K27A. Night in the cold. .30.34.38.41.43.-.45.50.52.

Challenge: spend the night in the cold (the antagonist tries to destroy the hero in this way). See motive K27. Cf. M35 motif: Two zoomorphic characters compete to see which one of them will spend the night in the cold.

Iran - Central Asia. Shah-name [King Faridun has eldest sons Salm and Tur from his wife Shahnoz, the younger Iranj from Arnavoz; F. sends a servant named Jandal to marry three sons; he finds daughters of a king named Sarv; S. makes it a condition for marriage to identify the eldest and youngest among the daughters (F. warns that the youngest will go first, the eldest will be the last); leaving the grooms to spend the night in the garden, sends severe frost; they are unharmed; get wives]: Ulug-zoda 1989:42-47; Tajiks [viziers did not find the padishah the most beautiful woman in the world; he met her himself at the shepherd's house; she gave birth to his son Salim; until his mature padishah decided to retire with his wife, leaving the state in the care of the vizier of his right hand; S. is growing rapidly; to eliminate him and take the throne for himself, the vizier sent the old woman to where S. played grandmas; the pig broke the spinning wheel; the old woman called S. rootless: the vizier is not his father; S. went in search of his real father; meets a man with 7 millstones in his hands: I'm going to fight S. S.: I am brother S., defeat me; S. knocked him down and wanted to behead him, but he promised to become his friend; the same with the hero who threw plane trees; with the Drinker; Salim was not given pilaf at the bazaar, he scattered local strongmen; the padishah was frightened, gave him his daughter, S. gave her Millbearers; gave her a cup of milk: if it turns red, we must hurry to help; in another city, a dragon has appeared in the house, demands daily man and bull, it was the turn of the royal daughter; S. dozed off, the girl's tear woke him up; he ripped the dragon with a dagger; the padishah gave S. a daughter (proof that he is a hero: only S. was able to lift the dragon's body) ; S. gave it to Chinaro-bearer (the same as with the Millbearer); in the third city, the padishah is a girl; she executes those who did not complete the task; fly on horseback without spilling milk (some spilled, but S.'s tear was filled the pot again and the girl did not notice); a chest with two pearls fell into the river, we had to get it (the river drinker drank the river); spend the night in the glacier; J. and C. saw that the milk turned red, they hurried to help, C. lit a huge fire from plane trees, S. slept through the night; grind 20 bags of grain in a day; J. performed; the girl married S., but he gave it to the Drinker and went to look for parents; river, island, palace, divas there; S. won and killed him; in the palace, the kidnapped daughter of the padishah; S. brought her to her father, who passed her off as S.; they went to look for S.; the fisherman is fishing with a net; this is the father; everything is fine]: Amonov 1961:323-336.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [night in a cold room, then in a hot room]; Buryats [night in a frosty "hell"].

Japan. Ainu.

Subarctic. Atna [many go to get the chief's head, no one comes back; the Raven tells his grandmother that he will get it; the chief suggests that he 1) climb into the steam room, throw hot stones there, Raven digs a hole under the floor, hides in it; fat is poured there, everything burns; when the fire goes out, the Raven comes out; 2) the chief lets an icy wind into the steam room; the Raven has a hare skin with him, he turns it into a hare cape, stays alive; 3) the chief tells you to swim, the Raven dives, breathes through the tubular stem of wild celery; the leader's men poke on the bottom with a knife; the raven bleeds from his nose to think he has been killed; he swims out; 4) they tell him to play, throw him at a dug knife, the Raven dodges, throws a local man, who is cut in half; the raven pretends to leave, turns into a woman, returns; the chief says what a woman is for him; his men notice a crow's tail; an imaginary wife tells the chief that his beard is pricked; the chief gives a razor to shave him, the Raven cuts his throat, cuts off his head, walks away, tells people that their uncle has fallen asleep; flies out the chimney, puts traps behind them, the pursuers die in them; the raven brings the chief's head to his grandmother]: Tansi 1982:23-28.

The coast is the Plateau. Chilcotin [the boy is carried on an ice floe down the river to the country of salmon; an old woman tells him to kill and bake a local boy who is actually salmon; after eating, a boy on earth throws his bones into the water the salmon boy comes to life; he is blind because his eyes have fallen to the ground; an old woman finds them, lets him swallow them, he sees them again; an earthly boy in salmon guise comes home, caught by his father, finds them again human appearance; at home, his sister says that his brothers died, matchmaking the daughters of the Sun; the young man collects feathers, tells his sister to blow, flies to heaven on feathers; there the old woman helps him with advice, gives him advice, gives him amulets (porcupine gut full of cold, beaver gut, full heat, arrowheads); 1), 2) The sun places the young man first in a hot steam room, then freezes it; the young man is alive; 3) asks to get it from the bottom a fallen axe covers the surface of the lake with nets; becoming a fish, a hair, a young man squeezes into the cells of the net, brings an ax; 4) two daughters of the Sun in the guise of bears stand at the entrance to his house; a young man kills them with arrows; The Sun revives them; 5) when hunting mountain sheep, the Sun invites the young man to look down the cliff, collides him, the young man turns into a flying squirrel, does not break; 6) The sun offers to compete , whoever causes more heavy rain loses; the young man marries the daughters of the Sun; returning with them to earth, forgets to thank the old helper; on earth, his wives are surrounded by fire, they rise back to heaven]: Farrand 1900, No. 10:24-26; shuswap: [First, the Red Hood player wins against the boy; he wins back what he lost, the player disappears; the young man finds the player, marries his daughter; that puts his son-in-law in caves with 1) bears, 2) excrement, 3) needles, 4) ice; thanks to his wife's charms, the young man comes out alive every time; runs with his wife; father-in-law pursues the fugitives on horseback; they they throw red, green, white, black blankets; they turn into viscous clay, thickets of dwarf cedar, slippery path, thorny bushes; fugitives turn their hair into a bridge across the lake, tell him break when the Red Hood is in the middle; it sinks]: Teit 1909a, No. 49:728-729; kalispel [there are people on one side of the river, animals on the other; they call people to compete; swim in cold water and then lie in the snow; the otter makes the air and water colder; finally, the man died; then the young man came, like a puppy's skin on his shoulders; at night the young man died of the cold; but in the morning the puppy reappeared; went into every house, he was allowed to gnaw people's bones, but he did not gnaw them, but collected them; went into a house where there were only women; one gave the puppy gum from behind the cheek, and then took them away; he bit off her cheek; having collected all the bones, the puppy carried them across the river and revived his friend; he came to his wife, this is the chief's daughter; she first thought she was a stranger, but then formed; man {not clear: lively or the puppy} put dog skin over his shoulders and began to compete with the otter again; it got colder and colder, the otter froze to death; people swam to the other side and killed some animals as they used to kill people; then each man and beaver sat down in the cauldron, under each fire; when the beaver jumped out, it was boiled and died, and the man was unharmed; in the morning the animals ran away; the man walked and said: off the road, this will be your country (so many times); let animals be game (for humans?)] : Vogt 1940, No. 9:93-99.

The Midwest. Steppe Cree [the old man trains his grandson, he becomes strong, his name is Roots Pine; he overcomes two shamanic sisters, marries them; their mother is sleepwalker; says he will recover , if her son-in-law brings her the meat of a giant beaver, a deer, an elk to eat; he kills animals, her mother-in-law mourns their death; comes in the guise of his grandmother to turn it into a tree; he recognizes her, herself turns into a tree, splits other trees back into people; now the eldest sister becomes a sleepwalker; requires her husband to spend a frosty night in a special house; his tobacco bag turns into partridge, she screams: Summer, summer; it's getting warm, berries ripen; sisters can't eat them all, defeated]: Bloomfield 1930, No. 16:93-99; menominee [wife wants to kill her husband, Wolf to him helps; he marries Moose; Caribou calls him to a competition; he loses his amulet, is eaten; the Wolf and the Otter revive him from his bones; a new competition: spend the night in the cold; Caribou freezes, man wins; kills most Caribou]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II27:399-403.

Northeast. Mikmak.

The Great Southwest. Navajo; Western Apache; Hopi; Western Ceres.

Mesoamerica Quiche.