K32h2. Left to ants to eat. .36.39.

A man executes his wife, leaving her to be eaten by ants.

Western Evenks, Evens, Forest Yukaghirs.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Ekonda) [a man has a wife and children; someone calls him in the swamp; this is a frog, promises to love him very much; at home he refuses the food that his wife offers, goes to bed not with her, but in his bed; the frog loved him all night; in the morning he folded his bed, hid the frog in a bundle and went hunting; like this every day; the wife shook the bed, the frog fell out, her wife with a twig beat half to death; the frog complained; the husband tied his wife to the anthill; the children said that the mother was standing by the tree and smiling; it was her ants who ate her lips; the wife died, the frog left the man, he stayed with children]: Mamontova 2019, No. 1:76-80; Evens (Sakkyryr District, Northern Yakutia) [the hunter is old and blind; the wife says there is a deer nearby; he shoots and kills him; his wife lies that he is missed, eats meat with his son, does not feed her husband; the son admits that they have meat; the old man asks him to find an anthill; ties his wife, leaves her on an anthill, ants eat her; the old man and his son goes to people in the village]: Novikova 1958:72-73 (=1987:76-77).

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous, Verkhnekolymsky District): Kurilov 2005, No. 47 [the husband is blind; his wife asks him to shoot a deer, lies that he missed; feeds him only with roots; the old man regains his sight; the son says that they have eat meat; the old man ties his wife up, leaves him on an anthill; her relatives agree that she deserved it (=Zhukov, Chernetsov 1994:66-68)]: 383-387; Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (2), No. 48 [husband is blind; asks take his wife to a clearing where wild deer visit; shoots, his wife lies as if he missed it; eats meat, gives the old man only roots; the child tells his father that his mother gives him meat; the old man asks the child find an anthill, ties up his wife, leaves it on an anthill; her parents approve of her murder]: 29-33.