sailed to the youngest's daughter and rubbed against her body; the eldest daughter told her mother about the turtle and she said she would eat it; the youngest's daughter came to the river, called the turtle her mother and spoke about the danger; she ordered to keep the bone and leave it at the canopy for cows, it will grow into a mango tree; the older sister sent men to catch a turtle; the tree grew; when the younger sister's daughter came to pick a mango, the branches leaned towards her, and when the eldest daughter, they rose high; when they learned that the older sister wanted to cut down a mango, the tree told the youngest's daughter to keep the chip; a vine with fruits grew out of it; the fruits are again not given to one girl and are given to another; vine: find the root, throw it into the river, the Blue Lotus will appear; only the younger sister's daughter can touch it; the older sister sent people to pull out the lotus, but it is not given; the king arrived; told the younger sister's daughter snatch the lotus, took it and the lotus and took it to his capital]: Parker 1910, No. 11:113-119.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Athoni (Amanuban District) [two sisters see a Musang man (common muskang, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, one of the palm civets, viverr), both expressing a desire to marry him; Musang hears them talking, marrying them; in the morning he says that he will go to the field; let them follow; at the fork on his path there will be his dry, fragrant excrement, and on the Monkey trail - liquid and smelly; Monkey overheard, changed the excrement; the sisters come to the Monkey; he tells his mother to give them mats to sit down, give them betel, food; in fact, they are leaves from a tree and some wild fruits; at night the Monkey lies down between both wives; when he falls asleep, they leave a stupa and a piece of wood in their place, run away to Musang, talk about the deception; he tells them to go up to his tree; the Monkey comes running with his people, Musang offers to go up to him, the Monkey asks for stairs; Musang lowers a long bamboo; when they reach half, lets go of the bamboo, the Monkey and his people fall into the pond, drown, Musang breaks their heads with a club]: Middelkoop 1959, text C: 169-173.

China - Korea. Chinese (Henan, Wu. Lingbao, 1988) [there are two rich men in the village, both Liu {the hieroglyphics of spelling names are different}; one has a son and the other has a daughter; they married children in infancy, but the boy's parents fell ill and died; father the girls refused to recognize the marriage; the young man went to a foreign land and died there; the girl refuses to the grooms; once she saw a vague image of her lover among the flowers; at night she dreamed that he had turned after death in a bee; soon a bee flies into her room and turns into a man; she woke up - her husband is next to her; he told how he died and became a bee; since then they have been spending time together; the girl told her father angry, then she said she was joking; but at night the father overheard the conversation; ordered sharp bamboo sticks to be secretly attached to the window frame; at night the girl waits for her lover and suddenly hears: "What you're mean! We lived happily as spouses, but you have the same cruel heart as your father; we'll see you after you tear down your iron shoes and erase your iron beads." The daughter told her father she would agree to marriage to another fiancé, if her father gave her a pair of iron shoes and iron beads; after receiving them, she went in search; came to the mountain, her iron shoes were worn out, and her beads were worn out, she fell exhausted on the grass; when I woke up, I saw that the maids were lying in the palace and serving her tea and food; she began to live there with her beloved; the queen bee is the girl from the Liu family, and the drone bees that leads the bees workers, is that young man from the Liu family; there is a saying: "Wear iron shoes in search of what you found later"]: Bai Gengsheng 2009:249-251; Koreans: Cho 2001, No. 84 [childless woman thoughtlessly wants to give birth to even a snake; after eating greenery, a snake conceives; the neighbor's two daughters leave with disgust when they are shown a snake in a vessel, the third calls the newborn a magnificent snake groom; the serpent asks him to marry, the neighbor's third daughter agrees; after the wedding, the serpent sheds her skin, turns into a young man, tells his wife not to reveal secrets; the sisters peek, find snakeskin, throw it into the fire; the husband disappears, the wife goes in search; weeds the old man's field, repaints the woman's clothes, they show the way; another old man gives a dog, he leads his wife across the pond to another world; her husband has just married , now must choose one of the two wives, gives them tasks; 1) bring clover from a distant mountain (the first wife brings more); 2) bring water up the stairs while stepping in stiletto shoes (the first brings, the second falls); 3) bring five hairs from the tiger's eyebrows; the old mother of tigers gives hair to the first wife; the second wife disappears]: 136-142; Choi 1979, No. 200 [woman gives birth to a snake son; he wants to marry a snake son the daughters of a rich man; the eldest and middle reject him, the youngest agrees; at night he takes off his snakeskin, tells his wife not to show him to others, not to burn him; sisters burn out of envy; the husband disappears, the wife goes in search; plows for a man, washes for a woman, they show the way; in the Dragon Kingdom, her husband has two wives; he will take the one that 1) brings three eyebrows to a live tiger (two wives bring cats, earthly wife gets real from the mother of tigers): 2) bring grapes in winter; the couple's safe return]: 57.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [the king and queen have three daughters; the youngest is Psyche, Venus is jealous of her; tells Cupid to fall in love with the unworthy and be unhappy with him; K. himself fell in love with P.; the oracle tells her parents leave her at the top of the mountain; from there K. takes her to a beautiful palace; K. spends nights with her, she does not see him; sisters come, advise you to light a lamp at night; oil dripped on K.'s shoulder, he disappeared; P. went to look for a lover; when he came to the sisters, he took revenge on them; each one says that when he flew away, K. expressed a desire to be married to sister P., let Zephyr bring her; both sisters jump off the cliff, hoping that they will fly to K., but break; P. came to V.; she beats her, mixes 7 types of grain and tells her to divide (the ants divided it); get a piece of golden-fleece sheep wool (the reed tells her not to approach the sheep, they ferocious, but collect shreds of wool from the bushes); bring the waters of Styx (Jupiter's eagle brings); V. gives a bottle, tells you to go to Proserpine, let her put a piece of his beauty in it, bring her, V.; stone the tower shows the way to Hades, teaches you to take a copper to pay Charon, not to talk to the lame donkey driver, not to pay attention to the dead old man who will ask him to take him on the boat; give a cake to Cerberus to let him go to Proserpine; on the way back the same (a second cake to Cerberus and a second copper to Charon); when he went to the ground, P., contrary to Proserpine's warning, opened a jar of beauty and fell asleep; K. woke her up and sent her to V.; Jupiter persuaded V. to allow P. and K. to marry, gave P. a drink of immortality]: Apuleius 1959, Book 4-6:167-202 (Apul. Met. IV28-VI24); Greeks: Hahn 1864 (2), No. 73 [the poor woman has three daughters; she went to collect herbs, sighed, the Moor appeared, asked why she called him; ordered to give one daughter, for which she gave gold; gave him gold; gave him the girl had a human head to eat, the girl hid it under the roof; the Moor called her head, she responded from under the roof, the Moor sent the bride home, telling her second sister to be sent; she received it for dinner a human leg, hid it behind a barrel of oil; the same; the youngest got a hand, but hid it under her skirt; the Moor thought that the hand was responding from the girl's belly; they live well, but in the evening the husband gives it to his wife sleeping pills and she immediately falls asleep; the sisters learned to hide a sponge under her clothes and pour sleeping pills on her rather than her mouth; at night she saw a handsome man nearby; when her husband fell asleep, she noticed gold on his chest lock with a key; opened, there is a river, a woman is washing clothes, a pig comes up and wants to carry the laundry; the Moor's wife called out to the woman, the Moor woke up, said that now he is Filek-Zelebi, let the pregnant woman look for him ; let him take three pairs of iron shoes and three golden apples; after wearing out the first pair, climb the mountain and throw an apple, it will lead to FZ's older sister; she weaves gold cloth for her wife's child FZ brother; then the second pair of shoes, the second apple, the second sister (the same, makes clothes for her son FZ); the third sister's wife gave birth to a boy with a lock on his chest; FZ appeared, everything is fine]: 80-84; Megas 1970, #26 [The poor hunter returns without prey and must give three daughters; he says Alas and Alack (Ach-chach - ah-hah?) , a black servant of the Sun appears, says his name is Alasandalack; the youngest daughter agrees to go beyond the Sun; he does not show her his face; sisters visit her, teach her not to drink sleeping pills, at night light a candle, look at her husband; a drop of wax falls on the Sun, he wakes up, tells A. to kill the woman; he feels sorry for her, he sends her to one lamia, the sisters of the Sun; she gives birth to a beautiful boy; The sun brings her back, the holiday], 27 [the princess rejects the grooms; makes, revives the young man from sugar, almonds, semolina; his name is Master Semolina; another princess sends the ship tells the servants to grab S., they bring it to her; S.'s wife consistently comes to the mothers of the Month, the Sun, the Stars; Mr. Stars knows where S. is; the princess is hired there to herd geese; the month gave an almond with a golden spinning wheel, the Sun is a chestnut (it has a golden chicken with chickens), the Stars is a nut (it has a golden clove tree); each time S.'s wife buys the princess one night with S., but she puts S. to sleep his drink; the beggar tells me not to sleep the last night, the couple run away; the princess makes her wife out of almonds, etc., but the food has only rotted]: 57-60, 60-65; Paton 1900, No. 11 (Lemnos) [childless woman ready to give birth to at least a laurel berry; she gives birth to it, the maid shakes the bed out the window, the gardener sweeps away the garbage; laurel grows in that place; three young men cook lamb next to each other, tell the gardener to follow; from The girl comes out laurel, throws salt into the cauldron, the meat is salted; next time the youngest young man waits for her, grabs her, marries her; on the wedding night he leaves roses instead of himself, goes to the former bride; laurel girl changes clothes with a monk, comes to the wedding, returns the young man]: 339-340; Schmidt 1877, No. 9 [the fisherman caught a golden crab; he talks, fills the plate with gold every day; tells marry him the king's youngest daughter; the king: 1) let him build a wall above the towers of my palace overnight and on it all the flowers that are in the world; 2) there are three springs with gold, diamonds and diamonds next to it; all fulfilled, the crab tells the mother to go to the mountain, ask the Moor for a golden pillow; on it she brings it to the palace for the wedding; at night she turns into a prince; a year later, the princess gave birth to a son named Benjamin; the king wants to arrange a tournament to give his daughter to the winner; the crab tells his wife to ask the Moor for a luxurious tournament outfit and a silver apple; he will throw it to her and she must answer the sisters that she does not know who it is; if it is said that it is her crab husband, he will leave her; the next day, a golden apple; this time she confessed to her mother that she burned her shell with crab, her husband disappeared; an old man chased the dog, which took his bread; down the stairs, there is a palace, a table for 12 people; the old man hid; 12 eagles flew in, swam in the spring, became young men; one of them drank to his health beloved and reproached by his mother-in-law, who burned his shell with crab; when the eagles flew away, the old man went to the princess and told him everything; the princess hugged her husband; he told her to wait three months for the deadline spells; she sent an old man to tell his parents; after three months everything is fine]: 83-88; Sike 1993 (Skyros) [princess rejects grooms, makes a young man out of almonds, sugar, semolina, he comes to life, marries her, her name is Semigdalenios ("Made from semolina"); another princess is jealous, sends a ship with expensive goods; when S. gets there, the ship sails away; S.'s wife goes in search, consistently comes to the mothers of the Sun, Month, Stars; each hides S.'s wife so that her hungry son does not eat her; Sun, Month, male stars say they did not see S., only the smallest Star shows the way; each mother gives a nut with a gift; disguised as a poor gypsy woman, the wife is hired by kidnapper S., asks for permission to spend the night for a gift (each nut has a gift); two nights C . put to sleep, on the third servant warns S., the wife tells her story, the spouses reunite, return]: 131-135; Hungarians [the childless queen agrees to give birth to even a snake; and gives birth; the serpent has grown up, tells him to marry the queen; at night he is handsome, during the day he is a snake; the witch advises to burn the skin; the husband disappears, leaving a nut rod; when he turns green and bears fruit, then go look for him; wife she will not be relieved of the burden until her husband hugs her again; the wife comes to the old woman, she sends her to her middle sister, the middle sister to the eldest; their sons Month, Sun, Wind; each gives a gold spindle, a forearm, ball; The wind carries to the castle; for three items, the wife buys three nights with her husband from the local queen; she sprinkles sleeping pills into the wine twice, and the third time the servant did not put it; the wife immediately gave birth to twins; the local queen was ripped apart by horses]: Ortutai 1974, No. 2:72-92; Romanians: Kúnos 1901 [when leaving, the emperor tells three daughters not to unlock one room; the eldest insists on unlocking; there is a table and a book, it says that the elder sister will marry the emperor of the East, the middle sister will marry the Emperor of the West, and the youngest will marry the hog; the father returns, the eldest daughters come to the royal matchmakers, The youngest comes a hog; she is obedient to her father; along the way, the hog lies in the mud and tells the bride to kiss him; at home she turns into a young man in the evening; the wife is pregnant; asks the old woman for help; she gives a rope tie her husband by the leg at night; the rope breaks, the husband jumps up, says that if it were not for his wife, the spell would have ended in three days; she would see him wearing out three pairs of iron sandals and three iron staffs; comes to the mother of the Moon (woman), she sends the Sun to the mother (man); the Sun advises you to ask the Wind; Mother of the Wind: your husband is in a forest house like a pile of fallen trees; the wife comes there and get up, makes a ladder out of bones; one is missing, she cuts off her finger and it turns into the last crossbar; the husband flies in like a dove, is frightened, then recognizes his wife, the child is with her; explains that his emperor father fought dragons and killed a dragon; his mother turned the emperor's son into a hog to prevent a predetermined marriage]: 222-243; Sadetsky 1973 [spouses are childless, woman proposes to adopt any creature that came out to meet his grandfather first; this is a pig; the king will pass off his daughter as having built a golden bridge from his house to the palace, executes unsuccessful applicants; the pig sends an old man to marry a princess; a pig creates a bridge, turns a hut into a palace; marries, sheds pigskin at night; the princess's mother teaches her to throw her skin into the fire; the husband girds his wife with an iron hoop, says that he is Fat Frumos, you have to look for him in the Frankincense Monastery; the bridge and palace are disappearing; the wife comes to Saint Sereda's hut; she asks the animals about the Frankincense Monastery, no one knows; gives the woman a golden spinning wheel, prosphora, a cup of wine; the same goes to St. Fridays (gives a golden reel); at St. Trinity at the end of the world (gives a golden tray and a hen with chickens); there only a lame lark knows the way, leads to the Frankincense Monastery (like paradise); a woman waits at the well, the witch's maid sees her gold items; the key witch allows her to spend one, second, third night in the FF bedroom in exchange for the gold items she receives, giving FF a sleep potion each time; the third time, on the advice of the servant, FF does not drink potions, he hugs his wife, the hoop falls apart, the witch is tied to an immense mare; the witch was a pig who wanted to marry FF to one of her 11 daughters (piglets who, when they left home, saw an old man who adopted a pig)]: 342-358; Gagauz people [a childless old woman sends her husband to find a child; he brings a pig; a pig tells him to marry a boyar's daughter; the boyar orders him to create a golden bridge, a garden with golden apples; everything appears; tells the house to stand on the water - the house stands; the boyar gives his daughter; at the wedding, the pig sheds its pigskin, becomes handsome; at night the wife leaves skin into the fire; her husband puts a hoop on her belt, only his hand will take him off, only then his wife will be born; she comes to Dumaa Báb (makes sure that no one spins on Friday), she refers to her sister Pazar- babu (watching on Sunday); she collects birds; only a lame bird saw the woman's husband at Jada Bába (witch); P. gives a gold spinning wheel, arshin, reel - sell J. for the right to spend the night with a guy; For two nights, J. puts him to sleep, his wife can't wake him up; on the third night, the maid told the guy not to drink potions; he takes off his wife's belt, she gives birth to a boy, all three return home]: Syrf 2013:149-153; Albanians [a childless old woman finds a snake, raises her like a son; he tells him to marry the king's daughter; the old woman is lowered down the stairs twice, the Serpent heals her with a magic ring; for the third time, the king demands for build the night, lay the road with velvet, come with his retinue; the serpent gets a wife, sheds his snakeskin at night, says his name is Speite, forbids talking about his transformation; the wife tells his mother, S. disappears; his wife goes to look for him, wearing iron shoes, comes to the mother of the Sun, who first hides her from her son, the Sun promises not to eat what has come, refers to the Moon, she refers to the Wind, who says that Sh. kidnapped a monster, carries him overseas; there the monster brings his wife S. to his palace; S. throws a ring into the jug, the wife finds out that her husband is near; the monster demands that his wife Sh. 1) the house be places swept, not in some places, 2) fill two cauldrons with tears (Sh. advises to fill it with salt water); S. pretends to be a woodcutter and a carpenter, tells the monster that he makes a coffin for the deceased S., asks him to try it on, bobs up, burns; S. and his wife return to people forever]: Serkova 1989:21-31; Bulgarians [a childless fisherman asks God for a child; fish (siren - "sea dump") promises that the fisherman's wife will give birth, but the boy will have to be given to her; the fish is told that the boy is dead; he grew up, went on a journey, warned not to go to the shore; from an ant, a falcon, a lion {obviously resolving their dispute when sharing the animal's carcass} the young man gains the ability to transform into any of them; thanks to this ability, the young man gets a princess and smashes enemies; he swallows him in the sea or river, the fish swallows him; his A friend puts on his clothes and tries to impersonate him, but his wife exposes the substitution; brings three golden apples (a golden spindle, a needle, a loom that work themselves) to the shore, sequentially promises them to the fish if she lifts the young man up to the neck, waist-deep, whole above the water; once above the water, the young man turned into an eagle, flew away from the fish]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no.*316*: 119-120; Bulgarians [when leaving, the father asks his three daughters what to bring each of them; the eldest asks for new clothes, the youngest asks Finist's feather is clear of the falcon; he buys a pen from the old man for a lot of money; after the daughter gets a pen, F. flies to her every night, turns into a young man; envious older sisters put knives, needles, etc. on the window, F. is wounded and disappears; when she goes in search, the girl receives gold from the old woman spindle, dish, apple; exchanges them from F.'s new wife for the right to spend three nights beside him; on the third night she woke up to him, they reunited]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 432:152-153; Croats, Serbs: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250.

Central Europe. Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250; Poles [(many entries); due to a rash wish or spell, a snake son is born in the family; at night he takes on a human form; the girl promises to marry him or her father promises to give her (as payment for a flower picked for her); the girl removes the spell from her snake husband (dwarf, bear, wolf, donkey, wild boar, hedgehog, toad, bird) - burns skin, cuts off his head, etc.; due to the fact that the skin was burned ahead of time (due to the machinations of his wife's sisters, etc.), the husband disappears; when going in search, the wife must wear iron shoes; receives from the old woman magic objects; from the winds and stars he learns where to go, climbs a glass mountain; for three valuable items he buys three nights next to her husband, returns him]: Krzyżanowski 1947, No. 325:70-71; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the mother in her hearts wished her son to turn into a snake; the king is blind, he will be healed by water from a spring; only the youngest daughter decides to take water, although the voice of the snake is from the spring promises to make her his wife for this; the king leaves his daughter in a separate room, crawls at night, sheds her skin, becomes handsome; the family stole, burned the skin; the husband disappears, saying that the wife does not will be born until he puts two fingers on her; only the Third Wind directs her to the Black Sea; gives her a valek, he must be given to Snake's new wife to wash her shirt from blood in exchange for permission to sleep with her husband night; the second wife puts her husband to sleep; the same on the second night (for a golden hen with chickens); the servant tells her husband everything, he does not drink potions; the third gift is gold yarn and a spindle; the wife gives birth to two boys , one has golden curls; he grows up, is led by a frog, turns into a beauty; she is carried away by a 12-headed Serpent; a snake kills the wind, but the girl must be a frog for three days; the father shot his son , because she does not see his bride; the bride revives him with living and dead water]: Verkhovyna's Tales 1970:265-271; Ukrainians (Podolia) [grandfather and woman went to the forest for firewood; sat down to eat, picking up crumbs; they brought him home; a year later he tells him to marry the princess; the king suggests that the groom jump up to the princess sitting on the third floor and take her sign; he went into the forest, chipped in well, sat on his horse , got a ring (? signal) princesses; the king threw a signal into the sea - let him get it; he got it from the bottom; the princess agrees; after a while the king calls the young to a feast; he has already thrown off his skin, came to the feast; the princess quietly returned home and burned her skin; the husband ran, hit his wife in the face, blood sprayed on his shirt; left, saying that he was no longer her husband; the wife went in search; on the way she bought a gold tow from a woman, the other has a reel, the third has a golden hen with chickens; the girls ask if she will wipe the blood off their owner's shirt; it was easily erased; hired to herd geese; she began to spin a golden tow in sight; the new wife bought for permission to spend one night with her husband; gave him sleeping pills; the same the next day (reel); on the third night (hen with chickens), the wife pricked her husband with a needle in the finger, he woke up ; the couple began to live happily, and the other wife was expelled]: Levchenko 1928, No. 481:326-328; Eastern (?) Ukrainians (western in Kiev) [healers tell the childless queen to catch and cook pike, eat her head; a year later, the queen gave birth to a snake; he immediately spoke; ordered the tsar to leave him in the stone house and through a month to marry; in a month it has become long; no girl agrees to go for a snake; the woman has 12 daughters, the youngest is single; when he found out that the youngest wanted to marry, the king summoned her and she agreed, but told her to give her 12 dresses, shirts, shoes; she is led to a snake; he demands to throw off her dress, she demands to throw off her skin; when the girl is left in her last shirt, she has shed her last skin and became human; she threw snakeskins into the fire; the serpent tells her parents not to tell her parents that he has become human; she said her husband is gone; she went to look for him; the mother of the Wind hides her from her son, who senses the spirit, but tells her to give it to the girl silver apple; came to the mother of the Month; the same (The Month tells me to give a golden apple); the mother of the Sun (the same, gives a diamond apple; her husband already has a different wife; we must take the form of an old woman, put a silver an apple on a handkerchief and play with it; the girl sells it to his new wife overnight with her husband, but she put him to sleep; the same on the second day (the golden apple); on the third night the husband only pretended to be asleep; the new wife was smashed horses to pieces]: Rudchenko 1859, No. 43:81-85; Russians (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh) [Finist is a clear falcon: a prince in the guise of a falcon flies to a girl; envious sisters (stepmother) set the window with knives (nails); the falcon hurts himself and flies away; the girl goes looking for him and finds him, who has turned into a good job]: SUS 1979, No. 432:133-134; Russians ( Teresky Bereg) [grandfather died of old age, from his daughter's grandmother Anna, Marya, Oleconida; A. was taken by the one who lives where axes fall, M. - where dogs bark, O. - where they fish; grandmother went to look for daughters; to A., to M. Don't approach - axes tear clothes, dogs rush; O. says that her husband flew in like a swan, she burned his "covers", he said she would never see him again; O. told the blacksmith to tie her three staffs I came to the hut on chicken legs on the cockhead; there the old woman interferes with the coals with her nose, sends her nose to her sister, she teaches her older sister, teaches what to do; O. does not go to the hostess, spreads out a tablecloth- a baker, gives him permission to spend the night with her husband; she gave him a drink, he did not wake up; O. laments: I broke three staffs, trampled three bast shoes, gnawed three times; hangs a cross around his neck; on the next day, the husband sees the cross, does not drink, quietly pours wine; O. pushed the witch and the bride into a cauldron with resin; began to live with her husband]: Balashov 1970, No. 1:35-39; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Nykhcha) [the old man was fishing, he got cancer, he brought him home; cancer during the day, and a peasant at night; tells him to marry the king's daughter; the king sets conditions; build a palace; around the ditch for ships to sail; the church and bell tower; Cancer Rakovich tells the servants to perform ("sea lions, eternal voroneshki"); after the wedding, the princess admitted to her parents that her husband is good; Cancer is gone; she came to the hut: turn to the forest eyes, gates to me; baba yaga gave a handkerchief to embroider the corner; the next ball of silk is the second corner; the third is a boat; give it as a covenant: spend the night with Cancer Rakovich; you can't wake him up; before the third at night, Baba Yaga advises taking out a sleepy pin; they began to live happily ever after]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 67:313-317; Russians (Vologodskaya) [the old man asks three daughters what to buy them ; the eldest asks for a dress, a medium handkerchief, the youngest for a scarlet flower; returning on the way out of town, the old man agrees to give a scarlet flower if his daughter marries his son - Finist is clear falcon; having received a flower, the daughter locked herself in the light, opened the window, F. flew in, became a young man; promises to fly every night if you put a flower on the window; gives any outfits; in these outfits in a carriage, a girl comes to church; no one recognizes her; after the third time she forgot to take the diamond pin out of her hair, the sisters recognized everything, put knives on the window; F. hurt himself, flew away; the girl ordered three pairs of iron to be bound a boot, three staffs, three hats, three swirls, went to look for F.; Baba Yaga gave a hammer and 10 diamond carnations to exchange F. for the right to look at him; sends him to her sister; she gives gold a saucer with a diamond ball (same); the third Baba Yaga gives a horse, he eats hot coals; the girl gave a hammer with carnations, but F.'s fiancée stuck a pin in it, you can't wake him up; the same with with a saucer; the girl got the third night by giving the horse that feeds on the heat; found a pin and pulled it out; F. woke up; called the princes: should I be with the one that sold me or with the one that bought me? the one she sold was ordered to be hung at the gate and shot]: Gura 1965, No. 16:223-226; Russians (Vologodskaya, Kadnikovsky, from Afanasyev's collection, p. 6) [two daughters ask their father to bring updates and jewelry, the youngest is the Finist's feather, the falcon is clear; so three times; at first the father does not find it, the third time he buys a casket from the old man; the daughter pulls out a feather, it turns into a young man; the sisters overheard; the girl lets her lover out the window with a falcon, or holds a feather in a casket, their father scolds them for lying; then the sisters put knives on the window and a needle No. F. cut off his wings, ordered them to look for him far away lands in the thirtieth kingdom, and before that, trample three pairs of iron shoes, break three iron staffs and eat three stone swarms; at the end of her travels, the girl comes successively to three old sisters; one gave a silver bottom, a golden spindle - a gold thread will be spun; the second - a silver dish, a golden egg; the third - a golden hoop and a needle that embroiders itself; tells hire a virgin worker; for these items she buys 3 nights from her virgin daughter next to F.; she mixed F. with a sleepy potion and sent the girl to drive flies from him; on the third night F. woke up from who dripped tears; took the girl away, and became a feather again at her house; in the church, sisters see unknown spouses in a golden carriage; after the third time, the prince took human form forever; wedding]: Burtsev 1895, No. 7:34-44; (cf. Russians (Vologodskaya) [Ivan began to twist ropes by the river; imp: what are you doing? Ivan: I'll wrinkle the sea, let me make you devils; the elder imp suggests running first; Ivan sends a blue old man instead of himself - a hare; whoever throws a stick higher; Ivan: when I throw it, out of sight; to fight; Ivan sends his grandfather 75 years old, a bear; devils are ready to give gold; Ivan stretched a hat with holes over the pit; the imp gives gold and a ring that makes wishes come true; the king demands to build for night house, church, crystal bridges - everything is done; after the wedding, M. found a ring, ordered herself to be moved far away to the fiftieth kingdom; Ivan goes in search, from one baba yaga to another; they - sisters; the third hides Ivan in a chest, M. comes; Ivan, who ate three prospirs on the way, broke three iron canes, realizes that M. loves him; Baba Yaga gave a ball, a sword, a tablecloth; for Ivan buys these items three times a night with Masha from her nieces; they gave her a drink twice, she sleeps, the third time she does not drink; after throwing a ring, Ivan and Mary are at home, the tsar is happy to have them returned]: Smirnov 1917 , No. 35:192-196); Russians (Novgorod) [the poor man has two sons and three daughters, the youngest is the most beautiful; the poor man took his wife and children to the forest, ordered them to build a hut; a polar bear fell into it, promised wealth, ordered his youngest daughter to be given to him; he has a huge house, comes to the bedroom for the night; the wife asked permission to see her relatives; the mother began to try, advised him to light a candle at night; the wife saw handsome; a drop of wax has dripped, the husband said he would fly west to the sun, east to the moon; the wife goes in search; one old woman gives a golden apple, the second a hoop, the third a spinning wheel; plays with an apple, a sorceress agrees to let her see her husband if he gives the apple; but her husband will not wake up; the same with the hoop; with a spinning wheel; this time the husband did not drink sleeping pills; promises his wife to let the sorceress wash the shirt on which wax stain; whoever washes marries; the sorceress could not, the real wife immediately washed it off; they got married, the sorceress kicked them out]: Vlasova, Zhekulina 2001, No. 45:82-84; Russians ( Voronezhskaya, ca. 1940, Toida village, Anninsky District) [the sisters envy the beauty and economy of their younger sister Maryushka. They ask his father to bring boots from the city, M. asks for the feather of the Finist-Yasna falcon. It is only the third time that the father finds a hotel for his youngest daughter. He buys from a grandfather he met on the road, who explained that "the pen is cherished, but for a kind person it is possible wherever it goes." The sisters laugh at the youngest, at night she throws the pen on the floor, calls the kind groom, Finista-Yasna falcon, is great, in the morning he hits the floor, turns into a falcon, flies away. On the third night, the sisters are watching M., noticing a good job. They tell my father, but he advises them to take care of themselves. They put sharp knives into the frame of their younger sister's window, F. can't get into the room, hurts his chest, M. hears F. saying that he can be found by demolishing three pairs of iron shoes, breaking three staffs, tearing three iron caps. M. asks her father to let her go in search of her fiancé. On the way through forests and mountains, animals do not touch the girl. She comes to the hut, asks to turn around, inside "Baba Yaga has a bone leg, legs from corner to corner, lips in the garden, and her nose to the ceiling has grown" reports that F. married in a kingdom far away. She gives a silver saucer and a golden egg - she rolls on a saucer herself, orders her to go to the groom's kingdom, not sell the saucer, but exchange it for the night with F. M. the cat jumps into his arms, calms him down, advises not to be afraid and move forward. The girl goes into the huts twice more, the first one receives a silver hoop and a split needle, which she embroiders herself, after which a dog runs up to her and advises her not to be afraid. In the third hut, M. receives a silver bottom, a golden spindle - she spins the gold thread herself. Wonderful items should also be exchanged for the night with F., but not sold. From the last hut, M. enters the forest, meets a wolf, tells him not to be afraid, and carries it to the kingdom of far away. M. is hired by an employee at F. Swaps magic items three times for three nights with F. Only the last night does he wake up - she finds a gold pin in his head and takes it out. He turns it into a blue dove, becomes a falcon himself, and they fly away. F. gives her his pen and flies to the sky. M. returns to his city during the festival. The sisters go for a walk, M. calls F., asks her to let her go for a walk, servants appear and dress her up. The whole city and older sisters notice an unknown beauty in the city. At home, M. changes clothes, but forgets to take off his brooch. The sisters realize that she is hiding something, watching again, inserting knives into the frame again. M. does not hear the falcon beating at night, but he hears him repeating the old formula on how to look for it. M. comes to the first hut, learns from Baba Yaga that F. is married to the mistress of the sea, receives a brocade towel and a gold ball. She predicts that the lady will go ashore to dry herself and ask to sell her wonderful things, but they should be exchanged for the night with F. In the other two huts, the girl receives 12 diamond nails and a gold hammer ("sit on gold sand, hammer carnations") and a black horse, which feeds on heat, "danders" golden eggs. The horse takes the girl to the seashore, everything happens as three Baba Yaga predicted, Marya changes objects for three nights with F., only on the last night she manages to wake him up by dropping a tear on her shoulder. The Sea Queen gathers princes and merchants to judge her husband for treason. F. asks who the real wife is - the one who loves or the one who sells her husband. Everyone agrees that F.'s wife is M. They come to their country and have a lavish feast]: Korolkova 1941, No. 5:29-37; Czechs: Talova 1956 [a son was born shaggy like a bear, the king heard about his mind, will give him his daughter Mina if he will turn Labu, otherwise he will execute; in the morning the river flows on the other side of the castle; the same is to build a castle; a bridge from his castle to the royal one; a young bear gets M., becomes human at night; a wife with mother burned her skin, husband is gone, wife goes looking; sun: ask my brother of the month; month: ask the wind; wind: he has a sorceress overseas; carries across the sea, teaches me to throw one bouquet to a bird, the other the old woman, otherwise she will be killed; the sorceress allows her to talk, but the king falls asleep; on the advice of one of the queens, the king changed the wine bowls, the sorceress drank and fell asleep, the king killed her with a sword; the castle became black red, everyone parted, M. and the king began to rule]: 110-113 (=Bogolyubova, Talova 2000:219-224); Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017 (Moravia) []: 400-412.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Basangova 2002:114-117 [the old man brought wormwood for fuel, there was a snake in the wormwood; he grew up quickly, ordered the khan's daughter to be married; the old man came to the khan on a yellow-striped bull; on a bull they put a brand, tore the old man apart; the Serpent revived him, sent him again; the khan orders to build a golden door-to-door bridge, a bush with fruits on the sides, poplar to the stars in both houses; by morning everything Done, the khan gave his daughter; the husband, leaving the snakeskin to his wife, became a swan, flew to frolic with Hormust-Tengri's daughters; the wife hid the skin in her hair; the sister-in-law began to burn her, forced her to give her skin burned; the husband in the guise of a swan flew in, said that he must now fly to the place where heaven and earth merged; the wife went there, taking two iron staffs, two (pairs?) iron sandals; the bird taught them to enter the iron palace, hug their husband; they had a son, they came to see the khan, the husband tortured the sister-in-law to death], 122-130 [the poor old man's camel gave birth to a blue skin (secondary school); the secondary school asks the old man to marry the khan's daughter; he twice orders to kill the old man, destroy the remains, the secondary school revives the old man; the third time the khan orders to build a golden bridge, a palace, etc.; the secondary school does everything, gets Khan's youngest daughter, turns into a young man, tells her to hide her skin in a chest; when she goes hunting, his wife's older sister takes everything out, burns her skin, all her wealth disappears; the wife goes to look for her husband; people he meets say that three swans were flying, the middle one became a young man, ordered sheep, cows, horses, camels to be grazed well; the elder explains that the husband is the son of Hormust-Tengri, with him his two swan sisters; says where find a sleeping husband; he wakes up, becomes a swan, carries his wife, takes herds and herds with him (animals turn into swans for this purpose), rejuvenates his wife's parents at home]; Abaza [from the prince a son was born in bear skin; wants to marry his teacher's daughter; she agreed, their son is handsome; the father takes off his bear skin at home and wears it when he leaves the house; the wife let it slip, the husband- the bear went to the forest; she found it among other bears, her husband shed his skin, remains human], 66 [the old man eats the egg of the only chicken every time before it lays another one to start incubating chickens; an old woman sends him to get an egg, he finds him in the forest, incubates the chicken, a boy is born as tall as a thimble, grows up quickly; the girls reject him, calling him the son of a hen; he moves to sea monster sea, solves the girl's riddles, brings her home, gets rich; now the girls who rejected him ask him for food]: Tugov 1985, No. 39:104-105; Ossetians: Byazirov 1958, No. 70 [younger Aldar's daughter chose a seedy horse as groom; at night, the animal shed its skin and turned into a young man; the wife burned her skin; the young man turned into a bird and flew away; at the direction of the sparrow, the wife finds him and frees from a fanged woman]: 330; Dzagurov 1983, No. 123 [Eastern Aldar had a bear son; marries the daughter of Western Aldar; he refuses, but takes the bear cub to seven brothers and their sister agrees to marry him; at night, the bear cub becomes a young man; one woman, at the instigation of a healer, threw a bear skin into the fire; the husband flies to heaven as a golden bird; later informs his wife that he is an employee cattle owner Falwar; we need to prepare more hay, a harsh winter will come, F. will come to ask to sell hay, we must exchange it for an employee; F. will offer to choose; I will be on the far left; his wife has chosen that's right, everything is fine]: 527-533; Ingush [a witch doctor advises a childless woman to eat a pig's lung and liver; she gave birth to a son who is a man at night, a pig in the afternoon; asks the father to marry him his daughter stepdaughter; she advises her father to give the groom difficult errands, knows that he is a young man at night; the padchah demands golden carriages full of pearls, they appeared in the morning, the groom got a bride; she threw pigskin at fire; the husband disappeared, telling him to be found; the wife finds him in the cave, they return to his parents]: Malsagov 1983:335-337; Kumyks [the serpent crawls into the old man's shoe, demands to give his daughter; I only agree the youngest; the father sends her to the snake in the barn; the serpent sheds its skin, becomes handsome, the barn becomes a palace; the sisters ask the youngest, out of envy put a knife in the crack from where the snake crawls out; he is wounded, returns to the lower world; the wife goes to look for him, puts the ring in the jug of the maid who has come for water; the snake husband recognizes the ring; his mother and aunt are ajdaha, they want to marry his aunt's daughter; the mother tells the girl sweep the way to her sister Azhdah's house, the Serpent is happy with everything himself; tells her to bring yeast from her house; the Serpent tells her to praise black thorns, pin them to her chest; drink blood and pus from rivers, praise them; close the slanting gate; take the bone from the horse, give the dogs, the hay from the dog to the horse; the girl takes yeast, runs away; the dog, the gate, etc. refuse to detain her, because the hostess treated her they are bad, but the girl is good; the snake brought to the bride, he cuts her to pieces, runs with the girl, both azhdaha chase; The serpent throws a comb (thorny forest), salt (salt swamps), needles (turn into two trees); The serpent and the girl climb on them, Azhdaha next, the Serpent throws two spinners, they turn into millstones, crush Azhdaha; the boy and the girl have achieved their desires]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 11:175-179; Avars [an evil spirit turned Khan's only son into a bull; Khan married him, at night the bull turned into a young man; he asked his wife not to talk about it; she told his mother, his mother threw a bull's skin at fire; a young goby flew away like a dove, told his wife to look for him in heaven; the girl has been looking into the sky ever since, and pigeons live on roofs and attics, fearing to fly into the house]: Khalidova 2012, No. 198:219-220; Dargins [the snake requires the ploughman to give his daughter; only the youngest agrees; in her palace, the serpent sheds her skin, turns into a handsome man; older sisters sweep, find skin, burn; husband disappears; wife goes down a hole into the lower world, where the boy came for water, she throws a ring into the jug; Agaikhan's husband recognizes her; his bloodthirsty mother Vahig gives difficult errands; 1) clean the house using trihedral needles (the wind cleans); 2) cover the house with feathers (birds perform); 3) bring a zurna with a drum from behind the mountains for A.'s wedding; A. teaches to praise, sip blood and bitterness from rivers, and shift meat - dogs, hay to horses, open the closed gate, close the open one; the girl brings a zurna and a drum, the guard orders her to stop in vain; V. passes A. off as a freak - the daughter of another V.; A. kills her, with as a girl in the form of pigeons, they fly to the ground, V. chases an eagle; pigeons chase oats, eagle into chicken with chickens, peck grains; two grains did not notice, returned to the lower world, and A. and his wife became human they live well]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 42:378-383; Lezgins [the serpent asks the poor man to give him one of his three daughters; the eldest, middle refuse, the youngest Tavat Khanum agrees; the serpent asks him to step on tail, turns into a young man named Sad-Eskander; the old woman persuades TX to ask her husband how to burn his skin; the third time he replies, TX burns it on onion peel, SE disappears; three years later comes to the spring, SE's sister gives her water, she throws her ring into the jug, SE recognizes it; explains that the locals are Azhdaha, the old woman wants to marry him off as her daughter; SE and TH run away on their wedding day on horse-wind; they throw razors (mountain of razors), salt (salt mountains), barley (barley to the sky) behind; TX mistakenly pours water from the jug forward, the sea overflows in front of them; the horse carries it to the other side, the old woman drowns; SE leaves TX in the cemetery, hires a merchant for two hours; he cuts the horse, puts SE inside, the parrot bird brings the horse's carcass to the rock where gold and yakhonts; SE scares the bird, not He drops gold to the merchant, comes to the old man; he tells the huge birds to take SE to his wife; SE finds TH, the tsar is amazed at his wisdom, gives him the throne]: Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:158-164; Rutultsy [ a childless woman gives birth to a donkey; he asks the mother to marry the padishah's daughter; he demands to build a golden bridge, bring 7 pairs of clothes for the bride in one eggshell; everything is done; at night the donkey throws off skin, turns into a young man named Rizwan; an old woman persuades the padishah's daughter to put the skin at the door for the night, burns it; Z. flies away with a dove; the wife goes looking, throws the ring into the maid's jug, who collects water, R. recognizes the ring; Aunt R. gives them horses, they jump away, azhdaha chases, R. spills water, a sea forms, Azhdaha asks how they crossed, the fugitives reply that by hanging it around their necks stone, azhdakha sinks; Azhdakhi's sister is chasing, R. throws salt, a salt hill grows; R. and his wife return home]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 60:523-526; Georgians [when leaving, the tsar asks three daughters what to bring them; the elders ask for a dress, a necklace, the youngest for a krahlamaj flower; an old fortune teller indicates where the garden is, teaches two lions to throw sheep on the tuff; Krahlamaj is the royal son who flew to sky; the flower grew on the day K. was born; to see it, you had to fill the room with shiny objects and sprinkle flowers there. The son came down; one maid found out the secret, she was kicked out; she began to serve the princess who asked for a flower; when the king gave it to her daughter, put it in a pot, put it on the window; K. began to fly to the princess; the elder sister scattered the windows out of envy; wounded K. returned to his parents and could no longer fly; under the guise of a healer, the princess came to K., showered him with flowers, he recovered and hugged her; wedding]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 50:199-204; Armenians: Harutyunyan 1986 [=Khachatryants 1933:60-63; at the spring, the mother remembered that she had forgotten to buy her youngest daughter's dress; Vai jumped out and promised to give a dress; the mother brought her daughter, Vai took her to marry her son; went out to visit mother; husband flew to her in the form of a partridge; envious older sisters stuck razors around the window; husband cut himself, thought his wife was to blame, told his father to throw her off in the desert, she survived; buried in the sand, overheard the dervishes talking, learned how to heal wounds; prepared a potion, came to her husband unrecognized; everything was settled]: 41-43; Ganalanyan 1965 [=Nazinyan 2014:25-29; dervish gives a childless old woman three apples, tells me to eat them for three days; she eats them right away, gives birth to a bull; he asks to marry the royal daughter; performs tasks: create a gold tray of gold, an unsewn dress, bring the bride home to the head did not see the sun, the legs did not touch the ground; at night she becomes handsome; the wife burns a bull's skin; the husband turns into a pigeon, flies away; the wife follows, turns into a dove, finds a husband at the bottom seas, happy with him there]: 66-71; Nazinyan 2014 [the old man brought firewood from the forest, there was a snake in them; demanded that the royal daughter be married to him; the king demands to build a palace overnight, then a garden, a carpet from the palace to the palace, invisible musicians; every time the serpent tells the old man to go to the forest, shout into the hole "Big Khatun, Little Khatun, Habrmani wants this and that"; after the wedding of snakes, he becomes H. tells his wife not to let it slip; incognito participates in the races; in response to the ridicule of the sisters, the wife says, H. falls, tells him to trample iron bast shoes and a steel staff in 7 years, then she will find it; disappears ; H. is at the mercy of a witch, she wants to marry him off her daughter; the wife, after passing through an earthen, glass, copper fortress, reaches gold, her bast shoes and staff are worn out; she throws the maid into the jug his ring, H. finds it; the witch asks her to stroke her feet and fall asleep in her legs; H. tells me to put the deck instead, at night the witch gives her foot; the witch tells her to bring fluff for the pillows, H. advises to ask the birds to shed their fluff; H. and his wife run away, the witch's daughter is chasing, they turn into a mill and a miller; a vegetable garden with a gardener; the third time the witch runs by herself, H. tells his wife to quit a comb, forests appear; H. turns his wife into a twig, herself into a snake wrapped around a branch; the witch found them, but took pity and let them go; H. and the princess celebrate a new wedding in a new palace]: 106-116; Khachatryants 1933 []: 181-189; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 17 [an elderly childless peasant is given an apple, tells him to eat it in half with his wife; he eats one, a donkey's head falls out of his ass; he She buries her, drowns her, she returns; asks the padishah's daughter to be married; builds a palace overnight; left with his wife, turns into a young man; the maid spies, he disappears; the sultan asks her father to build bathhouse, let everyone come there to wash for free, but with a story about disasters; Keloglan, clinging to the tail of a wood-loaded donkey, follows two woodcutters with fused backs; hides in the underground room; Donkey Head enters, swims in the pool, turns into a young man; a dove arrives, swims, turns into a girl, tries in vain to cheer up the young man; in the morning both take on their former appearance; K. tells the sultan about this, brings him to that room; her husband tells her that he was captured by the daughter of the padishah of birds; the young man burns his skin; sits with his wife in a cage with sharp protrusions; the daughter of the padishah of birds and all her a bird army dies on thorns; the sultan returns her husband], 27 [about the same in Kúnos 1901:74-83; the younger sister's horse secretly turns into a young man from others; she does not marry, meets at night an imaginary horse; burns his skin; he flies away like a dove, says she will find him when she wears out her iron shoes and staff; at the spring, the maid says she is collecting water for Chamber-Tiar; the wife disguised beggars throw their ring into the jug; THU recognizes him, comes for her; devas want to eat it, THU's mother gives tasks; 1) sweep - don't sweep the room (collect garbage in the middle); 2) go to a neighbor for with a sieve (give the meat lying in front of the horse to the dog, the grass from the dog to the horse, venerate the neighbor's chest behind the back); 3) fill the cauldron with tears (add salt to the water); 4) fill the bag with down (birds Dali); during the wedding, Thu tied the daughter of the devas to a pole instead of the padishah's daughter, runs with his wife; she throws a comb (thorns), soap (slippery), a jug (water); Thu became a gardener, his wife a garden; a tree and a snake wrapping him around him (the devas broke the net - they tore off their little finger); into flowers at the padishah's feet; he gave them to the devas, they bite into grains, the chickens peck, two grains remain, turn into a young man and a girl, they play a wedding]: 48 -54, 105-109; Kúnos 1896 [when leaving, the padishah tells three daughters to take care of his horse; he lets only the youngest in; when he returns, the father gives the elders for the vizier and the chief mufti, the youngest for the horse; at night, the horse turns into a man, the stall into a palace; the husband warns his wife not to reveal the secret, gives her three hairs if necessary; at the tournament, the older sisters are proud of their husbands, laugh at the youngest; she says to her husband that he is handsome, wins everyone; the youngest told the sisters about this, the husband immediately disappeared; the wife went in search, burned the hair, the husband showed up, explained that his mother was a witch- cannibal; turned his wife into an apple, promised her mother not to harm her; mother tells her to "sweep and not sweep the room"; the wife burns the second hair, the husband comes, explains what to sweep the room, but not in the hallway; next time, fill the vessel with tears (water and add salt); no more hairs, the couple are running; the mother's sister sits in a jug, drives a snake; the husband turns his wife into a bathhouse, himself into a bathhouse attendant , pretends to be a fool; the same is the second sister (the spring and the person who takes water from it); the third time the mother chases herself; her son turns his wife into a tree, himself into a snake that wraps around the tree; the mother does not decides to kill his son, asks for permission to tear off his wife's finger, flies away; the spouses return to the woman's father; the husband remains human, his demonic nature remains in another world]: 74-83; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 102 [When going on business, the father asks his three daughters what to bring them; the elders ask for new clothes, etc., the youngest asks for something strange (a green bird, a dove, a pearl, a feather, a cat, a mortar and etc.); the father forgets her request, but the ship does not move until the father gets that item; the girl uses it to summon her lover, who usually arrives in the form of a bird; envious sisters hurt him (usually throwing up broken glass), he flies away; the girl looks for him until she wears out her iron shoes and staff; she comes to the palace unrecognized and heals the prince, promising him not to kill her when he sees her again; calls him in the same way; everything turns out, the spouses stay together]: 118-121; Kurds: Jalil 1989, No. 16 [the shepherd had a snake son; demanded from the father marry the padishah's daughter; fulfills his conditions (bring a camel caravan, build a palace, spread out a carpet); at night she sheds snakeskin, turns into a handsome man; mother-in-law spies, throws skin at fire, son-in-law flies away like a bird, his wife will find it if she hears about forty dervishes; a young man tells how he was in a sliding rock, where another young man poured water to forty dervishes; the wife finds wife, reunited with him]: 203-207; Farizov, Rudenko 1959 [the shepherd's wife gave birth to Pumpkin, Pumpkin son asks his father to marry the khakim's daughter; fulfills the condition to bring 40 horsemen with gold armor by morning, gets a wife; the pumpkin splits, Mehmed Khan comes out of it, tells his wife to make coffee but not let it boil; the coffee boils, the young man disappears; the wife asks her father-in-law to make her iron sandals and iron sandals the staff promises to look for M. until he wears them out; wanders in vain for seven years; asks his father to build a palace, listens to the stories of travelers in it; the guide boy tells how he sat in a bucket that rolled out of the rock, got into the rock, 40 pigeons flew in there, turned into young men, one was sad; the wife penetrates the same way; M. tells him to run, his mother will not let them go well; M. turns into a shepherd, his wife into a sheep; the mother finds out them, but since the bride was more beautiful than her son, she blesses]: 23-28.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians: Ottomans 1987:250-256 [A childless woman promises to stump that if she becomes pregnant, her son or daughter will serve him; the girl Bibinegar was born and raised; walks past a stump with two others; the stump tells her to stop; her mother sends her to the stump, the young Maisaskabar comes out of it; with him carpets and a wheel from which emeralds and yakhonts fall; M. gives B. a fur coat - if he disappears, they will part; her the aunt overheard; hopes to marry B. as her daughter; put B. to sleep and burned her fur coat; B. has only a turquoise ring; B. goes in search; the shepherds answer her rude: these are herds of M., a ransom for B.; the boy did not give get drunk, she told the water to turn into blood and pus; M.: what is this? ordered to let me get drunk; B. threw a ring into the jug, M. realized that she was nearby; M.: everything around the diva; B. was hired as a maid in the house of M., whom Aunt B. married to her daughter; at night M. cut off his wife's head, rode away with B.; aunt chases, M. threw a piece of sheepskin (mountain); a piece of iron (iron mountain); salt (salt sea); aunt: how did you swim across; M.: stand on that pebble (it's a sunny glare); aunt drowned; a few drops of her blood splashed ashore, became a gazelle; M. brought her home; in her absence, she butts B.; when everyone was sleeping, the gazelle became an aunt, gathered everyone in the house to sleep in a vessel, gathered throw B. into boiling water; B. asks for permission to pray; a virgin appeared, taught her to break a bottle; M. appeared, threw the gazelle into boiling water; gives B. a bottle of her aunt's life, tells her to go to her house, pick up those lying in front of her give bones to the dog with a camel, and straw on the contrary; praise the dried garden, which the aunt calls thorns; clean the dusty carpet and bed; agree to comb your aunt, and when she falls asleep, hit her ground your head and run; the bed and everyone else refuse to hold B., the dog tore his aunt; B. ran to M., he ceased to be a diva, became human, everything is fine], 301-306 [the childless woodcutter wants to kill a snake, which promises to become his son Sabzkaba ("green caftan"); orders to marry the ruler's daughter Shakarhava ("sweet wish"); he requires 70 bags of jewelry, etc., S. sends and receives a wife, takes off his snakeskin at night; warns not to burn it; otherwise, in order to return it, you will have to wear out 7 iron dresses, shoes, staffs; Sh. Sh. came, threw the skin into the fire; Sh. searches; meets women, girls, everyone says that their father S. went to S. and disappeared, they would kill her; one girl carries water S., S. throws a ring into the jug; S. meets Sh., tells them to venerate his mother's breasts are diva; mother-in-law tells him to pour tears on the floor (S. performs); wash the black bag white (dip it in water when white water flows); bring a sieve from her diva sister, she must tear Sh.; S.: there are bones in front of the horse, straw in front of the dog, you have to shift; put cotton wool in every bell on the door; S. grabbed a sieve and ran away; at the wedding of the divas, S. and S. put hot candles in their arms, but they candles were not thrown; at night S. killed the bride and groom, ran with Sh.; brother S. chases, S. became a broom, S. became a rope; uncle (garden and gardener); father (mill and miller); mother (cypress and dragon); S. killed mother, all is well]; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 6 (Kerman) [the wives of the vizier and king are pregnant; the king suggests marrying children if they are of different sexes; the vizier has a daughter, Mer Niga (Eye of Grace), to the king the son is a black snake Miz Mast, or Humar ("Sleepy Head"); on the wedding night, H. takes off his skin, appears as a young man; in the morning he puts his skin back on; the king tells his daughter-in-law to prevent her husband from turning into a snake; prince tells his wife that his skin can be burned in a fire made from egg shells, a broom handle, and hair from a dog's tail; in which case he will disappear and they won't see each other; MN burns the skin; prince says the wife will find him, trampling seven pairs of iron shoes and wearing out seven paper cloaks; after wearing out the last pair, MN meets the slave; she says that X. is going to marry; MN throws the ring into the jug, tells the slave to get it into the hands of H. 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 his curl, tells her every time burn a hair if his help is needed; mother of the bride H. (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.: stepped on a rock in the middle of the sea (this is foam); the pursuers jumped on it, drowned; everything is fine]: 25-32; Vakhans [(second half of a long text); son of a genie mother and pari father Shokhzodal turns into a ruby to escape from an evil mother; ruby finds a maid, he turns into a boy, is adopted by a childless queen; S. marries the daughter of the vizier Durban and the daughter of King Nurbon; mother S. disguised as an old woman, persuades his wives to ask S. to say who his parents are, otherwise D. will not recover; S. says he hides in the water; D. greets the wanderers, listens to their stories; the old man tells how looking for a cow, he hid from the genies in a tree; terrible people came out of the river, the old woman told the handsome young man Sh.; D. goes there, throws S.'s ring, he secretly climbs a tree to her from the genies; Sh. and D. pour the potion into the mouths of sleeping genies, forcing Sh.'s mother to abandon it; S. returns to his wives, reigns on the throne of Father N.]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 1:50-60; Shugnans [old man finds a baby girl with a ruby in her mouth; when she is 12 years old, she says that they will bring a rooster at night, let her father marry him a royal daughter; the rooster says his name is Shoisilangor; at night he throws off cock's face; the king orders to create 1) a garden with fountains of water and milk, 2) a mill that grinds three types of grain at once, 3) a shady alley from the royal house to the groom's house (girl and rooster are all easy create); S. appears to the king in his true form, he is happy; after the wedding, the young mother persuades him to throw her cock's face into the fire; S. flies to Mount Kof, his wife will find him when she wears out her clothes; a hand from a spring gives her an invisible hat; finds Sh.; a feast; young people visit the king]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 20:223-235; Uzbeks [elderly spouses are childless, the fox asks to make it them son; easily does any job; tells him to marry the Shah's daughter; the old man is executed, the fox revives him three times, the Shah has to give his daughter; he takes off his fox skin for the night, becomes handsome; wife burns the skin; the husband leaves, the wife will find him by taking down her iron staff and boots; she does so, she meets her husband when he hunts, the couple is happy]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (2): 122-126; Turkmens: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 249.

Baltoscandia. Karely (Kalevala District, 1938): Concca 1959, No. 30 [the tree asks the old man not to cut it down, promises to do good; the old man tells his wife, she sends him to cut down the tree; for the third time to the old man the old woman's wish has to be fulfilled; the stump asks the old man to take it too; he replies that he cannot uproot the stump in winter; then the stump gives the old man a golden head; the old woman wants to sell it, the old man is against it; the head tells its relatives to fill the house with food; next time with clothes; now the old woman wants a hut; the hut is ready, and now the head wants the old woman to get her bride; one girl agrees, at night the head turns into a guy; the mother scolds her daughter, she has to tell the truth; after that, the head disappears; the old man goes in search, the old widow explains where to go to grab son; son enters the hut, the old man jumps on him, falls, the son disappears again; the old woman is the same; the wife goes, grabs him, but the husband disappears again; the widow promises to help, but tells her sheep to be sheared; the old man on horseback says that sheep will fight wolves, wool must be picked up; the widow sends for a trough to the lord of the sea; the rider brings a trough, the woman gives him money; the widow tells him to bring birdo from the forest; the husband himself brings birdeau to the widow, stays with his wife]: 134-141; Onegin 2010, No. 24 [the elderly have a son, the second head is a snake; a widow is next to her, she has three daughters; the son demands one of them as his wife; they brought the eldest, he ate her at night ; the same with the middle one; the youngest ordered the blacksmith three iron bars and a hundred iron snakes; before going to bed, she put a snare under every door and every window; she began to beat the snakehead with twigs; he calls demons, they climbed through windows and doors, died in snare; when all the bars broke, the serpent turned into a dog; the wife refused to lie down with the dog, the husband became handsome; said that he would be a dog during the day, man at night; the wife broke the ban, told her parents everything; the dog husband ran away; the wife goes in search; her mother tells her to order three pairs of shoes, three staffs, three swirls, all made of iron; shoes, staffs, swirls (you have to keep them in your mouth) must be worn out; if you find your aunt (i.e. widow's sister), she will tell you what to do; my aunt says that Suoyatar's husband is now married; she has three flax barns and wool, she will ask to spin, if she fails in two weeks, she will eat it; the aunt gives a pipe: girls will come to her sound, do the job; as a reward, ask S. for a night with her husband; you have to go to bed in the bathhouse, five chicken Put eggs in the heater, run away; S. will answer the eggs; the girls spin at night, the husband sees his wife, they negotiate; S. answers the eggs until late in the morning; when she finally rushed in pursuit, the wife spent a line on the ground, it turned into a sword, cut off S.'s legs]: 260-264; Swedes: Liungman 1961, No. 432 [the prince in the form of a bird flies to his beloved; stepmother puts sharp spokes on the window, the prince hurts yourself; both {prince and sweetheart?} fly to the land of birds, the prince is healed]: 99; Suritz 1991 [the two eldest daughters ask the king to bring expensive gifts, and the youngest ask three singing leaves; the king sees a hazel tree with three golden leaves on it, from them music; he ripped them off; Underground Prince Hutt demands to give him the first living soul to go home; the youngest daughter came out; the king left her under a hazel tree, she found herself in an underground hall, to The prince came out and left in the morning; when his wife gave birth to a son, H. allows her to go to her father, who is remarried, but to reveal the secret; the same after the birth of her second son, to the wedding of her older sister; after the birth of a daughter is for the youngest's wedding; the stepmother persuaded the princess to light a candle and look at the prince; a drop of wax fell on his chest; the palace disappeared, H. went blind, his wife and children went with him; he says leave the eldest son with his older sister, who lives in a copper house, the youngest in silver, the daughter with the youngest in gold, but he should not see the sisters himself; the younger sister went out, H. disappeared; old trollich Bertha sends the princess to her older sister, gives a spinning wheel spinning gold; the second sister gives a gold reel, sends her to her oldest sister; she gives an inexhaustible purse, sends to the palace, where the trollich wants to marry H.; the princess was accommodated in a chicken coop, which she soon turned into a beautiful room; buys permission to spend the night with H. for a spinning wheel, for a reel; both times the trollich gives H. a zone potion; the third time the princess gives a purse, and the trollich's stepdaughter, who was a baptized family, tells X. not to drink potions; the princess teaches the trollich to cook meat in a hot cauldron, pushes her into boiling water; sisters H. appear with the princess's children and a bush with singing leaves; princess and H. live in the palace like king and queen]: 112-123; Stier 1971, No. 8 [the king is lost; three times to a white bear comes out to him, offers to take him to the road if he gives him the first to meet him at home; for the third time, the king agrees in the hope that the dog will come out; but his daughter came out; The next day, Prince Willius came by ship in the guise of a polar bear and took the princess away; when the princess had already given birth to six children, the king met a polar bear hunting and asked him to tell his daughter that got married; the princess decided to visit her father, although her husband asked to do so after the birth of her seventh child; her stepmother advised her to light the fire at night to look at her husband; drops of candle wax fell on him, he woke up, said that after the seventh was born, they would come to live with her father and he would no longer take the form of a bear; and now he would go beyond the Sun and Earth; a wife with six children and a seventh in her arms went looking for him; a century-old bear mistress sends a bear to take them to her 200-year-old sister, the owner of lions, and she sends a lion to take them to her 300-year-old sister; she is the owner of falcons, lives with a robber; at night she pretends to have dreams, tells them to her husband, as a result, finds out how to get to where Prince Willius lives with a Sun woman; a falcon takes a woman with children there; must be thrown into the sea is a stone, it parts; the sun tells the princess that today she is engaged to the prince, puts them in a chicken coop; the princess turns it into a rich room, begins to spin; The sun sees gold spinning supplies, buys them for permission for the princess to spend the night with Vilius; gives him a sleepy potion twice, pours it out on the third night; at the feast, V. asks the Sun how to do it deal with someone who tried to separate friends; she replies to put him in a nail barrel and roll him; V. planted the Sun in a nail barrel]: 43-53; Danes: Cox 1893, No. 67 [in England the grandmother imprisoned her granddaughter princess in the tower; the princes are trying to see her; the Spanish prince made wings, built a tower opposite, flies to the English princess; the grandmother stabbed needles and awls on the windowsill; the prince loses 9 drops of blood, returns to Spain, where he finds himself in a casemate; the heroine runs, comes to the palace in Spain; hearing three animals talking, she learns how to enter the palace, get it magic wand, cure a sick prince; is hired as a dishwasher, pretends to be weak in mind; adds three drops of acne blood three times, which is served to the prince; he recovers; imaginary the dishwasher brings the king a mug, a towel, a comb (token objects); runs away three times, loses her shoe, girls try it on; the heroine wears dress; wedding]: 27-28; Cramer 1919 [queen died; the Countess, who has her own daughter, convinces the Queen's daughter to persuade her father to marry her; after the wedding, tyrants her stepdaughter; the king leaves; the daughter talks to him about the Green Knight, referring to the cemetery, but the king understands words literally; he finds him, the knight gives him a book for his daughter; when a girl opens a window and reads a book, a bird arrives, becomes a knight; the girl no longer withers, but prettier; stepmother sends the maid, her own daughter, they fall asleep; she comes by herself, quietly puts scissors on the windowsill; flying away, the Green Knight hurts himself; the girl hears the crows talking: he will be cured by soup from snakes living near the palace; she finds a nest of snakes, comes to the Green Knight's Castle, is hired to work in the kitchen; after three times the knight recovers, sees a girl; wedding, everything is fine]: 23-37; Mulley 1878 [translated from Grundtvig; the king asks his daughter to see what is in his hair; she takes off the big louse; they put it in oil, it grows; when the barrels are small, the louse is stabbed, the skin is removed; the king dissatisfied that the princess rejects all suitors; promises to pass her off as saying which animal the skin was removed from; the wolf sniffs and tells the king that it is the skin of a lice, tells her to give it to the princess; brings her to a luxurious castle, forbids her to light a fire; at night the wolf turns into a man, but the princess does not see him; when she gave birth to a son, the wolf immediately took him away; allows her to return to her parents for three days on condition not to take anything from their house; but the mother gives the knife to be put on the bed; the husband will be scratched; if he screams, he is a troll, and if he moans, the man; he groaned; forgave his wife, but since then limped on his right back leg; when his wife gave birth to a daughter, the wolf also took her away immediately; the wife visited her parents again; the mother gave a box of matches and a candle; the wife lit a candle; the husband said that the witch had bewitched him for 7 years because he refused to marry her daughter; became a wolf and ran away; she came to Sister Wolf's castle, where her son was; the second sister had a daughter with a wet nurse; the wife went to the glass mountain and saw how The wolf climbed her; she also slides; the old man gave iron shoes to climb the mountain and ointment, heal the cuts; on the mountain in the castle, a woman was hired in the kitchen; a local young mistress would soon marry the Wolf; a witch tells him to wash the daughter's white flannel and white black (the old man performs); tells him to bring jewelry from his sister for the bride; a young man gives a ball to follow; a rod to put in the door, who claps all the time; give a bag of grain to geese; tongs to two people who move the heat with their bare hands; ladles to give to girls who interfere in the cauldron with their bare hands; two loaves of bread are given guard dogs; a pot of fat - lubricate the door hinges; the witch's sister can't eat anything, don't look back on the way back; the witch's sister gave her leg to a calf, the woman threw it under the bench, that one from there answers; the second time she hid it under her clothes, the witch's sister believed that the woman ate her leg; when the woman runs back, the witch's sister tells the guards to hold her, but everyone refuses because she is good with them turned; the witch's sister warned me not to open the box on the way, but the woman opened it, the bird flew out and disappeared; the young man asked for the calf leg that remained under the woman's clothes, sent her back to bring jewelry, her leg ran and brought it; after receiving the box, the witch allowed the woman to be present at her daughter's marriage; gave her two torches; the woman could not move , may burn; the prince grabs the torches and hands the witch and her daughter; they burned down along with the castle; a meadow on the site of a glass mountain; the couple took the children, returned to the woman's parents]: 225-236; Latvians [the father promises the wolf (dog, bear) a daughter in gratitude for the direction; feeling sorry for the daughter, the father sends someone else twice; this causes the beast's anger; then comes the promised bride; at night the beast turns into a man; one day she lets his wife visit her parents, gives a ring; when it starts spinning, the wife must return home; she also should not talk about her husband; the wife violates the ban , the husband disappears; the wife goes in search; on the way she buys magic items; gives them to the witch, her husband's new bride, for permission to spend the night with him; the witch gives him a potion, the husband does not wake up; on the third once he pours out the potion, recognizes his wife, the magic disappears]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 425A: 284; Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 425A: 227; Finns, Estonians, Livons, Lithuanians, Faroese: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425A: 248-250; Icelanders [the king chased the deer, the companions fell behind; the deer was gone, he saw the house, the door was ajar, there was a big one in the room dog; food, wine and fodder for the horse are ready, the bed is free; again in the morning; the king got on his horse and went home, but the dog stopped him; he did not even thank him for the hospitality and now let him give it back the one who will be the first to meet at home is the king's youngest daughter; three days later, the dog began to cross the door; the king sent a maid instead of the princess; the dog took her away; on the way asks what time it is; she : at this time they sweep the room; the dog realized that it was not a princess, tore up the maid, returned the next day; this time the princess went; replies to the dog that she was meeting her father at that time; the dog brought her into the house; at night there is a man in the girl's bed; when it is time to give birth, the dog warns that the baby will be carried away immediately and that she does not cry; the princess gave birth to a girl, her kite immediately took it away; the princess did not cry and was rewarded with a golden comb; the dog tells the princess that her older sister is getting married; she can visit her, but she can come back three days later and should not talk about herself tell; gave two dresses - let her sister give one, wear the other herself; all the same after the birth of her second daughter, received a precious necklace; released for the second sister's wedding; for the third time gave birth to a boy and shed a tear; the dog gave a mirror, but reproached that this time it did not go so well; the princess's third sister is getting married; this time the princess's mother gave a pebble and taught him to let him down the sleeper's face to see him {incomprehensible}; the princess saw a handsome man who woke up and said they would now have to part; he is Prince Sigurd; after his mother's death, the king found a hut in the woods in which a woman and her daughter; the woman called herself queen, her husband died in battle, the kingdom was ruined; the king married her, but S. refused to marry her daughter and his stepmother turned him into a dog at 10 and then marries her daughter anyway; you can save yourself by marrying a beautiful princess without anyone seeing him, giving birth to three children and not shedding tears; that tear is a thorn (Staar) in the boy's eye, the princess will only wash him away with her own tears; it is his father's brother who turned into a deer to lure the princess's father; let the princess go to his uncles with that comb the necklace and mirror she received as a gift; the princess came to the prince's first uncle; he referred to the second; his wife and three children were with him; the boy had an eyesore; she washed him away with tears that she had a handkerchief in her knot; uncle: let the princess go the short way through the mountains, then she would be in time before the prince's wedding; gave a staff with an iron tip: the road would be smooth as a mirror; in the palace the princess no one found out; she began to comb her hair with a golden comb, gave the bride for the right to spend the first night with her husband; but she could not wake him up; the same on the second night she bought for the necklace; the third uncle The prince was advised to quietly pour out the drink that would be offered for the night, it contained a sleepy potion; the princess bought the third night for the mirror; he and the prince agreed; the next day a feast; three uncles The prince and her children were brought in and asked if the prince knew them; he replied that he knew; the witch and her daughter became a giantess, but the prince's uncles put poles in their mouths, and the servants hidden under the tables put shackles on them; the prince's wedding with the princess; soon the old king died, the prince reigned, the uncle made Jarli]: Poestion 1994, No. 3:21-38; Norwegians: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960 [the youngest of three princesses want a wreath; no one can do one; she sees a polar bear (BM, white) he has one; agrees to marry him for a wreath, he will come in three days; the king puts in vain guards; gives her eldest daughter instead of the youngest; BM asks if she sat softer, if she saw better; she replies that the father has yes; he sends her back; the same with the middle; the youngest answers no; BM comes to his wife at night in the guise of a man; she gives birth to a daughter three times, he throws them away every time; she asks for permission to see her parents, BM tells her to listen to her father, not to do what the mother advises; mother advises to shine a candle on her husband at night, the father is against; she shines, fat drips, the husband says that in a month he would remain human, she flies away, she grabs his wool, then falls; goes, comes to the house, where an old woman and a girl, a girl plays with scissors that create fabrics, gives her wife a BM; in the second and third houses the same (a vessel with an inexhaustible drink, a magic tablecloth); BM must marry a trollich; the wife buys three nights for her magic items, but the trollich is put to sleep by BM; on the third night he did not drink the potion; tells him to file the bridge, the trolly carriage falls into the river, she drowns; husband and wife reunite, those three girls were their daughters, whom their father kept to help their mother]: 150-157; Dasent 1970 [The Polar Bear (BM, white, not polar) asks the poor man's daughter; the girl and parents agree; he brings her into the mountain, the girl does not need anything; in the dark, BM comes to her in human form; she wants to see her parents and brothers; he warns her not to speak alone with the mother; the wife breaks her promise; the mother teaches her daughter to light a hidden candle to look at her sleeping husband; when she returns, she sees her husband, rushes to kiss him, dripped hot on him candle fat; he wakes up, disappears with the castle and all his riches, saying he must now go back to his stepmother and marry a long-nosed princess, they live in a castle east of the sun, to west of the moon; the old woman gives her a golden apple and a horse to get to another old woman, she gives a golden comb, the third a golden spinning wheel and a new horse to drive to East Wind, that to the West, West to South, South to North, North brings to the castle; the girl consistently exchanges Long-nosed an apple, comb and spinning wheel for the right to spend the night with the prince; he sleeps two nights in front of the third servant they tell him about a crying girl, does not drink a sleepy potion; the prince tells his beloved that tomorrow he will set a wedding condition: he marries someone who washes three stains of grease off his shirt (they are left from a candle ); only a woman can do this, not a troll; the girl washes away the stains, the trolls burst, their castle disappears; the prince and his wife return, taking with them the wealth and prisoners of the castle]: 22-35; oriental Sami: Yermolov 1959 [childless old people dream of a son even with a dog's nose; a boy in dog skin was born; grew up asking his father to marry him; the girl eats meat herself, throws bones to the groom like a dog; at night he tore it apart; the same with the second girl; the third gives the groom meat; at night he took off his dog skin and became handsome; the old woman tells his daughter-in-law to burn her skin; husband: you won't see me until you drown three couples iron boots, three iron buttons will not melt in her mouth, three iron staffs will not be worn off; the girl went, trampled one pair, melted, worn out; sees a hut - spinning around; "Turn to the forest with a window, and by the door to me!" ; in the hut they answered: they did not see the passers, only the wind missed; they gave copper and a copper scallop; the same in the second hut (the silver ones hung and the comb); in the third - gold; let him comb hair and will put up copper hangs and comb where beautiful Katerina and her husband are playing ball at the extreme hut; give the comb to sleep one night at the door at the doorstep; the same for the second night ( silver); on the third (gold); after that, KK grabbed a box with needles, threads, beads, colored scraps and ran to the seashore; threw it all into the sea and ordered it to turn into shells; so shells, starfish, etc. scattered on the bottom; and husband and wife returned home]: 67-69; Kert 1961, No. 19 (Lovozero) [childless old man and old woman want a son, even in dog skin; son has grown up, wants marry; the old man has three daughters; the eldest comes; asks why the dog is barking; mother-in-law: this is your husband; the young woman throws bones to the dog; at night the husband ran over her; the same with the middle sister; the youngest caresses dog; at night she sheds her skin and becomes a young man; one day my wife burned her skin; husband: in three years I was destined to take off my fur coat; and now you will look for me while you wear out three pairs of boots and three staffs three tin buttons in her mouth will melt; the wife wore everything out, came to town, where they play ball, her husband was playing among the players; she hid the ball; gave it back on the condition that her husband would take her to sleep in her sleeping bag (and he already remarried); the husband does not recognize her; the second time the wife says who she is; the husband turned away from the new one, turned to the old one; when they returned, the old woman burns fire at the end of the spindle, and the old man at the end of the knitting net needles; when they found out that their son and daughter-in-law had returned, the old people were happy and died], 39 (Teriberka) [the old man and the old woman want a child, even with a dog's nose; a son was born, gradually became altogether a dog; his wife was married to him; at night he became handsome, taking off his dog skin; the wife said to his mother-in-law that her husband was human, she burned her skin; the husband disappeared, telling him to look for him; the wife came to the old woman; she says that her husband has beautiful Katerina; gave a copper pole and a comb; K. will play ball, run after the ball, see the comb; we must ask for the comb the right to spend the night under the threshold of the house; the second old woman gave silver (sleeping by the bed), the third gold (sleeping behind her husband's back); the third time the wife cried so much that her husband's back got wet and turned to his wife, turning away from K.; K. threw herself into the water, became with a stingray, a needle with a tail, beads and beads with shells, simple needles with grains of sand, faceted with capelin; a woman and her husband went to their parents, on the way their son was born; old people do not see, hear, hold fire at the end of the spindle; the woman pinched the child three times, he cries, the woman says that the child asks her grandparents for news; the old people happily jumped to the end of the hook (on which they hang them cauldron); the old man turned into peat, the old woman into ash (the origin of peat and ash)]: 58-61, 154-157; Charnolusky 1962 [a childless old woman is ready to give birth to at least a dog; gives birth to a puppy; son asks to bring him a bride ; the bride is afraid of him, he tore her teeth; the old woman brings a new one, she takes a dog, at night he turns handsome; his mother and wife have burned the dog's skin; the handsome man left, saying that his wife will find him, after wearing out three iron jars; the wife comes to three old women sequentially, they give copper, silver, gold combs; the husband plays ball, the wife combs her hair, the ball flies into her window every time; she asks players to have her husband's wife Ulita let her sleep 1) on the doorstep of the house, 2) at their feet, between spouses; husband recognizes his wife, Ulita jumps into the lake; husband and wife return to his parents]: 171-175; oriental Sami (Yokang dialect) [after the death of her parents, three sons and a daughter were left; they rode by boat along the coast; the girl saw a gilded conifer on the shore and asked her to stop; the elder brother said that he would bring the branch himself, went ashore and stayed there; so three times, all three brothers stayed in different places on the shore; the girl swam to the pier, went ashore, the spindle rolled up , the spinning rod fell off and rolled, the girl behind him; came to the vezha, there is no door, the voice from the inside: stroke the door handle; inside an old man and an old woman; they say that the bride has come to their youngest son; here are two older daughters-in-law; three sons came, the youngest saw that the girl had the sun on her forehead, stars on the cheeks, a month on the back of her head, gold to the elbows, silver to the knees; they had a wedding; the older daughters-in-law were daughters of a spider, asking for himself sons with dandruff heads and fat bellies like themselves; the youngest asks for people like her; the elders plugged her mouth with a button, pushed her with a spindle, put fire under the barn; the old man took it out fire to the youngest daughter-in-law, she is pale; the elders say that she ate her child; the old man stroked the youngest on the back of the head, the button popped out; so it happened two more times (the third time she was supposed to give birth to a daughter ); after the third time, the youngest tells her husband that the geese are screaming and a swan; two geese and a swan came down and became boys and a girl; mother and father recognized their children; the spider's daughters and their children were told to jump over a fire, they fell into it and burned down]: Kert 1961, No. 44:175-179; (cf. Western Sami [the king fed the flea, hung his skin on the wall, promised his daughter to the one who guessed which animal it had been removed from; the wolf answered that's right, I got the princess; the king dressed up the cowshed, the wolf took her like a bride, began to ask questions in the forest, realized from the answers that the girl knew everything about the barn, returned it; the cook - the same; the king had to to give her daughter, she did not know the answers, the wolf realized that she was really a princess; at home, the wolf became prince charming; allowing his wife to see her relatives, he forbid her to tell her that her husband was human; the wife violated promise, the prince remained a wolf]: Pollan 2005, No. 24:97-98).

Volga - Perm. Marie [the wife of a poor Tatar gave birth to a snake; a snake son tells his father to marry the daughter of a rich man; he beats the poor man for the first time, then cuts to pieces, burns; the serpent resurrects the father every time; the daughter of a rich man proposes to demand 41 from the groom a savrasuya mare, a palace, a garden with birds; the serpent climbs into a hole, tells his father to pull it all out of there; on the wedding night, the serpent turns into a handsome man; the wife's sisters burn snakeskin, the groom disappears; one hunter sees a house on the lake shore, a bird flies there to drink milk, sings about what happened; the wife comes to the house, throws her ring into the milk, the husband finds human appearance, returns to his wife]: Chetkarev 1948:58-63; Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 22 [the bull tells the old owner to marry the khan's daughter for him; the old man is beaten; after the third time, the khan agrees; at night the bull takes off her skin, the bride is happy, burns her skin; the husband orders to pour milk from the barn, walk with an iron staff for the milk stream; flies away as a white bird; the khan's daughter comes to the elder to her husband's brother, he sends to the middle, to the youngest, the eldest gives food for the middle cow, the middle one for the younger's evil geese; all four brothers gather, the fourth (still in the form of a bull? or an ogre?) feeds and hides the girl; the elders say that honey and meat were not enough; the elder advises the girl to wrap herself in silk when her fourth brother executes her; she refuses, is ready to answer; the husband accepts human appearance, everyone is happy], 24 [the old man has three daughters, his wife is dead; the old man says he saw a cat in the forest, the daughters are asked to bring it; the cat threatens to kill the old man, demands a daughter; agrees only Kutlubika's youngest; the cat takes her, turns into a young man named Kutluyar, he was bewitched by his stepmother; a year later, sisters and husbands come to visit, out of envy stick a needle where Kutluyar sits, that accuses his wife, turns into a snake, flies away; Kutlubika goes to the old woman's house, then the second, third, each gives an apple; Kutluyar's new wife locks her in a dark bath; light emanates from the apple; a new wife agrees to show Kuiluyar if Kutlubika cuts off a piece of apple to her; Kutlubika puts a ring on the sleeper's finger; Kutluyar wakes up, drives his new wife away, happy with the old one]: 125-128, 132-136; Komi : Plesovsky 1975 [the old man found a girl in the forest; she is Marpida Tsarevna, the bride of the Pipilis Falcon, her stepmother left her to pieces by animals; the old man's wife does not love M., does not give a sundress, offers to make it from hazel grouse fluff; M. finds P. Falcon in the underground; he promises to fly every day without telling the old woman about him; makes sure that after passing through the ground and water, M. appears in the church as beautiful, she is not recognized ; the same thing again; the old woman says it to M., she explains that it was her, talks about the falcon; he disappears; M. goes to look for him; thanks to a bird's word, she enters Yoma's house through a tiny hole; Yoma sends to another Yoma, she to the third; the third gives three pairs of boots and three eggs; the first pair goes to the fiery meadow, the second to go through the meadow, the third to walk over hot coals; M. goes for the copper egg; gives a silver crow to carry it across the seas; a golden egg leads her to another Yoma; in her house there is a Falcon; forgives M. for talking about him; takes her to his birdland]: 18-22; Wichmann 1916, No. 36 [the eldest daughters ask their father three times to bring them jewelry and new clothes, and the youngest is the Falcon Ashes (Pepelysty); the father brings the falcon only for the third time; in the girl's room, the falcon turns into a young man; gives the girl is a beautiful outfit; one day she threw his falcon skin into the fire; he flew away, telling him to look for him beyond 9 lands, 9 seas; the girl took gold reels and hoop, balls of silk, walked for a long time, came to a house where an old yoma woman, her three daughters and P.; a girl consistently buys three nights from yoma for items she wants to buy; yoma solders P., but on the third night he wakes up and returns to her home with a girl]: 105-110; (cf. Udmurts [Uther refers to Kralin 1961 (=1960), "One Hundred Tales of the Udmurt People", No. 45; there is no such plot there]: Uther 2004 (1), No. 425B: 251).

Turkestan. Kazakhs [the old woman says she is pregnant, asks her husband to bring her dragon meat; he finds a yellow dragon killed by a black dragon, the old woman eats a dragon, gives birth to a snake son named Shakhimardan; he asks Nursula, Babakhan's daughter, to be married to him; Khan orders him to be chopped into pieces twice, S. revives him; then the Shah orders him to bring so many horses to fill the city; S. gives his father a diamond sword, tells his father cut off the head of a black snake, horses came out of his hole; the khan gives his daughter, who sheds his skin, turns into a handsome man; tells his wife to hide her skin; others spied, tried to take the skin away, S. snatched it out he flew away like a swallow, told him to look for him until his iron hat and staff wear out; in the desert, N. comes to the daughter of Padishah Gulistan Marzhan, kidnapped by the Black Giant; she learns from her husband that the swallow flew to the city of Mertik, where demons reside; N. finds Sh.; he brings her and M. to their parents in the form of a bird, restores sight to the blind khan, lives with his wife]: Tursunov 1983:217-224; karakalpaks [bai has three wives, each wife has a daughter; one day he was about to go somewhere, but a serpent wrapped around the stirrup; bai hit the snake with a kamcha, but he only wrapped around the knee of the bay; then around the neck; bai consistently offers the snake to each of the three wives, starting with the eldest, then each of the daughters; the snake let go of the bay after promising to give him his youngest daughter; will return in a month; the youngest daughter listened to her father; asked her aunt to sew her a hedgehog fur coat; put on and waited for a snake; snakes to the girl: Hedgehog, hedgehog, hedgehog! Throw off your hedgehog coat! Girl: Serpent-Snake-Snake, Snake! Throw off your snake coat! The serpent threw off his snakeskin and turned out to be a beautiful horseman; the girl threw off her hedgehog coat and turned out to be beautiful; bai gave young people six species of cattle and a festive white yurt; her husband tells him to hide his snake skin: if someone throws it into the fire, they will have to part; one day one of Bai's wives was visiting, noticed skin under the bed and threw it into the fire; the husband came back, turned into a bird and flew away; the girl followed, came to some yard; there was a woman: if you don't leave, my husband and brother-in-law will eat you; the girl told me everything, the woman hid her in the chest; the devas came: it smells like human; woman convinced them that this was not the case; when the devas left, the girl moved on; an old woman met; said that there was a bird at the top of the tree, she sleeps during the day, and cries at night: "Oh, my cattle, six species! Oh, my white holiday yurt! Oh, my beautiful wife!" The girl followed the tree and grabbed the bird by the tail. The couple reunited, achieved their goals and desires]: Aimbetov 2014a: 22-23; Kyrgyz [poor old man and old woman; an old man trapped a badger; asks not to kill: he will become a son, he will talk about them take care; the badger drags partridges to the elderly, the old people eat up, raise cattle; the badger offers to move to the village; easily drives away dogs; the khan tells them to come with the badger; the khan has a daughter Iperi; the badger addresses her by name; a year later, the badger begins to wither away, says that he is in love, asks A. to marry; the khan ordered the old man to break his arms and legs, tie him to a mare and sent home; the badger tells the old woman does not worry: the old man is safe again; next time the old man is broken in half; the old man is alive again; the old man was killed, burned, the badger revived him from a handful of ashes; Khan is advised to give the old man the impossible task; let him plant a Munaru tree and a plane tree before, and a lake of milk and a lake of butter at the roots, let the fish jump from one lake to another; let there be only sheep in one trough, yaks in the other , the third has horses, the fourth has camels, and even if their number is innumerable; let there be a golden throne between the two trees, so that the khan can sit on it and admire the fish; at night the badger asks the old man to slaughter and cut the mare, the ears have turned into two trees, the eyes into lakes of butter and milk; the hair cut from the mare's mane turns into fish, the skull into the golden throne, the blood and the contents of the intestines and stomach into cattle four species, legs in 4 golden horseback riding; in the morning the mare stands in its place safe and sound; the khan gave his wife to the badger; her good aunt cheers A., the angry one mocks her; at night the badger takes off from his own skin, turns out to be a young man of unearthly beauty; the good aunt rejoices; in the morning the badger puts her skin back on, tells his wife to wait; but the trouble that the evil aunt will bring will have to endure 6 years; the next evening an angry aunt serves, throws her skin into the fire; the young man turns into a bird and flies away through the upper opening of the yurt; the evil aunt is tied to the tails of 40 horses; A. goes to look for her husband ; khan gives her iron boots and an iron stick; she wanders for 5 years, meets a tall white-bearded old man in her sixth year; he advises going to a hut at the foot of the mountain; an old witch in the hut; it is necessary ask to accept her as a daughter; the old man will turn around in the wind, shake the hut until morning; in the morning the witch will get tired and lie down with his head on A.'s lap; let A. tear the witch out by a thread until her the eyes will roll and turn white, but they should not turn red; the old man hands A. the hair, tells them to run it through the witch's body when her eyes turn white, she will twist and freeze; after that A. must run; later for months, the old man meets A. again, tells him to go to the hill that looks like a skullcap, there will be the white yurt where A. spent her wedding night; in the yurt there is a golden stand (for birds of prey), A. must dig into the ground under her; her husband will fly in, circle for several days, saying he smells like a human being; saying "where can a person come from here", he will sit on a stand; the old man hands Iperi a net and reports that her husband is the son of Peri, who gave birth to a child at the top of a tree near the Khan's yurt when Khansha gave birth to A.; when she saw that the human child was a beautiful girl, mother Peri spat on her cheek A., putting a mark; his peri husband's name is Aktilek; sitting on a stand, he will begin to say "fell asleep, fell asleep", but this means that he is awake; when he starts saying "woke up, woke up", then he will fall asleep; you have to throw a net and hold it; Aktilek will fly out of the yurt and start wearing A. across the sky; three pigeons will arrive, also peri, talk to A.; the first will say, "Hey, long hair, short mind, are you an equal Peri's son?!" ; the second will begin to feel sorry for A., and the third will offer help to go down to earth; Aktilek will ask A. to open his eyes, but only after the third sentence A. should open them; helping A. go down to earth, pigeons were bruised, which is why some pigeons are not white, but blue; Aiperi and Aktilek have healed happily]: Sabyr uulu 2008:555-572.

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups [the old man is going to shoot hazel grouse, he asks to take him home; after a few years he grew up asking the old man to go to another village, where the king, he has three daughters, to marry him one of them; each time the king cuts the old man into pieces, sends him home, Hazel grouse revives him; the youngest agreed; in the evenings Ryabchik took off his skin, gave it to his wife, became human; went hunting; envious the sisters found it, burned his skin, the husband disappeared; the old woman gives his wife a ball, she walks along the thread to her husband's sister; she teaches him to hide behind the mirror, hold her husband by the finger; the third time she held it, the husband stayed]: Bykonya et al. 1996:139-153 (retelling in Tuchkov 2004:238); Tuchkova 2004 [the elderly have a bull son (Pyka i); the old man has married him twice to the royal doego at least since the Bronze Age. origins; each time the king orders to cut off his head, P. licks his body, revives him, sends him again; the third youngest daughter agrees; P. comes handsome, builds a palace; older sisters out of envy they burned the bull's skin, it disappeared in a whirlwind; the bride visited P.'s three sisters, the youngest helped him find and hold him, sewing him into cow's skin; when seven cow skins burst, he became human again]: 254 -255; Munkácsi 1995:25-26 [Numi-Torem wants to choose a World Overseer out of seven men; Elder Tapel tells his nephew Female Son to stand closer to him; 1) stop seven with a word running horses (Female son stops), others require additional tests; 2) who will be the first to jump to the NT with his hand against his gate; T. advises choosing a plain calf, the Female Son wins ], 28-29 [The garden-with-collar-sable warlord (V.) meets the daughter of Shul'-Otyr (Xul'-ater, master of the lower world), marries her; he sends him an invitation to come play; his wife orders hold the golden check tightly; V. instantly jumps around the sky, wants to kill his father-in-law with an ax, he asks not to do so, recognizes his strength]; the northern Selkups [Natank ("girl") and Tomnanka ("frog" + two diminutive suffixes) live in the same camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices a sledge sticking out from under the tire, his mother's leg; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises his children to eat N.'s children; N. plugs the chimney with a rag (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves, carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or drill; N. buries his brother, pulls a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under him; she steals all N.'s things, but she tells them to return; T. follows skiing from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to the camp, marry two men; T. replaces newborn N. with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her hunt for the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is the son of N.; they recognize each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds a giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N.; N. forgives him , ordering to wash 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (Western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps N.'s son, keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209 Mansi (northern): Kuzakova 1994 (p. Altatumb, Severnaya Sosva) [Mos-ne has a boy and a girl, and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to roll down the mountain, kills M. by riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see guts mothers; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are M.'s children, and M.'s children are hiding; they run, throw a comb (forest), a bar (stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. jumped out from under the stump, one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down for a drink, girl M. became her to drown, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge drawn by black ones, married the mayor (Usyn-Otyr-Oika), M. got into a sledge with white deer, married Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother , found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid the sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it has returned]: 110-112 (=Lukina 1990, No. 128:334-336); Kupriyanova 1960 [Mos-ne and Por - ne live together, both have two children - a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. by riding down the back with iron skis; M.'s children find guts in the grass mothers, run to her sister; P. tells another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, but she kills P.'s children; M.'s children run, throw a comb, whetstone, matches, a thicket, a mountain, a fire; M.'s children sit on the bed, which falls apart, three times appear; one made friends with them, goes on with them; the boy pricked his finger with an awl, died; P. sat in a sledge with the whites (this is the Ushing-Oyr-oiki sledge), and M. - with black deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), come to town; M. finds a brother, he is married; his sister gets a wagon train of deer, leaves with her brother, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the hare tells the girl that the sun will appear again; grandfather tells P. to let go of the sun, it is light again]: 109-112; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Lyapin River, Khoshlog village, written by the author from his mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each has a daughter and son; P. calls to collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses it with her iron skis; daughter M. looks in, sees P.'s children asking them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of children M.; daughter M. puts her brother in the back, runs, throws a crest (thicket) behind, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone (mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; M.'s daughter eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to her brother, who is in this time falls into the ground; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, takes her clothes, gives her measles; daughter M. asks to return her bag, his clothes are better than before; Toyton-Toika's son and Usyn-Otyr-Toika's son shoot at the arrow, P.'s daughter mistakenly grabs TT's arrow, marries him, daughter M. marries WOT's son; M.'s daughter goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; a woman tells the dogs to lick the ice and snow from their man; M.'s daughter sees her brother, he married Misna; when she tried to pick him out of the ground, she poked him in the eye, now one eye is gone; daughter M. they gave a wagon train of deer; she arrives where her daughter P. left; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, and white deer; daughter P. says that she was given a bast rope, half of the clay pot, the magpie, the crucian carp was harnessed, the clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to make an ice-hole, otherwise the magpie, the crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; on half you can't go far from the pot; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing sound, his grandfather's grandfather with a knock; the father of daughter M.'s husband is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove from the sun, the moon; daughter M. takes off, attaches it to the sledge, it becomes dark, the father-in-law cannot go to war; says he joked, daughter M. returns the stars to the sky]: 289-301; northern Khanty (b. Son): Baulo et al. 2005, No. 1 [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. to roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw firestone (fire to the sky), comb (forest), sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister has time to grab only his eye; touches rotten a birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries the son of Voshan-Kurtan, the old man, the young M. for the son of Tonton, an old man; daughters-in-law go home; where his brother is gone, M. sees a house, there is a woman; brother comes, M. gives him his eye; sending his sister home, brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer are gone, the others follow her; argish P. is not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, says; the nail is removed, man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239; Lukina 1990, No. 28 [Lisa and Zaychikha live together, both have children; Lisa offers sledding down the mountain, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Zaychikha's son and daughter see how the Fox feeds meat to their mother's children, offers to eat Bunnies's children; they run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; a fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberries, the brother falls into the ground; (hereinafter referred to as the Moss woman); hits the stump, from there the Por woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on the rich M.'s fur clothes, gives M. his measles; in the city of M. manages to pick up the arrow of the son of the Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton's old man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, a servant, or cunning); they marry accordingly; P. weaves a rope that was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is a brother; sends a herd of deer to his sister]: 101-104; Potpot 2014, No. 5 (p. Kazim, 2011) [sister and brother are hare children, they live alone; brother has fallen underground; sister goes and meets Purne; she says that her parents and relatives have been destroyed by a thunderstorm; they are going together; P.: two will come out now men; you run to Ler-Shansh-Yuvlup-ho and I'm to Woo-shansh-Yuvlup-ho; but Zaychiza ran up to V.; both gave birth to a son; P. drank from her brain and made a wooden scarecrow; when her husband wanted to kiss the child, his her lips stuck; the hare sewed her husband's clothes, and P. glued it together; both rolled down the mountain, P.'s husband's clothes fell apart; the hare came to the place where she left her brother; there the dogs growl; a woman's voice: if he came necessary person, lick the snow and ice off him; this is his brother's wife; the guest is treated richly; sent back in a sledge drawn by a bear, a wolf and some other animal; and P.'s relatives harnessed her fish into sledges , they dragged her into the ice-hole]: 11-14; the Khanty (the recording place is not specified) [{the episode of the competition between two daughters-in-law is not in this text, but given Lukina's version and other West Siberian texts, this is most likely an accidental defect}; when he goes hunting, the brother tells Sister Machenkat to feed whoever comes - a chipmunk, a magpie; a bear comes, M. throws hot ash at her; she runs away along the way on which the brother left; M. goes to look for his brother, the trail becomes bear; finds a sledge, but no brother; M. broke the fire stump, the Frog jumped out, is angry that her house has been broken; they began to live together; Frog tries to cook rotten things; offers to change clothes and skis; on smooth skis Frogs are difficult to walk; change back; come to town, Frog says her fiance will be with gold garters, groom M. - with belts; Colket takes M., Kana takes the Frog who becomes a girl; M. and her husband go to look for a brother; there are two cubs on the cedar, then turn into boys; one says he will give chips to his aunt, the other is like an uncle; brother's wife Bear takes off her bear skin, becomes beautiful; her cheek is burned, she forgives M.]: Koptelov 1956:175-180; (cf. Eastern Khanty (b. Pim) [the only son is already 18 years old, he still sleeps in a cradle; wakes up, tells his father to marry the king's youngest daughter; 1) the king asks to build a palace painted with birds and animals, sparks fly when you enter; orders to cut the petitioner in half; when brought in, the son makes his father whole; turns into a handsome man, turns to his seven older star brothers, who create a palace overnight; 2) the king cuts the old man into three parts, tells him to build a bathhouse; the same; 3) cuts into small pieces, orders to make a river of hot water; the king sends a daughter, at night the snotty baby becomes handsome; the king visits the eldest, the middle daughter, who sleep with their backs to her husband; finds the youngest with a handsome man; he says that the secret has been revealed too early, he will have to leave; the wife has worn out three iron staffs, comes to the hut, the birds of prey Ekar and the hawk lets her in; the old woman's husband says that a man has appeared overseas, a Chinese woman gives him wine, does not let him go anywhere; the old man gives a needle, a woman swims across the sea on it; she smears coal, in appearance the dirty girl asks the old man and the old woman to take her to them; the old woman carries buns to the palace, the woman puts a note in the loaf, the king finds it; the woman spends three nights at her husband's bedside, finally he is hers finds out; they return, the tsar gives his son-in-law the kingdom]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 113:125-132); Eastern Khanty (b. Pim) [the only son is already 18 years old, he still sleeps in a cradle; wakes up, tells his father to marry the king's youngest daughter; 1) the king asks to build a palace painted with birds and animals, sparks fly when you enter; orders to cut the petitioner in half; when brought in, the son makes his father whole; turns into a handsome man, turns to his seven older star brothers, who make a palace overnight; 2) the king cuts the old man into three parts, orders to build a bathhouse; same; 3) cuts into small pieces, orders to create a river of hot water; the king sends a daughter, at night a snotty baby becomes handsome; the king visits the eldest, middle daughter, they sleep with his back to her husband; finds the youngest with a handsome man; he says that the secret has been discovered too early, he will have to leave; the wife has worn out three iron staffs, comes to the hut, the birds of prey Ekar and the hawk let her through; the old woman's husband says that a man has appeared overseas, a Chinese woman gives him wine, does not let him go anywhere; the old man gives a needle, a woman swims across the sea on it; smears coal, asks in the guise of a dirty girl the old man and the old woman take her to them; the old woman carries her buns to the palace, the woman puts a note in her loaf, the king finds it; the woman spends three nights at her husband's bedside, he finally recognizes her; they come back, the tsar gives his son-in-law the kingdom]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 113:125-132; the southern Khanty [three brothers return home - the fire is out, the food is not ready; they throw her sister into the forest; she comes to the golden palace on an iron chain; a goose arrives there, takes off its skin, becomes handsome; flying away, allows his wife to let her older, middle brother in, and not let her younger brother in; she let him in; he cut off the one who arrived her husband's legs; the wife took a staff of three arshins, boots with heels three inches tall, went in search; the old woman gives a ball to follow, three hairs and rubbish from her husband's feet; the wife sprinkles earth on the sea from birch bark box, it freezes, she comes to the golden palace; when she touched the wall with three hairs, a passage opened; three girls took her to her husband, for which they pulled her vein out of her leg; in the image the lousy devil lives with old people; her husband is close to death; she cooked the fat, he has recovered; brought the daughter of the Sun; the wife hides behind the stove, tells me to remember the sister of three husbands; the husband breaks the ring, the new wife dies; same with his wife of the month; wife shows up, stays with her husband]: Patkanov 1999, No. 2:324-327; Nenets: Golovnev 2004 (Gydan, West 1979) [Parne and Nenei-ne (Real Woman) they go to tear the grass on the insoles; P. scratched N.'s face, makes him drink water, sticks her head into the lake and kills; N.'s daughter sees her mother's earrings in the grass; calms her younger brother, but hears P. Wenwasota (Dog-ass) scream, Give us kidneys; P. promises them the meat of their peers tomorrow; N.'s children left their mother's gold-filled kitties on their bed instead of themselves, ran away; the girl throws the board for cutting skins, a wooden mountain grows; an iron scraper is an iron mountain; a flint is an iron ridge; children ask an old woman to transport them across the river, praise her face and posture, she tells her son their transport; P. scolds the old woman's appearance, the old woman's son overturns the boat, P. sinks; the old woman sends the children out of her house by boat, tells them not to look back; the boy looks around, the branches tear him in half; half of the brother does not tell her sister to leave her under the boat, by the birch tree, in the willow tree, near the larch trees, each time explains that people will come, it will be noisy; agrees to be left on a sandy hill; the girl's leg fails, she sees seven Parnay girls below, runs, one catches up with her, scratches her face; they see two men, P. sits down with the owner of the white deer, the girl black; after a while, both girls must go home for gifts for her husbands; P. goes to a hole in the ground, returns from the land of Seven Parnay with a herd of mice; the girl finds a revived brother, who gives her new clothes and argish; P.'s husband is furious with her mice, the girl's husband is happy with the gifts; P. is thrown into the fire, mosquitoes appear from the ashes]: 248-251 (retelling in Golovnev 1995:475-477); Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51 (written by a woman in Obdorsk/Salekhard) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); the youngest of the seven brothers asks his sister to sew a quiver; the quiver is ready, the young man says it will suit his oldest brother; this is how the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; leaving for seven days of hunting, the brothers do not tell her sister to leave the house; on the seventh day, the sister goes out and sees the tracks of the brothers who have become animals diverging in seven directions: a lion, a wolverine, a wolverine, a wolf, a polar bear, an ermine, a sable, a brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears introduce her; a woman tells the girl that her younger brother is angry, hides her; in the morning she tells her to follow the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks up a hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee emerges from it; takes her clothes, scratches her face; the girl dresses in even more beautiful clothes from a bag given by her bear brother's wife ; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white, a girl with black deer, husbands their siblings, comes to their father; he sends them to their relatives; a witch falls into a hole; a girl comes to his bear brother; he takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges drawn by mammoths; his sister's husband must kiss the mammoths; on the way back, the witch catches up with the girl, with mice drawn into her sledge; goods brought on mammoths filled the house; mice bit the hands of the witch's husband, the old people handed them over; the girl gives birth to a son, the witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts the girl, hides her son under the chips behind the plague; seals the girl's eyes with glue; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch pulls her out, throws her into the lake, saying, Water is your father, water is your mother; at the request of the witch, they left the blind, they migrated themselves; husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; a half-dog brings game to his mother; admits that it is not him who kills her, but a boy coming out of the lake; together they grab a water boy; at the mother's request, he goes down a half-dog into the ice-hole to the owner of the water instead of himself; washes his mother's eyes; she knocks iron ropes off the sledge, deer appear from there; the young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he admits son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: 147-165; (cf. Nenyang 1997:61-64 (Taimyr, West. Labanauskas; =Nenyang 1994:63-66) [seven brothers have an older sister; the youngest asks to sew a quiver, is happy, tells them not to go out for seven days while the brothers are hunting; on the seventh day, the sister follows the brothers' footsteps until birch trees; her footprints of seven animals, the youngest left as a bear; she follows his footsteps to the den; the Bear's wife says that she is to blame, leaving the day before the deadline, tells her to leave, walk along the lowland; sister walks along the lowland hills, sits on a stump, from there a witch in clothes jumps out of the bark, makes him change clothes; takes a man with white deer, a girl takes what is dark; gives birth to a boy, a witch hides he is replaced by chips, replaced by a half-dog, seals the woman's eyes; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch throws her into the lake, says that the water is his father, the water is his mother; tells him to migrate; the woman raises a half-dog, a real child lives in the water; A half-dog grabs a child who has come out of the water, calls a woman to help; ice floes crawl into the plague; a boy out of the water advises giving the owner of the lake instead of himself A half-dog; they drown him, a woman and her son live well], 30-34 (Taimyr Nenets; the author heard from her mother) [the nenka has a good plague, the savage has a straw plague next to him; the savage calls the nenka to tear straw for the bed; in the evening she returns alone, Nenka's daughter sees her mother's head in an armful of straw; fills the bakary with ash, leaves it so that they can be seen from under the canopy, ties a bird to them, runs away; the savage opens the canopy, the bird rushes around, the savage's eyes are covered with ash; the fleeing girl throws her mother's scraper (an iron mountain, a savage climbs it), a cutting board (wide ladder, the savage crosses), a comb (forest); a girl asks the old beaver to transport her across the river, tells the beaver that her face and parka are beautiful; the savage says that the old beaver's face is crooked, her belt is poorly tied, she advises her husband to push the savage out boats, the current takes her away; the girl grows up, the savage meets her, makes her change clothes; husbands a man with white deer decorated with chorea, the girl leaves his older brother with dark deer, unadorned; brothers bring brides; a girl gives birth to a son, a savage is cut out by a little man; the brothers' father asks the savage to hand him a knife through the fire, pushes him into the fire; her ashes turns into mosquitoes]); Ents [a witch and a woman live in the same plague, the woman has two girls; the witch calls to go to tear the grass, suggests looking in her head; pierces an awl into the woman's ear, she dies; she dies carries it wrapped in grass, cooks it, eats it; the eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; the girls leave their glasses in bed, the eldest takes a thimble, a comb, a scraper; they run away, an abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into a forest, a thimble into an iron hill; the eldest tells the old man that his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back is straight like the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; a witch says that his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back is like stone and clay; he throws the witch into the river, she drowned; sending the girls, the old man tells him not to take anything the end of the island; the youngest asks for a toy, grabs a spike, her eye leaked out, she died; tells her not to leave it on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, from a witch appears; they go together; a witch sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl with black deer; the brothers' father asks daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to in the den, from there two bear cubs and a living little sister come out again; the bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears after kissing them; the witch brings mice, this is hers deer, an old man kills them with a kick; an Aenets woman gives birth to a bright boy, a witch a witch; makes an Enets woman leave in an abandoned camp, gives her a witch; takes the boy, throws it into the water; the witch has grown up to help the woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that his hand sticks out of the water; the woman comes up, the boy asks to catch him, calls him mother; the plague floods the water, it is the water father who comes for the boy; the Aenets woman gives him a witch, the water goes away; the father comes for his wife and son; the brothers' father makes a fire, asks the witch to give the bell through the fire, pushes into the fire; its ashes turn into mosquitoes]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 13:82-88; nganasana [a cannibal and a woman have two daughters; a cannibal leads a woman for a talnik, asks her to bend over the water, cuts off her head; at home, the daughter of the victim hears the cannibal promising her daughters that she will eat the adult brain herself and they will eat the child's brain; the girls leave for themselves blankets full of brushwood run away, throw their mother's jewelry, creating a mountain, a lake behind them; they run to the river; the old man asks what their mother said about him; they reply that she praised his face and back; he carries them in a boat; the cannibal replies that he is as long as a stick, his back is like an ax; he pushes her out of the boat, she sinks; the sisters spend the night in the old man's plague, there is no way out in the morning; the youngest comes out with a needle through the slit, the eldest gets stuck, the youngest tears off her head; the braids turn into legs; The head does not want to stay in the fox hole, the wolf, remains in the bear hole, warns not to lean on the stump; the youngest went, leaned, a cannibal jumped out of the stump; they go, disperse, the girl visits her older sister, she has two cubs; the youngest is riding a sledge, the cannibal tells her to change, her sledges are drawn by mice, ropes - worms; change backwards; dogs bit mice, the old man pushed the cannibal into the fire; her ash became mosquitoes, beetles, worms, bees]: Porotova 1980:13-19; chum salmon (Kureika) [Hung with Sausage in autumn they went to cut hay, K. began to look for lice in H.'s head, put a sharp bone in her ear, brought them home, covered with hay; the children noticed their mother's braids; they hear K.'s children say that they will eat their eyes tomorrow ; K.: small eyes, and I'm big; the younger brother closed the smoke hole in a leaky park so that K. thought it was still a starry night; the children told all objects to answer that they had gone into Tagan's butt, and themselves ran to her grandmother; K. woke up, asked the ladle, the frame from the hearth where the children were; they answer that they were well fed, they did not speak; Kleinitsa says that they had gone into the butt of the tagana {there is a contradiction in the text; that's what children and told objects to speak}; K. set off in pursuit; hare, fox, wolf, bear carry children on their backs, tired; sisters left shaky with their younger brother in the bear's den; reached the river; pole on their grandmother's order transported them across the river, and K. turned them upside down 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; together with 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. 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. took, quickly caught up with her and took her skis; they met the old man's son Yryket and the old woman's son; they asked for an awl to fix the ski; K. passed Shilo H. off as her own, and went on a sledge, and H. went on foot; K. began to live with the old man's son Yryket, and H. with her son old woman; the old woman asked H. to sew a ski reed skin for her son, who went to her brother for glue, glued together strong skis, and the old woman's son hunted a lot of deer, and K. took glue from her larch uncles; they gave her sulfur, and she made bad skis; they fell apart while hunting, the old prince's son Yryket could not get anything; H. went to her brother, who asked her husband to put larch near his house; her 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; H. came out of the plague, She began to scrape the bed with a deer, K. did the same, thunder rose and killed K., and to H.'s brother came down from the larch, began to live together]: Dulzon 1964:114-125 (=Kryukova 2013:202-213).

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Ilimpic, village. Murukta) [western 1940; fish are not caught, the old man sees an otter (Dukun), wants to kill, he asks to take him as his son; find him a wife; the eldest, middle daughter of another person refuses, the youngest agrees; in the plague D. turns into a shining young man, the wife hides the skin of an otter under a pile of chips; the sisters are forced to say where the skin is burned; they see D. in the fire; when he disappears, he gives his wife half an arrow; she points to her the road; a deer carries her across the river, she sews a tail on it; a goose transports him across another river, she gives him red shoes, embroiders patterns on her wings and neck; a woman transports him across a third river; everything is there women try to wake up a young man who wakes him up, marries him; this is D., his wife wakes him up; D. and his wife stay by the river]: Yermakov 1988:57-62; Sym Evenks (Chirombu): Vasilevich 1936, No. 21 [ The bear came to the two bunny sisters, who poured sand into his eyes with their legs; a grandmother named Kandika came, grabbed the Bear, told him to bring a table, and lowered the Bear on it, returned home; the bunny sisters decided to leave; K. tells them to walk along an ung-shaped, not kel-shaped road; at the fork they began to fight, the youngest won, so they went along the kule-shaped road, she closed with all sides; the eldest became a needle, slipped through, the youngest bump, got stuck; the eldest pulled it, tore her head off; put it on a stump, rock, deck, her head cries every time; left it on the other rock; came to the Frog; after living, she went to stay with her relatives; boasted to the Frog that she had a steel thimble; reached the place where her younger sister's head remained, she married God; there deer rattle through holes snags; the eldest asked to call, rang behind the clouds; the eldest took away the big deer she had received from her sister as a gift; the frog brought insects, the deer carried them away on their hooves; the storm demolished the Frog's house, she dived into the lake], 22 [Wolverine ate the mother of two hare girls; they poured earth into her eyes, ran to the old woman; all her things move and work at her will; they hid in the cauldron, the cauldron is not goes; the old woman beats him, the sisters laugh; the old woman calls them to live with her; when they want to leave, the old woman tells them to walk on the hoofed, not to walk on the kule-shaped; the older sister remembers that she is kule-shaped; they they fight, the eldest won, they walk along the kule-shaped; the hut surrounds them in the dark; the eldest has become a fur, a needle, slips into the gap; the youngest is a bump, gets stuck; the eldest pulls her off, tears her off head; left it on the deck, her head cries; left it on a tree broken by lightning - laughing; the eldest went beyond Thunder, her children are just like her - only heads; the youngest came to the Frog; she brings deer - these are insects, they are carried away by the wind; The frog began to live in water]: 22-23, 23-24); Baikal Evenks (Baikal region): Titov 1936, No. 9 and 10 (p. Karama) [(No. 9:179-180); two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her good husband, if her husband took him, he would become a good woman for him; girls agreed to say out loud that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; they ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw her handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran away for the boat, swam across); the comb is the thicket (the monster behind the sword, cut through); the bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her ass was stuck; the youngest began to pull, but the monster ate ass, the youngest returned home alone; (hereinafter No. 10:180-181, from another informant); the youngest dragged the eldest, left; she cries; dragged again, left, she laughs; went alone, the frill untied, she she stood on a stick to tie her foot, the Frog jumped out, told her to go to her yurt, fed her, hid it; ordered her to sew a pullover (?) for his husband; the husband was surprised, she never sewed; the next day the Frog tells me to sew a pouch; the husband hid, found the girl, began to live with her; told the frog to pour blood into the skin, wrap himself; that first it was warm, but at night she froze to death; they killed frog deer; the younger sister went to where she left her elder; there was a hut, where her sister was backless, gave the youngest a lot of deer, she brought them to her husband]: 179-181 ; Central Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.5 (Lake. Churapcha, Churapchinsky Ulus) [the old man and the old woman have two daughters, he catches four hares each; decides to leave his daughters in the forest so that they and the old woman can get two hares each; took his daughters to pick berries, left his own clothes on a stump; but caught only two birds with one stone; the older sister was half abaasa herself; they find an iron yurt with an iron cradle; the youngest spies on the child pulling fish out of his penis, cooks; returns to the cradle; does not tell the younger sister to eat fish, she eats; the old woman tells her to go from the fork to the east; the older sister goes west, the younger sister does not want to throw it; there are no holes in the iron yurt; the eldest makes them as small as sawdust from a needle, they end up in a yurt; inside the abaasa woman does not bring fish, but leeches; the younger sister casts the same spell and ends up outside; the elder sticks her head; the abaas eats her body, the youngest carries her sister's head, throws it under the larch; sees an island on the lake, there is a beautiful one, this is the older sister's abaas essence (the informant does not remember further)], II .1 (Bayagantai ulus) [two orphans went to pick berries; the eldest found a black stone, the youngest white stone (var: the youngest wants to take white, the eldest suggests taking black; only one stone, shaped like man); girls began to live in a hunting lodge, put a stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into a child; when they return, they find baked fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; a child tells objects to move themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes fish out of her mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest puts it quietly in her bosom; the sisters cover the child runs away in a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaas cross, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; the sisters come to the abaasa with one hand and one with her foot; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in the closet; the youngest becomes the size of a needle sawdust, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, her sister pulls, tears off his head, carries it with him; hangs it on larch, his head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a tree broken by lightning, his head calms down; a frog lives in a silver yurt, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband comes, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds a girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; a girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, yurt, cattle; sister married Thunder's son; hides the youngest; Thunder's son finds her, gives her cattle; presses on the way home frog worms, leeches and frogs; the husband tells his wives to lie on the roof; the frog put a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 456-458, 459-465.

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [the older sister tells the father that the youngest has a man; he drives her daughter away; the old woman warns her not to tie her boots if they untie; she violates the ban; Frog invites her to her house, takes her jewelry and clothes, gives her her frog clothes; the girl turns into a stick; Vayamilan marries the Frog, Tybdemalan sits on the girl's bunk, scolds a stick with a knife, blood flows; returns for a knife, the stick turns into a girl, he takes her as his wife; his father-in-law asks his daughters-in-law to bring him treats, dowry clothes, bring relatives; Frog cooks frog caviar, brings leaves, frogs; a girl goes to larch, bags of delicious food rich in clothes fall from the top to her; two handsome men descend from the sky - they are her relatives; take away the Frog's clothes and jewelry; The Frog and her husband are strangled]: Cincius 1982, No. 25:135-139; Nanais [the seven Mergen Brothers have a younger sister Pudin; the brothers say that packs will now arrive cannibal squirrels, hide P. in a hole near the hearth, lubricate all household items with the interior fat of a wild animal, forgot a torn fishskin sneaker; put a bag of beast blood on the sisters's chest; firing arrows one in the tail is different, they make a chain of arrows, go up to the sky; the sneaker gives out to the 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 sledges, leaves; the sledge turned the bump, the Frog came out from under it, P. asked to spend the night; complains that the frogs were interfering, the Frog replies that they were her relatives; two Mergens come, P. did not have time to put on her robe, turned into a red branch; the elder M. sat on the Frog's can, the youngest took a red branch, began to cut, blood flowed; the eldest took the Frog away, she put on P.'s robe; P. remained to tie the wound; younger M. forgot the knife, came back, married P., they catch up with the Frog and the elder M., P. takes away his robe, gives it to her from fish skin; before that, the Frog asks hazel, reddened, bird cherry, everyone answers that she is ugly in any robe; the Frog replies that he will make them kindling, toys for children, cleaning chips; Mergen's parents cover the floor with silk, the Frog walks on it, P. turns so as not to get dirty; father-in-law wants to warm up, 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. - porridge with oil that the brothers threw off; father-in-law wants to see relatives of daughters-in-law, Frog brings frogs, brothers to P., give silk and fur clothes, return to heaven; Frog swallows spoons, ladles To simulate a pregnancy, she is chased away, she jumps into the lake; P. gives birth to an heir son]: Hodger 2011:67-77; the Nanais [Fuding is surprised that her 6 older sisters are swimming in the cauldron; they respond that they will go looking for grooms, they force F. to go; they come to the house of seven bald men; they cut off their heads, throw them into a cauldron; F. turns into a needle; they sifted ash, the needle became F. then a wasp, flew away, then with a duck; the youngest bald man is also chasing a wasp, a duck; F. rushed into the river, turned into a hundred chebaks; the pursuer does not know which fish to chase; F. came to Mergen's house, he takes her as his wife; when the bald ones come, he turns them into a flea; the bald ones promise to come again; M. sends F. to the house where his 40 wives - let them tie themselves with a rope, sit quietly; the roar of battle is heard; the younger bald man tears the ropes , enters the house; when he is ready to grab F., a bear (the same M.) enters the house, wins three days later, but is badly injured, promises to return in 3 or 7 years; only the youngest F. and the elder wife decide to wait for M. the eldest goes to look for him, after 7 years F. is going to hang himself, at which time M. appears; but immediately leaves - he has a new wife who has cured him; F. turns into a duck, stops at a shaman tree, hears the conversation between the other two; M. at the sea mistress, becomes overgrown, in 3 days he will completely grow up, begin to destroy people; F. arrives with a wasp, washes off the hair with his tears; M. revives the older sisters F. , takes them all as wives]: Chadaeva 1990:68-73; 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, sister (at the end she is named Bolige) hid them in the ground under a fire, began to shoot arrows into the sky, they pierced each other's tail, E. climbed them 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.; squirrels pricked the fire with a spear, but E. poured blood in advance; when they saw blood on their spear, the squirrels thought 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 fish in order one at a time; (apparently G. did); came to his mother; she tells him to make a shovel out of birch bark for seven legs so that she could come home and bring birch bark; he made, 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. away; the frog invited B. to under her bump; drove a lizard, a snake, and more frogs from there; 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; younger began to slaughter it, bleed; the elder took the Frog and all his property; the youngest said that he had forgotten the knife, returned, B. was naked there; he repaired her frog clothes; they caught up with her older brother and the Frog; B. took it away The Frog has her own clothes; the brothers' father asks the Frog to 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 chumiz, did not tell her where she got it; they gave porridge to the Frog, the porridge was hot; the father-in-law told B. to bring firewood, again the brothers gave it; 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. became live well, the Frog was driven 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, placing a bag of blood on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce each other's tail, forming a chain; the brothers climb into the sky, the youngest is the last, picking up arrows; old boots give squirrels like brothers left, where their sister is hidden; squirrels pierce the wineskin, think they have killed the girl, leave; the sister goes looking for brothers, comes to the Frog; she takes away her clothes, puts it on; the girl hides inside a stick; two brothers come, the eldest sits next to the Frog, the youngest by the stick, scolds her with a knife, blood comes out on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for a knife, finds a naked girl, who does not have time to hide in the stick again, tells her story; in his older brother's house, the Frog shows his brothers' father-in-law - these are frogs; he drives her 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 Sanghi 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, themselves go to heaven; smear various objects with bacon, forgot to smear their flip-flops; they told the squirrels where the girl was; squirrels hit the hearth with spears, see blood on their spears that the brothers had sprayed there in advance; they left; Bele harnessed her sledges, they caught on a marsh hummock; there Emende, her relatives were frogs; began to live together; two brothers came, b. became an angelica; the older brother married E. put on a silk robe b., left her fishskin clothes; 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 father-in-law), cooks sand, brings frogs; brothers B. cook ash firewood for her, give millet to cook porridge, come to her; they say that married seven stars, fly back to heaven], 107 [(Arsenyev's manuscript); hunter Egda broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; he hid his sister under the hearth, pouring blood on top, everything He smeared the tree in the house with oil, began to shoot arrows into the sky, which pierced one another, rose to heaven; when he saw the blood, the squirrels thought they had stabbed his sister; she came to Gilenyt, he wanted to marry her, she drove off on the ice with a shovel; the frog invited her to 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 her her jewelry and clothes, take his own; The frog tramples on his father-in-law's expensive bed, the girl folds it; The frog cooks sand, brings crackling firewood, brings a lizard, a snake, a frog are their relatives; seven brothers give their sister a chumiz, cut good firewood, show themselves to their father-in-law; the frog is expelled to the swamp]: 227-235, 474-476; the Udege [the old man finds in On top of the snake, he and the old woman adopt him; the youngest sister agrees to marry a snake; at night, the wife sees a handsome man shining, hides snakeskin; older sisters come to tickle her, wanting to know where the skin is; the husband lets me say, they throw their skin into the fire, the husband flies to heaven; before that, he gives his wife half a whetstone; the boy, the husband's younger brother, comes to her; the crows in the shed eat meat, left by the older brother; the youngest cuts off his thigh, gives it to the woman, she fries, eats; finds the boy dead in the morning; red deer, duck transport her across rivers; she finds her sleeping husband, applies half a whetstone to his half, they grow together, the husband wakes up and lives with her]: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 24:187-197; Wilta [parents are dead, brother and sister are left alone; sister went to look for a husband; sat in a pelvis, covered herself with another, sailed along the river to the Voronov house; there everyone shouted that he was marrying her; she swam on; by the sea, the Seal offers to marry; she swims again, goes beyond the nivha; brother finds her; since then, nivhi and wilt relatives]: Bereznitsky 2003, No. 13:442-443; Wilta [girl picks berries, sits on a bump; Frog jumps out, asks the girl to come to her, picks her up, picks her up clothes and jewelry, gives her dilapidated fishskin clothes; two brothers arrive, one marries a Frog, the other shakes the girl's wand; blood comes out on her; he comes back behind a forgotten knife, finds a girl; father-in-law asks daughters-in-law to bring firewood, berries, and relatives; The frog brings raw firewood, dried berries, frogs and lizards; the girl brings dry firewood, fresh berries, her seven brothers fall from the sky; the Frog swallows the girl's dishes; the Frog's husband cuts her stomach, the dishes fall out of there]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:373-376; Wilta [Old Man: "Over ours Take the girls to the forest to get lost. When we're alone, we'll catch three trouts, we'll leave one to eat tomorrow, we'll catch two, and we'll eat them all. And this is how children eat half. The father took his two daughters to pick berries. He put his hat and jacket on the stump and left. The sisters came to the broken house, a small child was sleeping in the cradle, they rocked it, and stayed overnight. Fresh fish at the doorstep in the morning. We decided to watch secretly. The child got up, went to the doorstep and began to take the fish out of the anus. The girls ran away, and the child turned into a healthy old man, chased them. On the other side of the river, grandmother and girls ask to stretch their legs. They ran over her legs like a bridge. Old lady: "You go faster, my little sister lives there. You'll go into the house." On the shore where the grandmother was sitting, the old child also asks to stretch his legs. She pulled it out, he began to cross, and when he came to the middle, the birds flew in and began to peck at the old woman's knees. The man fell into the water and said: Old lady, you can make a boat out of my back, an oar out of my hands, a pot from my head, a stern paddle out of my legs, and a kettle out of my testicles. I swam downstream. The girls came over. Old woman: "When the sun goes down, you will sit quietly, you will not talk or cough. I'll cover for you. My brothers are coming." Brothers enter the smoke hole: one eye in the middle of the forehead, arms in the middle of the chest, and a large mouth. They say it smells human. The old woman had a hard time convincing her that no one was there. In the morning, he gives the girls wings and tells them to fly high. The younger sister is flying higher and the older sister goes down. Someone grabbed her, pulls her, and the youngest is pulling her towards her. She tore off her top to her lower back, put it on her back and flew to good ground. I left it on a tree broken by thunder. She looked around and her sister was crying, she took her again. Found a tree broken by a bear. I looked around - half of my sister was smiling happy. The youngest flew to the house, the man shot, the wings fell off, the girl fell off. She agreed to marry, the house is rich. My husband went to see what happened to his older sister. There are two bears playing there. One has a front part from a person (like a person), and the back is from a bear. "Whoever has a human head must be his wife's sister." I went into the house and saw a girl at the door without a lower part, one back torn off. And a man sits in the middle of the place of honor. The house is full of wild deer meat and dried fat. "Take dried meat for your little sister," the girl suggests. The youngest's husband refuses gifts to the brothers, but agrees to tell his wife how her sister lives. Younger: I'm the one who tore half off and the devils ate half. Husband: Apparently, the bear connected the back of his sister to hers and she became like a bear. Their backs were bearish and the front parts were human. They saw me and ran to their house. When we entered our house, they became real people. I went to their house, she sat half by the door, and her husband was a young man, a real man. The youngest is afraid to visit the eldest. A few years later, the husband went back to his wife's younger sister. There is no one in the house, the fire is a little burning. The owners have returned - just human beings. My husband went hunting and never came back. His wife remembered him once saying that he would go overseas to look for people who killed his parents. He sailed to the island, put his spear into the seal, which left with his spear. It goes on top of the water, does not fall under water. He sees lots and lots of houses. A bald man came out of one: "What kind of person? Mergen manga or what?" {From this episode, the man's name is Manga}. A person carries a bunch of firewood. The manga lay in the middle of a tree split by thunderstorms. When the man started stepping over it, Manga squeezed him (killed) him. He put on his clothes and pretended to be a lumberjack worker. People: There's a wedding tomorrow. Many people came to marry the girl, all dressed in silk clothes. Healthy, tall. They try to move a stone the size of a deer, they try, they suffer, they can't. Manga's relative recognized him. The manga picked up a rock, threw it to a relative, who caught it and threw it back. He says that since they were little, the rock has grown. Whoever will pick it up is a good person. When the party was over, a relative married a neighbor's daughter and took him away, and Manga sailed in a boat to those who ate his parents and killed everyone. These people scooped water out of the bay, Manga home in shallow water, as if skiing, the proposed girl did not take the proposed girl. But when he got home, there were already two wives there, he began to live with them]: Sam et al. 2012:134-143; nivhi [a man comes to the beautiful woman, cries because he wants to marry her; she tells me to make chest boards she sits in a chest with her goods, swims down the river, aims for fish rides, five raven brothers take it out, their mother tells one to marry her, but the woman hits him with a board; the mother laughs at son, sends to another man, he marries a woman, and crumbles a puppy's giblets to crows; var.: a man (he is a real groom asks the crows what to give them in return for a woman; they choose not silk, but puppy meat]: Ulita 2011:42-44.

Japan. Ainu (Sakhalin): Pilsudsky 1991b, No. 12 [the aunt tells her niece to go to the groom in Otasam; he is the youngest of three brothers, his house is in the center; the girl first enters the house of her older, wealthy brother; in the morning he says that he did not want to offend his brother, asks him to give him a dagger handle braided in gold and silver; the groom stays with the girl for the night in an iron hut; warns that God's sister from the upper the world wants it for herself; in the morning they will be dragged to heaven; the aunt comes, cuts the girl to pieces; her soul rises to the sky like a bird, returns with the groom's soul, both resurrect and live happily ever after]: 81-84; Chiri 1973 [a lonely girl sits in a basket, swims down the river to the top of the Raven; he takes her as his wife; three brothers live side by side, perform a shamanic show to lure Raven and his mother out of the house; they they hang the girl's basket on a tree, the brothers take it out; the furious Raven flies to the sky, covers the sun with his body, his mother covers the moon, it turns dark; the brothers throw the dog, the Raven goes down to eat it, they kill him with arrows, the sun reappears; same with Raven's mother and moon]: 442-444 in Mashiko 2002 (=Mashiko 2009:104); Japanese [39 versions from Tohoku to Kyushu; a stalked girl comes to an old woman in the woods (she is a grateful frog); she gives her magic Ubakawa skin, which she wears turns into an ugly old woman; she is hired to work in a rich house; the young owner accidentally sees her in her true guise; falls ill from love; he feels better when a girl in her true guise comes to bed; she carries out the difficult tasks that are offered to the bride: Break a tree branch without disturbing the bird sitting on it; walk in straw sandals on unspun silk without disturbing it; other daughters-in-law cannot complete similar tasks]: Ikeda 1971, No. 510B : 139-140.

Subarctic. Tanaina [an evil grandmother makes her rich granddaughter go to sea on a floating island; nails her to the other side; two rich men send their ugly slave to find a wife for them; A slave picks up a girl, pretends to be handsome and rich; after finding out who he really is, a woman runs to real suitors; visits her parents with them]: Vaudrin 1969:121-124.

NW Coast. Quakiutl [two frog women went to dig roots; on the other side of the river, different animal men consistently ask to be transferred to them; girls mock some, transport others, copulate with them; 1) Raccoon (rejected), 2) Mink (rejected), 3) Marten (accepted), 4) Wolverine (rejected), 5) Ermine (accepted), 6) Moose (rejected), 7) Porcupine (rejected), 8) Beaver (rejected); Beaver they make the river flow, the girls drown; so there are no frogs in this area]: Boas, Hunt 1902, No. 8:318-321; chickpea [woman scolds her two daughters, they leave home; in the forest two houses side by side ; the youngest enters one, wearing the wooden figure of a woman; a man comes, throws the figure into the fire, marries a girl; her sister enters another house, where Puma and Raccoon, they kill those who come; she succeeds to run, she also marries the first man; both give birth to his child, the youngest to a son, the eldest to a daughter; her father teaches her a song that attracts game; the cougar hears her singing, makes the girl teach him song, kills, breaks heart; father kills Puma, finds his daughter's heart inside him, revives her; both sisters go to their native village, but it is empty; they create trout, let it into the river, come from it all trouts]: Boas 1895, No. 8:112-113 (=2002:265-267; retelling in 1916, No. 17:745-746).

The coast is the Plateau. Chilkotin [two sisters accidentally tear off their little brother's hand; run away from their mother in fear; kick a log, it turns into a man; run on, come to an empty house, hide; comes back The skunk sniffs, says he feels a woman; the sisters laugh, he finds them, marries them; some men take their sisters to the top of the mountain; the Skunk sees their reflection in the water, starts a stream, the mountain collapses, men die; sisters run away from Skunk again, go to heaven to the old woman; she does not tell you to touch the basket, the box; the younger sister touches; rabbits run from under the basket; the earth can be seen through the box; the old woman ties a rope to the basket, lowers her younger sister to the ground first, then her older sister; they return home, sew her brother's hand]: Farrand 1900, No. 12:28-29; shuswap [two sisters sent parents marry the Fishing Marten (Fisher); he lives in the same house as Skunk; contrary to warning, the sisters laugh when Skunk starts a stream; when they return, Marten finds the women in Skunk's bed; they they run away with him, leaving decks instead; hiding at the top of the cliff; seeing their reflection, the Skunk throws a stream into the water; they laugh; the Skunk leaves in embarrassment]: Teit 1909a, No. 61:752-753; lillouette [ Hawk's beloved goes to him; Bald Eagle blocks the river with her penis; lets the girl through after she agrees to call him husband; brings him to herself; she runs away to a friend Golden Eagle Hawk; Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle die fighting each other; Hawk revives their friends]: Teit 1912b, No. 17:318-319; Thompson [two sisters go to their grandmother Mountain Goat; Coyote creates cold weather for girls to enter his house; gives her sperm under the guise of fat; the older sister throws it away, the youngest eats; when breaking up, the Coyote tells him to raise the child, if there is a son, throw it away, if the daughter; repeats the trick, putting the house in the way again and taking on a different look; the younger sister with the boy born stays with Coyote; the eldest comes to the grandmother; she promises her winner on the run; wins herself , keeps at home; Lynx makes a girl pregnant by spitting on her; see motif K18, in Teit 1898]: Teit 1917b, No. 25:11-12; coutenay [Frog sends his granddaughters Chipmunk and Big Chipmunk to marry for the Fishing Marten (Fisher); Skunk lives with him; wears his clothes, says he is a Marten; he comes, sends Skunk, runs with his wives; they hide in a tree; the Skunk kills the Marten with his jet, takes his wives; they put him to sleep, run, turning the house (=hole) into a stone bag; The Skunk cuts himself to pieces, pushes them out through a small hole; the raven takes his bag of corrosive liquid, people playing with a bag; Skunk comes and takes it back]: Boas 1918, No. 68:231-243; Linderman 1997, No. 12 [The frog sends his granddaughters Squirrel and the Chipmunk to marry a good hunter Fishing Marten (Fisher); c Skunk lives there; tells the hammer to beat the bones himself, goes out to get water, comes back, puts on Marten's clothes, pretends to talk to Skunk; The squirrel is incredulous, but still both enter the house; the Skunk hides them; The marten comes back, sends Skunk to bring the deer carcass, giving guts instead of a rope; tells the girls to find all the bones hidden by Skunk; sends cold; the chipmunk leaves one bone; they run away hide in a hollow; Skunk finds bone, warms up, kills Marten and girls with his jet]: 125-134; Dyer, MS in Reichard 1947 [Young Buck tells his sisters Fawn and Deer (Fawn and Deer) Toung Doe) throw the soft parts of the ribs of the hunted animals into the water; they, contrary to the prohibition, take these bones for themselves, the bones turn into dentalium shells; then the Deer takes its people into a hole in the ground, sisters they are left alone; they cross the river on stilts, come to Olyapka's house; the deer swallows the blood that Olyapka gives her; walking after her sister does not fall into her tracks; a deer gives birth; the deer sends her back to Dipper; she punishes Dipper by keeping her under water; the Rabbit who meets the Deer makes sure that she refers to him as "husband", he takes her to his grandmother Frog; she hides her; Lynx unnoticed her becomes pregnant, she gives birth to a child, all three are abandoned; Lynx catches many deer, and those who have left go hungry and return; when people pass the baby to each other, Toad and Owl reach out to him and kidnap him; The deer follows them, picks up the child, escapes in the tree; calls his dog, it's the Grizzly, he bites the Toad and the Owl, eats their dog, which is the mouse; the deer comes home with the baby, gives birth to the Lynx second son; these boys turn into Sun and Month]: 170; Puget Sound: Ballard 1927 [two sisters travel looking for a suitable husband; come to Thunder's house; his slave Raccoon warns do not laugh if Thunder's neighbor Skunk comes, grimacing; the youngest sister laughs; Skunk takes one sister as his wife, lets her stream into the other; the hunting brothers sent Skunk to pick up the dead deer, took the sisters to the mountain; the Skunk saw their reflection in the river; the sisters replied that they had climbed forward with their feet; threw hot stones into Skunk's anus; his ass fell out, swam along the river; the Skunk went with the flow asks the people he met; some answered that they saw his ass, others answered contemptuously; the Skunk came to the people who played him backwards; grabbed his ass, killed people, killed those who answered contemptuously; caught an old man to eat; the old man hears Skunk saying that only a hunter will kill him; the old man whistles like a hunter; the Skunk runs, four types of thorny trees tore him apart]: 63-65; 1929 [girl looking for a groom ; comes to Thunderbird's house, where Skunk also lives; Thunder is not at home; Raccoon slave warns not to laugh if Skunk comes; girl doesn't laugh, marries Martin]: 106; upper chehalis [the chief tells the daughters to follow the right path, it has red paint; the eldest walks on the left, where the feathers are, the youngest returns home; the eldest marries Skunk; his master tells him to bring meat; the woman realizes that her husband is a servant; suffers from the stench; the owner sends Skunk, runs with the woman to heaven; the Skunk sees their reflection, streams into the water; then looks up, asks how they got there; Feet forward; the owner throws hot stones at Skunk's ass, his iron falls out; some people tell him that they saw his goods float down the river; others say his anus; He then kills those who give this answer; people play ball with iron; Skunk comes disguised as an old man, takes possession of the gland again; the bird turns into a skin; the Skunk picks it up; the skin whistles, the Skunk runs into panic, not knowing where the whistle comes from, dies]: Adamson 1934:46-52; Koulitz [like the upper chehalis; an old man sends his daughter to marry Puma; Skunk lives in the same house with him, pretending to be a Puma; The cougar realizes that Skunk hides a woman when he notices her long hair eating; it is not a decree where the fugitives hide (in the sky, rock or tree); after regaining his iron, Skunk kills the Puma, wears his skin; The fox turns into a piece of meat, the Skunk picks it up; the Fox whistles, the Skunk runs, drops the bag; the Fox finds beads in the bag that the Skunk took from the Puma; Wolves kill the Skunk, revive the Puma]: Adamson 1934:198- 200; Okanagon [Skunk and Fisherman Marten (Fisher) live together; grandmother sends two granddaughters named Chipmunk and Tyrannus to climb under Marten's clean, tidy bed, at Skunk's bed is dirty; Skunk came in first, the youngest giggled when he ruined the air, Skunk heard, found the girls in the chest under Marten's bed; says he's the head of the house, hiding them in his chest ; Skunk replies to Kunitsa who comes that he is the chief, Marten is forced, contrary to usual, to cook for himself; everyone puts food in his chest, Marten sees Skunk take out an empty plate; The next day, he sends Skunk to pick up the dead deer, finds the girls, sets fire to the house, flies with them to a rock above the river in a column of smoke; the Skunk sees the reflection, lets his stream into the water, realizes the mistake, He lets him up, gets into Marten's toe, he dies; the sisters pretend to be happy with Skunk; he copulates with them all day, falls asleep; they return to their grandmother, telling the rocks to grow around the Skunk; a small hole remains, the Skunk disassembles himself piece by piece, pushes them, the Raven takes his iron away; the Skunk comes to people playing ball with iron, grabs it, kills people with it]: Hill-Tout 1911:148- 150; kordalen [Skunk and Fisherman Marten (Fisher; KR) live together; hunt deer; Skunk tells him to give him only giblets and meat and fat at the tail; Chief Eagle sends his daughters Chipmunk and The squirrel should go to the Kyrgyz Republic; their mother warns that the Skunk eats garbage and the KR eats good meat; the sisters hide in the house, hear the Skunk approach, blowing the winds every step of the way; the chipmunk giggles, the Squirrel tells in vain keep silent; Skunk heard, hid the girls behind his bed; when the Kyrgyz Republic brings deer, he says as if it were him (telling him to give him ribs, not giblets); Skunk offers to feed their pillows, KR I'm surprised that the plate of meat for the "pillow" is soon empty; prevents Skunk from extinguishing the fire at night, although he tries to do so; the next morning the KR pretends to leave; waits for Skunk to leave too, finds girls in Skunk's bed; tells them to set fire to the house, take the meat and go with it; when Skunk sees smoke, he thinks that it was the Kayuz who attacked the kordalen, but then runs home; not finding the girls' bones in the coals, begins persecution; drinks water under a rock, sees a reflection of KO, demands the girls back, streams into the water; when he looks up, sees fugitives on a rock; streams into the eye of the KR, makes the sisters let them down, tells Belka to lie under his head, the Chipmunk under his feet; in the morning the sisters leave pieces of wood for themselves, run away; Skunk comes to people; says he ran away from the cayuz, they captured his three sons; kills everyone with his stream; she also makes two blind old women see; they agree to take him in a boat for this, he tells him to be treated like a leader; they swim to the village, honor him, raise him in their arms; everyone is changing (perhaps turning into stars)]: Reichard 1947, No. 23:158-162; quinolt [Sea Monster sends a daughter to marry one of Owl's five sons; after a fork, the path to the right is dotted with long white feathers, to the left with little disheveled ones; despite the warning, the girl turns left; comes to Hohojos, Barn Owl; he pretends to be what she is looking for; tells her to bring the bear he killed; she finds only a mouse; at night she runs away, hides in a tree above the river; H. dives behind her reflection, returns home; she marries Owl's eldest son; at the festival, X. serves as a jester; Repeats: My wife is sitting on the other side of the cauldron; he is being killed]: Farrand 1902, No. 13:122-124; kalispel [the chief has two sisters; men hunt; chief to sisters: people will bring bones, and you take them to the lake; just don't look; younger: I'll see! the eldest called; the lake is full of good (goods); {apparently they took something}; when they returned, the people left, only their grandmother was left; she scolded them for what had happened; move the stone away; there's a hole, you can see people and homes, sisters recognized their own; grandmother led them by the hands down, but someone blew and threw them back; grandmother: it's all because of you, they couldn't stand it for three days, your brother would distribute the goods; now I will go down, and you you will stay; if necessary, the stone will crack by itself; the sisters went and reached the river, the house on the other side; a man ran out of it: your aunt crossed where the top of the hill was; while the women were gone, he cut his penis, drained blood into a pot, smeared blood on his deer skin {to show that he had recently killed a deer}; offered boiled blood; the older sister did not eat and tied something under the younger sister's chin what was returning the food {which it put in her mouth?} ; in the morning, the owner: your other uncle lives upstream; the blue jay sailed there, brought his excrement in the boat to make it seem like the dwelling in this place is a long time ago; the same as with the first "uncle" (ford upstream flow, blood from the penis to the pot); this time the younger sister really ate this food and gave birth to a baby in the morning; so she could not easily run up the hill like her sister; sister: go back to your husband! the youngest threw the blue jay out of the boat and it drowned; she found a lot of food in his house; the blue jay {this time it must be a woman's child} started shouting "Dad, dad!" The woman threw it in the soup; and the older sister's name is Impeccable; (the story is still long, but the informant didn't have time to tell it)]: Vogt 1940, No. 17:129-135; catlamet: Boas 1901a, No. 2 [ Blue Jay sends a girl to marry Puma; she enters the house, sits on one of the beds; Mink, Otter, Raccoon, Lynx, Mouse take turns coming in, bringing trout, salmon, ducks, roots, etc.; Beaver pretends Puma, lies down with the girl; at night she gropes for branches in his stomach; leaves, stops in a house on the edge of the village; Beaver sends animals for her; she sends them away; when Puma comes, he is made wife; Beaver cries, flood begins; Blue Jay, Mink, Otter dive, do not reach the bottom; The muskrat dives for a long time, the flood ends; jumping out of boats, animal people lose their tails, hitting them aft; The Bear and the Grizzly did not return for their tails, they are now short], 16 [Blue Jay sends his chief's daughter to marry Puma; Puma's slave Owl pretends to be him, hides the woman in his bed; at night The cougar hears Owl asking: What is this? - My hair. - Our hair, wife! She answers the following questions in her ears, face, eyebrows, forehead, mouth, nose, throat, shoulder, arm, abdomen; only the navel answers the second question; the owl threatens to scratch her, forcing her to answer her My genitals; she ties a piece of fat with her hair; Puma finds a woman's long hair; finds a woman, carries her to bed; fights Owl in the air; falling pieces of Owl's flesh the woman burns, collects the Puma's flesh; accidentally burns the Puma's intestines; he sends her to the Bear, Raccoon, Wolf, Beaver, Otter to ask them for half of their intestines; only the Lynx's intestines are suitable; woman gives birth to a cougar and an owl]: 20-25, 129-141; clackamas [Dwarf flint comes to live with Chief Puma; the girl marries Puma; he is not at home, Flint says he is the leader, hides her; Puma realizes the presence of a woman (the seeds are finely ground, finds long hair); they run away; after catching up with the Puma, the Flint cuts it in half; the woman gives birth to four Flints and a son Puma; her parents lure Flint and his children in the steam room; they burst from the heat, turn into flints; Cougar revives]: Jacobs 1958, No. 18:166-179; tillamook [girl goes looking for her husband; meets Rat, Muskrat, Squirrel, Flycatcher; everyone asks where to insert his penis; she names all kinds of places on her body except her vagina; Wolf and Deer show the way to their homes, but she doesn't like them either; gives in the hero, because he does not ask how to copulate with her; returns home, gives birth to a son, promises to marry the one who breaks the moose horn; the hero breaks; rivals (Wolves) kill him, but the old woman Lizard revives]: Jacobs, Jacobs 1959, No. 25:90-92; Cous: Jacobs 1940, No. 7 [in search of a rich husband, two girls come to Beaver; he is ugly and fat, calls branches, grass salmon; girls run away, they come to the chief; he pretends to have an upset stomach; the older sister does not like him, the younger one washes him; he becomes handsome, marries the youngest; Beaver comes for his wives; the chief stabs him in the ass; Beaver turns into a beaver, knife into his tail]: 143-146; Saint Clair 1909a, No. 8 [=Frachtenberg 1913, No. 29:173-181; Zap. Saint Clair); two girls go to marry the chief's son; Beaver and Muskrat work for him; girls take Beaver for who they are looking for; he is ugly and fat, calls branches, grass trout; girls run away, come to the leader's son; he pretends to be sick, covered with larvae; the younger sister no longer likes him, the elder does not reject him; he becomes handsome again, rejects the youngest; the Beaver comes for his wives; the chief stabs him in the ass; the Beaver turns into a beaver, the knife into his tail]: 35-36; yakima [Skunk is a servant in the house of Eagle and his four Hawk brothers; the old woman sends her granddaughter to marry the Eagle; The skunk pretends to be the owner of the house, takes the girl; hides it under the mat; the Hawks and the Eagle come, tell him to clean up the prey, cook; the woman realizes that she was mistaken; the Eagle notices that the seeds are better ground, than usual, finds long hair; in the morning, Skunk explains that he giggled because he was tickled by a mouse; the Eagle sends Skunk for the dead deer, squeezes Skunk's children out of the woman's belly, climbs with her on rock; says that he was lifted by the rope; lifting Skunk, he throws a hot stone in his ass, cuts off the rope; Skunk's iron swims along the river; the Skunk goes, asks the people he meets, answers laughing; he finds his iron playing ball, grabs it, kills players and those who laughed at him, takes their jewelry; Porcupine pretends to be dead; Skunk carries him, says he is afraid of whistling; The porcupine whistles, the Skunk runs away, the Porcupine takes all the jewelry-he now wears beautiful needles]: Hines 1992, No. 54:180-188; ne perse [while the Eagle is hunting, the Skunk is watching the house; five reindeer sisters come to marry the Eagle, five Frogs come to marry the Skunk; the Skunk hides the Deer in his bed, puts the Frogs to the Eagle; they explain to the Eagle why the Skunk laughed at night; the Eagle sends them away, giving them a lot of meat; tramples them Skunk cubs from Deer's bellies, hides with his wives at the top of a cliff; Skunk sees their reflection in the river, lets a stream into the water; looks up; the Eagle advises him to climb backwards; throws them into his anus hot stone; corrosive iron comes off, floats along the river; the Skunk follows it; some plant people say they tried to catch it for the Skunk, others say they pushed this abomination back into the river; Skunk comes to a place where people entertain him with the baby's gland (sparks fall out of it); replaces it with a bush, carries it away; sends a stream at those who answered him insultingly; therefore, some plants are bitter; Wolves Skunk is killed]: Phinney 1934:251-259; Kalapuya: Gatschet et al. 1945, No. 7 [Keith's daughter comes to marry Puma; his slave Flint pretends to be the chief, takes the woman, hides, forbids looking at Puma; she spies, puts her hair in porridge; the cougar realizes that there is a woman in the house, pretends to leave, takes the woman, runs away with her; explains to her that when Flint catches up with them and cuts off his head , she must put it on her body, cover the body only with leaves, leave his weapon next to her; Flint and his wife come to her father; a woman gives birth to little Flint and a son Puma; after a series of unsuccessful attempts kill Flint Keith manages to close both Flints in a hot steam room; their hearts explode; Keith says flints will now be used to make arrowheads; the woman returns to the revived Puma], 3 [ Puma and Owl live side by side; Keith's daughter comes to marry Puma, Owl tells her to go to him; she puts her hair in porridge to let Puma know about herself; he picks her up, fights with Owl and kills him, washes her ; she is pregnant with Owl; Coyote comes, copulates with her; she gives birth to Puma and Coyote children; they kill a Coyote baby]: 251-261, 353-355; Takelma [two White Ducks sisters come to marry The cougar; the Coyote pretends to be him, brings them into his house; his mother reveals the truth to the girls; the girls go to Puma; the Coyote kills the mother, turns the girls into old women; they bathe, return theirs former appearance, they leave; Puma's younger brother Wild Cat calls him; he follows the girls; they take him in a boat across the sea; they tell him not to look into the water; the cougar looks, is swallowed by a sea monster; everyone dives get his bones; only a Catfish woman dives, brings bones, revives the Cougar in the steam room; The cougar and his wives return home; they find the Wild Cat dead there]: Sapir 1909, No. 4:64-70; modoc: Curtin 1912:27-38 [old Yawilik sends two daughters to marry Isis, a good deer hunter; warns that his father Kumush may wear his clothes and sing his songs; sisters come when K. plays the flute; the youngest does not believe it is I., reluctantly follows the eldest; I. comes and drives K. and both wives out of the house; at night they kill K., scraping the meat off his head; I. kills sisters, throws their heads and bodies into the river; I catch them, revives their daughters in the steam room; they find I.'s bones trampled by deer; the youngest revives him, he marries both; each gives birth to son; the eldest son falls on a stone, dies; then I. takes his soul and younger, turns his wives and mother-in-law into snowbirds, their younger brother into the spirit to which healers turn, leaves north], 125-128 [Snowbird sends two daughters to marry one of the chief's five sons; tells them not to walk on the west side of the lake, not to talk to the Blackbrown Fox; the eldest violates prohibition, the youngest has to follow her; when the sisters do leave the Fox, he makes them old women; the chief's youngest son feels they are girls; they become young at night and then after swimming; The fox turns them into ducks; the mother catches them, restores them to their former appearance; the chief's son goes to bring their jewelry to his mother, happy to see the girls again; stays with them], 186-190 [the old Marten sends two daughters to marry Eagle; poor and weak Hawk pretends to be him; in the evening, as always, he is invited to share meat; tells his wives, Why do they always call the leader for this? The chiefs play by throwing pieces of supplies into the Hawk's open mouth; to feed his wives, the Hawk cuts the flesh off his own feet; the youngest says the meat tastes bad; the sisters come to the eagle's house, see what's going on there; five Eagle Brothers kill five Hawk brothers; the older sister violates the ban on watching the Eagle carry Hawk's head to the sky; she falls, kills four Eagles; takes sisters are back married; the eldest must carry her head in the basket; the head rolls, kills the deer; Kumush invites her to take a steam bath, walled up the exit from the steam room; her head dies; instead of her, K. and the woman they find the corpse of a beautiful young man; they burn it].

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 96 [two sisters go to get the Beaded Spitting (PB); The Toadstool (Hell-Diver) says it's him; hiding beads in his mouth and nose, he blows out and cleans his throat; PB has a pet deer; Toadstool says that the deer ran away frightened by the girls; in the evening, Toadstool is called to dance with PB; girls put Toadstool's mother to sleep, leave driftwood instead, come to PB; there is Toadstool lies on the floor, everyone is dancing on it; when he returns home, the Toadstool lies between driftwood, takes ant bites for tingling his wives; kills his mother, finds PB sleeping between girls, kills him by investing him in his mouth is hot pebbles; he hides a deer's stomach with blood under his clothes, pretends to kill himself at the news of PB's death; he is chased, he says he will die if his wives follow him; turns their boat over; he and both girls turn into greaves]: 359-365; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II33 [Chief White Wampum spits beads; his brother is Hell Diver; two sisters come out for the chief; The dive says it's him; every night he goes dancing at his brother's house; wives leave rotten decks in bed, secretly go dancing; stay with White Wampum; Toadstool stabs brother's genitals hot iron dies; the toadstool pretends to mourn, simulates a suicide attempt by placing a blood-filled deer's stomach under her clothes and tearing it; calling his ex-wives to her boat, turns it over; sisters turn into toadstool females]: 408-410; Mississauga [two girls go looking for a groom; Dipper pretends to be Loon, who has many beads; they go beyond Dipper; they see Gagara at the dance, but he rejects them, marries the daughter of a poor woman]: Chamberlain 1889:144-145; timagami ojibwa: Speck 1915d, No. 5 [see K19B motif; star husbands help wives come down from the sky; they get to the top of the tree; they promise to marry the one who will bring them down to the ground; the Bear, the Lynx cannot, Wolverine descends; they send him to bring a ribbon tied to a branch, run away; They spend the night with the Woodpecker, he does not sleep with them; three types of ducks cannot transport them across the river; Toadstool carries them, takes them as wives; they find out that Toadstool is a jester, Loon is the leader; they go to the Loon; throws a toadstool in their mouths sleeping Loon, hot flints, killing him; tying a bag of rabbit blood to his stomach, simulates suicide; people reveal deception, chase Toadstool; he turns them into ducks], 2 (Appendix, by Neil C. Fergusson) [two girls climbed the fir tree, could not go down; Moose, Deer, Otter, Lynx passed by, only Wolverine lowered; they sent him for a supposedly forgotten ribbon, ran away; neither Beaver nor the Loon Chief they were not transported across the river, Hell-Diver moved; at night they got up, looked into Gagara's house, where he played the flute to the dancers; they went to Loon, putting decks of ants under their blankets; when they saw Loon, sleeping with two girls, Toadstool threw a hot iron into his mouth; put a gut of blood under his clothes, pierced it, as if killing himself when he was told that the chief was dead; later shouted that he's a murderer; people dammed the river to dry the lake and catch Poganka; he destroyed the dam, everyone drowned, became aquatic animals]: 47-53, 83-85; Ojibwa [two Stupid Girls looking at the starry the sky, the Stars want to be husbands; wake up in the sky, the husbands are nearby; the old woman helped them escape by lowering them through the hole in the basket; due to their carelessness, they found themselves in the hawk's nest; Wolverine lowered them, they deceived him, ran away; they got to the Dive; he pretended to be the Man with Wampum, Loon; they spied on their husband playing the role of a jester in Gagara's house and went to Gagar; the Toadstool killed him by sticking him into his sleeping place a hot rock's throat, ran into the sea; people told the leeches to dry the sea, but Toadstool ripped their bellies open with a flintlock knife; the sea poured back and everyone drowned]: Jones 1916, No. 15a: 371; northern Ojibwa (Sandy Lake) [Mana (Gagara) is rich, has many wives, his brother Wai-Mishu is poor; two sisters go to marry M.; V. pretends to be him, calls his sisters Mik-kei-san ( Having beaded ear pendants; this is the name of sisters M.); girls say it's good to spit beads; sisters V. take their pendants in their mouths, the beads turn out to be dog crap; girls leave in bed poplar decks, run away to M.; V. tries to copulate with decks, is bitten by ants; simulates suicide by ripping a bag of caribou blood under his clothes; runs across the lake; mosquito drinks the lake; B . pierces him, water pours out; V. puts a hot copper spear in the mouth of M., sleeping with his wives, runs away to the lake; promises to return if his wives come to him; they go, he turns them and himself into greaves]: Ray, Stevens 1971:68-71; Steppe Cree: Bloomfield 1930, No. 31 [two sisters come to marry Wampum; Red-necked Toadstool pretends to be him; sisters marry him; see dancers trample on him at the festival ; leave decks with bedbugs in bed instead of themselves, go to another (probably Wampum); Toadstool cuts his throat; women leave], 32 [old woman dies, tells two daughters to go to Wampum, spitting beads; Dipper puts beads in his mouth, spits out; sisters marry him; he wraps himself in pieces of meat and fat instead of a festive outfit; younger sister suspects deception, spies on dancers ; they dance, trampling Dipper into the mud; the sisters leave decks of bugs and bees in bed, run away; Dipper fakes suicide, piercing a bubble of blood hidden under their clothes; sails away in a boat, turns into a dive]: 297-309; (cf. Swamp Cree (West Bank Hall. James) [{3 stories are mixed}; this is about Weesakechahk and birds; Chahkabesh {must be Weesakechahk} gathered birds about to fly away, offered to dance with their eyes closed; began to strangle them one at a time; Loon opened his eyes, raised the alarm; V. kicked him, since then the loons have a flat tail; Loon gradually died; V., which means Shingibish {Weesakechahk, then Shingibish}, that was the name of this Otter, i.e. Duck, he has two wives ; Loon was handsome, covered in beads, and took his wives away; when he slept with his mouth open, S. put a hot incisor down his throat, Loon died, S. took his wives; so the loons had a dark throat]: Ellis 1995, No. 8:41-43 ); potauatomi [Gagara is a chief named White Wampum; his brother Red-Necked Toadstool is no one, married to an old woman; comes to another village, meets two women, says he is BV, marries them; on the way, they ask to kill an elk, he replies that this is one of his horses; at home he calls his old wife grandmother; in the evening he is invited to dance with a real BV; wives leave decks with ants in bed, come to BV; Toadstool bitten by ants; kills a sleeping BV with hot stones in his mouth; hides blood in his mouth, simulates suicide; says he will survive if his daughters-in-law come to him; they swim in on the boat, he knocks it over, everyone goes to the bottom; he emerges, screams that he killed BV; people ask the Frog to drink the lake; the toadstool first kicks her, then pierces her stomach; now the toadstool has two wives]: Skinner 1924: 361-363.

Northeast. Hurons [the old woman sends her two daughters to marry the Thick-haired (deer); on the way, the sisters meet the Owl, he pretends to be who they are looking for, brings them into his hollow stump; people call An owl to sing at the leader; dancers use his body as a drum; sisters come, find out who is who, stay with the Deer; Owl refuses to "sing" anymore; Long-eared Owl pretends to be an older sister, comes to the Owl, he sings again; the deception is revealed; The deer returns the owl's wives to "sing" to continue]: Barbeau 1960, No. 24:29-31; Seneca [mother gives two daughters corn bread, sends them to marry two brothers living in the same house separated by a partition; warns not to turn sideways at the fork; sisters turn, come to the Wind People of Shagodyoweg gowa, run home in fear; they pursue; sisters throw away baskets of bread, then their garments; pursuers spend time picking up and examining what they have abandoned; sisters come home; next time they take the right path; going hunting, the brothers tell their wives not to go out for 10 days, otherwise their brother Shagodyoweg gowa will take them away; on the ninth day, the sisters go out; the brothers find them at the SG, who lets the women go; the brothers ask Hótho (Cold Weather, makes the trees burst from the frost) to watch their wives; SG takes the sisters away again, the youngest runs away; H. comes, fights SG, he promises not to steal sisters anymore]: Curtin 2001:52-54; seneca [an old woman sends two daughters to marry a handsome hunter; the girls meet a deceiver on the way, who pretends to be the groom he is looking for; calls her young son a brother or nephew; sisters hear a deceiver call into the house of the person they went to; spy on him; in the house of a worthy groom, the deceiver acts as a jester; sisters go to the one they were supposed to marry, put them in a deceiver's bed two decks with ants, ants bite him]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 16 [the desirable groom has live reindeer heads in the house; Owl brings old heads to his house; sisters go to the worthy the groom, after spending the night with the Owl; in his house, the Owl is given hot fried mice to eat; the owl kills his nephew with a sharp stake; he becomes the chief, wants to take young widows; they return back to his mother] 29 [the groom is from the Orlov family, his name is Long-faced, the girls' mother is Swan; the sisters leave the Owl before spending the night with him; in the house of the Long-faced Owl, pieces of meat are thrown into his mouth; the Long-faced calls his mother wives to live with them], 39 [= (29); grooms have no significant names; the mother of a worthy person is the Big Earth; a liar is spit in the face to laugh]: 115-117, 166-168, 195-197; onondaga [woman sends daughter to The Heavenly Leader; she is met first by the Fox, then the Wolf, the Bear, who have taken the form of Chief; she does not answer them, comes to the Chief; see motif B3A]: Hewitt 1928:479; mikmaq [elf girls bathe in the lake; The marten steals the clothes of one, then the other, marries them; The elk wants one for himself, fights with the Marten; the sisters run away; go to heaven, the stars marry them (see motif K19B); allow return to earth; sisters find themselves at the top of the tree; Elk, Bear, Marten refuse to help them go down, they say they are already married; Wolverine descends; one of the sisters ties a ribbon on the tree, asks Wolverine to untie her; the sisters run away, leaving biting insects and thorns on the mating bed; the crane carries the sisters across the river, drowns Wolverine (see motive J46); the sisters come to the abandoned village; the youngest kicks the cervical vertebra; the latter pursues her, the eldest hides it in her hair; Little Gull transports them across the pond; Loon wants to marry them, brags about her beauty; Scapegrace Warns that Loon is ugly; girls throw Loon, marry Sea Duck; Loon kills sleeping Ducks, commits suicide; girls stay with Duck's relatives]: Leland 1968:140-166; Passamaquoddy [like Mi'kmaq; Little Gull instead of Loon; another type of loon instead of the Seagull]: Leland 1968:140-169.

Plains. Grovanter [two sisters go to marry the Beaded Spit; Loon picks up some beads, puts it in her mouth, pretends to be the groom he is looking for; tells his mother Badger not to let his wives out of the house; his call to dance; sisters step over Badger, come to the leader's house; see the real Beaded Spit; dancers trample Gagara with their feet; sisters throw Loon for the real groom; his Loon kills; hides in a hole with his mother, people can't get it there]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 28:108-109; santi [Two Women (sisters endowed with supernatural powers) and The Heartbreaker goes to marry the Beaded Spitting (aka Young Beloved); in the morning, a needle-lined porcupine bowl full of wild rice ends up on MS's head, which means that RS will marry PB; Teal in the boat offers to transport the girls; taking beads in his mouth, spits them; J takes him for the desired groom; later a real PB arrives, marries RS; Teal does not tell his wives follow him; they peek into the tipi to dance; there Teal lies on the floor, people dance, trampling on him; sisters leave blankets with bees and ants in bed instead of themselves, go to PB, driving MS away; Sedge ( sent by Chirk?) cuts off PB's head when he sleeps with his wives; people come to kill Chirk; his mother Snipe flies into the swamp; people trample on her, since then the roots of the reeds are red with blood; Teal with a PB head in his hand and Sedge with they go up to the moon with a knife in their hand; and now you can see them standing there]: Riggs 1893:148-149; Iowa: Skinner 1925, No. 7 [the chief sends his two daughters to marry Wagre Cagre (White Feather, Eagle); various forest animals come, pretend to be VG; sisters ask about their lifestyle, reject them; a man with a white feather lies as if he is killing deer, bears, moose; his older sister marries him the youngest refuses; marries the real VC when it appears; VG brings big game, false VG - rabbits; asks VG to get a raccoon out of the hollow, turns it into a dog; the dog continues to hunt for his wife; asks to take him to the hollow; comes out on the other side in his old form; sleeps with false VG in the winter forest; he says that clothes are burning this month; VG pretends to be sleeping, replaces parcels with clothes; false VG throws his own into the fire; freezes in the forest; he was the last of the giants; VG marries his older sister; the cannibal Nashin Vashogre has an image of the Underground Horned Puma; who will do worse than her, kills them; VK creates a live Cougar, kills the cannibal with an arrow; she was the last cannibal; VK marries four sisters; the youngest warns that the eldest kills husbands; VG puts a wooden penis in the elder's vagina; her teeth are broken, she dies; since then, the women have no teeth in their bosom], 33 [two sisters go to get the Chief's Shell-Spitting Son; his servant picks up the spit out Kauri, pretends to be him, takes sisters as wives; Ishinki comes for him, telling him to come to the chief's son; the servant pretends to be a joke, forbids his wives to follow him; they go and see how their husband is only picks up shells; goes to the leader's son; the servant kills both the son and the leader himself; flies away, carrying their heads away; I. witches, trying to return the servant to earth; he defecates in I.'s open mouth, flies to the moon; you can see his silhouette there, with a head in each hand]: 458-461, 493-494; arapaho: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 89 [a girl rejects suitors; a guest from another camp invites her to marry the famous Badger; she comes to Badger, gives him a wedding gift; he tells his grandmother to tell his wife that he kills wives if they follow him to the party; he is summoned to Sasaya; the wife still comes for him and sees him him on the ground, jerking his limbs while S. is dancing; marrying S.; Badger has been used as a drum ever since], 121 [the girl goes looking for the Beaded Spitting; Shattered Ass says it's him spits out a few penetrations; tells the mother not to let his wife leave the house; a woman comes to the dance house; sees P.B. dancing and R.Z. serves as his platform; marries P.B.; R.Z. kills an opponent, dives into a lake, turns into a bird living near the bison; a woman is allowed to choose a new husband]: 203-205, 272-275.

Southeast USA. Caddo [two sisters go to marry a rich chief; meet an Owl, who replies that he is the chief; teaches his grandmother how to pretend they are rich; every day a real chief at the meeting uses the Owl as a bench; for this he gives him a turkey; Owl tells his wives that he kills turkeys while hunting; wives spy on him, return to their parents; Owl and his grandmother hide all the water in the same body of water; The white Raven catches grasshoppers noisily; people think he found water; disappointed Coyote dumps him in the mud, now the raven is black; the turtle falls into the crack, calls for help; the Coyote hits her, In order not to make noise in vain, there are now cracks on her shell; the flea bites the Owl's mother; she overturns the jug, the water flows in all directions; the grateful Coyote allows the Flea to live on his fur]: Dorsey 1905, No. 40:67-69; choctaw [woman (she is a "red top" bird) sends two daughters to marry the Boat Maker (IL, green heron), they recognize him because when he takes water in his mouth and spits out, water turns red; the crane by the river says IL is him, spits out the water with the shrimp, so it appears pink; one sister stays with him, the other does not believe, comes to real IL; then to him The second one comes, he tells her to dive three times, she can't, it means that she slept with the Crane, IL drives her away; hits the first one with a stick in the middle of her head, the girl separates, turning into two, so IL gets two wives (as intended); The crane tries to separate his wife, but only kills her; bounces when hit and becomes humpback]: Mould 2004:198-200; screams [two sisters go looking Spitting Beaded (PB); The rabbit pretends to be him, pulls out a few beads from the vultures, puts them in his mouth; sleeps with one of the sisters; the sisters leave, get to the Gopher, who eats their provisions; than the closer the house of the Turkey Killer (= PB), the more feathers lie on the road; the owner tests the girls, telling them to bring water with a sieve; the one with which the Rabbit combined, the water pours out, the other turns into beads; he sends the first PB, takes the second as his wife; she is pregnant; he calls her from the other side of the river, asking her to fit a boat; from a distance he sees the figure of a woman in the house; she does not bring a boat, PB swims, beats his imaginary wife, she disappears; it was Kolowa, who ate his real wife; in his wife's torn womb, PB finds a live baby, then throws him into the thickets; the son has grown up, asks him to make two bows; the father spies on how the second boy, who has arisen from the last, comes out to play with him; the father turns into an arrow, a ball of grass, a feather, the Discarded one recognizes him every time; finally caught, tamed, his name Fatcasigo (Not-doing-right); father warns not to answer if someone asks to transport him from the other side of the river, it will not be him, but Kolova's mother who ate them; the old woman calls, F. insists that they have her transported; the old lady asks F. to take her on her back, shouts "Kolowai, Kolowai", refuses to get off; F. hits her, sticks her arms, legs and head; brother also hits and sticks; father soaks them hot with water, K. flies away; the father does not tell him to get two eggs from the tree, F. persuades his brother to pick up the eggs; the storm immediately takes their father away, he returns; lightning begins to sound around, the brothers get off the tree; they spy on the father, see a corral in which he keeps bears, deer and all animals; they release them; the father sends his sons to buy tobacco to a character named Long Nails; the crocodile transports them through lake, teaches how to grab tobacco and run; transports back, Long Nails do not have time to catch up; F. suggests filling the house with stinging insects; brothers place watchmen who should warn about when their father approaches; these are the Blue Crane, Wild Goose, Pelican, Partridges; those closest to them, when they screamed, the brothers release insects, they bit their father to death; the brothers turn him into a Crow; F. goes west, his brother east; when you see a red cloud in the west it's F., when it's in the east it's his brother]: Swanton 1929, No. 2:2-7; alabama [two sisters go looking for the Spit Beaded; Owl shows the girls the way to their own home; tells his sister to guard his wives; goes to dance to the Beaded Spit's house with giblets tied around his neck; sisters come there, become owner's wives; Owl kills him at night; girls' brother kills Owl, brings sisters home]: Swanton 1929, No. 12:126-128; alabama and koasati [two sisters go to marry the Beaded Spit ; Owl shows the way to his own home, scatters his sister's necklace on the road, takes a few beads in his mouth; girls take him for a true groom; in the evening they go to another house to dance, there a lot of beads, they understand the deception, stay with the real Spitting Beads; at night, Owl kills an opponent with a knife; his widows decide to give to the one who 1) fills the basket with his severed hair (Owl cuts off his sister's hair, but the basket is half empty, the girls' brother is full); 2) kills a white deer (Owl killed the dog, cut off his legs and head); 3) kills a white turkey; everyone swam into the sea, the brother killed, with arrows sank those people's boat, but Owl sailed out, married the girls, his brother stayed overseas; the cardinal tells him to climb a tree, take the stones; the cannibal sent her three jaguar dogs to take the young man, who drove him away with stones; the cannibal cooked the jaguars themselves, threw their bones into the sea, they came to life; the young man moves on; at the young man's request, the rattlesnake drove the cannibal away at night; on the next nights, about the arrival of the cannibal a white crane warns; a clay pot; on the shore, a young man rejects a crocodile, a turtle, swims on a horned snake, throwing fried partridges in front of him, and then simply firing arrows; at home, the young man threw Owl's children into a boiling pot, killed him with an arrow himself]: Martin 1977:57-60; koasati [two sisters go to marry the Shooter Up; Owl: A bad path leads to him, and a good path leads to me ; sisters go bad, get to Owl; he puts beads in his mouth, pretends to spit them (like Shooter Up); in the evening, Owl is called to dance; he tells his sister not to let women out of the house ; they run away; they see Owl dancing with his guts wrapped around his neck; stay with the Shooter Up; at night, Owl kills him with a sharp horn in his ear; people offer to give widows to the winner competition; orphan wins; 1) fill the box with your long hair; bring a white deer (Owl brings a white dog); 3) bring a white turkey; everyone swims across the sea to hunt for turkeys, throws there is an orphan; a bird tells him to hide in a tree; Monster dogs (these are cougars) cannot find him; a monster kills them, cooks them, eats them, throws bones into the water, they come to life; two sisters swim, an orphan hides them clothes on a tree, they dive for a reflection, then they see a young man; he gives his clothes when they call him not grandfather, uncle, brother, but husband; comes to them; at the shore rejects the Crocodile, the Turtle, the Snake, swims on the Horned Serpent; throws fried partridges in front of him to swim forward; tells his sisters to throw their children from the Owl into boiling water; kills the Owl with an arrow]: Swanton 1929, No. 12:172-175.

California. Yurok: Curtis 1976 (13) [boy sends his two sisters to marry a good ball player named Kenek; there is a dry tree in front of his house; Coyote carries a tree to his house; girls they understand that they are in the wrong place, they run away in the morning; the crow takes them to K.'s house; helps to fry the salmon properly; Father K. is happy, allows his son to marry his sisters; when the youngest entered the house, she saw that K. is handsome; then he became ugly, the eldest does not want him; they return to the sister village; K. becomes handsome, wins the ball (shinney), his dog helps him; hits the opponent in the waist, that turns into a narrow-waisted ant; gets hit in the face himself, turns into a snipe]: 187-190; Kroeber 1976, No. A12 [two sisters go to look for the leader; his house is in the center of the village, marked with pillars; Coyote carries poles to his last home; pretends to be a leader; in the morning sisters find out about the mistake, return to their parents; next time the old man helps them find the right way]: 69-73; karok [girls don't come back anymore]: Harrington 1932, No. 7 [two girls are going to marry Salmon; Phalaenoptilus nuttalli says there is a dry tree in front of Salmon's house; he and/or (unclear) carries a tree with a Nightjar to the bird's house (or Nightjar?) along with Salmon's mat; girls realize that they have been deceived when they see and hear that the owner of the house is not a chief, but a marginal]: 23-24; Kroeber, Gifford 1980 [like a yurk; two live in a house with poles brothers], № II31, III9 [Wild Cat and Fox girls marry Salmon; there is a high pole in front of his house; Bushhat (a little brown bird) carries a pole towards him; fleas in his bed and lizards; girls go to Salmon in the morning; Bushhat kills him]: 181-183, 222-223; villot [two girls come from the north to marry Wolf; in the village they see a house where Coyote lives with an old woman; Coyote says it's him; an old woman who calls Coyote a nephew feeds them mice; Coyote hides them behind a partition, they get pregnant; Wolf finds them, pulls them out, hits them and Vulture {moving from Coyote to Vulture is incomprehensible); so vultures fly from side to side (irregularly)}]: Reichard 1925, No. 2:143-145; pomo [two sisters go to marry a young Skoshelkel who falls off his lips beads; the old Coyote says he will come now; turns into a young man, pretends to be S.; puts beads in his mouth and spits out; the younger sister suspects deception; the imaginary S. explains that he danced all night so the voice became rude; he is taken by boat to his wife Fra Khatsu, whom he passes off as his mother; he is called to dance, his younger sister notices that he is turning into an old man; The frog replies that the real S. is the leader, tells the children to take the girls to him; everything there is hung with deer and cougars, feathers of bright birds on the floor; S.'s mother liked the girls; S. came, he also liked it, he sat down between them; beads are pouring from his lips; the Coyote came back, his wife said what had happened, he threw a pestle at her, she became a frog, rode away; he asked the four Otter Brothers to return it; they did it, The coyote promised his wife not to beat her again; the sisters brought their relatives to live in the village of Husband-Skoshelkel]: Clark, Williams 1954:17-23; Vintu [two sisters come to marry Kidipathavi, spitting beads; dirty lazy Huick (Kozoda) takes some shells in his mouth, spits them out; tells his wife Toad to influence his mother; sisters meet daughter K., she also spits beads; they go from H. to K; H. kills the Toad that allowed the women to leave; people dance, standing around their leader K.; H. sees the calf of his leg, hits her with an arrow, killing K.; hides in a hole, runs away]: Demetracopoulou, Dubois 1932, No. 36, 37:461-463; Dubois, Demetracopoulou 1931, No. 32:341-342; Yana [two sisters are looking for Marten; Coyote pretends to be him; the youngest sister doesn't believe; sisters come to see Kunitsa, marry him]: Curtin 1898:353-357; Sapir 1910, No. 10 [two sisters are looking for Marten to marry him, come to Coyote's house; his wife, the Bull Frog, says Marten's house is farther away and the bears He stole the skins in the Coyote house from a neighbor; his older sister says that his father told them to stay in the house where these skins hang; Coyote returns, says he just generously distributed all the meat; in Marten's house, he returns, says he has generously distributed all the meat; in Marten's house, he they throw the bones; he cuts off the flesh from his thighs, brings them under the guise of venison; the girls feel that it is human, go to Marten; his mother feeds them, but one of the hunters says that the girl smells a divorced Coyote wife; the Coyote causes rain to make people gather in the main dugout; sets it on fire; the spider began to lift people to the sky in the basket; the Coyote lay down to the bottom, made a hole, everyone fell into the fire; Loon made a necklace out of their hearts; An old woman (or her grandson?) killed Gagara, revived people from their hearts]: 133-136; achomavi [The sun and his wife Shell send their daughters to Marten, who has dentalia shells coming out of his body instead of excrement; Coyote wears better clothes, but the younger sister understands who is in front of them; Hawk-Man pretends to be the chief, defecates with a rattle pebble, pretending to be beads; then like Jan's (cuts meat from thighs, etc.); when Hawk causes rain, Marten sends a man to kill Hawk]: Dixon 1908, No. 3:163-165; Maidu [man sends two daughters to marry the one who has the chimney two black bear skins tied; the bad hunter Kozodoy outweighed his skins, began to play the flute; the girls came in to him; a good hunter came back, outweighed his skins back; in the morning the girls realized they were wrong , moved to a good hunter; the Nightjar began to sing, it began to rain, the house began to flood; the women broke his neck and told him to be a nightjar]: Dixon 1912, No. 11:193-197; chumash [Fox and Wildcat - brides Hawk Xelex 'a and his uncle Eagle Slo'v; sail from the island to the grooms; Coyote takes the form of K., turns his hut into a beautiful home; keeps his wives in the house all the time; people shout that they brought him fish demand; he says that they joke with him, takes the demand, turns him into fish and venison, gives it to his wives; K. and S. send a gopher, then Mukha, Louse to find out what kind of women the Coyote has; finding out The truth is, they send the Puma to break the door of the house; he finds women giving birth, each with twelve sons; wives go to C. and S., Coyote has sons]: Blackburn 1975, No. 29:194-197; kawaiisu [The owl eats the prey itself, his wife Bullfinch is starving; puts sharp bones in front of the entrance to the house, the Owl steps on them and dies; the Bullfinch, taking his son, comes to Skunk's house; the mother says, that Skunk is bad, tells her to leave; Skunk catches up with her, wants to have sex; she sends him to hunt, leaves his blanket, runs away; he kills her with his jet; Badger revives a woman, copulates with her ; she comes to the village; Coyote kills his pet rabbit, says he is the best hunter, wants to marry a woman; she refuses, marries Hawk; that brother Falcon causes the wind out of jealousy, that takes everyone but the Horned Toad]: Zigmond 1980, No. 50:167-168; (cf. monk [Coyote advises daughters to marry two sons of the Sun after his death; Coyote's wife does not believe her son who notices that his father has run away from the fire; Coyote dresses like the son of the Sun, marries his daughter; the boy born smells like a coyote; the wife expels the Coyote; he comes to his former wife Rabbit in his former form]: Gifford 1923, No. 14:342-343); serrano [two sisters go east, the eldest carries a vessel of water; does not give the youngest, she dies of thirst; the eldest gives birth to twins Tsatukotani (elder) and Parakonix; Bear, Wolf, Vulture, Eagle say they are their fathers; the real father is the Sun; boys secretly come out of their cradles to hunt; their mother tells them about an eagle's nest on a rock; they rise up as fluffs, pick up two eagles; they quarrel over who will take the larger eagle; the eagles die; the mother young men revive them; young men take reeds out of the sea; make flutes; the youngest can be heard playing on the other side of the world; Vulture's two daughters go from there to the sound; on the Coyote Road, the Hawk say they played they; the older sister believes the younger one tells them to move on; the sisters spend the night with their brothers, leave in the morning; the brothers follow them soon; the mother knows they will die; the Vulture sends her son by name Tcaikakat find out who came; light from the bodies of young men kills Tc.; Vulture calls his warriors, Hawk manages to kill twins; their bones are crushed into powder, long bones are used to play; younger sister gives birth to a son Kwexomári; he also shines; she lies to her father that she gave birth to a girl; K. plays with his uncle, who says he did not kill his father and uncle; K. finds the bones of his father and uncle, begins to revive them; they say that this is impossible, they remain dead; plays with Coyote; throws the dice, the earth splits, everyone dies except Mother K.; with her he visits his grandmother; carries his mother across the sea, drowns]: Benedict 1926, No. 3:2-7.

Big Pool. Usually, Hooting Owl steps on a sharp bone; when dying, advises his wife to marry Hawk (or Vulture); a woman, taking her young son, goes to look for Hawk; comes to Skunk's mother, goes further; The Skunk catches up and kills her; the badger revives, demands payment, they copulate; the woman comes to the Hawk; he spends time on a high cliff; she makes a ladder out of pubic hair, climbs Upstairs, becomes his wife; the Wolf (Coyote) would like her for himself, but he is rejected. (Wed. youre [see motif L61; Nentusu, who escaped from cannibals, comes to the Caress Brothers with two boys; the elder Pewetseli, he is taller, the youngest Damalali; P. takes N. as his wife, hides her and the boys from D. , tells him that they were crows, birds, they flew away; D. finds one boy, kills, leaves his head; N. and another go to the lake, turn into ducks; D. says people should marry women, not ducks, should eat ducks; from the current territory, the brothers come to your land; P. sees her first; warns D. not to touch the Spider; D. does not believe, the Spider kills him; P. comes along the rainbow to the Sun; he replies that he did not see anything, sends it to the Month; the Month eats frogs, not fish; says that he sees only at night, sends them back to the Sun, giving two porcupines that the Sun fears; Sun admits that he saw Spider drag D.; gives the phone, tells him to smoke first; when he comes to Spider, P. smokes, Spider dies, P. revives his brother, tells him to hunt deer, but he chases Beaver, Beaver kills him; P . kills Beaver, revives his brother; the same with Ground Hog; D. kills Water Baby, scalps him, the lake overflows, D. hides on the mountain; P. tells him to scalp, the water descends , lakes remain in the mountains]: Dangberg 1927, No. 2:401-415 (=1968, No. 2:49-68); Western Shoshones: Steward 1943 [Owl's wife Takadoa (black-headed bird) deliberately pierces his bone deeper into the wound to kill because she wants to marry Skunk; his mother advises her to run; the Skunk kills her and her child, the Badger revives them; the Coyote lies that he is the best hunter, but the woman goes to bed with the Hawk; he then loses hunting luck]: 296-297; Smith 1993:94-95 [two sisters go looking for Eagle; Coyote claims it's him; sisters go to Eagle; Coyote kills him, takes his clothes and loot; youngest the sister identifies the Coyote by her legs; the sisters put ants on the head and legs of the Coyote (as if wives are pinching him to take out the lice), run away; the Coyote chases them, they throw the necklace off the cliff, Coyote makes a sound, falls, breaks her leg, eats her own bone marrow; replies that he eats the brain of a mountain ram], 119-121 [a woman's child is a girl; before reviving a woman, Badger does a hole in the ground, inserts his penis between her breasts]; the northern shoshones [The Eagle is Skunk's younger brother; while he is hunting, ten Rabbits marry him and ten Frogs marry Skunk; The Skunk takes the Rabbits for himself, puts the Frogs under the Eagle's bed; the Eagle is surprised that the Skunk eats so much that he laughs; the Frogs tell the Eagle how the Skunk took his wives; the Eagle leads the Skunk to hunt pretends to have forgotten his gun, comes back, runs away with the Rabbits to the top of the cliff; the Skunk sees their reflection, streams into the river; notices the rock; the Eagle replies that he has climbed forward; throws them in the ass The skunk is hot; the Skunk falls, his ass floats on the river; the Skunk walks asking if anyone has seen his ass; the Skylark replies as an orphan throws him into the air, he's like a fireball; the Skunk grabs his ass, runs away, kills people he meets, cutting off their heads and taking away jewelry; five Wolves easily kill Skunk]: Lowie 1909b, No. 19:208-270; gossiyute: Powell 1971 [Owl, Skunk, Badger - brothers; Owl eats rabbit meat himself, gives his wife bones; she sticks a sharp bone on his path, then drives it deeper into the wound, he dies; before death, the husband sends her to Badger, but he refuses help; she comes to the brothers' mother; leaves, rejects Skunk's offer, he kills her and her son; Badger revives them, spends the night with the woman; she goes on; the woodpecker turns drops of his blood into stream, woman drowns; Badger revives her again; she comes to Hawk, who marries her]: 258-261; goshiute: Smith 1993:11-14 [see M60b motif; girl comes to marry Wolf (Wolf created earth); Coyote replies that he does not know anyone with this name, but his older brother called him Wolf; the girl brings the imaginary Wolf to her house; does not let him go to the source, because the real Wolf will not want to drink; Coyote she drinks greedily; the wife tells her not to throw away duck bones; she puts them under herself, eats them with her vulva; this girl, a Goose, flew to the island, told her mother that she brought Coyote, not Wolf; her mother also gnaws bones vulva; Coyote puts the cervical vertebrae of a mountain ram into his wife's vagina, teeth have fallen out, the wife is pregnant; mother-in-law asks with her (the same, mother-in-law is happy, also pregnant); both are pregnant in the morning, not in the evening; mother-in-law puts in gives the basket of all babies born by both women in a year to Coyote, tells him not to open it on the way; the basket is getting heavier, the Coyote opens, the basket turns into a rock with a spring, the children run away; The Coyote gives names to the tribes], 14-17 [Owl advises his wife to marry Badger or Skunk, but she seeks to marry Hawk; without episodes of pay and pubic hair], 41-42 [the old woman sent a daughter to the Wolf; Coyote replied that the Wolf lives in that house, made his way there unnoticed; on the way he wanted to have sex, the girl refuses; brings Coyote to the island, he does not know how to get back; wife replies to the mother that the Coyote will also do; the mother throws ash on the water, creating a sushi jumper; the Coyote breaks both women's vaginal teeth by putting the bone of a mountain sheep in the vagina; both are pregnant; mother-in-law gives Coyote the basket, sounds inside, tells you not to open it on the way; Coyote opened, beautiful people ran away, second-rate left - goshiute]; Utah: Lowie 1924, No. 36 (southern Utah) [Owl gives his wife skinny rabbits; she leaves a sharp bone before entering the house; Owl's brother is Vulture; Badger asks for feathers as payment, which means sex; unlucky rival is Wolf]: 64-67; Sapir 1930, No. 4 (wintah) [wife Owls place sharp bones in front of the house; the husband asks him to see what's wrong with his soles, she pierces his bones deeper; the owl tells his wife to marry his brother Chicken Hawk after his death; they they come to Skunk's mother, she tells them to run; the Skunk catches up with them; the woman throws the louse, says that there are mountain sheep, asks Skunk to get them, runs away herself, wrapping her cape around the bush; Skunk catches up, kills them with his jet; the Badger revives them; she asks how to reward him; names all items clothes; finally, My vulva? The badger copulates with her; at the camp, the Coyote offers the woman rabbits, she doesn't take it; she climbs the cliff to the Hawk; in the morning, Hawk kills Coyote with a club, hits Badger]: 495-505; Smith 1992 ( White River Utah) [Coyote rival]: 102-106; Southern Payutes [like Southern Utah, if not otherwise; woman looking for Hawk]: Lowie 1924, No. 12 (Shivvitz) [Coyote mistakenly copulates with his own daughters], 13 (Moapa) [Coyote sees two girls, makes his breasts out of clay, turns his penis into a baby, sits down to weave baskets, tells the girls that her husband will be back in the evening; the girls took the baby; at night that turned into a Coyote's penis, got together with both; the girls went to another camp, where they were taken by a man who feeds them some roots instead of meat; they go to Nantö-nab (some snake-shaped animal); he apparently brings meat cut from his back under the game; at the next camp they married Hawk, he brings them game every day; but they are tired of meat, they moved on; the next husband went to the mountains, stayed because of the rain; Grasshopper came, refused to lie on the girls, agreed naked; in the morning he straightened his legs, knocked out the eyes of both girls; the husband returned, put the eyes of a deer in them; killed Grasshoppers], 14 (Moapa) [no badger fee, no pubic hair ladder?] , 21 (Moapa) [a virgin urinates towards the sun, gives birth to two sons conceived from the Sun; they play flutes; two sisters go to look for flutists; various men say they played, but their game no good; sisters find young men, spend the night with them, come back; one gives birth to a boy, boys from her camp kill him; another gives birth the next day but says she has given birth to a girl; boys they come to girls with gifts; their relatives try to kill young men, but they take off and return home; the boy grows up, his mother sends him to his father; when he returns to his mother, he kills her all relatives, returns to his father again]: 129-133, 177-179, 179-180, 190-191; Sapir 1930, No. 16 [Hooting Owl hides fat rabbits, brings skinny rabbits to his wife and son; the wife finds the hidden, leaves there are sharp bones in front of the house; the husband stumbles upon them, asks them to be removed, the wife only drives them deeper into his legs; he asks after his death to take his son not to the Coyote, Skunk or Badger, but to someone who has light gray body; they come to Skunk's mother, she tells them to run, Skunk catches up; the woman invites him to hunt, leaves their blankets on cacti; Skunk discovers deception, catches up, kills a woman with her son with his stream; Badger revives them; wants feathers to pay; a woman does not immediately understand that he means pubic hair; the same next time evil spirits kill a woman and her son, because the boy is not He looked at them; Badger tells them to stay not at the Coyote's house, but at Hawk's mother; the Hawk lives on a rock, the woman lowered him; he wins the shooting competition against Coyote]: 449-457; chemeuevi [two The Worms in Yucca sisters travel in search of a suitable husband; Asparagus Worm's house has tendons; the girls watch their husband and see that he is turning asparagus stems into tendons; they leave; black pudding is hung near Poloz's house; wives watch, see Poloz scratching his body with thorns, bringing home his blood instead of food; Bat's house has fat; he brings ice, calls" ice fat", advises eating raw, not frying; girls find the perfect husband in the Red-Tailed Hawk; he tells him not to go to sleep in the cave in his absence; it starts raining, the girls break prohibition; the old man Grasshopper comes; rejects offers to go to bed on the other side of the fire, across at the girls' feet, between them; lies across their heads; at night he spreads his legs, scratching their eyes; The hawk puts the eyes of a mountain goat in them; sees a giant from the mountain, and grasshoppers when he comes down; kills grasshoppers, it turns out that he killed a giant]: Laird 1976:162-168.

The Great Southwest. Lipan [two pretty girls Cricket and Bird come to marry the Hawk Chief; Nornaya Owl says it's him; takes them as wives; people disagree, offer a competition: who will knock them off the tree bat, gets girls; poor dirty young man hits the target, marries Cricket, becomes handsome; Coyote replaces an arrow, marries a Bird]: Opler 1940, No. 16:132-134; Western Apaches ( San Carlos): Goddard 1918:69-70 [two sisters hear the flute playing; go looking for a flutist; consistently meet Red Bird, Partridge, Dove, Road-Runner; each claims he played, but his voice It sounds different; they came to two young men who were living with their grandmother; they lived with them for a while; they were disturbed by the fire kindled by their grandmother, they returned home, inviting the young men to visit them someday; the young men came stopped nearby; people from the girls' camp killed one, the other flew back to his grandmother with a feather; the girls followed him, they were chased; Grandma Heron stretches out her leg like a bridge over the river, a young man with they cross girls; the pursuers fall when the Heron removes his leg, turns into ducks; the young man lives with two wives], 71-72 [two sisters hear the sound of the flute, go to them; they meet Woodrat on the way, Gopher, Naked, Red Bird; each answers that he did not play; the girl finds two boys, then comes back, the youngest is pregnant; the brothers come to them (the episode of their death is not described); the younger sister gives birth boy; he shot Partridge; she asks her to be cured, for which he says that his mother's relatives ate her husband; at home, the mother shows him his father's hand; the young man walks down the wormhole; the mother, her sister and their mother follow; by the river, a young man tells a duck woman that he is being chased by human killers; the duck stretches his leg like a bridge; like pursuers in the middle of the river, the Duck removes his leg, they fall into water]; havasupai: Smithson, Euler 1994:41-43 [The coyote lives in the same home as another person and his daughter; sprays the girl's genitals with animal blood to prevent her from eating meat ( a menstruating woman should not eat meat); she leaves, ends up in a village of birds and animals; rejects all applicants, marries Quail; conceives from him, the baby is born from her thumb; he goes to the Coyote, ties the hair of women in his village at night, they try to get up in the morning, he kills them with an ax; feeds their husbands their meat; the vulture shaman reveals the truth; runs away; with his uncle- A squirrel kills and revives the Coyote], 54-61 [a mother tells her two sons that there is no reed for arrows in a well with converging walls; they put a pole in it, the walls have stopped, they brought reeds; They watch the mother straighten her arrows with them in her vagina; the arrow immediately broke; the owl gave a hard tree for the tips, began to live with their mother; they told him to fry his gut with meat, she burst, Owl went blind, his brothers killed him; Bear tip stones; he gave, lives with their mother; the young man made a tip out of coal, offered to shoot at the Bear; replaced it with a stone tip, killed A bear; the brothers hid in the skin of a deer; the eagle carried them to the rock, the eagles scream that the prey is alive; the brothers successively kill all eight eagles, then the eagles, told the rock to fall, went down; they play flutes before going to bed, two girls go from the south to the sound; Lizard: I played; they don't believe, they come to their brothers, their mother says they will ruin their hunting luck; younger brother got along with as a girl, the eldest refused; the girls left before the mother woke up; the eldest unsuccessfully wants to stop the youngest; the younger brother loses his hunting luck; both went to the girls, left two strained hair, if it bursts and bleeds, it's a disaster; the younger sister is ready to give birth; the elder calls Kite to kill the brothers, he cuts off their heads, carries them to his cliff; the boy born sees men playing; mother and his aunt says they fed him from his father's skull; his aunt replied that the Kite lived on a rock, told him not to go there; the boy followed the feather, killed the Kite, told the women to stand in a row, threw a piece of wood from the nest at them, killed them; killed their mother, sister, and all women with a stick; came to my grandmother; she told him to go east, to the west herself; You will visit me (clouds across the sky); she lives by the sea]; Valapai: Kroeber 1935:268-269 [Owl hunts rabbits, eats everything himself, does not bring it home; his two wives dig a sharp bone in front of the house; trampling the snow, the Owl steps on her, the leg begins to rot, he dies; wives come to Skunk; leave (the story ends)], 275-278 [Wikala'iya and her daughter and Coyote live together; the Coyote finds a mountain sheep cub trampled by a herd, brings, cuts; girl sits next to her naked with her legs spread; Coyote sprinkles animal blood on her, says that she is now on her period, she cannot eat meat; the offended girl leaves; her dog tries unsuccessfully stop her; a girl comes to a village where various animals and birds live in the form of people; one wins a lot of beads, is going to marry her; Coyote says he was the first to see her; a girl Rejects him, rejects him, Owl, Moose, Serpent and others; says he will only accept Quail; he is sent for him, he marries a girl, they have a son], 282 [baby Little Quail appears from a tumor on his arm girls; Coyote says such births are too easy, let the fetus ripen in the womb]; mojave: Devereux 1948 [relatives insult the Coyote girl; she leaves; on the way, the young birds want take possession of it; she agrees to Oriole's harassment; falls in love with Quail, goes to him]: 252-254; Kroeber 1972, No. 18 [two sisters go in search of two brothers whose flute they heard playing; first they meet Gopher; he tries to play, it turns out bad; tries in vain to pass off a puddle of his urine as water spilled by people; sisters understand the deception, move on; bypass other false contenders ( Hawk, Lizard, Woodpecker); the mother of boys does not believe that the sisters are virgins; sisters put her to sleep, go to bed with young men; the older brother abstains from copulation, the youngest does not; loses hunting luck; girls they return to their father; brothers come to them; the mother tries to prevent it, the young men create a tornado, he takes her home; the girls' father turns into a monstrous falcon, kills brothers; his people (too birds) mock the bodies; one bird brings the blood of their killed mother; she goes to sea, becomes an "old woman of the West"; the younger sister has a boy, she lies that a girl was born; the boy sees how people play with his murdered father's kneecap; cries, his tears flood the ground, everyone drowns; he takes his mother and aunt, leads them west; they can't cross the Colorado River, they turn into snipes; he himself now lives in the ocean with his grandmother]: 100-109; maricopa: Spier 1933:367-396 [A Gopher man appears in front of a girl on the other side of the river; she swims, feels something four times; gives birth to twins; all birds and animals claim paternity; she only recognizes Gopher; while the mother is away, babies get up from the cradle, kill partridges; she makes them bows and arrows, they kill more and more big game; talks about an eagle's nest on a rock; younger brother (MB) turns into a snake, does not get to the nest, the elder (SB) into a feather, brings two eagles; brothers quarrel over who has an eagle take; so that they are not thirsty, the mother sends rain; the eagles die from the cold; the SB is ready to kill the mother, she revives the eagles; MB cannot dive to the bottom of the sea; SB dives, red, white, black, yellow beavers give way to him, he brings reeds from the bottom, his mother makes flutes out of it; the old man's two daughters hear the brothers' play, they make sounds; the Hawk, the Lizard, the Squirrel, the Three Owl, the Horned Owl claim that they played, but their music is useless; the mother first disguises the entrance to the house, then lets the sisters in; MB puts the mother to sleep, sleeps with the youngest (MS); the eldest (SS) sends biting insects in vain to force SB turn to her; MB wants to go with her sisters in the morning, MS wants to stay with her brothers, but the SS and SB do not allow them to do so; soon the SB agrees to go with MB to her sisters; tells the mother that if the wind knocks down an arrow with beads, so they're dead; brothers decorate themselves with stars, enter the house through a hole in the roof, sisters laugh; their father hears it, sends his grandson to find out what's going on; a greedy boy every time demands to give him an increasing portion of roasted pumpkin seeds for this, eats them before reaching the girls' house; when he enters, they throw dirt at him, he cries, his grandfather comes running after him; tells his people to kill him brothers; the Hawk kills both; the Coyote hits the youngest after he died; the woodpecker bites the corpses, now he has red feathers; the brothers' mother is angry with him, making him eat ants ever since; the corpses are hung on a pole, blood drips on the seeds, the old man's people eat them; the MC gives birth to a boy, the sisters tell his father that it is a girl; the boy grows up, kills his grandfather with an arrow; mother and aunt talk about the circumstances of the death of his father and uncle; the boy makes a hole in the ground with an arrow, SB and MB come out, but are too weak, return to another world; the boy comes to the brothers' mother; turns into a Comet, old woman to the Morning Star], 405-409 [two girls go to marry the Red-Winged Starling; Coyote burns his shoulders, rips off strips of skin to make red spots; replies yes, people call him Starling; arranges a wedding with girls; Starling and his friend Oriole fly into a smoke hole, carry girls away; Coyote cries; sends Cardinal to lure Starling into the upper world; Cardinal pretends a wounded man, a starling follows him through a hole in the sky, it closes behind him; he comes to an ice house, two girls warm him up at night in bed, but it's still cold; he sows corn, pumpkins, beans, catches rabbits and deer; girls try all this food for the first time; the Coyote takes the Starling's wives, but they continue to search for him with the Oriole; the Vulture lowers the Starling to the ground, putting him on his back: Starling and Oriole take these girls again, drive the Coyote away]; diegueño (ipay) [like Mojave in Krober 1972]: DubOis 1904 [two sisters come to swim, gopher swims after the youngest, she gets pregnant, gives birth to twins; Coyote, the Canary, prepares for paternity, the woman drives them away; the twins secretly get out of the cradle from their mother, kill the partridges; the mother turns into a stump, waits for them; they convert to her, calling Mother Earth; they kill larger game; the mother asks them to bring eagles; first they bring an owl, a vulture; the youngest climbs a rock, falls, breaks, his elder comes to life; throws off eagles, pacifying snakes around the nest; the youngest gives the elder a black eagle, takes a white one for himself; each sends to another storm, both eagles die; the mother revives them; the elder preys the surrounded a tree with water and predators, the mother makes flutes out of it; hearing the game, girls from the north, west, south come; brothers reject them; receive Vulture's two daughters who have come from the east; when the sisters go to the sound of the flute, the Rattlesnake, the Raccoon, the Long-eared Owl pretend to be flutists, but they play poorly; the mother of the twins tells them not to react to the girls, then they will leave; the mother asks the girls about the degree of kinship , they answer when she says, My daughters-in-law; only the older brother does not give in to affection; in the morning the sisters go home to their father; the older brother reluctantly agrees to the younger brother's request to follow them; mother He tries to hold them back by sending hail, they deceive her, leaving herbal scarecrows; on the way, the elder intends to drown the youngest and return, but he is on the alert; the brothers fly into their wives' house with shooting stars; The Coyote sent by Vulture, the Hawks, the Bear are afraid, the Vulture kills the brothers himself, his people eat them; the youngest's wife gives birth to a son, passes him off as a daughter; his mother's mother says his father was eaten; the grandfather is not in He can kill him; he kills his mother's mother dancing with his father's bones with an arrow; sees people playing ball with their father and uncle's heel bones; during another game, everyone enters a split rock, young man slams her shut, all his father's murderers die; his grandfather, aunt, mother and uncle, who was kind to him, remain; he hears his father's voice, but he cannot revive it from his bones; he goes to his paternal grandmother; puts his bow like a bridge across the lake; when his mother enters, he removes the bridge, she sinks; he comes to his blind grandmother, cleans his house, burns it; puts it on his back, flies to the mountains north; they live there; he is Chaup (shooting star)]: 217-242; 1906 [Challengers Hawk, Owl, Another Bird, Chipmunk, Snake, Wild Cat]: 151-152; Papago [Acorn Eater is the sister of Big Brother; refuses Puma and Jaguar, Hawk and Eagle; brother advises her to marry Gopher; Gopher magically fertilizes her, she gives birth to twins; Coyote and other men claim paternity; mother collects them, but children They do not crawl to anyone; everyone went away, the Coyote stayed, said that he was the grandfather of the twins; they grew up, went to ruin the eagle's nest on the rock; the eldest turned into a snake, crawled to the middle, fell, died; his youngest revived, became a ball of feathers, the wind lifted it to the nest, they came down with two eagles; the brothers are arguing about who to take the smaller chick, the eldest has to take the smaller one; it snowed, the eagles froze, the brothers burned them, the mother revived them from the remaining fluff, told the youngest to take the smaller chick; the Coyote made himself a good bow, and the mother was in a hurry for her sons; became a deer to teach them how to hunt; the mother tells them to hunt bring bamboo from the lake; a lightning snake lies around the bamboo; the youngest managed to get there, the mother made flutes out of bamboo for her sons; in the east lived the Brown Vulture; his two daughters go to the sound of a flute; on the way Owl, Barn Owl, Hawk, another bird give a voice to prove that they played but are rejected; girls come to the brothers' mother; she feeds them but does not let them into the house; the youngest broke his flute, after that the eldest also stopped playing; the sisters return to their father, the youngest is expecting a child; after the wives left, the brothers lost their luck; they came to their wives, the Hawk destroyed their strength and the father killed and ate them; promised eat the youngest daughter's child if a boy is born; but he is blind, he was told that a girl was born; then tries but cannot kill his grandson; the mother sends him to his grandmother; the young man lit the fires in front of them images of father and uncle appeared, but immediately began to fall apart; they said that his grandfather killed them; the young man came to his mother; he was swallowed by a water monster, but he collected sharp stones in advance, cut his womb monsters, went out; the grandmother made four playing sticks out of that bamboo; the young man comes to the cannibal grandfather, the bamboo falls on the old man's head, kills (var.: the bet is life, the young man wins); the young man brings it scalp his grandmother, she dances; she goes overseas; a young man comes to his mother and aunt; goes to his grandmother, mother and aunt after him; he made a bridge, when they are in the middle, he brought it down; they turned into birds that they walk on the beach; the young man began to live with his grandmother]: Densmore 1929:54-79; cocopa [The Shrike girl is looking for a handsome Starling to marry him; the Coyote pretends to be him, marries her; invites her bird neighbors to the party; the Magpie is surprised that someone else (not her husband) is called a Starling; sees a Starling at the spring and goes to him; the Coyote shoots others indiscriminately with a bow] : Crawford 1983, No. 4:125-133.

Honduras-Panama. Kuna [a woman follows her lover brother who has left her; to learn about the road, yields to the harassment of forest animals and birds; gets to an old woman whose sons kill her; twins born avenge the mother]: Chapin 1989:35; Holmer 1951 [first comes to the sound of flutes and whistles accompanying her brother, but he gets weaker]: 149; Wassen 1934b: 6.

Llanos. Guayabero [at first there is water everywhere; Wamek sets fire to wax, it spreads through the water, forms earth; V. makes plants and animals; Laman is lazy; V. sends him for water; he sees reflection of two women sitting on a branch; they spit, he brought them home; they like V., they went to him; V. plays ball with his wives; L. brings a snake parrot, which takes the form of a ball; V. is bitten in the back of the head; three days later he comes to life; his grandmother is unhappy, refused to warm the water to rinse his mouth; V. goes to heaven, followed by his grandmother; L. goes underground with oinu perfume]: Schindler 1977a: 221- 222; Sicuani: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 108 [Opossum's mother invites two girls to marry her son; in the morning, Opossum goes to the garden, the sisters run away; they come to Daledaleni's house; the old woman tells them go along a bad path, but they follow a good path; D. catches up with them; in the house before dawn, devours one of the sisters; the second, taking her skull, returns to the people; D. comes for her, he is fed pumpkin and pepper; from this he dies, turns into a nest of ants; a girl buries her sister's head; at a party on this occasion, Opossum plays the flute; he was the first flutist], 138 [Cockerel invites two sisters marry him; mako feathers lie on the road to him, partridge feathers on the road to the Possum; Opossum replaces feathers; sisters spend the night with him; when they come to the Cockerel, they are rejected, they return home, die of grief; reborn by their mother as one girl; adopted by the Cockerel]: 388-389, 468-473.

Southern Venezuela. Two girls are looking for a groom; the Opossum pretends to be a worthy contender; the girls go to Med, the Opossum kills him; fleeing persecution, hides on a tree or rock; the first ancestors (mostly birds) cut down a tree or rock; smear the blood of the possum, getting the current color. Sanema [Colchster 1981:78-86; Samonamaniapada (samonala ola: sweet honey) works well on the site, speaks Makiritare, Opossum does not work well, does not know the language; two partridge girls ( Odontophorus gujanensis) came, saw Kashtali (a little inedible mouse) in the hammock, began to poke him in the eye with a lit knot; he ran to his older brother Opossum; Opossum dressed up, came home, lay down in a hammock; the girls try to play with him, but push him away because of the stench; Honey came, all the girls surrounded him; Opossum went to the Lizards, took their witchcraft grass, blew on Honey, he died; girls they mourn; the Opossum is just pretending; the snakes understood this, chased him, he climbed a tall tree; all the bird and woodworm people began to cut him down, everyone's axes broke; all the animals came; Ant ( his name means wide-ass little agouti) climbed a tree, began to cut the Possum with an ax, killed him, blood flowed; the trunk was cut off, the tree remained hanging on the sunny vine; Small The Sloth, then the Big, White Monkey, Squirrels, Ocelot, Puma, Jaguar tried to cut it, but not completely, tried to descend quickly; the Squirrel cut, crushed the Little Sloth; the birds painted with the blood of the Possum, acquired their current color]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 132:240-246; Yanomami: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 131 [(Cocco 1972:221-224); the girls rejected the Naro opossum because of its stench; The bee and N. were at a festival in another village; N. rejected everything, the girl followed the Bee; when she came, N. was the first to see her, but she rejected him, came to the Bee; N. prepared witchcraft grass, shot grass at the Bee with a wind gun; when he returned home, he died; N. went and shot guaricongo, but he woke up, said at home that N. had also killed Meda; N. ran away, began to turn into a possum; they sent for him Watch out for the boys, they became birds; N. hides in a tree, the Ant climbs after him, then turns into an ant; everyone cut down the tree, broke off their axes, so these birds have short beaks; finally they cut the trunk, but the tree hangs on the vine; Little Sloth cut it, fell down, N. crashed; birds and animals painted with blood, brain, possum crap, regained their current color, became birds and animals], 133 [(Lizot MS); Opossum was in a neighboring village, left a love remedy there, two girls followed him, he met one on the road; came back, met the second, her name was Honey; both came to his house; his mother Smelly Mushroom cut the meat off her thighs, gave them tapir under the guise of meat; the sisters left the Possum for Honey; the Opossum made a witchcraft from rodent and vegetable hair fibers, sent him to Meda; also to the Lizard, but he survived, said that the Opossum only pretended to be grieving, he was the murderer; the Opossum disappeared, the Woodpecker saw him in the recess on the rock; Earthworm they sent to cover the Opossum with a stone; people began to cut the rock; many axes (= beaks) broke; the rock began to fall, but it was held by a vine; the Sloth cut it, the Opossum was crushed; the birds and animals colored it blood, excrement, brain, turn into hekura spirits; Smelly Mushroom became a mushroom; ash from burned Honey became bees], 134 [(Lizot MS); two girls came to marry a handsome man, entered the house; sat down to the right of the entrance where Opossum and his mother Stinky Mushroom lived; Opossum returned from his happiness (pretending to be working), dressed up, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, gave the girls tapir under the guise of meat; they saw Meda, passed to him; at night, the Opossum hears their laughter; does a witchcraft, tries on the Lizard, he survived; Honey is sick, died; Opossum lies as if his "younger brother" bequeathed wives to him; The Lizard tells the truth, the Opossum is running, the Woodpecker sees him on the rock; the Earthworm climbed in, covered the recess where the Opossum took refuge with a stove; the birds began to cut the rock, the axes (i.e. beaks) were dull, bent; the rock began to fall, hung on the vine; the Sloth cut it, the Opossum crashed, the birds and the sloth painted his blood, brain, and became hekura spirits]: 235-239, 247-256, 257-262; (cf. Polykrates 1967 [two girls come to the hammock of the hard-working and fragrant Nianonamauró, around which stoves and honey {hereinafter referred to as Honey} at night, and his smelly brother Naroríwe (Opossum) is alone; while Honey At the site, Opossum brought the girl tapir meat, but they drove him away; then Opossum witchcraft sent the tree cut down on the site to fall on Honey; his body was burned, the ash was drunk with banana chicha; Two reeds of the species that bees love grew at the site of the burning; there was honey and a pleasant smell; people accused the Possum of Honey's death; he fled at night, but the ants showed where his trail was; Opossum climbed onto rock; people sent the Frog to find out how to kill him; she said that the Possum hid in a hole; then they decided to knock down the rock; the Woodpecker, then the Toucan was cut down, their beaks were broken; finally the mountain collapsed, everything was painted themselves with the blood of Possum]: 287-289); the Yanomam [(Albert MS); two dove sisters reject the smelly Possum, want to marry Med; their brother tells them that Meda's house will have mako feathers; Opossum wears Honey's jewelry, throws mako feathers around himself; Honey works on the site, Opossum only pretends to cut trees; girls see mako feathers, hang hammocks in the Opossum section; he cuts off a piece of meat from the thigh, gives them tapir under the guise of meat; Honey demands its mako feathers back, the Opossum has to hang motmot feathers; Honey takes his wives; Opossum burns his hair from his armpits, makes it a witchcraft that kills Honey in his hammock, the girls also died; Opossum fled, hid in a hollow in a tree; two Ants got up, crushed him with a stone; bird people cut down the tree, the axes were dull , but it did fall; birds and animals were colored with blood, bile, and the brain of the Possum]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990, No. 130:229-234.

Guiana. Oyana: Magaña 1987, No. 53 [see motif J16; in exchange for life, a man promises his sister to Jaguar; she does not want to go; he makes a wooden girl, she falls out of a hammock, breaks; does waxy, the basket sticks to her back; paints the other three girls with black paint, but the Jaguar recognizes the substitution; the man's sister is pregnant with Jaguar, goes to his village; turns to the wrong path, gets to the Possum; Jaguar's son advises not to refuse the Possum, but to put the leaves in the vagina; the woman forgets to take out the leaves, becomes pregnant with her second son; the son asks for fruit, the woman is bitten by an ant, she scolds ant; son thinks he is silent; she comes to the village of the Jaguars; their aunt Toad hides it under a vessel; the Jaguar finds it and eats it; the son of the Opossum is also eaten; the son of the Jaguar turns into a turtle; she eaten, but four eggs remain; two boys and two girls come out of them; a bird in the forest says that the Jaguars killed their mother; children make flutes from their mother's nails to attract Jaguars; they bring down on them the roof of the house], 97 [The possum sticks to the pregnant woman; she goes on, is eaten by jaguars]: 44-45, 53.

Western Amazon. Two sisters walk without a specific goal; they consistently get to several human animals; the old woman says that her son is handsome; he is a snake or phallus sitting in a vessel during the day; at night he tries copulate with the girls who come, they fill it with boiling water]; Tsuna (a tree with smelly leaves) replaces feathers at a fork in the roads; sisters come to him, not to the Swallow; after spending with Ts. night, they run to the Swallow; they are forced to leave, killing his mother. Napo [one woman]: Foletti Castegnaro 1985:102-108; Canelo [no details]: Whitten 1985:9; shuar: Barrueco 1988 [sisters Ipiaku and Sua go to marry Nayapi ; he tells them that there will be a parrot's tail at the fork in the path to his house, and Ikiachimi's tail on the path to his brother; the tsuna replaces signs, the sisters come to him; he brings crab from hunting; his the body exudes a fetid liquid (like a plant with this name); at night, the sisters get the same smell; they return to N.; he drives them away, sends animal people and birds to kill them; sisters think about what turn; reject hill, water, tree, etc. (People will say what kind of hill it is, what a nasty tree, etc.); I. turns into an achiote (a bush with seeds that give red paint), S. into genipu (a tree with fruits that give black paint); pursuers climb them, paint them with red and black paint, turn into animals and birds]: 33-36; Pelizzaro 1961, No. 20:13; 1993:129; Rueda 1987, No. 22 [two sisters Ipiák (uruku) and Suá (genipa) got married, did not make cassava, but balsa wood, the husband turned one into a bird and the other into a toad; they became girls again, got married for Squirrel; he moved everything to the house, left his sisters outside; then for Pavo, he also drove them away; then for Nayap (Tyrannus forficatus, scissor-tailed fly catcher); he was ugly but a good fisherman; said that The path to him will be parrot feathers, and on the path to his brother Tsuna, the feathers of another bird; C. changed their feathers; the sisters lay down with C., felt the stench, came to N.; only a few days later the smell of C. faded away; N. gives small fish to wives and big fish to mothers; wives bathe mother-in-law, she melted in hot water; they began to think what to turn into, S. became a big genipa tree, I. became an Uruku bush], 22a: 118-120 , 123-127; Aguaruna: Akutz Nugkai et al. 1977 (1): 16-67; Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1979, No. 39:457-463; Guallart 1958:93-97; achuar [without the penis snake episode]: Mowitz 1978:75-87; kandoshi [The swallow met two girls, Huito and Achote {"genipa" and "uruku"}; went hunting, explaining that there would be a parrot feather (guacamayo clavado) on the path to his house , and on the path to Alcanfor {smelly insect repellent made from the sap of certain trees}, a chicua feather; A. changed his feathers; the girls came to him; later came to Swallow, but he rejected them because of the stench; they turned into a genipa and achiote, snatched feathers from Swallow's tail, now it's split]: Page 1975:24-55.

NW Amazon. If not otherwise: at the party, the hero meets a girl; she goes to his house; an opossum rival replaces a pen sign at a fork in the road; the girl comes to her opponent, but runs away to the hero; the opponent wants her return him, but the hero kills or maims him by sending him to the tree from which he falls for fruit. Desana [at the festival, two sisters dance with Inambu (Crypturus sp. Forest Cockerel); from the fork to his house there is a path to the right with a yellow macaw feather on it; on the left path to the Opossum house, a green feather Macaw; Opossum changes feathers; in the morning the sisters turn left to reach the Possum; at night they prevent him from inserting the penis into their vagina; he uses all parts of their bodies, since then women have an unpleasant smell; in the morning the eldest gives in to the harassment of the Possum; both run to Inamba; the Crane, the Duck refuses to transport them because of an unpleasant smell; Cayman does not smell, transports them; the Opossum pursues them; Herons wash them (the smell remains only under his arms), they hide it; they kill Oposum, leave his skin on top of the cliff; the calebas in the Possum house is filled with his blood; from it his mother creates two eagles; they take Inamba to Jaguaram, where it is eaten; one feather falls, turns into current inambu; Inambu's father comes to the Jaguars, hides the bone from his son's leg, which falls into the lake, turns into two Diloa fish; Inambu's mother can't catch them; they turn into crickets, come to grandparents; they become young men; they come to the mother of the Possum, kill eagles, make flutes out of their bones; one feather turns into current ones eagles; lightning strikes Jaguars; grandmother also dies because she is from a Jaguar family; D. rise to heaven, become Thunders]: Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:161-188; tucano [inambu girl (forest chicken Crypturus sp.); at the request of the mother, the opossum, the monkey and the eagle kill the girl]: Pereira 1980 (1): 225-228; Barasana: S.Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 4A [the girl is pregnant with her month-brother, he leaves her; she is looking for her father; she goes to the Mother of the Possum; but that woman's son is not an opossum, but a fat worm living in a vessel, he himself is this vessel; the girl breaks the vessel, the Mother of the Opossum cries for son; the girl goes to the heavenly spirit, then to the jaguars, where she dies; her son avenges his mother], 7K [at the dance, Opossum and Chief Tinamu look after Yawira; she agrees with Tinamu, but Opossum overhears them plans; I tell Tinam. follow him along the path, turn at the fork where the feathers from the tail of the zhapu bird lie; do not turn where the blue maco feathers are; the Opossum replaces signs; the mother of the Opossum tells her to lie in a smelly hammock her son; on the Opossum River, tells his wife not to look downstream or upstream; I. looks down, sees Tinama bathing, swims to him; Opossum comes for her; after a quarrel, Tinamu kills him, immediately begins to rain (according to Tatuyo's informant, a rain of Opossum's blood); Eagle sees rain, mourns the Opossum, kills Chief Tinama; Tinama Cubeo's bones are made into his sacred musical instruments]: 275, 300; Torres Laborde 1969 [= Hugh-Jones 1979, No. 4A, but his mother opossum son is really an opossum]: 34; macuna [Month (Makañi ñamigaü - "Night Sun") copulated with plants due to the absence of women; his leg began to swell; to cure him, his sister Meneriyo offered to meet her on the condition that this would not happen again; but he began to come to her secretly at night; after becoming pregnant, M. smeared her lover's face with her genipa to find out who He comes to her; he could not wash off the paint, drowned himself in the river; the father sent the owls to look for his son, they did not find it; the Ayawa brothers found, the sixth finger was missing; A. began to laugh all the animals with stories; the toad did not laughed (apparently she had a finger in her throat), so people don't have a sixth between her thumb and forefinger; Bakonea (naughty little brother) ridiculed the Month, so the older one was only for the fourth time was able to revive him; he was placed at the mouth of the Amazon, dust was collected from his body, she turned into midges biting when the moon was in the sky; when he entered Maloka, M. did not greet his brother who had come to life, but asked the Monkey what he eats; The month said that the fruits of caimo; M. tried to pick it off, the branch sprung, threw it into the sky; then their father went to live in another little boy, put the figure of an old woman at the fork in the roads; If M. laughs at her, the old woman will send her to the path, where the feather of the utu bird leads to the cannibal shaman ~Gãs; if not, on the path to her father's house, where the guacamayo feather; the mochilero bird saw M.'s reflection in a vessel of water was found by M., cleansed her body of flies, brought a rope to go down; the rope turned into a certain kind of vine; finding no one, M. asked the old woman where her father had gone, laughed at her; she sent her on the path to ~Gãs; she came to the Butterfly; his mother warns that he is not human, but M. stays; sees him suck the peel of the fruit, leaves, falls to Opossum; goes with him to eat fruit; on the way he wants to lie down with her; she sends him to fetch a leaf, leaves, comes to ~Gãs; then see motive J15]: Århem et al. 2004:484-488; tarian [ Mahadië (a bird) started preparing the dabukuri festival, told his two cousins to walk to him from the fork on the right road, where he would leave the pen, not to walk on the left road leading to his house Opossum's cousin; he overheard, put his pen on the left path; the youngest wanted to go to the right, the eldest insisted on going left; Opossum's grandmother put them in his hammock; he brought ants from the hunt the girls did not eat them because of the smell; the eldest met with the Possum, the youngest refused; the sisters heard the noise of the holiday; at this time, the Opossum hit the water, trying to drown out the sounds; by the river, the sisters began to ask those who passed by to take them with them to the party; the Crane, Diapo, refused, but the sisters jumped into D.'s boat themselves; he said they smelled like an opossum; M. told them to be washed, then they got into the maloka, they began to dance; Opossum came and demanded that M. give him one of the girls; he was tired, he ordered the Opossum to be killed; when he left, Opossum warned his grandmother that if she was killed, he would go before dawn bloody rain; blood dripped, grandmother ordered the Harpy Eagles to kill M.; in the morning M. and both wives went to the river; the eldest asked him to sing, he reluctantly agreed; after the third song, the Eagles took him to wood; people asked for his long feathers, the Eagles gave them only feathers, brought them to the Opossum house, ate them; Grandma M. asked the Diroá brothers to kill the Eagles; they came to his little girl, killed both birds by letting puçás (darts?) , gave Opossum's grandmother only their little feathers; grandma M. is happy]: Moreira, Moreira 1994:32-34; bar [girl spends the night with a possum; opossum people kill her and her husband; son avenges mother ]: Pereira 1980 (1): 232-235; uitoto: Preuss 1921, No. 23 [at Imenigisa, she first danced with Yedo, then with his brother Zibunaforo, a forest cockerel; she liked him more; in order not to fight with his brother, Z. ordered I. to go alone to his village; on the road to him there would be an arar feather, on the road to J. there would be owls; J. changed signs; I. managed to escape across the river to Z.; J. burned down the house with those who was inside for letting I. go; J. comes to Z., refuses to sleep wherever he is offered, agrees in the hammock where Z. and I. are lying; defecates there, expelled; tries the next day rape I.; Z. invited him to climb the Juansoco tree for fruit, made him fall on rocks, crashed, eaten by wasps; his soul tried to kill Z. and I. in a hammock, but they put up a deck (=Preuss 1994:153-155)], 25 [two sisters go to their uncle, get to various forest spirits; an old woman says her son is handsome; he is a snake sitting in a vessel during the day; trying to copulate with them at night; one sister, when he falls asleep, he gives himself to the snake (later dies); they fill it with boiling water]: 95-96, 105-106; Rodríguez de Montes 1981, No. 16 [as in Preuss, No. 25, but without copulating with a snake and killing one of the sisters]: 126-132.

Central Amazon. Tupi (or rather, the place of recording is not known) [the girl looks for the Falcon groom, sees the wrong pen sign at the fork, gets to the Possum; then to the Vulture; finally to the Falcon; the Vulture comes for her, the Falcon hits him]: Couto de Magallaes 1882:57-61.

Eastern Amazon. Kuñarima is the son of Kumafyari (=Marušawa, from morubišaba, "chief"); the beginning is not recorded; M.'s wife, Kamādu, came to Mukura's opossum, who climbed onto the roof above her hammock (and apparently conceived a second son, Aruβiata); as punishment for the twins breaking water vessels from which rivers flowed out, M. decided to burn the brothers and set fire behind them, but when they slept, fire also stood; K. extinguished the fire with a feather panicle; then M. told the brothers to maintain the pan on which M.'s wife fried manioc flour; A. turned white and said that he could no longer stand it, but K . spat on him, he became crax again; they went swimming, A. could not dive because the water around him was boiling; K. blew, his brother cooled down; the brothers went hunting birds, M. warned to be afraid of Awa; A. decided try to take the hook away from Av, became a fish, Ava and his friend caught it, fried it; K. became a wasp, collected blood and giblets, revived his brother; he himself became a fish, bit off, took the hook; the stork harpoons the fish with its beak; A. became a fish, the Stork harpooned it, ate it, K. revived it (like the previous episode); K. became a fish, dodged, Stork's beak got stuck in a tree, K. brought it to his father, he, like other trophies of his sons, gave it to his wife; an old woman with a sharp leg sits by the path, asks passers-by to take out the sand flea, pierces him with her foot; A. is pierced, the old woman fried him, ate him, his brother collected blood, revived him; when the old woman asked him to take out the flea and struck, he dodged, his leg was stuck in a tree, he cut it off, brought it to his father; the brothers came to Adji ("wild"), they do not have an anus, they defecate through their mouths; K. showed how to defecate, they also wanted to themselves anus; K. began to pierce their anuses, killing them; A. did it less well, those placed on the stakes began to scream, others ran away; the brothers fried the dead, brought meat to his father; M. was happy, ate meat with his sons, gave Like a hammock]: Nimuendaju 1920:1016-1022; tenetehara: Nimuendaju 1915, No. 1 [|see J9 motif; the Opossum episode as in Wagley, Galvão]: 282-283; Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 14 [Maíra leaves, leaving his pregnant wife; she follows him, Maíra Yra ("Son of Maira", SM) shows her the way from her womb; asks him to pick a flower; a wasp bites a woman in the stomach, claps himself trying to kill a wasp; son thinks that his mother hit him, stops talking; the woman sleeps in the house of the Possum; he makes a hole in the roof, the rain falls on the woman, the possum offers to move the hammock closer to him, then move to his dry hammock; this is how a woman conceives Mukwura Yra ("Son of the Possum", CO); SM is dissatisfied; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars, an old woman hides her under a pot; a Jaguar finds her, the woman turns into a deer, runs away; A jaguar with dogs catches up with her; the twins taken out of her stomach tries to fry, cook, pierce with a chip, but only scalds and hurts herself; the old woman makes them her grandchildren; they turn into parrots, macaws, other animals are finally human; one day they look for old women in their heads, tear off their heads, throw each other, then revive the old woman; the bird Jacques tells them about the death of their mother; they cry, the old woman says that their eyes are swollen from wasp bites; they build a bridge over a dry swamp, fill the swamp with water, throw straw fans into the water to fan the fire, they turn into piranhas; they invite the Jaguars to fish, step on the bridge, bring it down; the Jaguars are eaten by piranhas; the SM mother encloses the spirit of the one who ate it in a bamboo vessel, gives it to Maira; he demands proof that the brothers are his children; 1) kill Azang woman spirit; SM sets fire to her long hair, dries the lakes in which Azang tries to put it out, Azang burns; 2) kills the male Azang spirit; he cuts wood, what to do bow and arrows that hit all animals; SM pierces a sharp hand of spirit into a log, leaves it to die; 3) kill Azang the fisherman; SM in the form of a surubim fish removes the bait from his hook; brother gets hooked, caught, fried, eaten; SM asks Azang to give him the bones, revives his brother; asks his father to break the rock with an arrow; he can't, SM He breaks, he is stronger than his father; both are now in the Village of Gods]: 137-140; urubu: Huxley 1956 [Mair flies over a rotten fruit in the form of a bird; a woman comes out of the fetus, he takes her as his wife ; she does not believe that the yams, cassava, etc. planted by her husband ripened on the same day; angry M. leaves; the wife follows in his footsteps, the unborn son from the womb shows the way; after spending the night in the house of the Possum, the woman conceives a second son; Mair's son is offended by his mother, falls silent; the woman comes to the village of Jaguars; the old woman hides her under a vessel, the Jaguars find her, eat her; the children are thrown into boiling water, they jump out; the grandmother adopts them; the brothers cut trees into the river, they turn into piranhas and crocodiles; an island is made on the river, fruit trees are built on it, a bridge is built to the island; when the Jaguars cross the bridge for fruit, the brothers cut the bridge, the Jaguars are eaten by aquatic creatures; because the son of the Possum hesitated, two were saved; brothers come to M. , he gives them bows and arrows; offended by their mother, the brothers throw them into the forest, they turn into snakes; Meir wants to know if his children are in front of him; 1) remove the bait from Anyang's hook; Mair's son takes off the bait, then pulls the forest to laugh; Opossum's son takes the hook in his mouth, is caught, eaten; in the form of an ant, Mair's son collects his bones, revives him; 2) go to Grandfather Wind; he is not at home, Mair's son tickles his wife, her husband hears her laughter, blows, a tree falls on the brothers; Opossum's son dies, revives his brother; 3) walk between two converging and diverging gratin stones; Mair's son passes, the Son of the Possum is crushed, revived by his brother; M. realizes that the youngest of the brothers is not his son, he tells him to go back between the stones; the son of Possum is crushed again; Mair's son rises to heaven in anger, taking the stones with him; from now on produces thunder; Opossum's son goes up to his brother]: 217-220; Ribeiro 2002:180-182 [a worm got out of the tree, turned into a woman; she reached a fork; the path to Mair was thorny and overgrown, Mukura is good, she went for a good thing, got pregnant with Mukura {then it is clear that the woman was already pregnant with Maira before that}; the woman went for a walk, she was torn to pieces by a jaguar, Maira's son, followed by her son The Mukurs jumped out of the womb, rushed into the river; four days later they got out of the water - Maira's son, a 9-year-old, Mukura, a 7-year-old boy; tried unsuccessfully to kill a machete jaguar; jumped into the water again, Maira's son came out 14 years old, Mukura 10 years old, but the jaguar could not be killed again; Maira's son created a river, laid the vine as a bridge; the brothers stood at opposite ends, cut off the vine when the jaguar walked along it, not let him get out of the water, cut him down, kill him; the hurricane knocked down the forest, lifted the brothers into the air, Mukura's son hit him hard; they came to Meira, his son said that they were both his sons; the brothers went along the road, stones began to fall, Mukura's son was crushed; Maira's son became angry with his father, went on, creating stones in the middle of the river, where he is now unknown; on a full moon, Maira rises to heaven, then descends; when thunder, lightning strikes Maira's ground], 210-215 [Maïra put his penis into the crack as he passed the tree, because he did not have a wife; the tree was swollen, a pregnant woman came out of it, and the baby was in her womb spoke, pointing the way to his father; asked his mother to pick flowers for him; one day she reached for a flower, she was bitten by a snake, she slapped her stomach, reproached her son; he fell silent; she came into the house Mukura (i.e. opossum); he offered to spend the night with him; it was raining at night, Mukura was perforating the roof over the hammock by a woman who was forced to lie in his hammock; in the morning he told him to go from the fork to the left, but she turned right, went to a jaguar village; the jaguar wives told her to leave as soon as possible, but she stayed; she was hidden under a vessel; the jaguars turned the vessel over; Maira's son turned his mother into an animal, it ran away, him they caught up, killed; two embryos were given to an old woman; she began to fry them, but burned her hands; the embryos turned into agouti; the old woman began to raise them; the jaguars wanted to eat them; they became boys, ran away went to look for Maira, stayed with him; Maira's son offered to steal the fishing hook of a forest demon; Maira's son bit off and took it away; Mukura's son was caught in piranha guise; the demon ate her, threw away the bones; Maira's son turned into ants, they collected bones, Mukura's son came to life; Mukura's son safely took the hook away from another forest spirit; Maira praised them; the brothers turned into hummingbirds, flew, set fire to the forest beard the demon, his head burned down; the brothers killed the hummingbird {real}, found a man in his stomach; when they approached a wide river, they started shooting arrows one at the tail of the other, they turned into a bridge, they crossed it to on the other side, many bakers killed there; called the jaguars to pick up the meat; when they crossed the bridge with arrows, the brothers destroyed it; all the jaguars drowned because they were carrying a load of meat], 398-406 [Maira three times he took his wives, left it each time; turned the branch into a woman, took it as a wife; she asks where the water came from in the vessel, the flour in the pot, M. tells me not to ask; you can hear the sound of axes on the site, M. does not tell me to go there; the wife walks, sees the axe working by itself; when the axe returns home, the woman grabs it, it stops working by himself; M. is angry, leaves; the child from the woman's womb tells me to follow, shows the way; a woman spends the night in Mukura's house (opossum), at night the roof leaks, she goes into Mukura's hammock, conceives her second son; comes to a jaguar village; their mother hides her, the jaguars find her, the old woman asks to give her embryos; they jump out of the pot, the old woman brings them up, the brothers grow up in a few days; Maira's son invites his brother to avenge his mother's death; makes rivers, cuts off, throws pieces of wood into the water, they turn into piranhas, snakes, caimans; Maira's son creates peka fruits (cariocara); leads the jaguars to collect them; brothers lay the vine as a bridge, cut it off on both sides when the jaguar walks along the vine; two escaped, the rest were eaten by aquatic creatures; brothers come to Meira; his {current} wife is angry that he has children from another woman; Meira decides to check if they are his children; throws a fishing rod with a hook, his son bites off the hook, Mukura's son is caught, leaving a drop of blood; Maira's son is angry with his father, rises to heaven, becomes thunder and lightning; Meira and his wife go south]; tupinamba [Maire-ata goes to travel, his wife cannot accompany him because of pregnancy; he follows, the son from the womb shows the way; she does not give him any fruit, he is angry, falls silent; he goes astray, goes to the Possum; at night he conceives his second son; the possum turns into an opossum; a woman comes to the village of Jaguars; a Jaguar eats her, the twins are thrown into a pile of garbage; one woman eats them picks up; twins hunt for her; show the Jaguars an island in the sea, where they will find many fruits; Jaguars sail there; twins cause a storm; Jaguars drown, turn into jaguars and other cats; The twins come to MA, he tests them; 1) walk between the crushing rocks; Opossum's son dies; MA's son revives him, both pass; 2) remove the bait from Anien's hook; Opossum's son is caught, A. tears him to pieces; MA's son resurrects him, both take off the bait; the MA recognizes them for his sons]: Thevet, 914-915 in Metraux 1932:135-136.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Eseeha [Dokuei-ai (small deer) was the first to cut down the forest on the site, and ordered the Anteaters (aná, oso bandera) to work; they saw that D.'s area was small, cut down the forest around; when D. on On their site, the Anteaters set fire to their own; D.'s cries were heard by his father Edosikian (now translated as "devil", saved his son, but since then he has dark skin and little hair; E. took D. to where his mother lived Anteater; D. asks why the pot is on fire; Cook the deer; D. asked her to show how she would do it, pushed it into boiling water; almost ate it when the Anteaters came; he got into them trap, became a deer; the Vultures thought D. was dead; when Condor pecked his heart, D. came to life, grabbed the Vultures, began to torment them, since then they had their current appearance; let them go for promising to give the biggest daughter; he brought his daughters, D. chose the one he liked; became a deer, still lives in the forest; his wife (Vulture's daughter) went to look for another husband; Pucarara's snake, she had no teeth, asked insert a thorn, bit the girl to death; the girl's sister {practically, it's herself} escaped, the snake behind her, the man killed the snake, cut the current snakes out of pieces; the husband turned into an animal, the wife pregnant, left, went to the Jaguars; Jaguariha tells her brother that a pig girl has come; the one who came hid under the basket, her tooth ornament clapped, the Jaguar found her, ate her, the baby fell out of her ass, I got to my grandmother, she put him in a calebass; the boy grew up instantly, his grandmother told me to be careful not to eat like his mother; the arrows did not harm Jaguar, he killed him with a gun]: Verna 1985:69-71; surui [lonely Iapeab copulates with a tree, inserting his penis into a crack in the trunk; the tree gives birth to two girls, the eldest Cabeud, the youngest Samsam; I.'s mother raises them; Peshire (bird), Mokoba (owl), etc. come to I.; sisters fall in love with P., laugh when M. dances; I. lies to M. as if they consider him handsome; P. leaves his pen on the path to his home; M. replaces him with his own; sisters come to M.; his mother feeds them meat, he feeds them honey; S. realizes that these are rats and mucus from the owl's eyes, but K. eats; S. puts his fingers like a vagina, where M. inserts his penis, but K. does copulate with him; sisters run away; the redfin bird Oyo hides them in her mouth, tells M. that her teeth hurt, pushes him, M. turns into an owl; at home offers the sisters eels, K. eats; then the sisters see that O. digs up worms, calls them blackheads; turn it into birds; they come to the Macabe heron; S. again only imitates copulation, putting their fingers in V: the sisters come to the Itshiab deer, who feeds them corn; cuts the meat off his leg, gives it under the guise of game; the sisters ask why the meat is boneless, scold I. he turns into a deer; they come to P., but he already has a different wife; they turn him and his mother into birds; they come to a land turtle, turn the Monkey and the Parrot into animals; they marry the Jaguar because they marry the Jaguar. only he finally feeds them real meat; S. gives birth to a son; K. is pregnant; Jaguar's mother asks her to take the thorn out of her leg, blows the wind, K. laughs; when she laughs again, Jaguariha devours it; saves the uterus to eat later; S. saves it, raises his sister's baby; tells his son how her aunt died; he rises to heaven, produces thunder, making himself and his brother adults; not can hit Jaguariha with arrows; brothers burn it; together with S. they rise to the sky (No. 25, p.82: turn into thunder), cut off the vine to prevent Jaguar from following them; Jaguar finds and turns the corpse mothers; all blood-sucking insects fly out of the corpse]: Mindlin 1995, No. 22:73-77; synth larga [the Kaboêp girl loved the Owl, but met the Paxit bird (blue, considered her son Jaguar), asks to leave a sign for her on the path to his house; this is his pen; sister K. says that there is an Owl's feather on the path to Owl's house; K. and his sister come to Owl {the substitution of signs is not mentioned, about sister before Mutum's bird episode is no longer said}; Owl's mother says he must bring game to his wife; he brings rats; agrees to give corn; leads for honey, K. does not see bees, Owl climbs a tree, knocks out his eye (? ; quebrou olho), the liquid poured out, Owl says it's honey; K. replies that she will go for the vessel, goes to Pxit herself (took her hammock with her in advance); asks Pomi (Rolinha; bird?) , who eats fruit on a tree, does not say he has seen it; comes to the Crane (Socó), who hides it in his throat; Pomi, Socó tell Sova that they have not seen his wife; Owl asks what kind of bloating Socó has a throat, he replies that his teeth hurt; K. sleeps under the wing of Mutum, becomes pregnant with him, sister K. and Mutum did not get along; K. came to Paxit, Owl demands her return, K. does not want to, Paxis kills the Owl with an arrow, he comes to life, returns home; Jaguariha's mother-in-law asks K. to remove the splinter from her leg; there is no splinter in her leg, Jaguariha kills K., sister K. saves the egg, Sunkip was born from it, grew up; his father tells him to kill Mutum so as not to shout (letters. "cried"); Mutum tells S. not to kill him, says that he is his father, that his mother killed Jaguariha; brings a snake to hide it among edible larvae; she bites Jaguariha, but she does not feel anything; then C . asks Jaguariha to catch nuts that he will throw from the tree, she catches; Mutum asks to check if Yaguariha feels the heat of the fire; advises her to get the larva thrown there out of the fire; S. pushes Jaguariha into the fire, she burns; the ashes have turned into harmful insects; S. asks the Turtle to deceive the Jaguar, who will take revenge; he offers to write in his mouth, bites off Jaguar's penis, he dies; the other wants to kill the Turtle, who advises him to drown it in the lake; the Wild Cat tells the Jaguar that the Turtle did not drown; the Jaguar goes to kill the Turtle, he asks the Squirrel for help; the Squirrel offers the Jaguar chop nuts, wounds his penis; the bird Inambu offers to jump from tree to mouth, throws a nut, the Jaguar is killed; the monkey offers Jaguar {another?} jump, he crashes; Jaguars grab the Monkey by the tail, tear it off, now these monkeys are tailless; they grabbed the Anteater's tail, ripped off his hair; the Jaguars did not catch up with S.]: Leonel Queiroz et al. 1988 : 63-69.

Southern Amazon. If not otherwise: a man makes five wooden girls, sends them to marry a jaguar; three die on the way; two fall into small forest predators (maned wolf, jaguarundi); each of them claims that he is a jaguar; they come to a jaguar; his mother kills one of her daughters-in-law; her twins avenge her death. Vaura [son of the Bat makes the daughter of the Leguminosa tree pregnant while she is in a ritual hut; Kwamuti was born; the girl's father calls men; in the Bat tribe, everyone claims paternity; K. approaches his real father; the woman cries because his face is ugly; K. grew up, there are no women, copulated with a termite mound, two girls were born; K. went fishing near the house of the Tsumare jaguar ( now that constellation); T. grabbed him, let him go for promising to give his daughter; daughter does not want, K. made three girls out of wood; vagina made of wax, teeth from seeds, so people's teeth deteriorate; all animals want to have sex with them, they say that they will only marry T.; disappointed that T. had an ugly face; they married Jaguarundi Wau, who is handsome; he went to the square to give orders, no one listens; the girls realized that he was not the leader; T. pretended to have a headache, stayed in the village, took W.'s wives away; in the evening, the jaguar people returned with "fish" - these are K.'s murdered people; so that the girls could eat for them they caught real fish; pregnant woman spins, T.'s mother blows the winds, the woman is offended, mother T. cuts off her head for it, runs away; the sister told them to her husband; Muravyedikha found twins in her stomach, this is the Sun and A month; when they were taken out, their tails were cut off; the twins went for peanuts, the birds said that their mother was killed and buried; they tried to revive her, she is already answering from the grave, but her aunt and father say it is not necessary; The sun asks their father to make arrows for them; they fired arrows into the ground, fumigated, they turned into people of all tribes and Brazilians; the brothers killed their father and his people; the Sun offered ships and vodka to the Indians, but they refused; therefore, Europeans; (pp. 36-37 - second option)]: Schultz 1966:21-33, 36-37; calapalo: Baldus 1958:45-61; Basso [Quatinga meets Jaguar Nitzuega; that agrees not to kill K. for promising to send him daughters; K. carves five out of wood; tapir makes them a vagina by copulating; on the way they copulate with Laska, Kingfisher; one died after drinking poisoned the waters from the lake; the other is split by the tapir's penis; the third fell off a palm tree, crashed; the male series says he is N.; later women realize that this is not the chief's house; they come to N.; one sister becomes pregnant; N.'s mother blows the wind, the woman spits, chewing cotton, she kills her with her claw thrown; twins were taken out of the womb of the victim; these are Taugi (the elder) and Avlukuma; the body was hidden under the roof; forest the chicken told the twins about her mother's death; Jaguariha's house is surrounded by stinging insects, T. sent birds to eat them; the brothers killed Jaguariha; T. became pregnant with her aunt by giving her an arrow; she gave birth to warriors, T. gave them weapons; N.'s people fled to heaven; only Aguchi escaped by slipping between his legs] 1973:10-12; 1987:29-79; kuikuro: Carneiro 1989 [Kuantïnï decided to visit the sky, where all animals are; in his forest surrounded the jaguars; their leader, the black jaguar Nitsuengï, agreed not to kill him when K. promised him his two daughters; N. put K. on his bow, untwisted it, threw it from heaven to the ground; K.'s daughters refused go to the jaguar and K. carved the girls out of wood; out of 8 left in hammocks, 6 came to life; made his hair first from buriti fibers, then pineapple fibers - very wet; then from algae; made teeth out of chips (black), piranha teeth (ate too fast), seeds; tried different fibers for the triangle on the pubis; cut out the vaginas itself; told tifigu trees (then humans) to copulate; penises are scratched; then lined the vaginas with cotton - good; Owl told the eldest of the girls, Itsanitsegu, that their father was going to send them to a jaguar; the battleship told the girls about the difficulties of the journey, in return demanded permission get together with one of them; forgot his penis in the village and while he was running after him, the girls left; he blew, spreading witchcraft to make them die on the way; then he met the kingfisher, he gave fish, copulated with one of the girls, she put in a tampon so as not to get pregnant; the same with the howler monkey, gave fried fish; the seagull offered fried oysters, the girls refused, so the seagull could not get along with them; another species of kingfisher; the girl who stayed with him asked him to throw the necklace on his back so as not to interfere during copulation; poured sperm on him, taking out her tampon; since then this kingfisher has white spots and the necklace marks on her back; the girls sent the most beautiful one to the tree to throw off the buriti leaves; I. turned the stumps of their nails into biting flies; because of their bites, the one who climbed the tree fell, the leaves pierced her, others buried it; the deer refused to copulate, although I. wanted it; she gave him salt and since then the deer have died quickly from the wound; on a slippery path, one slipped, fell and died; K. warned girls should not drink from the poisonous river; one drank, died, she was buried; the tapir cut down trees, warned of a fork - if you go the wrong path, you will get to the wolf village; I. told one girl with him to get together, his thick penis split her; I. hit him in anger, since then the tapirs have a narrow ass; when they saw that the split one was made of wood, the remaining two girls were upset, which means they, that's why them sent to the jaguar; Tayra barbara gave honey, but it was strong, the girls began to cough; he got along with him, the cough stopped; at the fork in Itsanitsegu she went left to the wolf village, and Anafukuagu went to the right, to the village of the jaguar; I. climbed a tree above the river; the wife of the wolf of the series saw the reflection, decided that it was her, began to show off beauty; then realized; threw a nail stump, it became a fly, she bit the series, she dropped the calebass with water, it crashed; the same again; then called her husband; I. followed the wolf, thinking it was a jaguar; a fish fell out of his ass, he said that the fish was in the sink necklaces; the wolf's mother greeted I., but she realized that she was mistaken: she was treated to fruit, i.e. food for wolves; from her sister, Jaguar N. found out that I. was in the wolf's village; took her; gave her potions to drink, she belched fish, got rid of pregnancy from a wolf; when I., 8 months old, N. hid her under the roof, told her not to spit if his mother Kafisatïgo came and started the winds; I. spat cotton seeds, Kafisatigo thought that, out of disgust, she threw her claw at her, which cut off her head; Sister I. raised the alarm; N. said that this was his third wife killed by his mother; Agouti told the girls' father, who sent an ant into I.'s vagina, the ant said there were two boys in the womb; Quantini put them in the basket; they grew up quickly; the wild dog gave them the names Taoguiñï and Aulukumá; the grasshopper gives them names Sun (Giti) and Month (Nune); A. asked the Sun to dig peanuts in the partridge garden; she retaliated that A. was the Sun's aunt, and his mother killed her mother-in-law; the brothers took her mother's body from the roof of the house, where they put him to dry; the sun sent a fly in her nose, she came to life, he spoke to her, but she cried and died again; digging animals dug up the grave, I. buried; The sun told the bird to eat the wasps, the hawk - snakes, anteater - poisonous ants, tapir - to trample thorns; the road to mother N. opened; the brothers came to her disguised as young children; she began to tell how she killed I.; the Sun killed her; from her body evil butterfly spirits flew out; a month looked out from behind the tree, his nose was torn off; the Sun attached him, but now that the moon is in profile, you can see that there is no nose; Quantini let A. eat the ashes of bamboo, she gave birth to a crane, Suya and other wild Indians; took the opossumiha child, said N. that it was hers, he was happy; but the opossumiha took him; the wild Indians killed all the jaguars; the Sun saved his father and aunt by placing them in heaven, and they had what they had, put tapir and deer (now constellations on the Milky Way) there; after arranging the life of wild Indians, the Sun rose to heaven]: 4-14; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [Kuatungue went for make a net with fibers; he was surrounded by jaguars; he promised one daughter, who let him go; he has two daughters, but he carved six girls out of wood; tried different hair fibers; first piranha teeth, they eat too fast, then from seeds; made pubic triangles (the trees did not want to give fiber for this); when they heard an owl scream, the girls asked their father what was going on; he told the whole story; along the way one got drunk from a poisonous river, died; the kingfisher showed the way, for which he met with one of the girls; Tyra gave one honey, she started coughing, he got along with her; the tapir showed the way, met the girl, she split, they realized that they were wooden; the battleship showed the way, went to get an erection, the girls ran away, he said they would die on the way; one slipped in the river, hit, died; the deer warned of a fork; one climbed a palm tree for leaves, the other turned the nail stumps into flies, they bit the one who climbed, fell, ran into a leaf, died; at the fork, two sisters climbed on tree; series - the wolf's wife saw the reflection, decided that she was beautiful; they turned the nail stumps into flies, they bit the series, she dropped the calebass, she broke; so twice; the series called her husband; the older sister, made from the bottom of the trunk, followed the wolf's path, the youngest took the jaguar path; the jaguar took the wolf who had come to the wolf; she turned around, the wolf's mother's head fell off; the jaguar gave her the potions to remove wolf fruit; she became pregnant with a jaguar; spat a cotton seed, the jaguariha thought that out of contempt for her, she cut off her head with a claw; sister picked up the boys Rit (Sun) and Une (Month); the jaguar resettled her mother , surrounding this place with snakes, wasps, thorns, put the body of the victim on the roof of the house; the brothers grew up stealing partridge peanuts, she told them about the death of his mother; the bird ate the wasp, the snake hawk, the tapir trampled thorns, the brothers killed her grandmother by tying stones to her legs and trampling her; set fire to her house, her body exploded, the moon's nose was torn off, now it's flat; Rit told the jaguar to eat capybaras, not people; the mother was removed from roofs, she was barely alive, Rit hugged her, she was completely dead; digging animals dug the grave; Rith told his father to prepare lots of bows and clubs; told her aunt to give birth in the forest, she gave birth to wild ones Indians, Rith gave them weapons; her aunt told her husband that she gave birth to an opossum child, but the opossumiha took it away; the wild Indians killed the jaguars, and threw Rit's father and aunt on the bow into heaven; Rith divided the tribes ; then Rit and Une went to Morena]: 72-88; Kamayura: Agostinho 1974:163, 172; Münzel 1973:26; Seki 2008, No. 1 [Mawutsini tries to make people out of wood from different trees, they don't come to life; asks the Sun, who replies that M. knows himself; the lizard suggests the right tree species; M. makes many pairs of people to stay in a community house; first he makes hair out of white fibers, so people turn gray; suitable trees run out, five women are left unpaired; M. sends them to marry the Jaguar; the stork (martin fisherman) shows the way, for which he copulates with one of the girls; she hangs him on neck necklace, still visible; wipes his hands stained with sperm on his back, traces remain; going on, the girls decide to make belts out of the bark; one climbs a tree, the other creates a horsefly, he bites first, she falls in fear, attacks her vagina on the dropped bark, dies; the other Stork (maguari) shows the way, for which she copulates with a girl, she smeared his feathers with sperm; the fox shows and copulates, his face was stretched out, his tail was ruffled; the same Battleship (ran to look for his penis, but the girls were already gone); Tapir (penis so big that the girl he met died); girls bent his head down; (the fifth girl is not mentioned), two climbed a tree above a pond near the village of jaguars; two local women took their reflection for their own; they sent horseflies, the women dropped Calebasses with water told Jaguar, but not to the one the women had come to marry; he was covered with pendants; one woman suspects he was not the same; they finally saw his red ass; and his mother gave him water with a drink with thorns, both turn into real jaguars; a young Jaguar meets women, this is the real groom], 2 [Mawutsini has five daughters; they warn not to go for bark made from the fibers of which they make a bowstring, the tree belongs to the jaguars; M. went, the jaguars heard the noise, went to look; when leaving, M. came across the Jaguar leader; he had to promise him daughters as wives; they refused - Jaguar's mother would eat them; M. carved five girls out of tree trunks; hair out of bast, not good; then I took black from a black bird; teeth from pebbles, I didn't like it, black; then the seeds were white; belts made of buriti palm leaves ( Mauritia flexuosa), so now women's belts made of these leaves; two trees refused to let the bark make uluri {does it cover the pubis?} , said that they would only be used to build houses, the third agreed; M. asked the fruits of the vine to deflorize the girls; the fruits were like a penis, but without a head, because they broke; then the fruits the other vine was successful; he gave each a comb, the sisters went; one climbed to cut off the buriti palm shoot, it fell with a sharp end up; the others sent a horsefly, the bite caused the girl to lose her balance, fell with her vagina to escape, died; others ask for directions from the stork Jaburu (Jabiru mycteria Ciconidae), then the Tuiuiu stork (Mycteria americana Ciconidae), each copulates with one of the girls; the White Heron just pointed out that he did not want to copulate so as not to get his feathers dirty; then Martin the Fisherman threw his necklace on his back; the girl stained his back with sperm, wiping his hands, so his back is now speckled; the battleship ran after his penis, the girls left during this time, then he masturbated using the marks they had left; the older sister did not want the fourth went further with them; bewitched, she forgot her comb, came back for it; began to scream, call her sisters, turned into the forest spirit "queen of the forest"; Tapir copulated with his third sister, his penis huge, she died, his sisters hit him on the coccyx; climbed a tree above the lake near the jaguar village; they were playing ball (people learned this game from them); two women came to swim, saw the reflection, decided that they are so beautiful; the sisters sent horseflies, the women dropped the calebasses twice; they noticed the sisters; they rejected the first jaguar that came, went with the second, one sister says that the groom is not him, his ass is red; he does not have cassava in his house; in the morning, the Jaguar chief referred to a sore eye, did not go hunting, returned to the village, brought the girls to his place, he had good food; the first jaguar {ocelot?} and his sister gave his mother a drink with thorns, they hoarsened, turned into jaguars, ran into the forest; while Jaguar and his elder wife were on the site, the younger pregnant woman looked for lice from her mother-in-law, spit out her hair, she decided that her daughter-in-law disdained her with lice, killed her, went to the forest; the sister asked Ant to take the children out of the deceased's womb; he pulled her out behind her head, so people have two dents on their skulls; the mother was buried in the middle villages, premature babies were placed in calebasa, hung it; Jaguar and his wife see traces - children secretly go out; children do not take abandoned women's items, they take arrows, which means boys; Jaguar and his wife did The appearance that they are leaving, waiting for them, caught the boys, called them parents, called them Orphans; the brothers hunt, count the fingers of the killed Pakis, the kutias are 4, which means not our grandfather; the lizard is five fingers, so you can't eat; The battleship called himself grandfather, gave the brothers the names Tapea Kana and Tapea Jaú (terms for turning the road); but Cicada gave the names Kwat and Jay ("sun" and "month"); brothers steal peanuts from the field Partridges (that's why people eat peanuts); she finds them, talks about their mother's fate; brothers turn her into a partridge, let her sing at the end of the rainy season (this time New Year); aunt showed where she buried her sister; the brothers opened it, began to call, the mother responded, but the voice was getting weaker, stopped; if earlier, they would revive it; but now we are dying forever; the brothers told the wasp to bury the corpse again; they found Jaguariha, that began to play with them, Quat hit her and killed her; the Jaguar father and the deer were moved to the Milky Way (α and β Centauri); they made arrows, turned them into people, they killed the inhabitants of the jaguar village; they became By Sun and Month]: 113-141, 151-187; Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973 [Mavutsinim's daughters warn him not to go to the jaguar village for onion fiber; he went, M. climbed a tree, the jaguars surrounded him , he had to promise his daughters to the chief of the jaguars; they refused, fearing Jaguar's mother; M. singing turned eight felled trees into girls; made his hair from buriti palm fibers, too light, then I asked the bird to be black; the teeth were first from shells, they were dark, then from mangab seeds; good, but now my teeth hurt; made fiber belts, bamboo genitals, told the vine to have sex with the girls; 5 out of 8 agreed to go to Jaguar; one forgot the comb, went back, got lost, became elf of the wood; the stork agreed to show the way when they met him; they painted his neck, to make him ugly; one climbed a tree to make a new belt, fell on a broken shoot, died; Tapir agreed to show the way if they met him; he has a big dick, the first died, two the others left, climbed a tree near the shore where the Jaguar was to come; the black bird heard them laughing, said to Jaguar, who fired whistling arrows, the girls were not caught, and the Jaguar thought they were not coming to him; they caught Wolf's arrows, who said they were looking for him; when they went with him, they caused the wind, saw that his buttocks were red under his hair; his mother said he only eats fruit; the girls went to Jaguar; he fired arrows, they caught them; The wolf and his mother turned into animals; the youngest is ready to give birth; the mother-in-law asks to look for it in her head; the girl accidentally took her hair in her mouth, spat, her mother-in-law decided that disgust, killed her daughter-in-law, ran into the forest; the mother was buried, the ants took the two boys out, put them in the basket; while the Jaguar is on the site, the brothers get out, eat fish; the Jaguar put the rags - they did not take the onions and the arrows took it; the Jaguar realized that they were boys; asked them not to hide; the brothers were stealing peanuts from the Partridge field; she said that their mother was dead; the Jaguar and the victim's sister confirmed that they also cried; the brothers they called their mother, she responded, they dug up the grave, but there was a corpse; decided that it would always be like this (death is final); the brothers killed their grandmother; the grasshopper named the brothers Kuát (Sun) and Iae (Month); Jaguar I wanted to make my sons jaguars; they turned bamboo into wild Indians, they killed the people of the Jaguar; the Jaguar and his wife went to heaven; the brothers came to their grandfather, performed a memorial ceremony for their mother]: 57-67; trumay: Murphy, Quain 1955:72-74; bakairi [good English translation Oberg 1953:77-81; Russian incomplete translation Siebert 1972:138-144; Kamushini (black, shaggy - possibly Spider) meets Jaguar Oku in the forest; he defeats him, K. promises women in exchange for life; makes them out of wood, sends the eldest two to O.; on the way, one fell off a palm tree, crashed, the other Nimagakaniro came to jaguars; jaguars attack bacairis; Oka Mero's mother (a wild chicken, Criptus noctivagus or Tinamus vrasiliensis, but has huge claws; related jaguar and wild chicken genera) ate so much that no one left; N. conceives two sons from the bacairi seeds she had swallowed; for this M. scratched her eyes, she died; Quara, Oka's brother, takes the twins out of her mother's womb; M. considers them his own grandchildren; one of them Keri (sun), the other Kame (moon; both words are from Arawak language); twins' aunt Ewake tells them about their mother's fate; the brothers killed and burned M.; they themselves also burned down, coming too close close to the fire, but reborn as human; asked Oka to make many arrows; they blew on them, they turned into Kayabi Indians; Keri killed Oku by hitting him in the knee with an arrow, who fell into the water and drowned; then the cultural acts of the twins, the motives B7B (creating rivers), B77 (separating heaven from earth), D4A (getting fire), I45 (getting sleep); then Keri taught how to build houses, fish, arrange ritual dances, divided tribes]: Steinen 1897:317-329; Iranshe [see G23A motif; the bird Sabia (Turdideo) comes to the village to teach others to play the sacred flutes; the Hummingbird is among her companions; the girl gets pregnant from him; the Owl (Speotito cunicularia) overhears him telling her to come to him when the baby is born; at the fork, he shifts a feather crown from the Hummingbird Trail to his path; a woman with her younger sister, child and mother come to Owl; he gives them grasshoppers, Blatideos, an inedible false cassava to eat; urinates when copulating; they leave; Cayman carries them across the river; gives fish, grabbing it and regurgitating it; they only pretend to eat it; the turtle throws fruits to the sisters from the palm tree, copulates with the elder; goes after their mother; women get tired of waiting, they leave; The battleship pulls out honey; they pretend to treat it by squeezing bee larvae into his eyes; carrying honey; drinking honey, swimming in the river, hearing the sounds of sacred flutes; Stagmatoptera predicativa is the guardian flutes; kills women and a child with an ax to prevent them from seeing the flute; Hummingbird regrets not going to meet women at the fork in the trails]: Pereira 1985, No. 2:37-43; paresi [two brothers married two sisters; one has a son Kazalynazaré, the other has a daughter Ayryazeró; K., his father, both mothers turned into birds, swallowed by a huge fish; Father A. organized a party; the bird Trogonideo meets a girl; in the morning she goes to his house; Owl changes the pen sign at a fork in the roads, the girl comes to Owl's house, everything is in mud; she runs, spends the night in a hollow, where she paints parrot chicks; they take her home; she tells her where the parrot's nest is, her brothers kill the chicks; parrots make her get lost again out of revenge; she goes to the Wolf; says that she is on her period, she gets stuck I test the parrot watchman's beak, comes to Mãe do tucum-do-campo; to the emams; to the Forest Cockerel; refuses to sleep with him, he flies away and takes the fire; to the Spider, does not want to copulate, he drives her away; she comes to the Aquatic People, their mother kills her; her soul flies away like a bird, together with the soul of her cousin swallowed by fish, decide to be called K. and A. and take revenge on the fish; they raise stones and tree trunks, to then be able to raise their enemy; raise the main fish to the tree where the stones were previously brought; eat; fallen pieces of meat and drops of blood turn into poisonous insects and snakes; scales into fish ; head to stingray]: Pereira 1986, No. 16:246-261; Bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 98 [Adúgo Édu is married to Akiguródo; Akarúio Boróge met him while hunting; he attacked in exchange for his life, he demanded his daughter as his wife; Adugo explained that when the girl goes to him, she will first meet the little wolf Ókwe (every time he describes, warns not to mistake him for him, Adugo ), then the marten tyra Ipočeréu, then the big wolf Ríe, then the puma, then the leopard {apparently ocelot}, only then Adugo {i.e. jaguar}; false contenders each time convince the girl that they are Adugo; after spending the night with the deceiver, she realizes in the morning that this is not a real fiancé, because he must bring tapirs, and these bring less valuable meat; finally, Adugo comes to the real one; tells his wife not to laugh if an evil spirit makes her laugh; Marugódu's caterpillar laughed, the woman laughed, immediately fell dead; Adugo found two twins in his stomach, raised; they once heard their father's mother cry; she explained that they would have to do difficult things; not to tell their father, the brothers began to train; the elder Eigáwa Áre, the youngest Eigáwa Enawuréu; They asked the father for bows and arrows; they hunted parrots, who ate people at that time; the brothers told the rest to eat fruits; asked the father to give a fishing net; fish bit people; brothers caught many, the rest were told to eat other fish; asked their father to give small arrows; they shot leaf cutters and wasps, who harmed people, told them to eat leaves and flowers; asked the father to do club; the brothers began to chase Báče, got entangled in vines, they killed him, since then the báče have been eating fish, not people; asked a thick rope to fight the cannibal eagle; EA wrapped it in a rope Brother's head, the eagle clawed into it, got stuck, EA killed him; told harpy eagles to eat monkeys, not humans; the brothers scattered the eagle's fluff, the grandmother realized that the grandchildren were in danger; the brothers asked Father's stick, came to Marugoda's house, stabbed her on a stick, threw her into the fire; the father warned him to hide, but EA went out to see, the bone flew into his eye, his father told him to throw himself into the water, his eye recovered; then With his younger brother; both their skin and eyes became beautiful; Bororo still has dark eyes], 99 [about like (98), brothers Bakoróro and Itubóre; marugoddo]: 174-179, 180-186.

Chaco. Matako [the daughter of the sun marries Woodpecker, the honey miner; walks through the forest, the Takwah trickster tries to take possession of her, she returns to her father; when she comes to her husband, the trickster tries to impersonate her missing wife]: Barabas, Bartolomé 1979a: 128-131; 1979b: 79-80; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, No. 63-66:132-141; toba: Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 100 [a girl wants honey, her mother offers her marry Woodpecker; first Voyagalachigi, then the Carrier bird pretend to be him; she recognizes them (V. by smell); marries Woodpecker; seeing B, rushes into the river, turns into a capybara; V. accepts her appearance, comes to Woodpecker, posing as his wife; Woodpecker recognizes V. by voice, kills with a truncheon]: 202-210; 1989a, No. 274 (eastern toba) [mother sends daughter to marry Woodpecker honey earner; Fox several once he goes out to meet him, says he is a Woodpecker, but the girl sees that he has bad honey; finds the Woodpecker; in his absence, the Fox tries to rape her, she runs away; he takes her form; the Woodpecker asks her take out the lice, she stabs his head with a needle, he hits his "wife", identifies the Fox by screaming]: 360-361; tobacco pilaga [all men strive to marry a lonely beauty; she hears beautiful singing, goes to voice; on the way, asks those he meets to sing, their singing is ugly; finally finds a bird singer, marries him]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1989a, No. 406:559; (cf. Chorote: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 57 [Battleship harvests the best harvest; Royal Vulture goes to invite him to be his daughter's husband; Fox pretends to be Battleship, sleeps with a girl; she identifies him by smell and teeth, goes to Battleship]: 101-102); nivakle [everyone's favorite young man Drozd sings and plays the pipe beautifully; two parrot sisters hear music, go to look for an artist; Seriema (Chunga burmeisteri) claims that he played; his play is bad, they go to Thrush; when he eats, his skin moves, his sisters think he has worms; the offended Thrush leaves; the sisters stay alone]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 196-197 [sisters ask them to take turns playing many birds they meet], 198, 199 [Thrush marries younger sister]: 472-485; Maca: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 12 [Mako's woman is covered in colorful feathers; hears music, goes looking for a musician; asks everyone to sing; Vulture and others try, she rejects them; Thrush is the last to speak; she grabs him, takes him home; others tell him not to let her sleep; when his wife finally falls asleep, Thrush calls the others, the men pluck Mako's feathers and decorate themselves with them; Mako asks his grandfather to sharpen her spear, he agrees that she tests the spear on it, she kills him, the spear comes back on its own; she kills many men, but the Caracara bird kills her with an arrow], 13 [starts as in (12); men pluck Mako's pubic feathers; her father makes her a club, her grandfather sharpens him, she kills him; kills all men, but Hawk runs away; copulates with all women; he has a son from the old woman Caracar; he kills Mako with an arrow; men rush to pluck her pubic feathers, make red crowns out of them]: 51-53, 54-56 (cf. No. 14 [Efu Naq'aju woman walks through the forest, runs to the sound of a honey collector's ax, kills with a sharp tool, devours; naj litaj sang well, she chose him as her husband; others advised not to let her sleep; when she finally fell asleep, her husband stole the feathers that covered her feather clothes; men they made hats out of them for themselves; the woman killed everyone, birds with a tuft on their heads flew out of the ash]: 57).

The Southern Cone. North Tehuelches [the daughter of the Sun goes to marry Guinapo (a white-breasted bird); meets the hawk Carancho, who claims to be G.; she tells him to jump, his knees are like round pebbles; only a cabbage leaf takes off the ground; she does not believe him; all bird people gather in Carancho's house; G. rejects the girl, since she comes with K., locks her in the room, leaves himself; the fox rattles a rattle, proclaims, the End of the World, the End of the World! Everyone flies away, turns into birds]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 95:138; South Tehuelches [the girl is looking for a snipe groom; the poor and ugly Hawk claims it's him; she spends with him night; in the morning, when people play ball, she sees a real groom; he rejects her, she leaves]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 96, 97:139-141; Hernández 1997 [multiple versions; the girl is rich]: 70-71.