Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

K78. The swallowed one was removed from the little finger.

.11.13.29.30.32.-.34.36.

The

cannibal swallows people. When he's killed, it turns out they're not in his womb or they're dead there. They are found alive not in the stomach, but in the cannibal's finger, or there is a means to revive them in the little finger, or you need to cut or cut off the ogre's finger to find people.

Rwanda, Kikuyu, Kamba, Sukuma, Tonga, (Suto), Acholi, Nandi, Masai, Iraku, (Sudanese Arabs), Malgashi, Kalmyks, Abazins, Balkarians, Ossetians, Chechens, Avars, (Kumyks, Nogais), Tatas, (Georgians), Megrelians, Uzbeks, Yagnobs, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Altaians, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Yakuts.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Rwanda [Kwisaba went to war; after getting sick and left without firewood, his wife exclaims that at least Thunder should come to cut them; a thunderstorm begins, Thunder cuts wood, tells the woman to promise to give him wife's daughter, whom she will give birth; when she returns, K. tells her not to let Miseke's daughter go outside when she becomes a girl; other children say that beads are falling from the girl's mouth; one day other girls go for pottery with clay, they take M. with them; Thunder demands that everyone laugh, finds M. by the falling beads, takes her away; M. gives birth to two boys and a girl, her husband allows her to visit her parents, gives birth to him cattle and beer; M.'s motorcade goes astray, gets to the cannibal; he eats all the goods, servants, children of M.; she manages to send the eldest boy to her parents; warriors come, kill the cannibal; he tells cut off his big toe, everyone swallowed comes out of there; a month later M. decides to return to her husband, Thunder takes her back]: Werner 1933:57-61 (retelling in Kotlyar 2009, No. 100:100; in Scheub 2000:149 -150); Rundi [Nyanyange, Thunder's sister, becomes the ogre's wife; he eats all their children, but the mother hides one daughter, tells her to open it only to her voice; the ogre changes his voice, enters the girl, cuts off her head, hangs her in the doorway; Thunder kills the ogre with lightning; when he dies, he tells his wife to cut off his little finger, all swallowed children go out]: Klipple 1992:68; kikuyu [(Rautledge 1910); giant Mukunga M'bura ("rain snake", rainbow) is swallowed by a shepherdess, his father, boys, women, bulls, goats, a house, barns; one little boy hid; grew up, came to kill MM, he asked to cut him middle finger, swallowed out alive, swallowed supplies fell out; then the boy killed MM with the young men, but one of his legs threw himself into the water; MM children took his remains and water, left; on the spot the rivers left cattle, people took them]: Radin 1952, 80:296-297 (translated to Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 111:255-257); kamba: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 128 [the hunter is cut through a tumor on his leg, there are two in it boys and a girl; he stays with them in the forest, makes a house on a baobab; when he comes up, he sings, the son lowers the rope; the cannibal Muvia comes up twice, sings the same song, his voice is rude; the sorcerer advises to exude his tongue with the bites of ants and scorpions; the son lowers the rope, M. takes the children to his village, tells them to weed the field; the father finds them, tells his son to answer M. rude, kills him; before the death of M. tells him to cut off his little finger, throw him into the fire; those he kills come to life]: 310-315; Arnott 2000 [The widower has two boys and a girl, he makes a tree house; every time he returns, he sings a song, the children let him down stairs; the witch overhears, the two older children understand that this is not the father, refuse to lower the stairs; the witch turns to the sorcerer, who advises ants to stick their tongue out, he will swell, it will be necessary voice; children lower the stairs, the witch takes them away, makes them work; with the help of a sorcerer, the father finds his way, hides in the witch's house, kills her; before she dies, she orders her little finger to be burned; they come out of it the people and cattle she ate; her father and children are getting rich]: 142-151; sukuma [the three-headed and multi-armed giant Simungala swallowed a piece of land with the people living on it, the boy and grandmother escaped; the boy grew up, S. won when he died, cut off his little finger on his left hand, and everyone swallowed came out from there; var: the man hit the stone, the fragment that flew off hit S., who ordered his little finger to be cut off; S. had many hands, the man cut off all; trees came out of the first, animals from the second, people swallowed from the last; S.'s body was buried]: Millroth 1965:193; Tonga [mother goes for fruit, the beast comes to her children, imitates her voice, the children unlock them, he swallows them; the mother sings, all the animals raise their paws, but the swallower does not do it, she pierces him with a spear; the bird says it is necessary cut off the little finger; then the beast bursts, and the (probably alive) children of the woman and her neighbors are inside]: Klipple 1992:67; (cf. Suto [Masilo ("fools") is the elder brother, Masilonyane ("fools") is the youngest; they went hunting; at the fork they went in different directions, agreeing to meet in the evening; the Masilonyan comes to the village, there is no one in it, all the pots are turned upside down; he turned it over alone with great difficulty; under him a little old woman asks her to carry it; at the watering hole, where the antelopes are, he asks her to get down: he will get the skin to carry it; for now dogs chase an antelope, it hides in the warthog's hole, but the old woman easily finds it and tells him to carry it on; the same is true with other antelopes; for the third time, Masilonian promises the old woman leopard skin, but lets dogs at the old woman; they kill her; she has a swollen big toe; Masiloñane cut him three times with an ax; after the first blows, cattle came out, after the third, a rainbow-colored animal; Masilo He is jealous; the Masilonian offers him all the cattle, but not the rainbow animal; he asks for water from the well, pushes the Malognans there, drives the cattle home; the bird sits on the horn of a rainbow animal and screams that Masilo killed his brother for this animal; Masilo kills the bird many times, but it comes back every time; when they hear it, people drove Masilo out of the village and killed him]: St. Lys 1916:98-100).

Sudan - East Africa. Acholi [Lucoro ate all humans and animals, left Min-kwet pregnant; she hid in a cave, gave birth to 8 daughters and 20 sons; they grew up immediately, asked where the father was; the mother replied that you first need to make 5,000 copies and build a stand; called L., who smokes tobacco, smoke spread across the sky; L. goes to M., her sons throw spears at him; when he reaches the platform, L. fell dead ; the brothers cut his little finger, all the swallowed ones came out]: Oryem, Wright 1960:121-122; Nandi: Hollis 1909:106-107 [the father does not allow two sons to kill the buffalo; they stole it, drove it away, killed it; the youngest went to get water; the evil spirit said that if the water turned out to be like blood, it must be poured out; after taking good water, do not look back; the young man poured out blood, but when he collected water, he looked around; at night an evil spirit came put out the fire, the mouth of the spirit was like fire, the brothers did not understand the difference; the younger one put a stick into the imaginary fire, the evil spirit ate it; the elder found the sleeping spirit, killed him, cut off his big toe; from there they went out younger brother and many different animals], 107 [the demon swallowed all humans and animals, only the woman and the baby hid in the hole; the young man grew up hunting with a bow, every time he brings the carcass of the beast, asks Is it not the same demon; heats the stones in the fire; the demon comes to the fire, the young man asks him to open his mouth, promising to throw food at him; throws hot stones; when he dies, the demon tells him to cut off his little finger, from there swallowed cattle will come out; thumb - people will come out; those who come out chose young chiefs]; Masai: Hollis 1905 [two brothers go to slaughter a bull where there are no people, no animals, no animals, no insects; the elder gives the younger stomach to bring water; the water screams that it is being taken away; the youngest is frightened, the eldest goes by himself, responds to the water that he takes it on purpose; the same with brushwood; with a meat skewer; a nine-headed evil spirit extinguishes the fire, the younger brother takes his burning eye for fire, is swallowed; the elder catches up with the spirit, cuts off two heads, then finishes off; cuts off his big toe, and comes out from there swallowed animals and younger brother]: 115-116; Kipury 1983, No. 10 [a handsome man with a second mouth on the back of his head ties bells to trees to make people think he has a herd there; a group of men brought cattle, the owner swept the parking lot, removing the bones of the previously eaten ones, the people sat down, slaughtered the cow, shared it with the owner; one young man noticed that he was eating with two mouths; they don't believe him, he is at night climbed a tree; at night he ate 8 sleepers, did not find a ninth; the young man went down unnoticed, ran to the people; under his leadership, another group of warriors came; they pretended not to know anything, but they put logs in their place, covered with blankets; people jumped up, killed the ogre with spears; before his death, he ordered his toe to be cut off; all people and animals eaten earlier came out intact]: 46-48; Iraq: Kohl-Larsen 1963:29-31 [Ama'irmi ate a woman, took her form; tells her husband she is sick, asks for goat soup; swallowed soup along with the cauldron; same next time, husband wonders where did the pots go; the neighbor invites her husband to listen to a song sung by the imaginary wife, calling herself A.; the husband shoots A. three times, each time she says she will not die, because this is her land; tells me to cut off her finger; he sequentially cuts off her fingers, swallowed come out alive; a hyena came out of the index, a calf from the middle, the man's wife from the ring finger, a man swallowed earlier from the little finger; A. died], 110-112 [Ama'irmi comes to the two children of the blacksmith Mirangu, swallows a goat each time; M. returns, sees A.'s whole body covered with his eyes; shoots arrows at him; dying, A. tells him to cut off his finger; goats and people who had previously been swallowed come out], 112-117 [Ama'irmi came to Zagate's house, demanded food; he killed her with arrows, burned her corpse, and a pumpkin grew; when Z. left, Pumpkin. every time he asks the children where their father is, demands food, they give her a goat; Z. came back and finally killed A., cut off his fingers; one came out of cattle, the other someone's wife, the third a hyena, and the fourth is two bulls, the fifth is his goats; Z. became rich]; (cf. Sudanese Arabs (baggara) [the woman has 4 adult sons, she is pregnant again; she cannot raise firewood on her back in the forest; a son from the womb asks if I can help; how to get out? refuses to be born normally or through his mouth, wants through his little finger; his name is Abu Saraera, he was born fully armed; with him a white sheep with razors on its tail; he came on a ram , following his mother; tied his weapon around the sheep's neck at home and sent it to the savannah; the AU brothers do not like it: let the mother keep it with her, but he will not go hunting with them; unnoticed by the AU mother a ram burned the hairs; a ram with weapons appeared, the AU rode on it, caught up with the brothers; they came to the drone, she has 4 daughters; AU warns not to sleep with girls and not to drink or eat anything; brothers: you will still be indicate, spend the night with the cattle; the AU let the ram go; the gulya gave milk to the horses; when the brothers fell asleep with the girls, the AU made the brothers girlish hairstyles and the girls men's hairstyles; answers the gula that she is awake: her cattle Speaks too loudly; gulya slaughtered the cattle; the next time the AU answered as if through sleep; seeing men's hairstyles, Gulya cut off the heads of her daughters; the brothers rode horses, AU on a ram; gulya chases and shouts: those who drank my milk die; the brothers' horses have fallen; the AU put the brothers on his ram; the gulya caught up and grabbed the ram by the tail; but there are razors; she hurt herself and stopped the persecution; came to AU's mother's house as a beautiful girl; AU kicked her out, but her older brother accepted her happily; when she fell asleep, she pulled out one eye for him and returned to her; people begged AU to go get her eye back, elder the brother was guilty; the AU came to the drone under the guise of an old woman; ordered to tell the maid that he (i.e. the old woman) was Guli's sister; pretended to defecate with hair, bones, scraps of human and animal skin; gulya believed it was her sister; she complains that the manager of her cattle and slaves has lost an eye and now she has to do everything herself; gulya: I can give it; - How can I insert it? - Lubricate the eye socket with black goat milk; AU returned the eye to his brother; the gulya turned into a big tree in the middle of the village; the children climbed on it and began to play; the AU drove them away, but their parents were indignant; the AU became cutting roots is like iron; gulya has become a ghoul again and took away all the children; parents are willing to pay dearly for the AU to return the children; he went to the drone again; Guli has a pregnant cow with a bell, she is watching for the kidnapped children, and the gulya knows where the children are by the sound of the bell; the AU replaced the calf in the cow's womb; she calves; the calf kicks in the stall, wants to see his mother; when the cow and the children have gone away , AU took his form, killed a cow, hung her severed head with a bell on a tree; the wind shakes her, the bell jingles, the gulya thinks that the cow and children are in place; the AU returned all the children to their parents; when clouds rise, AU is not visible; and when lightning, he throws a razor out of his ram's tail and can split a tree or kill a person]: Frobenius 1923, No. 27:299-308); malgashi: Korneev 1977 [Beandriac's sailor promises to disembark in six months; the ship has not yet returned, B. tells him to be lowered into the sea in a boat; ends up on the island, there are two princesses that Itrimube swallowed and on belched the island; B. plays with him, beats him, hits him to death with an iron bar, previously swallowed people and animals come out of his ripped stomach; B. sails in a boat to the father of the princesses, who sends them for them ship, marrying B.]: 205-208; Rodman 1965 [the beast swallowed warriors and destroyed the entire village; only one pregnant woman hid in an iron house; the twins born grew up, cut off the monster's head was ripped open, the swallowed ones were released; only the leader was nowhere; the drongo bird ordered the smallest kitten to be ripped open, the leader was there; he promised to give possession to the twins, forbid kill and eat drongo; but did not give up possession; war began and he was killed]: 146-148.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks: Badmayev 1899:23-33 [a mare gives birth to a boy, an umbilical cord is cut off by a stone that has fallen from the sky; Haradai-Mergen and Uladai-Mergen become his brothers; a boy kills three women's husbands; these are daughters of the sun, moon, stars; he marries the daughters of the sun himself, brothers to the other two; they envy the youngest, because his wife's face glows (first he stained him with ash); they leave a dagger at the kibitka, the youngest cuts off his legs; blind and armless come to him, help each other; kidnap the girl, make him his sister; tell him not to put out the fire; the fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for fire; the old woman sprinkles her in the hem of ash and coals, pierces a hole in the hem; on an ash trail comes to the girl, spoils her; cripples catch a witch, she makes them and the girl healthy, swallowing and spewing everyone; when she swallows legless, does not spew; others cut her, the sparrow screams, the little finger, the brothers find a healthy brother in the witch's little finger; the horse's son comes to the hole where his brothers are sitting; their wives are kidnapped by 15- head mousse; brothers let the horse's son down on a rope, he kills Musa, brothers pick up women, cut off the rope; he falls, is maimed; the mouse sucks his wounds, he breaks her leg, she eats leaves, recovers ; he also eats and recovers; on the one hand of the kibitki people cry (their snakes will eat them today), on the other hand they have fun (they are tomorrow); the serpent crawls on the side of the three eagles in the nest; the horse's son is killed, eagles explain to mothers who their savior is; for getting rid of the snake, people give him food for the eagle; he flies on an eagle, feeds it, finally cuts off a piece of his flesh; limps; the eagle swallows it, regurgitates it healthy; he comes to his brothers; they decide to fire arrows up; whoever is sinful, the arrow will nail him; the older brothers die, the horse's son owns everything], 34-43 [Arsalang, the youngest of three brothers, guards, sees thieves, returns stolen herds, kills thieves, brings their widows, marries the most beautiful woman with mud on her face, gives the other two to her brothers; they notice that A.'s wife is beautiful, the elder decides to kill A.; leaves a sword, A. cut off her legs; women quietly leave meat and vodka for him; a blind and armless man joins him; they kidnap the khan's daughter, make him a sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch for him, she sprinkles ash into her hem, punctures him; follows the trail, eats all the food; her brothers find her, beat her, she swallows everyone, regurgitating healthy; A. - does not belch; sister cities they find him in her little finger (the sparrow told me to look there); A. comes to the brothers' camp, the son recognizes him; the elder digs a hole, covers him with a nightmare, makes poisoned tea; the son warns A.; he throws him into the pit older brother and his wife, forgives the middle brother]; Vatagin 1964:106-115 [a mare of three brothers is screwed three times a day, but someone always kidnaps a foal born in the morning; the youngest, Burgin-Tsagan cuts off a foal's pearl tail and coral mane with an arrow when it is carried away by a whirlwind; consistently kills three mangas, takes everyone's wife; these are the daughters of the sun, moon and night sky, who are mangas grabbed when they flew in the guise of swans to swim; the older brothers envy that the youngest's wife is more beautiful, leave a sword at the entrance; the blind and armless come to the legless; they kidnap the khan's daughter, do sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the old woman for it, she puts the coals in the hem, finds a house on an ash trail, drinks the girl's blood with her copper beak; the brothers guard, beat the old woman, force swallow and belch everyone, they recover; B. is not regurgitated, the sparrow screams that he is in the finger of an old woman; under the guise of Gelyunga, B. comes to his brothers, his wife recognizes him; they play cards for the youngest's wife brother; B. cuts off their heads]; Jimbinov 1962 [an old man and an old woman want to slaughter their mare three times a day; each time the dog burns a string, the mare escapes; runs away at all; finds and feeds three newborn boys; flies away in the cloud, telling the youngest that his name is Kokode Wise; the brothers go to look for wives; K. meets an old woman and a girl, who gives him three cakes; K . gives them to the dog 15-headed Musa, she caresses him, he kills Musa; the same episode has 25- and 35-headed muses; the 35-headed one voice sounds in the sky, the other on the ground, one fang plows the sky, the other land; K. kills three old women - the mothers of Musa, takes everyone's wife, gives the elders to the brothers; they see the light coming from the youngest, are jealous; they leave braids at the doorstep, K. cuts off their legs; they come to him blind and armless; the daughter of a celestial is kidnapped, she is at home with them; enters a house where an old woman with only an eye on the back of her head asks to look in her head, gives ash and coals, punctures the hem; on the ash then comes to the house, sucks blood; friends watch, tell the old woman to cure everyone; she swallows everyone, regurgitates healthy; K. does not belch, the sparrow tells her to cut her finger, he is there; K. came to the brothers under like a gypsy; they made his wife a shepherdess; K. tells his brothers to shoot up, arrows fall on them, kill them; daughter-in-law ties hundreds of horses to their tails]: 31-45; Abazins [horses disappear in the village at night; Khan sends his eldest son, who hides in horror when he sees a terrible rider; the same youngest son; young servant Murat guards three nights, kills horsemen on white, bay, raven horses, hides horses; khan dissatisfied that the servant, not the sons, defeated the enemies; adopts M., but sends sons with him to return the kidnapped horses and kill M.; all three on broken horses come to the village of kidnappers, take them to wives of their widows; when leaving, M.'s wife tells them not to look through one window; he looks outside the window and golden shoes; when he returns, the wife explains that they were left by the heavenly maiden, whom she tried to catch in vain first husband; a black horse teaches M. not to stop in a hot village, to stop where the frost is, to grab the hair that causes flies to fight, exchange it for fly wings, in the form of a fly to heaven, bite that girl, promise to return her shoes; M. brings a heavenly girl, making a second wife; brothers are jealous, cut off M.'s legs in the forest, his wives are turned into maids; M. meets a blind, armless , they were also maimed by their brothers; all three bring the girl to cook and wash; her fire goes out, she sees smoke, comes to the old woman; the old woman follows the ash trail, sucks the girl's blood; sister brothers they guard, grab an old woman, force her to swallow and regurgitate the girl, making her healthy; the same with cripples; M. does not regurgitate; the bird tells the old woman to burn, find a finger in the ash, M. in it; sister cities return girl to parents; unrecognized M. comes to Khan, where there is a feast and an archery competition; kills brothers with arrows, Khan dies of fear, M. becomes khan]: Tugov 1985, No. 29:54-66; Balkarians (western 1965) [The barren wife persuaded the childless khan to take a second wife to have an heir; when she was pregnant, she regretted the incident; the khan left his wife in the forest with various possessions; the woman named her son Allahberdi; he grew up quickly, dug a hole in front of the Emegen house, killed eight by one and threw them into a hole; the ninth hid; the woman invited him to be her husband; when she became pregnant, she explained to her son that it was so, from air - they say, he himself was born this way; half-brothers are friendly; Emegen's son is a visionary; did not allow A. to eat poisonous khychin on emegen fat; A. saw and killed emegen; the brothers went, parted at the fork to travel; in the city, the khan gave a daughter to A.; she says that the greatest feat would be to go to Aman-Kol ("bad valley"); a dwarf appeared in one carysh beard of a thousand doves riding a rooster; gives tie his hairs to dogs, ruin the barrel of the gun; ate all the kebab and swallowed A.; the younger brother comes to the same city, the khan's daughter takes him for her husband; A. puts a naked dagger on bed; comes to dwarf, defeated him, ripped open his stomach, it's empty; bird: "there is a baby in his little finger"; brother took A. out of the dwarf's little finger; realizing that his wife had his brother, A. was going to kill him]: Malkonduev 2017:468; Ossetians : Britaev, Kaloev 1959 [the widow's seven sons go to face off against the giant; on the way, the shepherds gave them a ladle of milk, they could not drink even half; they cannot separate two fighting bulls; catch horses in a herd; the giant's wife sees that the brothers are not going straight, but are looking for a ford - an easy life for her husband; pears and apples cannot be knocked down in the giant's yard with arrows; Watzilla sends a swallow to ask the widow Does she want 7 new sons instead of the missing ones, or one, but by force like 7; the widow chose one; gave birth to a boy named Late; he breaks the jug of the old witch's daughter three times; the girl tells it is better for him to find the brothers' murderers; his mother gives him his father's weapon and his horse's harness, and the horse is head over heels in manure; Z. took a weapon, washed his horse, rode to the giant; on the way he drank a bucket of milk, separated bulls, caught horses, goes straight across the river, shakes apple trees, pears, arrows, swords and bows fall from them; eats meat, throws bones to the giant; drove the giant up to the shoulders into the ground and cut off his head; his wife confesses that it is necessary cut her husband's little finger, from there brothers appear; on the way back they dug a hole, Z. fell into it, they threw earth and stones at him; the horse asks the fox, wolf, bear to dig Z., promises everyone their back leg, but they did not eat the horse; the eagle promises his eyes, for which he pulled Z. out of the pit, but did not bite the horse's eyes; at home Z. threw an arrow up: let him hit the guilty; the arrow split in 7 parts and amazed the brothers; the mother found a good bride for Z.]: 118-131; Dzagurov 1973, No. 74 [seven brothers came to the seven-headed giant's house; he put them on a skewer, fried them and ate them; the father turned them his daughter in the doe, the hunter chased her, shot her, started frying, the doe came to life, ran away, became a girl again and returned home; he came in her footsteps, said that he had not seen such a miracle; father: it's not miracle; talks about his dead sons; a hunter comes to that giant, throws his property into the fire, says that the giant could cook firewood for the guest's arrival; pretends to devour a huge amount of meat; in fact, quietly throws it under the bench; cut the giant's little finger, seven came out of there killed the giant]: 336-339; Dzutsev 2011 [after the death of his father, Jibukka grew up, went to wander; went into the hut, was going to eat, the old devil offered to argue: who would carry the horse; hardly carried 10 steps, was tired, D. easily carried the horse between his legs (i.e. rode it); who in the time of the thunderstorm will drive the sheep without getting wet; Z. took off his clothes, hid it under his arm, the line had to be given half of the sheep; the devil suggests bringing a handkerchief to his beautiful sister living in the sky; D. freed the deer stuck in the crevice, who threw it with its horns, D. flew to the rope hanging from the sky and climbed into the sky; put tobacco on the face of the sleeping girl, she sneezed, took out a handkerchief, dropped him when she fell asleep; the girl tells him to make a fire; from under the bed, a tied waig teaches him to cut off his little finger, blood splashes, only then the fire will light up; D. killed Waiga; old woman: his brother will come; D. won Waig told him to cut off his little finger, drop blood on the skulls of the dead, they would come to life; after reviving the dead, D. stabbed Waiga; Waiga's sister fell in love with D., they went down to earth, wedding]: 144-149; Chechens [Eight brothers guard the herds, they don't notice anything; the ninth Khan Gammalt (only 10 years old) kills two robber sledges, marries their hero sister; envious brothers leave them to sleep HG sword, he jumps up, is left without legs; he is joined by a blind and armless man; they kidnap the girl, tell her not to throw her cookies into the fire; she throws, the fire goes out, she comes to the yeshap for fire; children yeshap gives her coal with ash in a sieve; on an ash trail, eshap comes to the girl to drink her blood; HG hides, cuts down 8 heads; she asks not to cut the ninth, swallows and regurgitates the handless man healthy and blind; HG does not belch, the tit screams that he is in the little finger; the severed little finger runs but is captured, HG is inside; he marries a beautiful woman]: Bagry 1930 (2), No. 45:159-166 (quail in Dalgat 1972:350- 364); Avars: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 32 [Khan's mare gives birth to golden-tailed and golden-maned foals, but someone immediately steals them; the eldest, middle son falls asleep, the youngest Muin sprinkles salt on the wound, tries snatch a foal from the kidnapper, tears off his leg; the brothers go in search, the elders stay in the cave, the youngest hides under the bridge three times, each time defeats a sledge jumping on a stolen foal; every time the horse stops in front of the bridge, but the sledge says that M. is not here, and if he does, he will kill him; the last sledge is on a three-legged foal, the fight with him is the hardest; M. takes that sledge's wife for himself He gives the other two wives to his brothers; the brothers leave their sword at the entrance to the cave, M. cut both legs to the knee, the brothers take the good and women away; the Blind and the Bald come to live with M.; they kidnap the khan's daughter for them cooked; the fire went out, she came to Hart for the fire, she gave it, but began to come to suck blood from her head; Bald, Blind remain on guard, afraid of Hart, say nothing to Muin; M. grabs hart, makes you swallow the Bald and the Blind, regurgitate healthy; warns that she will not belch him, because he killed her sledge sons; it will be necessary to cut each of her organs; Blind and Bald find M. in Hart's little finger legs, his legs are healthy; M. comes to the brothers' wedding, only the youngest girl caught from the sledges recognizes him; no one can pull a bow, pulls only M., asks Pleshivoy, shoot at chicken or rooster, he replies that the chicken has nothing to do with it, M. kills the brothers with an arrow; M. marries a sleigh girl and a kidnapped cook, M.'s friends marry two other sledge girls]: 311-316; Saidov, Dalgat 1965 [three brothers got lost, came to a house where cards with three daughters; the younger Fool Chilbeek answers cards every time that he is awake, sends cards to bring water with a sieve, puts his own in their place brothers daughters cards; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds the head of not C., but her daughter in the bundle; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge of ash, K. cannot catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring card-owned 1) zach (blanket?) ; H. stabs sleeping cards from the roof, she thinks that there are fleas in the tsakh, throws it away; 2) the cauldron (C. throws stones at the roof, splashes of fat fly into the cards, she throws the cauldron away); 3) the golden goat (C. stabs it with a stick, the goat bleats, throws it away); 4) the cards themselves; H. meets cards in the form of a beggar, she asks to make a strong chest; climbs into it, it falls apart; the next strong, C. closes cards in it, brings; C. climbs the tree, the nucleers open the chest, swallows everyone's cards; C. throws bags of flour from the tree at it, the cards burst, the swallowed people and animals come out; there is no daughter of the ruler; C. cuts finger cards, a girl comes out from there, C. marries her]: 301-310 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:138-141); (cf. Kumyks [three brothers persuaded her mother to let her sister hunt with them; told them not to go to Aenem to buy fire; the fire went out, she saw a house in the distance, E. lived there; she gives ash in the sieve, on top of the coals; the next E.'s day comes on an ash trail, asks her to look in her head, sucks the girl's blood, like this every day; her younger brother is on duty, the girl dies, her brother beats E.; she says she has white water in her brain, she should wipe her sister's eyes; E. died, the girl rose from white water]: Khalidova 1984:173-174; the Nogais [when dying, the father tells his three sons to bring three bags of salt to his grave; they brought they began to watch, the eldest two overslept, the youngest sees the horse in its rich decoration; he gives a hair, will appear when necessary; the khan will give three daughters for the winners of the competition; the youngest calls the horse, unrecognized, he pulls his brothers out of the swamp, knocks down needles stuck on the mound, gets three wives, gives the eldest two to his brothers, takes the youngest silver-haired; the brothers tie a sword at the door out of envy, they shout that the wolf is strangling the sheep, the sword cuts off the youngest's legs; five years later, the bear and the blind come; the blind man sticks his head into the bear's mouth, sees the light; the legless puts stumps, his legs grow back; meets at home a boy with a star in his forehead, this is his son; his wife is happy; they poison his brothers and their wives, they die]: Bagry 1930 (2): 62-64); tatas [three brothers deaf, blind and legless asked the poor girl to be their sister; one day the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to the old Aeneas woman; she gave her a sieve of ash and coals; then she followed her trail, searched her head, put her to sleep, sucked her brain, then revived her; brothers take turns guarding; Aeneas wins, sucks the brain of the legless and blind, the deaf defeats her, tells them to be cured; Aeneas swallows the blind, legless, regurgitates healthy; the deaf does not regurgitate; the girl notices that Aeneas bit off her little finger, threw it out the window; the brothers ripped their little finger, and her third brother, who was already hearing, came out; the brothers killed Aeneas, got married, the girl was married]: Kukulla 1974, No. 5: 57-60 (=Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 68:568-569); (cf. Georgians (Imereti) [the king puts his daughter and nanny on the island; they eat the rolled apple, the daughter gives birth to a son named Hvtisavar, the nanny - 8 clever puppies; the king orders them to be executed, the servants kill hares instead; H. kills 8 giants, moves with his mother and nanny to their house; the ninth was just wounded, becomes the lover of mother H., they come up with difficult tasks for X. deer, boar stubble, hawk feather; they themselves give, promise help (H. kills a snake intending to devour the giant hawk's chicks); mother and giant lock H. in a cauldron, throw them into the sea; deer, boar, the hawk frees him; H. kills his mother, the giant, the nanny; a young man of equal strength becomes his sister; at the fork goes to the left (you will find happiness), H. to the right (you won't come back); H. jumped on horse river, for which the princess got; in the forest, an old woman turns H. and his four dogs into stones, swallows them; her brother cuts her stomach, swallowed dead; she tells her to take a towel from the box in the corner her belly, wipe H. and dogs, they come to life; her brother kills her; H. and his wife return home]: Mashurko et al. 1904, No. 2:17-27); megrels [dev gives the king an apple from childlessness for half of what will be born; takes the eldest of two sons; the old woman teaches how to rush from the maiden into the river, enter the house, take a horse and a dog; on the advice of a horse, pulls a lamb's stomach over her head, is hired as a gardener; the youngest the king's daughter sees the young man washing his hair; advises the sisters to stick a knife in ripe, ripe and green watermelons and send them to his father; the king convenes suitors; the elders choose Nazir and Wazir, the youngest gardener; the king's wife is sick, asks for 1) hare meat; the gardener, with the help of his horse and dog, catches hares, sells them to older sons-in-law for their earlobes cut off; 2) reindeer milk (the same, sons-in-law give kick his horse on the buttocks); the gardener, taking on his true form, smashes enemies, cuts his hand, the king bandaged him, recognizes his handkerchief; older sons-in-law are made servants of the younger; when hunting, the young man swallows cannibal, shackling a horse and a dog; a poplar falls at home, the younger brother goes to look for the elder, everything repeats with him, the daughter-in-law thinks it is the husband, he puts a sword between them; does not put his hair and the cannibals are strained on the horse, the dog, the sword, cuts off the cannibal's wart, the swallowed one comes out bald; the cannibal's blood grows hair, the chains on the horse and the dog fall; the older brother returns to his wife, the youngest to the parents]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 35:114-128.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [mare Lali gives birth to the Golden Foal, then the Silver Foal, both disappear the first night; his grandfather has a grandson Badal; when he should be born Raven, his grandfather tells him to guard, the shadow takes him away a foal, but B. cuts off a claw the size of a plane tree, it was the Black Diva; B. and his older brothers go in search; at the crossroads it says, "If you go, you'll come back", "Either you stay alive or not", "Not at all you will return"; B. rides the third road, brothers first; B. comes to the palace, where Okkyz is a prisoner; first, the White Diva (frost) enters the bridge on the Silver Horse, the horse stops, B. kills the diva; then with the Yellow Diva (heat, on the Golden Horse); kills the Black Diva, who is on the Black Horse, the darkness dissipates, the sun is shining; B. misses home, finds impoverished brothers in the bazaar, puts him on Zolote and Silver horses; brothers put their sword at the door, shout that enemies, the sword cuts off B.'s legs; an armless runner comes, the khan cut off his hands; they find the blind man, the khan blinded him, took the bride; they returned her, she cooks, the fire went out, she saw smoke in the distance, came to Admauz Kampyr for the fire, she poured grains into her hem, came on the trail, sucks her blood, threatens to swallow it if she tells the men; the first guard blind, but AK locked the door; B. grabs AK, makes everyone heal; for this purpose, AK swallows and regurgitates a blind, armless man; does not belch B.; her sister brothers chop her apart, the sparrow shouts "little finger", B. in it; AK's head tries to roll, but it is cut to pieces; the wedding of a blind man with a girl; B. comes to O.'s wedding with his older brother B.; his grandfather drove away treacherous brothers]: Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:109-119; Yagnobtsy: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 31 [someone kidnaps foals; the elder, middle princes fall asleep, the youngest sees a dragon swallowing a foal, tearing off the foal's tail; brothers disperse three roads; the youngest comes successively to three women, each wife of one of the three dragons; he fights everyone on the bridge, the woman throws Jugara under the dragon's feet, the young man wins, takes the women , cuts belts out of dragon skin; finds and redeems broken brothers; they leave a sword at the door, throw their crippled younger brother; they come to him blind and armless; they stole the girl to cooked; they tell the cat to give one of the two highlights that it finds on the floor, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; the girl eats both, the cat fills the fire with urine; the girl comes to the dragon for fire, she says on the way back to scatter barley grains; on this trail comes to suck blood; the blind, armless guard, but are afraid to stand up for the girl; the dragon grabs the lame, tells everyone to be cured; the dragon consistently swallows and regurgitates everyone whole; the lame man does not burp, he warned what will be in the finger; the former blind and armless chop the dragon, the young man comes out of his finger; the king has gone blind during this time, but I saw the light when the youngest son gave a handkerchief to wipe his eyes; ordered the elder sons to be tied to horses, gave their wives to the youngest son's companions], 43 [divas carry the foals of the royal mare; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest grabs the foal by the tail, the tail breaks off; the brothers go in search; at the fork there is a stone with the inscription, the upper and lower roads are safe, the middle roads are dangerous, the youngest rides on the middle; the elders become apprentices, the youngest meets the wives of black, yellow, white divas, kills divas; White's wife teaches to kill a herdsman, the young man takes the tailless foal and the whole herd; the older brothers leave the doors are a sword, the youngest is left without a leg; blind and armless come, bring the girl to cook, tell her to share the zest with the cat; the cat lingers, extinguishes the fire, the girl goes for fire to the female diva, that gives a handful of barley, comes along the trail, sucks blood; the blind, armless guard, fear; the young man defeats the diva, makes him swallow and regurgitate whole; he himself is in his little finger; the king is blind in grief, the young man wipes his eyes with a handkerchief, he sees the light; his older brothers are tied to horses; the prince returns his wife and foal, passes his sisters off as former blind and armless]: 157-163, 192-196.

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 40 [Yarmukhametov 1957:39-61; =Bulatov, Sharipova 2000:49-89; three daughters of the padishah are carried away by a whirlwind; Kich-Batyr brothers (kitsch - evening), Ten Batyr ( night), Tan-batyr (morning: younger) play; the old man advises them to look for the padishah's daughters; they come to the cave where the divas have disappeared; only Tan-B. pushes the stone away; the elders do not reach the bottom of the cave, Tan-b. cuts off the rope, jumps; mice undermine the walls of the well, send Tan-B. across the passage to the copper palace; Tan-B. kills the diva, frees the eldest daughter of the padishah; the same with silver, gold palaces, middle and eldest daughters, two other divas; during a fight with the last diva, T. replaces barrels of strong and weak water, the divas weakens, is killed; the younger sister puts the palaces in copper, silver, golden eggs, gives Tan-b; brothers pull out the girls, cut off the rope, lifting Tan-B; The mouse man tells you to sit on a white goat, not a black goat; Tan-B. sits on a white goat, carried to the upper world; brothers tie There is a sword in front of the tent, Tan-batyru cuts off her legs; blind and armless come to him; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah, make her sister; her fire goes out, she comes to the witch Ubirly Karcik; she tells her to fall for ash so that she can come to visit; when she comes, she tells her to look for the girl's blood in her hair; three brothers take turns guarding, Tan-B. binds the witch, beats; she swallows everyone, belches everyone, belches healthy; Tan-B. does not belch; others chop her, see a fleeing finger, finding Tan-b in it; at home he hires a shoemaker; for the wedding of the youngest daughter of the padishah, he creates eggs on request boots, dresses, palaces; opens, marries; drives away brothers; passes off his wife's sisters as his brothers], 42 [the padishah has Aigali's youngest son; herds disappear, two older brothers go in search; A. plays, threw the golden ball, he pierced the bottom of the woman's bucket; she advises you to better look for his father's cattle; A. chose a shaggy horse, the wind; comes to the old woman, she sends to another, the other to the third; she tells to cut down two heads to the diva, and she would come to cut down the third with her sword; a fox brought a sword for the third head, A. killed the diva; drove herds home, met the brothers; they tied a sword to the legs of sleeping A.; he jumped up, was left without legs; an armless man came to him - his brothers cut off his hands out of envy; then came blind (blinded by relatives); he stole the daughter of the padishah, she began to cook for the cripples; fire went out, she came to the witch for the fire; when she went back, ash fell out of the sieve; the old woman follows the trail, sucks the girl's blood from her finger; the blind and armless guard, afraid to say A.; A. grabbed the old woman, forced them to swallow and belch, everyone became healthy; the old woman did not regurgitate A., she was chopped, A. was found in her little finger; at home A. showed his father his ring, squeezed water out of the stone; forgave the brothers], 61 [dying, the father tells three sons to come to his grave for three days; only the youngest goes, gets the feather of a black, white (swan), red bird; if you take it in your mouth and hang down, a black horse and black clothes will appear; white; red; the padishah will give three daughters for the one whose arrow flies through the ring at the top of a high pole; an unrecognized younger brother on a black, white, red horse wins each time, gets all three princesses; each lives in a separate palace, they think that each has its own husband; he brings impoverished brothers, gives them black and white clothes; they come to the older princesses instead of him, he stays with the youngest; the older brothers are jealous, leave a diamond sword in front of the door, he cuts off the youngest's legs, they take his wives and wealth; the handless and blind came to the legless; they kidnap the daughter of the padishah to washed and cooked; Zhalmavyz began to come to suck the girl's blood; the legless grabbed her; she swallowed and regurgitated, made everyone healthy; she did not regurgitate the legless; he was found in her thumb; he takes with a girl, exposes her brothers (tells them to shoot in the ring, their arrows do not hit), lives with four wives]: 103-127, 139-148, 287-298; Bashkirs: Barag 1988, No. 38 [the mare gives birth, but foals every time they disappear; the eldest, middle son goes to guard, falls asleep; the youngest Kyran-Batyr rips his hair off his head with a sword, does not sleep, cuts the cloud that carries the foal; follows a bloody trail to the copper one, silver, golden houses; each has one of the kidnapped foals and a woman; K. consistently fights three devas, kills them; tames a piebald mare; tries to get a golden sword from the bottom of the lake; a mare explains that the sword is reflected in the water, it itself is pierced into a pine trunk that split the sky and goes further up; K. climbs a pine tree, squeezes to the other side of the sky (after that, a pile remains in the sky stars), brings a sword, rolls three houses into three eggs, gives two wives to his brothers; they are jealous, hang their sword in front of the tent, shout that enemies have attacked, K. runs out, the sword cuts off his legs; he sees a deer , carrying the sun on his horns, a man runs after him; says that he sees only when he is near the sun; the blind man puts legless K. on his back, walks, K. sees an armless man chasing the same deer; he explains that the deer promised to bring it to people the sun, but did not bring it, people froze, the handless man's hands froze; three companions decide to get a female cook, kidnap the khan's daughter, and tell them not to let it go out fire; the fire goes out, the girl comes to the old woman for fire; she gives coals, finds a girl on an ash trail, asks her to look in her hair, sucks her bone marrow; the girl turns yellow, the companions take turns they guard, only K. hits her so that she can not withstand the blows; K. makes her swallow and belch the girl, blind, armless; regurgitated are healed; swallowing K., does not want to belch him; exes blind and armless cut her into pieces; the sparrow screams "little finger", the companions cut his little finger, K. comes out, he has legs again; returns his daughter to Khan; K. marries a woman from the golden house, gives the other two companions, brothers makes them servants]: 252-267; 1989, No. 18 (p. Ishyal, Mechetlinsky District, Zap, 1956) [Ubyr-karsyk (UK) tricked the girls away, they stopped going for berries; one morning the girl went down to the stream for water, he is handsome there, promises to send matchmakers; after the wedding, they go to the forest, the husband turned out to be the son of the Criminal Code with an ear on the back of his head, a crooked nose, grinned teeth; her daughter-in-law is tormented by work; she dreams of visiting relatives; the Criminal Code allows and orders to bake cakes for the road; while the daughter-in-law went to the neighbors for a dress, the UK ate cakes; the same the next day; on the third daughter-in-law went in an old dress; the UK pursues; the daughter-in-law first throws a flat cake behind, then cuts herself off fingers; hands; but did not abandon the child; after dark she ran home; mother, father, brother's wife do not unlock, they say that the daughter (sister-in-law) will not walk at night; the UK ran up, ate her daughter-in-law with her as a child, she hung her hair, guts, veins on the handle of the sheepfold; in the morning, the brother thinks that the wolf ate the sheep; the father advises to make good violin strings out of veins; the brother made, played, the violin sings: You, mother, She didn't open the door for me - the Criminal Code ate me. You, father, didn't open the door for me - your matchmaker ate me. You, daughter-in-law, didn't open the door for me - the Criminal Code ate me. You, brother, didn't open the door for me - the Criminal Code ate me. Relatives understood and cried; her brother came to the Criminal Code hut, there was a beautiful girl; he hit her on the head with a violin, the girl turned into a monster, then into a double-headed snake; her brother cut off both heads with a sword, cut off the body to pieces, I wanted to burn it; a voice hears: My brother, don't burn us, don't leave us here! He began to scatter pieces, his sister came out of one big one, and her child came out of the other little one; they began to live well; that huntsman's violin is still singing; don't open the door! Do not offend your daughter-in-law..]: 110-115.

Turkestan. Kazakhs [after the death of their parents, Kara-Uyrek and his two brothers separated; KU released three girls who were stabbed by their older brothers with a pin, killed these brothers; finds his own impoverished brothers; they envy KU as if he took the most beautiful girl; leave a sword in front of the entrance to the yurt, KU goes out, is left without legs; his wife hides food and weapons for him; comes blind, carries him, a speedboat comes to live with them; they kidnapped the girl Sarkyt to cook for them, was named sister; S. told the cat that she did not get her, ate the baursaks herself; the cat extinguished the fire in revenge; S. went to look for fire, he has seven-headed Malmouse-Kempir with one eye in his forehead; she sucks her blood through her toe, promises to eat it if she tells her brothers; gives ash, tells her on the way home says, "Become chingil"; a prickly chingil (Nalimodendron halodendron) grows on the sides, the fire lights up at home; every day JK comes to suck blood; the brothers dig a hole, cover them with a nightmare; JK fails, her they cut off 6 heads out of 7; they promise not to kill if she makes them healthy and beautiful; she swallows, regurgitates S., a blind man, a speedboat; KU does not belch; he is found by killing JK and crushing the little finger bone; S. returned to their parents, passed off as a blind former; KU and the speedboat come to the KU brothers unrecognized; offer to shoot; the arrows of the brothers themselves, KU and the speedboat fall on their heads, kill them; KU took his wife, became khan, made a speedboat a vizier, married his wife's sister to him]: Tursunov 1983:80-86.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians [Olönbir quarrels with his brother, his people and property burn down, he commits suicide; brother and sister remain; sister offers to part, gives his brother the name Madai-Kara ; heroes passing by beat him with a whip; he enters the house of the blind old man and old woman, steals meat from the cauldron; remains a servant; at the foot of the iron poplar fights with J am-j eak He, who has one eye in his forehead; he advises him to rip open his stomach, throw his guts over him; MK throws them on a stone, the stone burns; opens J.'s thumb, takes out four eyes, inserts the elderly; they see the light, the old man turns out to be a khan, gives MK his wife Altyn-Tadi; MK hits Yerlik's blue bull in the only vulnerable place - a wart; he lives with E. for a hundred years, marries on his daughter Yerke-Kara; she rides a horse for a long time, he reproaches her for infidelity, beats her; returns to earth, becomes khan]: Nikiforov 1915:105-116; South Altai Tuvans [Han Tö Gusvek goes north to get a new wife; meets and companions a rearranging mountain, swallowing lakes; defeats and makes a sister hero named Er Dungsai; wife obtained by Er Dungsay disappears; HT's wife says she was swallowed by the poisonous yellow sea serpent Hortan Shar Mogay; he is hit with an arrow and pulled out, released from the wombs of swallowed people; hanshi is not among them; the bird screams Little finger; khansha comes out of a cut little finger]: Taube 1994, No. 17:155-183; South Altai Tuvans [Bögen Saggan Toolaj was born {not a woman, but} a husband; attacked by a terrible giant Chureldej Chaan, deciding to seize the country before B. matured; the wives of B.'s two older brothers hid the baby in a poplar hollow, putting birch roots in their mouths instead of nipples; B. grew up, found an empty freaky; fell off stones from the hearth, he found a pipe, a flint, a ball of rope with a silver end and a silver stick; found his older brothers; went west, paving the road with a silver stick, through the windbreak and through the mountain, swam across the sea; when he came to Jess Mangnai, forced her to give him the best food; DM himself easily won; came to his wife H., who was kind to him; turning to Nebu-Altai for help, B. won with difficulty H., drank his blood and grinded him in a stone mill; the houses of the older brothers' wives became jealous of B. and persuaded the husbands to place the sword with a point at the entrance to B.'s yurt; they began to shout that robbery, B. jumped out, the sword cut off his legs; brothers and wives migrated; B. managed to kill the mare, ate its meat; one day mush tried to nibble on his severed legs and B. tore off her two legs himself; another mouse brought herbs, mouse his legs grew; B. also ate herbs, the meat grew together, but the bones did not grow together; Sean Shonanung Shilvey came, whom his brothers dazzled out of envy; put B. on his shoulders, went, and B. showed the way; they met a man whose hands were greedily cut off by his brothers; in heaven, Arykcha's youngest daughter Khaan can heal a cripple; B. flew there with a falcon, then became a pacer and carried the princess to the ground; fire went out because the men looked at the girl; the girl went to get fire to the old woman Jelbag; she poured ash hot into her hem, pierced the hole to leave an ash trail; the jelbege followed the trail and drank the girl's blood; the men put the lifeless girl in a place of honor; the old woman came and swallowed her; the men grabbed the old woman, and the nightingale began to sing, "Little finger, little finger"; they cut off the little finger and the girl came out of it alive and well; the men forced the jelbega to swallow them; she spit out two, and S. was also in her little finger; all three became healthy, prettier; the old woman was released; the girl returned to heaven; men found their wives, whom their brothers and their wives were tormented by hard work; brothers and their wives were tortured and then thrown into the steppes: one without legs, the other without arms, the third without eyes; when they died, those turned into flies and mosquitoes]: Taube 1978, No. 27:97-120 (=Taube 1994, No. 5:70-88; Tuvans [the kid's seven mothers are missing; old woman Chylbyga is walking; the kid pretends to be dead; she brings it to her house, leaves it to roast above the fire; her children eat his feces and urine, believing it's fat; he promises them the best if they release it; kills, roasts their liver and kidneys, digs a hole with two ways out; C. eats the children's liver and kidneys; rushes to one or the other way out of the hole; asks how to kill him; hit him with an ax; he jumps out, she hits herself in the crotch, dying asks not to cut her little finger; he cuts, there are seven mothers there, he freed them]: Samdan 1994, No. 18:361-364; Buryats [brother Garyulai-Mergen and sister Agu-Nogon-Abaha; G. goes hunting, A 7-headed mangathai asks: what is behind you - your soul or the soul of your horse? G. looked around, the mangathai swallowed it, spit out his clothes; the horse picked up G.'s clothes and weapons, brought it to his sister; changed into her brother's clothes, met the mangathaya, asked him the same question herself, he looked around. she killed him with an arrow, caught and killed a horse; her horse tells her to cut the mangathaya's right thumb, containing her brother's bones; burned the bodies of the mangathai and his horse; asked the mountain to open, put it in preserving her brother's bone; dressed as a groom in a man's outfit, she went to the three daughters of the deity Esege-Malan, who can revive the dead; the horse warned not to drink tea from a dangerous woman, A. splashed it out on her tea, she died; killed a bear who ravaged an anthill, the ant khan promised to help; the horse lifted A. to a steep high mountain, where a source of living water, A. got drunk, became even stronger; revived people whose bones under the mountain; revived three invisible bars who were dying of fatigue; revived a dying dog, which may also be invisible; two more suitors came to E. to marry his daughters; A. called herself in the name of his brother - G.; E. invites them to fight each other; the invisible bator fights instead of A., wins; shaman: imaginary G. is a girl in disguise; E. arranges new tests; shoot at the target (bator- the invisible man wins); horse racing (the dog detained the rival horses); let each of the grooms spend the night in the barn with the bear (the invisible bator killed the bear, the other suitors killed themselves, E.'s daughters revived them); separate red and white millet (ants separated); the imaginary G. received daughters E.; said that he must first visit his herds; on the way, daughter E. again tests her husband: they put fire on him sleeping, a snake; he does not pay attention; A. took G.'s bones from the mountain, put his clothes and weapons next to him, left a note for her brother in her clothes, became a hare herself, ran into the forest; E.'s daughters revived G., became his wives; G. found the hare, grabbed it, it became A.; E.'s daughters forgave A. her deception; they have a silver scoop containing any food and drink; everything is fine]: Eliasov 1959:92-109.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 16 (western 1985 in Yakutsk from a native of Verkhoyansky ulus) [Angaa Mangys took horses, cows, sons, daughters from old woman Nyy-Nyy; Chyngyrykaan advised bury two eggs near the hearth, next to a tub with two pike and a poker, cover the stone with a horse's bottom at the doorstep, nail awls in the door, traps on the window; go for pike in a thimble sleigh, harness a louse, two needles are servants; AM came in, slipped on a stone, broke his ribs, fell into a trap with his fingers, began to fan the fire, his eggs burst, burned his eyes, he put his hands in the tub, his pike grabbed him, the old woman killed his palm tree; C. ordered to prick the pad of his left thumb, horses, cows, sons, daughters of the old woman came out; AM's body was burned]: 177-185; Ergis 1964, No. 38 (central, 4th Malzhagar Nasleg Khangalassky ulus) [Chaachahaan promises to slaughter a bull by evening; his son Ot Atah ("grass leg") happily started riding, fell, broke his right leg, began to ride on the other leg, also broke it, stood on both arms were broken, he also broke them, began to ride on his head, his head flew off, began to roll on his chest, his chest broke, and the guy died from it; Ora Mayi's son ("naughty brain") ran to collect branches, threw them up, a branch fell on his head, he died; his son Ot Syalyya ("grass pants") was allowed to hold a burning splint, he accidentally set fire to his pants, burned down, died; the wife of the old woman Chabychahaan (name birch bark dishes), sitting and stirring the bull's blood in birch bark dishes, fell into this dish with blood and died; son Sebirdeh Tues ("foliage chest") was walking carrying bovine breast, his chest broke, and he died; Kyl Kyuemei's daughter ("hairthroat") wanted to fry and eat the bull's thin oil seal, clay from the hearth stuck to the omentum, swallowed it, choked and died; Habah's son Bas ("bubble-head") said My relatives all died, stood, cried, scratching his head, suddenly his fingers dug into his head, because of this he died; C. ate one fried intestine, decided to call Mogus to reduce meat; elder, middle Ala Mogus says that they have lost their ability to eat; the youngest agrees to come, eats meat and the dead, carries C. himself as a gift to his wife; he cuts through the bag, falls out; the wife swallowed in a hurry a thimble with a needle, found an empty bag; Mogus decided that she ate C. in the yard, ripped her stomach, and a needle and a thimble fell out; Mogus returns for C., who hides himself in dry bark, M. tramples C. that bones are cracking; at M. C. says it's better to eat it with small dried fish; promises M.'s children to make a spoon, who give him their father's knife, he cuts off their heads, puts them on their bed, cooks their meat, hides in a hole leading from home; to get into it, M. becomes thin, C. cuts off his head, takes the swallowed ones out of his stomach; does not find live water; the bird screams, Little finger; C. cuts M.'s little finger, there is a snuffbox with live with water, it gives life to his wife and children]: 112-116.