K56a9. The assistant mouse rings the bell.
.14.21.27.-.33.35.36.38. (.40.)
When a small animal (usually a mouse) rings a bell, knocks on a drum, etc., a blind or farther away antagonist thinks that the hero makes these sounds ( heroine). Thanks to this, the hero (heroine) is saved.
Moroccan Berbers, Nevar, Bulgarians, Greeks, Gagauz people, Ukrainians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Moscow, Tula, Ryazan, Lipetsk), Kabardian people, Abazins, Abkhazians [rat], Stavropol Turkmens [foxes], Ossetians, Kabardian, Adygs, Karachays, Dargins, Georgians, Pashayas, Tajiks, Baluchis, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Setus, leaders, Veps, Karelians, Finns, Maris, Bashkirs, Uighurs, Dungans, Mansi, central (?) Yakuts, Japanese, (Aleuts).
North Africa. The Berbers of Morocco (Fez) [the father goes to the Hajj; to find out which of his 7 daughters is the smartest, he offers them 7 eggs: if taken with them, they will break, and if left, they will go bad; six daughters are figuring out how to cook eggs; the youngest suggests hanging them from the ceiling - they will remain; she stayed behind the main one; the ball fell into the well; the youngest went down to get it, found an underground passage in the next house, where there are 40 robbers; alone at home; she asks him to get something, cleans the stairs, takes the property; so with three; then she brings the sisters, they put the robbers to sleep with hashish in the drink, they painted them as women, put radishes in the ass, put black porridge in their pants; the next day, the sisters take the robbers to the bathhouse - they will wash themselves and give themselves to them; the robbers prepare a pot of resin and butter, to cook the offenders; they ask not to enter their steam room while they hear that the cup is ringing; they tied this cup to the tail of the mouse; the mouse runs, the sound is heard; the sisters smeared soap on the steps, got out through a hole in the wall, bribing the stoker; the next time the robbers took turns trying to stick their heads into the sisters' yard, each with a hot iron put a brand on his forehead; the robbers flee; the younger sister sold their sultan was stigmatized as their rebellious slaves; when their father left, all the sisters asked them to bring them clothes and jewelry, and the youngest asked for the Pearl in Hand; the father brought two boxes from the guli; when the youngest daughter received them, one of the maids came out, the other was a black servant; now she is the wife of the Pearl in Hand (ZhR), lives in a house where the robbers were; a black woman puts her to sleep in the evenings, then she comes JR; two doves say that her sisters and parents miss her; she was released and her sister found out that she was in a robber's house; found a glass tube through which ZhR entered, broke it; when JR appeared, he was badly injured; JR told the black woman to slaughter his wife in the desert and bring her bloody shirt; when the maid brings her sword, the rooster rushes to the blade, pours his blood on the young shirt women, the rooster's head grew and he flew away; ZhR regretted that he hastened to kill; the wife pulled the stomach of a lamb over her head, dressed as a man; hears the conversation between two doves; JR can be cured with the leaves of this tree and our blood; the woman killed the pigeons, collected leaves; cured the ZhR Sultan Guli; stayed with him forever; he forgave the maid for her disobedience]: El Fasi, Dermenghem 1928:7-32.
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Nevar: Aganina, Shresthkha 1971 [the goat feeds Punahun rice porridge; the stepmother finds out about this, tells the goat to be slaughtered; she asks P. to bury its bones, a tree will grow, and she will eat its fruits; the rakshasa find P. picking the fruit, take it away; the mouse asks for bread, P. feeds her; the mouse leaves the coals responsible for P., gives the key to the pantry, P. returns with jewelry; the stepmother sends to the tree own daughter; she does not feed the mouse, at night the Rakshasa eat the girl; the crow shouts to her stepmother that her daughter has only bones left]: 92-101; Sakya, Griffith 1980 [Maincha - stepdaughter, goat Dhon Cholecha spits food out of her mouth, feeds M.; stepmother sends her own daughter to find out if the goat should be slaughtered; she asks M. to bury her bones, a tree with rice puddings will grow; a couple of lakhe demons saw M. asked them to throw off their puddings; ask them to get down and hand them in their hands; brought them to their homes, told them to bake lavash; the mouse asks them to give it, tells them to run, taking the treasures and spitting on every step of the stairs and putting on top of the coal; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she kills the mouse; at night, the demons began to cut off pieces of meat from the girl, ate her; the stepmother is expecting a daughter, the crow screams that the mother is combing her hair, and the daughter is alone bones; stepmother remained in the house as a maid]: 84-87.
The Balkans. Bulgarians [a woman who used to give birth only to sons or is childless asks God to give her a daughter, even a lamia (vampire, plague); gives birth to a daughter, she is a lamia, eats horses; younger brother, when herding horses, injures her (cuts her finger off); leaves home, gets helper dogs on the way, lives in another village; decides to visit her native village; there the lamia ate everyone; the sister consistently eats the horse's legs , asks his brother if he came on a three-, two-, one-legged horse; The mouse answers his sister instead of his brother (beats the drum, sings); running away, the hero consistently climbs three trees (poplars, oaks, they were planted by him); when the sister has almost gnawed through the trunk of a third tree, the hero's wife, after learning from the behavior of dogs or by another sign that her husband is in trouble and releases dogs, they tear up a lamia]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 315a: 117-118; Greeks [a woman has a son and daughter, a daughter gives birth to a girl; at night a monster eats cattle; a young man shoots his little finger, in the morning a baby girl cries, her little finger is torn off; the young man demands that his sister kill the monster, she refuses; he takes his mother, leaves; they stop in the cannibal's cave; he agrees with the young man's mother to kill him; the mother pretends to be sick, asks bring her 1) cannibal milk, 2) the melon of life, 3) the water of life; each time the fairy helps to get what she is looking for, replaces horse urine, ordinary melon, plain water; the sister asks what her brother's life is like; he replies that in a broom, in a joint (she adorns them); in golden hair on his head; she pulls out her hair, she and the cannibal eat it; the fairy sends two young doe cubs brought in (they are described like dogs) bring all the bones eaten; first the little finger is missing, then it is found; revives with milk, melon, water of immortality; the young man kills the cannibal and mother; comes to his sister, she ate everyone, tells him ring the bell while the water is boiling; the mouse rings instead, it runs away; climbs three trees that grew out of the nuts given by the fairy; the deer cubs come running, eating the monster; the young man marries a fairy]: Paton 1900, No. 12:340-344; Gagauz people [the master has three daughters, he is looking for someone to herd his horses; the eldest daughter is coming, the father turned to a bear, went out to meet him, the girl ran home; the same middle daughter; the youngest goes to the old woman for advice; she tells the horses to give hot coals, take the one that will eat them; the skinny mare began to eat, the girl sat on her, was going to shoot the bear; her father blessed her to herd horses are three years old; the sun falls in love with her, but does not understand whether it is a girl or a man; the mother of the Sun advises to see how she urinates and what things she buys at the bazaar; the girl urinates like a man in the bazaar she takes only things for men; three years later she shows Soltsy her chest and braid; the mother of the Sun advises to put a gold swing; the girl sat on her, the Sun raised her; the palm advised the girl seven years be silent; then the Sun took another bride; she tells her to be the first to bring a sieve from Mother Sunday; Sunday sends by Friday, she sends by Wednesday, Wednesday says that the sieve took the hobur; hobur tells you to play on violin, goes for a sieve, but in fact, sharpen her teeth; the mouse volunteered to jump on the strings, run; the hobur killed the mouse, chases after him; the girl threw the canvas (river; hobur put one lip to the ground, the other to sky, drank water), brush (forest), stone (rocky place, hobur can't cross); the girl brought a sieve; the second bride: you, dumb, bring her a pot; girl: to take away your tongue; the sun cut the ram, I heard, rushed to the girl, her hands were covered in blood; the girl became a swallow, the second bride was a goat, both went through the trumpet, the Sun still did not marry]: Moshkov 1904, No. 30:42-44.
Central Europe. Ukrainians, Russians in Ukraine [Witch and Sun Sister. Ivan Tsarevich nem; when he reaches the age of 12, the groom tells him that his parents had a daughter who will eat everyone; advises him to ask his father for the best horse to ride and leave; on the way I. meets characters who say that they have a little left to live, that they will die when they finish their work; two old seamstresses will break the chest of needles and sew a chest of thread; Vertodub will pull out all the oaks; Vertogor - all the mountains; Solntseva's sister accepts I. as a son; from the mountain he sees his house, there is desolation; Solntseva's sister sends him, giving him a brush, a comb, two youthful apples; he throws a brush, mountains grow, Vertogor is happy; comb - oaks; gives apples to seamstresses - they get younger, give I. khustochka {?} ; at home, the sister asks me to play the harp; The mouse says that she went to sharpen her teeth, tells her to run, she stays running along the strings; I. waves the khustochka - the lake; Heltodub throws oaks in the way of cannibal oaks, Vertogor - mountains; I., Sun, open the window; jumps into the house on horseback; witch: Whoever weighs on the scales will eat it; when he steps on the scales, Ivana throws him to heaven; the witch remains on earth]: Afanasiev 1985 (1), No. 93:110-112 (1958:136-138); Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Dunya's mother died, stepmother has a daughter Natasha; stepmother tells her husband to take D. to the forest, let the bears eat; D. spins in the hut; the father hung a chip on the birch tree, the wind beats it against the trunk, D. thinks that his father is cutting firewood, and he has left; the mouse asks for porridge, D. gave it; the bear brought a bag of gold, tells him to play blind man's buff, gave D. bell; mouse runs around with a bell, the bear did not grab D., left her gold; father takes D. home, the dog chucks: D. goes, a bag of gold is carrying; stepmother: no, D.'s bones in the bag are rattling; stepmother sent N., she did not give porridge to the mouse, blurted the bell herself, the bear ate it; dog: Natasha's bones are being taken]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:149-151; Russians (Pskov) [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter into the forest; he tied a board to the birch tree, it knocks in the wind; the girl thinks that her father is cutting wood, but he is gone; the bear took it to him, told him to make a bed for him: a row of stone, a row of logs, a stupa at his head; she did it all; the bear gave her keys and told her to run around the hut; the mouse took her keys and ran with them instead of her; while the bear was running, the girl put on the outfits he had and left; towards the horses (they demand to be reminded), cows (milk), lambs (cut), oak (sweep it and climb it); the girl did everything; they all answer to the bear that they did not see the girl; she came home with wealth; stepmother sent her own daughter; she did not give the mouse keys, did not fulfill the requests of the horses, etc.; the witch caught up with her, collected her bones in a bundle, hung her on an oak tree; dog: your daughter's bones hang on an oak tree]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 33:99-104; Russians (Moscow) []: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 44, 45:99-101, 101-103; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 98 (Tula) [Stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to spin in dugout; there the mouse asks for porridge, the girl feeds her; the Bear comes, offers to play blind man's buff, the Mouse tells her to put out the fire, hide, runs around with the bell herself; The bear sends a herd to the girl in the morning horses and a cart of good; in the morning the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to bring her bones, the dog barks that she is returning kindly; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feed the mouse, the Bear tore her to pieces, the dog barks that the bones they are taking; stepmother died the next day]: 146-147; Russians (Ryazan) [stepmother tells her husband to take Masha to the forest; he left her in the hut; she began to cook porridge, shared with the mouse; the bear tells her blindfold him, run around with a bell, he will catch it; the mouse runs with a bell, Masha is sitting on the stove; the bear gives a box of gold, the dog yaps about it; the stepmother sends her own daughter, that mouse she does not feed, she runs around with the bell herself, the bear broke it; the dog yaps that his father is carrying a box of bones]: Samodelova 2013, No. 97:105-107; Russians: Kretov 1977, No. 14 (Lipetskaya, 1971, village Butyrki Gryazinsky District) [The parents of smart, kind and docile Masha die, evil neighbors drive her out of the house. She goes into the forest hut, cooks porridge, the mouse asks for a treat and Masha treats her. A bear appears and she feeds him too. He offers to play blind man's buff, gives her a bell. Masha passes the bell to the mouse, and the bear gets tired of running after her. The bear leaves Masha as the hostess. Soon Masha asks to let her go home, the bear gives her a palace for her kindness, Masha goes to the village, and the bear carries the palace after her]: 29-29.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [=Sokolov, Broydo 1936:120-122; stepmother tells her husband to leave her stepdaughter in an empty house in the woods to be bitten to death by dogs; the girl cooks porridge, gives it to the mouse; she teaches: a bear will come and give a bell and make you run around the hut three times; if she catches up, she will eat, if she does not catch up, give a silver cart and three horses; let the girl climb up the hut and the mouse take the bell; in the morning, the stepmother sends her husband to bring her stepdaughter's bones; the dog barks: Shasha rides on a silver cart; the stepmother gouged out her eye out of resentment; sent her own daughter; she drove the mouse away; the bear caught up with the girl, ate it; dog barks: bones are being carried; stepmother gouged out her second eye]: Dirr 1922, No. 4:113-115; Adygs [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to a house in the forest; Mouse asks her to feed her, the girl feeds her; at night The bear gives a bell, tells her to run around the house three times; the mouse runs around, the bear rewards the girl with a silver cart and three horses; the dog barks, "Sasha comes back"; the stepmother gouges out of anger, sends a daughter, she does not feed the Mouse, the Bear eats the girl, the dog barks that the bones are carrying; the stepmother gouges out the second eye]: Tambiev 1900, No. 3:17-19; Abazins: Tugov 1985, No. 36 [after seven sons a daughter is born; the younger brother is not happy, he is driven away; the girl eats cattle and people, when the younger brother returns, goes to sharpen his teeth; the younger woman gives a mirror, a comb, a thimble, tells her to learn the names of their dogs; the mouse tells him to run, he just has to pull the strings of the Pyartsa so that his sister thinks he is here; the sister devours the mouse, chases his brother; he throws objects, they turn into ice field, forest, iron pole to the moon; he rises to the moon, calls dogs, they eat the stalker, the head remains; during eclipses he tries to eat his brother on the moon; people shoot, wake up dogs save the moon, dogs drive her head away], 40 [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest hut; there the mouse asks for porridge; says that a bear will come, tells her to run with a bell if he catches her, then he will eat, if not, he will reward; let the girl go up to the attic and the mouse run; in the morning the old man goes to collect his daughter's bones, returns with her alive, the dog barks: an old man and daughter in a silver phaeton and three white horses; the stepmother gouged out her eye out of annoyance, sends her own daughter, she drives the mouse, the bear ate it, the old man brought the bones, the dog barks about it; the stepmother gouged out her second eye]: 91-93, 105- 107; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983 [the prince has three sons; he begged God for a daughter; he shot a wolf's finger, his daughter is crying at home, he put a finger to her hand, she was a werewolf; the sister chased her younger brother ; the woodpecker complained that the tree would soon fall, he would have no place to eat for the children; the young man made the rotten tree young and hard; the witch Arupap sent him along the road, he came to the moon and married; went to look for parents and brothers, the Moon gave a ring; everything is desolated at home, only his sister lives; consistently eats the horse's legs, goes to the blacksmith to sharpen his teeth; the rat tells the young man to run; woodpecker, A. send the witch is on the wrong path, but she catches up again; a young man throws a ring to his wife in heaven; dogs rush at the witch, a young man climbs his wife along the moonpath; a witch tears his brother's leg to his knee; on the moon he can see one-legged person]: 33-35 (=2002:39-41); Chursin 1956 [A. Joakimov, 1874, No. 54; the family has three brothers; a daughter was born; on the same day she took her younger brother to the cloud, but he cut off her finger and escaped; after getting married, the sister ate her husband; the younger brother came to visit; sister ate his horse's leg, the other, third, the whole horse; tied her brother in a leather wineskin, went to sharpen her teeth; the rats gnawed at his wineskin, his brother ran away; threw a handful of wheat (forest), salt (sea) behind; sister she made her way, swam across, grabbed her brother at the house, and her brother's wife began to pull him towards her; they decided that the sister would eat Brother of the Month, and the wife would fatten]: 149-150; Karachays: Aleinikov in 1883 Jurtubayev 1991 [the prince had a daughter Dzhelmouth; on the very first night, a bucket of water and a calf disappeared, all the cattle gradually disappeared; one of her brothers, Kyyynly (Goremyk), went to the Black Sea coast; Found puppies for caught fish, raised them; when he went home, he found only a sister and a blacksmith there; the sister tears off one leg from his brother's horse, then the other, etc.; the mouse advises K. to run while J. sharpens his steel teeth; the mouse directs J. three times in the other direction, the fourth time she runs on the right track; K. calls on her dogs, they tear J., the head remains; one dog grabs his head by the hair, the other for the lower jaw, the head rises with them to the moon; once a year, dogs fall asleep, the head devours the moon, an eclipse occurs; at this time, people make noise to wake up dogs]: 78-79 (briefly similar text in Potanin 1883:775-776); Jurtubayev 2007 [the son, seeing his newborn sister, tells her to be killed, her parents refuse, he leaves; helps the female leopard to be born, she gives him one cub, the second he he takes it himself; they leave him by a thread; he comes to his native village, where the blacksmith says that the young man's sister ate everyone; the sister consistently eats the horse's legs, each time asking how many legs he had horse; brother confirms that three, two, one; sister tells me to knock on the pelvis, goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse starts to knock, gives an awl, a comb, a mirror, tells me to run; objects turn into a bone lock, iron fence; sister catches up; brother burns hairs, leopards come running, cling to her jaws; girl rises into the sky, pounces on the sun and moon, leopards prevent her from swallowing them]: 370-371; Stavropol Turkmens [the tsar has three sons with his first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; mares disappear in the herd at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes, cooks dinner; an old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a stone; a young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there; a young man hits one with his boot, hides; then says he is the son of a thief and wants to steal with them; promises to get the king's three daughters; killed the guard, went to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit his own, cut the first two, when he hit the youngest's sword, his sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed each one at a time, strung his ears on a thread; killed an old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot into a black cloud, a shot child's finger fell to the ground; at home, the queen says that daughters cut off their finger; the young man gave his finger and found it in the steppe; the king (the one who is the father of three princesses) summons people, looking for a hero, only the young man's sword came to the sheath; three princesses are presented as three princes; the stepmother commands drive the younger one away; he came to the tree; the snake crawls to the eagles nest, he killed her; for this, the eagle gave him two eagles out of three; the young man went on, took the splinter out of the lioness's paw, who gave him two lion cubs out of six; left the lion cubs and eagles to guard the horse, put on lamb skins and tripe himself, went to town; the youngest of the king's three daughters realized that it was a prince; invited the sisters to send three apples: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered all men to go outside the window, let every daughter throw an apple at whoever she wanted to marry; the elders threw viziers at the sons, the youngest as an imaginary beggar; The king lodged them at the stable; the king fell ill, he needed chicken meat; the imaginary beggar in his true form, with the help of his lions and eagles, obtained a feces, gave the meat to his elder sons-in-law, who allowed them to be placed on the sacrum stigma; from what his elder sons-in-law brought to the king; and from the bowels cooked by his youngest daughter, he recovered; at the feast, the prince truly said that two slaves, the eldest, had run away from him the sons-in-law had to show stamps; the prince gave slaves to the tsar; everything was clarified; the prince decided to visit his home; let the eagles go, but the lions said they would still be useful, stayed with the prince's wife; at home the city intact, no people; the werewolf sister has a thin father, stepmother, brothers and wives in the hut; the sister consistently asks if the brother came on horseback with three, two, one legs, whether he came on foot; tells me to play on the balalaika; the fox volunteered to play for him, and let him hang his boots, which can be seen from the kitchen - as if he was still sitting; his sister was chasing, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first one, his sister gnawed, it fell, the prince moved to the second, then to the third; the lions feel something, his wife released them, they tore the cannibal; they brought a lot of cattle; at home, the prince handed over power to the elder brother; he himself began to live with two wives (it is not said how he married the first one)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1:1-13; Ossetians: Bagriy 1930 (2): 191-193 [(Zap. A.N. Gren, from materials from L.G. Lopatinsky); the old woman's three sons went to work; a daughter was born, she grew fangs, ate her parents; found two older brothers, offered to herd cattle for them, ate them themselves; the youngest quietly got out from under the burka, ran away; the shepherd hid him; he began to herd the herd, drove him into the gorge, killed the hero who attacked him; the same in two more gorges, took three huge dogs; came to his father's house; his sister began to treat him, ate half of his horse, asks why he came on half a horse; the mouse tells him to run, promises to play the harmonica himself; his brother hid in a tree, whistled, his dogs tore his sister apart]; Miller 1882 [seven brothers mowed, at which time their mother gave birth to a fanged girl; she immediately followed her mother to her brothers; the youngest saw that she ate the floor- horses, left; met a girl in the tower, began to live with her; went to visit her family; the wife brings with her a comb, coal, a whetstone; the sister greets her brother, gives a fandyr (string instrument), goes to sharpen her fangs; the mouse tells you to run through the back window, runs along the strings of the fandyr; the sister returns, swallows the mouse many times, it jumps out from behind her; the brother throws objects, they turn into a bush, a forest, a mountain; the sister gnaws through the road; the brother runs to the tower, the wife gives him a hand and grabs him from below; the women agree that each should own it for two weeks; the young man becomes the Month; when in her sister's hands, she gradually eats it, and his wife feeds it again]: 297-299; Dargins [Bizbizi, "daughter of seven mothers" (i.e. seven women took care of her) goes with three girls to the forest for grass; falls asleep, girls they tie her braids to the thorns, leave; crows, pigeons refuse to help, eagles free her; a huge bull appears, B. is afraid, climbs a tree; the bull tells him to take silk clothes and shoes out of his ears, takes you to the fork; B. asks loudly which road to take, the old biazhuk (witch) guides along the one that leads to her; goes to sharpen the knife, the mouse tells you to run, taking a jug of water, a needle, salt; B. throws jug (sea), needle (thorny forest), salt (mountain of salt); runs into mothers' house; cotton wool runs up, gives her honey, she eats, dies]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 71:584-586; Georgians [a daughter is born after a son, she has a daughter two teeth; the brother saw the sister get up, devour the cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; the brother leaves, gets to the one-eyed maiden; at night the ram tells the deva to be blinded with a hot skewer, slaughter a sheep, pull its skin over him; dev lets the sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; dev promises to adopt him; tells not to herd on the mountain of the black maiden; the young man kills the one, his dev is grateful; the same with a red maiden; with an eagle; she asks to give birth to her; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding his parents' heads in her hands; she gnaws off one by one The brother's horse's legs, he agrees that he came in three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; the sister goes to sharpen his teeth; the mouse wakes up his brother, talks about danger; he leaves a stone in bed above him a bag of ash, climbs on the poplar; the sister cleans her eyes of ash, gnaws on the poplar; the fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed one overgrows; the same with the Bear; the young man calls eagles, they eat cannibal; three drops of blood fall on a piece of paper, a leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret not taking it; the young man hides it in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants suggest guessing what they have it in their chests; the young man does not guess, he must give his eagles; the sheet says that she is wearing cotton wool, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, gets chests and eagles, marries a beautiful woman]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46:182-187.
Iran - Central Asia. Pashai: Elwin 1944 [the young man's sister turned out to be cannibal; he ran, got married, had two dogs; when he returned home, he saw that all people were eaten; asked his sister to eat him before eating him, she would she brought water in a sieve and sharpened her teeth; she went to the river, told her brother to beat the drum; the rat began to beat him; the sister chased, the brother climbed the tree; when she almost grabbed him, they ran dogs; the young man told them to kill the cannibal so that not a drop of blood spills on the ground; they tore it apart]: 373; Morgenstierne 1944, No. 3 [the prince has a cannibal sister; he runs, lives with a woman who has two dogs; decides to visit the house; there is only his sister, says she will eat it; he asks her to bring a bucket of water and sharpen her teeth; she leaves the drum, tells her to hit it; the brother lets the mouse run on the drum, so that the sister hears the shot; the brother runs, throws needles, a ball of salt, soap behind; every time thrown turns into a mountain, the sister overcomes obstacles; the brother climbs a tree, calls the dogs, tells them to eat a cannibal, so that not a drop of blood spills on the ground; dogs tear the cannibal], 4 [the king has 7 sons, he asks God for a daughter, a cannibal is born; at night he gets up from the cradle, gnaws off the legs of all horses; the youngest son followed, the king does not believe, expels him; he marries in another city, has dogs named Hangir and Bangir; wants to visit his home; the guest leaves a drop of blood and a drop of milk; says that if blood turns into milk and milk turns into blood, dogs must be unchained; gives seven grains of wheat, they must be abandoned in case of danger; all houses are eaten; sister asks how many legs the horse had brothers; eats two, then eats all horses; promises to go fetch water and eat brother; mouse tells brother to run; sister finds a mouse, eats, chases; brother throws grains, 7 of them grow plane tree, he climbs one, his sister chews on the trunk, the tree falls, the brother moves to another; when the last one is left, dogs come running, their brother tells them to tear their sister]: 18-19, 19-23; Tajiks ( Samarkand district) [the padishah has three sons, his wife died, the new one has given birth to a daughter; someone steals apples from an apple tree; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle; the youngest Kenjaboy sprinkles salt on the cut, shoots at a winged demon, who flies to his stepmother's chambers, K. finds a peel next to the cradle; the padishah does not believe, he kicked him out; he left, married, and his diva sister ate all the people and animals in his country; K. takes care of two lions; wants to visit their parents; gives his wife a jug of milk; if the milk is redder, let the lions lower; K. came to his sister; she eats away the horse's legs and consistently asks if the horse was three-legged, two-legged, legless; K. replies what he was; mouse: leave your boots to make it seem like you are sitting, take three needles, salt, a mirror, a comb; and she will hit the strings of the vestibule; sister is chasing, K. threw comb (forest); sister: how he went; K. raise the hem; the same with other obstacles: mirror (river), salt (salt mountain); K. pierced three needles, they turned into three boxwood trees; sister pulled out her tooth , began to saw their trunk; K. jumped to the second tree; to the third; the milk turned red, the wife lowered the lions, they tore the diva, K. returned to his wife]: Amonov 1961:376-381; Baluchi [newborn at night she rips open the bellies of the cattle; her brother has second eyes on the back of his head, he sees everything, asks to kill his sister, they don't believe him, he leaves; he returns, meets three blind girls sucking three blind girls sucking the milk of three goats; sucks milk, they catch it; he kills buzlangs, brings magic leaves, restores girls' sight; leaves two dogs, tells them to let go if the feeder is covered with rust; finds him at home dead city, his sister leads his horse to drink, eats one leg, his brother in fear agrees that he came on a three-legged horse; the same episode with other legs, head, harness; he asks his sister to bring with a sieve, his sister tells him to hit the cup; the mouse hits instead of him, he runs away; the sister eats the mouse, chases; he throws one or the other gold supports for the hearth, the sister hesitates to pick them up; throws an antimony brush, it turns into a tree, it's on top, it gnaws on the trunk with its teeth; he calls dogs, they kill her sister, she says the bead in her throat should be crushed; with this powder he revives killed]: Zarubin 1932, No. 4:52-60.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest; he hangs a board to knock in the wind, as if he is chopping wood, leaving; the bag is not flour, but ash, not lard, but a head; the girl enters hut, the Bear asks to open the door even with a ray; she opens her hand; feeds the Mouse; ash porridge, but delicious; makes the Bear a bed of stones, logs, millstones; The bear tells him to run around the room, ring keys; Mouse runs, Bear throws stones, girl sits under the stove; Bear tells him to blow in his ear, pies fall out, a carriage with horses fall out; the dog barks that the old daughter is coming with gifts; stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feed the Mouse, the Bear kills her, burns her, six sparrows bring her tub with ashes, the dog barks about it; the stepmother burst angrily, father and daughter eat pies]: Lebite 1965: 221-225; Latvians [stepmother turns off all the lights in the house, sends her stepdaughter to buy fire to the Psoglavets castle; on the way, the stepdaughter, in response to their requests, milks the cow, shears the sheep, unravels the horse; the puppet gives bells, tells you to dance until he gets the fire; the mouse tells you to take the fire in the kitchen, take the smaller of the two wallets; the cow, the sheep, the horse answer that the girl ran to his castle; stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not help the animals, takes a big purse, it's hard to run with him, the animals tell the dog where the girl ran, he tore her apart; stepdaughter married the prince]: Aryis 1971 : 213-216; Estonians: Juhan Kunder in Raud 2004 [the poor girl is the last to wash in the bath; the carriage arrives, the devil (vanapagan) tells her to marry his son; the mouse advises the girl to ask for things one at a time; she demands a silk shirt; the wife asks her sons who will bring faster; one says he is as fast as the wind, the second is like water, the third that he is here and there; he brings the shirt; the girl requires a belt, boots, various ornaments; tells me to bring hay to sit in the carriage; the rooster sings, the devils disappear, clothes and jewelry remain the girl; the owner's daughter does not listen to the mouse, asks for everything at once, devils they take her away]: 140-143; set: Järv et al. 2009, No. 35 [mother dies, father married a witch (vanapatu), she has two sons; one of them wants to marry her; she goes to dress in a barn, the witch's sons leave the dogs at the exit so that she does not leave; the mouse asks for bread, the girl gives her, the Mouse gnaws a hole in the wall, tells her to take a whetstone, a brush and a cat with him; the girl runs, the cat listens, reports the chase; the girl throws brushes (the forest, the devils run after the axes; then they hide the axes, the bird says they see, they take the axes home, rush to catch up again), a whetstone (a stone wall; same running for crowbars and hammers), handkerchief (sea, devils drink, burst)]: 148-152; Normann, Tampere 1989 [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter, he leaves her in a forest hut, promises to return in three days; the girl gives the mouse porridge; when a bear comes and gives the girl a bell to catch her in the dark, the mouse tells her to tie a bell around her neck, hide behind the stove herself; the bear did not catch the girl awarded gold; the father brings his daughter, the dog barks that she has returned with gold; the stepmother sends her own daughter, she does not feed the mouse, the bear flutters the girl half to death, the dog barks about it; the stepdaughter is out married]: 63-65; counselors [stepmother tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to the forest, brings a tow, a spinning wheel, a spindle; the old man leaves her in the dugout; the mouse asks for a cake, the girl gives it; the Bear comes in the evening , offers to play blind man's buff; Mouse runs with a bell; The bear cannot catch the girl, gives horses, cows, clothes, gold, silver, two strollers; the stepmother leaves her own daughter in the dugout; she does not give a cake with the mouse, the Bear ate it]: Ariste 1962:22-24 (translated into Konkova 2009:117-119); Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 9 [stepmother tells her husband to move her stepdaughter to a hut on the shore; give moss instead yarn, ash instead of flour, gravel instead of millet, sawdust instead of cereals; three robbers enter, ask to heat the bathhouse; the girl began to cook pies, the mouse asked for dough, the girl gave it; men they returned from the bathhouse, called them to sleep with them, the rooster sang, they disappeared; the next day, the same thing; the mouse turned the girl into a speck, hid it under a broom, the rooster sang, the money remained; my own daughter too wants money; the girl says that she hit the mouse with a roller; the men beat her own daughter to death, put her legs on the balcony, her breasts on the window; the stepmother arrives, thinks these buns on the window are cooling down; fell (and died); the father stayed with her daughter], 48 [after the mother's death, the girl persuaded her father to marry Baba Yaga, who promised to give her milk and wash her milk; when the old man left, her stepmother took the girl to the cold hut, gave ash instead of oatmeal, sand instead of cereal, bricks instead of bread; in the evening the girl cooks porridge, the mouse asks for permission to lick the whorl, the girl gave; the mouse tells her not to be afraid of anything, promises to hide; old people come, the girl fed them dinner, they invite them to sleep with them, she replies that she must clean the table, wash the dishes; the mouse turned her into a rolling pin, put it on the shelf; old people fell asleep; the rooster sang and they fell through the ground, the goods remained; the same the next evening (the mouse turned the girl into a needle, stuck it in the wall); many girls came in the morning, the girl in the hut asks them give it to her father to pick it up; the father comes, the girl has a chest of silver and gold, the dog barks about it; Baba Yaga takes her own daughter to the hut; that mouse hits, is rude to the old people (a toad in your mouth!) , they killed her, put her bones in the corner; the man came, took the bones, the dog barks about it, Baba Yaga beats her; when he saw his daughter's bones, he died]: 62-64, 169-171; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [old woman died, the old man met Syuoyatar, she asked for a wife; went to get her daughter's dowry; tells the old man to take his daughter to a forest hut; gives ash instead of flour, tar instead of butter, moss instead of yarn; the girl's ash becomes flour, moss becomes silk; she shares with the mouse, she promises to help; the old man comes in, tells him to lay near the door and himself at the back wall; the mouse turned the girl into a needle, stuck it in a crack in the wall, began to run in the dark with a bell; a rooster sang and the old man fell dead, in the yard a sleigh with gold, silver, precious stones; the girl finished the silk cloth; the old man brought his daughter, the dog barks at the sleigh with jewelry; the old woman sends her daughter, gives silk, flour, butter, they have turned into moss, ash, resin; the girl hits the mouse; the old man ate the girl, and puts his chest and jaw on the window; S. came, mistook her breasts for buns; opened the door - the old man's corpse fell on S., she died; the old man stayed with his daughter]: Onegin 2010, No. 275-277; Finns [mother died; widow neighbor, who has her daughter, persuaded the girl to advise her father to marry her; began to tyrant; sent her in the winter in the same shirt for strawberries; the girl asked Frost to give her warm clothes, he gave her; she came to the house, there three little men, a girl shares bread with them; they sent her revenge with snow and strawberries under her; one gave the girl even more beauty, the other made gold coins fall from her mouth, the third promised that she would marry the Queen; the stepmother sent her own daughter; she refuses to take revenge on the snow; the little men make her even uglier, toads fall from her lips, she was destined to die miserably; once her stepmother gave The stepdaughter has a piece of bread; he rolled, the girl after him; the ram asks him to cut his hair, the cow to milk, the sheaf to tie; the girl does everything; comes to Hiishi's estate; his wife is at home, she tells him to heat the bathhouse and at the same time weave cloth out of wool; while the girl was drowning, the mice hid and weaved everything; H. orders to milk the cows, these are she-wolves and bears, the cat is milking; strain the milk - sparrows perform; Hiisi himself came, gives a bell, extinguishes the splint - he will catch a bell at the ringing; the mouse runs with a bell; in the morning H. gave the girl gifts, put her on the cart and sent her home; old woman H. tells the cow, the ram, to detain her, they refuse; tells the oak to beat it with branches, the sheaf protected it; the stepmother sent her own daughter to X.; she refuses to shear the ram, milk the cow, knit a sheaf; drives away mice, cats, sparrows; the mouse did not running with a bell, H. caught the girl and crushed it badly; on the way back, the oak whipped off, the cow beat her hooves, the ram butted; the girl returned barely alive; the stepmother sent her stepdaughter to wash her skeins in the ice-hole wool; the Queen saw her and married her; she gave birth to a son; her stepmother came, cut off her golden hair, tied her daughter to her head, pushed the Queen's wife into the water; the horse pulled her out and hid her in the stall; the king found her there; asks the old woman what to do with someone who will replace his wife and push the real one into the water; the old woman: put her in a barrel of thorns, throw it into the water; they did so with the old woman and her daughter; all is well]: Concca 1993:94-104.
Volga - Perm. Marie: Aktsorin 1995 (mountain) [stepmother tells me to take Nastashka to the forest; she cooks porridge for the Bear; the mouse rings a bell for her when the Bear offers to play blind man's buff; the Bear gives her gold silver; the dog barks that the one who has left to die returns rich; the stepmother sends her daughter, she does not cook porridge, kicks the mouse with her foot; the father comes to pick up his daughter's bones]: 117-119; Bashkirs [stepmother tells To her husband, a stepdaughter named Suyabika; her father takes her to a hut in the forest, ties a mallet to a tree, leaves, the girl thinks that her father is cutting wood; finds a handful of grains on the floor, cooks - the pot is full; she gives food to the mouse; the pot brings food and rich clothes; she is seen by a handsome young man; their descendants are residents of the village of Suya]: Barag 1989, No. 35:177-181.
Turkestan. Uighurs [a woman gives birth to a son with her husband; later a daughter from a neighbor with one eye in her forehead; the boy sees his sister reach out of the window to the river to get water; tells his mother that this is yalmauz; his mother scolds him, he leaves; takes three puppies with her on the way; grows up, marries; decides to visit the house, asks his wife to let the dogs down when they bark; his village is empty, only his sister who has eaten is alive everyone; while cooking, asks him to play the dutar on the roof with his legs hanging; the mouse tells him to pour sand into his hanging boots, run, runs along the strings herself; Yalmauz pulls her boots, sand falls into her eye, she chases a young man; he climbs one of the five poplars; Yalmauz takes out a tooth, cuts the trunk; the fox offers to cut for her; Yalmauz falls asleep, the Fox taps, runs away with a tooth in the morning; the same with the Wolf; when the last poplar remains, dogs break off the chain, rush to Yalmauz, she runs to the lake, drowns; the young man scolds his wife that she forgot to let the dogs down right away]: Kabirov 1963:170-174 (=Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:74-77) ; dungans (g. Bogda in northern Xinjiang) [Luguma has Meinai's younger sister; sheep go missing; L. sees M. put on wolf skin, turns into a wolf, carries his father; he wounds a wolf in the front leg; M. complains in the morning parents that her brother shot her; they drive her son away; L. stays in the same village, marries; tames a hawk chick and a tiger cub; decides to visit his father's house; tells his wife to release the hawk and the tiger, if they are worried; at home there are only bones eaten; M. eats L.'s horse's leg, asks how many legs there were, the brother replies that there were three; then two; he climbs onto the roof, M. tells him to sit with his legs hanging; he hangs up her shoes, must play a string instrument; red and white mice promise to play for him, tell him to run; M. comes, sees only mice; rubs her forehead, she has a third eye, she sees in the distance brother running barefoot; turns into a wolf, chases, brother climbs one of the three trees; M. says she is a wolf, ate M. and takes her form; she gnaws on the trunk, but L. jumps to the other tree; wife releases hawk and tiger, they tore up a werewolf; L. brought his wife to the ruined village, other people also returned]: Shujang Li, Luckert 1994:112-126.
Western Siberia. Mansi (Tavda - the far east of the Sverdlovsk region) [the man has a daughter from his deceased wife, he took another wife, she also has a daughter; the stepmother does not like his stepdaughter, tells her husband to move her away separately; stepdaughter to the mice: eat crumbs while the bread is eaten, we will eat together ; they tell you to put the pot of water on the fire, put a stupa in the corner, cover it with clothes; at night the devil will come, swallow the stupa, pour boiling water over it, it will die; so it was; there was a clay pot on the floor, it warmed up, hissed: now I'll burst; the girl opened it, well done, married her; a farm appeared: horses, cows, chickens and roosters; the father comes to find out what's wrong with his daughter, returns with rich gifts; the wife also asks her daughter to be taken to the forest; she does not give bread to the mice; at night the devil broke in, bit the girl, hung her intestines on her nails; the girl's mother was frightened - you can't stay here; they went to live with her stepdaughter]: Steinitz in Kippar 2002:209-212
Eastern Siberia. Central (?) Yakuts (no place of recording) [stepmother sends stepdaughter Yulesit-Kyys ("yulesit" - "hard-working") in the evening to the forest for talnik to be eaten by animals; she comes to the hut, cooks porridge, feeds the Mouse; The bear owner offers to play blind man's buff, the Mouse runs instead of her with a bell; the bear gives her rich clothes, the talnik turns into ready-made baskets, the thrown handkerchief into the household; the stepmother Her daughter Syuryaga-Suokh ("lazy") sends; her porridge is burnt, she drives the Mouse; playing blind man's buff, the Bear finds her, turns her into a cuckoo; stepmother into a cat, now she catches mice]: Sivtsev, Erofeev 1990:127- 131 (=Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:104-112).
Japan. Japanese (Honshu Center and South Kyushu North Ryukyu): Ikeda 1971, No. 315A: 80. I. The Cannibal. The young man learns that his sister is a cannibal (G30) (at night his sister turns into a snake or cannibal). He tells his parents about it, but they only scold him and kicks him out of the house. On the way, he helps animals. She's getting married. II. Coming back home. After a few years, he returns home. He leaves his wife an object that can be used to tell if he is alive (E761.4.3). He finds his native village empty, only his sister lives in it. She says the others died from the disease. It goes out to sharpen his teeth to eat it (G83.1). Before that, he leaves him with a tambourine and asks him to hit him (this way she will know that he did not run away). III. Parental help. Appearing as mice, his parents say that all the inhabitants of the village have been eaten (G71; G346) and tell him to flee (B313.1). They hit a tambourine instead of it, hitting it with its tails. IV. Rescue in a tree. The young man runs away, climbs a tree, his sister starts to nibble on it. When a tree falls, it moves to another tree. The wife learns from the sign that her husband is in trouble, releases animals that her husband once helped. They save him, the cannibal is killed.
Wed. The Arctic. Aleuts (Unalashka; the motives of the cannibal sister and the mouse jumping on the tambourine are probably from Russians) [the newborn bites her mother's nipples; the mother buries her alive; she turns into a cannibal, devours the inhabitants of the village; her older brother is afraid of being eaten too, leaves; comes to women who have not seen men; they are surprised at his penis; hunting, he ends up in his native village, everything is there died; he lies to the female chief that his face turned red because birds flew at him in a big way; she calls all the birds, they explain that his face is red with tears; next time he looks into dugout, sees his sister cooking human arms and legs; she invites him, leaves, telling him to beat a tambourine; the mouse explains that his sister sharpens her teeth, tells him to run through the mouse passage, stays to jump on tambourine; sister sees a mouse, chases her brother; a female chief takes her hand, she falls dead; a woman marries a young man]: Jochelson 1990, No. 13:139-143).