K49. A dead mother nurses a baby, E323.1.

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A woman turned into an animal or outside the human world returns to her child to feed and care for him. Cf. motive K33.

Bushmen, Xhosa, Luba, Shona, Spaniards, Germans (Hessen, Grimms), Walloons, Monumbo, Toto, Sinhalese, Assamese, Konkani, Boogie, Toraja, Timor, Ternate, Ifugao, Nabaloi, Albanians, Hungarians , Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Vologda, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Western Sami, Danes, Swedes, Mordovians, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Altaians, South Altai Tuvans, Nanais, Coastal Koryaks, Older Koryaks, Itelmen, Lilluet, Thompson, Western Ojibwa, Fox, Seneca, Blacklegged, Assiniboine, Grovantre, teton, osedge, arapaho, biloxi, miwok.

SW Africa. The Bushmen [wife of the Heart of the Morning Dawn (Jupiter) is Hzó-Gnuing Tara; the husband hid their child under the leaves, various animals and birds pretended to be the child's mother, but the child only admitted a real mother; in order to take revenge, the Jackal and Hyena then poisoned Hyena's armpits, the larvae that GGT collected, she turned into a lynx after warning her younger sister Tse-Dé-Koë; Hyena wore GGT jewelry, came to her husband disguised as her; the baby cries; TDK carries the baby three times in the bush to the Lynx; she feeds him, says she is increasingly turning into a lynx; when the husband puts his hand on TDK's shoulder, she says that let your wives, old hyenas, clap their hands for him; her husband threw Assegai at Hyena, she ran away, throwing her jewelry; he told TDK to bring him to the bush, brought goats there, Lynx rushed at the goat , her husband and sister grabbed her, rubbed the contents of her goat's stomachs, trotting her hair; she told her to leave the hair on her ears, otherwise she would stop hearing; she could no longer eat larvae; her husband always killed hyenas and jackals]: Kotlyar 1983, No. 62:111-115.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Luba [the bird gives a nut to the leader's childless youngest wife, who gives birth to a girl; she has grown up; fearing her elder wife's jealousy, the mother tells her to go to the river to fetch water only at night; the son of the neighbor the chief takes her as his wife; she gives birth to a boy, her husband goes hunting, her father-in-law tells her daughter-in-law to go fetch water during the day, the water spirit drags her under water; when the father returns, sees a healthy son; the maid I have to admit that she carries the baby to the river, where his mother feeds him at night; the father hides, grabs his wife, runs, the water floods the country, the husband has to leave his wife; the dog and the ox refuse tell his wife's mother about what happened, the rooster flies to her, says; she tells her to cut, throw the cow into the water, her daughter returns to land]: Knappert 1977, No. 15:50-54; shi [the man took it for the first time two wives; one died leaving a baby; got up from the grave, asked the other to give her cowhide to feed the baby; the other told her to return to the grave; the returning husband scolded the other wife, said people will now die forever]: Abrahamsson 1951:63; shona (karanga) [a young wife should not eat zebra meat; out of jealousy, other wives mix it into her food, she turns into a zebra; a girl brings a woman her baby to the bush, calls her with a song, she goes out to feed him; in other cases, a woman ends up in a pond, goes out to feed her baby out of the water]: Sicard 1965 : 117-118 in Schmidt 2007:288; (cf. jungwe [husband loves his third wife; the first two go with her to the forest, kill her there; she turns into a monkey; helps her two daughters drive away other monkeys from the field; one daughter notices on her leg monkeys ring their mother; calls the father; he catches the monkey, uses magic to restore its human appearance; sends it to her mother, telling her to make beer; calls the first wives to the third mother drink beer at a wake; third wife goes out; two older ones are beaten to death]: Frobenius 1931:354); braid [the chief does not love his childless wife; the bird gives her seeds to eat, she gives birth to a girl; husband never does not go to her, finds out about her daughter only when she has grown up; pleasantly surprised; passes off as a young man who has paid a good ransom; the wife leaves the house only at night; gives birth to a boy; in the absence of her husband, the father-in-law sends her water to the river; a scoop, a bucket slip out of her hands into the water, then she falls herself, is carried away by the river; her father-in-law cuts, throws an ox named after her daughter-in-law into the river, asks her to be returned; she hears a voice from the water : let her father-in-law tell her parents that the river took her; the baby cries, at night the maid will pring him to the river; his mother comes out of the water and feeds him; tells the maid not to tell anyone; the returning husband does not believes, makes the maid tell everything; hides in reeds, tied with a belt, ending it to other people; they drag a woman, but the river follows her, turns into blood, people get scared, let go belt; the husband asks the ox, the dog, if they will be able to tell the woman's parents about what happened; the ox mooes, the dog barks; asks the rooster - he answers in a human way; on the way to the village, the boys want him kill; the rooster tells his message, he is missed; tells his parents only after he is given millet; the woman's mother, a healer, sacrifices an ox to the river, the woman goes out; holiday]: McCall Theal 1882:54-63; walloons [a woman loves an ugly daughter and does not love a beautiful one; a beautiful woman goes to a well for water; a fairy asks to scratch her back, a girl does it diligently; a fairy gives her a wand; the girl touches three lions with her, they fall dead, she passes; the fairy brings an apple and a feather with her; makes sure that when a girl speaks, diamonds fall from her lips; the apple has become a tree, the feather becomes a parrot, the bucket turned into a pond; an ugly sister went to get water, she is rude to the fairy, she made her ugly, the toads fall out of her mouth; her mother brought her meat, she threw it to the lions to pass; prince saw a beautiful woman and got married; the wife gave birth; the mother put a prickly wreath on her, turning her into an animal; tells her son-in-law to kill the animal; the beggar leads the prince to see how the animal comes to feed the baby; prince tears off a prickly wreath, the wife becomes human again; mother and ugly daughter are burned]: Laport 1932, no.*403E: 52-53.

Southern Europe. Spaniards (Extremadura) [the widower's daughter insisted that he marry a widow, who also has a daughter; a stepdaughter in paper shoes goes to buy strawberries in winter, comes to three dwarfs, shares with them with black bread; they give her strawberries, tell her that gold coins fall from her lips, that she marry the king and become prettier day by day; her own daughter comes in warm clothes, does not share food with the dwarfs, refuses to clean the snow to pick strawberries; they tell toads to fall off her lips, to go beyond the line and get uglier; the king saw his stepdaughter, got married, she gave birth to a son, stepmother she pushed her into the water, she became Galopín de agua, her stepmother replaced her with her daughter; the real queen came out of the water every day, came to see the baby; the king pinched her, she regained her former appearance; The liar was tied to the horse's tail, scattered across the village]: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 480A: 358-362.

Western Europe. Germans: Bolte, Polívka 1913 (Hessen, first publication 1811) [brother and sister left the witch stepmother; found themselves in the woods; in the morning the boy was thirsty; stepmother made the water from a spring near the children turns a drinker into a deer; the sister discerned a warning not to drink in the noise of the water, but the brother drank water and became a deer; a few years later, the king found they were in the woods, married a girl; the queen gave birth when the king was hunting; the witch took the form of a maid of honor, called the woman in labor to wash in the bathhouse, where she locked the hot stove and replaced her daughter; babysitter notices that at night the Queen comes to feed her child and groom her deer; sings that she will only come again; the nanny told the king that he grabbed the queen, she came to life and became beautiful again; the witch burned and her daughter sent to the forest to be eaten by animals]: 79-82; Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 11 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:34-39; brother and sister leave the witch stepmother; she bewitched the springs; sister warns not to drink so as not to become 1) a tiger, 2) a wolf, 3) a wild goat; the brother drinks from the latter, becomes a kid; they live in a forest hut, the king hunts, chases the kid, hears him asking his sister to him let her in, asks himself, takes the girl as his wife, promises to take care of the kid; after becoming queen, the sister gives birth to a boy, the stepmother puts her in the bath, makes a fire in the bathroom, replaces her one-eyed daughter; The maid sees a true queen coming to the baby and the goat at night; the king grabs her, she comes to life, the witch's daughter is sent to the forest to be eaten by animals, the witch to the fire], 13 [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:42-46; after a woman died, a neighbor persuaded her daughter to advise her father to marry her neighbor; she has her own daughter; the father promises to marry if the water poured into the leaky boot does not leak; but the boot wet and the water does not leak out; in winter, the stepmother sends her stepdaughter for strawberries; she comes to the hut of three gnomes; she is polite to them, does not complain, sweeps in front of the entrance, shares bread; one gives her beauty, the other makes sure that at every word, chervonets will fall from her lips, the third promises to marry her king; sweeping the snow, the girl found strawberries; her stepmother's own daughter goes into the forest; she is rude, unfriendly; the gnomes make her uglier, toads fall from her lips, she will die a fierce death; the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the ice-hole to be yarn, but the king pulls up and takes her away; she gave birth to a son, king left; the stepmother and her daughter threw her into the river, the stepmother's daughter went to her bed; the king is surprised why his wife changed; at night a duck came, turned queen, fed the baby; on the second night on the third, she tells the cook to call the king - let him wave his sword; the spell has subsided; the king asks the old woman what to do with the one who pulls the other out of bed and throws him into the water; the old woman: let him down mountains in a barrel covered with nails; they did this to the stepmother and her daughter]: 38-42, 45-50.

Melanesia. Monumbo [Matiti sends her husband to fish, tells her not to accidentally kill her brother Bluish Fish; he accidentally pierced her with a jail; M. became a turtle, went to sea, telling the eldest boy bring her to feed her baby; the turtle temporarily turns back into a woman, gives breasts, gives the children fish, telling their father that they have found fish on the shore; the father spies, catches a turtle, but the net breaks; when Barui's husband and old man go after M. in a boat, she gets into B.'s boat, sails away with him; in order not to return M. to her husband, B. kills her; M. turns into a rock]: Höltker 1965, No. 13:91-92 .

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Toto [old people sowed pumpkins, but only grew up alone; when the old lady was about to cut it, pumpkin voice: Grandma, don't do it, I'll help you; Pumpkin (Pagrusche, P.) grew a lot pumpkin; went to marry the princess; the elders laughed, the youngest agreed; when she saw the ripe mangoes, asked P. to pick them; he climbed the tree, threw off the mango, then rushed down himself; from A beautiful young man came out of the split pumpkin; his wife gave birth to him a son; the older sisters are jealous; the eldest came to P.'s wife, called him to swim, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes; but the baby did not recognize the imaginary mother, cries; at dawn, the drowned soul came to the child and fed him; P. realized that his wife had been replaced, returned the real one {it is not said how}; asked the imaginary one to dig a hole to plant an arek palm tree; buried a liar up to her neck, showed her sister, cut off her head with a sword; P. and his wife have many children]: Majumdar 1991, No. 10:231-236.

South Asia. Assames [Paniya Danr has two wives: the eldest Kecha Nahar and the younger Mukuta; KN is pregnant, PD is gone on business; when KN gave birth, M. turned her into a snake, she crawled away; but managed to ask the maid take care of the baby and bring him home to her; she crawls, sheds her snakeskin, feeds the baby; when PD returned, the maid was afraid to tell at first, but finally agreed; KN herself ordered the maid to tell her husband, but on the condition that he would not punish M.; the snake skin was thrown into the fire, the hole was covered with a stone; M. was made a servant of KN]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 43:153-155; konkani (Goa) [ The stepdaughter catches a sardine, drops it into the well; from there a tall man appears, he was a sardine, promises to help; gives her luxurious clothes, she goes to the king, where they choose a bride; the prince grabs her gold a shoe; everyone is looking for someone to suit, finds a girl; she goes home to give birth; her stepmother throws her into the well, sends her daughter and stepdaughter's baby to the prince; the daughter explains that she has lost her fool after giving birth; The stepdaughter lives in the palace of a sardine man; she asks permission to see her son, secretly comes to the palace; the guard tells the prince everything, he grabs his wife; the imaginary wife is executed, the meat is sent to her mother; after learning that she ate her daughter, stepmother kills herself]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 5:24-26; konkani (Goa) [parents are dead, brother is still boy, sister is girl; brother sees coral at the festival a necklace that a beggar sells for a rupee; the boy really wants it; the beggar agrees to give it away for free if the girl becomes his wife; after going on business for a year, the husband left his pregnant wife in the care of his mother; wants to get rid of her daughter-in-law; gives a ball, let her follow him; the wife gave birth in a remote place; the brother returned to get food, the neighbor gave it; the mother-in-law found out; next time she gave rice herself, mixing frog meat into it ; the wife ate, turned into an eagle and flew away; the brother sings every day, the eagle flies in, throws off his eagle outfit, feeds the baby; when the husband returns, he hears and sees it; hides; touches with a ring wives, the spell is removed; the husband comes to the mother, she says that the wife is dead; the husband pretends to be happy that his mother is alive; the wife with the child and her brother come to the feast; at the wife's request, the husband forgave the mother]: Rodrigues 2020:154-159; Sinhalese [the peasant is widowed; an old woman comes to his daughter, asks for fire, eats everything; a peasant finds her, marries; she asks to cook soup from his stepdaughter's eyes; a father ties his daughter to the forest to the tree, pulls his eyes out; her little brother finds his eyes on the shelf, finds his sister, returns his eyes; brother and sister meet the king, he takes the girl as his wife; goes to war; if the queen gives birth to a son, you have to shake it with a silver chain; the stepmother hears it before the king, makes pies with snake eggs, smears the sleeping queen's lips, she turns into a cobra; when her brother rocks her child, she leaves To feed him an anthill, takes on a human form for a while; the tsar returns, cuts the cobra, the queen remains a woman; his stepmother and her husband are sent a box of snakes, they die]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 103:255-258.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Boogie [the peasant does not believe that the clam roast has burned, thinks that his wife has eaten everything, hits her; she goes to the river to wash, stays in the water; the children come to her every day, she talks to them, feeds his son; overgrows scales, turns into fish; the husband found out that the mollusks are burning, went to look for his wife, became a dolphin (it goes on to say that the mother has become a dugong); Raja accidentally takes the boy on her ship, adopts; the sangeang bird gives her sister a scarf and sweater, which she wears turns into a bird, finds her brother; sitting in a golden cage, she turns into a girl at night, washes in a royal bath; Raja marries her]: Teselkin 1958:59-64 (=Braginsky 1972:74-79); toraja [Pottori Tondon (tondon - "mother") tells her husband that if a lizard living in the house screams, he must run; screams herself, her husband comes running in panic, hits his wife on the head with a dagger, she rushes into the river pool; every day her daughters come to the shore, she gives her younger breast; the eldest explains to her father that fed the youngest mulberry; he follows, tries to grab the PT, she slips out; the sisters leave, the eldest climbs the mango, puts a knife in one fruit, throws the wild boar that comes up, he dies; going to look fire, the eldest comes to the witch Indo Orro-Orro; she makes her admit that the fire needs to fry the wild boar, divides the meat so much that she takes everything for herself; the sisters follow, quietly replace the meat in the basket witches with stones; she brings the basket to her husband, he scolds IOO; sisters eat wild boar meat, IOO finds them, fattens them; the lizard warns the sisters that the IOO wants to eat them, tells them to leave a louse, a bug in the house, the flea is responsible for itself; the sisters climb a palm tree, tell it to be tall, throw it where their mother is; fall east; the PT does not recognize them, gives a pig talker; they see a dagger scar on her head, they cry, everything turns out; PT is married to a boa constrictor; PT tells daughters to throw nuts from the roof, says they are mice; the boa constrictor stops paying attention, falls asleep, PT throws it under the house where it was trampled buffaloes]: Teselkin 1958:23-31 (=Braginsky 1972:138-144); Timor [father dies; eldest daughter finds a chicken egg, hides it in her room; at night the egg laughs, the girl is with him; in her The absence of her mother Si-Mau finds an egg, cooks, the daughter says that it has not been such a delicious dinner for a long time; not finding an egg, she cries; SM says that since the daughter cries, she will go to her father's grave herself; the daughter calls mother from the grave to feed her youngest daughter; only the mother's hair is shown, the older sister cuts it off; brings her sister to Mau-Quíac, hides with her in a tree; MK and his father dress in baban leaves; the girl, with the power of her mother's hair, creates clothes and everything she needs; MK and his father dress; the chief's son pays them a rich ransom for the bride, marries his older sister, his brother pays them a grown up youngest]: Pascoal 1967:309-311; ternate [husband and wife were fishing, wife fell into the sea, became a turtle; husband took another wife; she did not feed the little stepdaughter, only rubbed rice on her lips, said that the girl ate a lot; the girl came to the sea, the turtle mother washed her and changed her clothes; the stepmother took her husband to kill the turtle; told her stepdaughter to light the fire under the cauldron, she extinguished it; the stepdaughter asked The stepmother did not give the turtle bones; but the girl took it herself, buried it, grew a tree, she collected the fruit, the leaves, they turned into money; then she climbed the tree; the father began to cut, but the ax bounced; from An old tree collapsed, one branch fell on China, so China is rich; one branch on the moon, small spots are leaves]: Hayami-Allen 2001:230-238.

Taiwan - Philippines. Ifugao [Bugan has a Dulnuwan child; B. went to the back for rice; Magapid offered to help her understand the basket and attach a belt to her forehead; but first offered to swing on the swing; let B. take off jewelry; M. rocks B., she falls, breaks, M. puts on her jewelry, comes to her husband B. Aliguyun disguised as his wife; black turtles revive B., give her feathers, she flies with them; in the form of a turtle, she flies to the field where A. and M. (in the form of B.); Gorlinka-B. says that M. works in her field, wears her jewelry; B.'s son sees a turtle, his father catches it for him in a snare; in addition to B., he takes off his feathers and takes on his former appearance; opens to her son, he secretly brings her food; A. watches, sees hungry B. eats greedily and her son sucks her chest; then B. flies away again with his throat; next time A. grabs her; rolls M. over the thorns while she does not die; gives his wife the stolen jewelry, M. throws her corpse down somewhere]: Lambrecht 1955, No. 15:186-189; nabaloi [the mistress invites her wife to sit on the swing, cuts off the rope, she breaks, turns into a crow; flies to her daughter in the absence of her husband and his new wife, takes off her wings, takes care of her; daughter throws wings into the fire; at this time, the husband and his new wife enter; ash from the wings turns into fleas jumping on those who enter (the origin of fleas)]: Moss 1924, No. 41:275-277.

The Balkans. Albanians [stepmother sends stepdaughter Maro to the mill at night; while the grain is grinding, M. spins; genies who have flocked listen to her detailed story of how fabrics are created, showered with gold; in the morning the dog barks that M. comes back covered in gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter Lilo, who rude to the genies, they warp her arms and neck, the dog barks that L. returns mutilated; the prince sees M. in a dream, tells her to make shoes that should suit the bride; Aunt M. creates a carriage for her with servants made of pumpkins, mice and grasshoppers; Prince M.'s shoes are just right; before 12 a.m. M. hurries to leave, loses shoe; prince finds M., marries; the sorcerer teaches his stepmother to turn the woman in labor into a bird, to replace Lane with her youngest daughter; the bird-M. arrives, calls her son; flies to her husband, who finds a snake in her head, takes off, the bird turns into M.; stepmother, Lane, sorcerer and midwife were executed]: Serkova 1989:100-114; Hungarians [the poor man told his wife to cook meat; she left, the children ate everything, the wife cut off the meat from she cooked her legs to her husband; when she found out how delicious man was, the husband offered to slaughter two older children; the boy heard everything, he and his sister ran away; the sister tells me not to drink from the wolf, bear trail - you will become a wolf, a bear; the brother drank from a deer, became a deer; they hid in a haystack, the king found them, took the girl as his wife; she gave birth to a son, the king went to war; the cook pushed the queen into the sea, changed her daughter; the queen became a golden duck; the deer carries the baby to the sea, the duck goes out, becomes a woman, feeds the baby; the king spied, hugged his wife; tied the cook and daughter to the horses that were left were burned]: Ortutai 1974, No. 10:231-251.

Central Europe. Russians (Karelia, Vologda, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians, Belarusians [Lynx mother: stepmother replaces her married stepdaughter with her daughter and turns her into a lynx; lynx, after shedding her skin, she feeds the child, whom the maid brings her to the forest; the child's father spies on this, recognizes his beloved wife, burns her skin with a trot, and the lynx mother takes on human form; a witch with her daughter executed]: SUS 1979, No. 409:130; Russians (Arkhangelsk Gubernia) [the queen dies, the king marries Yagishna; I. gives birth to a two-eyed and three-eyed; stepdaughter Mary the princess sends cows to herd; she bows to the cow in the right leg, full, dressed; I. sends Two-Eye to watch, M. She puts her to sleep; Three-eyed M. forgets to put the third peephole to sleep; I. tells her to slaughter the cow; M. asked for a gut, a bush, berries, birds grew out of it; Ivan Tsarevich promises to marry someone who he will pick berries; they are given only to M.; she gives birth to a son, goes with her husband to visit his father; I turn her into a goose, passes her daughter off as her; the old servant calls the flying geese, M. goes down, takes off his gooseskin , feeds the baby, promises to fly far the day after tomorrow; I. watches, burns the skin, grabs M.; she turns into a jump (?) , a lizard, a different reptile, a spindle; I. breaks it, throws his heel back, a sock in front of him, M. appears; I. says he will take the wife who jumps up on the gate; Yagishna jumps up, I. shot her]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 101:152-154; Russians (Vologodskaya) [after the death of his wife, the old man took a yaga baba; he has a daughter, a yaga has three daughters: one-eyed, two-eyed, three-eyed; stepdaughter herds a cow, put to sleep one-eyed, got into the cow's ear, ate, got drunk and dressed; the lordly son came, she talked to him; then back into the cow's ear, went out, woke up the one-eye; the same with the two-eyed; when the three-eye went, The stepdaughter forgot to put her third eye to sleep; the stepmother slaughtered the cow, the stepdaughter asked for a horn; apple trees grew out of the horn; sir: whoever brings me apples, I will marry him; apple trees are not given to the daughters of yagi baba, the master married his stepdaughter; while her husband was away, the yaga baba trot his wife; the nanny told her husband that the lynx would come running, shed his skin, feed the baby he had brought; the husband went by himself, grabbed and burned the skin; the wife became a spindle, he broke it, became a woman]: Smirnov 1917, No. 41:213-215; Russians (Moscow) [once upon a time Stroy was, his wife died, the new one tells her stepdaughter to spin flax, but does not give food; the cow chews flax, yarn comes out of her mouth; the cow tells her to get into one ear, get out of the other - the girl has become beautiful and full; the stepmother peeked, demands to slaughter the cow; the cow tells her stepdaughter to ask for demand and legs, bury; a garden with golden apples grew; the master went to the hostess; the stepmother wanted to slip her daughter, but the rooster screams that the girl was under the trough; the master took the girl and went to pick them up in the garden; a son was born; when he is six months old, a young lady went to visit his stepmother; she took her to the bathhouse, turned her into a lynx; the nanny carries the child; cow shepherds answer that the lynx herd is far away; sheep - what is close; Stroeva's daughter ran out of the herd, took off her skin, fed the child; the master spies, burned the skin, grabbed his wife; she turns into a snake, a toad, a spindle; he broke the spindle, threw the end in front of him, his heel behind, "Be there is a white birch tree behind me, and a former princess is in front of me"; they began to live happily ever after]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 48:106-107; Belarusians [grandfather has a daughter and son; machehins are carried out by a bull; stepmother tells him to slaughter him; stepdaughter finds gold and silver grains in her intestines, plants (the bull ordered so); golden and silver apple trees and horses with gold and silver hair have appeared; the stepson drinks from sheep trail, became a lamb; the merchant marries his stepdaughter, takes her away, horses follow them, honey rivers flow, a lamb runs; the stepmother came to visit, turned her stepdaughter into a lynx, dressed her daughter in her dress; the baby cries, the lamb carries him out, the lynx calls, she feeds the child; the merchant overheard, caught a lynx, she and the lamb took their former form; the woman's daughter was tied to a horse; var.: stepdaughter married to the queen, in her stepmother turned her into a lynx, replaced her with her daughter; the babysitter carries the baby to feed him; the queen grabs the lynx; she turned into a fly, he tore it; he broke it with a needle, young; stepmother with She was tied to horses by her daughter]: Romanov in Potanin 1891:154-155; Slovaks [when the forester brought the hare, the wife was going to cook it, but the cat stole the meat; the wife cut off her chest and fried her husband; The next day she told me; they agreed to kill Janek first, then Evichka, the forester's children from her first marriage; E. heard; taught me to run into the room where her stepmother would comb her hair, grab the ribbon, run away; she will pretend to run after her brother to return the ribbon; when she saw that the children were already near the forest, her stepmother cursed them: let them turn into animals from whose footprint they would drink; E. does not let Me drink from. bear, wolf, he drinks from reindeer, becomes a deer; he drinks from a well herself, becomes a gold-haired beauty with a star in her forehead; she finds her, is married by a young king; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to a boy with a gold star in his forehead; an old woman pushes E. into the water, replaces her daughter in bed; the baby cries, the deer takes him to the Danube, asks the ducks to show the way to his mother; the ducks answer that she is one of them; the mother arrives as a duck, becomes a woman, feeds the baby, returns to the river; so every day; the king comes back, the imaginary wife wants deer meat; the king goes after the deer when he carries the mother's baby; the king grabs his wife, she turns into ducks, monsters {it is not said which ones}, but he does not let go; E. and Y. take on a human form; the king asks the old woman what deserves someone who tried to kill two innocent people and condemn a third to misfortune, she replies that such a person should be put in a barrel of nails, brought down the mountain; this is what they did to the old woman and her daughter]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 12:69-74 (slightly shortened translation in Bogatyrev 1955:110-116).

Baltoscandia. Latvians [brother and sister run away from stepmother; sister does not tell me to drink from cow, horse, sheep trail; brother drinks sheep, becomes lamb; master marries girl, leaves; she gives birth son, stepmother throws lynx skin on her, replaces her daughter; the lamb asks the servant to tie the baby to his horns, brings her to the forest; the sister trots her skin, feeds the baby; after the third time a woman will trot forever; the servant calls his master, he grabs his wife, she turns into terrible animals, he does not let go; turns into a branch, his master breaks him, leaves him, sees his wife; when the witch and her daughter killed, the lamb became a boy again]: Aris 1971:216-218; Lithuanians [while the old people are clearing the felling, the Swan flies in every day, turns into a girl, puts the house in order; the old man hid, burned wings, the Swan remains with the old people; the king notices her, brings her to the palace, she gives birth to him a son; swans fly over her, offer to shed her wings; she refuses her father, mother, takes wings from her a swan friend, flies away; her friend dies; the king marries Lauma; the Swan regularly flies to his 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 its wings, executes Laume]: Löbite 1965:133-135 (translated in Zheleznova 1974:174-178); Estonians: Järv 2016 (Karksi) [the man went for the bride; forest spirit offered his daughter, the man refused; when the wife gave birth to a child, the forest spirit replaced her with his daughter, and turned the man's wife into a wolf; the baby cries; the babysitter noticed a she-wolf on the pasture by the stone, who she threw off her skin, began to feed the baby brought by the babysitter; ordered her husband to heat the stone and burn wolfskin on it; the doctor advised inviting the spirit and his daughter to the bathhouse, prop it up the door with a rowan stake, burn the bathhouse; the spirit and her daughter burned down]: 18-20; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 61 (southern Estonia; also Saarema, central northern Estonia) [daughter asks her father not to marry a witch widow; he says that if the water poured into an old, leaky boot does not leak, he marries; the water has not leaked; the stepmother has her own ugly daughter; the stepmother tyrannites her stepdaughter; gives paper clothes in winter, tells bring strawberries; stepdaughter comes to the old people's house, shares her stale bread with them, they tell them to place snow, strawberries under it; everyone wants her something (when she speaks, gold falls from her lips; everything more and more beautiful; kinder; marry the king; warm clothes; stepmother's daughter is rude to old people, does not share pies, tells the old people to take revenge on the snow themselves; they want toads to fall out of their mouths, become uglier , would not marry; a young king arrives, marries his stepdaughter; the stepmother, disguised as a healer, is hired by the king, after the birth of a son by the king's wife, kills her in the bathhouse, replaces her daughter; the cook spies on a wild duck fly through the window at night, turns into a real wife, feeds the child; tells the cook that he will arrive for the last time, the king must cut off her (duck) head, then she will human; stepmother and daughter were lowered from the mountain into the sea in a barrel covered with nails], 62 [the witch has a daughter and a stranger's orphan girl, the witch joins her; the groom chooses an orphan in poor clothes; the witch dresses up the orphan is rich and the daughter is poor, but the groom chooses an orphan again; the witch dresses her daughter as a bride, the groom takes her away, the locked orphan runs away from home, catches up with the groom, who throws the pseudonymous under the bridge, she turns into burdock; a year later, the stepmother goes to an orphan, finds and fattens her daughter, throws wolf hair into the orphan's eyes, she runs away as a she-wolf; the husband notices the substitution (the imaginary wife does not know where put bread); the babysitter brings the child to the forest, the she-wolf throws wolfskin on the stone, feeds the child; the husband heats the stone, the skin burns; the husband says that whoever gets to the cauldron faster will become his wife; the witch's daughter rushed into the cauldron, cooked]: 160-164, 165-167; Põder, Tanner 2000 [the witch has a daughter and someone else's orphan girl, the witch adjoins her; the groom chooses an orphan in poor clothes; the witch dresses up the orphan is rich and the daughter is poor, but the groom chooses an orphan again; a young wife gives birth to a baby; a witch throws wolf skin on her, turning her into a she-wolf, replaces her with her daughter; the baby cries in her arms imaginary mother, the husband feels substituted; the nanny brings the baby to the forest, the she-wolf throws her skin on the stone, turns into a woman, feeds the baby, runs away again as a she-wolf; the witch doctor advises to heat the stone, the skin burns, the husband grabs the wife, but she is dumb; the witch doctor advises the husband to put the horse backwards in front of his wife; the wife asks him what he is doing, is speechless; the false wife refuses leave; on the advice of the healer, the husband promises that the first to take the ring out of the large cauldron will become his wife; heats the water, sprinkles with ash so that steam does not come; the witch's daughter came first, cooked ; her little finger became forty]: 155-160; the Veps [the girl's mother died, her husband married Baba Yaga's sister, that daughter Varvey; stepmother and V. tyrant their stepdaughter; they go to the party, the stepmother hopes that V. Ivan Tsarevich will like it; tells her stepdaughter to separate the oatmeal from the ash; the girl cries at her mother's grave; she tells her to cut off the twig, wave it crosswise, the work will be done; she will also send a horse and outfits; It is necessary to return before midnight; entering one ear of the horse and leaving the other, the girl became beautiful; at the festival she was taken to the royal mansions; V. asks I. to let the bone absorb, he threw a bone and leg at her broke; stepmother: let's make a new one out of the hook; made her a crooked wooden leg; I. smeared the door jamb with tar, the girl left, grabbed the jamb, the ring stuck; next time, separate the millet from the sand ; I. threw a bone at V., her finger broke; stepmother: we will attach a die; the girl's slipper stuck to the threshold; the third time, separate the flour from the ground; I. threw the bone, V.'s eyes leaked out; stepmother: insert sheep; the girl's hat is stuck; I. gathers all the girls to try on a ring, slipper, hat; they only fit Zamarashka; the wedding is being prepared; the stepmother tells her to go between her legs, sends horses to herds, dresses up in clothes the girls are their daughter; when the bride is driving, the girl screams that they are carrying a poker leg, a wooden finger, a sheep's eye; the mother's daughter was stripped, she was stuffed naked under the bridge, the girl was dressed up; 9 months later she gave birth; the stepmother thinks it's her daughter; she goes across the bridge, breaks the pipe, from there the voice, "Mom, it hurts!" ; the daughter is almost rotten, but the stepmother promises to make her wife I. anyway; tells his wife I. to walk between her legs and fly with geese, and dressed her daughter and brought her to the bedroom; the child cries; the goose asks the shepherdess bring her baby; seeing a flock of geese, the shepherdess asks if they have the mother of the child; they say that in another pack; in the third; the goose came down, shed its wings, began to breastfeed the baby; the same the second day; on the third, the shepherdess talks about everything I.; he came, burned his wings; I. says to his mother-in-law that he wants to slaughter a bull in the room; she hides under the bench; he hits her with an ax, every time he says that the bull kicked; finished off, the body was thrown away; the imaginary wife was cut into small pieces, put in a net, tied to the horse's tail; where the head fell, there was a rock, where the eye was a wormwood, where the nose was a spring, where the leg was there poker, where the ass is the turf (Kuna langtob pä, siga kasvab kallö, kuna silm - siga silmalähte, kuna nena - sige rodnik, kuna käzi - sihe harav, kuna döug - sihe kouk { transfer?} , kuna perze - sihe turbaz)]: Onegina, Zaitseva 1996, No. 3:42-51; Finns [the cannibal turns the heroine's mother into a sheep, takes her place, slaughtered the sheep; birch grows from the collected seeds; imaginary mother tells heroine 1) to disassemble the grain, 2) collect the spilled milk (for this you have to wave a birch branch crosswise); magic dresses; they come to the party; the cannibal's daughter is kicked when she is under she gnaws her bones at the table; her arm, leg are broken, her eye is knocked out; the heroine runs away from the holiday three times; a resin trap in which her ring, ear ring, shoe remain; marriage to the one that these will fit objects; the cannibal's daughter has an artificial arm, leg, eye; the prince takes the heroine and the cannibal's daughter to the castle, pushes the cannibal's daughter into the river to make a bridge, rides along it with the bride; from the daughter's body the cannibal grows up a hemlock, the cannibal cut it off; the prince and heroine have a son; the cannibal turns the heroine into a deer, sets it up as a liar; the deer goes out to feed her child; the prince is enough a wife, she turns into a spindle, rolling pin, etc., then back into a woman; when the cannibal is executed, she promises that she will produce worms, snakes, and harmful insects]: Salmelainen 1871, No. 8:59-67 in Cox 1893, No. 95:38; Western Sami: Klaus 1995 [the king married Princess Nävenšanmaa; Hähttešan came, gave N. clothes, she dressed, turned into a merganser duck, H. took her to jump into the sea, she jumped, did not return; H. put N.'s clothes on her daughter, the king did not notice the change; the softer the bed, the more the imaginary wife complains about the rigidity, and when they put the logs, she said which is soft; the shaman advised to prepare a hole with resin and firewood, push daughter H. there, set it on fire; she burned down; the shaman ordered to burn everything that daughter X. used, go to the shore where the real N. goes out to babysit her remaining child; she went out, took off X.'s clothes, became a woman, put her clothes under a stone; the king quietly took the clothes away, gave it to the shaman; she had difficulty persuading his wife to return, she I did not want to; when I entered the house, I smelled a beetle larva; the servants found a piece of hair imaginary N., burned it; then N. was able to enter; gave birth to the king many children]: 23-25; Poestion 1886, No. 6 [brother and sister live alone; a prince came, fell in love with a girl, left for a year, told the girl to come to him with her brother and child by that time; they are sailing in a boat across the lake; on the shore Attijis-ene asks take her as a maid; the sister does not want to, the brother takes it; A. is sitting in the middle of the boat, and the sister and brother are at the ends; they do not hear each other, A. supposedly tells her brother's words to her sister, but distorts them; brother tells them to wear best dress; A.: give the dress to me, throw yourself into the lake, you will become a golden duck; sister threw herself into the water, A. picked up the baby; prince takes A.; brother at the shore calls his sister - the baby cries; sister went out fed the baby, became a duck again, swam away; the next time another man hid behind her brother, grabbed a young woman; she turned into a worm, a mole, sea grass, a mosquito; finally stayed woman; A. prince pushed him into a hole with burning resin; wedding]: 39-42; Karelians: Onegin 2010, No. 25 [the healer gave the man water that would make his wife pregnant; but he took a sip himself, too became pregnant, went to the forest, gave birth to a girl, threw her on a tree; the prince's dog barks, the girl (she says that her man carried her, raised the raven, the breeze rocked, the heavenly water washed) asks for clothes; The prince brings her home and marries her; Suoyatar became a midwife, turned the prince's wife into a vazhenka in the bathhouse, stayed with her child; but the cuckoo does not cuckoo on her head, the bells on the hem do not ring, the child cries; the shepherd saw how the vazhenka shed her skin and became a woman; answers her that her son was crying; she asked to bring him to feed him tomorrow, and then migrates with the deer; the shepherd brings, the woman asks to bring her son tomorrow; the shepherd tells the prince about this; the prince threw a deer skin into the fire; the woman became a snake (the prince cut her), a lizard (the same), a rolling pin, then a man; the cuckoo ate, the bells rang, the birds on her shoulders sang; the prince orders to heat the hot bath, under the floor there is a fire pit, S. leads there on the red carpet, she rejoices; when she falls into the hole, she tells her fingers became devils, earthworms, gnats, her hair became sedge, prickly thickets; and so it happened; the prince began to live with his wife and child]: 268-271; Schreck 1887, No. 9 (Russian Karelia) [husband with the wife went to look for the missing sheep; the witch turned the woman into a black sheep, took her form, the husband did not notice the change; the witch wife asks to slaughter the sheep; the daughter knows that it is the mother; the sheep tells her not to eat it, Collect the bones and bury them; a birch tree grew in this place; the witch wife also gave birth to a daughter, began to tyrant her stepdaughter; the king invites everyone to the feast; the stepmother tells his stepdaughter to separate barley from the ash; the mother's voice She tells you to take a birch branch under the birch trees, she does the job; the girl becomes beautiful, she wears a luxurious dress, a horse next to her; the queen seated the girl next to him, and the witch's daughter gnawed under the table bones; the queen smeared the door with resin, the girl's ring stuck; at home she leaves her dress and horse by the birch tree; next time the task is to separate the hemp seeds; the same, a golden hair hoop sticks to the door girls; for the third time, a witch pours milk into the ash; a golden shoe sticks to the door; the queen gathers everyone to try it on; the witch squeezes her daughter's finger, head and leg into a ring, hoop and a shoe; the queen must marry a freak; he takes both girls from the witch's house; crossing the river, he throws the freak like a bridge, crosses it, marries a beautiful woman, but everyone thinks she is the daughter of a witch; the freak remains lying on the bridge, she grows into a cicuta; the witch wants to cut her off, hears her daughter's voice, makes her human again; comes to the young queen, turns her into a deer, leaves her instead her daughter; the royal baby cries; a widow teaches the queen to give her a baby to take her to the forest; the deer queen comes to feed him; says it will be like this for three days, and then she will go away forever with deer; for the third time, the widow offers to clean the queen's head; she takes off her deer skin; the hidden king throws her skin into the fire; the queen turns into a spinning wheel, a mallet for washing clothes, spindle, but the husband destroys these guises, the queen remains a woman; the Queen orders to cook a resin pit, light it, cover it from above, calls the witch and her daughter, they fail, burn; the witch has time stick your finger out, says that (from it) worms will appear in the ground, mosquitoes in the air to cause people to suffer]: 63-74; Danes: Grundtvig 1920 [the princess must marry the prince but knows that the moment of the wedding, her stepmother will turn her into a roe deer; she is looking for a loyal, untalkative foxglove in poor families; she specifically shares secrets, overhears candidates talking about everything at home; finally, finds a faithful friend; she looks like her; at the time of the wedding, a friend replaces her, and the princess turns into a roe deer, runs away; once a year on Christmas Eve she takes on a human form; girlfriend, now the queen comes to her; for the third time, the king is watching her husband; she says that if the king now hurts her on his own initiative, when she looks like a roe deer, the spell will fall apart; so happened; a friend has lived with the king like a brother all these three years; everything is fine, they have many children, a friend stays with them in the palace]: 72-82; Holbek 1987 [to get rid of her stepdaughter, stepmother sends her for berries on the mound where dwarfs; on the way, the old man gives the girl food - let him feed the dwarfs; they are grateful; let her become more beautiful day by day; roses and lilies grow where she steps; gold and silver fall off her hair when she combs her hair; her stepmother sends her own daughter to the dwarfs not with food, but with a stick; they make her spits turn into frogs and toads, and grow on her forehead a calf tail, she emits gases at every step; the heroine's brother is in the service of the king; she sends him her portrait, the king wants to marry her; on the way, her stepmother throws her off the ship, turns her into a duck, replaces her own daughter; the king is furious, throws the heroine's brother in prison for deception; in the form of a duck, the heroine enters the kitchen, asks about her brother and half-sister, says she can come only twice more; the king tells the maid to catch the duck; draws a cross on her beak, she becomes a girl again; the king marries her, frees her brother, the stepmother and her daughter are placed in a barrel with with nails]: 523; Swedes [the drowned queen comes on Thursday in a white dress; she is held by a chain; asks the dog about her son; says for the third time that she will now turn into a mermaid; the king grabs it, cuts the chain; the false queen was thrown into molten lead]: Schröter 1822 in Bolte, Polívka 1913:86-87.

Volga - Perm. Mordva: Evseviev 1964, No. 20 (Erzya) [mother died, Kevganya asks her father to marry again; matchmakers liked K.; stepmother dressed her daughter in K.'s clothes, hid K. under the trough; best man understands chicken conversation, got K., she got married; two years later she goes to visit; when she returns, her stepmother calls out to her, she has become a dove; grandmother brings the baby, K. arrives, throws off her pigeon clothes, feeds him; next time K.'s husband hid, grabbed her, she remains human]: 164-167; Kazan Tatars [when going to the padishah's wedding, the stepmother tells her stepdaughter to do many different jobs; the cow shakes its horns - everything is done, expensive outfits have appeared; the stepdaughter comes to the wedding; the middle son smeared the step with tar, the slipper is stuck; found the owner, married her; the stepmother calls them to visit wants to add poison, the old woman warned; after giving birth, the stepmother began to soar in the bathhouse, she became a dove and flew away; the old woman tells me to take the baby, turn to the flying wild geese; every joint replies that the boy's mother is next; she went down, fed the child and flew away again; the old woman tells me to pull out the pen next time; the wife stayed with her husband, her father hacked her stepmother]: Zamaletdinov 2008b , No. 23:199-202; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 50 [Gin-Peri puts a ring on the young man Alukey's finger; he becomes numb; the old man tells him where to go; sister J. says that she is getting married; A. tells her throw J. her ring; A. and J. run, A. kills pursuers with arrows - Kubykty-Kara and his army; J. gives birth to a child; A. takes her and the child home, leaves her by the river; J. bathes, the nanny takes her and the child home, leaves her by the river; J. bathes, the nanny takes her clothes, J. flies away in goose; everyone at home is disappointed that A.'s wife is ugly (a real wife has a month in one cheek, the sun spits gold and silver in the other); travelers talk about an unusual goose; old people they advise you to hide in a hole, put a child next to him; J. comes to feed the child, takes off birds' clothes, both fall asleep; A. returns his wife]: 360-365 (=Zelenin 1991, No. 101 (107) [Aleuk's hero's name]: 436 -441).

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [a woman tells Alyk that he should not offend her son, but get his bride named Barypdan; her father Karakan promised to marry his late father A. as his son; in B. A. gets a job as an employee, brings all the trees from the mountainside at once; B. is going to be passed off as an old man; A. won the races, interrupted the groom's relatives, married B., their son Seitek; A. took B. home, speckled slave with her; went forward; the slave offered to swim, let go of the rope that B. was holding on to the island, the slave put on her clothes; the imaginary B. explains that the crow croaked, she, B., turned black, and the slave died; a guest comes to the yurt A. and B., asks whether to talk about what he has heard or seen, imaginary B. tells me to remain silent; tells the thistle to be trampled on near the yurt - the child will prick; slaughter a camel; another passerby comes in, A. tells me to speak, he says that he saw a white goose, she called her son S., as if she had made her way to him with a thorn, but she was trampled, stabbed to death with a camel; A. brought S. to the lake, the goose covered him with a wing, A. grabbed him, she ordered her clothes to be brought, became B.; the slave was driven away {presentation for children - probably torn by horses, as it should be}]: Ledenyov 1987:72- 78.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Ak-Bökö is the son of Kara-bökö; shulmus (evil spirit) moves into a fly, A. Altyn-Sudur swallows it, dies; shulmus in her form comes out of the grave, returns under her guise to A.; pretends to fall ill, says that he will recover if he eats her lungs and hearts son and daughter; wife K. advises the servants to give the imaginary khansha the giblets of dogs, let the children go to the steppe; they are starving, asking Uch-Kurbustan for help; the mother's nipples show up from the ground, feed them; children come to Altyn Khan; he brings another boy and one girl from heaven from the UK; both couples are married; Kan-Tadi's son heals Father A., kills Chulmus; chases a jumping head to iron house, splits his head; Shokshulan kills; his wife is his mother, Altyn-Sudur, whom Shulmus married Shulmus after her death; Kan-Tadi returns her to her father]: Nikiforov 1915:148-175 (mother's nipples are shown from the ground: 154); South Altai Tuvans [old Deptegen with a camelskin bag walks in search of sour god and thick hoitpack; picks up the last mare, a poisonous snake, three chicken eggs, an awl, dried skin, a deer antler mallet; hides in a hole in a yurt; beautiful Shinak enters, stabs her awl, stings a snake, eggs buried in ash burst into her eyes, she falls at the end of her skin; D. finishes her off with a mallet, puts on her clothes, throws her body into the water; her young husband is surprised that his wife looks bad; she replies that she was ill ; the camel, the stallion, the ram, the bull are crying, the name is Sh.; the imaginary S. orders to kill the animal every time; the husband pierced his son's thigh with a knife, began to rotate it on the knife; the boy's cry awakened his mother, she flew in gold a swan; the husband asks D. what she will take; she chooses seven mares, she is tied to them, torn apart; the couple is happy]: Taube 1994, No. 29:236-238.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanaytsy (Komsomolsky District) [the old man was digging a vegetable garden, found a cradle with a baby girl in it, he raised her; Mergen came to marry, the old man took five buttons in his dowry; the new wife gave birth to a son, a husband went hunting; M.'s elder wife did not like the new one, sewed the image of her husband to the sole, he is ill, the wife says that the new one and her evil spirits are to blame; makes a fire, a new one rushes at him; M. became hate an old wife, miss a new one; her son comes to the place of burning, his mother flies in with a duck, repairs his clothes, does not tell his father to speak; the boy told, tied his mother's hair to the bush, M. grabbed wife, but she went to her father; now the father demanded a rich dowry; M. cut off his old wife's head, burned the corpse, brought a rich dowry, a feast for three days and three nights]: Kile 1996, No. 43:389-395.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Palana) [Tinianevyt is the daughter of Kutkinyaku and Mitya; Ememkut married her, their pantry is always full of meat; mouse mother is jealous, cut off her the tail, put it in a bag with T.; accused T. of theft, E. finds a tail in his wife's bag, goes to live with mice, takes the mouse as his wife; T. breastfed the baby, went to her parents in the lake; the elder brother killed flies, fed the youngest; the brothers came to the lake, the youngest calls the mother; the parents do not want to let T. go; she goes out, her legs are stone; feeds the baby, returns to the lake; next time she has everything but stone faces; E. comes to see the children, they lead him to the lake; T. comes out all the stone, only his eyes are alive; E. threw on a rope, T. resisted, E. pulled it out, the stone shell slept; E. promised T. no longer leave]: Zhukova 1980, No. 15:181-183; reindeer Koryaks (Chavchuvensk dial.) [Kuikynyak went hunting, stayed with another woman; Mitya has nothing to feed her children, she goes to the lake to camecham waterman; K. comes back, brings the children to the lake, they cry; a grassy woman comes out of the water, breastfeeds them, they recognize her as their mother; M. says she will turn into camecham, will not work out again; K. cooks a spear; the children call their mother again, she comes out in the guise of a monster; K. kills her, rips her stomach open, takes M. out alive, she returns home]: Zhukova 1988, No. 5:19; itelmen [Ememkut marries Moroclnavt; while she is hunting, the old lizard Kamankhnavt tears off M.'s clothes, puts on herself, pushes M. into the yard, pretends to be sick; at night, M. enters the house, cannot wake her husband, feeds the child, leaves; K. (i.e. imaginary M.) tells E. to migrate; Goose marries M., they have a son; son E. kills Goose while hunting; M.'s son from Goose meets his son from E., brings him to his mother; M. revives Goose from bones; all of them they come to E.; he puts K. in a hot bowl; M. stabs himself on the parting on his head with a knife, divides himself into two women; one becomes E.'s wife again, the other Goose]: Jochelson 1961, No. 14:112-115; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 185 [=Jochelson], 186:547-554.

The coast is the Plateau. Lillouette [woman dies; her baby cries, she returns to babysit him; shamans grab her, tell her husband to take care of his wife; he sends her for a heavy basket; the basket falls on her, her soul returns to the world of the dead]: Teit 1912b, No. 23:329-330; Thompson [a woman dies, her newborn daughter is crying; a woman comes out of her grave to feed her; shamans catch her, she stays alive; one day she walks into a cellar full of mice, turns into a mouse herself]: Teit 1917b, No. 26:44-45.

The Midwest. Ojibwa or chippewa [the hunter gives the best meat to his wife, not the mother, who is jealous; lures his daughter-in-law to a swing above the lake, cuts off the rope, the daughter-in-law falls into the water; a water monster wraps her tail around her; the old woman puts on her clothes, pretends to be babysitting the child; the husband does not notice the change, gives her the best meat; an orphan boy lives in the house; realizes that the foster mother has been killed; brings her to babysit her baby; she rises to the waist out of the water; next time her husband pierces the monster with a spear, frees his wife; mother-in-law falls into the fire, turns into a black bird]: Spence 1985:176-180 ; fox [the old woman sees that her son-in-law has a big penis; swings over the lake, invites her daughter to swing, cuts the vine, the daughter falls into the water, the Great Lynx takes her as his wife; the old woman pulls her skin tighter, piercing it on the back of his head and wrapping it around a stick; at night, the husband discovers a wand, kills the false wife with a club; the drowned brother brings her crying baby ashore; the mother is half out of the water feed him; next time brother and husband bring a horn knife, the husband cuts off his wife's fish tail, she jumps out of the water to the shore; Lynx appears holding its tail and fish in her teeth]: Jones 1907, No. 8:101-111.

Northeast. Seneca [young wife dies, left on the burial platform; while her husband is hunting, comes to his hut to babysit their daughter; agrees to stay if he doesn't touch her; disappears when her burial platform burns down]: Cornplanter 1938, No. 15:182-189.

Plains. Blacklegs [the girl is married to an old leader against her will; she cries all the time, gives birth to a child, still dies of grief; her former lover is waiting at the grave; she goes out to him, but says what she should feed her baby; puts on men's clothes, goes to the chief's house; pretends to be something, her husband tries to grab her; she jumps out of the smoke hole, but he manages to cut off her leg; celestials place her on the moon; an old woman without a leg is visible there]: Fraser 1990:36-37; assiniboine [see motif K33; an old woman drowns her daughter, puts on her clothes, sleeps with her son-in-law; a siren daughter comes out of the water, to babysit his crying baby; her brother lures her, her husband cuts off her fish tail, brings her wife back; mother-in-law runs away]: Lowie 1909a, No. 8b: 157; grovantre [hunter with his wife and baby sleeps at rivers; a water monster wraps a ring around them; the husband jumps over him, the wife falls on the monster's back, dragged into the river; the husband brings their baby to the water; the wife rises out of the water to conquer him; below the waist she became snake; teaches how to shoot a monster; husband kills him with an arrow; wife regains his human appearance in the steam room]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 40:117; teton [man scolds his wife; she goes to live in the lake, does with a siren; her brother brings her baby ashore, she nurses him; her husband catches her, cuts off part of her body with fish; the woman dies soon]: Dorsey 1889:137; Osage [old woman falls in love with her son-in-law; offers daughters swing on a swing above the water, cuts the rope; daughter drowns; husband rejects mother-in-law; Thunder gives him a zipper ax to bring his wife back; she is tied at the bottom of the river; four times her husband brings her to babysit them little daughter; each time a woman rises higher out of the water; on the fourth, her husband breaks her chains with a lightning axe, returns his wife; kills her mother-in-law by piercing her ears with a red-hot arrow]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 22 : 26-27; arapaho [see motive J35; Raven's wife kills man's new wives by inviting them to swing by the backwater and cutting the rope; says: Here's food for you, grandmother; the water monster grabs the fallen in get a girl; brother brings her crying baby to the shore; she goes out to feed him, the monster allows her to get out of the water only to the waist; brother grabs her sister, the husband hits the monster with a spear; brother drowns the Crow, repeating her words (Here's food for you... ); the river overflows, the family escapes to the mountain; the brother throws paint on four sides, the flood stops; fish, turtles, frogs on land turn into springs, rivers, lakes]: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 5:8-12

Southeast USA. Biloxi [Beauty marries a chief, gives birth to a child; Crizozubaya puts obstacles in her way, kills when she gets stuck in the swamp; puts on her skin, comes to her husband; the baby cries, not recognizes her; the brother of the murdered child carries the baby to the river bank; the mother comes out of the water to feed him; the chief orders the false wife to be thrown into the fire; together with the real wife's brother, he grabs her in the river, brings her home; One day she finds crooked skin; rushes into the river with her child; becomes a duck, the baby becomes a minnow fish]: Dorsey, Swanton 1912, No. 26:79-81.

California. Miwok (Lower Sacramento) [Falcon's wife The Gray Goose is in love with the Bald Eagle; she has two sons, a boy and a baby; the Falcon kills her; the son carries his brother to the house where she is dead every day the mother comes to breastfeed him; the Falcon grabs her, asks her to stay; the Skylark says she smells dead; so the dead do not revive; bird people turn into birds]: Merriam 1993:127-132.