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K64. Escape from the herd owner's cave, ATU 1137, K521.1, K603. .14.-.16.22.23. (.26.) .27.-.34. (.49.) .43.46.

Once in the home of a herd owner or wildlife owner, the character fears that the owner will kill him. To get free, he clings from below to one of the animals coming out of the pen or cave.

The traditions listed (with references) in Röhrich 1962:58-59 are italicized, with an indication that they closely follow the Homeric version; {I haven't seen these sources}

Kabiles, Berbers of Morocco, Arabs of Egypt, Portuguese, Galicians, Spaniards, Catalans (Catalonia, Majorca), Basques, Sicilians, Italians (Alps, Tuscany) ), Ladins, Latins, British, Scots, Irish, French (Gascony, Dauphinay, Lorraine, Upper Brittany), Germans (Grimms, Lorraine, Harz), Pao, Sindhi, Ancient Greece, Serbs, Romanians, Greeks, Albanians, Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Gagauz people, Poles, Kashubians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Olonets, Tula, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava), Belarusians, Abkhazians, Abazins, Kabardian, Karachays, Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens, Megrelians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Turkmens, Mountain Tajiks (Vanj), Baluchis, Karelians, Livs, Estonians, Icelanders, Swedes, Western Sami, Mari, Udmurts, Tatars, Komi-Zyrians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Altaians, Khakas, Tuvans, Darkhats (or Khalkha?) , kutene, blacklegs, grovantre, kiowa, kiova-apache, jicarilla, lipan.

North Africa. Kabila [the boy in his mother's uncle's house asks you to take him home, he doesn't want to stay with strangers; uncle: the house is nearby, and I'm your mother's brother; I'll tell you what a foreign land means; there are 77 of them on the ship , the ship drowned, seven clung to the boards; the eagle carries them one by one, this man is the last, throws the chicks into the nest; a man kills eagles, descends on a rope of hair eaten by women; behind him 7-headed hydra, he jumps off, breaks bones, crawls into the lioness's lair, sucks her with the lions; she went out; he met six companions, the Cyclops saw them, took them to the cave with his sheep, blocked the exit with a rock; eats one at a time, put it on a hot rod; a man tells a fairy tale, the cyclops falls asleep, he dazzles him with a hot rod; goes out, covered with a ram's skin and holding the head of a ram on his head; when he goes out, he throws it at the Cyclops; steals the herd; the robbers take it; in the village, the Hydra has closed the water, gives it to the girls; the robbers sell it to an old man whose daughter must be given Hydra; the man tells the old man to smear himself with honey, the hydra will lick him; there is no smeared space left on the back of his head, the old man has sucked through him, the skin has fallen, the hydra crawled away; the man and the girl leave, they ride a donkey, fall asleep; the lioness ate half a girl; people think that this man ate; they took the elder; he ran away from the house where he was kept; after listening to the story, the boy agreed to go home himself (Var.: ill for a long time)]: Frobenius 1922a, No. 3:24-30; Moroccan Berbers [Sidi Hmad u Musa and a friend were wandering to the end of the world; they hung a bag of provisions on a star and it was gone; someone came up and said that the bag would come back; in the morning he came back safe; met a one-eyed ogre; he took them to the cave, fed them meat and said that now they must give him meat; they drew lots to see who should be eaten, and he fell on S.; a friend wanted to replace him, but S. refused; heated an iron rod and burned the ogre's eye; he promised to return in the morning; in the morning friends slaughtered the ram, covered themselves with their skins; the cannibal I counted the sheep coming out and did not notice under the skin of S. and his comrade; when they left, the survivors called out the ogre and ran away; "I left them there and returned here"]: Stroomer 2002, No. 3e: 55-56; the Arabs of Egypt [ a blinded cyclops; the hero escapes by clinging to a ram's belly or wearing a ram's skin]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 1137:708-709.

Southern Europe. The Portuguese [a woman gave birth in the forest, her son was a cannibal giant Olharapos (Olharapas) with one eye in his forehead; the man got lost, came to his home; waited for the owner at the hearth; O. came, ate, got drunk, fell asleep; the man heated a spit in the hearth, burned O.'s eye, hid among the sheep; went out with the herd in the morning, wearing sheep skin]: Ramos 1997:145-147; Galicians: Consiglieri Pedroso 1982b (comto portog. -gallego) [two monks were walking along the road and met alicornio (from unicornio, and it also sounds olho, i.e. not "unicorn", but "one-eye"); he led them to the rock; the one-eye said the magic word, the rock opened, they went in with the sheep; one monk fried and ate one monk; fell asleep; the other thought that if you just kill the sleeper, you would not be able to get out; the monk heated the spit and burned him only eye; in the morning, when releasing the sheep, one-eye groped them; the monk killed the sheep, put on the skin and went out, and then called out to one-eyed; one-eye clicked the dog and the monk had to climb the tree]: 271; Rö hrich 1962 [a poor young man travels looking for work; sails in a boat to an unfamiliar shore; waking up and seeing a fanged giant; persuades him to fatten him first, only then eat it; heats up the blade blinds the sleeping giant with it; leaves the cave with the sheep, wearing sheepskin]: 58; the Basques [in search of accommodation, two soldiers enter the Basa Jaun cave; he eats one, the other leaves for tomorrow; the one left burns his only eye to the sleeping BH; BH gives him a ring to remind him of what happened; the ring starts shouting "I'm here"; it can't be removed; the soldier cuts off his finger, throws into the water; BH follows, drowns, his home goes to the soldier]; [the young man wanders, gets to the one-eyed cannibal giant Tartare; T.'s wife invites him to spend the night with the sheep; he burns the sleeping T.'s eye with a hot spit, hides among the sheep; T. feels the animals, but the young man gets out with the skin of a ram; the young man runs away, but finds himself with T. again; T.'s mother gives him a ring, which will help find his way, but it starts shouting "I'm here"; the young man cuts off his finger, throws him off the cliff; T. crashes]; [Tartaro meets, grabs the boy, brings him to eat; that burns his eye with a hot spit, hides among sheep; wearing sheepskin, comes out, the skin remains in T.'s hands; T. gives him a ring; once on his finger, he shouts "I'm here"; boy cuts off a finger, throws it into the water, T. drowns]; Webster 1879 [the one-eyed giant Tartaro was a shepherd and human hunter; only he himself could open the door to his home; T. once brought someone into him snare for the young man; when T. fell asleep, the young man heated his spit, burned his only eye; without catching the young man, T. opened the door slightly and began to let the sheep out; the young man went out on all fours, wearing his skin just now the sheep eaten by T.; groping the sheep, T. understood the deception, but the young man slipped out of his skin, ran away; met T.'s mother; she gave him a ring in memory of his escape from the ogre; a scream raised on the young man's finger; T. rushed to this sound, but the young man cut off his finger and escaped]: 4-5; Catalans (Catalonia, Mallorca) [a man comes to a one-eyed giant; he holds him with his sheep to eat later; a man burns an iron bar in the fire, burns the giant's eye; covered in sheep's skin, goes unnoticed with sheep]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 1137:213; Spaniards, Italians (incl. Alps, Tuscany): Röhrich 1962:58-59; Italians (Tuscany: Pisa) [a Florentine takes a priest and estate manager as his companion, goes on a journey; a giant invites them to serve at him; invites the priest, then the manager, into a separate room, cuts off their heads; a Florintine peeks through the keyhole; the giant can't see well in one eye; the Florentine offers it cure, warns that it will hurt, ties him to a stone table, dazzles him with boiling broth; the giant throws his ring to him, he presses him to the ground; the Florentine cuts off his finger, runs away]: Kotrelev 1991:98-100; Sicilians [two monks got lost, ended up in the cannibal's cave; he fed them lamb, closed the exit from the cave with a stone, pierced the fat man's throat, fried them, told them to eat thin comrade; he pretended to throw away pieces of meat; at night he burned the monster's eyes with iron, put on lamb skin; left in the morning when the monster began to drive out the sheep; came to Trapani and told the fishermen about what had happened; the monster came out, smashed his head against the rocks]: Crane 1885:89-90; ladins [an old blind cannibal kept the boy in a goat pen waiting for him to get fat; groped goats on top every morning; the boy clung to the belly of a goat and got out into the wild; wandering through the forest, came to a house where three equally dressed women; stayed in their service, grew up to become an adult boy; every night women went down to the basement, where candles were burning; they put them out and lit them again; the young man hid one candle in his pocket; lit it again in his room; the candle asked what he needed; he wanted to be in town on an inn with money in his pocket; then wished a princess to come to him every night; everything was fulfilled; the king tied balls of thread to his daughter's clothes to see where she was going; in the morning all the city is surrounded by threads; then he ordered all people to watch the princess; the king summoned the owner of the inn and his guest; when he saw the young man, the princess recognized him as who she went to; a young man imprisoned and chained to an iron ring; he told the candle to release him and tie the king so that he could not be untied; freed the king for promising to marry him to a princess; wedding]: Uffer 1973, No. 16:48-50 (=Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 108:276-279); Latins [as Igor Tronsky noted, in Satyricon, Petrony Trimalchion forces one of his drinking companions to talk about how Polyphemus snatched Ulysses' finger with forceps]: Zhirmunsky 2007:217.

Western Europe. French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 6 (Gascony) [the young man built a ship and traveled with his companion; sailed to the island; there were gold and silver bars everywhere; the young men began to load them aboard the ship, but then the Cyclops cannibal came up, chasing the herd in front of him; the young men hid in the sheepfold, but the Cyclops found them by smell; cut and fried the companion; fell asleep; the young man gouged out his eye with his staff; put on the skin of a ram eaten by the Cyclops, went out with the other rams; shouted to the Cyclops about it; he threw a rock into the sea but did not get on the ship; the young man returned home with gold]: 508-512; Joister 2006 (Dauphinay: High Alps) [the shepherd spent the night in a hut in a stone sheep pen; the Cyclops entered, the shepherd stabbed a burning smut into his eye, hid among the rams; the Cyclops began to release sheep one at a time; the shepherd put on a sheep's skin and went out on all fours]: 61; Glenn 1971, No. 2 (Lorraine) [Dolopathos, a collection of texts compiled around 1184 by monk John of Cistercian Abbey at Haute- Seille (Alta Silva) in Lorraine; the Queen asks a robber who became righteous in old age; he tells how he went with 100 other thieves to rob treasures in the giant's cave; After collecting treasures, they ran into giants, each taking 10 people, frying them and eating them one at a time; when only the narrator survived, he invited the giant to heal his eyes, filled them with burning decoction; went out with the sheep, wearing sheepskin; the giant threw him a ring as a gift; the man put it on his finger, the ring screamed, I'm here; the man escaped by cutting off his finger]: 137; Sébillot 1894, No. 9 (Haute-Brittany) [the young man got lost and ended up in the house of two giants; hardly ran away from their dogs, hiding in the reeds in a pond; came to another house; there is a giant with one eye in forehead; the young man shot him in the eye, hid among the rams; got out, clinging to his fur from below; took 8 rams and sold them at the market]: 105-106; the Irish [there was a prophecy that Cumhal Macart would die, if he marries; he secretly married the king's daughter; he was predicted that his daughter's son would take his throne; KM died in battle, his wife gave birth, the child was thrown into the sea; he sailed out, picked him up, hid the old woman; the king ordered to kill all babies born that day; the old woman hired a man to cut down a shelter in a tree trunk, killed him so as not to let him slip; the puppy Bran began to live with them; the old woman trains the boy run fast; at the age of 15 he comes to play ball, wins; the king asks who this Fin Cumhal ("white hat", now his name will be Fin MacCumhal, Finn McCulhal), tells him to grab him and kill him; old woman runs away, carrying F. on her back; while the horsemen chase them on a white, bay horse, there is no danger; when on a crow, the old woman tells F. to run with Bren, she falls into the swamp herself, says to the pursuers, that the young man was walking in front, she was looking for him; her head was brought instead of F.'s head; F. comes to the cave of a one-eyed ogre; he tells me to fry salmon, if it burns a little, kills; burns a little, F. touches salmon with his finger, burns his thumb, puts it in his mouth, bites; when his teeth reach the bone, then the bone marrow, F. gains knowledge; since then he has always put his finger in his mouth to find a solution; burns the ogre's eye with a spit, cuts the ram, puts on the skin, leaves the cave with the herd; the cannibal throws the ring as a gift, F. puts it on his little finger, the ring shouts that it is on F.'s finger; he cuts it off his finger, throws a ring into the swamp, the cannibal goes to his voice, fails; F. marries the princess; every day they build a castle for the king, someone burns him at night; whoever prevents the burning will get a princess if no, he will be imprisoned, then executed; Ireland's best warriors are in prison; an old woman sends her sons to burn the castle; F. kills the first two, the third has a cat's head, bites into his chest; you can head kill only an old woman with blood; an old woman brings live water for her sons; F. takes a bottle, kills an old woman and a cat's head, heals her wounds; gets a princess; asks the king to give it to him instead of his daughter prisoners in prison; the king agrees; these people became the Fenians of Erin]: Curtin 1975:135-147; Scots: Crooke 1908 [in a version from mountainous (Scotland), the hero kills a dog giant, comes out wearing her skin]: 173-174; Shaw 2012 [Calum Maclean Collection uk007-01-21. Cape Breton version of ATU 953. Shaw, The Blue Mountains: 86-99]; the British (Yorkshire) [a one-eyed giant ate people, grinding their bones in a mill and making them into bread; caught Jack, but did not eat, but made him work; seven years later, Jack asked for at least one day off to go to the fair, but the giant refused; fell asleep at the mill; Jack took his knife and stabbed him in the eye; the giant jumped up and blocked the exit; Jack stabbed a giant dog sleeping nearby, put on its skin, barking, crawled between the giant's legs, ran away]: Jacobs 1894:91-92 (=1993, No. 61:303-304, =2002:249-250; retelling in Crooke 1908: 174); Germans: Grimm, Grimm 1987 [15th century text from the University of Leipzig Library; the robber advises his three sons to live honestly; they steal the Queen's horse, are caught; the Queen promises return them to his father if he tells a wonderful occasion; he says; he and his comrades took the gold and silver of the giants; they found the thieves, drove them away like sheep; in his house the giant ate every day one of the 10 robbers; the narrator was the last, promised to cure the giant's eyes; brewed a poisonous potion, poured it on his face; hung from the ceiling of the house for two days while the giant raged, then hid between the sheep; began to get out wearing lamb skin; the giant groped the sheep, grabbed the narrator, he escaped, so 7 times; the giant let him go, giving him a ring; on his finger it began to scream, I'm here; the narrator ran away, biting off his finger; wandering through the woods, saw a house with a woman with a child; monsters kidnapped her, told them to cook the child by their return; the narrator found three thieves hanged, changed the child was one of them; one guessed it, ordered him to bring a piece of meat from the thigh of the hanged; the narrator replaced the hanged man, the meat was cut out of his thigh, it turned out to be the most delicious, they wanted the narrator eat, but the storm prevented it; the narrator took the woman with the child to her husband; for this, the Queen gave him his sons back]: 10-14 (German text in Röhrich 1962:51-53); Glenn 1971, No. 2 [same text in Latin; Dolopathos, a collection of texts compiled ca. 1184 by the monk John of the Cistercian Abbey at Haute-Seille (Alta Silva) in Lorraine; (Latin original in Röhrich 1962:53-54); Queen asks a robber who became righteous in old age; he tells how he, along with one hundred other robbers, went to rob treasures in the giant's cave; after collecting treasures, they ran into giants, each took 10 people, fried them and ate them one at a time; when only the narrator was alive, he asked the giant to treat his eyes, filled them with hot broth; went out with the sheep, putting on himself sheepskin; the giant threw him a ring as a gift; the man put it on his finger, the ring screamed, I'm here; the man escaped by cutting off his finger]: 137; Röhrich 1962 [(there are other German Variants (Transylvania, Harz)]: 55.

Burma - Indochina. Pao [a rich merchant was caught in a storm, the ship sank, thrown to the island; there the ogre brought him to the cave, covered the exit with a stone; in the cave, the sheep, the cannibal slightly fried and ate them; when he fell asleep, the man burned his eyes with burning logs, hid among the sheep, went out clinging to the fur of one of them from below; came to the ascetic, who offered him bananas, their supply was not running out; the ascetic was gone and the man found himself on the edge of his village]: Zapadova 1977:260-263.

South Asia. Sindhi [the prince is chasing a gazelle with golden horns, she hides in the lake; a voice tells him that this is Lake Peri, they will appear in a year; in a year the prince hides in an iron cage, peri they bathe, he hides their clothes, demands the one whose name is Sedyan; makes him his wife; but she does not talk to her husband; a year later he sends him hunting, tells the maid to bring those clothes with the doors closed; puts on and flies through the chimney, saying that the prince will be able to return it within a year; the prince comes to the cannibal shepherd, who throws him into his goat pen, where there are already many people; every evening he puts one on the skewer, leaves it to fry, falls asleep himself; the prisoners drink milk; Peri S., in the form of a whirlwind, pours out the poisoned milk that the prince was going to drink; that night he heated his skewer, burned the ogre's eyes; he stabbed the ram, put on his horns, the ogre let him in; on the other side of the pit, the ogre called out, he rushed, failed, the prince finished him off; he came into the house, hid, three witches came there, killed him, cooked and they ate the goat, collected the bones, cast a spell, but the goat did not revive; this means that the cannibal shepherd was dead; the witches sat on hyenas, went to the shepherd, and the prince shouted to them that he had killed the shepherd; the witches rushed back, but Peri S., with the help of her friends, caused wind and rain, the hyenas were washed away by a stream; at the request of her daughter, Peri's father sent a horse to the prince; he arrived, the wedding; a son was born; S. flew away, telling him not look into one of the rooms; the old woman said that there was sister S., who was more beautiful than her; but there was a parrot; he was a demon who fell in love with S., but was cunningly caught; he took the prince and his son, S. this I saw that her 12 friends repulsed them, and S. put the parrot back in the locked room; Peri's father sent his son-in-law, wife and son back to their homeland; there the vizier seized power, but his army was defeated magically with a club; the prince put his father back on the throne]: Schimmel 1995, No. 22:140-147.

(Wed. China - Korea. Koreans [the merchant met a man without legs, listens to his story; the storm carried them to an island of cannibal giants; the cannibal caught them, ate one, fell asleep; they stabbed him with a dagger, with difficulty got out of the castle; other cannibals chased; people sailed away by ship, it crashed, the narrator escaped, but the shark bit off his legs]: Choi 1979, No. 107:32).

The Balkans. Ancient Greece [Odysseus and his companions sailed to the lands of the Cyclops; saw a cave on the shore with stone fences; Polyphemus lived in it, who at that time was herding cattle; O. and twelve of his comrades went inside; there were goats, sheep, and cheese supplies; the comrades wanted to return to the ship, but O. decided to wait for the owner, hoping for a gift; P. came with the herd, launched the queen into the cave, and left the males outside; when he saw the guests, asked who they were and where their ship was; O. replied that their ship had crashed; P. grabbed his two companions and made dinner with them; and ate two more in the morning drove the herd out and covered the cave with a stone; O. and his comrades cut off a piece from the olive trunk that P. wanted to use as a club; then sharpened and burned its end; Polyphemus returned, drove it into the whole herd ate the cave and ate two comrades O.; O. offered him wine brought from the ship; P. agreed and asked for a name; O. replied that his name was Nobody {Otis muoί γ nomα}; P. got drunk, fell asleep; O. and four of his comrades took out a stake, heated the tip in the fire and stuck P. in his eye; he screamed, called the other Cyclops; they they came running, asked who had harmed him; P. replied: "No one"; the Cyclops said that "no one" could harm him and parted; P. pushed back the stone that covered the cave and groped the sheep and goats coming out; O. tied three rams, tied a comrade under each middle, and clung himself to the belly of a tall sheep with long hair; without noticing this, P. released everyone from the cave; O. and his comrades stole cattle their ship and sailed; O. shouted to P., who threw a piece of the mountain and almost hit the ship; because of the waves, the ship began to return to the shore, but O. pushed it sixth off the shore; when they sailed for a double distance, O. shouted to P. again and gave him his real name; P. roared with anger - a prophecy came true that he would lose his sight because of O.]: Hom. Od. IX. 181-525; ["Leaving his entire fleet off a nearby island, Odysseus landed on Cyclop land on one ship. He left the ship with twelve satellites. There was a cave near the sea, and Odysseus entered it carrying fur and wine that Maron had given him. This cave belonged to Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and nymph Toosa. Polyphemus was a giant, savage, and cannibal; his only eye was in the middle of his forehead. Odysseus' companions lit a fire and slaughtered several goats and ate lunch. When the Cyclop arrived, he drove the whole herd into a cave and filled the exit with a huge stone. When he saw Odysseus' companions, he ate several at once. Odyssey invited him to taste the wine that Maron had given him. After drinking the offer, Polyphemus asked for more. After drinking that too, he asked Odyssey what his name was. Odysseus replied that his name was Nobody {Otis}. Then Polyphemus promised to eat it last, adding that it was a gift that he, Polyphemus, was giving him as a guest. Then Polyphemus, drinking wine, went to bed. Odysseus, on the other hand, found a stake lying in the cave, sharpened it with four of his companions, burned it at the stake, and blinded Polyphemus. The latter shouted loudly, calling the cyclops living around him. They gathered and asked Polyphemus who had offended him. Polypheus replied: "No one," and then the Cyclops parted, understanding his answer in the sense that no one offended him. When the herd began to rush to his usual pasture, Polyphemus opened the entrance to the cave and, standing there, groped the animals coming out with his arms wide spread out. Odysseus tied the sheep three at a time... and he clung to the biggest ram from below, hiding under his belly. So he got out of the cave with his herd. Odysseus untied his companions from the sheep, drove the herd onto his ships and, as he sailed, shouted to the Cyclops that his name was Odysseus and that he had escaped Polyphemus's hands. Cyclop, on the other hand, was once predicted by a soothsayer that he would be blinded by Odysseus. Hearing the name of Odysseus, Polyphemus began to break the rocks with his hands and throw them into the sea: Odysseus' ship barely escaped death. Since then, Poseidon has hated Odyssey" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Epit. VII. 4-9; [After visiting the lotophages, Ulysses and his companions sailed "to Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Neptune. He was predicted by the soothsayer Telem, the son of Eurim, to beware that Ulysses might dazzle him. He had one eye in the middle of his forehead and ate human meat. When he drove the cattle into the cave, he blocked the entrance with a huge piece of rock instead of a door. After locking Ulysses and his companions, he began to eat them. When Ulysses saw that he could not resist such a huge and ferocious one, he gave him the wine he had received from Maron and said that his name was Utis {Utis, from Greek Otis 'noone'}. And when he burned his eye with a burning log, Polyphemus shouted the rest of the Cyclops and told them from the locked cave: Utis blinded me. They thought he was saying it for a laugh and paid no attention. And Ulysses tied his companions to sheep and himself to a ram, and so they got out of there" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 125; Greeks (Asia Minor) [7 priests went to get a goat, came to the village; the Cyclops lived there, he grabbed them and locked them; fried and ate one; the other 6 blinded the person who fell asleep with a hot ramrod, they slaughtered 6 rams, put on their skins, so they went out; they brought 700 cyclops sheep; each took 100 and they gave another hundred to the widow]: Dawkins 1916:551; the Serbs [priest and clerk found the night in paths; they go into the light to the cave; one-eyed Divlian threw the stone off the entrance, let them in; D. fried the priest, made the clerk eat too, he spit out pieces; D. fell asleep, the clerk lined up the peg, pricked out the sleeper eyes; in the morning D. knocked off the rock, began to let the sheep out, the clerk went out with sheepskin on; shouted that he was outside; D. threw him a stick to drive the herd, the stick stuck to his finger, he cut it off with a knife, ran away, pushed the pursuer-D. into the river, he drowned]: Karadzic 1854, No. 37:221-225 (=Eschker 1992, No. 13 [the clerk is called a clerk, not a "priest's apprentice", and one-eyed is called "Divlyan" only here]: 73-76, =Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:61-64, =Castren 1853, No. 38:259); Albanians [Dedalija wanders, meets, companions a man who rests on the mountain with his foot so that the mountain does not fall on him, resting like him thinks into 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, with her son, the Cyclops Katallâni, and his wife; those who come pretend to fall asleep, D. hears how K. negotiates with his mother to fry those who come; when the inhabitants of the cave fall 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 they try to find people among the rams, release them together with the rams; D.'s companions, out of envy, persuade the king to send D. to bring the Cyclops horse; D. digs a dig under the wall of the stable, rolls to the doors stone; the horse calls K. twice, K. promises to beat him for a false alarm; D. promises the horse a good life and leads him to the king; the satellites 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 it, chained it, hung it on a hook; when he goes hunting, he tells D. to fry; he pretends not to go into the oven, asks K.'s mother to show, fried it herself, brought it a ring to the king; in the evening, K. and his wife found a fried mother; the companions persuade the king to send D. to bring K. himself; D. cuts down the forest, says K. that D. is dead and he must make him a coffin; asks K. to climb into Try on the coffin, whether it's tall; hammers it with nails, brings it to the king on a cart; 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]: Lambertz 1952:9-21; Romanians [three children were grazing sheep in the mountains; father told no one to unlock; hell begged him to let him in, the older brothers let them in; he brought them to see the gold-fleece sheep; there is a door in the rock; by order of the devil, the goat hurt his older brother, fried and ate him, hung his eyes on a nail; the same with the middle one; the younger blinded the line, throwing fried meat in his face; threw nuts against the wall to make it look like he had already opened the door; threw him into the next room as if he were already outside; stabbed a goat, pulled on his skin and left; the hell offered a barrel of gold, the guy to her stuck, but cut off the clothes and skin from his fingers; then the devil threw the gold ring, you can't take it off his finger; the guy cut off his finger and threw it into the lake, the devil rushed after him and drowned; the guy brought the devil to his father]: Bîrlea 1966:462-463; Moldovans [giant Gawaun calls shepherds; father warns sons not to answer; elders answer to see what will happen; G. cooked the elder, then the middle one; the lamb advises the youngest to knock over the eyes of sleeping G.; G. feels the sheep in the pen, the young man slaughtered the sheep, hid under the skin, went out; G. throws him a ring as a keepsake; the young man puts it on finger, ring answers G. "I'm here", you can't take it off; the young man cut off his finger, threw the ring into the well; G. went to his voice and died in a well]: Moldavian tales 1968:429-433; Bulgarians [three shepherd brothers meet in the mountains a monster (woman) with one (healthy) eye; she locks them in a cave, the entrance to which is opened and closed on her orders; one of the brothers (or two) is roasted and eaten by the monster; white the sheep tells the third brother to collect the bones, pour water, the one eaten comes to life; the younger brother dazzles the monster, leaves, clinging to the sheep's fur or wearing lamb skin (or on the hump of a white sheep); the monster throws a ring that he puts on the fugitive's finger; the person cuts off his finger with the ring and throws it into a swamp or hole (obviously, the stalker goes to the sound of the ring and falls into the pit)]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1137:387-388; Bulgarians [three shepherds got lost in the fog; one-eyed Shughlan, whom they mistook for a man, brought them to his cave, discovering and covering it with a wave of his hand; told the guests to sleep; one began to spy; Shughlal heated the spit, fried and ate one shepherd; the second; the third plunged Shuglan's hot spit into Shughlan's eye; got out in the morning, clinging to the sheep's fur; once free, he called out to Shughlan; he burst and died in annoyance]: Leskien 1915, No. 11:46-48; Gagauz people: Moshkov 1901 [several people come to the cannibal giant warm göz with one eye on the crown; he locks them in a cave, covering the exit with a huge stone; the hero gouges out his eye, leaves under sheep's skin; tepä-gez throws him a ring that sticks to his finger, the hero cuts off his finger and runs away]: 76-77 (=2004:279-281); 1904, No. 28 [several people went to Jerusalem; they saw Tepyagöz (on the crown of his eyes) near the forest; he brought they went into the cave with the sheep, closed the exit with a stone; put one alive on a spit, fried them and ate them; the others heated the skewer, gouged out T.'s eye; covered themselves with sheep skins and went out with the sheep], 28a [two The shepherd brothers were seen by T.; he caught up and swallowed one, the other escaped in a herd of sheep; T. asked him to cook a liver; the man threw salt in his eye and his eye burst; T. gave him his ring and he became shout "come here"; the man cut off his finger and threw it into the well; T. fell into the well, and the man escaped]: 38, 39.

Central Europe. Poles [there are Polish versions of Polyphem: Poznan District (Szulczewski 1905, No. 1:60-63), Kashubians, Silesian Poles]: Röhrich 1962:51, 55; Russians (1907, Ust-Tsylma , Lower Pechora, Pozdeeva, wife of P.R. Pozdeev, a storyteller, remembers the content) [Mikita goes to the kingdom of far away on the instructions of the tsar. He ends up in an empty big house, eats and drinks. A crooked old man walks into the house. M. promises to correct the old man's blind eye, asks for tin and ties the old man with belts. Checks if he's tied tightly, and then dazzles with hot tin. The old man escapes and chases M., who hides in the sheep, when the old man expels the sheep, he does not notice M. leaving the sheep, holding on to the belly of one of the sheep. M. enters another big house to the old man's daughter, she threatens that he will not leave her. M. has been living with her for a year and a child is born. She takes less care of M., he goes with his child to the bathhouse and runs from the bathhouse with an ax, sails along the river from the shore on a raft. The wife throws the child's head after, the raft begins to sink until M. throws off the child's head, M. swims away. M. sees a lion and a wolf fighting, the wolf offered precious stones for help, and the lion offers to take M. wherever he wants. M. helps the lion and he carries it on himself, taking the word with M. not to tell anyone about it. At the feast, drunk M. brags that he was carried by a lion. He goes to the field and leaves a barrel of wine, the lion drinks it. M. connects him, and when the lion wakes up, M. apologizes for letting it slip and explains that he did it because he was tied by hops. Leo forgives M.]: Onchukov 2008, No. 31:138-140; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [the tsar promises a daughter and half the kingdom to those who go to Babylon City and get the royal porphyd and crutch; Gol Kabatskaya volunteered Fedor Burmakov (ich); the tsar paid his debt in the tavern; gave the ship and supplies for three years; when they sailed around Babylon snakes; FB tells him to let him go, he took his tail out of his mouth, missed it; Mother of God: the keys are on the throne, and what do you need are under the throne; FB took out a crutch and porphyry, went back; two girls with dog heads: come in; one beat him and he killed her; snakes don't move apart when they come out; his FB jumped over, but his friend stayed; the birds with iron noses rushed to the ship; FB ordered to sprinkle gunpowder and set fire to the bird {so!} He raised everyone with fire; went ashore; an old man with a dog's head: why did he kill my daughter? then FB enters a house with a lot of food; Luke came crooked, asking him to heal his eye; FB: you have to screw your arms and legs to the floor; poured tin into his healthy eye; Luke created an iron tyn around; FB killed a goat, put on his skin, butted L., he threw the goat by the tyn; FB called out to him; L.: since I was defeated, here's my copper saber for you; FB touched his little finger, it got stuck, had to cut it off; L.: then there is my sister ; FB spent the night with the girl; she asks for help to defeat the lion; the lion asks for help defeat the girl; FB helped the lion (to do this, you have to turn to the Lord); the lion took him to his hometown, but warned him keep silent about riding a lion; FB gave the crutch and porphyry, got the princess and half the kingdom, boasted at the wedding; a lion appeared: now eat it; FB: it was hops that boasted, not me - try it yourself; the lion fell asleep, FB He shackled him, but said that it was his hops that shackled him; freed him and the lion left]: Onchukov 2008, No. 48:169-173; Russians (Karelian Pomorie, Sumy Posad) [the tsar is looking for a man to go to Babylon City and bring a crown from there; soldier Barsukov asks for a ship with a crew, gunpowder and wax hands; Babylon is empty, at the church of dead snakes knee-deep; there is one whole house on the street, neither a woman nor half a woman jumps out: Why do you, Barsukov, go and not charm me? He sits on snake trunks and revives the snakes; offers to play checkers; sees B. that he is thin; asks for permission to recover; refuses to "roll in the corner", asks to let him go out the window, let her recover Holds her hand; gives a wax hand and runs away; the woman sends snakes three times to catch up with B. or burn the ship; the captain sets fire to gunpowder twice, destroying snakes; the third time she sails away, B. stays; goes whole year; an old strongman in the house, offers wine, does not see with his right eye; B. offers to cure, only he will bind him, because it will hurt; poured lead into his healthy eye; around the goat, the old man throws them out of the pen , B. clung to the goat's hair, the old man threw it away with the goat; stuck the precious knife, offered to take it; B. touched the knife with his little finger, do not tear it off, the knife screams: grandfather, I hold it, I hold it! B. cut off his little finger; he goes three years again; there is a house in the field, there is food; a woman enters: Barsukov, a scoundrel, offended his sister, ruined his brother, betrayed an evil death; B. Slave and servant to death; woman: you told your brother that slave and servant are to death; we all do not see him now and he does not see him; the woman is quieter, quieter and treated; you have become convinced of him, and they began to live as husband and wife; after living for three years, B. is going to flee; to make a raft, he cuts down protected trees that "follow the flow"; his baby son clutches his hair; B.: was not born to a scoundrel father, but to a fool mother; Seeing her husband sailing away, the wife tore the child in half and threw half into B.: you are half and half of me; a drop of blood fell on the raft, it went under water; B. managed to clean it with a knife, swam out, got there to the shore; a lion and a snake venom are fighting on the mountain, the lion asks for help, B. cut the snake venom with a knife; the lion tells me to sit on it, be lucky to Moscow, just don't say that he drove me; B.: the hat fell, wait; lion: yours the hat is already 500 miles behind; B. to the palace: report; guards: Barsukov is already 30 years old; the tsar accepted him, received the crown, demands an answer; B. admitted that he came on a beast lion; a lion on the outskirts of the city turned the hut over; B. to him: I did not say, but hops said; lion: what other hops; B.: try it; the lion got drunk and fell down, B. shackled him; lion: untie, I forgive everything]: Razumova, Senkina 1974, No. 49:243 -250; Russians: Nikiforov 1961, No. 75 (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, d. Poganets, 1927) [The blacksmith sleeps in an empty house on the stove, a one-eyed housewife enters and brings a herd of sheep. He threatens to eat the blacksmith, and in the morning he promises to "cook" her eye (are we probably talking about a sick, blind eye?) , it heats an iron hammer and burns a healthy eye. She wants revenge on him when she throws the sheep out of the house one by one, the blacksmith turns his fur coat out, puts it on, and she throws it away as well], 92 (Mezen, Vozhgory, 1928, K.A. Leshukova, 13 years) [Ivan gets lost in the woods (went for mushrooms), goes into the hut, lies down on the stove. There are sheep in the hut. The hostess Baba Yaga appears, senses the Russian spirit, Ivan reports that he is forging. She asks to tie her gas ("crooked with one eye"). He ties her up, gouges out a healthy eye. She gets angry and doesn't let him out. He puts her fur coat inside out, goes out with the sheep she releases, she grabs the wool and throws it outside. Then he looks for him in the hut, can't find him, knows how he ran away]: 174, 221-222; Russians (Tula) [three brothers: a blacksmith, a carpenter, a tailor; customers talk about need, the brothers went to look for Need; the old man takes a ruble from each, shows the way; towards a huge one-eyed old man Nezhda; asks the tailor to sew a frock coat; came out on his chest a little wrinkled, the need ate the tailor; the carpenter made a closet - too I did not like it, ate the carpenter; asks the blacksmith to tie his eye; he tells him to let Nezhda stick himself to two pillars; poured tin into his healthy eye; Need pulled out the poles, looking for a blacksmith; he clung to the bull under belly, pushed him to hit Need, Necessity threw him over the fence; when he heard the blacksmith's voice from behind the fence, he threw the end of the chain and the golden axe there; the blacksmith touched the chain with his finger, his finger stuck, he cut it off with a knife; since then, all blacksmiths have become aware of the need, but tailors and carpenters still do not know]: Smirnov 1917, No. 217:95-97; Russians (Voronezh, formerly 1860, Nizhnedevitsky Uyezd, reprinted Afanasyev) [a prosperous blacksmith gets drunk and goes with a tailor to search famously (they live well, they don't know dashing). By night they come to the hut and stop for the night. The hut is empty, then a "thin, crooked, one-eyed" woman appears, throws her into the oven and eats the tailor. The blacksmith gets scared and says he can forge. She asks me to tie her second eye. The blacksmith says you have to tie it to get an eye in. She brings two ropes, he throws away the thin one, ties it with a thick, red-hot awl and gouges out his only eye. The old woman is angry and lets the sheep spend the night in the hut. The blacksmith turns his fur coat up and the next morning leaves the hut on all fours with the sheep, the blind old woman checks that the blacksmith does not come out, runs her hand over the sheep's backs and does not notice how he is wearing a fur coat the blacksmith comes out. He says goodbye to Lich, but the old woman replies that he has not left yet; shouts, Goodbye, Dashing; sees a hatchet with a golden handle in the tree, grabs his hand, she bothers; famously approaches, the blacksmith cuts off himself hand; returns home; tells everyone his story and shows his hand]: Tonkov 1949, No. 3:157-158 (=Afanasiev 1985 (2), No. 302:340-341); Altaians, Russian borrowing [returning from the kingdom serpent, Ivan Tsaridich (so!) went into the palace of the blind Elbegen; promised to heal his eyes, tied him with an iron arcana, poured tin into his eye sockets; E. ordered the gate to close; IC grabbed the sheep, slipped her ass to E., who threw the sheep away with her IC behind the fence; IC called out to E., who praised his cunning, threw a stone as a reward; hitting his little finger, the stone stuck to him; the IC cut off his little finger and ran away]: Verbitsky 1883 (Tomsk. Gubern. Vedomosti", No. 15) in Anonymous 1891:207; Belarusians (Klimovitsky u.) [the daughter of a rich man gave birth without a husband, threw the baby in the forest into the snow and ripped open his stomach; everything healed, the snow around melted, the berries bloomed, merchant Ivan Ivanovich picked up the boy; he takes pop vangelia and For an hour and a half, the baby does not have any name but Wild Burma; it grows by leaps and bounds; the king called him, he became chief in the Synod, the king gave his daughter for him; the king died in the kingdom of far away, after him, a crutch, a memorial service and a crown remained; the king sent DB for them; he arrived at the house, the old woman began to celebrate, lured the queen, gave her drink, took the crown, etc., took her, went back; halfway through stopped; when DB woke up, there was no one around; there was a woman in the house: he stole my sister's crown, etc., do you think you will leave me too? but DB promised to serve her, and a year later they had a girl, then a son; DB taught his wife to go to church; when she went alone, boarded the ship and sailed; she tore the girl apart, threw half of it into the ship, he became sink; DM threw half of the child into the water, the ship sailed; when he sailed to the shore, went into a huge house; there Grandfather Shkuropet with one eye; left his nieces, but you can't leave me; DM promises to heal the eye; tied One-eyed, poured resin into his eye; clung to the goat's skin; One-eye asks his cattle where DM is; the goat answers, but One-eye cannot understand; the goat butted him, and he threw the goat along with the DB over the fence; One-eye threw his axe, she entered the pine tree; DM touched his little finger - stuck; cut off his little finger; the lion fights the snake, DB helped the lion; the snake, dying: I would take you back to Grandfather Skuropet; the lion brought DB home, but forbade talking about it; but in joy DB drank and let it slip; lion: it's not me, but hops; the lion asked to show it; got drunk, DB tied him up; said goodbye; everything is fine]: Romanov 1887, No. 28:205- 211; Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Tula, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Transcarpathia, Ugric Russia, Podolia, Pokutye, Kiev, Poltava), Belarusians: SUS 1979, No. 1137 [Blinded one-eyed giant (devil, Baba Yaga): the hero (together with his comrades) comes to a one-eyed giant (the giant eats his comrades); the hero blinds the giant and runs away from him under the belly of a ram (wearing a lamb fur coat); (links to many publications)]: 266.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians: Bgabzha 2002 [Haji Smel leaned to the river, Ayerg grabs his beard, tells him to give his son; Hajjaj's boy comes and hides in the river; Ayerg is raising him; in the west you can see light, this is the finger of the daughter of the forest king; H. and his two peers swim across the sea, the giant drives them and the herd into the cave; Comrades H. roasted them on a spit; H. burned both eyes of the giant with them, got out, clinging to them the belly of a ram; finds the daughter of the forest king, defeats her, she sails away with him; her brothers throw stones after him]: 217-220; Shakryl 1975, No. 77 [(plug-in story); five sailed to an unknown shore, three went deep into the country, met an adaui shepherd; he drove them into his cave with the herd; put two on a spit, fried them; the narrator gouged both eyes out with a hot spit, went out with their skin on sheep; the giant felt him, but thought it was a sheep]: 349-353; Abaza [the man came to ask for sour milk; the owner stabbed two bulls, made wineskins, and the one who came to carry them; the man he met asked for a sip, He drank everything in one sip; they got into a fight, the rider put them by the bootlegs, brought them to his wife; his wife told him not to worry, her father did more; he went to look for his father-in-law to kill him; by the fire, Ainizh and his wife; the man threw a stone at the woman, she thought it was a fly; then he killed her with a bullet, ran away, the ploughman hid it under a basket of wheat seeds, shouted at the Ainizh, who ran away in horror; the plowman told how, dying of his wounds, his father told them not to go hunting to the east of the sun; seven sons still went there; the one-eyed Ainizh took them into the cave, closed the entrance with a rock, first ate their horses, then every day he ate one of the brothers, roasting on a spit; the narrator managed to get out of the fire, but one arm and one leg burned down; he put on a goat skin, burned the Cyclops's eyes with a spit, left sheep, but was left without an arm and leg; the man returned home, getting rid of his pride]: Tugov 1985, No. 59:176-179; Kabardian people/Adygs: Aliyeva 1978, No. 7 [Hagor went into the cave, came a one-eyed giant with sheep, promised to eat it tomorrow; H. heated a spit, stabbed the sleeping giant in the eye; in the morning he slipped out, clutching the goat's hair from below]: 85-87; 1994, No. 44 [Sosuruk came to the cave of one-eyed emegen; he cuts a ram for the guest; when leaving, closes the exit with a rock; S. invites emegen to sleep while he slaughters the ram himself; burns the eye of emegen with a hot spit; goes out hiding under the goat's belly; emegen throws a ring to S.; it starts to buzz on S.'s finger; S. cuts off his finger]: 380-381; Kardanov 1961 [the dragon tells the old hunter to send one of his sons to him; The younger Karabatyr volunteered; following the dragon, he thinks to kill him, but the dragon advises not to do so; when they came to the village, the dragon disappeared, and the beautiful woman appeared; people and cattle disappear in the village; K. went to find out what was going on; the tour knocked him off his horse and brought him into a one-eyed cave; at night K. heated a spit, burned the giant's only eye, killed Toura and put on his skin; went out with the goats; the giant threw his ring to him; K. put it on, it began to sound; K. managed to tear him off his finger and ask him off the cliff; the giant ran to the sound, fell and crashed; dead people under the cliff; one is still alive: in The giant's house has a chest, containing a bottle of magic; K. revived the dead; his wife said that she was a dragon, K. saved her from the spell; K. brought his wife to his father's house]: 12-19; Lipkin 1951 [ Badynoko hit a wild goat with an arrow, but she jumped up and ran away; he comes to a sledge named Hagur; he says that B.'s failure is nothing compared to what he experienced; there were 7 brothers they met a one-eyed giant; he asked them to drive sheep into the cave; they could not catch the sheep, move the stone away; the giant did everything himself, killed six; H. gouged out the sleeping giant's eye with a sword, and went out clinging to the goat's hair; the giant gave him a ring; H. put it on his hand, it began to ring; he had to cut off his hand; B. promises revenge on the giant; drove him into the ground and brought Haguru his head]: 179-184; Lopatinsky 1891a [Hagor got lost, got into the cave of a one-eyed giant; having heated his spit, gouged out his eye; got out hanging under the belly of a goat; told his big sons, they asked show them the cave, the giant grabbed them all at once and ate them; another hunter puts on a refreshed doe, runs away; the first hunter tells the second about his grief; he drives the giant into the ground by neck; a giant revives a young man from bones; a hunter cuts off his head; marries the youngest daughter of the first hunter; she was that doe, arranged everything for her current husband to save her brothers]: 80-86; Sokolov, Broydo 1936 [Hagur got married, his wife whipped him, turned him into a dog, got a lover; the dog left, bothered the shepherds; one of them has a wife dying; the old man advises leaving the dog with her for the night; he sees how a witch who has arrived stabs a sick person with a fork, drinks blood; on the second night he grabs the witch by the leg; she promises to restore X. to human form, but he orders the patient to be cured first; the witch regurgitates blood, tells wash the patient in it, she recovered; H.-dog returned to his wife, who turned him into a rooster; the witch asked H. to wait another night; stole the whip and restored X. to human form; he whipped his wife and lover, turned him into donkeys; forced him to work; after many years he hunted, went into a cave; a one-eyed hoarder came, filled the exit with a stone; fed him lamb, promised to eat it raw tomorrow; at night H. burned him his eye spit; in the morning he felt every ram, H. clung to the goat's belly and returned home; his second wife has 8 sons and 2 daughters; the sons asked to show them the cave of the frost; he grabbed them with one hand , ate; one hunter began to fry a doe, hung his skin on a tree; the skin fell off, became a doe; shouts that it was not a miracle, the miracle happened to H.; the hunter found H., ordered them to lead to frost; they began to drive each other into the ground, the hunter hammered the frost up the neck; ordered the sons of H. to be revived; the hoarder revived them from their bones; the hunter cut off his head, took his cattle; H. gave him his youngest daughter; when he undressed her, he saw a scar; the girl says that she is the same doe: she became a doe to save her brothers; everything is fine]: 94-100; Balkarians ("Mountain Tatars", Nalchik district) [the hunter killed, cut a doe, began to fry a barbecue; meat, skin returned to their seat, the doe came to life, ordered to find Sokura-Ali, ran away; the hunter meets herdsmen, then cow, sheep, goat shepherds; everyone says that these are S.'s cattle, slaughs hundreds for the guest animals; in the tower, the hunter finds sick S., who tells how Emegen invited him and his nine sons to his cave; he slaughtered his cattle for the guests, then ordered them to treat him; the entrance to the cave was blocked rock; ate ten horses and nine sons, began to fry S., drowned the fat, left it until morning; S. burned his eye with a spit; got out wearing goat skin; emegen threw him a ring, it grew, began to scream, C . cut off his finger, fell ill; the hunter went to take revenge on emegen, recovered in that eye; the hunter defeated emegen, he regurgitated S.'s swallowed sons and the fat melted from S.; S. recovered; so that all this arrange, his daughter went to that doe; the hunter married her]: Baranov 1903, No. 4:16-26; Karachays [the dragon surrounded the hunter's hut; orders to send him one of the three sons; agreed to go younger Karabatyr; the dragon leads him to the shepherd, he is given a wife, he goes to a distant pasture, from where no one has returned; the tour kills his horse, drives him to a one-eyed giant; the giant drove him into the cave with the goats, went to bed; K. burned his eye with a spit, killed Tura, put on his skin; in the morning the giant began to release the animals from the cave, K. left, covered with his skin; called out to the giant; he threw him the ring, K. put it on, it began to call the giant; K. threw the ring into the abyss, the giant rushed after the ring and broke; K. sprinkled magic powder on the bones of the dead, everyone came to life; K.'s wife admits that she and was that dragon]: Aliyeva, Kholaev 1983:97-102; Karachays, Balkarians: Aliyeva 1994, No. 44 [Sosuruk comes to the Emegen cave; he leaves with a rock; in the evening S. offers him sleep, burns his eye with a hot spit, goes out hiding under the goat's belly; emegen throws a ring at him, it buzzes on S.'s finger, he cuts off his finger]: 380-381; Lipkin 1973 [Yoryuzmek met the eldest of the emegens (one-eyed giants); he tells the eldest goat to herd the herd, brings E. to his cave, treats him with raw, rotten meat; asks YE. to make an extinguished fire; he hits the rock with a rock fragment; some of the sparks rose to the sky, turned into stars; when emegen fell asleep, E. plunged a hot spit into his eye; leaves the cave, wearing goat skin; speaks to emegen; he advises the blood of a black goat to smear his eyes, then you will see treasures in the depths of the earth, and smear the goat's eyes with bile, emegen, he will see the light; YE. does the opposite (filling goat's gallbladder with her blood); after spreading blood on his eyes, emegen suffers from pain; advises to tie one end of the intestines to the horns of a black goat, the other to yourself, then all the goats will follow him; YE. ties to tree; the tree begins to creak, emegen rejoices, falls off a cliff, breaks]: 38-41; Ossetians: Libedinsky 1978 [old woman Karmagon replies to young braggers that the best of the sledges is Uryzmag, and the best woman is Shatana; W. leads the sledges after the herd, everyone falls behind; the herd belongs to a one-eyed Waig; he closes W. with the herd in the cave; the first evening feeds him, the second he puts him by the feet on his feet spit, goes to bed; W. gets off the skewer, gouges out his eye; he throws him a ring; put on his finger, it screams that W. is here; W. cuts off his finger; kills the leader's goat, the yoke of the eye; kills the goat eye; kills the goat, puts the goat by the legs on a spit, goes to bed; U.A.; puts on his skin, so gets out of the cave; Waig comes out, falls into the abyss; W. leads the herd of sledges, allocates a share of K.]: 70-75; Miller 1890:34 [(Kanukov's note); three Hajji are shipwrecked, land on the island of a one-eyed giant; the cyclops eats two; the third is saved by gouging out his eye and dressed in the skin of a goat, a pet goat Cyclops], 34-36 [(Collection of information about the highlanders vol. 7, department 2, p.9); Uryzmag tries to grab a ram from the herd of a one-eyed giant; the giant puts him in a bag, brings him to the cave, fails the exit with a stone, tells his son to bring a spit; the spit runs between W.'s body and dress; the giant fell asleep, W. jumped off, burned his eye, killed his son; in the morning he goes out with the herd, wearing the skin of his favorite giant goat; drives a herd of sledges; a giant dies of grief]; Ingush: Bagriy 1930 (2) [(record. A.N. Gren, from materials by L.G. Lopatinsky; =Kibiev, Malsagov 1973:40-43); the title of the fairy tale: "Zarbash or the seven-headed minotaur"; Z. lived in a cave, a white goat looked after his herd; a man fell into him the cave, Z. told him to cook dinner; the cat tells the sleeping Z. to poke out his only eye; he will wake up, offer the ring not to take it, it forms chains; Z. says he will die without an eye, offers a ring, the man does not take it; the cat orders to kill the goat, put on its skin; Z. groped animals coming out in the doorway, did not notice the person]: 183-184 (quail in Dalgat 1972:268, comm. 414 [in Ingush it's right not Zarvash, but Garbash]; =Sadulaev 2004, No. 128:351-352); Baranov 1903, No. 2 [my wife does not like that her husband brags to her about his archery skills, he kicks her out with her son to look for an equal to him; she met Toto, who separated blocks of stone from the mountain with his hands and shaped them; the wife calls her husband, who shoots T. through without harming him; T. with a tree on his shoulder goes to the shooter; he runs, he is hidden by a huge shepherd, placing him in his mouth on a broken tooth; when T. comes up, the shepherd pierces a crevice in the ground with his forehead, pushes T. into it; speaks as a reminder the story of how a one-eyed giant took him and his six brothers to his cave, filling the entrance with a rock; ate his brothers; the giant storyteller burned the Cyclops's eye with a spit, stabbed the goat, hid under it with his skin; coming out with the goats, he called out to the Cyclops from the eighth mountain; he threw a rock, broke off a piece of tooth to the narrator with it; the shooter returned home]: 32-36; Dalgat 1972 [a man lifts a cow by the tail, a neighbor's wife says that there are stronger people beyond the mountain; there fishermen throw a bragger to each other; he runs away, a one-armed and one-eyed giant hides it in his pants, ties his pursuers with his hair; says like seven brothers, including him, climbed into a horse's skull; the dog brought it to a one-eyed shepherd; he roasted six brothers on a spit; the narrator burned the sleeping giant's eyes with a spit, put it on he was a goat skin, stole a herd, called out to the blinded man; he threw the rock, tearing off the narrator's hand and knocking out his eye]: 280-281; Kapiyeva 1991 [the shepherd found himself at the cave of the one-eyed giant Zarbash; inside a cat warned that Z. would eat him, ordered him to heat the spit, poke out Z.'s eye, not to take his gold ring, which would become a chain, wrap himself in sheep's clothing and go out with the herd; that's what happened; Z. asks the white goat, whether it is dawn, drives the herd out, groping the sheep with his hand]: 157-160; Malsagov 1983, No. 23 [three brothers entered the cave of Cyclops Parcho; he ate two, the third blinded him with a red-hot head; went out, tying himself under the belly of a sheep; called out to P., who threw the ring after him; he put it on, it screamed, P. went to the sound, the man cut off his finger, ran away], 24 [the husband puts an egg on his wife's head, shoots, brags about what a hunter he is; his wife advises him to take adventures; he gets to sledges, their mother hides him; they promise not to kill him in the house, but decide to kill him when he leaves them; sledge Goncha plows 8 bulls, a man asks him for help, G. hides him in the hollow of a tooth; sledges go away; G. tells how he and his six brothers got to the cave of Cyclops Sargan; he put them on a spit, put them on coals; G. found himself on the edge, plunged a twirl into the Cyclops's eye; G. ran away, but the cyclops injured his tooth with a fragment of a rock]: 123, 124-125; Chechens: Dalgat 1972:268-270 [=Gren 1897:13; sledge's wife took a lover prince; as if jokingly invites her husband to try his strength; he breaks the iron and steel chains, unable to break the silk rope; he lies tied under the bed of lovers; when they fall asleep, asks bring him a sword, cuts his fetters, kills lovers, leaves home with his son; the deer he killed comes to life, tells him to go to Ali's sledge and hear a more amazing story from him; A. s eight brothers got into the cave of a one-eyed giant; he cooked the brothers, A. ran away; leaving his son A., the sledge comes to that giant; the giant's goat tells the sledge to tie itself under his belly for the night; at night, the giant wants to kill the sledge, but does not find it; in the morning, the sledge defeats the giant, makes the brothers A. revive; marries sister A.], 271-273 [(Western 1960); the hunter carved out the liver, lung and heart of the victim the deer came to life and ran away; the hunter's daughter said that what happened to Timar, whose side was burnt, was more amazing; T. tells how the six brothers met the Nart Ersthöi, who sent them to his house He fried six and ate six, T. himself remained undercooked, ran away; the hero of the story was stronger than the Nart-ersthöy, forced him to revive the dead, married sister T.; she said that she had become that deer to find a way to revive her brothers; her liver, lung and heart are still hurting]; Chechens [three brothers shot a hare, younger Tinig Wisag fried it, hung it on a bush, the hare jumped up and ran away ; the brothers found the TV dead, put it on the same bush, it came to life; decide to give the bush to the most skillful; the elder can split the dagger blade with an arrow, the middle one splash on the edge of the lezginka, the youngest learn from black hoja why he has half his nose; Chh throws the TV on the ground three times, but he gets up and asks again; Chh replies that he touched his nose with his fingernail, swinging at his wife; returning home, TV hid from rain in the giant's mouth in place of the knocked out molar; the giant said that there were 11 brothers; the one-eyed sledge raked them into a fist and began to devour them, and left the narrator like the skinniest and fell asleep; the narrator stabbed the goat, put on its skin, knocked out his one-eyed eye with a stone; he told the goat not to let the man go, released the goat; when he left, the man called out to the one-eyed man, who threw a stone and knocked it out with a shrapnel molar; TV returned to the brothers, got a bush]: Malsagov 1983, No. 22:121-123; Dargins [the storm crashed the ship, two people were saved; on the island they came to the cave of a one-eyed giant shepherd ; the giant fried one on a spit; the second night he burned his eye with a twirl; in the morning he put on a ram's skin, went out on all fours; other giants came running, but the man swam away on the board, the wind brought him to native shore]: Anuchin 1884:40 (retelling to Dalgat 1969:128; Miller 1890:32); Kumyks [the Kumyks have a plot]: Tursunov 1975; Megrelians [the traveler barely fought off wolves, went to a lonely home; the owner tells how he was fishing with his seven brothers, fishing rods hooked a huge fish, she dragged the ship to an unfamiliar shore, where a honey stream fell into the sea; the one-eyed giant took away sailors into his cave, fried six alive on a spit; the hero and his younger brother heated the spit, burned the sleeping eye; got out of the cave with lamb skins; sailed, shouted their names to the giant , he threw his club and missed the ship]: Petrov 1886b: 97-101 (=Miller 1890:26-29; =Dirr 1920, No. 65:248-251); Georgians [a daughter is born after a son, she has two teeth; brother saw his sister gets up, devours cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; the brother leaves, gets to the one-eyed maiden; at night, the ram tells you to dazzle the deva with a hot skewer, slaughter the sheep, pull it over him skin; dev lets sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; dev promises to adopt him; tells him not to herd herds on the black maiden mountain; the young man kills the one, his deva is grateful; the same with the red devil; with the eagle; that asks to give birth to her; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding the parents' heads in her hands; she gnaws off his brother's horse in turn, who agrees that he came in three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; the sister goes to sharpen his teeth; the mouse wakes up his brother, talks about danger; he leaves a stone in bed, a bag of ash above him, climbs on poplar; sister cleans her eyes of ash, gnaws poplar; Fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed one overgrows; the same with the Bear; the young man calls eagles, they eat the cannibal; three drops blood falls on the leaf, the leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret not taking it; the young man hides it in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants offer to guess what they have in their chests; the young man does not guess, he must give his eagles; the sheet says that in one cotton wool, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, gets chests and eagles, marries a beautiful woman]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46:182-187 ; Armenians: Gardner 1944 [out of five fishermen, two died during the storm, three reached the shore where the Cyclops lived; they offered food; one feasted uncontrollably, got fat, the Cyclops ate him; through Their year, the king ate the thicker one of the remaining two; the latter was placed in the shepherd's cave; when he fell asleep, the man burned his eyes with mites; put on one of the skins folded against the wall; driving out the sheep, the blind man groped each one; the skin on the man was without hair, the Cyclops tore it off, but the man managed to jump out; he sailed on a log, picked it up by a ship]: 168-169; Nazinyan 1969 [young man fell in love with the royal daughter, fell ill, recovered, became a hero; the magician teaches you to find a fiery horse, the young man tamed him, slipped between the interpretive mountains, defeated the army of devas; freed King Aslan's daughter from Tapagyoza caves; burned his eye with a spit, I. died; married a freed woman]: 118-125; Azerbaijanis: Bagriy, Zeynally 1935 [(episode of a complex story about the adventures of a king engaged in search crafts); the divas saw the king, brought him to the underground grotto; there are many people and rams there; he roasts people, and gives the king flour to bake bread; the king heated two skewers and burned the diva's eyes; gutted the ram, put on his skin ; the diva released the sheep, groping them, did not find the king; when he went outside, the king shot the diva with a bow]: 230-232 (full text p. 227-236); Nabiev 1988:267 [The Cyclops brought a man into the cave, closed the exit, lay down to sleep; the man gouged out the Cyclops's eye with a red-hot skewer, went out with his sheep in the morning, wearing sheepskin], (cf. 148-151 [Khan's advisers: To capture the village, you must first eliminate the old people living in it; Khan ordered the elderly to come to him, put him in prison; then sends a messenger to the village demanding to determine which of the apples of the present, which is of the past, and which is of the harvest before last; to come to him from his favorite animal and so that he can look at him from the bottom up; otherwise he will take over the village in three days; the century-old man was forgotten to be taken to the khan, he taught the boy Ahmed; but he does not know which Khan loves the animal; in order to enter the Khan's city, A. put on a ram's skin and walked past the guards with his sheep on all fours; when he saw a goat with gilded horns, A. found out from the shepherd that the khan was more loves goats; he came to the khan, sitting on a tall camel, and with a goat; threw apples into the water: the latter was heavy and drowned, the lung surfaced the year before last, last year's one remained in the middle; khan released the old people and left the village alone]); Turks: Zhirmunsky 2007 [in Ebergart-Boratava's versions, Tepegoz devours the elder two brothers, roasted on a spit; the youngest dazzles him hot with a spit, pulls on the skin of the most beautiful ram, escapes from the cave; in some cases, he kills the ogre with a piece of rock and becomes the owner of his herd]: 224; (cf. Glenn 1971, No. 3 [(this is more Turkmen than Turkish text); among the Oghuz, the monster Tepegöz appeared with one eye on its crown; he was invulnerable to weapons; he was forced to be eaten daily 500 sheep and two people; Basat started shooting at him, the arrows did no harm; T. is going to eat him; B. learns from T.'s servants that his eye is vulnerable; stabs a hot knife (or spit) into the eye of sleeping T. - the translation is unclear); T. blocked the exit, began to release sheep; B. hid under sheep's skin; T. guessed it, grabbed the ram by the horns, threw it against the rocks, but B. managed to jump out from under his skin and slipped between his legs T.; T. tried in vain to lure B. with magic gifts; B. killed T. with his own sword]: 137-138, 170); Kurds [Hindebad enters the cave with two companions; Cyclops Tepebash brings goats, heats the iron rod, roasts companion H. on it; the next evening of the second; H. pierced T.'s eye with a rod, stabbed the leader's goat, put on his skin, attached a bell, left the cave, called out T.; he followed him, crashed against a rock; horseman Ahmad Barfi (barphy - "snowy") says that his shepherd T. died, brings H. to his house; a man's head, set in gold, hangs around the neck of AB's wife, in the corner an old man with legs cut off to his knees, chickens with broken legs, a two-day-old child lies in the snow; AB explains that he cut off his father's legs because he ate people to whom AB served a piece of bread; chicken broke his paws so as not to bite the neighbors' grain; he hung her lover's head around his wife's neck, put his son in the snow, to find out who he was from (if he didn't die from AB); H. came to the cannibal ploughman, he harnessed him, left him while it rained; H. crossed the flour-covered bridge barefoot, backwards, the cannibal did not find him; H. married, his wife died, he was lowered into a cave with the deceased; then a woman with her dead husband was lowered; H. and a woman were lowered found a way out, sailed out to sea on a board]: Rudenko 1970, No. 61:227-231.

Iran - Central Asia. Sinbad's travels [as in Odyssey; first published in L. Langlès 1814, which considered the fairy tale to be borrowed from ancient Persian sources]: Dalgat 1969:120-121; Turkmens: Barthold 2007 [(Zhirmunsky 2007 {for the first time a brief retelling of this text in a source ca. 1310}: 214-215); a shepherd at the spring took possession of the peri; she ordered him to come a year later to withdraw his deposit, warning that he had attracted Oghuz death; a year later, there is a lot of something in this place; blows grow, a boy Depe-Goz ("head-eye") comes out of it with one eye on his head; Aruz began to raise him, he sucks his soul out of the nurses , gnaws off the children's ears and nose; his mother peri put a ring on his peltz to protect him from an arrow and sword; D. goes to the mountain, takes two people and 50 rams a day; Bisat son Aruz goes to D., who hid he into his boot, tells two old men to cook it, goes to bed; B. cut his boot, went out, found out that D.'s eye was vulnerable, stabbed it with a hot knife; D. began to release sheep through one of the cave; B. hid under his skin, D. grabbed his skin, B. jumped out; D. gave him his ring, chased him, did not catch the ring again; offered to enter the dome under which his treasury; B. turned to God, went out, D. destroyed the dome; asks for a sword of blood, he will cut off his head; this sword constantly rises and falls; B. touched it with his sword, Bisat's sword fell into two parts; put a tree - cut in half; as a result, B. cut off D.'s head with his own sword], VIII: 76-83; Samoilovich 1914, No. 6 (Mer Tekins) [an orphan boy bothered a herd of sheep; their owner was a blind diva; a boy turned his fur coat outward, came with the rams; groping the rams, the divas were glad that there were one more of them, but smelled a human smell; in order not to be eaten, the boy killed the diva by hanging millstones in doors, sticking knives with the point up where the diva usually sat, sticking needles where he put his head, hanging hot coals above the diva's head]: 534; luras [father advises three sons not stay overnight in a ravine, near a grave pile of stones and in the forest; they violate the ban three times; each time the youngest stays to cook; for the first time he cuts off the heads of a seven-headed serpent with arrows; the second kills the dragon; the third time an old woman came, took the souls of the sleeping brothers; the youngest came to the forest, grabbed one of the 7 girls dancing and singing, married her; she said that the brothers would be cured fat from the old woman's buttocks; it must be burned, their eyes should be smeared with soot; the young man did so; a demon appeared riding a whirlwind, tied up the brothers, left a four-eyed dog as a watchman; he ate his older brothers, his youngest killed; came to a one-eyed shepherd; he locked him and his herd in a cave; roasts a man; the young man burned his eye with a hot rod, killed the goat, who was in charge of the herd, put on his skin; coming out of caves, the young man threw a goatskin on the shepherd's chest; came to the castle and married the owner; she warned that he would die in a year; so it happened; he came to another place, grabbed Peri and married her; they have a son and daughter; one day his wife dived into the river and the children followed her; promised to come to help their father if necessary; a young man came to a man who herded cows; he offered him his sister, but warned him that if one of the spouses dies, the other is buried with him; the wife is dead, he was left with her in the grave; but the chief also died, his wife was also placed in the grave; the young man and the leader's widow got out when they saw how a mouse climbed into a hole; they found themselves in the river; the boy's son saved him, and his ex-wife and daughter saved the woman; they achieved their wishes, even if all his friends achieve them]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 11:54-59; Persians [(link to article; this issue is not in the 1984 index; it is highly likely that the Persians have a full-fledged Homeric story)]: Marzolph 1994 in Uther 2004 (2), No. 1137:45-46; mountain Tajiks (Vanj, Western 1957) [four hunters hunt at the origins of Wanja; spent the night in a hut, sheep and goat dung on the floor; in the evening, a one-eyed ghoul brought his flock of sheep, fried and ate one hunter, and left the rest for the morning; the senior hunter shot Gulya in the eye with a gun; he fumbled his hands, letting the sheep pass one at a time; the hunters put on sheep skins, went out and returned home]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 10:54-55; Baluchis [the prince and the son of the vizier fell asleep in the garden under a tree; two peers flew in; one sent a letter to the prince: her name is Badur-Jamal, she lives in Chin-Machin, if the prince wants to see her, let will anoint his eyes with the antimony she left; the vizier's son also found such a letter; the prince is ill with love; he is shown all the girls, he does not like any; he is going to look for peary; the king is ready it is better to execute him, but the prince also smears his eyes with antimony; seeing such beauty, the king lets his son go; the ship sank, the prince escaped, is a prisoner of monkeys; their king is a man; he tells how the monkeys captured him and keep him king, this fate awaits the prince; explains how to escape; the prince's boat reached the shore, where the one-eyed buzlangi locked him in his barn, where sheep and people; people: when the buzlangi will eat sheep, take on people; the prince burned the sleeping buzlangi's eye, stabbed the goat and put on his skin and horns; ran to the cliff, called the buzlangi, he rushed to his voice, fell off the cliff, died; The prince sailed again on his boat, got to the old buzlanga woman; replied that he would choose her, not Badur Jamal; asked for water with a sieve and sailed away; the old woman asked how he sailed; prince: undressed and rushed into the sea; she drowned; the prince came to Peary City; they came to swim, the prince hid his clothes, returned them, but did not return the wings of the DB; brought them home; wedding]: Zarubin 1949, No. 11:85-98.

Baltoscandia. Western Sami: Bosi 2004 [a man gets lost, came to the one-eyed giant Stelo's hut; said that when he looks into the fire, he sees gold and silver; explained what to do this, you need to invest in lead's eye; pours molten lead into S.'s eye; blind, S. tells the man to drive goats out of the hut, feels them; the man passes last on all fours, wearing the skin of a killed goat, calls out to S. outside; replies that his name is I myself; sons ask S. who killed their goat, he says I am; sons kill him in anger]: 157-158 (summary in Glenn 1971:164); Pollan 2005, No. 8 (similar text from Lyngen, coast of northern Norway, in Lagercrantz 1958, No. 343:29-31) [Stallo killed a man, his wife gave birth to a child, S. asked what gender, his wife deceived him by saying that she was a girl; a boy grew up, became a farmhand for S.; he offers to compete; pretends not to know which cloud to throw a spear on; S. asks not to throw; offers to compete: who will knock down the spruce with his head; guy at night sawed the spruce, knocked it down easily; S. broke his forehead; the guy said his name was "Sam"; S.: why do you have keen eyes? He made himself out of lead; filled S.'s eyes with lead; S. called his brother, who asked who did it? Hearing that "I am myself", brother S. left; guy: let the sheep go; S. waited at the exit with a hammer; the guy threw a ram's skin, walked between S.'s legs; offered to make lamb sausage; into sausage for S. put ash; S.: why does the sound differ when we eat? I have farmhand sausage, you have a master's sausage; S.: when do you sleep best? guy: at midnight; S.: and I'm in the evening and in the morning; the guy put stones and ash in his place, climbed onto the roof himself; at midnight S. hit the place where the guy was supposed to sleep with a hammer; hears laughter: this is me girls tickle; S.: I also want to go to girls; the guy lifted S. to the roof and threw it, S. broke his leg, so several times; next time his leg, the third time his back; the guy said he was the son of the one S. killed; finished off S.]: 59-62; Læstadius 2002 [one-eyed giant Steel fattened and ate those who came to him; askovis came and said that when he squints, he sees amazing things in the distance; explained that for this must be poured into the eye; pours molten lead into S.'s eye; askovis feeds It has become a dog, eats lamb himself; realizing that he is blind, S. tells the man to drive goats out of the hut, feels them; man passes last on all fours, wearing the skin of a dead goat, calls S. from outside]: 239-240; the Livs [the blacksmith was told that a demon also lives in the world; the blacksmith went to look for him, spent the night in a forest house; At night, a one-eyed housewife came and promised to eat the blacksmith in the morning; the blacksmith offered to make her a second eye, ordered her to bring an iron rod and ropes; she brought a thin and thick one; he tied the woman thin, she immediately tore it; then fat; dazzled it with a hot rod; in the morning the hostess began to release the sheep, feeling everyone's back; the blacksmith put his fur coat outside, went out disguised as a ram, said that The demon doesn't want to see anymore]: Setälä in Kippar 2002:65-67 (paraphrased in Loorits 2000 (4): 83); Karelians [the hero is imprisoned by a giant with one eye; pierces his eye at night giant; when he sends his sheep to pasture, the hero hid under one ram, happily escaped trouble; in all likelihood, both this and other tales were brought to the Karelians by Russian monks {further on p. 258, an anonymous referent refutes Castrén's opinion}]: Castren 1853:255-256; Swedes [(Swedish versions are not retold, various Eurasian ones are described; it seems to be assumed that In Swedish versions, there is both an episode of the cyclops being blinded and the rescue of a hero who leaves the cave covered with a ram's skin]: Liungman 1961, No. 1137:465-466.

Volga - Perm. Marie [the king has lost his hat with crosses, promises to find a soldier, takes three ships; sails to Satan's daughter, plays cards with her; promises to bring good ones if she gives him a hat with crosses; sails away; Satan's daughter sends a serpent, he breaks ships; a soldier in a boat sails to the oblique Satan (this is the brother of Satan's daughter), promises to heal, pours tin into her eyes; blind Satan commands the doors close, the soldier stays in the goat's barn; the soldier pulls the goat's skin over him; Satan searches for him, the goat butts him, Satan throws him away, then throws the imaginary goat away; the soldier comes to his sister dazzled, marries, with us) throws him away, then throws away the imaginary goat; and he will give him a hat with crosses; the son sails away; the soldier, taking his hat, sails away in the boat; the wife tears his son, half throws it into the boat; a soldier paddles it; if he threw it away with his hands, he would not be able to return; spends the night in an oak tree, sees a lion fighting a snake that has arrived, cuts off the snake's head; a grateful lion brings the soldier home, forbids telling him who brought him; the soldier spilled drunk, the lion came to eat him; the soldier gives him honey, wine, the lion falls asleep, the soldier shackles him, says that he ordered him drunk hit himself on the head with a hammer; the lion promises to forget that the soldier spilled out if he forgets the order to kill him; leaves]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 34:276-280 (=1948:64-68); Udmurts: Pervukhin 1890 [a person wanders, meets a fellow traveler, both enter the hut in the forest; pales-murt (cyclops) enters, cuts and eats the hero's companion, drives sheep into the hut; in the morning, without opening his eyes, he feels sheep wool, and sleepily between the sheep, grabs a person's hair, throws it out; leaving the forest, he sees an axe with a golden handle stuck in a stump; takes it, his hand sticks; hearing the approach one-eyed, the man cuts off his hand with a knife, runs away]: 236-237; Wichmann 1901, No. 34 [the man went to the forest for firewood; evening came; the man noticed the house, went in, the owner has one eye in his forehead; the man promised make him a second eye; he allowed himself to be tied and the man burned his only eye with a hot iron; stabbed the goat, put on its skin, began to bleat; the Cyclops released the goat, running his hand over it back; being outside the gate, the man shouted to the Cyclops that he had left him]: 133-134; Tatars [12 brothers work as lumberjacks, and the 13th is at the court of the padishah; 12 are jealous, they say that Thirteen can bring the stallion a diva; the old lady gives a comb and a mirror; 13 disturbs the stallion and hides in the hay; the diva stops paying attention to the laughing; 13 jumps away, throws the comb (forest), the mirror (the river); brothers: 13 the diva promised to bring the blanket; the old woman teaches him to throw a diva of ants; he scolds his wife for not shaking out the blanket, threw it into the canopy, took it away Thirteen; brothers: he can bring the diva himself; the old woman teaches the young man to pretend that 13 is dead and he is preparing a coffin for him; asks the diva to try it on, boils up the lid; on the way, a one-eyed aunt diva; Thirteen promises to insert her second eye, burns the first one; clings to the goat from below; the blind woman looks for the offender, throws the goat over the fence; Thirteen threatens to release the diva, the padishah has to give her daughter]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 71:376-390.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Daurenbekov 1979 [the hunter pushed back the stone, entered the cave, there are a lot of people and cattle, the cannibal tied it up; he unfastened his flask with the arak, the cannibal got drunk, fell asleep; the hunter untied himself, burned the cannibal's eyes with a hot skewer; the hunter went out with the herd, wearing goat skin; shot the cannibal with a bow, released the prisoners, who shared the treasures; the son and daughter of the cannibal hunter spared, took her copper claws; at home began to give her daughter; the unknown groom asks the bride to ask her father for the cannibal's treasures and her brass claws as a dowry; the father reluctantly gives, tells her to always follow other people during the migrations; the girl is left alone, waiting for her husband to return; he was with her sister, the cannibal's daughter; the cannibal's daughter flew in, took her brass claws, tore the girl to pieces]: 202-204; Ostroumov 1891:204-205 [Burgan batyr went hunting with a friend; an old man with one eye in his forehead brought them into the cave, blocked the entrance, ordered B. to kill and fry his comrade, try with an iron tip, whether he was ready meat; B. burned their one-eyed eye, hid in an animal pen; went out, wearing a goat skin, shouted one-eyed; he asked him to be killed (B. shot and killed), take his cattle; B. did not take it, they were wild deer, kulans, arakhars, etc., since then they have scattered across the ground], 205-207 [(=Tursunov 1983:140-141); Khan and 40 horsemen have chased a wild goat with golden horns; went into the cave of a one-eyed giant; he killed and ate one; stabbed 40 sheep, ordered meat to be cooked, fell asleep; the khan and his companions gouged out his eye with a hot skewer, put on sheep skins, went out, called out one-eyed; he broke his head against cave wall, people took possession of his wealth]; Potanin 1916-1917 (Kokchetav) [Jake-batyr spent the night in the forest, cooking saiga; a woman with copper nails came, he threw her meat, she left; going to bed, D. put a log in his place, hid himself with a gun; the woman returned, rushed to the ancient, he shot her, followed a bloody trail; found her dead in a hole, cut off her hands; came to the cave a one-eyed cannibal; he tells him to fry the man on the stake, lays the way out, goes to bed; D. heated the stake, burned the giant's eye; took off the skin from the goat, pulled it over himself, hung it over himself, hung it among the rams; when releasing them, the giant groped the animals from above, let D. pass; he told him that he had escaped, the giant asked him to kill; D. cut off his head with his sword; divided the giant's wealth between people, took it for himself] ("Cossack-Kyrgyz and Altai Traditions, Legends and Tales"; retelling in Zhirmunsky 2007:219-220; ZhS 2-3 (1916), 4 (1917): 162-164 in Potanin 1972, No. 8:154-158; 331 (comm.); Sidelnikov 1971 (3) [hunter he entered the cave, where there were many people captured by the cannibal; he threw her a flask of wine, she became drunk, fell asleep, he began to beat her eyes with a hot spit; in the morning, covered with the skin of a dead goat, went out with the herd, killed the cannibal with an arrow; took her wealth and brass claws; saved the lives of his daughter and son; the son married the hunter's daughter, received copper claws as a dowry, gave it to his sister, who tore her daughter to pieces hunter]: 151-153; Kyrgyz: Broodny 1954 [a one-eyed witch dragged Jail and his former hunters into her cave; at night, D. pierces a red-hot twirl into her eye, tells everyone to hide under the sheep; in the morning, the witch feels the sheep from all sides; then D. kills the white goat, wears its skin, goes out, returns with his gun, kills the witch]: 82-84 (=Brudny, Eshmambetov 1963:66-68, =1981:34- 35); Muchnik 1944 [boy asks old man Aryk-Mergen to tell us what was good and bad in his life; AM: shot the tail of a fire serpent; the serpent mountain opened and offered to collect gold; fiery the serpent was her enemy; this is good; one day AM spent the night, began to cook meat on the fire; a cannibal came up with steel claws and one eye in her forehead; AM wanted to shoot her, she disappeared; for the night he climbed on a tree, and covered a block with his blanket; the cannibal heated her hands in the fire and plunged her into the block, her claws were stuck; AM shot, the cannibal broke the block, ran away; in the morning AM followed a bloody trail, found her dead by the cave; she has two children in the cave; AM killed them, but noticed the bride's hat lying in the corner and took it for his sister; warned his sister that cannibals would look for him, let her weapon be ready; one night a cannibal came into the yurt and began to heat her hands in the fire; sister AM cut off her head with an ax; it turned out that the old woman had killed all the people in the village; AM went in search of the old woman's husband, the last of cannibals; MA and his companion drove up to the cave of a one-eyed old man, into which he drove either sheep or goats; the old man invited him to his place; the companion agreed that the old man should stab him first; aged stabbed him, began to cook and fell asleep; AM stabbed the iron scrap and plunged the old man into the eye; in the morning the old man began to release the sheep, groping them from above; AM stabbed one, put on his skin, went out; called out to the old man; he asks him to kill and pick up the sheep, otherwise they will turn into insects in three days; AM killed the old man, returned a month later, found no sheep]: 5-9; Poyarkov 1900 [two hunters went for goats, and the third stayed by the fire; one-eyed came, the hunter frightened him; when the two returned, the one-eyed man came back, he was given meat; at night the hunters put a fur coat on the spruce tree, hid; the one-eyed man came again, began to crush his fur coat, he was shot, his hands were cut off; they came to another one-eyed man, who put up a kibitka, he had two wives; the hunter heated iron and burned his one-eyed eye; the one-eyed man began to release sheep , and the hunter wrapped himself in lamb skin and went out with the sheep; the one-eyed man and one of his wives were killed, the cattle were taken away, but the other wife rode away; one day they left the yurt, and the other 49 people were eaten; two yurts remained, people killed that woman]: 29-31.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [two heroes got lost; went into the giant's cave; he had one eye in his forehead, fried a dog-headed man; he made them his shepherds, brought a man with a dog every day with his head, ate; returning without prey, he ate one of the heroes, fell asleep; the second heated an iron rod, burned his eye; he closed the iron door; the hero clung to the ram from below, went out with the rams; came to the village of women whose husbands are dog heads; they said that the giant Kyrgis was hunting them; the man brought dog heads to the one-eyed cave, dog heads killed him; asked for a man to be their khan, they gave the sheep to a giant, gave a wife; the man returned home]: Nikiforov 1915:245-246; Khakas [The owner is a laborer; the old woman tells the khan that P. can cure his sick daughter; khan: if you refuse, I'll cut off my head (giving the following tasks at the same time); the spirit tells P. to take a wolf trap, ticks, a hammer, a deck of cards; the owner of Saryg-Ool fever enters the khan's daughter, says that it is his wife ; agrees to play cards with P. to pinch and click; when P. plays with his cards, he stings S. with ticks, hits S. with a hammer; withstands S.'s pinch and click; then S. tries to escape, falls with his chest into a wolf trap; Khan's people burned it, the girl recovered, P. got her as his wife; old woman Khan: P. can make 70-year-old Khan 7-year-old, his 60-year-old wife 6-year-old; his wife tells him to run on a raft across the sea; the soldiers they took with them died of thirst and hunger; P. came to a copper house with three corners; Saryg-Khys came; says that P. killed her brother, but decided to marry P.; fell asleep; P. put gunpowder under her bed , set fire to a hemp rope and ran away; the house exploded; P. sailed on a raft to the other side, there was a stone house with three corners; a blind black hero came in: you killed my daughter, my son; P. offered to cure his eyes; tied and poured molten lead into his eyes; ran away, ended up in a goat pen; the black hero throws every goat from the stockade; the last is a large goat, threw it over with P. clung to him; P. swam further along the sea, the black hero fell into the sea, drowned; on the new shore there was a bronze house with three corners; there was food on the table, P. ate, climbed onto the stove; a black woman came: mine son, daughter, killed her husband; P. offers himself to marry; in the morning she went to fight the snake khan; spies on P. sprinkling ash around the house so that snakes do not crawl; how firewood brings; she likes this watchman; in two days P. secretly carved the boat and oak trees, on the third day, a black woman sailed upse% a black woman tore her stomach and miscarried her to sink the boat with P., P. had difficulty throwing it into the sea; black woman: if you swim through the darkness, shovel pebbles and throw pebbles into the boat, they will become gold and silver; otherwise you won't get out of the darkness; the boat has reached the shore, there is a thin white and damn horse near the house, there are three in the house Ah-Khan's thin daughters ask for help in the fight against the three-headed snake khan; P. shot him; the girls gave gold and silver potatoes, let the khan and khansha eat and rejuvenate; the white and damn horse drove home; after eating potatoes, Khan and Khansha became boy and girl, and P. became khan; let go of everyone whom the former khan held by force]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 22:383-403; Tuvans [ the old woman tells Boraldai to turn along the right road; he turns to the left - it is wider; the one-eyed Shulbus grabs him, throws him into a hole with sheep; tells him to heat the brazier - he will fry it on it; S. throws it into his brazier burns his eye; the shulbus releases the rams one by one, S. grabs the latter's coat, goes out with him; drives the sheep to that old woman; the blind shubus is still looking for him]: Hadahane 1984:36 -38; darkhats ({it is difficult to decide whether this is a local Darhat tradition or a Khalkhas tradition; given the Tuvan variant, Darhat attribution seems more likely}; 01.08.11, Rashaant (somon Rashaant aimak Khuvsgel), Mishigdorzhiin Tsyrenoidov, Khalkhasets, born in 1927, local, was a party worker; parents and old people told the fairy tale}) [A story about a mangas with one eye. He lived in a cave in the mountains. He ate people and animals. There was a man named Dondog who had nine brown sheep. When he herded the sheep, he drove them and his mangas into a cave and covered them with a stone. They are sitting in a cave, the mangas lit a fire and left a scrap there. When he fell asleep, D. took this crowbar and hit it in his only eye. The blind mangas wanted to catch up, eat D. Mangas discovered the cave and started releasing sheep, groping them. D. lay under the sheep, the mangas did not understand this. So D. got out of the cave. After this incident, people living at the foot began to live in peace]: Duvakin 2011. [Tursunov 1975; this is a common Kazakh fairy tale, also among the Mongols and Kalmyks].

(Wed. SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs (p. Ridiculous Verkhnekolymsky District) [Peter Berbakin (goes back to the fairy tale of Fedor Bermyatin) goes to the sunset, finds himself in the lower world; finds himself in a stone cave; things in it and she listen to the owner herself; this is three-toed cyclops; tells B. to cook for him; B. says that he healed his eyes in the middle ground; the cyclops asks to heal his eye, promises to return him to earth for this; B. explains what to do this requires filling him in the eye molten tin, lead, copper; the cyclops goes blind, wants to take B.'s eyes, he hides inside the skeleton's chest bone; the cyclops throws bones, B. is outside; the cyclops throws a hatchet after him, he sticks to his little finger, B. cuts off his little finger, runs away; the cyclops shouts that he cannot leave his sister; the straw asks B. to touch her, then she will be younger; B. touches, she turns into a worm, sticks to his back (Russian old braid); he has been wearing it for more than three years, rushes into a rosehip bush; the worm waits nearby; B. replies that he is afraid of sour cream, fatty meat, and hare skin blankets; the worm brings all this, throws it at him, B. pretends to die; runs away, takes a boat to the sea; he is thrown into the sea in a three-layer coffin; he takes a knife with him, hurts the tongue of the sea master, is not swallowed them]: Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 31:95-115).

The coast is the Plateau. Kutene [The raven hides the buffalo, people are starving; the Beaver pretends to be dead, the Raven goes down to peck at him, is caught, brought into the house; screams the Coyote, flies out the chimney; Magpie notices which side he flew; Rabbit and Hare come to two old women; turn into a puppy and a stone; one old woman wants to throw the puppy into the water, the other picks up; picks up a stone to use as an anvil; a bubble and a rattle hang in the aisle, making a sound as the bison passes; the young men hole the bubble, take the rattle, drive the buffalo out; cling their teeth to the bull's testicles; standing on the sides, old women hit the bison, flattening its body; bison is now available to hunters]: Boas 1918, No. 65:213-219, 303-304.

Plains. Blacklegs: Spence 1985 [The Gray Raven hides the buffalo; the chief asks Napi for help; N. turns himself into a dog, the chief's son into a stick; Raven's little son picks up a dog, Raven's wife - stick; Dog and Stick find an underground hole, drive out buffalo; go out on their own, clinging to the fur of an old bison; N. turns into a dead otter, catches the Raven, hangs it in the chimney; since then, crows black]: 208-212; Wissler, Duvall 1908, No. 1 [The raven hides the bison; the Beaver turns into a dead beaver, catches the Raven, smokes in the chimney (crows have been black ever since); he breaks his promise to let the buffalo go Once free; Beaver turns into a digging stick, his friend Little Dog becomes a puppy; they are picked up by the Raven's daughter; taking the form of a dog and a human, they drive buffalo out of an underground hole; the Raven stands ready to kill the buffalo that have released; the stick and the puppy hide in the bison's hair, quietly pass the Raven]: 50-52; grovantre [the old woman hides buffalo and summer; Nishant tells the little boy to cry until he (N.) comes; the boy complains that he wants meat and land without snow; N. turns into a puppy, the old woman's daughter, against his mother's orders, picks him up; one day takes a puppy with her to the forest turns into N., rapes the girl; she calls her mother for help; while the old woman runs to her daughter, N. returns to her home, throws the summer bag outside; the snow melts; to go out by himself, N. clings to the scrotum of the last bison hanging under his stomach; the old woman does not notice it; a warm wind blows at night, bisons come]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 4:65-67; Kiowa [the white Raven hides animals under the ground; Sendeh sends an Owl and a Dragonfly to explore (their eyes have been bulging out ever since); turns into a puppy, Raven's daughter picks him up; he opens the flint door, drives the buffalo to the ground; turns into burdock, sticks to the bison's hair, the Raven does not find it; turns into a dead moose; the raven goes down to peck at it, sandwiched between its ribs, thrown into the fire, turns black]: Parsons 1929a, No. 9:21-26; kiova-apache [people feel that the Raven smells of fat; the Dragonfly manages to trace where his tipi is; in the cave under the bison hearth, the hole is covered with a stone; the Coyote turns into a puppy, his Raven's daughter picks up; The raven says the puppy's eyes are too smart; in Raven's house, the Coyote opens a cave, releases buffalo; the Raven waits to kill him; the Coyote hides under the feet of the last bison; tells the Raven eat carrion]: McAllister 1949, No. 9:52-53.

The Great Southwest. Hicarilla: Goddard 1911, No. 20 [The Raven holds the buffalo; people see Magpie carrying giblets; the Bat and the Rattlesnake manage to trace its flight; the man turns into a puppy, the children of the Raven he is picked up; the Raven throws it into the fire, the puppy burns, the Raven believes it really is a puppy; at night a man releases buffalo; a raven stands ready with an onion; a man clings to an old bison and gets out unnoticed; The Raven tells his children they will eat the eyes and meat that remains on the vertebrae], 21 [as in (2); Raven's youngest child leaves the stone door open]: 212-214; Opler 1938, No. VC [The magpie takes giblets from the Raven's quiver; this is how people know that the Raven is hunting buffalo; the Bat manages to trace its flight to the east; two young men turn into puppies, the Raven's children pick them up; The raven tells them to make a fire in front of them; one blinks, throws him away; the puppy sees the Raven open the door to the rock, kills one bison; the puppy becomes human again, drives deer, bison, mountain sheep outside; the raven is ready to shoot the thief; the last bison invites the man to hide on his hooves; under his arm; on his head; the man says that afraid to fall, hides in the back, so she gets out; animals were tame; poor old women made a hut out of leaf-covered bushes; animals began to eat leaves; old women burned a stick, hit deer on the nose, they were told to take a breath; this is how the animals have a good sense of smell]: 256-260; lipan [The raven drops its bison giblets; the Bat flies and watches him; the Coyote turns dead a hairless dog, the Raven's children pick him up; at night he comes to life, opens the door to the hill, drives buffalo to the ground; steals tobacco, hiding in his ear; learns spells used when hunting buffalo; to leave the Raven's house, clings to the wool under the bison's chest]: Opler 1940, No. 11:122-125.