K56aa. The dog groom tests the bride. .21.31. (.35.) .39.

Two or three sisters successively become the dog's brides. The first or the first two act incorrectly, die or do not achieve their goal. The latter acts correctly, succeeds.

Tibetans (Ambo, Sikkim), Mustang, Eastern Sami, (Nenets), Chukchi.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [a dog comes to a woman with three daughters, asks her to keep her zamba bag until he returns from Lhasa; three years later they decide to eat zamba, eat it, the dog comes and demands for eaten by the girl; gets the older sister; by the river she agrees that she will eat meat and tsampa, and the dog is given bones; replies that it is not his, but he, the dog, must move her to the other side; dog sends her back, gets her middle daughter (the same as her), then the youngest; she shares meat and tsampa equally, says that the water can carry it away, carries it herself; the dog marries her, brings her to the palace; dressed up, sends him to a party; everyone admires the handsome horseman; the next day, the woman goes to the bazaar, where she sees the same rider again, recognizes familiar clothes; when she returns home, burns the dog's skin; the husband says that he will not live without dog skin for more than 7 days, because his life is under the power of a demoness; the wife goes to the demoness, the husband teaches what to do; you need to replace her buryuk with your leaky one, find and return the black white stone in which her husband's life; on the way she drinks from a dirty pond, divides hay equally between two horses, bones between two dogs; while the demoness goes to fetch water with a leaky swapped wineskin, a woman finds a stone, runs away; dogs, horses refuse to detain her, the pond allows her to drink cold water, and for the demoness, the water is poisoned, she dies; everything is fine]: Kajihama 2004, No. 19:71-77; Tibetans (Sikkim) [a dog comes to a woman with three daughters, asks her to keep the zamba bag until he returns; three years later they decide to eat zamba, eat it, the dog comes and demands the girl for what they eat; gets an older sister; by the river she replies that she is not his, but he, the dog, must move her to the other side; the dog sends her back, gets the middle daughter (the same with her), then the youngest; she says that the water can carry him away, carries him by itself; he marries her, she gives birth to three puppies; goes to the palace, where he was torn apart by dogs; the servant's crying wife is brought to the throne, on which the king is a former dog; he turns puppies in a son and two daughters; spouses are happy]: Krapivina 2001:105-111; Mustang [mother of three daughters is ill; says only grass and water in a remote part of the valley will heal her; the eldest is coming daughter; there is a dog, will allow you to take grass and water on the condition that the girl marries him; she refuses, leaves with nothing; the same with her middle sister; the youngest agrees, the dog gives grass and water, promises come in two days; mother recovers; hides her youngest daughter under a copper cauldron; the dog beats his older sisters, sits on the cauldron, the youngest screams that she is here; he leads her across the lake, along the plain, there is golden the house, then silver, then made of dog crap; the girl replies every time that the house suits her; inside the house there is abundance, the old woman is the mother of the dog; she advises to pretend to be asleep, wait for her the son takes off his dog skin and goes to bed, throw his skin into the fire; in front of the girl, the young king Kyirken Gambala; he says that the skin was burned too early, there will be problems; when he goes hunting, he leaves a bunch of keys; the girl opens rooms in a golden palace, full of gold, silver in silver, coral in coral; there is no key to a wooden one; she finds the key on a stick under the ceiling, unlocks the door, behind her a mother-of-pearl staircase, you can see the whole world from it, she sees her native village, her parents are hungry and sick; her older sister married a blacksmith, an average butcher; she searches for KG in her head, drops a tear, admits that she feels sorry for her parents; they go to them together, give gifts; the older sisters are jealous, the eldest leads the youngest to the lake, asks what she feeds her husband and what the servants are; the younger one guesses, answers incorrectly ( my husband buckwheat and pepper, throw a plate out the door, rice and meat for the servants, plates on the shelf); the eldest pushes the youngest into the lake, puts on her clothes and jewelry, invites KG to return home; he suspects deception; the imaginary wife is afraid to go across the lake, does not want to enter the house out of dog crap, feeds her husband as servants and servants as her husband; the shepherd sees sheep coming to the lake, a bird flies out of the water, asks about king; the shepherd tells the KG about this; he goes with him to the lake, brings a bird, puts it in a cage; the imaginary wife kills and cooks the bird, lets her husband eat it with rice; he notices that there is poultry meat in rice, throws away into the garden; trees grow there; the imaginary wife tells them to be cut down, split them into firewood; poor old husband and wife, the husband went to bring firewood, found a piece of meat, put them in a chest; a few days later he left girl; after that, the old men became rich; the girl gives the old man the ring that was left on her finger when her sister pushed her into the lake; he calls the king and his wife, puts them on gold and turquoise thrones, shows the ring; the king demands a finger to the ring; his wife goes out, the older sister turns into ash; KG: these were the problems I mentioned; the ash was hidden under a black stupa; his wife's parents' house KG made his summer residence]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 21:128-137.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [the woman was a half-dog, the man was human; their son is like a mother; the old woman goes to her three sisters, brings her elder, tells her not to watch when she starts cooking meat; the girl watches , the bag has flowed, the girl is petrified; the same with the middle sister; the youngest does not look, she is getting married; the husband tells me to beware that the son does not wet the bed; he is wet, the father and son are gone, the women have given birth identical deer (deer origin)]: Shchekoldin 1890, No. 7:161-162.

(Wed. Western Siberia. Nenets [a freezing old man sends his eldest daughter to look for a warm plague; tells her to go across the lake, dissolving pimas; she picks up pimas, chases dogs; the owner asks to take the meat to another plague, she eats herself; can not 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 the dogs while she was looking in her head old woman, sees people in her ear sewing a blanket for her; marries, takes her father into a warm plague]: Tonkov 1936:149-153).

SV Asia. Chukchi: Portugalov 2009 [the old man has a daughter, the dog comes to marry, Ali agrees; her mother tells her to leave a piece of meat in a sacred place on the way; they put a piece of yucola; they put a piece of yucola; they put a piece of yucola; puppies, Ali drove them, the dog's mother came out to meet them, holding hot coals in her hands; Ali did not come up, the dog helped his mother himself; when going to bed, the dog tells her to go to the third bell, Ali goes out to every knock, the dog drove her away ; took his wife in another village, the youngest daughter agreed there; left the meat in a sacred place, planted and fed the puppies, took fire from the dog's mother's hands, left after the third bell â€" there was a herd around the yaranga deer, well-dressed old woman next to him, well-dressed boys are running around, everyone is happy]: 26-28; Bogoras 1902, No. 10 [the dog paints himself with alder bark, his groin turns red, he tells the owner that it is made his daughter; he tells her to marry the Dog; she beats the Dog's mother and the puppies; the dog chases her away, marries another; she feeds the old female meat; the dog turns into a handsome man, the owner of many deer; his descendants they form a special tribe; according to another version, the descendants of a woman and a dog gather in the house for the autumn reindeer sacrifice ceremony, but howl rather than sing; the girl spies, tells her neighbors that they drive away the dogs with sticks; dogs run west, some turn into humans and become Russian ancestors; others put on harnesses, become harnesses]: 618-619.