Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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K56a3. Do not tie your shoelaces .35.-.37.

A

wandering girl or girl should not tie ties, shoelaces on shoes or clothes. She does it and gets into trouble.

Northern Khanty, Nenets (Pyasinsky, Taimyr), Ents, Baikal and Amur Evenks, Negidals, Nanais.

Western Siberia. Khanty (b. Kazim, western 1980) [man in the house behind a locked door (Torum?) freezes; sends her eldest daughter to the North Wind so as not to blow too much; she does not listen to her father's advice (she ties ties her fur coat and kitties, drives rather than kisses bears, cuts wood with a sharp, not a blunt ax); cleaning the house, finds pieces of moose and sable meat, eats them; The wind brings sables, tells them to take the sable meat to the next house; the girl finds no one; the wind tells me to do it before he returns sable fur coat; woman comes in, asks to look in her head; girl refuses; does not have time to glue the skins together, the Wind kills her; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest follows instructions; pieces of meat from the floor - Wind sharpener; the girl looks for a woman in her head, sees little women behind her ear, they make a fur coat; The wind marries her, her father feels warm]: Lukina 1990, No. 12:73-74; Nenets: Bulatova 1985 {this text is almost certain - a retelling of Osharov's text} [the old man sends his eldest daughter to the owner of the winds Kotur to ask him to stop the blizzard; tells him not to shake the snow out of his shoes on the way, not to tie untied ties on clothes, go for a sled, then for a bird; the girl does everything in her own way; K. tells me to take half of the meat to the neighboring plague, the girl simply throws it away; tells you to sew clothes quickly; the girl refuses to take the speck out of the old woman's eye; K. throws the girl into the snowdrift, she dies; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does everything right, brings meat to another plague, gets workers in return tools, takes a speck out of the old woman's eye; four girls jump out of the old woman's ear, do the job; K. takes the girl as his wife, the blizzard stops]: 148-154; Nenyang 1997 (Taimyr, Tukhard tundra, west Labanauskas in 1976) [the father sends his eldest daughter to a blizzard; at the edge of the lake, she must remove the bandages from the bakaries, not break it on the other side, correct the devils, not scold the two children who come running; she does not unties the bandages, does not correct the devils, scolds the children when they call her sister; the children disappear, the man in the plague tells them to cook food, take it to their mother; she did not find the old woman, walked for three years, the man tore it apart; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest barefoot crossed the water without freezing, glued the devils together, caressed the children, carried food to the old woman, found a leaky tree root, put a bowl in it, got back needles, thimbles, etc.; the old woman went out, told her to look in her head, the girl killed lice, saw women working in her ear, they sewed clothes that the man told her to sew; the girl and her father healed well]: 56-58; Osharov 1936a (Pyasinskaya tundra, western 1930) [The old man has three daughters; in a blizzard, he sends his eldest wife to Kotur to have mercy; she must push the sled against the wind, not tie ties to his clothes when they are untied, and not shake out the snow; tie it up and shake it out only at the top of the mountain; do not drive the bird when it sits on her shoulder there; sledding down the mountain to the plague of Kotura; do not touch anything in the plague herself; the girl did everything wrong, drove the bird away began to eat meat in the plague; K. comes, tells her to take half of the meat to her neighbors, do not go into the chum there, wait for an empty trough; the girl did not look for the plague, threw the meat into the snow; in the morning K. tells me to sew in a day clothes made of leather; an old woman comes in, asks to look for her lice, the girl refuses, says that there is a lot of work; the clothes are bad, K. tore the girl, threw it away; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does everything that's right; finds a stump, there is a door in it, the old woman takes the meat she brought, returns the trough with needles and other women's utensils; when the girl starts sewing, the old woman tells her to look for lice from her ear four girls go out, perform everything; the old woman warns not to tell K. that this is his sisters' work; K. marries the girl, the blizzard stops]: 195-206; Tonkov 1936 [the freezing old man sends the eldest daughter to look for a warm plague; tells me to go across the lake, dissolving pimas; she picks up pimas, drives dogs; the owner asks to take the meat to another plague, she eats it herself; she cannot sew a blanket without seams, glues it together, it falls apart; refuses to look in the old woman's head; the owner killed her; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest caressed dogs while she was looking in the old woman's head, sees people in her ear sewing a blanket for her; marries, takes his father into a warm plague]: 149-153; Entsy [a freezing old man sends his eldest daughter to look for a warm plague; tells me to go across the lake, untied the ties on the glasses; do not drive dogs, they will bring them to plague; the girl does not untie her glasses, drives dogs; comes to the plague; the man asks to take the boiled meat to another plague; it is dark, the girl eats the meat herself; when leaving, the man orders to glue the blanket without seams; it breaks; refuses to look for lice from the old woman; the man kicked the girl out, she froze; the same with the middle sister; the youngest is doing everything right; instead of another, the plague finds a hole with people, lowers the cup there; those they return an empty cup with a golden lasso in it; a girl looks for an old woman in her head; sees people making a blanket in her ear without seams; a man marries a girl, tells her to leave the lasso, deer appear; a girl brings her father to live with her]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 44:183-187; Northern Khanty (b. Kazim, western 1980) [man in the house behind a locked door (Torum?) freezes; sends her eldest daughter to the North Wind so as not to blow too much; she does not listen to her father's advice (she ties ties her fur coat and kitties, drives rather than kisses bears, cuts wood with a sharp, not a blunt ax); cleaning the house, finds pieces of moose and sable meat, eats them; The wind brings sables, tells them to take the sable meat to the next house; the girl finds no one; the wind tells me to do it before he returns sable fur coat; woman comes in, asks to look in her head; girl refuses; does not have time to glue the skins together, the Wind kills her; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest follows instructions; pieces of meat from the floor - Wind sharpener; a girl looks in a woman's head, sees little women behind her ear, they make a fur coat; The wind takes her as his wife, her father feels warm]: Lukina 1990, No. 12:73-74.

Eastern Siberia. Baikal Evenks (p. Karama) [Two girls went to pick berries, came back - the child was shaky. He sings: if a good woman took him, he would become a good husband to her, if her husband did, he would be a good woman for him. The girls agreed to say loudly that the child was beautiful, they put him in a boiling pot themselves, and ran away. The monster is catching up. The eldest threw her handkerchief - the sea appeared (the monster ran to get the boat, swam across), threw the comb - the thicket (the monster ran for the sword, cut through the passage), threw a bar, it fell in front, became a mountain. The younger sister became a fur coat, crawled through the hole, the older sister became an ant, and her ass got stuck. The youngest began to pull, but the monster ate the ass, the youngest dragged the eldest, and left it in one place. The eldest is crying. The youngest dragged again, left it elsewhere, the eldest laughs. The youngest went alone, the frill untied, the girl put her foot on the branch to tie a frill, a frog jumped out, told her to go to her house, fed her, hid it. She told me to sew something for her husband. My husband was surprised, the frog never sewed. Same thing the next day. The husband hid, found the girl and began to live with her. He told the frog to pour blood into her skin and wrap himself up. She was warm at first and froze to death at night. A man and a girl killed frog deer. The girl went to where she left her older sister. There is a hut, her sister, she gave her younger deer, she brought them to her husband]: Titov 1936, No. 9-10:179-181; Amur Evenks [the old hunter has three daughters; he sees a huge young man sitting on a hill a man; he promises him well-being if the eldest daughter, having untied her ties, climbs a high mountain, where the man's mother sees her; the eldest does not untie her, she is carried away by a blizzard; the same is the middle one; the youngest unties, comes to the mountain, where a man's mother, the size of a mouse, calls her inside a stump; lets her make clothes out of skins; the girl does not know how, but the man's mother pulls a female assistant out of each ear; { obviously, the girl is doing the task, getting married}; previously a big man promises that if the girl completes the task, her sisters will come to life, the hunger will end]: Bulatova 1980:95-98 (=1987, No. 1:109-111).

Amur - Sakhalin. Negidals [the older sister tells the father that the youngest has a man; he drives her daughter away; the old woman warns her not to tie her boots if they untie; she violates the ban; Frog invites her to her house, takes her jewelry and clothes, gives her her frog clothes; the girl turns into a stick; Vayamilan marries the Frog, Tybdemalan sits on the girl's bunk, scolds a stick with a knife, blood flows; returns for a knife, the stick turns into a girl, he takes her as his wife; his father-in-law asks his daughters-in-law to bring him treats, dowry clothes, bring relatives; Frog cooks frog caviar, brings leaves, frogs; a girl goes to larch, bags of delicious food rich in clothes fall from the top to her; two handsome men descend from the sky - they are her relatives; take away the Frog's clothes and jewelry; The frog and her husband choked]: Cincius 1982, No. 25:135-139; the Nanais [the poor girl found a piece of silk, dropped it into the river, ran downstream, saw the house; answers the old woman that she would go up the clay shore, enter the clay door, eat pottery; the dishes turn out to be golden; the old woman gives the box, tells her not to open it on the way if the ties of greaves and pants will be untied, do not tie, go to bed at home; in the morning the floor is golden, the roof poles are silver; the rich girl deliberately drops the flap, answers the old woman that it is gold, gold, dishes it turns out to be clay; she ties ties, but the shoes are untied, the girl fell; opened the box, the snakes crawled out, strangled her; the poor girl buried her bones, burned her house at the wake]: Kile 1996, No. 34:337-341.