K89A. Where can I leave my sister? .35.36.37.

After getting rid of the danger, a girl or boy goes with his sister or brother. The sister or brother is maimed, rejects a number of places where they are going to leave them, and remain in the last place proposed. See motif K89.

Nenets, Ents, Nganasans, Sym Evenks, Baikal Evenks, Central Yakuts, Wilta.

Western Siberia. Nenets: Golovnev 2004 (Gydan) [brother does not tell his sister to leave him under a boat, by a birch tree, in a willow tree, near larch trees, agrees to be left on a sandy hill]: 248-251; Castrén 1857, No. 2 [two women live together, one has two daughters; the childless woman asked the other to go to tear the grass on the insoles, stabbed her, fried it, ate it, left her head until another time; told the daughters of the victim that the mother was vomiting the grass will come back, went to bed at the exit from the house herself; the eldest girl found her mother's head; realized that the childless would eat them too; leaves two birds in the plague, and she and her sister ran; after 7 days, the cannibal woke up, set off in pursuit; the eldest throws a whetstone, a river with high mountains appears on both banks; after 7 days the river has dried up, the cannibal chases again; the eldest girl threw her chair (mountain for 7 days); crest (dense forest for 7 days); girls run to the freaky, there are 7 crows; the eldest politely asks about the way to people; the crow sends to the blue sea, there you should ask 7 seagulls; the eldest is polite and with seagulls, the seagull sends her to the strait where the old woman has; the old woman asks what her face, arms, legs, etc. are; the girl praises her (face like the sun, arms and legs fat and shiny, etc.); the old woman screams, the beaver comes, transports the girls across the strait; the cannibal comes running, scolds the old woman, crows and seagulls (the old woman's face is like an animal's ass, crows and seagulls pecked carrion, etc.); an old woman calls a beluga, a cannibal sits on her sharp back, a beluga drowns her; the girls ask the old woman how to get to people; she teaches her how to find a copper boat near the shore, she will bring it herself; but let the younger sister not pick up knives, axes and drills, of which there are many at the bottom of the boat, otherwise she will die and the boat will stop; when it reaches the goal, you must tell the boat to return; after crossing the seas, the boat sailed up the river; in one place two larches close branches above the water; the younger sister took an ax to cut down a branch, but fell dead and the boat stopped; the older sister sent the boat back, began to hit I'll also ask the youngest where to bury her; she tells me not to leave her on the fir - people will go, I'll be frightened; in the birch tree - the same; in the spruce tree - the children will break branches; the eldest is tired of carrying the youngest's body, left in a wolf's lair under a birch tree; she goes on, sees colorful and white deer grazing; two men came, the eldest with a white deer put the girl on his sledge, brought her to the camp, married her; one day I went to look for the missing deer; at the wolf's lair I heard the howling of cubs and the girl crying; told his wife, who realized that it was her sister; they killed the cubs, brought their sister, put them by the fire, and she woke up; married a younger man who had a colorful deer]: 164-169; Enz [a witch and a woman live in the same plague, the woman has two girls; the witch calls to go to tear the grass, suggests looking in her head; she pierces the awl into the woman's ear, she dies; she carries it, wrapped in grass, cooks, eats; the eldest daughter notices her mother's hair; the girls leave their glasses in bed instead of themselves, the eldest takes a thimble a comb, a scraper; they run away, an abandoned scraper turns into a mountain, a comb into a forest, a thimble into an iron hill; the eldest tells the old man that his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back as straight as the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; the witch says that his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back is like stone and clay; he throws the witch into the river, she drowned; sending the girls, the old man tells me not to take anything at the end of the island; the youngest asks for a toy, grabs a spike, her eye has leaked out, she dies; tells her not to leave her on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, a witch emerges from it; they go together; the witch sits on the sledge of a man with white deer, a girl with black deer; the father of the brothers asks her daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from there two bear cubs and a living younger sister come out; the Bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts ; a black man sends bears after kissing them; a witch brings mice, these are her deer, an old man kills them with a kick; an Aenets woman gives birth to a bright boy, a witch is a witch; makes leaving an Aenets woman in an abandoned camp, gives her a witch; takes the boy, throws her into the water; the witch has grown up to help the woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that a hand sticks out of the water; a woman comes up, the boy asks to catch him, calls him his mother; the plague floods the water, it is the water father who comes for the boy; an Aenets woman gives him a witch, the water goes away; the father comes for his wife and son; the brothers' father makes a fire, asks the witch to cast a spike through the fire, pushes her into the fire; her ashes turn into mosquitoes]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 13:82-88; nganasana [a cannibal and a woman have two daughters; a cannibal leads a woman for a talnik, asks her to bend over the water, cuts off her head; at home, the daughter of the victim hears a cannibal promising her daughters that she herself will eat an adult brain, and they will eat a child's brain; girls leave blankets full of brushwood instead, run away, throw their mother's jewelry, creating a mountain, a lake behind them; run to the river; an old man asks what their mother said about him; they say she praised his face and back; he carries them in a boat; the cannibal replies that he is as long as a stick, his back is like an ax; he pushes her out of the boat, she drowns; sisters spend the night in the old man's plague, there is no way out of it in the morning; the youngest comes out with a needle through the gap, the eldest gets stuck, the youngest tears off her head; the braids turn into legs; The head does not want to stay in the fox hole, the wolf, remains in the bear hole, warns not to lean on the stump; the youngest went, leaned, the cannibal jumped out of the stump; they go, disperse, the girl visits her older sister, She has two cubs; the youngest is riding a sledge, the cannibal tells her to change, her sledges are drawn by mice, the ropes are worms; they change back; dogs have bitten mice, the old man pushed the cannibal into the fire; her ash became mosquitoes, beetles, worms, bees]: Porotova 1980:13-19; (cf. Khanty [when going hunting, the brother tells Sister Machenkat to feed anyone who comes - a chipmunk, a magpie; a bear comes, M. throws hot ash at her; she runs away along the road that her brother took; M . goes to look for his brother, the trail becomes bear; finds a sledge, but no brother; M. broke the fire stump, the Frog jumped out, is angry that her house has been broken; they began to live together; The frog is trying to cook rotten; offers to change clothes and skis; on smooth skis Frogs are difficult to walk; change back; come to town, Frog says her fiancé will be with gold garters, fiancé M. with belts; Colket takes M., Kana takes a frog who becomes a girl; M. and her husband go to look for a brother; there are two cubs on the cedar, then turn into boys; one says he will give chips to his aunt, the other to his uncle; brother's wife The bear takes off her bear skin, becomes beautiful; her cheek is burned, she forgives M.]: Koptelov 1956:175-180).

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 21 (Chirombu) [The bear came to two bunny sisters, who poured sand into his eyes with their legs; a grandmother named Kandika came and grabbed As a bear, she told me to bring a table, lowered the Bear on it, returned home; the Bunny sisters decided to leave; K. tells them to walk along an ung-shaped, not kel-shaped road; at the fork they began to fight, youngest won, so we went on a kule-shaped one, she closed on all sides; the eldest became a needle, slipped through, the youngest was a bump, got stuck; the eldest pulled her, tore her head off; put it on a stump, a rock, a deck, the head cries every time; left it on another rock; came to the Frog; after living, went to stay with her relatives; boasted to the Frog that she had a steel thimble; reached the place where the younger sister's head remained, she married a god; there deer rattle through snags holes; the eldest asked to call, rang behind the clouds; the eldest took away the big deer received from her sister as a gift; the frog brought insects, deer carried them away on their hooves; the storm demolished the Frog's house, she dived into the lake], 22 (Chiromba) [Wolverine ate the mother of two hare girls; they poured earth into her eyes, ran to the old woman; she has everything things move and work at her will; they hide in the cauldron, the cauldron does not go; the old woman beats him, the sisters laugh; the old woman calls them to live with her; when they want to leave, the old woman tells them to walk on their hooves, not walk on the kule-shaped; the older sister remembered that it was kel-shaped; they were fighting, the eldest won, they walk along the kule-shaped; the hut surrounds them in the dark; the eldest became a fur, a needle, slips into the crack; the youngest is a bump, gets stuck; the eldest pulls her, tears her head off; leaves her on the deck, her head cries; leaves her on a tree broken by lightning - laughs; the eldest went beyond Thunder, her children are just like her - only heads; the youngest came to the Frog; she brings deer - they are insects, they are blown away by the wind; The frog began to live in water]: 22-23, 23-24; Lukina 2004, No. 3.18 [the fox was eaten by the mother of two bunnies; they climbed onto the roof, asked the fox to open its mouth and eyes, poured sand, ran to their grandmother; one covered himself with a cauldron, the other with a cousin {?} ; grandmother tells the cauldron and the cousin to move, they do not move; the bunnies are out; grandmother: there will be two roads, one with hooves on the other, they dragged the kul along the ungulate; the elder decided to walk along the ungulate, defeated the youngest; came to the cannibal in the dugout; he closed the door; the youngest became a feather and went through the crack, the eldest became a stump, got stuck, only his head came out; the youngest carried his brother's head; put it on the piled tree - head cries; at the stump - the same; by a tree broken by lightning - the head smiled; the youngest came to the frog; she offered to herd deer; he came to where he left his brother; he lives with his wife, wife she gave deer, he brought them to the frog, sent it to pick up the cockroaches; the deer dragged them all in their hooves; the wind started, it carried the frog into the swamp, it became a frog]: 75-77; Evenks Baikal region: Vasilevich 1936, No. 9 (Baikal region) [two sisters find a cradle with a child, bring it home; left alone, the child leaves the cradle, becomes a monster; then returns to the cradle; sisters they throw him into a boiling pot, run away; he chases them; they throw a handkerchief, a comb that turns into a sea, a thicket; the pursuer screams, Mother, where is the ladle, drinks the sea, cuts down the forest; they they throw a file, but it falls in front of them; the youngest becomes hair, the eldest becomes an ant, climbs into a crack in the rock; the monster pulls the youngest, the eldest holds it, the youngest is torn in half; the back the monster eats, the front older sister carries her with her; tries to leave her on a tree stump, but the sister cries; when she leaves her on a hummock, she laughs; the Frog takes her as his wife]: 179-180 (=Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 13:43-45); Titov 1936, No. 9 and 10 (p. Karama, Irkutsk Region) [(No. 9:179-180); two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her good husband, if her husband took him, he would be kind to him woman; the girls agreed to say out loud that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw a handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran away for the boat , swam across); the comb is the thicket (the monster behind the sword, cut through); the bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her ass was stuck; the youngest began to pull, but the monster ate the ass, the youngest returned home alone; (hereinafter No. 10:180-181, from another informant); the youngest dragged the eldest, left it; she cries; dragged again, left, she laughs; went alone, frill untied, she stood on a stick to tie her foot, the Frog jumped out, told her to go to her yurt, fed her, hid it; ordered her to sew a pullover (?) for his husband; the husband was surprised, she never sewed; the next day the Frog tells me to sew a pouch; the husband hid, found the girl, began to live with her; told the frog to pour blood into the skin, wrap himself; that first it was warm, but at night she froze to death; they killed frog deer; the younger sister went to where she left her elder; there was a hut, where her sister was backless, gave the youngest a lot of deer, she brought them to her husband]: 179-181 ; Torgonov 2002 (Bount Evenks) [three girls picked berries; they had no food in the plague, they were starving; one day, when they returned from the forest, they found a child in the cradle; food began to appear in the plague; girls decided to secretly watch who brought it to them; saw that the baby got up from the cradle, turned into a bear and defecates with fish; the girls decided to kill him with a boiling pot over his head; By death, the bear child shouted that reindeer people would now have dishes, arrowheads, scrapers, jewelry, clothes, etc., made from his skin, bones and claws]: 119-120; Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.5 (lake. Churapcha, Churapchinsky Ulus) [the old man and the old woman have two daughters, he catches four hares each; decides to leave his daughters in the forest so that they and the old woman can get two hares each; took his daughters to pick berries, left his own clothes on a stump; but caught only two birds with one stone; the older sister was half abaasa herself; they find an iron yurt with an iron cradle; the youngest spies on the child pulling fish out of his penis, cooks; returns to the cradle; does not tell the younger sister to eat fish, she eats; the old woman tells her to go from the fork to the east; the older sister goes west, the younger sister does not want to throw it; there are no holes in the iron yurt; the eldest makes them as small as sawdust from a needle, they end up in a yurt; inside the abaasa woman does not bring fish, but leeches; the younger sister casts the same spell and ends up outside; the elder sticks her head; the abaas eats her body, the youngest carries her sister's head, throws it under the larch; sees an island on the lake, there is a beautiful one, this is the older sister's abaas essence (the informant does not remember further)], II .1 (Bayangatai ulus) [two orphans went to pick berries; the eldest found a black stone, the youngest white stone (var: the youngest wants to take white, the eldest suggests taking black; only one stone, shaped like man); girls began to live in a hunting lodge, put a stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into a child; when they return, they find baked fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; a child tells objects to move themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes fish out of her mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest puts it quietly in her bosom; the sisters cover the child runs away in a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaas cross, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; the sisters come to the abaasa with one hand and one with her foot; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in the closet; the youngest becomes the size of a needle sawdust, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, her sister pulls, tears off his head, carries it with him; hangs it on larch, his head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a tree broken by lightning, his head calms down; a frog lives in a silver yurt, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband comes, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds a girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; a girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, yurt, cattle; sister married Thunder's son; hides the youngest; Thunder's son finds her, gives her cattle; presses on the way home frog worms, leeches and frogs; the husband tells his wives to lie on the roof; the frog put a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 456-458, 459-465.

Amur - Sakhalin. Wilta [Old Man: "We need to take our girls to the woods so they can get lost. When we're alone, we'll catch three trouts, we'll leave one to eat tomorrow, we'll catch two, and we'll eat them all. And this is how children eat half. The father took his two daughters to pick berries. He put his hat and jacket on the stump and left. The sisters came to the broken house, a small child was sleeping in the cradle, they rocked it, and stayed overnight. Fresh fish at the doorstep in the morning. We decided to watch secretly. The child got up, went to the doorstep and began to take the fish out of the anus. The girls ran away, and the child turned into a healthy old man, chased them. On the other side of the river, grandmother and girls ask to stretch their legs. They ran over her legs like a bridge. Old lady: "You go faster, my little sister lives there. You'll go into the house." On the shore where the grandmother was sitting, the old child also asks to stretch his legs. She pulled it out, he began to cross, and when he came to the middle, the birds flew in and began to peck at the old woman's knees. The man fell into the water and said: Old lady, you can make a boat out of my back, an oar out of my hands, a pot from my head, a stern paddle out of my legs, and a kettle out of my testicles. I swam downstream. The girls came over. Old woman: "When the sun goes down, you will sit quietly, you will not talk or cough. I'll cover for you. My brothers are coming." Brothers enter the smoke hole: one eye in the middle of the forehead, arms in the middle of the chest, and a large mouth. They say it smells human. The old woman had a hard time convincing her that no one was there. In the morning, he gives the girls wings and tells them to fly high. The younger sister is flying higher and the older sister goes down. Someone grabbed her, pulls her, and the youngest is pulling her towards her. She tore off her top to her lower back, put it on her back and flew to good ground. I left it on a tree broken by thunder. She looked around and her sister was crying, she took her again. Found a tree broken by a bear. I looked around - half of my sister was smiling happy. The youngest flew to the house, the man shot, the wings fell off, the girl fell off. She agreed to marry, the house is rich. My husband went to see what happened to his older sister. There are two bears playing there. One has a front part from a person (like a person), and the back is from a bear. "Whoever has a human head must be his wife's sister." I went into the house and saw a girl at the door without a lower part, one back torn off. And a man sits in the middle of the place of honor. The house is full of wild deer meat and dried fat. "Take dried meat for your little sister," the girl suggests. The youngest's husband refuses gifts to the brothers, but agrees to tell his wife how her sister lives. Younger: I'm the one who tore half off and the devils ate half. Husband: Apparently, the bear connected the back of his sister to hers and she became like a bear. Their backs were bearish, and the front parts were human. They saw me and ran to their house. When we entered our house, they became real people. I went to their house, she sat half by the door, and her husband was a young man, a real man. The youngest is afraid to visit the eldest. A few years later, the husband went back to his wife's younger sister. There is no one in the house, the fire is a little burning. The owners have returned - just human beings. My husband went hunting and never came back. His wife remembered him once saying that he would go overseas to look for people who killed his parents. He sailed to the island, put his spear into the seal, which left with his spear. It goes on top of the water, does not fall under water. He sees lots and lots of houses. A bald man came out of one: "What kind of person? Mergen manga or what?" {From this episode, the man's name is Manga}. A person carries a bunch of firewood. The manga lay in the middle of a tree split by thunderstorms. When the man started stepping over it, Manga squeezed him (killed) him. He put on his clothes and pretended to be a lumberjack worker. People: There'll be a wedding tomorrow. Many people came to marry the girl, all dressed in silk clothes. Healthy, tall. They try to move a stone the size of a deer, they try, they suffer, they can't. Manga's relative recognized him. The manga picked up a rock, threw it to a relative, who caught it and threw it back. He says that since they were little, the rock has grown. Whoever will pick it up is a good person. When the party was over, a relative married a neighbor's daughter and took him away, and Manga sailed in a boat to those who ate his parents and killed everyone. These people scooped water out of the bay, Manga home in shallow water, as if skiing, the proposed girl did not take the proposed girl. But when he got home, there were already two wives there, and he started living with them]: Sam et al. 2012:134-143.