K25a2. Discarded feathers. .28.31.32.39.

An anthropomorphic character flies away or tries to fly away, attaching feathers dropped by birds flying in the sky to his body.

Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Tverskaya), Belarusians, Lithuanians, Chuvash, Mari, Chukchi (reindeer).

Central Europe. Russians: Karnaukhova 1934, No. 100 (Arkhangelskaya, Shotova-Gora village) [Grandfather and woman go to the forest for mushrooms, find a crooked duck, take it home, and make a nest. The next day, while they pick mushrooms, the duck turns into a girl, cleans the house and cooks dinner. Neighbors say they saw a crooked girl. The next day, grandparents and woman hide in the closet, when they see that the duck has become a girl, they burn her feathers. She cries, asks for a golden shuttle and a spinning wheel, spins a tow on the porch, asks flocks of swans flying by for feathers, they do not give. A lonely swan throws her feathers, she becomes a duck and flies away]: 201; 1948 (north) [Ivan Tsarevich wounded a swan, brought it to the tent; someone cooks and cleans; for the third time I. finds and grabs the girl; she resists, turned into a golden spindle, I. broke it, threw his heel in front of him (be young), and the tip behind her back (be a scarlet flower); they have a son; in the spring, the grandmother tells I. to guard his wife; swans are flying, everyone offers to throw off her wing; the wife replies to her father and sister that she has Ivanushka here; the mother tells her to shed her wing, his wife picked it up, but I. grabbed her; she cried]: 173-177; Russians (Pskov) [grandfather and woman went for mushrooms, the grandfather found a lame duck, brought it, they put it under the bed; when they leave, the duck becomes a man: heats the stove, bakes pies, puts it samovar; geese are flying on the third day; the duck asks to throw her a feather; the wing has grown, it flew away]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 29:95-96; Russians (Tverskaya) [grandfather and woman went to pick mushrooms, picked up a crooked duck; when they left in the morning, the duck turned into a girl, cleaned the hut, made pies; neighbors say that the crooked girl carried water; grandfather and woman hid in the closet, threw feathers into the fire; the girl saw and she cried asked for a spinning wheel, began to spin on the porch; a flock of geese is flying, she asks to throw off a feather; geese: swans will give; swans: others will give; a lonely goose is flying, threw off her feathers; she became a duck and flew away]: archive of the Center for Tver Local History and Ethnography, sent by V.E. Dobrovolskaya; Belarusians [the woman tells her grandfather to cut down a stump, make a cradle and swing it in the forest; the stump became a boy; asks make him a shuttle on the river to catch a fish; when his mother brings him food, she sings a song (Ivanka, son, golden shuttle, silver merry); the snake found out, told her daughter Alenka to melt the stove, went to call Yi .; he does not hear mama's voice; the snake told the blacksmith to forge her tongue to make her thinner â€" it does not help; threatens the blacksmith, who made his tongue very thin; I. swam, the snake dragged him into the bag, brought him home, told A. to fry, went to invite guests; I. pretends not to know how to sit in the oven, A. began to show it, he fried it himself; the guests ate A., ride on bones; I. on the roof, asked the geese to throw it on they threw off the feather, he flew with them; he was tired, sat on the oak tree; the snake was already here, brought an ax from the blacksmith, began to cut it; the oak was ready to fall, the bunny was fart! cutting down the thicket; the snake cuts again, the ax broke; the snake ran after another, cuts again; ducks are flying, I. asks to throw it off, they threw it off, I. flew away with ducks, returned home]: Romanov 1887, No. 49:268 -269.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 91 [geese peck buckwheat, the old man catches a goose, she turned into a girl, the pan married her; flocks of geese are flying, the wife asks every time if her parents are here, brothers, sister, grandfather and grandmother; they are in the last pack, they threw her a feather, the goose flew away, leaving two children], 92 [a swan comes to the old people, turns into a girl, cooks and cleans; an old man waited, burned his wing; the king married her; the swan father calls her, but she refuses to leave her son; the mother is the same; when the darling flies, she asks to throw off her wing, leaves her son; the king married laume; a swan flies to her son; the king smeared the windowsill with resin, grabbed his wife, executed laume]: 203-205, 205-207; Lebite 1965 [while the old people are clearing the felling, the Swan arrives every day, turns around a girl, puts the house in order; the old man hides, burned his wings, the Swan remains with the old men; the king notices her, brings her to the palace, she gives birth to him a son; swans fly over her, offering to shed her wings; she refuses her father, mother, takes wings from her swan friend, flies away; her friend dies; the king marries Lauma; the Swan regularly flies to her son, the rest of the time the baby sleeps; the king spies, the old man advises to smear resin on the windowsill; the king catches the Swan, tears off his wings, executes Laume]: 133-135.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi: Grigoriev 1971 [Ivan shot a goose, brought it home, the goose became Aldyuk's girlfriend; gave birth to a son; mother-in-law, not knowing why they are, finds and burns goose wings; each time geese are called they throw her with them, throw her on the pen; they recruit enough, she flies away; returns to the crying child; I. plucks and burns her feathers again, his wife stays with him]: 65-69 (=Danilov, Nechaev 1975:28-31; = Eisin 1993:180-182); Marie: Akzorin 1984 [Toydemar's stepson caught Lebedushka in a snare, brought her home; her stepmother plucked her, burned her feathers; T.'s tear fell on Lebedushka, who became beautiful, married T.; in the fall, the swans threw her feather, she flew away like a swan; T. cried, the swans threw off their feathers and to him, he became a swan, flew away after his wife]: 132-145; Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [the old man and the old woman have a son; who- then he ruins oats; the son guards, sees a swan, scorched her wings with a burning spruce branch, she became a girl, he married her; when she goes to fetch water, swans call her every time and throw her pen off; she leaves his clothes on the stump, attaches feathers, flies away with a swan; the son goes to the stump with a silver whip, but his wife is not; he cried]: 36-38.

SV Asia. Chukchi (reindeer) [two options; 1) girls Geese and Chaika take off their feather clothes, swim in the lake; a man steals clothes; returns them to everyone but the most beautiful Seagull; takes her as a wife; y they are two sons; instead of edible roots, she collects unnecessary herbs, her mother-in-law scolds her; when the birds fly south, she asks them to throw her feathers; she flies away with the children; the husband goes in search; the Eagle sends him to an old woodcutter; a country of birds can be seen through his anus; an old man sends a man there in a self-propelled boat; a man comes to his wife; she has a new husband, the Bourgmeister seagull; birds attack man, firing feathers instead of arrows; man maims and kills birds with a club; splashes water, birds freeze to the ground; man brings his wife and children home; 2) as in (1); wife - Goose; sun rays they penetrate the old man's mouth, shine from his ass; a man gets into the ass, jumps out of his mouth; an old man makes a boat out of a log, it rushes across the sea like a fish; the son of a man in the land of birds catches it on a hook; a person kills the Mayor with a club, the rest of the birds flee]: Bogoras 1928, No. 48:429-432.