Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

K60B. Coffin invitation, ATU 330B, G514.1.

.11.-.17.21.23.24.27.-.32.34.36.37.41.55.65.

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character is invited to find out if he is a box or a hole by height, whether he can crawl into a hole, get into a bag, etc., and then locked in a coffin, drawer, barrel, buried, and etc. Cf. Motive M56D.

Nyanga, Congo, Badzue, Chokwe, Mbundu, Ambundu, Kikuyu, Ashanti, Baule, Guro, Nzakara, Malgashi, Ancient Egypt, Algerian Arabs, Italians (Ticino, Tuscany, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians, Sicilians, Maltese, Corsicans, French, Welsh, Thousand and One Nights, Syrian Arabs, Tibetans, Tibetans (Amdo), Bhutan, Apatani, Bori, Lhota, Kachins, Himachali Paharis, Bhilas, Santals, Bengalis, Tamils, Sinhales, Toraja, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Moldovans, Poles, Belarusians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya: Pudogozhskaya Bylina, Kostroma; Siberia), Ukrainians (Galicia, Kherson, Kharkiv), Abazans, Ossetians, Balkarians, Ingush, Kumyks, Avars, Tatas, Georgians, Armenians, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Sarykol, Yazgulyam, Uzbeks, Lithuanians, Latvians, Lutsis, Estonians , Norwegians, Karelians, Finns, Veps, Chuvash, Mari, Udmurts, Shors, Khakas, Tofalars, Dagurs, Baikal Evenks (northern Baikal region), Evenks of China, Udege, Koyukon, Kuchin, Paes, Aymara.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Nianga [one of the seven girls is prettier, but her brother is covered in ulcers; girls go in search of husbands, dig a hole, try on when Beauty lies down, cover her with earth; brother guessed it, dug it up sister, hid it in calebass; both swam, she dressed in white, he wore red, they came to the chief, who arranged a party for them, ordered the Beauty sisters to be poisoned]: Kotlyar 1973:205-206; baka pygmies (Badjue) [The panther invites the Turtle to go into the forest to set traps; the turtle begins to dig the ground; the hare says traps don't do that, does a good thing, shows how it pinches its legs; the turtle kills his club; so with various animals; the last one kills the Panther herself]: Binam Bikoï 1977:33-35; Congo [Gazelle and Leopard marry; the girl's father demands that the groom bring a living animal; The leopard brings the dead; the Gazelle pretends to cut down a huge tree; every animal stops and talks; the Gazelle offers to get into the basket, ties it up, brings it to the place where the Leopard is; everyone once takes away, kills prey; Gazelle brings Wild Cat to his father-in-law, gets a wife; hides her in a cave, asks the Mole to tell the Leopard that he will give him the woman; takes the form of a woman, the Leopard gives the Mole for her property; an imaginary woman asks the Leopard to pull out her claws and teeth before lying down with her; he pulls it out, dies; the Mole and the Gazelle share the Leopard's property]: Struyf 1936:47-53; chokwe [ the monster kills many; the weasel offers a dispute: who will pick up whom in the basket; the children of the caress quietly tie the basket in which she sat to the thick root, the monster cannot tear it off the ground; then they weave the basket around the monster, tie all its members; the caress pushes the basket with the monster into the fire, the monster burns]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:289-297; mbundu [The hare carries the basket, says A leopard that can pick it up with him; the leopard agrees to climb into the basket, ties it with a rope, kills the Leopard with a club]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:234-235; ambundu [Nianga dia hunter Ngenga saw a leopard stuck at a fork in a tree; he asked him to be released; then said he was hungry; ate it with two dogs, got ready to eat N. himself; the hare promised to resolve the dispute, but must see exactly how the Leopard was trapped at the fork; told N. to shoot the Leopard, which he did]: Serauky 1986:138-139; kikuyu [at the festival, the girls admire the handsome man, follow him; one by one the other sees a second mouth on the back of his head, with which he catches flies; they understand that this is one of Marimo's cannibals; they fall behind and leave under various pretexts; two sisters remain; Marimo locks them in a hut, waits when his relatives gather for a meal; girls notice human bones, dig an underground passage, the youngest manages to get out, the eldest gets stuck, Marimo cuts off her leg, she asks her to spare, take her in wives; he agrees; a son Manga, the same cannibal, is born; the younger sister secretly visits the eldest; she tells her not to stop under a certain tree on the way back; during the rain, the youngest stops under a tree, climbs it, Manga and her father come up, Manga notices a woman, pulls her down; pulls two twins out of her womb, brings her mother to cook, she hides the babies, feeds her husband and son with rat meat; brothers have grown up; mother invites husband and son to try on a mesh bag; if they fall ill, she will be able to carry them in it; ties them up, calls nephews, they kill cannibals; along with lame aunts come back to people]: Gagnolo 1953, No. 23:63-66.

West Africa. Ashanti [the leopard Osebo has the biggest drum; the god of Heaven wants to take it away to use at his mother's funeral; the Leopard drives away all messengers; the Turtle says the drum is the god of heaven more, you can hide in it; the leopard climbs into the drum to prove that you can hide in his drum; the turtle closes the hole, brings the drum to the god of Heaven; the leopard is released, he runs away ; as a reward, the God of Heaven gave the Turtle a shell]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 74:177-180; baule [The spider promised to catch the Leopard; told him that others did not believe that he would fit in the basket; brought it, arranged feast; decided to kill, sent for his son, let him bring a knife; the son came, decided to cut the ropes; the Leopard jumped out; the Spider and his son hid in a jug with pepper; the Leopard looked in, the Spider threw him pepper in the eye, The leopard ran into the forest]: Himmelheber 1951b: 63-65 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:80-82); guro [the young man asked his maternal uncle for part of his fetishes that could revive the dead; uncle demanded bring the boa constrictor, the beard of the main spirit and the elephant's tusks; the young man came with a bag to the hollow, began to say the boa constrictor as if he did not believe that he would be able to get into the bag; the boa constrictor got in, the young man brought the bag to his uncle; came to in spirit, he put him on his knees, the wife of the spirit cooked fried bananas and served butter; the young man smeared his hands up to the elbow and wiped them on the beard of the spirit; suggests cutting it off: he will wash it and return it, and it will grow; the spirit agreed, the young man brought his beard to his uncle; taking the gecko as an assistant, came to the elephants, spilled the sap like wine; the gecko leaned down, the young man pretended to scold him - this is wine for an elephant! the elephant rushed, broke the tusks against the stone; the young man promised to glue them back and took them away; the uncle gave him a fetiche; the young man called everyone to work in the field, told his wife to bring food in the evening; killed his wife with a hoe, and then in front of everyone revived; the hyena decided to repeat everything, did an imaginary fetist; the wife did not come to life; the young man revived her; the hyena ran into the forest and stayed there]: Tououi Bi 2014:171-175.

Sudan - East Africa. Nzakara [Toúlé spider marries Thunder's eldest daughter; there are no drums in the sky; they are owned by Ségboungboussé; everyone is offered a drum according to their height, asks them to get inside and measure; covers the holes, eats the person who comes; T. pretends not to understand how to measure the drum; S. climbs inside himself, T. covers the holes, brings the drum to the village of Thunder, burns, filters ash, eaten come out alive, become subjects T.]: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 43.6:275-277; malgashi: Korneev 1977 [wife's brother came to visit; husband is afraid that he will stay, asks the sorcerer how to destroy him; sends him south for bananas, lightning strikes there, but his wife's brother has gone north; bounces off the tree that her husband knocks on him; agrees to lie down in the hollow to try it on; the husband covers him with a second boat, nails him, his wife's brother dies; asks a red bird, a crow, a kite to tell his wife where his corpse is to be buried; they refuse because people were chasing them; the unsightly hungry bird agreed; her parents killed her zeba, opened a hollow, buried her son's bones, his blood filled the lakes; a worm was born in him, grows, turns into a seven-headed snake, The village of his sister's husband surrounds the village; swallows his cattle, people and himself]: 236-241; Haring 2007, No. 32 (Sakalava) [during a forest fire, the Rakakabe monster was stuck between two tree trunks; the man freed R., it wants to eat him; they decide to ask others if this is fair; the tree replies that people are ungrateful (it gives them shade and they then cut down its branches); the ox is the same; the shepherd pretends not to believe that R. could be trapped between the trunks; he climbs into the trap again, people leave him there]: 40-42.

North Africa. Ancient Egypt [Heliopolis version; Osiris is the eldest son of the god of the earth Geb and the goddess of heaven Nut; king of Egypt, taught people agriculture and gardening, as well as magic; his brother wishing rule for himself and receive Osiris's sister Isis; arranged a feast, invited everyone to go to the chest (whoever is in time, he will give it to him); the chest was made to O.'s standards; when O. lay down, S.'s servants clogged the lid, they threw the chest into the river; the chest was carried by the current to Phoenicia; the tree grew, enclosing the chest in its trunk; the local king made a column of the palace out of wood; I. came to Phoenicia and began to take care of the little one to the king's son, placing him in the fire to make him immortal; the boy's mother saw, screamed, and the spell broke; frightened I., the Phoenician queen gave her a column; taking out the chest from it, I. screamed the queen's child died from this cry; in Egypt, I. hid the chest in reeds; S. found him, cut O.'s corpse into pieces; I. and her sister Nephthys collected them; the phallus was eaten by lepidot fish (so the Egyptians do not eat it; Cancer 1993:99); I. made a clay phallus; becoming a female kite, conceived the son of Horus from the deceased Osiris; the sisters embalmed O.'s body - this is the first mummy; I. gave birth to H., hid it in the swamps; he was bitten by a snake ( perhaps S. in the guise of a snake), but God Toth neutralized the poison; in order to gain magical powers, I. needs to know the secret name of God Ra; she sent a snake to sting Ra and cured it only when he told her his name; S. began to fight with O., pulled out his eye and cut him apart; He found parts, united, returned to Choir; this is a symbol of power, life - Waajet's Eye; T. let the dead O. swallow the Eye; O. resurrects, but must become king of the afterlife; like O., the dead are resurrected in the afterlife, and nature is on earth every year; H. overthrows Seth many times, but he manages to heal his wounds; who to give the Eye of Waget (i.e. who to give the Eye of Waget (i.e. who to be king of Egypt), decides nine gods; the great goddess Nate (wars, hunting, mother of crocodiles) decided in favor of H.; but Ra doubts H.'s abilities, insulted, stops the trial; Hathor appears before his father naked, he forgets the grudge; S. threatens to take up arms against the gods; agrees that the trial continues, but without I.; the gods gather on the island, prohibit the carrier Anti from transporting women; I. accepts the appearance of an old woman, bribes the carrier with a golden ring; the gods beat Anti; since then, in villages where Anti is revered, it is forbidden to have gold; Choir and Seth fight as hippos; I. throws a harpoon, accidentally gets into the Choir; the second time she comes to S.; she feels sorry for Seth, she unhooks the harpoon; The choir furiously cuts off his mother's head (she was soon reborn); S. finds Hora, pulls his eyes out of them lotuses germinate; Hathor pours gazelle milk into Hora's eye sockets, who sees the light; Seth pretends to make peace with Choir, tries to rape him himself; Choir collects Seth's seed in the palm of his hand, shows I.; she cuts off her son's desecrated hand, pours Choir seed over the salad; Seth eats lettuce; at the call of the gods, Seth's seed responds from the swamp, and Choir's seed from Seth's womb; the seed came out on Seth's forehead in the form of a golden disc; The choir put this disc on his head like a crown; Seth offers a competition on stone rooks; the choir makes a rook out of wood, covers it with plaster; Seth's stone rook sinks, but Seth in the form the hippopotamus was also drowned by Horus's boat; the gods decide to ask O.'s opinion; he writes from the underworld that he will steal the heart of anyone who does evil; the gods award Egypt to Horus; Ra takes Seth to rattle in the sky; var. : Seth gets Lower Egypt, Choir to Upper, but under the rule of Horus then unites the whole country; Var. : Choir, Anubis, and Toth tied Seth up and turned him into the seat on which Osiris sits; var. : The gods burned Seth, Anubis carved his sign in his skin; the demons rushed to avenge Seth, but Anubis (=Choir) cut off their heads; their blood gave rise to a red mineral; var. : Seth hid a box with two Wajet Okes inside; Anubis=Choir in the form of a snake stole it; vines sprouted from Wajet]: Mathieu 1956:95-119; Machintsev 1993:59-99; Cancer 2006:; Arabs Algeria (Tiaret Plateau) [Amar Zadam is the youngest of seven brothers, he is considered useless; sent to buy horses and guns; he puts a needle under the hoof the best horse, spoils the bolt of the best gun to he got them; the brothers think to get rid of him, call him to visit the cannibal Ouma Djidda; everyone takes her food, shares salt with her, AZ says he has enough ash bread (thanks to this, he is nothing for her not obliged); the brothers fell asleep, the cannibal asks AZ if he is sleeping; he replies that the rooster is interfering; she eats the rooster; the donkey is a donkey; so makes her eat all the living creatures; she falls asleep, he wakes up the brothers, they they run; they ate cannibal salt, so she catches up with them, eats horses, AZ carries the brothers on her mare; the father tells AZ to bring the cannibal chicken; AZ quietly pokes the chicken with a cane, she rushes around the house the cannibal throws her outside, AZ takes her away; the same is the carpet (AZ sprinkles thorns into it); the father tells me to bring the cannibal herself; unrecognized, AZ comes and says that his mother is dead, could the cannibal measure whether the chest is tall; the cannibal lies down in it, AZ brings the chest to his father; he opens it, the cannibal eats it and the AZ brothers; he and his mother leave]: Aceval 2005, No. 108:123-128.

Southern Europe. Italians (Switzerland, Ticino) [the father has 13 sons, he decided to get rid of the youngest Tredichino; orders to bring 1) amulets that stop the thunderstorm with bad weather (T. climbs onto the roof, throws stones, the sorcerer thinks he's rattling, takes the amulets outside to stop the thunderstorm, T. picks them up); 2) the veil above the sorcerer's bed (T. climbs under the bed, pulls the veil, the sorcerer thinks it's a wife, is going to beat her; after making sure she slept, tells her to throw off the veil; T. takes him away); 3) the sorcerer's parrot (T. gives him sweets, the parrot screams that T. wants to kidnap him; T. hides; the sorcerer thinks that the parrot is fooling him; T. takes the parrot; 4) the sorcerer himself and his wife; T. puts on a wig, attaches a beard, comes to the sorcerer disguised as a master who sells the coffin; he wants to check whether the coffin is tall ; lies down in it, his wife is next to him; T. bobs up the lid, brings the coffin to the king; he pays a lot of money to catch monsters; the father will make sure that T. is no worse than his brothers]: Keller 1981:186-189; Italians ( Ticino, Tuscany, Basilicata, Calabria), Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1976, No. 330B: 80; Sicilians: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 5 [after the death of his father Peppe receives a dilapidated cape and branches date tree, Alfinu - an old bag and tree trunk, the younger Ciccu horn and fruits; only Chikku hears how three fairies give the cape the ability to carry anywhere, the bag filled with money, the horn, if you blow, create and clean the fleet; the brothers give C. a cape and bag; lives luxuriously; the king brings his wife and daughter to him; the daughter lures the bag; when C. comes behind her, the king forces give the cape and the horn as well; the brothers agree to share the dates; each carries his basket to the palace; P. replies to the person he meets that he has dirt in the basket; he sees that this is the case in the palace; he is given 50 blows with a cane; the same with A., he replied that there were horns in the basket, received 150 blows; C. replies that dates; the counter half eats, spits the bones back into the basket, dates in it again; the king takes him to the service; the brothers say that C. can 1) bring the ogre's sword; the horse in the royal stable promises to help; C. asks the women to bring him bags of lice, pours the ogre into bed, he tosses and turns, takes off his sword, C. takes it away; 2) deliver the cannibal himself; C. tells the cannibal that C. is dead, a coffin must be made; asks to try it on, bobs it up, brings; 3) to marry the most beautiful woman; the horse tells give the fly honey, release the fish, free the eagle from the trap; the horse dances in front of the princess, she asks for permission to ride, the horse takes her away, C. also jumps on the horse; on the way, the princess throws it into the water ring; promises the king to marry him if C. returns her ring and dropped shawl; birds bring a shawl, fish bring a ring; princess wants C. to jump into the hot oven; the horse teaches beforehand rub it later, C. gets the princess and the throne]: 28-40; tells the king to rub himself with fat; the king burns, C. gets the princess and the throne]: 28-40; Crane 1885, No. 18 [the youngest of the 13 brothers is always returns first, gets soup from his mother; others are jealous, tell the king that he 1) can steal the cannibal blanket; the 13th climbed under the cannibal bed, grabbed the blanket at night and ran away; 2) steal the horse the cannibal; the 13th gives the horse pies, takes him away; 3) a pillow with bells; the cannibal grabs the 13th, fattens it in a barrel, he first shows a mouse tail, finally a finger; the cannibal tells his wife to bake the 13th, that pushes the cannibal into the oven himself; general turmoil, the 13th takes the pillow; 4) bring the cannibal; the 13th pretends to be an old monk, brings the cannibal box, says that the 13th killed their boss, asks what The 13th, the cannibal says that his height, the imaginary monk offers to get into the box, closes it, brings it to the king; he shackled the ogre in iron, brought the 13th closer to him]: 90-94; the Maltese [dying , the father blesses the youngest son named Thirteenth (he is a hunchback or a boy with a finger) to be the eldest; he steals speedboat boots from the cannibal; is hired to serve the king; envious brothers they urge him to give T. difficult errands; an old woman, an old man or a father helps to fulfill them; 1) steal an ogre blanket with bells on it; T. hides under the cannibal's bed, pours lice, fleas into it, bedbugs; the cannibal throws off the blanket, T. takes it away; or T. brings another blanket to the king; 2) steal from the ogre a golden chicken with chickens, a magic mare, or a silver bell; he feeds a mare , or bring another king; every now and then the bell rings so that the ogre stops paying attention; 3) steal the ogre's ring; he grabs T.; T. adjusts so that the cannibal eats not him, but his own wife; 4) deliver the cannibal himself; T. comes unrecognized, invites the cannibal to try whether the iron cage in which the enemy should be placed is strong; brings the ogre in a cage, he is burned; with his T. remains held in high esteem in royal service]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 328:81-86; Corsicans [there are 12 sons in a poor family; the younger Spella suggests that the brothers not be a burden parents and leave; they took pickaxes and shovels, came to the forest, to the ogre's house, began to work in his garden; sleep feeds them; in the evening he puts on everyone's hats; S. tells the brothers to slowly take off their hats and put them on 12 cannibal daughters; at night, the cannibal cut off the heads of his daughters; the brothers ran away and hired the king to serve; he made S. chief; the brothers were jealous, told the king that S. boasted to get the ogre's gold stick ; S. began to throw nuts at the ogre and his wife while they were eating; the cannibal threw his wand at him, S. took it away; get the ogre's golden horse (got it); the blanket on the ogre's bed (got it by throwing lice); chicken with chickens; S. was captured, locked in the cellar for fattening; when the cannibal's wife came down to pick him up, he killed her, put the meat to cook, returned to the king; bring the cannibal himself; S. brings the chest, says the cannibal, what is it for S.; the cannibal climbed inside to see if the chest is strong, S. locked it; the king ordered the ogre to be burned along with the chest and S. married to his daughter; S. asked the king not to execute him brothers]: Massignon 1984, No. 69:153-156.

Western Europe. French: Lopyreva 1959, No. 46 (Picardy) [the poor blacksmith was nicknamed Misfortune, his dog was nicknamed Poverty; the Lord asks to shove a donkey, Z. takes nothing from him, the Lord asks what he wants; St. Peter suggests that he ask for a place in paradise, but Z. asks that without his permission no one can get off his chair, get off the walnut tree, get out of his wallet; Z. makes a pact with the devil, who gives him money; the first time he puts him in a chair and hits him, then asks the Devil and the devils to pick nuts, also hits him, the third time invites the Devil to show his power by getting into his purse; when Z. died , St. Peter did not let him go to heaven, but he was also kicked out of hell; Z. and N. still live on earth]: 209-214; Delarue 1957, No. 328 (Canada) [the widow has sons Georges, Charles and Jean; Jean is nicknamed Parle; war has begun, the older brothers came to the king, P. after them; the older ones told the king that P. was not their relative - let him fry the meat; but the king liked it; the brothers, out of envy, said that P. boasted to get leaps and bounds speedboat boots that are under the giant's bed; P. asked and received an invisibility cloak and file to cut with one wave of the chain with which the boots were attached; brought boots; brothers: P. boasted to steal from giant moon; to carry out an assignment, P. asks the king for a bag of salt; pours it into the cauldron in which the giant's daughter cooks food; the giant cannot eat salted brew, sends his daughter for water; because it's already dark, she takes the moon with her; P. grabs the moon, brings it to the king; brothers: P. boasted to get a giant's violin, playing which everyone dances seven miles away; P. tries to get it in the same way in a way (cuts the chain with a file while the giant sleeps and snores), but the giant grabbed him; P. advises to fatten him first in the basement; the giant tells his daughter to guard; the giant's daughter and wife drown the stove, P. pushes them together, takes the violin away; brothers: P. boasted to deliver the giant himself; P. dresses as king, comes to the giant, complains about P.; doubts whether his closed one is strong enough the wagon so that when P. is caught, he can be enclosed in it; the giant lies down to try it on, P. closes it, brings it to the king; after finding out what was going on, the king burned the P. brothers in wooden cages, and P. married daughters of the king and inherited the kingdom]: 330-334; Welsh [blacksmith and drunkard Billy Duffy sold his soul to the devil; fed and drunk the hermit who came three times; he offered to fulfill three wishes; 1) whoever takes up the hammer will hit the anvil with it until I release it; 2) a bag from which nothing can be removed without my permission; 3) whoever sits in a chair will not stand up without permission; in front At the end of his term, the devil gave Billy a lot of money, he got everyone drunk; hell came, Billy told him to knock with a hammer; for freeing the devil gave Billy more money and 7 years of life; Billy lured the devil into his bag and started hitting - another 7 years; the third time Billy put the line in a chair; when Billy finally died, he was not allowed to go to hell, he grabbed the tip of his damn nose; he wasn't allowed to go to heaven either; merged with the damn nose, Billy turned into a wandering fire]: Emerson 1894:54-58.

Western Asia. A thousand and one nights [a peacock is looking for a new place to live instead of a cramped and dangerous tree; finds an island with many trees; a goose, frightened by people, runs up, talks about a dream in which she was told to take care of a man; she asked a lion cub to kill a man; a donkey, a horse, a camel come consistently, everyone tells how cunning a person is, everyone is afraid that he will be harnessed; comes carpenter, says he must make a house for the lion's father's vizier; makes a chest, asks the lion cub to try it on; bobs up and burns]: Salye 2010 (1), night 146:596-601; Syrian Arabs: Bushnaq 1987 [ When Moses was old, God sent to him two angels of death, Munkar and Nkir; they began to dig a grave; M. asked what they were doing; they replied that they were sent by God to dig a grave for man, but they did not know , what size are Adam's sons; M.: I am also Adam's son; the angels asked him to lie down to see if the grave was right; when M. lay down, he was allowed to smell the flower and he died]: 305-306; Kuhr 1993 [husband of three childless women received apples that cause pregnancy; two wives ate an apple each and the third half; the delayed soul mate was eaten by a donkey; the first wives gave birth to Hassan and Hussein, and the third to baby Nuss Nassis (Halbsogroß); brothers go hunting on horses, shoot animals, NN rides a goat, hunt birds; Gulya tells the brothers that she is their aunt (their father's first wife), leads them to her; at night NN hears how she mutters to herself that she will eat those who have come; NN says she is hungry, the gulya slaughters the ram; and so until dawn, everything wants and demands something; in the morning, the brothers tell the ghoul that their horses are drinking strained water; Gulya runs to filter the water in the well; at this time, the brothers gallop away, but the gulya magically stops the horses, all three return home on a goat NN; NN. buys a chest, comes to Gula; offers to climb into the chest to see what goods she likes; closes the lid; the gulya was burned with the chest]: 79-81.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [when he dies, the tiger tells his three sons that the Tiger is the master of the forest, but the man is stronger than him; the younger tiger cub grew up and wanted to see a man; met an old buffalo, an elephant; both confirm the words of the tiger father, the tiger son laughs; meets a lumberjack; he promises to show the tiger extraordinary things, such as a house; the tiger went inside, the woodcutter locked the door, leaving the tiger to die]: O'Connor 1906, No. 2:6-11 (=Cassis 1962:91-93); Tibetans (Amdo) [a fat man is missing, the youngest of three sons goes in search; meets a monster, says he is his brother; brings a yak, says that he did not eat fatter meat; the monster replies that the father of three sons he ate was fatter; the young man reports this to his brothers; the elders beat the monster; the youngest comes to him again, asking for a sturdy chest, to put offenders into it; climbs inside, testing for strength; asks the monster to climb, because it is stronger; closes the lid, the monster is unable to get out]: Tshe dbang rdo rje et al. 2007:160; Bhutan [Paydon and her brother lived in an abandoned village; when leaving, the brother warns: don't forget to feed the rooster; once P. forgot to feed him; the rooster put out the fire; P. went to look for fire, noticed behind the forest smoke; an old woman with a huge goiter is spinning by the fire; she fired, quietly attached a ball of yak wool to P.'s clothes; followed, winding the wool back into the ball; came to P.; she noticed that when the fire it flared up, the old woman's goiter became smaller, and when it went out, the goiter increased; P. realized that she could only escape if she kept a bright fire all night; if the fire almost went out, the goiter would burst, from it water would splash out, the old woman would eat P.; when the last log burned out, the rooster screamed and the old woman left; the next night P. prepared more firewood, the old woman had no chance; there was no more firewood left, but by Fortunately, the brother returned a day earlier than promised; the brother prepared hammers and pliers made of wood and iron, good and worn leather bags; an old woman came and offered to fight; the young man gave her tools from wood and a bad bag, but he took iron and a good one for himself; invited the old woman to put him in his bag and beat him with this hammer, grab it with ticks; the bag soon broke; now the guy put the old woman in his bag; beat to death]: Choden 1994:115-119; apatani [Baro Piicha offers Abo Tani to kill their wives and children; really cuts his own to pieces, and AT wraps his own in a mat, hides them in a corner at home, tells me to yell, cuts the dog, sprinkles blood on the house; they cook and eat meat, BP complains that it is tough and AT is delicious (because it's a dog); AT replies that he added pork, but BP even has pork tastes bad; both break rice, AT has a three-membered rhythm, PSU has a two-membered rhythm of blows; AT explains that he has clamped three pestles between his fingers; the PSU does so, breaks his fingers; the PSU turns into a rooster, spies that AT's wife and children are destroying rice; BP makes a trough to feed the pigs - says he will give AT, he just doesn't; AT goes to check if it's deep enough, AP closes the lid, lowers it slope; AT asks trees and grass to stop the trough, they hold it near the river; asks the fish to hold the trough with their fins, preventing them from falling into the river; asks the Hawk to hatch a hole; he begins peck, sees AT, says that AT drove him, flies away; the same with the Raven; The badger is unable to expand the hole, ask for help from the Sun woman; she tells him to wait three days, she will heat the trough, it will burst; for its help The Sun asks AT to look after her children, tells her not to look into the restroom, under the house, etc.; AT looks in, sees tigers, bears, snakes, scorpions; the Sun agrees to bring him down to the ground thread; he enters his house, the children recognize him, his wife does not believe him at first; says that BP has now taken her; AT hides with a sword, chases the PSU around the house and yard, he falls into the ground]: Blackburn 2008:69- 73; bori [Tani is the younger brother, Taki is the elder; Tani advises Taki to sacrifice a pig to the spirits by throwing it down the slope; takes it, he and his children are fat; Tanya laughs at Taki; Taki tries repeat the deception, but Taki heated a stone on the mountain and let it go down the slope, Taki grabbed it, burned it; Taki made the boat, said it was warmer to sleep in it at night; Tanya believed, Taki closed the lid tightly, lowered it a boat on the river; Tanya asks the vines, then the reeds to stop the boat; the reeds stopped; asks the birds for help; two birds began to hammer but broke their beaks; the Randang bird freed Tanya, he returned home; tied the bows and arrows of monkeys to the tree, became a bird himself, began to shout that monkeys could not fish; they grabbed their bows but could not tear them off; they got into a fight, only three monkeys survived; after a fight they have flat noses and sunken eyes; Tanya brought monkey meat and onions, his wife and children are tired; told Tanya that they got fat when he put them in a trough and poured boiling water over them; Taki did so, wife and children became worms; Tanya began to swing on the vine; Taki wanted to too, saw sharp rocks under him; Tanya had a pair of eyes in front and back of her head; Taki promised to take him off the swing if he gave him one pair; he I looked at the back of his head, now Taki has two pairs of eyes; he became Wiyu; so spirits see people, but people can't see spirits; Taki made Tanya's wife and children fall ill and die; Tanya himself is also ill; dadi's perfume Doini Aiye is his wife, daughter Doini-Pollo (Sun-Month); after that he recovered, they have many children]: Elwin 1958a, No. 2:144-147 (=Elwin 1958b, No. 2:157-160); Lhota (northern) [to all girls like Ariloa; other men are jealous; hollow out a trough by the river, inviting everyone to lie down to see who is prettier; when A. goes to bed, he is shoved; his friend catches his nail in the river, that's all left; mother A. invites children to the party; asks if they see holes in the walls of the house; when all the holes are closed, she sets fire to the house, climbs the thread thrown from the sky herself; (in the southern lhota, she a porcupine hides in a hole; later it was dug and killed); people blame each other for what happened, kill each other; two orphans remain - brother and sister; people born even from fingers come from them and legs]: Mills 1922:193-195; kachin [the older brother is rich, sows rice, corn, etc. in the field; the youngest has no grain, sows crushed buffalo bone, buffaloes grow; the eldest smears them with rice at night with a decoction; the youngest agrees that white-stained buffaloes go to the elder, because he knows that all buffaloes are black; the elder provokes the younger to sacrifice the natam of the remaining ones ("You look sick," and etc.); suggests cutting down a tree, making a bed for the younger one; invites the youngest to climb into the hollowed out deck, try it on; the recess is small; when larger, the youngest asks the elder to show, he climbs, the youngest He covers it with a lid, binds him, throws him into the river; on the river rapids, the elder's spirit still moans; the youngest became natom, the ancestor of the princes; brothers are asked for fertility and animal health]: Gilhodes 1909, NO. 30:113-114.

South Asia. Himachali plowmen [son-in-law and wife went to their father-in-law at an unfavorable hour; the spirit followed, took on his form, it is impossible to distinguish them; on the way back, the two began to pull the woman in different directions; let the king resolve the dispute; the king ordered to bring a vessel with two narrow holes: whoever can penetrate them is a real husband; the spirit could; the king asked to do it in the opposite direction, plugged both holes, the spirit was walled up in the vessel]: Seethalakshmi 1960, No. 32:97-98; bhilas (Gujarat) [the carpenter knocked down a thick tree, hollowed out a container in it and attached the door so that there was nothing from the side noticeably; when the god of Death came for him, the carpenter invited him to see his work and climb into the hollowed out trunk; closed the door; people stopped dying, the earth overflowed; then Bhagwan brought alcohol on the ground and began to water everyone; people liked it; when intoxicated, they gave out any secrets; the carpenter also tried it and said that he could lock Bhagwan himself; opened the door, B. pulled out God of Death, brought him to life and he took the carpenter away]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 94:284-287; Santals [the couple went to visit his wife's parents; husband in front, wife behind; bhut (evil spirit, dead man) took the image of a husband, grabbed the woman, said it was his wife; the jackal promised to settle the dispute; told the woman to pour oil out of the jug; whoever gets inside is the husband; bhut climbed in, the husband plugged his neck; the jackal told me to leave the jug, move on]: Bodding 1925, No. 1:3-9 (Zograf translation 1971, 18:64-66); Bengalis: Porozhnikov 1990 [the werewolf takes the form of a brahman, settles in his house; brahman returns, cannot prove that he is the real person; the king of shepherds says that the owner of the house must be able to get into the vessel; the werewolf becomes an insect, climbs, the brahmana shuts it up the vessel, the king of shepherds, orders it to be thrown into the sea]: 89-91; Beck et al. 1987, No. 75 [the young brahmana went to work; at this time, the spirit living in the tree took his form, explaining to his mother and wife that He returned because there were no good omens; when the real brahmana returned, the children played as a king who judges the people; one boy asked the real king to let him judge the matter; Anyone who gets into the bottle will be considered a true brahman; the spirit climbs in, the boy plugs his neck with a stopper]: 238-240; Tamils [the Raja has no children for a long time; finally a son was born with an onion in his hand, who knows the secrets of magic; the bird sat on the old woman's hump; the prince shot the bird and the old woman lost her hump; she is angry; now the daughter-in-law will make her work; let the prince release Peacock Princess (PP) because of 7 seas; on the way, the prince saved a cobra and then a frog caught in the hot sand; the cobra built steps to cross the steep mountains; the PP princess asks to get a braid of hair for her from the pond 16 feet long; the young man dives - you can't reach it; the frog got it; having received a braid, PP approached the young man; gems fall from her lips, when she cries, the flowers bloom, and when she goes, jewelry appears; at rest The sadhu stabbed the prince and was about to take PP away; she invited him to dig a deeper grave for the prince first; saw one monkey heal another monkey's broken legs with grass; suggested a sadhu go down to the grave to try it on; covered it with earth, revived the prince with grass; the next time they spent the night with the blacksmith; in the morning he said that PP had already rode away, although he simply hid it; PP agrees to surrender to him, but only six months later, and on the last day, let him feed everyone who came; the prince also came and saved her; stopping under a banyan by the pond, the prince put PP on a branch and went to prepare the wedding ceremony; the potter saw the PP reflection, took it for her own; PP laughed, the potter raised her head; PP went down, the potter pulled out her eyes, pushed her into the water, put on her clothes and jewelry; carrying brushwood the couple pulled out the PP; after settling her in, the couple began to pay a lot of money for brushwood; PP gave them two pearls and told them to give it to the one who would give her eyes in exchange; the potter's mother gave her eyes, the PP saw the light, and the potter's pearls faded; at the prince's wedding, there is only dust from under the bride's feet, when she smiles, black teeth are visible, worms in her hair; the guests ran away, the prince is horrified; PP saw him from a distance from the terrace her new 7-story palace, told me to bring her home; now a real wedding; while PP went to the wedding platform, the ground was covered with pearls]: Blackburn 2005, No. 94; Sinhalese [unmarried woman gave birth to a son, replied that her husband was Mara (Death); M. began to patronize the boy; ordered him to become a healer; if he, M., was in the patient's heads, he should be given medicine, he would recover, if in his legs - the patient would die; the young man decided to save one patient, gave medicine and ordered him to turn the bed; M. decided to kill the young man; sat down on a chair, the young man told M. to stick, let him go in three years of life; three years later asked M. to pick a coconut, ordered him to stick to the palm tree; released him again after three years of life; three years later, the young man locked himself in the room, M. entered through the keyhole; the young man asked to show and climb into bottle; plugged it with a stopper; since then, his patients have always recovered]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 170:383-384.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Toraja: Adriani 1910:321 in Dixon 1997 [The Rogue Monkey offers to help hollow out the coffin for the deceased; the chief tells everyone to take turns to lie down in the coffin and try it on; when the Monkey lies down, the coffin hammered up and burned]; Teselkin 1958 [the old man's wife gives birth to a son from the right palm; a passer-by gives him the name Pong Bulu Pala ("hairy palm"; a wart with hairs is considered a sign of happiness); three satry brothers are jealous of PBP, 1) buffaloes are driven at him (they bypass the boy), 2) throw them into manure (buffaloes are not trampled), 3) thrown into the river (the river brings him ashore); he goes up the river, marries, bringing him into the house wives good luck; 4) brothers come, offer to dig the grave for their father, ask the PBP to try on, bury it (the dog and the rooster tear it off); 5) the brothers offer to make a coffin for the father, tell the PBP to try it on, tie it rattan, thrown into the river; wife, dog and dog take the coffin out of the sea, revive the PBP from the bones; after the death of their parents, the PBP and the rooster fly to heaven, turn into Orion and Sirius; the wife into a winged white ant (these ants fly out on the eve of the rains, when Orion and Sirius appear), dog in wingless]: 85-96

The Balkans. Serbs [the hero makes a coffin, invites the dragon to lie in it and try it on; boils it up, brings it to the king]: Potanin 1899:197; Croats: Arkhipova 1962 [the vineyard was beaten by hail, the blacksmith squeezed the juice from what was left carried the barrel towards Death; he offered her to drink juice together; asked if she could get into the hole from the plug, closed it in a barrel, hung it in a smoke job; God sent the Devil to the blacksmith; the blacksmith asked permission to first forge a knife, an ax and a hoe, and the Devil to get into his bellows and blow; covered him in fur, beat him; three devils came, the blacksmith asked for help split the deck, pinched their fingers in the cracks, told the apprentices to beat them; went to heaven, he was not allowed to go to hell, the same thing; slipped into heaven, sat on his old pants given to the beggar; God allowed him to stay]: 60-64; Schütz 1960, No. 6 (Dubrovnik) [the father died when the 13th son was born; the brothers grew up, went on a journey, stayed at the ogre's house for the night; the hostess warned that her husband would come in the evening; the youngest does not sleep, hears how the hostess teaches her husband to distinguish sleeping boys from his daughters: boys have red hats, girls have gold chains around their necks; younger brother puts hats on girls, chains on brothers; in the morning the brothers left, the youngest went alone, hired the king to make coffee; the brothers were jealous, told the king that his cook could steal the cannibal's blanket; the young man came to the ogre and advised him first to fatten him; he put him to sleep on the floor; at night the young man began to pull the veil; the cannibal decided that his wife was pulling the veil, threw the blanket on the floor, the young man brought it to the king; the brothers advise bring the youngest a golden talking cannibal parrot; the parrot flew with the young man because he gave him sugar; bring the ogre himself; the young man brings the chest, pretends to be looking for an ogre's enemy himself, so that fry alive; the cannibal climbs into the chest to see if he is strong, the young man brings it to the king; the cannibal was burned, the young man received the princess, and then the throne]: 54-60; Bulgarians [three (nine) brothers are going to look for job; they are hired to work in the field of an ogre (snake, deva, etc.); he sends his younger brother with a letter to his wife, telling him to prepare the applicant; he replaces the letter: accept the applicant and his brothers, marry daughters; brothers live with the king; by his order or on his own initiative, the younger brother steals the cannibal 1) a blanket, a horse, a bird; comes unrecognized, says the cannibal that his enemy is dead; he helps make a coffin, goes to check if it is suitable; the young man closes the lid and brings the coffin to the king; the hero is married to a princess or is richly rewarded]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 328:128-129; Greeks [hero makes a box, offers a fight to lie in it, bobs it up]: Potanin 1899:197; Albanians: Serkova 1989:21-31 [A childless old woman finds a snake, raises him like a son; he tells him to marry him the king's daughter; the old woman is lowered down the stairs twice, the Serpent heals her with a magic ring; the third time the king demands to build a palace overnight, lay the road with velvet, appear with her retinue; the Serpent gets a wife, throws off at night snakeskin, says his name is Speite, forbids talking about his transformation; his wife tells his mother, S. disappears; his wife goes looking for him, wearing iron shoes, comes to the mother of the Sun, who first hides her from her son, the Sun promises not to eat what has come, refers her to the Moon, she refers her to the Wind, who says that S. kidnapped the monster, carries her overseas; there the monster brings his wife S. to his palace; Sh. throws a ring into the jug, the wife finds out that her husband is nearby; the monster demands that his wife Sh. 1) the house be swept in places, not in some places, 2) fill two cauldrons with tears (S. advises filling with salt water); S. pretends to be a lumberjack and a carpenter, tells the monster that he makes a coffin for the deceased S., asks him to try it on, bobs it up, burns it; S. and his wife return to people forever], 48-55 [Changaloz with two the older brothers are hungry; the man advises them to squeeze the millet field, then the owner will feed them; the owner is an ogre with one eye in his forehead; C. lies that he is illiterate, One-eye sends him with a note to his wife, commanding to prepare the sent; C. replaces the letter with an order to feed the messenger; at night, C. tells him to exchange a blanket with the sons of One-Eyed, who kills sons, the brothers run away; the elders say to the king, as if C. can 1) bring the best homespun blanket (C. sprinkles vetch seeds into the One-Eyed yard, he thinks that millet is crumbling in the sheaves, puts a blanket, C. takes it away); 2) get the fastest horse (C. feeds the One-Eyed horse with raisins, who first calls the owner, but C. hides, then takes the horse away); 3) bring One-Eyed; the unrecognized C. cuts the nut, supposedly to make the coffin of Changaloz he killed; asks O. try on, boarded up, brings the king; invites the brothers to open the lid; they are afraid, then he burns One-Eyed through the eye cover with a spit; drives around town; gets the king's daughter]; Lambertz 1952 [ Dedalija wanders, meets, companions a man who rests his foot on the mountain so that the mountain does not fall on him, who he thinks rests on the sky, so that the sky does not fall; they come to the cave, there is an old woman, she closes the iron door behind them, her Cyclops son Katallâni and his wife are with her; those who come pretend to fall asleep, D. hears K. negotiating with his mother to fry the visitors; when the inhabitants of the cave fell asleep, D. freshens the sheep, pulls their skins over himself and his companions, burns K.'s eye with a hot skewer; K. and his mother unsuccessfully try to find people among the sheep, release them together with the sheep; D.'s companions, out of envy, persuade the king to send D. to bring the Cyclops horse; D. digs a dig under the stable wall, rolls a stone to the door; the horse calls K. twice, K. promises to beat him for false alarm; D. promises the horse a good life and leads him to the king; the companions offer to send D. to bring the Cyclops ring; D. made his way to the Cyclops, took off the ring, hid it in his mouth, but he caught him, chained him, hung him on the hook; when going hunting, he tells D. to fry; he pretends not to go into the oven, asks Mother K. to show her, fried her herself, brought the king a ring; in the evening K. and his wife found a fried mother; companions they persuade the king to send D. to bring K. himself; D. cuts the forest, says K. that D. is dead and he must make him a coffin; asks K. to climb into the coffin to try on whether he is tall; hammers with nails, brings the cart to the king; he ordered a hole to be drilled, looked at K., ordered the coffin to be drowned with D.'s companions; and he married the princess]: 9-21; Moldovans [the elderly have a son Alistar Fat-Frumos; dying, they tell him to smell basil, A. gains strength; is hired as a dragon worker; he puts his son under a red veil, A. under a black blanket; A. swaps places with the dragon's son, he kills his son; A. running , carrying an unquenchable candle, the dragon chases only to the river; A. is hired by the master, the envious groom says that A. boasted 1) to bring the dragon horse; A. chipped in with a fly, disturbs the horse until the dragon does not tell him not to laugh anymore; took the horse away; 2) steal the dragon's kushma (headdress); A. chipped in with a cat, but was caught, the snake began to fatten him; A. asks the snake to show him how to sit in the oven, shoves it herself, takes the kushma; 3) the dragon himself; A. pretended to be a bochar, throws the snake to check for holes, bobs it up, brings it; the master wants to look at the snake in the hole, he sucked it through it; at home A. finds a girl: a snake stole her and turned her into a candle]: Moldavian tales 1968:410-419.

Central Europe. Russians: Corinthian 1901 [Death appears as a decrepit old woman with a scythe in her hands; a Christ-loving warrior died, the Lord put him on the clock at the entrance to paradise; Death came under the command of whom to kill; the soldier went to report to God, who ordered the old people to be killed; the soldier felt sorry for his parents, he said that God ordered the oldest oaks to be sharpened for three years; three years later, God ordered the young to be killed people, soldiers sent Death to sharpen young oaks; three more years later, young oaks instead of babies; nine years later Death reached God, who ordered the soldier to wear it on his back for three years as punishment; that lured Death either into a snuffbox or an empty nut, closed it there; the Lord ordered Death to be released, let that soldier die; the soldier pretended not to know how to go to the coffin, asked Death to show, closed lid, threw the coffin into the sea; Death came out when the coffin broke against the rocks]: 707-709; Karnaukhova 2008, No. 132 (1927, Arkhangelskaya, Mezen, d. Pustynna) [The sentry (Ivan - I.) at the post hears a conversation between two generals who complain that despite their beauty, education and wealth, they cannot even see the faces of a Moscow beauty (MK). I. says that with such data, he would spend the night with her. The generals complain about him to the king. The king summons I., gives him 10,000 on the condition that if he does not do what he boasted about, he will be executed. I. asks the king for a pass to all places and receives it in the form of a gold inscription under his hollow overcoat. Showing this pass to the servants, I. first gets to the hotel, and then to the MK room. She has to go to another room, where she receives a handsome general, he asks for wine and snacks, and I. is five times more. MK invites the general to his house tomorrow and says the passphrase, I. hears everything. He drinks the general who has left the MK and instead comes to her house tomorrow, saying a passphrase. There, in the dark, I. fulfilled his plan. MK gave him her personalized ring instead of his button that came off when he undressed and fell asleep, and I. ran away and showed the king the ring as proof. The king rewarded him with money. I. left the king, came to the village pub and gave the cabatchik wine - 20 barrels - to the whole village. Two men quarreled, one killed the other. I. hired to drive himself to Bolshoy Plyos, picking up the dead on the way. We went into the house where the robbers shared the loot. I. frightened them, consistently showing the dead man's severed hands and supposedly going to eat the robbers instead of meat and instead of the dead man's hands. The robbers fled, and I. shared the loot with the driver. Then I. went alone and found himself in another village, where no one wanted to let him spend the night. Then he went to the house, from where the residents were kicked out. At night, devils came thunder. He pacified the first ones ahead of time with forged crosses, put them in a bag and put them under the bench. I. beat the second line ("evil spirits") by 5 clicks, struck with a hammer, driving him back to hell. The third and main feature I. beat cards with spits, heated the ticks and welded them to the devil's tongue. His tears gave rise to stone ridges (crevices). After the hell came Death in the form of a beautiful girl. I. did not believe that it could turn into anything, at his request Death turned into a fly, I. drove the death fly into a bottle, gave it to the owner of the house, asking him to bury 40 fathoms in the ground. I. became immortal, got bored and went to heaven. He left paradise because it was boring without moonshine, and he was kicked out of hell in fear. When all his friends died on earth, raising grandchildren, and he never had a family, I. returned to where death was buried, dug it up, death again took the form of a girl, hugged him - I. died]: 296- 301; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [soldier lured death into the bag]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:129-131; Russians: Parilova, Soymanov 1941 (Olonetskaya, Pudozhsky District, 1938): 98-102 [Svyatogor sees a buffoon bag in the field; tries to pick it up, but only goes knee-deep into the ground; the horse pulls it out; he goes to the Aararat Mountains; Ilya Muromets sees Svyatogor sleeping, hits him twice with a club -" flies bite"; THEY just knocked off their hand; S. puts IM with his horse in his pocket, goes on; the horse stumbles - it's hard for him to lead two heroes; THEY offer them not to fight, but to make friends; S. became the eldest, IM - younger brother; an oak coffin stands on the mountains on the Olives; they decided to try on who he is tall; for THEM he tells; for S. it's just right; S. asks to cover it with a lid as well; now it's hard for him, asks to break it the cover with a sword; with each blow of the IM saber, another iron hoop appears on the coffin; S. invites THEM to bend down - he will breathe strength into him; THEY refuse: if there is more strength, mother cheese does not land will be able to wear it; S. remained lying in the damp ground, and IM went to Kiev], 465 [the epic about Svyatogor's death in the coffin is one of the rare ones (in several records from the northern regions, more often contaminated with other stories about Ilya)]; Putilov 1957 (synopsis of several versions) [Ilya Muromets meets Svyatogor, hits him twice with a club, he does not react; he blows an oak tree to pieces with the same IM club; for the third time Svyatogor puts them in his pocket; his horse begins to limp, because he cannot withstand two heroes; S. takes them out; they come to the coffin; THEY lie down, the coffin is large for him; S. lies down, the coffin is just right; at the request of C . IM puts a lid on top, it grows up; S. asks him to take his sword, split his hoops; IM cannot lift his sword; leans over to the coffin, S. breathes his power into it; IM raises his sword, hits the coffin; S. asks to bend down a second time, IM refuses; S. says that if IM bent down again for his strength, he would die; tells him to tie his horse to the coffin]: 48-52; Russians (Kostroma) [Death was beautiful a girl; came to Arid, and he asked him to wait: the house is not ready; and then live in it; the house is already falling apart from old age, A. now asks to wait for him to make an oak coffin; invited Death to try , is it convenient, covered it with a lid, boarded him up, buried it; people have not died for a hundred years; one man hears a moan underground, dug it up; she immediately killed him and went to mow the old people; A. also did not avoid his turn, much angry, thin in her coffin]: Andronikov 1909:21-23; Russians (Western Siberia, Tavda) [Ilya Muromets has been legless for his father and mother for thirty years. When the parents are gone for dinner, an old man comes, asks him to get drunk, and orders Ilya to stand up. He starts going and comes to church with his parents, and they are happy. The father goes to the arable land to dig hummocks, gets tired, and goes to rest. While he sleeps, Ilya makes a large felling, filling the river with trees. He puts his hand on his horses - they can't bear his weight. He goes to look for a horse. The old man you meet advises buying an unhealthy horse. Ilya buys an unhealthy foal from another old man. On the advice of the old man, he drives him through the dew and cares for him. People are sent to see and show themselves. He goes to Rarat Mountain. Meet Egor Svyatogor, who takes Ilya prisoner and puts him in his pocket. Egor's horse stumbles because he is carrying two heroes with a horse. They're going. The coffin lies. He invites Ilya to try it on - he is big for Ilya. It's just right for Egor, he asks him to put on the lid. Then she asks me to shoot it, but Ilya can't do it. Ilya hits with his club - hoops jump up. Egor asks to hit him with a club, but hoops jump up again. Svyatogor says that this is his death, and that when the yellow foam starts, Ilya should not touch it, but lick it when he performs for the second time. Ilya feels so strong that if there were a pillar in the ground, he would turn the whole earth. She's leaving. On the road, the Robber Nightingale sits on twelve oaks, no one can pass. He whistles, but his whistle doesn't affect Ilya. Ilya shoots, the Nightingale falls like an oatmeal sheaf from an oak tree, Ilya ties him to a stirrup and moves on. Dobrynya Nikitich and Olesha Popovich are held captive by Solovye. When Ilya arrives at the court, one daughter Solovye says that this little hero is lucky, and the second replies that this hero is lucky. They pick up a board with iron teeth at the gate, but Ilya breaks it with his club. When he enters the rooms, the rooms are wobbly. Nightingale's father, Mamaishsho, is filthy. His eyebrows don't rise when his eyes are closed. He asks Nightingale if the hero is well built, asks him to feel his hand. Dobrynya Nikitich and Olesha Popovich warn Ilya that he will hand over his hand. They heat the club and serve it to him. He squeezes so that the juice runs. He asks him to raise his eyebrows so that he can see what Ilyusha's physique is. They raise his eyebrows, he grabs a knife and throws him at Ilya. Olyosha catches a knife on the fly. Ilya takes his hat, hits Father Nightingale, Mamaishsho falls apart. Ilya asks the Nightingale to whistle half a whistle. Dobrynya Nikitich and Olesha Popovich can't stand on their feet. Then the Nightingale whistles with all his might to stun them. Ilya finishes it and leaves with Dobrynya and Olesha]: Onchukov 2000, No. 31:101-102; Belarusians: Belova 2004, No. 318 (Brest Region, 1984) [a person tricked Death into a wheelchair; people did not die; he was asked to release Death, people began to die]: 151; Sumtsov 1913 [Death in the form of a robber or warrior takes a receipt from a peasant stating that in seven years he would give away what he did not have when he left home; it was a son; eight years later Death came for the boy; he offered her wine, she got into the bottle, he shut it up; when released him, she no longer harassed him]: 62; Ukrainians (Kherson, Elizavetinsky, etc.) [hell was friends with God; hell owned thunder, and God owned the sky; to take possession of thunder, God began to walk on earth; hell did not have water, he asks to teach him how to get land; God tells me to dive, take from the bottom of the earth, hold in your hand and the one that remains at least under your fingernails, scatter it across the water; the devil left his thunder on the rocks and dived; God to the Archangel Gabriel: hurry up the thunder, he's on our land, and what is put on our land is ours; G. hid behind a stone; hell dived, but popped up and looks: did anyone take the thunder, did not take it; the same second time; hell thought that God forgot about the thunder and dived to the bottom; G. grabbed the thunder; seeing that the devil was rising to the surface, God froze the sea; hell only broke through the ice with his head for the third time; chased G., already grabbed his leg and snatched out a piece of meat - now people there is a notch on his foot; God: yes, you hit him with thunder; G. broke off his wings with thunder, now the devils do not fly well; G. gave thunder to God; then God came down, the hell had already created the earth; God wet his finger, splashed a man appeared with water behind him; hell tried it too, but his man does not speak or walk, but is covered with hard skin; then he spat on him; God: you turn him inside out; damn it, drool and the snot is left inside, and that skin is only at his fingertips, it is his nails; God has returned to heaven, and hell has made people; he envies that he has a lot of people, but everything is on earth, and God has few, but in heaven; hell decided to take over the sky himself, and overthrow God from there; God to the archangel, who holds the sky in his arms: shake; devils fell down, where whoever fell, stayed there; now you can't build a hut everywhere; you will build in hell, you'll work all your life; then God came to hell again, he was building something, one hut was very big - hell; hell then had a receipt: after death, all his people; he tore this receipt Christ, when he went to hell; God to hell: show me how to sit in that heat; hell climbed in, closed the doors; God: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! the exits are completely closed; but one hand of the devil remains free; he asks the other devils to rescue him, or else he will disappear; the elder has come up, and the one sitting in the heat threw him against the rock; so now the eldest devil crooked, and the first one is still sitting, cannot go out; that's where God's friendship with the devil ended]: Yastrebov 1894, No. 1:119-121; Ukrainians: SUS 1979, No. 330D [Man (Solomon) and Death: By Cunning lures Death into a coffin (chest) and releases only after 700 years]: 123; Box 1895 (Nikolskoye Starobelsky settlement y. (Kharkiv governorate) [A soldier locks death in a snuffbox, people stop dying, and to get rid of the overflow, they start killing old people and old women. Three brothers feel sorry for their father, hide him in the cellar and slowly feed him. Hunger sets in and there is no bread left. The brothers tell their father about this. He recalls that when he was young he covered the shed with unthreshed straw, advises his sons to threshed and sow it. That's what they do. It turns out a wonderful harvest and bread starts on the ground again. Then they stop killing old people, and the soldier, ashamed of driving people to such a sin, releases death, and everything goes as usual]: 44; Sumtsov 1913 (Galicia, many versions) [Nedolya clings to the poor a settler who returned to take a forgotten boclag; on the way he found a bone, began to suck it, followed him into the bone; he closed the crack in the bone with a piece of wood, threw a bone into the boclag, hammered a hole, a boclag threw him into the river; became rich thanks to the help of a gentleman whom he saved from death; a rich brother discovered a secret, released a shortage, it bothered him; his property burned down, he fell into poverty]: 61.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [five servants envy Abaikutsyk, who is given by Aldar; suggest that he 1) take out the giant's horse; giant A. turns into wheat grain, brings the horse; 2) the boiler- a samovar and a self-scoop bucket; A. brings; 3) bring the giant himself; A. says he makes a coffin for A., asks the giant to try it on; when the coffin is strong, he brings the giant to Aldar; he eats Aldar and five servants; sees A. in a tree, asks how he climbed; he tells him to pick up stones, then jump; the giant crashed, A. took possession of all the property]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:223-226; Balkarians (Zap. 1965) [poor Khuduychik asked the king for work; the king: to deliver a tree for the arba from the land of five-headed emegen; H. cut, took away the tree; crossing the border of the land of emegen, replies to the fact that X. deliver the tree to make a yoke (the same); deliver the emegen itself; H. comes to cut down trees; says he wants to make a chest catch H. in it; emegen helps; agrees to try it on, gets inside, H. he nailed the lid, brought the chest to the king; the king opened the chest, emegen killed him, ran away; at this time H. climbed the ladder to the throne; emegen: lift me up; H. raises emegen several times and pretends that he cannot hold; when he falls, emegen loses one of his heads every time; after killing emegen, H. took the throne himself]: 364-366; Ingush: Dakhkilgov 2006 [Satan took the form of a husband and his wife cannot decide which one two are real husbands; the husband turned to the prophet; prophet: whoever is a real husband will get into the bottle; Satan climbed in, the prophet plugged it up and threw it away]: 441; Tanbiyeva 2003 [mother is dead, Turilg lives with her father and stepmother, she wants to lime him, pretends to be sick, asks him to bring 1) the door from the hut of a witch living seven mountains; T. slowly entered the witch's house; when she began to leave, the door did not open, she was hers broke it and left, T. brought the door to her stepmother; 2) the witch's bowler hat; T. quietly throws pebbles into the brew, the spray burned the witch, she threw away the bowler hat, T. brought it; 3) the witch's mattress (T. hid under the bed, stabs with an awl, the witch threw away the mattress, T. brought it); 4) the witch herself; T. came to the witch unrecognized, said he was making chests, offered to try it on, closed the lid, brought it, climbed the tree; the witch jumped out , ate her stepmother and the others, asks T. to pick her up; he lowered the rope, the witch fell, crashed]: 252-254; Kumyks [the old man has 12 sons, 11 are evil, the younger Baiburak is kind; the old man goes to look for their brides; Kart-Enem offers to marry them her 12 daughters; brothers come and spend the night at CE's; B. hears her sharpening a knife; says she's awake because 1) geese scream (KE stabbed geese, leaving three magic ones); 2) cows are mooing; CE slaughtered cows, B. told brothers to run; CE chases on an arba without wheels, B. throws a stone (mountain), stomps (abyss), CE stops chasing; brothers want to kill B., They persuade Khan to send him to CE for 1) a magic blanket; B. comes secretly, stabs CE at night with a needle, she thinks that fleas bite, throws away the blanket, B. takes him away, CE pursues (same episodes); 2) magic geese; B. hides behind CE's door; she asks each of the three geese where B. is now, who answer that outside the door, CE does not believe, tears off both heads, then grabs B.; he advises calling for food his relatives; tears the ropes, takes the goose away; 3) bring CE herself; B. pretends to be an old man, says that his iron chest protects against heat and cold, invites CE to try, brings Khan; he opens the chest, CE swallowed it; saw B. on the tower, stumbled, fell into a hole, crashed]: Kapiyeva 1974:87-92; Avars [three brothers got lost, came to a house where Kart with three daughters; The younger fool Chilbeek answers cards every time that she is awake, sends cards to bring water with a sieve, puts cards in the place of her daughters' brothers; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds not C.'s head in the knot, but daughters; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge from ash, K. cannot catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring the cards 1) tsach (blanket?) ; C. stabs sleeping cards from the roof, she thinks that there are fleas in the tsakh, throws it away; 2) the cauldron (C. throws stones from the roof, splashes of fat fly into the cards, she throws the cauldron away); 3) the golden goat (C. stabs it with a stick, the goat bleats, throws it away); 4) the cards themselves; C. meets cards in the form of a beggar, she asks to make a strong chest; climbs into it, it falls apart; the next is strong, C. closes cards in it, brings; C. climbs a tree, the nukers open the chest, swallows everyone's cards; C. throws bags of flour from the tree at it, the cards burst, the swallowed people and animals come out; there is no daughter of the ruler; C. cuts his finger cards, a girl comes out from there, C. marries her]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:301-310 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:138-141); taty [after his friend Nissan died, Nemurum decided to go looking for a country immortality, although the mother dissuaded; the nightingale, the pheasant, the deer say that they are not immortal, they will die when they lose their last feather, the last scales from their horns (they fall one by one a year); on the fortieth day of N. comes to a beautiful woman; she is immortal, he lives with her without getting old; wants to visit her homeland; his wife says that several generations have changed there; gives four apples, tells her not to drop; N. sees the remains a pheasant, a deer, a nightingale, bends down every time, one apple rolls out, it grows older; the last one has rolled out on his mother's grave; God sends Azrail to take N.'s soul; he digs the grave, replies that digs it for an old man, asks N. to try it on, because that old man is the same height; N. lies down, A. takes his soul away]: Kukulla 1974, No. 4:52-57; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 101 [poor brother served a rich son at the wedding; returns hungry; Need comes up to him, says that he will not lag behind him even after death; the poor man ordered a coffin, Need climbed into it, fearing that her man ahead, the poor brother stabbed the coffin; got rich; told the rich man what had happened; the rich opened the coffin to put Need back on the poor, but she grabbed him]: 166-167; Chikovani 1954 [ seven brothers go to marry, the youngest is Bototina; one, the second dev offers his 7 daughters, the brothers refuse, agree to the third's offer; at night B. replies to the deva that he is awake, the roar of oxen interferes; dev killed all the cows, left one that gave one nipple butter, the other milk, the third cream, the fourth matsoni; B.: your chickens were cackling; dev killed chickens; B. swapped sleeping brothers and deva daughters; dev killed his daughters, the brothers ran away, managed to cross the hair bridge; B. hired the king as a laborer; he orders to bring 1) the deva carpet (B. stabs the deva with a needle, hiding under the ottoman, he thinks that fleas in the carpet, hung it in the yard, B. took it away; 2) the deva cauldron; B. lets himself be caught, advises the deva to hang it over the cauldron for the night, the fat will flow; untied the rope, took the cauldron; 3) the deva himself; B. comes as a carpenter, dev measures chests, B. boarded him up, brought him to the king, climbed the tower, opened the chest; dev ate the king and his entourage; asks B. how he climbed the tower; B.: set fire to the hay, jumped into the fire, the flame lifted me up; dev burned down, B. received the kingdom]: 86-89; 1986 [nine poor brothers go to work as laborers; younger Khutkunchula asks the old woman for water; she sends brothers to a deva who needs shepherds; he only lures workers to eat them; the brothers fell asleep, dev asks who is awake; H. replies that he is because the geese are screaming; dev swallowed the geese, asks again; the cows are mooing (same); horses laugh; H. wakes up the brothers, they run, he locks the door outside, the brothers and H. have time to cross the river, the devil is afraid to step on the shaky bridge; H. took the talking goat away from the deva; the king took her away, demands in return flying carpet; H. returned to the maiden, stuck the carpet with needles, dev lay down, pricked, threw away the carpet, H. took it away; the king only awarded H. a hat; envious brothers persuade the king to send X. to bring everything deva's treasures; H. tells the deva that the king told him to make a flying chest, but H. pulled out all the nails; dev asks him to make a chest; H. offers to try it on, brings the chest to the king, hides in a tree with with a piece of salt; the chest is open, the dev eats the king and viziers; H. replies to the deva that he flew up the tree with a block of salt on his chest; dev agrees to lie under the tree, let H. shed salt on him; killed dropped with salt]: 64-68; Kurds [Rabl-Azat gave Musa Pehambar 900 years of life; when they expired, M. asked for more and ran away; Azrail and Jebrail began to dig a hole with a golden pickaxe and a shovel; they pretend that they argue about the height of the deceased pit; M. agrees to lie in it and try it on if he receives their pickaxe and shovel; they put a pickaxe at the head, threw earth at the grave]: Jalil et al. 1989, No. 39:295-296.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [Hus Banu is queen of Shahabad; Prince Munir wants to marry her; Hatim Tai is a prince from Yemen; he undertakes to complete 7 HB errands, then she will marry M.; HB has completed 6; now HB has completed 6; now HB tells us to find out the secret of the baths in Bad'gard; HT has come to a city; the old man says that those who were looking for Badgard did not return; that in Qatan, King Harit orders everyone who is looking for Badgard to be brought to him; the old man shows the way; from the fork you have to follow the left road; the right one is better, but more dangerous; in one city, the dragon takes a girl every year, turning into a human for a while; HB undertakes to kill the dragon; let The dragon will be told that he is much stronger than him; the dragon chose the princess; HT offered him a potion, he lost his miraculous power; HT invited the dragon to climb into the chest - if he gets out, he will get the princess; the dragon is sure that he has strength, climbed; HT closed the lid, made a fire around, and then buried the chest; from the fork, HT accidentally walked along the right road and could not return because of the thorny bushes ; an old man appeared, told him to throw the drug, the monsters devoured each other; the same during the scorpion attack; in Q. HT made friends with the king and he gave him a letter to the guards of Badgard's baths; Saman Idrak guard missed HT; on Badgard's giant gate, King Gyomard's inscription: you will not return from there; there is a desert outside the gate; towards the barbers of the baths; as soon as we entered, the exit was bricked; the water became arrive; when HT was already swimming under the dome, the baths disappeared and he was back in the desert; then the garden, with fruits, but they do not satisfy hunger; stone statues around; the inscription: all this was created for storage the diamond that Guyomard found; to get out of here, you have to shoot a parrot; if you miss, you will also petrify; HT missed twice and petrified knee-deep, waist-deep; the third arrow hit the parrot; the spell broke, the petrified ones came to life, and a diamond appeared in front of HT; HT brought it to HB, she married M., and HT returned to Yemen and inherited his father's throne]: Christensen 1971, No. 7:69-89; Tajiks [son of a lion ready to turn mountains, but my father warns that the man is stronger; they are going in search of a man; a donkey: I ran away from a man, he tortured me with work; a man carries firewood, boards and tools; says that came to build a house for the lion; invites the lion's son to see if he is tall; locked the cage and took the young lion away]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 190:212-213; Yazgulyams [the bear gives the ploughman a stick to adjust ox; comes with a bag in autumn for his share of the crop; the bag is large, all the grain will fit there; the plowman invites the bear to climb into the bag to estimate the size, collides off the cliff]: Grunberg, Steblin- Kamensky 1976, No. 72:498-499; Uzbeks [the carpenter sees a tailor-made coat on a girl he likes; decides to get rid of his opponent; invites him to climb into the chest to see what he is like from the inside; the tailor's chest flies away; the tailor finds a screw, falls to the ground; lives with a dyer; flies in his chest to the Shah's daughter, says that he is Azrail and Allah told him to take it; after learning about The Azraile groom, the khan, on the advice of the viziers, offers food to the tailor (A. would not eat); the tailor does not eat, the Shah believes that he is A.; the other shah is at war because he wanted to take the daughter first for his son; imaginary A. began to throw bunches of lit grass from the flying chest, the enemy army fled in fear; but the chest also burned down, the tailor remained in the shepherd's hut; the shah died, the tailor came to the city, said the Shah's daughter, that his wings were scorched, and Allah did not punish him for killing so many people; the Shah's daughter gives him the throne]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 255-260.

Baltoscandia. Karely [Ilmoilline forged an iron coffin, told Death that he made it to rest; Death also wants to rest, climbs into the coffin, I. locked it, threw it into the sea; 300 years people have not they die, ask the Month, he does not know, advises to turn to the Sun, the Sun indicates where death is; the chest is taken out, opened, Death devoured I. and other people; left the Sun and the Month; began to walk only at night; var. (note, p. 488): death was defeated by a soldier or merchant]: Evseev 1950, No. 146:290-292; the Finns [the farmhand earned the 3rd era, bought three loaves, went on a journey; gives three beggars bread; one gives a bag, which fits whatever you want; a card that always wins; a bag in which money is not transferred; puts a flock of geese from the sky into his bag; stays in the house, giving geese as payment; the owner puts him in the room where the hell comes; the man beats him, takes the money; lures him into a bag, tells the blacksmiths to hit her with hammers, tells the devil to go away; next time he offers to become big, then tiny, lures him into a barrel, plugs him; releases for a promise not to return; marries, looks for a godson for a child, towards Death; Death gives the godson an ointment that cures any disease ; comes to the terminally ill king; death is in the heads; the man turns the bed, comes to his head before Death, smears with ointment, the king recovers; Death wants to kill him, man tells her to get into her bag; lets her go for promising to give him another 30 years of life; if he says "Deeply grateful" to someone, he dies right away; he says them, Death takes him to heaven, they don't want to gambler; to hell; he plays with the devil, wins lots of souls, puts them in his bag; she was taken to heaven; he pointed it at himself, got into his bag, ended up in paradise]: Goldberg 1953:31-46; Veps [soldier stays in the house, left overnight in a room where demons come at night; he plays the balalaika, demons fall from the ceiling, ask him to be taught to play; the soldier promises to do so the next night; promises the owner to drive out demons, for which he asks his daughter to marry; brings a barrel with a long plug; tells demons that it is necessary to learn to play in a barrel; pushes them, maims them, promises to go to the forest; in a year they surround him in the forest; he asks for permission to send a letter to his wife; the wife comes backwards, bent down with her hair down; the soldier says that a bear is coming, demons are running away]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 51:177-178; Lutsie (Western 1933; Catholic informant, Russian-speaking, Polish only in church) [the drunkard locked himself; did not unlock God, the angel - unfair; let death in, it is the same with everyone; asks if he can death, becoming a fly, get into the bottle; closed the bottle; no one dies; the king ordered death to be released; the drunkard died first, and then the dead were taken out in wagons]: Annom et al. 2018:208-209; Estonians : Dähnhardt 1910 [When Death came for the carpenter, he asked permission to make a coffin for himself; then cover it with velvet; pretended not to know how to lie down; Death lay down to show, he closed it, left under the bridge; people did not die, the earth was full; The spider found the coffin, said to the fly, she freed Death, got permission to dine at the royal table; the spider is angry, now it catches flies]: 505; J & #228; rv et al. 2015 (Põltsama) [a soldier returns from duty, asks for an overnight stay, is sent to sleep in an empty house; 36 devils appear at midnight; he tells them to drill 36 holes in the wall and make 36 holes plug; asks him to get into holes, plugs holes; went on; in the river, the devil grabbed his legs, the soldier tells him to go to the swamp; built a house by the river; Death has come; the soldier asks if he can she climbed into a nutshell; Death climbed, a soldier threw his shell into the stove; people stopped dying; God sends St. Peter to find Death, she is nowhere; he found a soldier, the soldier took out the dried Death out of the nut; went to God instead; God: let Death take away the old and the young; the soldier of Death: you are commanded to uproot old trees and plant young ones; God sends Peter, who brought a soldier to God; soldier: tobacco, vodka, are there women in paradise? God: no; a soldier goes to hell; the devil answers what he is; the soldier stays in hell]: 91-92; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 57 (Estonian SV, Simuna) [farmhand served without pay for 7 years; decided to resign; master He gave him plenty of bread, lamb and a keg of beer; after sitting down to rest, the farmhand offered to share a meal with him to whoever hears him; hell came, then God; he did not know the first, and the second was unfair; Death has come, the farmhand is happy with her, she is the same with everyone; when everyone has eaten and drunk, the farmhand asks how Death manages to enter locked rooms; she replies that she simply finds herself in a keg; farmhand plugged it with a cork, then tied stones and drowned it in the sea; people stopped dying, the old people complain; after 7 years the barrel surfaced, the fishermen opened it, death came out, grabbed a braid from the mowers and went to do it his business]: 148-150; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 54 [a man took a death girl with a godfather, she has a braid; he became a doctor: if Death in the legs, the patient recovers; saw Death in the heads of Mrs.; ordered tie knives to the bed and twirl the bed; Mrs. recovered; wounded Death came for the doctor; he asked her to get into the bottle, corked her; people stopped dying; doctors are not needed, the man lost earnings; released Death; she hacked him first, the pestilence began]: 54:123-125; Lebite 1965 [the poor man cannot baptize the child, the old woman offers to be a goddaughter; makes a man famous healer; let him boldly go to treat, if he sees her in the patient's legs, let him give a drug, if in his heads, then say that the patient will die; seeing Death in the heads of a sick royal, a person until then since he turned the bed until Death was tired and she was left at her feet; he promises to mow the doctor for this, who asks for permission to make a coffin first, asks him to try it on, pins the lid, buries it; No one has died for 50 years; one person pulled out stones, came across a coffin, Death jumped out, mowed everyone he needed]: 244-246; Latvians [six smart brothers are going to be hired in workers; the father wanted to leave the seventh fool at home, but he also went; they hired a master, who sent him to his wife, gave a note; only the fool could read it; this is not a master, but hell, tells me to kill the bearers; the fool changed: to give gold; the brothers rode away, the fool hid in a plain filly in the forest, the filly gives advice; all seven hired another master, he made the fool a footman, the brothers are jealous, they say that a fool can steal a golden bird from hell; the master sent, the filly brought it; the same is a golden bird cage; the devil; the filly: let the master give a coffin with iron hoops; fool tells the line that he is an angel, that God promised to give one soul to the devil in this coffin, let the devil lie down and measure; closed the coffin, brought a devil in it; brothers: a fool can drive and bring all the hares; filly tells you to ask gold and diamond pipes to collect hares; the fool sells the hare to his master's daughter for money, and to him for eating carrion; hares come running back; brothers advise telling a fool talk to three boxes; guests gather, the fool talks about everything; when he comes to the fall that the master ate, he tells him to stop; he drove the brothers away, gave the fool his daughter]: Niedra 1952:103-110; Norwegians [the blacksmith has signed a 7-year contract with the devil; for this period he will be better than all craftsmen; hangs a sign "Master of Craftsmen" on the door; the Lord and St. Peter; the Lord separates one leg after another from the horse, puts it in the horn, shoves it, puts his legs back; puts the blacksmith's mother in the oven, forges her into a young girl; when the blacksmith the next day they ask to shove a horse, he tries to repeat the trick, has to pay for the dead horse; puts an old beggar in the oven, she burns; the blacksmith tells the Lord that the devil has not fulfilled the contract; the Lord promises fulfill three requests from the blacksmith; he asks that without his permission no one can 1) get off the pear, 2) get off his chair, 3) get out of his purse; Peter says that the kingdom should have been asked heavenly; when the devil comes for the blacksmith's soul, he invites him to pick pears first; the devil promises not to come again for another 4 years; the same with the chair for another 4 years; offers the line to climb into the purse, puts it in the oven, hits him with a hammer; the devil promises never to come; when old, the blacksmith goes to hell, the hell does not tell him to let him in, locks the bolts; the blacksmith crawls into heaven when the door is opened slightly to let the tailor in, whom he met on the way]: Dasent 1970:105-113.

Volga - Perm. Chuvash: Egorov 1995 [at first people were immortal; there were many decrepit old people on earth; people asked Tur ă to create an angel of death; however, Esrel (from Arabic. Azrail) performed his duties so hard that very few people remained; one wise man cunningly put E. in an iron coffin, boarded up the lid, drowned him in the sea; three hundred years later, T. at the request of people, he freed him]: 123; Rekeev 1896 [God made people immortal, decrepit old people began to ask him to die; he sent Esrail (Death), which was supposed to cut the back of the old people's heads, but only with their consent; an old man asked her several times to come later; made an iron coffin, invited her to try it on himself, locked it in a coffin, threw it into the lake; God called all the creatures, but no Perch; the Hedgehog said that water was boiling in one lake; The perch came, said that he was tired, he drooled (still flowing), because there was an iron chest on the way; the hedgehog was more cunning, he guessed that there was e in the chest; hers they took it out, she said that a little more and she would suffocate; God told her to kill people regardless of age, according to the inscription on her forehead that he, God, would apply at birth; the hedgehog gave a favor prickly clothes]: 3-5; Shurtakov 1984 [=Sidorova 1979:133; Death comes, the old man asks to wait for him to marry his sons; next time he pretends not to know how to lie in the coffin; Death lies down to show the old man closes the lid, pushes the coffin into the river; Death has ceased to appear to people, has become invisible]: 85-87; Eisin 1993 [a soldier shares bread and vodka with old people, receives a cloth, a book, a whip; falls into the ground; tells the soldiers to guard the exits from the cloth, beat the devils with a whip, they ask for mercy; the main feature appoints the soldier as a gatekeeper; Esrel comes to the gate, the soldier does not let him in, says that he finds out for himself what the order is next year; he is told that to kill children, adults, old people, the soldier says that young, grown up, uproot stumps; the main devil tells the soldier to punish three to wear E. on his back for years; he carries it through the thorny thickets, E. asks for mercy; the soldier offers to climb into an empty nut, closes the hole, releases it a year later; the main devil pays his salary, allows him to return to earth; the soldier lives well; learns from the book how to plant apple orchards]: 183-189; Marie: Aktsorin 1991 [Azyren began to make a coffin; the old man invited him to try it on, slammed the lid shut and drowned him in the lake; when he took it out, A. looked like a thread, the old man broke his lower back]: 100-101; Petrukhin, Khelimsky 1980 [Azyren, messenger of the lord of the afterlife Kiyamata, appears to a dying man in the guise of a mighty man and kills him with a dagger; the carpenter pretends not to know how to lie in the coffin; A. lay down himself, the carpenter shut the lid, lowered the coffin to the bottom of the river at night; people stopped dying; exhausted from illness, they began to look for A.; the moon revealed to people the place where A. was hidden, they released him; he killed the carpenter, the sick, the elderly, and became invisible himself so as not to get there back into people's hands]: 51; Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [the tsar's daughter fell ill; only a soldier volunteered to heal; ordered a cast-iron man to the blacksmith; stays overnight in the princess's room; hell comes; soldier offers to click nuts, gives a line of cast iron; after beating cards, he is going to persuade him to click the line three times, but agrees to have his lame brother do it; the cast iron man clicks, hell with a click flew out; the next night the same with three devils, the next night with all 12; the princess is no longer tormented, she has recovered; the king rewarded the soldier, who drank and died; Kiyamat savus (assistant chief the afterlife) brought him to hell, the devils were frightened, not accepted; they are also not allowed to go to heaven, made him a watchman at the door of paradise; Azren (death) always comes to God if anyone dies; the soldier did not let him in; he he got into the snuffbox on a bet, the soldier closed it; for 7 years no one dies; God gathered all the animals, no one knows where Azren is; the hedgehog walks slowly, fell on the doorstep, everyone laughed, he turned back; one of I followed the angels, overheard the hedgehog muttering; "Although saints, you don't understand; if A. disappeared at night, he saw a month, and if during the day he saw the sun"; month: A. in a snuffbox; the soldier was fired from the sentries; A. eaten by tobacco, the skeleton remains, so death is depicted as a skeleton]: 83-90; Ödön 1937, No. 7 (Eastern Marie) [the soldier returns home; sees his brother in bed, followed by Death with scythe; the soldier says the dead must have a coffin; Death promises to come in a day; the soldier makes a coffin, covers it with iron, Death goes to try on, the soldier closes the lid, lowers the coffin into the lake; people grow old, but do not die; after a hundred years they find a coffin, release Death; God tells her to kill old people and children]: 158-160; Udmurts [=Kralina 1960, No. 18:63-64; man is tired of living, made a coffin, Death came, he changed his mind, invited her to try on the coffin herself, closed the lid; the man became decrepit, wanted to die, opened the lid, Death recovered, began to mow people]: Vereshchagin 1995:83.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Shors [when he saw Death, the blacksmith asked how long he could live; she replied that he was three years old; when she came, he was nowhere; finally he went out, said that he had prepared a coffin for himself, asked death to lie down see if it is suitable; closed the lid; Chayachi is surprised that no one dies; finally sent an assistant from heaven to release Death; with a tech op made it invisible]: Chudoyakov 2002:130-131; Khakas: Balter 1958 [(=Koptelov 1956:149-154); the boy goes to work; at the fork, the batozhok says that buy to the left with his seven daughters, to the right - Death; the boy goes to the left, works at the bay, wants to payment daughter, he drives him away; the boy walks along the right road; towards the Old Man Death, goes to the gods to find out who is; the boy offers to run away instead of him; the gods tell him to eat thin old men for three years, the boy tells Death as if they told them to eat tree bark for three years; the next time the gods tell Death to eat algae for three years; after three years Death has difficulty climbing over as a boy up the stairs to heaven; he says there is a human in his snuffbox; invites Death to turn into a mosquito, climb into a snuffbox; slams it shut; comes to the bay who deceived him, releases Death, asking them to eat all the fat ones]: 9-16; Butanayev, Butanayeva 2001 [The White Khan (i.e. Russian Tsar Peter the Great) decided to see the lands of Khakass Khan Amyr-San; on the way they met the White Elder and asked raise a large sum from the ground; the White Khan failed to move it, and Amyr-Sana calmly put his bag on his horse; the White Elder said that the Khakass man is the strongest man in the world, because he, the White Elder, put half the weight of the earth in his bag; Amyr-Sana laughed, the White Elder said that he would pay for his words; the Russian tsar and AU saw a hollowed out coffin at the top of Mount Khan Son; AU, playing, lay down in it, he slammed shut and wrapped himself in iron hoops; the Khakas came under the rule of the White Khan]: 107; the Tofalars [three brothers are able to break the most powerful trees; the Burkhan decides to get rid of them; leaves an ice box, the biggest hero lies down in it, the box turns into stone; the second was drawn by water, he became its master spirit; the third went to get water at night, the moon began to attract him; he grabbed a bush, was pulled along with the bush; a man was seen on the moon with a pot in one hand and a bush in the other]: Rassadin 1996, No. 4:11-12; Dagurs [mother is dying, her adult daughter and son made a coffin; son went hunting; at this time the 9-headed monster ate half of his sister; when he returned, the brother thought his sister looked terrible; asked her to try on the coffin - if it was good for her, then her mother; boarded up the lid, threw it into the river; the mother died, the son buried her; the coffin swam, the woman gave birth to a son, he speaks from birth, is strong; a year later he knocked out the lid, built a hut from the coffin boards; hunts increasingly large game; to them The woman's brother came by accident; she said that the owner of the lower world did not accept her; the brother said, let his nephew find that monster and return half of his mother's body; the monster had to regurgitate what had been swallowed , the son restored his mother's body; now the uncle demands that his nephew 1) bring a huge wild boar (he brought it); 2) planted 900,000 trees and populated them with 500,000 animals (the young man asks for help the monster, the owner of the mountain, everything is done); when the uncle comes with his people, the nephew lowers the animals, they tear them apart]: Stuart et al. 1994:162-163.

Eastern Siberia. The Evenks of China [when Altyn Buto was born, his parents were taken away by Dalai-Lama-Takan with a horn on his head; his father was tied at the main gate, his mother at the side doors, they must open and close them; parents managed to put AB in a pot of broth; he ate broth, grew up, got out of the cauldron; learned to hunt himself with onions and arrows, made clothes for himself from his skins; chased half a doe (two legs and half body); she said that AB should not shoot at her, but save her parents; we should ask the fir growing near the house, she saw everything; AB knelt in front of the fir, called her father; fir replied that AB's parents were taken prisoner 17 years ago by D.; indicated where the cattle, horses, clothes, weapons hidden for AB; the mare gave birth to a foal with him, he immediately allowed himself to ride; surpassed the rest of the horses; carries AB , stops at the stream; AB hits him; the horse replies that he has not drunk milk since birth, asks for permission to drink water; drinks and grows; next time stops: there is a gate with sickles in front; let AB three times He will whip him and close his eyes; they flew through the gate; in front of the sea, in the middle of the palace; D. noticed those who had arrived at the shore, sent servants; the horse barely woke up to AB, ordered to throw manure at the attackers, AB threw it, After killing the majority, one returned to D.; D. ordered AB to be called to him; AB refused to go in the boat, fired an arrow across the sea, the horse and rider flew over the arrow; D. released AB's parents; they warned his son about AB cunning; AB had a feast, gave AB his daughter to lull his vigilance to lull his vigilance; pretended to be sick; to supposedly cure him, the shamans ordered AB to get the hearts and heads of wild animals; but he easily killed tigers, leopards, bears and snakes; then D. asked to make a coffin for him the size of AB's body; his wife warned him to lie face up in the coffin, not down; AB he lay face down, the servants threw toads and snakes there, they boarded up the lid, threw the coffin into the sea; the wife rides along the shore on horseback, asks if AB hears her, if toads and snakes have harmed him; he first replies that they are eating his legs; then his body; there is a cliff in front, the wife can no longer follow the coffin along the shore, remains on the cliff with her horse and dog; the coffin brought Mangiä to the top; when he discovered it, she saw toads, snakes and a human skeleton; daughter M. wants bones for herself, the father says he will donate them to the spirit; the daughter hid behind the figure of the spirit, said on his behalf that the father should give the bones to his daughter; she let the dog lick them, revived them with an amulet, AB was reborn; first she hid it from her father in a chest; said that man's smell came from bones; then she opened herself to her father, who recognized AB as his son-in-law, gave him an amulet; the wife and AB arrived at the cliff, the second wife revived first, her horse and dog; AB's horse ran himself - he escaped from the stable and hid; AB came to D., began to fight him, but to no avail; the horse explained that D.'s life in three iron files in a helmet in more often than the forest, they are guarded by a hawk; the hawk drove the wind towards him with his wings, but AB hit him in his beak; came to D., broke the files, D. died; AB freed his parents and other prisoners, became ruler]: Bä cker 1988, No. 24:169-182; (cf. Ilimpic Evenks (pos. Chirinda, West 1965) [Hargi comes to Charchikan to take his Omi Soul to the lower world; he asks for three days to build a coffin (a hollowed out deck that is hung on larch); on the fourth day he goes with H., at the entrance to the lower world. takes out a tambourine from his bosom, hits H. with it; he kicks C. in fear with his foot, C. finds himself in the middle ground again; since then only a shaman can see, he takes his soul invisible]: Yermakov 1988:44-45; Yenisei Evenks {apparently Russian borrowing; see Khakas} [old Bambay leaves the Kemchugi River with his children, leaves an eight-year-old orphan named Henukychan ("hazel grouse") in the forest; Chimera (from Russ. "death") tries to eat it, his mother H. takes him to God; he is assigned to watch the entrance to heaven; Chimera comes, God tells her to eat middle-aged people for three years, boy reports that God ordered to eat middle forests for three years; after three years, God tells us to eat three years of children, an orphan says that the twigs are talnik; next time, "old people", and says that "dry trees" ; after that, Chimer flies to God, he is angry, tells her to eat the liar; he asks for three days; asks how Chimera got to God, asks him to show him, get into the hollow with a fly; closes him; when H. was old, God told him to release Chimera; people began to die again]: Rychkov 1936, No. 1:273-266).

Amur - Sakhalin. Udege people: Kormushin 1998, No. 51 [old Kanda tells his wife that their son is catching too much game; makes a coffin, invites his son to lie in it, pushes him into the river, ties him to the coffin a dog; one or two girls push the coffin away from the shore; the third realizes that K.'s son is in it; inside she finds frogs, toads, snakes, a ring finger; puts his finger in the cradle, he turns into a good job; for with his soul, a girl rises to heaven to old woman Koya; she gives her soul, the girl takes the lively man as her husband; they sail to his parents; the first and second girls hang themselves in grief; the young man's father cooks his boots; son kills his father and mother with a spear, lives with his wife]: 189-200; Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 30 [old Hutu tells his wife that their son is catching too much game, offers to get rid of it; they they ask him to lie in the coffin, cover him with snakes, snails and other reptiles, let him into the water; Emande's girlfriend pushes the coffin back into the water when she finds out what's inside the reptile; Bele pulls him out, finds An uneaten finger, washes, puts it in a cradle, a person is reborn; marries B.; E. hangs up in grief; seeing how poor his parents are, the endyga decides not to kill them, but simply leave them]: 223-227; Lopatin 1933, No. 3 [neighbors complain to the old man that his son will kill all the animals, there will be nothing to eat; the old man makes a coffin, tells his son that it is good to rest in it, pushes him into the river; the young man's white dog comes running follow him along the shore to the house where the girl lives; she drags the coffin out of the water, the hook breaks off; the same with another girl; she tells the dog to run to the snake, she will lie down as a bridge to the island, there will be another girl; through For seven days she catches a coffin, inside a turtle; a girl hangs her leg on a branch, in the sun she spits the boy's fingers; the girl sews them on the doll, the young man comes to life; the turtle says he needs go to seventh heaven; there he hides a boy's toy, he takes him to his sick sister, the young man heals her, takes her as his wife; they go down, he takes a second wife, who revived him, refuses not to who managed to pull out the coffin, she hangs herself; his parents are starving at home, he lowers their meat, kills both with a knife; happy with his wives]: 247-250; Nikolaeva et al. 2003, No. 6 [hungry childless spouses ask child; the wife dreams that the top of the poplar is cracked, hears crying; the boy has grown up quickly, brings a lot of meat; the couple think he kills too many animals; the father makes a coffin, puts snakes there, worms, invites her son to lie down, clogs the lid, lowers him into the river; one girl, seeing the coffin, pushes him back; the other takes off the lid, finds an uneaten little finger, lurks, it turns into a man, takes her as his wife; visits his parents, brings them meat, forgives them; says he is the son of Enduli]: 44-46.

Subarctic. Koyukon [a man is jealous of his two wives for his nephew; splits a log, hollows out a container in two halves; invites his nephew to lie down; when it turns out that the container is according to his standards, ties the halves, lets them into the river; the log floats on the sea to the shore; the porcupine gnaws through the ropes; the giant adopts a young man; sends him home with a load of meat; the wife's uncles are dead, he took the other two; tries run over his nephew with a falling tree; he presses him down, leaves him to die; marries his widows]: De Laguna 1995, No. 29:224-229; Kuchin [older brother is jealous of younger; split the log, makes a coffin; invites his brother to lie down and try on; closes the lid, lowers him into the river; the coffin takes him to the shore where the Dog Eskimos (= eagle people) live; they have no mouth, they eat the smell of rotten meat; the hero cuts their mouths; then they cut through each other, some in a hurry make a vertical cut; the hero gets a wife; locals rip open the bellies of pregnant wives, the hero teaches them how to give birth; hawks for them moose, the hero easily kills hawks; a dead hawk that falls from a tree has run over several people; the hero is given eagle plumage, he flies home in it, lifts his brother into the air, throws him into the fast; takes him two wives; one of them greases his feathers with her milk, his wings weaken; he grabs a beaver, which drags him under water; wives marry a piece of resin; soon he falls to pieces; see motive E1B]: McKennan 1965:132-136.

The Northern Andes. Paez: Bernal Villa 1953, No. 9 [at the sunrise point; people ask him to try on the coffin and nail the lid; he asks for two eye holes; the carpenter does one and the other eye gouges out] 13 [his sister Maria Santissima locks him in a bronze box]: 299-302; Nachtigall 1955, No. 5 [Chauté did a lot of harm, people removed him to where the sun went down; there used to be only humans and C. made animals out of them; Chiguaro was a priest (sacristan); the rabbit was a rogue, now running away from the dogs, winding; the carpenter made large boxes; invited C. to go to trial; C. lay down, the carpenter covered it with a lid; C. asked to make two holes to see; the carpenter made it, but the tool bounced into his eye, he became a woodpecker; C. stayed in the box; when he moved, earthquakes occur]: 198.

The Central Andes. Aymara (Chukuito) [childless spouses finally have a son; grows up huge, devours everything; people dig a huge hole on the mountain, invite him to see if it fits him; fall asleep giant with earth and stones]: Mendoza 1980:93-95.