K73b2. Puppies help a woman .29.32.33.35.

The woman's children were replaced by puppies, and the woman was punished. Puppies stay with the woman and help her.

Kabardian people, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Mansi, Northern Selkups, Southern Selkups.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [the eldest, middle daughter refuse to take off her father's legs, the youngest takes off; shares apples with the elders; the father digs a hole in the apple tree, disguises it with a carpet, the daughters fall through; for them the pit opens at will, food appears; the eldest promises the khan to prepare clothes for one hundred riders, the middle one to feed 50, the youngest to give birth to a son and daughter, half white gold, the other yellow; khan leaves, sisters replace children with puppies, throw them into the river; the khan orders to put his wife in the skin of a bull, tie him to the gate; the children were taken by Hogouash dogs (PH, the mistress of the river; in Folk Tales 1872:110 - Psykho- Goasha {Y.B.: Goasha is "woman, mistress"; "dogs" are "river"; "ho" - I don't know}); an attached mother sees her children come out of the water, sit on a stone; asks a passing woman to give her torment, does one a cake with breast milk, the other on the water, asks to leave it on a stone; the boy gets a cake with milk, the girl gets a cake on the water; when he finds out that the children have eaten cakes, PH says that they cannot become her children, lets him go ashore; the poor man finds a home in the forest, the sisters of the khan's wife do not tell him; they persuade his sister to ask his brother to get an unusual pigeon; PH teaches you to call sour pears sweet, take two from by himself; call the muddy river transparent, praise the sands; the young man grabs the pigeon, the owner orders to keep the kidnapper, the sands, the river, the pear refuse; the sisters of the khan's wife persuade his sister to advise his brother get Irish-Irish-Kahn as his wife; PH says that she turns those who come to her into stones; the young man is stony; her sister goes, A. looks around at her third shout, everyone comes to life; a feast; a young man goes to visit Khan Father with the condition that he unties the woman at the gate; evil dogs (these are the puppies thrown up) are friendly with them; the khan returns his wife, ties her sisters to horses; since then, princes and khans have not are divorcing their wives]: Aliyeva 1978, No. 29:238-243, (=Folk Tales 1872:108-114).

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [when leaving, bai asks four wives what they will prepare for his return; 1) every day I will shoot a sparrow with 40 ribs, feed him meat to a hundred servants; 2) I will sew sandboots; 3) I will sew mittens made of lice leather; 4) I will face two sons with golden heads, pearl teeth, silver hair; all fulfilled their promises; before the return of bai, other wives replaced the babies with a black puppy , his mother and 40 servants were sent to the forest, the children were thrown under the feet of mares; the youngest wife comes to breastfeed the puppy, finds a mare that feeds her babies; returns the children, lets the puppy go; babies were thrown to the cows - the same; geese - the same; thrown into the water; bai ordered his youngest wife to break her arm and leg, gouge out her eye, lock him in a deaf log house; the puppy got out, the man cut into the log house is a hole, the puppy brought the man to the bay, he talks about the log house; the elder wife: this is not a miracle, near the lake a mare is screwing at every step, drinking on the lake at the watering hole; the black puppy asks the mother make a halter, brings a mare, followed by a herd; everything repeats; second wife: diamonds and yakhonts at the top of the mountain; the puppy asks his mother for a tablecloth, brings gems; the third time the traveler cut through log house door; third wife: two boys in the river, go out to play on the sand; mother's puppy: give me a nightmare, four horns of milk: goat, cow, mare, their own; the boys began to play the nightmare when they drank mother's milk, fell asleep; the puppy brings them to their mother, the bay is invited to visit, he understood everything; the eldest wife was offered 9 mares or 9 arb firewood; she likes mares more, her hair is tied to them, where the earth is she touched her back, there were mountain ranges, where the hair was marsh grass hummocks, where the back was lakes; the second wife chose firewood, it was burned; the third was tied to the tails of 9 mares]: Barag 1989, No. 70:336-343.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz (Naryn Oblast, Zhumgal District, 1959) [rich and powerful Khan Aidarkan is childless; he goes with horsemen to meet three girls; the eldest replies that she can sew clothes for 40 horsemen overnight , the middle one is to feed 40 horsemen with a handful of oatmeal, the youngest will give birth to a boy and a girl with golden breasts and a silver ass; the khan marries the youngest, passes off the eldest two as viziers; the eldest and middle completed promised; the youngest gives birth when hunting; the khan's 40 wives bribed a witch, who replaced newborns with puppies, threw the children into a groundhog hole, stoned her, the khan is told that his wife gave birth to puppies; khan orders to take his wife and puppies to the big water and leave them there; hero Akmat visited the city of Perishte (creatures, in the manner of a European hidden people) when he was young, got it there with courage and strength Gray gun and Gray Pacer; childless; Gray pacer does not let himself ride; trying to jump on him, Akmat finds himself at a stoned hole, hears crying, finds children, brings his wife, arranges feast, among the guests is Khan Aydarkan; the children have grown up, the son is no worse than Akmat, Akmat himself and his wife died, brother and sister stayed in their house; the brother uses the Gray Rifle, rides the Grey Pacer; meets hunting Khan Aydarkan, who is jealous of the hero, is sad that he is childless; 40 wives suspect that the children have survived, the witch admitted that she did not complete the matter; in the absence of the young man, she comes to his sister; says that there are green and white apple trees in the city of Perishte; if a white one is transplanted, it will bear fruit every day; his sister demands that her brother get her a white apple tree; he spends the night at the grave Akmata; a voice from the grave tells us how to get to the city of Perishte and get a white apple tree (you can't touch the green one); the young man brings a white apple tree, his sister is happy; the young man meets Khan again while hunting, he returns home upset again, 40 wives send a witch to finish what he started; a witch in the city of Perishte has a tree with three parrots sitting on its branches: colorful, red and loud; loud talks all day long; sister demands a parrot from his brother, who again spends the night at the hero's grave; voice: you can't touch the colorful parrot; the young man brings a parrot to his sister, who entertains her; after On the third meeting, a young man and Khan, 40 wives send a witch to destroy his brother and sister; in the city of Perishte there is Kulanda, the beautiful daughter of the ruler, let her brother marry her; voice from the grave; must be openly enter the city of Perishte, because they are afraid of the owner of the Gray Pacer and the Grey Rifle; find a palace with 6 doors; when they all open, get inside, cut off a lock of hair from the sleeping beauty, and that's all then wake up, she will have to marry a young man; Kulanda agrees to marry, but her three brothers cannot share the items left over from her late father; chapan (will deliver anywhere), a needle (makes her invisible, if you stick it into the gate) and the pipe (if you shake, a myriad of troops appears; the young man invites three brothers to race, promises to give items to the winner, hides, taking magic items; 40 days expires: the young man warned his sister that if he did not return during this time, he would have died; then his sister and her parrot would commit suicide; The gray foreigner would not have time to deliver on time; Kulanda calls the devas, the Black Dev will deliver in the night, the Gray in half the night, the White in a moment; the sister and the loud parrot are already preparing to take the poison; after a while, the Gray Pacer also arrives; the young man takes in Kulanda's wife; the parrot advises Kulanda to send gifts to Khan Aydarkan and invite him to visit; during the feast, the khan asks why the young man has not gone hunting three times for a long time, who explains shows an apple tree, a parrot and Kulanda; the khan calls to visit him; a parrot tells his brother and sister that their mother has survived: two puppies have become mighty dogs, bring partridges to the woman; brother and sister bring their mother; Aydarkan is told to cut off the witch's head and hang 40 wives; everyone is happy]: Kebekov, Tokombaev 2007:35-42.

Western Siberia. Mansi (southern, Kondinsky district, rivers. Lyapin) [=Lukina 1990, No. 130:338-339; Mos-ne has a son, Por-ne has a Boy in the Form of a Motley Puppy (PUG); P. shoved child M. into the barrel, lowered it into the water; the PUG leaves P., comes to live with M.; carries food to the dugout by the river; explains M. that an old man and an old woman live there, they have a son, he plays with him; this is M.'s son; the PUG almost grabbed him, he escaped; they play more, M. grabs a son, forcibly brings him to himself, he agrees to live with M., and not with his father from the dugout; M.'s son, together with the PUG, go to the city where Usyng-Oyr-Oika lives; they get rich; W. leaves his wife, comes to M., marries her; P. was torn by horses; The PUG took off his dog clothes and became handsome]: Kuzakova 1994:44-47; the Northern Selkups [Natank ("girl") and Tomnank ("frog"+ two diminutive suffixes) live on the same camp; T. calls N. to collect grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices her mother's leg leaning out from under the tire on the sledge; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises his children to eat and children N.; N. plugs the chimney with a rag (so that T. thinks it's still night), leaves, carries his younger brother in a box; he dies pricked with an awl or drill; N. buries his brother , pulls out a stump to light a fire, a new T. jumps out from under it; she steals all N.'s things, but she tells them to come back; T. follows on skis from wooden bowls; N. and T. come to the camp, go beyond two men; T. replaces N.'s newborn with a puppy; T.'s husband leaves her, migrates with T. and her husband; puppy (knot) T. helps her catch the beast; plays with a boy coming out of the water; he is N.'s son; they find out each other when a stream of T.'s milk enters his mouth; the boy builds a giant plague; T. comes with her husband and husband N.; N. forgives him, telling him to wash himself 7 times; T. is brutally killed; var. (western 1999, Turukhan): T. kidnaps son N., keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [the widow has two daughters, the Volkhov marries one for her own a woman does not give her son; dies, leaving the eldest comb, the younger ring, teaches what to do; sisters run, throw a comb, a mountain with rose hips appears; an old woman transports sisters across the river; a wolf with her son is lucky on a log; they turned over, drowned; the old woman tells her deer veins to spin, throws her deer into the stove; a conscientious sister has deer, the other does not; the old woman tells one (who?) stay; both leave, the old woman makes the eldest return, gives the sledge, tells the youngest to be planted in it when they reach the ringing birch tree; the sister disappears, returning to the old woman); the girl comes to the village, lives with an old man and an old woman; she is married; she is pregnant; during childbirth, her mother-in-law covers her eyes with bread, throws the child into the ice-hole, brings a puppy; the same for the second time; tells her son to leave the woman (with puppies) in the forest; she chews a ring, a house appears; dogs run to the river, tell how two boys come out of the ice-hole, they play with them; the woman has a leg pain, she asks the dogs to take her to the ice-hole, lure her out guys away from the water; her leg has recovered, she takes her sons; her husband arrives, she tells him everything; he tears his mother with horses; a bump in the swamp is her head]: Pelikh 1972:351-352.