K89C. The assistant brother is married to a bear. 32.35.37.

The girl breaks up with her brother or sister. One or that becomes the wife or husband of a bear or bear and helps the girl.

Mordvians, Northern Khanty, Tundra Nenets (Salekhard), Ents, Southern Selkups, Nganasans, Kets, Wilta.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (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 the stallion, the barn, the mill, demands to give what he does not know at home; an old man comes home to meet a 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; then ugly old women, the girl laughed as she looked 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; grew a tree, a girl climbed it, old men and old women began to gnaw; 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 hemp; crumple; hide; let the thread down, sister climbed, the tree collapsed; old men and old women began to chew on each other; sister's husband in heaven is 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 coals, did not finish eating; hid it in the chest, the bear wants to eat the chest, the sister tells me 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 his 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 to 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, devils they chase, the follower girl throws back parts of the spinning wheel; a lime, maple, birch forest grows, the devils gnaw through them; when she throws Wirtel, a tin mountain grows up, the girl climbs it , calls the older sister who is in heaven; that follower replies that she is already plowing the field, sowing, collecting, fluttering hemp, waving a rope, etc.; the devils have almost gnawed through the mountain, the girl climbs the rope to sister, who consistently hides her from her bear husband, making it a needle in moss, a coal in the coals, a garbage dump in a pile of garbage; the bear eats it, but does not find the girl; the sister turns the girl pea, hides it in a cake, tells the Bear to take the hotel to her father; The silver tooth from the box says, I see every time the Bear wants to eat a cake; dogs attacked the Bear outside the house, he ran away, the father found his 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 Khanty (b. Son) [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; the Khanty [{there is no episode of the competition between two daughters-in-law in this text, but given Lukina's version and other West Siberian texts, this is most likely an accidental defect }; when going hunting, the 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 that her brother took; M. goes to look for his brother, the trail becomes bearish; 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 cook rotten; offers to change clothes and skis; on smooth skis Frogs are difficult to walk; change back; come to town, Frog says that her fiancé will be with gold garters, fiancé M. - with belts; Colket takes M., Kana takes 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 that uncle; brother's wife Bear takes off her bear skin, becomes beautiful; her cheek is burned, she forgives M.]: Koptelov 1956:175-180; Nenets (west from 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; so the sister sews six quivers, the seventh for the youngest; when they go hunting for seven days, the brothers do not tell their 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: lion, wolverine, wolf, white bear, ermine, sable, brown bear (younger brother); comes to the den, two bears bring her in; a woman tells the girl that her younger brother is angry, hides her; tells her to go in the morning along the path in the middle of the talnik, but the girl walks along a hill; sits on a stump, the witch Parnee appears from it; takes her clothes, scratches her face; the girl dresses in even more beautiful clothes from the bag, a bear brother given by his wife; a witch sits on a sledge drawn by white deer, 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 her bear brother; he takes off his bear skin, gives iron sledges drawn by mammoths; her sister's husband must kiss mammoths; on the way back, the witch catches up a girl, mice are pulled 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 her He 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 it out, throws it 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; the husband slaughtered two deer for the blind; the half-dog brings game to his mother; he admits that she is not killed by him, but by a boy coming out of the lake; together they grab a water boy; At the request of his mother, he descends the 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, from there deer appear; the young man goes to look for his father, tells a fairy tale (his story), he recognizes his son; a witch arrives, a woman feeds her meat and needles, she dies]: Lehtisalo 1947, No. 51:147-165; 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; 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 are left in bed their glasses 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 his head is white as ripe grass, his face is like the sun, his back is straight like the ice of a lake; the old man sent them; the witch says his head is like tangled bars, his face is like the place where the stone was taken out, his back seems to be out 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 me not leave her on the edge; on the cape; on the hill; agrees to stay in the den; the eldest stops at the stump, a witch appears from it; they go together; the witch sits on the sledge of a man who has white deer, a girl with black ones; the brothers' father asks her daughters-in-law to visit their relatives; an Aenets woman goes to the den, from where two bear cubs and a living younger sister come out again; A bear sends two bear-drawn sledges of gifts; a black man sends bears by 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 an Enets woman leave in an abandoned camp, gives her a witch; takes the boy, throws him into the water; the witch has grown up to help a woman; she wonders why he has been walking on the water for so long; he says that his hand sticks out of the water; a woman comes up, a boy asks to catch him, calls him mom; the plague floods the water, it's the water father who comes for a 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 bell through the fire, pushes him into the fire; her ashes turns into mosquitoes]: Sorokina, Bolina 2005, No. 13:82-88; Southern Selkups [when going hunting, the brother tells her sister to feed whoever comes; a bear enters, her sister throws a hot one in the face ash; brother does not return, sister goes looking for him, a frog jumps out of the stump, offers to live together, cooks rotten things, offers to exchange skis and fur coats; when they come to town, they change again, the girl gets his sable coat, the frog gets the torn one; the guy with the golden belt came up to the frog, she became a beautiful girl, a handsome guy with a simple belt took the girl; she takes her husband to him home; two cedar bears throw bumps, call them aunt and uncle who have come, call them to their house; the girl apologizes to the Bear (she is her brother's wife, she has become a woman, her cheek is burned)]: Bykonya et al. 1996:178-185 (=Pukhnachev 1966:20-24); nganasany [a cannibal and a woman have two daughters each; a cannibal leads a woman for a talnik, asks her to bend over the water, cuts off her head; at home the daughters of the murdered woman hear the cannibal promise her daughters that she will eat the adult brain herself and they will eat the child's brain; the girls leave blankets full of brushwood instead, run away, throw away their mother's jewelry, creating a mountain, a lake behind them; they run to the river; the old man asks what their mother said about him; they say that she praised his face and back; he carries them in a boat; the cannibal replies that he is long like a stick, her back is like an ax; he pushes her out of the boat, she sinks; the sisters spend the night in the old man's plague, there is no way out of him in the morning; the youngest comes out with a needle through the crack, the eldest gets stuck, the youngest tears her head off; 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, and the cannibal jumped out of the stump; they walk, disperse, the girl visits her older sister, she has two cubs; the youngest rides on sledges, the cannibal tells her to change, her sledges are drawn by mice, the ropes are worms; they change back; dogs bit mice, the old man pushed the cannibal into the fire; her ash became mosquitoes, beetles, worms, bees]: Porotova 1980:13-19; chum salmon (Kureika) [in the fall, Hun and Sausages went to cut hay, K. X. looked for lice in her head, put a sharp bone in her ear, brought it home, covered with hay; the children noticed their mother's braids; they hear K.'s children say that they will eat their eyes tomorrow; K.: small eyes, and I big; the younger brother closed the smoke hole in a leaky park so that K. thought it was still a starry night; the children told all objects to answer that they had gone into the tagan's butt, and ran to their grandmother themselves; K. woke up, asked a ladle, a frame from the hearth where the children were; they say that they were well fed, they did not speak; Kleinitsa says that they have gone into the butt of the tagana {there is a contradiction in the text; this is what the children said talk to objects}; K. set off in pursuit; hare, fox, wolf, bear carry children on their backs, tired; sisters left shaky with their younger brother in the bear's den; reached the river; pole on the orders of their grandmother transported her across the river, and K. turned it over in the middle of the river; her watermen killed her granddaughters; her grandmother began to teach her granddaughters to hunt bears; the eldest failed, and a bear came out to the youngest; together with her grandmother and eldest they got it as a sister; the grandmother told her granddaughters, when they walk on the water, not to take a spatula with burbot liver near the ice-hole; the youngest did not listen, took it to her; the eldest left her grandmother; from the stump K. jumped out, offered to look for lice in her head, and killed girl H., took her skis; the eagle revived H.; she spoke her skis, which K. took, quickly caught up with her and took her skis; they met her son old man Yryket and the son of an old woman; they asked for an awl to repair the ski; K. passed off Shilo H. as her own, and went on a sledge, and H. went on foot; K. began to live with the old man's son Yryket, and H. began to live with the old woman's son; the old woman asked H. to sew a ski reed skin for her son, she went to her brother to buy glue, glued together strong skis, and the old woman's son hunted a lot of deer, and K. took glue from the larch uncles; they gave her sulfur, and she made bad skis; they fell apart while hunting, the son of the old prince Yryket could not get anything; H. went to her brother, who asked her husband to put larch at his house; her brother's children - the cubs began to climb it, and K. brought her brother's children - pike, small shirts and perch, put them in a box of water, and old man Yryket accidentally drank them; H. came out of the plague, deer She began to scrape the bed, K. did the same, thunder rose and killed K., and to H.'s brother came down from the larch, began to live together]: Dulzon 1964:114-125 (=Kryukova 2013:202-213).

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's 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.