Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

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Ethnicities and habitats

K29C. Brings wood. .22.25.26.28.30.36.

They hope to destroy the hero by knocking down a tree on him or tying him to a tree. He comes alive, dragging a tree with him.

Burmese, Thais, Vietnamese Thai, Cham, Khmu, Ifugao, Miao, Koreans, Belarusians, Persians, Central (?) Yakuts.

Burma - Indochina. The Burmese [the king learns from the soothsayers that the hero Ngathaun Launa must be born; orders the extermination of all pregnant women, the mother of NL is saved; he is told that NL has already grown up, the king orders to exterminate young man, NL is saved again; NL relatives want to destroy him themselves; father tells him to lie under a tree that he cuts down, goes home, NL drags the tree on him; father leaves it in the forest with tigers, tiger afraid of NL, asks not to kill; relatives dug a deep well, asked NL to go down to dig, covered it with earth; NL got out, left; sees a pig falling from above a tree; she spit out mercury the balloon, NL took it, flew up a tree; the pig died of grief, NL fried it and ate it; changes the ascetic's ball for a magic bag, rope and cane; at night he sends a bag for the ball, now owns everyone four items; tells the father to marry the king's daughter; the king agrees, gives his daughter and the throne; NL rewards the ascetic]: Zapadova 1977:15-20; Thais [the son of the poor eats terribly much, his name is Seven Gorshkov ; the father falls a tree on him, he brings a tree on his back; the father offers his son to catch a wild horse, he brings a tiger; parents say that the giant owes them money, the son goes to get a debt; takes companions of the 100 Carts of Bricks Pulling, Pulling 100 Bamboo Stems at a Time, Rolling Trees with His Head; Sister Brothers Need Fire to Fry a Huge Grasshopper; they take turns coming to the old woman for fire, that binds them with silk yarn; Seven Pots binds her; kills her, revives her companions with her magic rod; they kill a giant, Seven Pots marries a princess, companions get posts in kingdom; Seven Pots takes care of parents]: Vathanaprida 1994:96-103; Thai Vietnam [a woman gave birth, a baby fell into a pond where a buffalo was, killed a buffalo; ate 7 vessels of rice, named Chet hay ("seven (bamboo) vessels); playing with other children, easily kills them; the father decides to destroy him; leads him to prepare stakes for the palisade, throws sharp stakes at him from the hill, and catches them and all at once He takes him home; they cut down the tree; when it is ready to fall, the father tells the son to pick fruit; the tree falls on him, he takes it to the village; invites the children to collect its fruits, throws it, suppressing all the children; the father sends CH to repay an alleged debt to a giant named Susilanam; his daughter says that her father has been cutting trees for three years and will soon return, carrying everything he cut; S. comes, eclipsing the sky, tells his daughter fry 6 frogs, i.e. deer; S. got into a fight with CH and fell into the sea; giant Kom Fa catches fish in a seine, calls both frogs, broke their legs and brought them home]: Degeorge 1925, No. 17:498-502; tyams: Landes 1887, No. 8 [astrologers promise the childless king that he will have a son if he makes sacrifices at the mouth of the river, but this son will ruin the kingdom; the king makes sacrifices; the boy eats a lot, king ruined; when his son is 15 years old, his father calls him to the forest, knocks down a tree on him; in the evening the son brings a tree to his father; tells him to forge a heavy axe, leaves, his name is Strong; meets the Wagon Pulling (without bulls) Reeds (chopping reeds on five mountains); both can't lift the Strong's axe, become his younger brothers; giants Sharp Butt, Snotty, Big Foot fish; Strong asks for fish, each giants tell another to give, finally, Big foot gives, Sharp ass hits the ship in anger, Snotty closes the hole with snot; the portion of fish is so large that there is no firewood in the village to fry her; brothers go to the forest, they have no fire; a pulling wagon comes to the old woman, she throws it into the cauldron; the same with the Reed; the Strong makes the old woman give the plant of immortality, revives the brothers, sews it up the old woman's eyes and mouth, tells her husband to be sent in their footsteps; the giant husband defeats the Wagon Pulling and the Reed, the Strong hammers him into the ground; the old woman goes to look for her husband, urinates where he is in the ground, hears his voice, digs up; The strong throws the head of the fish into China; the emperor promises a daughter to the one who removes the smelly head; the Strong cleans up, marries the princess of the Wagon, leaves him a tree of immortality, tells you to make sure that no one enters the garden; throws his head at Siam; throwing it into the sea, gets the Princess of Siam, gives it to the Reeds; returns to the land of the Tyams; the wagon pulling the wagon allowed people into the garden, the tree of immortality flew to heaven, the Strong died immediately; The wagon and the Reed followed him to the land of the Tyams, also died]: 67-76; Nikulin 1990 [the childless king calls on fortunetellers, they advise give alms to the people; the son will be born, but will bring poverty and grief; the king agrees, the boy born is voracious, grows up to be a hero; the father wants to destroy him, leads to a mango tree, promises shed fruit, cuts down a tree, leaves; the son drags the tree to the palace, orders it to be planted, it has taken root; the prince wanders, meets, companions the heroes Tasa (drags a huge cart), Havihava ( cuts mountains of reeds), but they can't raise its axe; three strange people (one with a long nose, the other with a tail, the third with duck legs) catch fish, give them to their brothers, there is so much of it that the village does not enough firewood to fry it; brothers go to the forest, look for fire; they see fire, T. follows him, where the witch kills him, throwing an iron loom shuttle, throws him into the cauldron; the same with H.; the prince catches the shuttle, makes the sorceress revive T. and H., binds her up; her husband comes, eats an elephant, chases his brothers, defeats T. and H., the prince tears off his head, she rolls to China; for abandoning the prince her in Siam, the emperor gives him a daughter; the prince marries her T., plants grass that brings life back to life in the imperial garden, tells no one to let her in; removes the sorcerer's head from Siam, marries H. to a Siamese princess; strangers approached the grass of immortality, prince died; T. and H. return to Champa]: 202-207; ahem [woman 7 years pregnant, gives birth to Aay Cet Reey ("Seven wooden steaming rice vessels" ); he immediately eats seven vessels of rice, fried buffalo, goes to his father, who has gone to cut down a wooden stupa; he cuts down a tree for this purpose; A. tells him to knock down a tree on him, drags him home; stops swim in the river; livestock traders tie animals to the tree, hang washed clothes on the branches; allow A. to carry it all with the tree if he can; A. takes it away; the father is frightened, tries destroy A.; leads to cut bamboo; throws cut down bamboo at him from the mountain like spears, A. catches everything and takes it away; orders him to collect the debt from the demons, supposedly they owe him money; A. takes seven helpers; they they dig up a large grasshopper, but he kicks everyone with his foot, they fall into the water, they are swallowed by sturgeon; A. tears off the grasshopper's leg, eats, catches, cuts sturgeon swallowed in the stomach 7 salt baskets; first demons, then A. eat iron; try to drive each other into the ground; the demon drove A. to his ankles, A. his throat; demons give money; father asks for banteng liver (Bos javanicus), elephant; A. brings; the liver of the moon; A. puts iron rods on top of each other, climbs to the moon; when he almost reaches, the mother lubricates the lower rod with fat, the father rubs salt into it; the rod is rusted, fell apart, A. fell and crashed; earthquakes - a demon he drove into the ground is trying to move]: Lindell et al. 1978, No. 8:84-88.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao [Umbumabakal and his son Lumawig (Bontok's ancestor, a character in Ifugao myths) lived in the village of Dukligan; L. even ate his fellow villagers; W. asked him to get a spear from a felled tree, knocked him down the boy was crushed, in the evening he returned alive; W. and L. dug a hole under the boulder, fish started in the pond; W. sent L. into the hole to catch it, pushed the boulder; in the evening L. returned and brought a boulder; W. sent L. to hunt east; he came to a god of war named Mayingit ("red"); M. burned him in the fire, threw ashes into the river, two boys came out of the water; M. burned them again, 4 young men came out; then 8 young men; they went hunting, caught a woman, wanted to eat; she turned out to be their mother (i.e. L.'s mother); said that their village was burned down, their father was killed; the brothers attacked Binang village; went home, their inhabitants chased; L. cut the mountain in two from top to bottom, pushed half away, lowered the vine down; the pursuers climbed it, L. cut off the vine, the pursuers fell, died, were maimed]: Barton 1935:85-87.

China - Korea. Chuan Miao: Graham 1954:180-181 [An egg rolled out of an abscess on the knee of a childless wife, hatched from it; the woman's husband leads her toad son into the forest, offers to climb a tree see if the mother carries dinner, knocks down a tree, hoping that the toad is dead; soon the son returns, dragging a tree with him; the father thinks to crush his son by putting 7 feet on him, he drags everything; the Toad asks the mother marry him her brother's daughter; he is forced to give her back, because Toad's crying fills the rice checks with water, and laughing dries them up; when he goes to work in the field, the Toad asks his wife to send the dog forward, then carry lunch for him; his wife spies, sees a handsome man with a book and a lot of workers; grabs the skin with a toad, throws him into the fire; the husband says he will die, tells him to cook him for a couple for 7 days, then he will become a frog; if no, bury it on the terrace from where you can see everyone; the wife and mother cook for 4 days, the husband dies, is buried, turns into a tree on the moon; when the children cry, they are taken by the knee, they say that if you cry, a toad will come out], 182-183 [the wife gave birth to a son with ears like a cow, killed her; her husband scolded her; the next time she gave birth to a toad; the toad tells the mother to marry him her brother's daughter; the uncle led the Toad to cut the forest on the rock, pushed off a cliff; the Toad returned, dragging a tree; was able to carry a heavy mortar; the uncle orders to bring water to the fields; his daughters bring lunch to the worker, see the hoes working themselves; the Toad gets a wife, asks her portrait to see her on the site; the wind carries the portrait to the emperor, who takes his wife; in the form of a young man, Toad comes to the palace; the wife invites the emperor to change clothes with him; the emperor becomes toad, Toad - emperor; wife orders to kill a toad (former emperor)]; Koreans [a woman gave birth to a half boy (but has two legs); he is very strong; his brother left him in the forest tied to a tree , he brought the tree home; the half promises to marry the daughter of an official; the mother warns him, but the Half first besieges his household, then puts everyone to sleep, ties their hair, ties them to various objects to the feet and hands of the owners, takes the girl; turning over, he becomes handsome]: Cho 2001, No. 101:183-188.

Central Europe. Belarusians (Grodno Oblast) [two brothers go to plow in the forest, mark the road with straw, the sister must walk along it to bring them lunch; the seven-headed Serpent overheard, changed signs, the girl came to the Snake; one, then the second brothers come, The serpent shows its wealth, offers iron bread, hangs his brothers on a beam; their mother's pea turns into a boy Pokatypea (P.), he grows up, the blacksmith makes him a seven-pound mace, he He throws it to the clouds, it falls, breaks; he orders a stronger mace; comes to the Snake, eats iron bread, breaks the deck without an ax, burns it without fire; P. and the Serpent drive each other into the ground, P. drives him whole, kills him with a mace; kills a horse, hides in a carcass, grabs the Crow that has descended, orders him to bring living and dead water; he brings, P. tears the Raven in two, glues, revives brought with water; revives the brothers; on the way back, the brothers tie him to the oak tree, not believing that he is their brother; he drags the oak tree to the house, leaves his parents, leaves; meets and takes Vyrvigora as a friend, Vyrvidub; P. kills a six-, seven-, nine-headed snake, brings tongues to the king; the wives of the Serpents turn into a bed, into an apple tree, P. cuts them, preventing their comrades from sitting down and eating apples; the third Snake falls from earth to heaven; P. throws three kani (stones?) into her mouth , three falcons, comrades; each time she Snake returns to drink; P. hides with blacksmiths; they tell the Snake to wipe the doors with their tongue, grab her tongue with ticks, P. kills her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 134:254- 263.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [the dervish gives three Shah's wives an apple along with the seeds; she forgot to eat one polablock; each gave birth, but the forgotten child Nimekun ("half"); the brothers went for with firewood, N. followed him; he was tied to a tree, leaving him to die; he uprooted the tree and brought his mother to make a barbecue skewer; next time he was pushed into a hole and crushed with a stove; N. her picked it up and brought it to the palace; the brothers went to Mazandaran, where the shah of divas, he does not pay tribute to their father; on the way, the shepherds offer them to separate the goats - the brothers cannot; camels - the same; the old woman offers They cannot eat the turi trough; when the brothers approach, the Shah asks his daughters how they eat carrots; the fruits in the garden (quietly, carefully); the brothers were thrown into prison; N. rode a rooster; scattered goats, camels, ate turya, greedily ate carrots and fruits; killed the diva, freed the brothers, but burned their seat with a seal; ordered the Shah's daughters to indicate where the treasury was; the brothers lowered him into the pit to be there leave it, but he quietly sat in an empty chest; the brothers said that they had killed the Shah diva; N. came out of the chest, the shah handed him the throne; diva N. gave two daughters to his brothers, took the third for himself]: Osmanov 1987:153- 163.

Eastern Siberia. Central (?) Yakuts: Popov 1936a (no place of recording) [as in Ergis before the "victory over the Abaas"; the brothers go to the Abaas girl, MM follows them; they tie him to wood, to ice, he drags everything with him, they take it; he kills Abaasa's daughters, their mother eats them; then kills her herself]: 169-174; Ergis 1967b, No. 326 (summary of several texts, including archival ones; at least the central Yakuts ) [the youngest of the three brothers is Manick Manigyan (Mischievous Mischievous); he was sent hunting, ordered to kill all the transverse animals he met; he caught a lot of game, and when his mother came out to meet him , killed her too; then he is told to dig a hole from ear to ear; he stands upside down and dug a hole up to his ears; sent to his sister; babysitting the baby, he kills him, squeezing his brain out, because he thought it was a boil; returning home on horseback, rips off her skin, thinking that the horse is afraid to soak it in the river; the trees are swaying and moaning in the wind; thinking that they are cold, the guy tore his clothes to pieces and hung them on the branches; to get rid of the stupid MM, the brothers tied him to a tree and ran away; he uprooted the tree and caught up with them, and later defeated the Abaas tribe; pursues in the lower world a man dressed in squirrel fur; watches for three Siberian girls and burns their skins; three brothers marry three Siberian sisters (var.: MM and the brothers marry the daughters of Har Haan or a Siberian girl; deceiving them, fly away)]: 250.