K89B. A brother left in the tree .31.32.35.37.

At the beginning of the story, a sister breaks up with her brothers (or one brother) who die, stay in trees, on a hill, go up to heaven, etc., usually after a successful when married, the sister meets brothers who have found a superhuman nature again.

Eastern Sami, Komi, Northern Mansi, Northern and Eastern Khanty, Nenets (Yamal, Gydan, Taimyr), Northern and Southern Selkups, Negidals, Nanais, Orochi, Udege, Wilta.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami (Yokang dialect) [three sons and a daughter were left after the death of her parents; they rode by boat along the coast; the girl saw a gilded conifer on the shore, asked stop; the elder brother said that he would bring the branch himself, went ashore and stayed there; so three times, all three brothers stayed in different places on the shore; the girl swam to the pier, went ashore, the spindle rolled up, the spindle fell off and rolled, the girl followed it; came to the wind, there was no door, the voice from the inside: stroke the door handle; inside the old man and the old woman; they say that the bride came to their youngest son ; there are also two older daughters-in-law; three sons came, the youngest saw that the girl had the sun on her forehead, stars on the cheeks, a month on the back of her head, gold to the elbows, silver to the knees; had a wedding; the older daughters-in-law were daughters a spider, asking for sons with dandruff heads and fat bellies like themselves; the youngest asks for people like her; the elders plugged her mouth with a button, pushed her with a spindle, put fire under the barn; the old man took his youngest daughter-in-law out of the fire, who is pale; the elders say that she ate her child; the old man stroked the younger one on the back of the head, the button jumped out; so it happened two more times (the third time it should had to give birth to a daughter); after the third time, the youngest tells her husband that geese are screaming and a swan; two geese and a swan came down and became boys and a girl; mother and father recognized their children; spider daughters and their children They told me to jump over the fire, they fell into it and burned down]: Kert 1961, No. 44:175-179.

Volga - Perm. Komi: Lytkin 1961, No. 2 [after the death of the elderly, two boys and a girl Tolissya remained; they took a sled and ran out of the house; there is an aspen with red leaves; one brother climbed in: I'll throw it to you toys; threw leaves, and then did not cry; the other aspen and her second brother had the same thing; the sister came alone to the defender; she put her in a cave in a hot cauldron, put a hot stove on her head, and at her legs She hammered hot nails, stuck hot needles into her hands, put hot earrings in her ears, poured hot tin into her eyes; the brothers grew up and live at home; one went down to the river to water the horse and heard his sister singing ( I'm sitting in a cave on a hot pot, etc.); another brother does not believe it; then he went and heard Tolissi's voice; (end)]: 207-208; Plesovsky 1975 [three brothers and sister buried their mother under the stove, my father under the stove, my father under the stove millstone, went to look for happiness; the eldest climbs a silver birch tree to break silver branches; the sister warns that he will get stuck; he really can't go down, stays on the birch tree; the same with middle (golden birch), with her younger brother (pearl); the girl came to the prince's house, hid under an overturned vat, began to sing a song about her brothers; the eldest, middle sons of the prince cannot find a singer, the youngest finds; the girl says she heard him promise to help her brothers out; they find a younger brother, the prince's son waves his sleeve, stuck on a pearl birch tree descends; the same with the brothers on a gold and silver birch trees; a girl marries the prince's youngest son]: 15-17; (cf. Mordovians (Erzya): Evseviev 1964, No. 18 [the old man is three years old in the forest, bent down for a drink, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses a stallion, a barn, a mill, demands to give what he does not know at home; old man comes home to meet her three-year-old daughter; she has grown up, she has one silver tooth; she waxed it, went to Vedyava; towards the old people, teeth like splints, eyes like buckets, did not recognize the girl; more ugly old women, the girl laughed at them, the wax fell off, the old men and old women ran after the girl; she threw a maple scallop (maple forest), a bar (mountain), a brush; a tree grew, the girl climbed on it, the old men and the old women began to chew; the girl asks her sister in the sky to pull the thread down; she replies that she will first plow the field, sow hemp; remove hemp; wet the hemp; she will collapse; she will hide; she lowered the thread, the sister climbed, the tree collapsed; old men and old women began to chew on each other; the sister's husband in the sky was a bear, she hid the girl under a pile of garbage; the bear began to eat garbage, did not finish eating, did not find the girl; the sister turned the girl into a fever, hid it in the coals; the bear began to eat the coals, did not finish eating; she hid it in the chest, the bear wants to eat the chest, the sister tells her to take the chest to her parents; on the way, the bear wants to open it, the girl from the chest: I see, I see; the bear left the chest in the yard, the daughter returned to her parents]: 150-154 (=Samorodov 1972:262-268, =Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); Paasonen 1941 [ on the way from abroad, the old man leaned down for a drink, the devil grabs his beard, tells him to promise to give what he does not know at home; he meets his daughter at home, her front tooth is silver, he is waxed; parents decide send her to her older sister; she meets young devils, then middle-aged devils, replies that she did not see a girl with a silver tooth; laughs at the old ones, the wax falls off, the devils are chasing, the girl the follower throws back parts of the spinning wheel; a lime, maple, birch forest grows, the devils gnaw through them; when he throws Wirtel, a tin mountain grows up, the girl climbs on it, calls the eldest sister who is in heaven; that follower replies that she is already plowing the field, sowing, collecting, fluttering hemp, winding a rope, etc.; the devils have almost gnawed through the mountain, the girl climbs the rope to her sister, she consistently hides it from her Bear husband, making it a needle in moss, coal among coals, garbage in a pile of garbage; the bear eats it but does not find the girl; the sister turns the girl into a pea, hides it in a cake, tells the Bear to take the gift to her father; The silver tooth from the box says, I see every time the Bear wants to eat a cake; at the house, the Bear was attacked by dogs, he ran away, his father found daughter; at home The bear is looking for a wife to eat; she tells him to open his mouth on the roof, throws a millstone there, the Bear dies]: 282-291).

Western Siberia. Northern Mansi: Kuzakova 1994 (p. Altatumb, Severnaya Sosva) [Mos-ne has a boy and a girl, and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to roll down the mountain, kills M. by riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see guts mothers; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are M.'s children, and M.'s children are hiding; they run, throw a comb (forest), a bar (stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. jumped out from under the stump, one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down for a drink, girl M. became her to drown, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge drawn by black ones, married the mayor (Usyn-Otyr-Oika), M. got into a sledge with white deer, married Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother , found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid the sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it has returned]: 110-112 (=Lukina 1990, No. 128:334-336); Kupriyanova 1960 [Mos-ne and Por - ne live together, both have two children - a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. by riding down the back with iron skis; M.'s children find guts in the grass mothers, run to her sister; P. tells another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, but she kills P.'s children; M.'s children run, throw a comb, whetstone, matches, a thicket, a mountain, a fire; M.'s children sit on the bed, which falls apart, three times appear; one made friends with them, goes on with them; the boy pricked his finger with an awl, died; P. sat in a sledge with the whites (this is the Ushing-Oyr-oiki sledge), and M. - with black deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), come to town; M. finds a brother, he is married; his sister gets a wagon train of deer, leaves with her brother, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the hare tells the girl that the sun will appear again; grandfather tells P. to let go of the sun, it is light again]: 109-112; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Khoshlog village, written by the author from his mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each has a daughter and son; P. calls collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses it with her iron skis; M.'s daughter looks in, sees P.'s children asking them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of M.'s children; daughter M. puts her brother in the back, runs, throws a crest (thicket) behind, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone (mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; M.'s daughter eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to her brother who is in this time falls into the ground; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, takes her clothes, gives her measles; daughter M. asks for her bag back, his clothes are better than before; son Toyton-Toiki and son Usyn-Otyr-Toika shoot at the arrow, P.'s daughter mistakenly grabs TT's arrow, marries him, daughter M. marries WOT's son; M.'s daughter goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; a woman tells the dogs to lick the ice and snow from their man; M.'s daughter sees her brother, he married Misna; when she tried to pick him out of the ground, she poked him in the eye, now one eye is gone; daughter M. they gave a wagon train of deer; she arrives where her daughter P. left; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, and white deer; daughter P. says that she was given a bast rope, half of the clay pot, the magpie, the crucian carp was harnessed, the clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to make an ice-hole, otherwise the magpie, the crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; on half the pot will not fall far; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing sound, his grandfather with a knock; the father of daughter M.'s husband is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove from the sun, the moon; daughter M. takes off, attaches it to the sledge, it turns dark, the father-in-law cannot go to war; says he was joking, M.'s daughter returns the stars to the sky]: 289-301; northern Khanty: Baulo et al. 2005, № 1 (b. Son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. to roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to sky), comb (forest), sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister manages to grab only his eye; touches a rotten birch stump from under it a new P. comes out; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries Voshan-Kurtan's son, an old man, a young M. for Tonton's son; daughters-in-law go home; where Brother is missing, M. sees a house, there is a woman; brother comes, M. gives him his eye; sending his sister home, brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her gaze fell, those deer were gone, the others were following her ; argish P. is not brought by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, talking about it; the nail is removed, the man comes to life, P. is torn into parts by deer]: 236-239; Nikolaeva 1999, No. 1 (Obdorsk) [Mos woman and Por woman live together, each has a daughter and son; in spring P. leads M. to drink water, drowns in the river, freshens, brings meat home; daughter M. tells his younger brother that their mother was eaten; hears P. promises his children that they will get young fat, not old fat; M.'s daughter takes an iron flint, whetstone, comb, brother, runs away, leaving two birds under the canopy so that P. thinks that the children are there; P. chases children; M.'s daughter throws a comb (thicket), a whetstone (rock), a flint (a wall of fire, P. stops pursuing); forty, a crow tells children not spending the night in the forest; brother feels bad, sister is preparing for the night, brother died; sister buried him, moved on, daughter P. jumped out of the larch stump; they went together, saw a white and black sleigh, white and a black man; a white arrow fell next to M.'s daughter, a black arrow next to P.'s daughter; P.'s daughter wants to become a white wife, promises to give birth to golden children, but black did not let her in; both gave birth to a son; daughter P. says that M.'s son has eyes and ears on the back of his head; the white looks - there is a golden child; they took P.'s daughter to the forest, threw her into the fire; daughter M. went to the tree where she buried her brother; there is a beautiful house, brother went out to meet in fur clothes; everything is fine]: 133-137; Eastern Khanty (b. Wah) [Lisa and Hare live together, both have children; Lisa offers sledding down the mountain, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Hare's son and daughter see Lisa feeding them meat the mothers of their children, offers to eat their children Bunnies; they run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; the fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberries, the brother falls into the ground; (more the sister is called the woman Moses); hits the stump, from there the Por woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on M.'s rich fur clothes, gives M. her measles; in the city of M. succeeds pick up the arrow of the son of an Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton-Old Man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, servant, or cunning); respectively, they marry; P. weaves a rope, who was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is his brother; sends his sister a herd of deer]: Lukina 1990, No. 28:101 -104; Khanty [{the episode of the competition between two daughters-in-law is not in this text, but given Lukina's version and other West Siberian texts, this is most likely an accidental defect}; going hunting, brother tells Sister Machenkat to feed whoever comes - a chipmunk, a magpie; a bear comes, M. throws hot ash at her; she runs away along the road his brother took; M. goes to look for her brother, trail becomes a 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 tries 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; Colkett takes M., Kana the 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 Bear takes off bear skin, becomes beautiful; her cheek is burned, she forgives M.]: Koptelov 1956:175-180; Nenets: Golovnev 2004 (Gydan, West 1979) [Parne and Nenei-ne (Real Woman) they go to tear the grass on the insoles; P. scratched N.'s face, makes him drink water, sticks her head into the lake and kills; N.'s daughter sees her mother's earrings in the grass; calms her younger brother, but hears P. Wenwasota (Dog-ass) scream, Give us kidneys; P. promises them the meat of their peers tomorrow; N.'s children left their mother's gold-filled kitties on their bed instead of themselves, ran away; the girl throws the board for cutting skins, a wooden mountain grows; an iron scraper is an iron mountain; a flint is an iron ridge; children ask an old woman to transport them across the river, praise her face and posture, she tells her son their transport; P. scolds the old woman's appearance, the old woman's son overturns the boat, P. sinks; the old woman sends the children out of her house by boat, tells them not to look back; the boy looks around, the branches tear him in half; half of the brother does not tell her sister to leave her under the boat, by the birch tree, in the willow tree, near the larch trees, each time explains that people will come, it will be noisy; agrees to be left on a sandy hill; the girl's leg fails, she sees seven Parnay girls below, runs, one catches up with her, scratches her face; they see two men, P. sits down with the owner of the white deer, the girl black; after a while, both girls must go home for gifts for her husbands; P. goes to a hole in the ground, returns from the land of Seven Parnay with a herd of mice; the girl finds a revived brother, who gives her new clothes and argish; P.'s husband is furious with her mice, the girl's husband is happy with the gifts; P. is thrown into the fire, mosquitoes appear from the ashes]: 248-251 (retelling in Golovnev 1995:475-477); Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51 (written by a woman in Obdorsk/Salekhard) [(=Labanauskas 2001:155-163); the youngest of the seven brothers asks his sister to sew a quiver; the quiver is ready, the young man says it will suit his oldest brother; this is how the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; leaving for seven days of hunting, the brothers do not tell her sister to leave the house; on the seventh day, the sister goes out and sees the tracks of the brothers who have become animals diverging in seven directions: a lion, a wolverine, a wolverine, a wolf, a polar bear, an ermine, a sable, a brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears introduce her; a woman tells the girl that her younger brother is angry, hides her; in the morning she tells her to follow the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks up a hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee emerges from it; takes her clothes, scratches her face; the girl dresses in even more beautiful clothes from a bag given by her bear brother's wife ; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white, a girl with black deer, husbands their siblings, comes to their father; he sends them to their relatives; a witch falls into a hole; a girl comes to his bear brother; he takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges drawn by mammoths; his sister's husband must kiss the mammoths; on the way back, the witch catches up with the girl, with mice drawn into her sledge; goods brought on mammoths filled the house; mice bit the hands of the witch's husband, the old people handed them over; the girl gives birth to a son, the witch gives birth to a half-dog, puts the girl, hides her son under the chips behind the plague; seals the girl's eyes with glue; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch pulls her out, throws her into the lake, saying, Water is your father, water is your mother; at the request of the witch, they left the blind, they migrated themselves; husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; a half-dog brings game to his mother; admits that it is not him who kills her, but a boy coming out of the lake; together they grab a water boy; at the mother's request, he goes down a half-dog into the ice-hole to the owner of the water instead of himself; washes his mother's eyes; she knocks iron ropes off the sledge, deer appear from there; the young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he admits son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: 147-165; Nenyang 1997:61-64 (Taimyr, Zap. Labanauskas; =Nenyang 1994:63-66) [seven brothers have an older sister; the youngest asks to sew a quiver, is happy, tells them not to go out for seven days while the brothers are hunting; on the seventh day, the sister follows the brothers' footsteps until birch trees; her footprints of seven animals, the youngest left as a bear; she follows his footsteps to the den; the Bear's wife says that she is to blame, leaving the day before the deadline, tells her to leave, walk along the lowland; sister walks along the lowland hills, sits on a stump, from there a witch in clothes jumps out of the bark, makes him change clothes; takes a man with white deer, a girl takes what is dark; gives birth to a boy, a witch hides he is replaced by chips, replaced by a half-dog, seals the woman's eyes; a birch tree grows from under the chips, the witch throws her into the lake, says that the water is his father, the water is his mother; tells him to migrate; the woman raises a half-dog, a real child lives in the water; A half-dog grabs a child who has come out of the water, calls a woman to help; ice floes crawl into the plague; a boy out of the water advises giving the owner of the lake instead of himself A half-dog; they drown, a woman and her son live well]; the northern Selkups [Natank ("girl") and Tomnank ("frog" + two diminutive suffixes) live in the same camp; T. calls N. collects grass for insoles, kills N., pierces her ear with a blade of grass (sliver); daughter N. notices her mother's leg sticking out from under the tire on the sledge; spies on T. cutting the corpse, promises her 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 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, marry 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 get to know each other, when a stream of milk T. 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 N.'s son, keeps him; the narrator believes this is a Ket fairy tale]: Tuchkova 2004:208-209; Southern Selkups [when going hunting, the brother tells his sister to feed everyone whoever comes; a bear comes in, her sister throws hot ash in her face; her brother does not return, her sister goes to look for him, a frog jumps out of the stump, offers to live together, cooks rotten things, offers to change skis and fur coats; when they come to town, they change again, the girl gets her sable coat, the frog gets her torn; the guy with the golden belt came up to the frog, she became a beautiful girl, a handsome guy with a simple She took the girl with a belt; she takes her husband to her home; two cedar bears throw bumps, call them aunt and uncle, call them to her house; the girl apologizes to the Bear (she is her brother's wife, became woman, her cheek is burned)]: Bykonya et al. 1996:178-185 (=Pukhnachev 1966:20-24).

Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [the older sister tells the father that the youngest has a man; he drives her daughter away; the old woman warns her not to tie her boots if they untie; she violates the ban; Frog invites her to her house, takes her jewelry and clothes, gives her her frog clothes; the girl turns into a stick; Vayamilan marries the Frog, Tybdemalan sits on the girl's bunk, scolds a stick with a knife, blood flows; returns for a knife, the stick turns into a girl, he takes her as his wife; his father-in-law asks his daughters-in-law to bring him treats, dowry clothes, bring relatives; Frog cooks frog caviar, brings leaves, frogs; a girl goes to larch, bags of delicious food rich in clothes fall from the top to her; two handsome men descend from the sky - they are her relatives; take away the Frog's clothes and jewelry; The Frog and her husband are strangled]: Cincius 1982, No. 25:135-139; Nanais [the seven Mergen Brothers have a younger sister Pudin; the brothers say that packs will now arrive cannibal squirrels, hide P. in a hole near the hearth, lubricate all household items with the interior fat of a wild animal, forgot a torn fishskin sneaker; put a bag of beast blood on the sisters's chest; firing arrows one in the tail is different, they make a chain of arrows, go up to the sky; the sneaker gives out to the squirrels, where P., they pierce their spears at the hearth, one is bloody, they think they have killed P., leave; P. harnesses the dog into sledges, leaves; the sledge turned the bump, the Frog came out from under it, P. asked to spend the night; complains that the frogs were interfering, the Frog replies that they were her relatives; two Mergens come, P. did not have time to put on her robe, turned into a red branch; the elder M. sat on the Frog's can, the youngest took a red branch, began to cut, blood flowed; the eldest took the Frog away, she put on P.'s robe; P. remained to tie the wound; younger M. forgot the knife, came back, married P., they catch up with the Frog and the elder M., P. takes away his robe, gives it to her from fish skin; before that, the Frog asks hazel, reddened, bird cherry, everyone answers that she is ugly in any robe; the Frog replies that he will make them kindling, toys for children, cleaning chips; Mergen's parents cover the floor with silk, the Frog walks on it, P. turns so as not to get dirty; father-in-law wants to warm up, the Frog heats the stove, sparks fly to his father-in-law; P. asks the brothers to send good firewood, the bundle falls from the sky, the father-in-law is happy; The frog serves the father-in-law frog caviar, P. - porridge with oil that the brothers threw off; father-in-law wants to see relatives of daughters-in-law, Frog brings frogs, brothers to P., give silk and fur clothes, return to heaven; Frog swallows spoons, ladles to simulate pregnancy, she is driven away, she jumps into the lake; P. gives birth to an heir son]: Hodger 2011:67-77; Orochi: Arsenyev 1995 (1) [Egde hunted, broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for answer; E. smeared oil on the whole tree, hid his sister (named Bolige at the end) in the ground under a fire, began to shoot arrows into the sky, they pierced each other's tail, E. climbed them into the sky; squirrels they came, all the objects were silent, there was an old street in the corner, it was not smeared, he said where B. was; the squirrels pricked the fire with a spear, but E. poured blood in advance; when they saw blood on the spear, the squirrels decided that they had killed B., left; B. broke the street, came to the house where Gilenyr's owner; he still laughs, she asks if he wants to marry her; I agree if G. leaves a bunch of fish and fish one by one; (apparently, G. did) ; came to his mother; she ordered to make a seven-legged shovel out of birch bark so that she could come home and bring birch bark; he made, the old woman and B. made a farce out of birch bark; B. sat on a shovel, covered it birch bark; put it on the ice, the shovel carried B. away; the frog invited B. to her bump; drove away a lizard, a snake, and more frogs; but B. made her farce out of birch bark; two brothers came, the Frog said that it was just her and the dog; B. hid under the reeds; the youngest began to slaughter it, bleed; the eldest took the Frog and all his belongings; the youngest said that he forgot the knife, came back, B. was naked there; he fixed it frog clothes; they caught up with the older brother and the Frog; B. took away her clothes from the Frog; the brothers' father asks the Frog to cook chumiza, she cooks sand; tells B. to cook; she did not know where the chumiza was, went to the taiga, her seven brothers gave her chumiz, did not tell her where she got it; they gave porridge to the Frog, the porridge was hot; her father-in-law told B. to bring firewood, again the brothers gave it; her father-in-law went with B., she showed him her brothers he is happy; they ordered B. not to be sent to the forest anymore; the old man and B. began to live well, the Frog was driven away]: 122-125; Margaritov 1888 [knocking down pegs (a kind of game) with a stick, seven brothers accidentally injure a squirrel, who comes to play with them; she promises revenge by bringing other squirrels; the brothers hide their sister under the hearth with a bag of blood on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce each other's tail, forming chain; they climb into the sky, the youngest is the last, picks up arrows; old boots give out to squirrels, how the brothers left, where the sister is hidden; squirrels pierce the wineskin, think they have killed the girl, leave; sister goes looking for brothers, comes to the Frog; she takes her clothes, puts her on; the girl hides inside a stick; two brothers come, the eldest sits next to the Frog, the youngest by the stick, scolds her with a knife, blood comes out on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for a knife, finds a naked girl who does not have time to hide in the stick again, tells her story; in her older brother's house, the Frog shows her brothers' father-in-law - they are frogs; he drives her daughter-in-law away; the girl calls her brothers, Enduri sends them from heaven; they give them rich clothes, stay for three days, return to heaven; the girl is recognized as the wife of her younger brother]: 29 (quail in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:403-405, in Sangi 1989; 285-287); Udege: Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 31 [when the squirrel army approaches seven The brothers hide Sister Bele under the hearth, go to heaven themselves; they smear various objects with bacon, forgot to smear their flip-flops; they told the squirrels where the girl is; squirrels hit the hearth with spears, see them on spears the blood that the brothers sprayed there in advance; left; Bele harnessed the sledges, they caught on the marsh bump; there Emende, her relatives, frogs; began to live together; two brothers came, b. turned into an angelica; the elder brother married E., who put on a silk robe b., left her fish-skin clothes; the youngest cut the angelica with a knife, saw blood; returned from the road for a forgotten knife, saw b., married; the brothers' father asks to make a fire, cook porridge, show relatives; e. burns lilacs (sparks fly to her father-in-law), cooks sand, brings frogs; brothers B. cook ash firewood for her, they give millet to cook porridge, they come to it; they say that they married seven stars, fly back to heaven], 107 [(Arsenyev's manuscript); hunter Egda broke the squirrel's leg, she promised to come for an answer; he hid his sister under the hearth, pouring blood on top, smeared oil on the whole tree in the house, began shooting arrows into the sky, which pierced one another, rose to heaven; when they saw blood, the squirrels thought they had stabbed sister; she came to Gilenyta, he wanted to marry her, she drove off on the ice with a shovel; the Frog invited her to live with her, she gave her her jewelry; two brothers came, she became grass, one took the Frog, the other cut the grass, noticed blood, came back for a knife, took the girl, the Frog had to give her her jewelry and clothes, take his own; The frog tramples on his father-in-law's expensive bed, the girl folds it; The frog cooks sand, brings crackling firewood, brings a lizard, a snake, a frog to their relatives; seven brothers give their sister a chumiz, chop good firewood, show their father-in-law; the frog is expelled to the swamp]: 227-235, 474-476; wilta [girl picks berries, sits on a bump; Frog jumps out, asks the girl to come to her, picks up her clothes and jewelry, gives her dilapidated fish-skin clothes; they come two brothers, one marries a Frog, the other scolds the wand that the girl has become; blood sticks out on her; he returns for a forgotten knife, finds a girl; father-in-law asks daughters-in-law to bring firewood, berries, bring her relatives; Frog brings raw firewood, dried berries, frogs and lizards; girl - dry firewood, fresh berries, her seven brothers fall from the sky; Frog swallows dishes girls; Frog's husband cuts her stomach, dishes fall out of there]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:373-376.