Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

K56a8a. A good girl returns with her fiance..35.39.40.

The girl goes to another world, behaves correctly, returns with an animal or object inside which the groom is. Usually, the other girl misbehaves and suffers damage.

Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Chuvans, coastal and reindeer Koryaks, Itelmen, St. Lawrence.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Rombandeeva 2005, No. 6 [Mosne and Porne live in the same village; M. is calling by the river, my black beast, my red beast, swim out; swims on the back of a black beast to Yanig-Ekva; repairs her fur coat well; I cook food from my snot and earwax, the food turns out to be oily; asks her to look in her head, tells me how ugly her nose, arms, legs are; M. replies that everything beautiful, like a young one; I tell you to take a box in an old barn with me, M. opens the house, there the man is scaring; the chips are floating, M. replies that she scolded herself, but P. guessed it; also calls the beast; bad I repair my fur coat, reproaches me for snot, scolds my eyes and hands; there is a snake in the box, eats it], 23 [stepmother hates her stepdaughter, tells her to take her to the forest; the husband cut down a log house for his daughter, left raw ones for food burbot guts and tails; at night, the monster tries to crawl into the house, the girl replies that she only has raw intestines and tails to eat; became a needle and hid in the garbage; the monster did not find her, decided that with such She was skinny with food and left; the next time a handsome man came and married her; the father came, surprised how well her daughter was living; she gave him guts and tails, but then jala with him and a piece of fatty meat; the stepmother sends her own daughter, gives her liver, burbot caviar, opens the monster, thinking it was the groom; he ate it; when the father came back to his daughter, she fed him, and sent his stepmother only guts and tails]: 77-81, 223-233; Eastern Khanty (Tomsk Oblast) [the little sister is beautiful, the older sister is not so beautiful; the youngest is walking along a sandy road, has broken her stump; baba yaga: who broke my pipe? the girl went down to the ground, asks for permission to spend the night, Baba Yaga tells you to set up the pipe, bring water, wash the floor; tells me to walk along the left road, not to take a gold box from the barn, take a bad one, with squirrels and Ronzhami did not talk on the way back; the girl did so, returned home, a handsome guy with her in the morning; her sister went too; took the gold box, answered the squirrels and ronjam, and the old man was in the chest; it was Savsiki bewitched; said that if a girl didn't feed him, he would eat her]: Lukina 2004, No. 1. 11:21-24.

SV Asia. Chuvantsy [mother beat her daughter for spilling fat and having nothing else to eat; daughter went to the tundra; a terrible old woman calls her inside the hill; tells her to cook porridge, sew torbas and kitchens; she's all does good; the old woman hides the girl from her cannibal sons; tells her not to untie the bag or look back on the way back if she hears a noise behind her; the girl looked back only when someone grabbed her shoulder; this is a handsome guy and a child in a bundle; yaranka became big and rich; the mother was not surprised that her daughter came with a boyfriend; everything is fine]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 20:43-46; coastal Koryaks ( Karagin dialect) [Tinienevvut picks berries; the bear tells her to go to her; she carefully kneads the bears at home, teaches her not to be afraid if any of the bears are for she will be chased; the bear catches up with her, rides, she immediately gives birth to a child, the Bear becomes human, brings her to herself; they visit T.'s parents, who are delighted with her son-in-law; her sister Rera wants to be with her the same thing happened; scared of the Bear, screams, her brothers kill a bear; a man jumps out of his skin, runs away; R. missed the groom because of laziness, cowardice and disobedience]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 136:419-422; reindeer Koryaks [Creator's daughter Yinyeaut goes to feed the dog, and he tries to hug her; he comes to her at night; he is killed, thrown into an ice-hole, cut into pieces, but he revives every time and comes to her in the guise of a man; remains her husband, kills many deer; her cousin Kilu pretends to be rushing at her; no one pays attention; she drowns him herself, but no one does not come; and lives alone]: Jochelson 1908, No. 33:183; Itelmen [Kuth has daughters Sinanevt and Sirim, sons Ememkut and Sisilkhan; E. tells Sinanevt not to watch him make arrows; she looks the arrows break, E. breaks her arm, Sinanevt cries, goes into the forest; the old woman mother Volkov heals her hand; tells her not to take anything on the way, if she finds a torbaza, put insoles in them, tendons - lend threads ; Sinanevt does this, does not take meat and fat from the farce; the wolf sister throws it up without causing harm, hides it from the brothers; tells her to run, turns her younger brother into a bear, tells her to catch up; E. shoots a bear, a handsome guy is inside, takes Sinanevt as his wife; Sirim repeats everything, but eats meat and fat, takes the veins and the torbaza, tells the she-wolf that she injured her; none of the brothers Wolves do not chase Sirim, they send their dog, Sirim asks Sicilkan and Sirim, they send their brothers' burett, even; they try to kill her, but there is no groom inside. Sisilkhan throws Sirim into the forest, it has dried up there]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 178:533-536.

The Arctic. The island of St. Lawrence [a smart girl sews, drops a thimble, it fell on an arrow made by her brother, the arrow broke; her brother hit her sister, she went to the tundra; saw her shoes wet, dried it and fixed it; cleaned the fish prepared for cleaning; came to the old woman; she tells her not to go into the next room; sending her home, she gives a lot of beads and tells her not to look back, even if the stalker will push her in the back; she does everything, her brother and other people see a grizzly bear following the girl, shoot him, a handsome young man jumps out of his grizzly skin, takes the girl as his wife; her stupid friend tells her brother to hit her with an arrow on purpose, breaks an arrow; starts and quits drying shoes, cleaning fish; gets few beads; runs home in horror; an old man jumps out of the grizzly, takes girlfriend for wife]: Slwooko 1977:66-69.