Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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K89D. He hides, turning into a needle.

.28.31.32.35.-.37.

Left alone in the house or in someone else's house, a girl (less often a male character) hides, turning into a needle or other sewing or spinning tool.

Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Voronezh), Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov), Eastern Sami [spindle], Veps, Karelians, Lutsies, Lithuanians, (Finns, Kazan) Tatars), Mordovians, Mansi, Sym Evenks, Western Evenks (Kirens), Baikal Evenks (northern Transbaikalia), northwestern Yakuts, Nanais, Udege, Wilta, (Negidals).

Central Europe. Russians: Balashov 1970, No. 29 (Tersky Bereg) [stepmother (this is yagisnya) tells her husband to take her stepdaughter to a forest hut; she did not give oil, cereal and salt with her, but ice, mud and ash; but when a girl melted the stove and opened the bags, there were butter, cereals and salt; the mouse asked for porridge, the girl gave it; the feeler came; the mouse turned the girl into a pin, stuck it into the wall; the feeble could not do anyone to find, left a kitty and a raccoon fur coat; after the second night - two kitties and fur coats, after the third - three; the stepmother sent her husband to pick up the bones; the daughter is healthy and the hemp is strained; the old man is carrying his daughter, gold, fur coats, dog he talks about it; the stepmother sent her own daughter, she did not give the mouse porridge, fell asleep, felt her and ate her; dog: Yagisni's daughter's bones in the bag are knocking and strumming; yagisnya is going to push stepdaughter into a resin pit; she invites her to move forward, pushes her; the man set fire to the resin, began to live with her daughter]: 97-99; Onchukov 2008, No. 44 (Arkhangelskaya, Mezen) [younger sister picked berries and gold she found a pebble; the eldest takes {berries}, and she decreases; killed the youngest, put it under the birch tree, took berries and a pebble; father, then brother, mother - everyone calls the youngest to the bathhouse; she replies that her sister killed her, She planted it under a birch tree, drowned her shoe, threw her heel; when her older sister goes to call, her younger sister says the same thing to her, but "you killed me"; the victim came to the gate and began to cry, asks open, or else wolves; brother: call him husband, I'll open it; sister refuses; the second brother answers the same thing, she calls him husband; when she enters, she made two dolls, left them to say: shame and disgrace, brother She honors his wife; she sank through the ground; she ran, ran, there is a hut on chicken legs; in her grandmother says that it is not a cloud that is rolling, but Yagibiha is coming; "and we will close ourselves under the needle" (probably" let's turn into a needle"); in another hut there is an old man; "and we'll close under the cream"; the old man and the girl passed through the mountain, but Yagibiha can't, ran after a shovel; dug it, chased again; they spread the cloth across the river, passed; and Yagibikha drowned; they crossed the river, there is the emperor's house, they ask for a father (he doesn't remember further)], 71 (Arkhangelskaya, Shenkursky, Shenkalovskaya ox.) [Well done can't find a better bride than his sister. She agrees, but her backyard grandmother gives her four spindles, puts her in four corners, and orders the girl to wait four nights before getting married. The first night she hears the voices of the spindles: "ku-ku", the second night: "Where are you?" , third: "brother marries sister", fourth: "sank" and the girl sank through the ground. I found myself at a big house, comes in. Another girl meets her, warns that Baba Yaga will appear and eat her, wraps Katya in a needle, sticks her in her collar, Yaga does not see her, but smells her. The girl covers the throat of Baba Yaga's son, he has seven. The girls run away with a brush, flint , flint, the son licked one throat, the mother calls. She arrives when he licks all seven, chases girls. They throw a brush - a thicket grows, flint - a river of fire, flint - a mountain. The girls run to the hole through which Katya sank and go out into the white light. Katya marries her brother, and Katya brings her brother to her brother. He also wanted to marry her and she also sank]: 159-161, 213-214; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [stepmother did not like her stepsons: girl and boy; father took them to the forest; they came to the river, on another The old man waved his handkerchief, became a bridge; they began to live with him; brother and sister grew up, the old man died; on the other side there is a guy; teaches the girl to wave that handkerchief, crossed the bridge; before the brother comes the guy turned into a pin and ordered him to be plugged to the ceiling to prevent his brother's dog; the next day, the sister pretended to be sick: she goes to the Wolf Islands for the wolf's milk; the she-wolf gives herself milk and wolf (obviously your wolf cub); bear milk (same); lionesses (same); to Falcon Islands, falcon's egg (same); bring flour from the damn mill; animals came in, the iron doors closed, only the young man and the falcon stayed outside; hell is going to eat the young man, he asks for permission to heat the bathhouse first and wash himself; falcon: quieter than the swamp, your hunt has already gnawed two doors, started the third; animals came running, broke the line; "How the lion animal grabbed him and the bear, how they began to soften him, and the wolf and bear tore him into the lepésia"; the sister put the line tooth under her brother's pillow, he died, she threw the body into the water; the falcon noticed at the bottom, the wolf, the bear cannot pull it out, the lion pulled it out, but they cannot remove the tooth themselves; the wolf has dragged the hare, he does not understand what they want from him, it was torn; the wolf dragged the fox, that I understood, pulled out the tooth, the young man came to life; buried his sister on the chest, put two barrels: to cry on it and down the line; if there were more tears in his barrel, he would let go; tears were only in hell; brother buried his sister with head and barrel with it]: Smirnov 2003 (1), No. 7:76-85; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pomors) [Ivan Tsarevich sees how 12 swans flew to swim, shed their feathers, became girls; hid his clothes one; she asks for a return, promises to sail on two ships in 2 years; after 2 years, the envious uncle asked for a comrade, stuck a sleepy pin in I.; the girl did not wake up, left a note: I'll sail 3 years later on 9 ships; the same; after the third time she wrote that she would never see I.; I. ordered to tie 3 pairs of iron bast shoes, 3 staffs, hats, caftan, prospira; met, did not kill a lion, a bear, pike, everyone promises to come in handy; bast shoes and everything else wears out; there is a hut on chicken legs, birch bark heels; "Turn your eyes to the forest, my gate"; gives a ball, he rolls to her sister; the sister gives another - to the third sister; her fiancée I. comes to her once a month; her father put the longing in an egg, an egg in a box, an oak turnkey box on the island, threw the key into the sea; we must get an egg, the old woman will make scrambled eggs out of it, the bride will eat and remember I.; the lion moved I. to the island, the bear knocked down the oak tree, the pike took out the key, the old woman made scrambled eggs, Marfida (that's her name) ate, remembered I.; the old woman turned I. into a needle, stuck it into a wall, and now she took it out; I. comes to Father M. to marry her; he tells her to find a bride among the 12 sisters (a white fly will curl above her); M. tells I. to take the horses and run; turned I. into a chapel, herself a watchman; a well and an old woman with a scoop; a ruff and a pike; the king is chasing perch; pike perch: gnaw the ruff from the tail; there are thorns, the end of the perch; seeing the bride I., my uncle died with envy]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:123-128; Russians (Vologodskaya) [after the death of his wife, the old man took a yaga baba, she has his own daughter; yaga baba tells her husband to take his stepdaughter to a house in the forest, instead of flour and cereals she gave ash and dress; the girl melted the stove, baked a shanezhka out of ash; the mouse asks for her, the girl gave it; the girl: who should I sleep with, spend the night with? bad from the forest: I'll come; the mouse wrapped the girl in a needle, slapped her into the wall; the old man came, didn't find it, threw the chest with the estate and left; the next night the mouse wrapped the girl with a shamin {?} , hid it under the threshold; the old man did not find it again, threw two chests; the father came for her daughter: she was bleached, smeared and bandaged with a handkerchief; the stepmother sent her own daughter, gave her all food; that mouse had nothing gave her, killed her with a frying pan; the old man came and ran over the girl; Yagi Baba's husband brought the dead, the yaga roared and died]: Smirnov 1917, No. 42:215-217 (=Gura 1965, No. 10:218-219); Russians (Voronezh) [ Before she dies, a mother leaves her son a ring to marry a girl that fits. He can't find a bride, the ring fits only his own sister, and her brother calls her to marry, she refuses, but he insists. She tells an old woman passing by about her grief, she asks for three old shirts, makes dolls out of them, and orders them to be placed in the corners of the room before the wedding. The dolls "snack", tell the story of her sister, after each line, the girl falls into the ground: knee-length, to the waist, completely. The replicas of the dolls are accompanied by questions from her brother whether her sister is ready, she answers: she has just put on her shoes, put on her dress, and for the third time, without hearing an answer, Danila enters the room and sees a hole in the floor. The girl falls down and finds herself in the same village as her native, enters the hut, sees a girl who looks like her, she embroiders her flies. She warns that Baba Yaga will eat the guest, turns her into a needle and hides her in a broom (her sister sticks the needle into the top of her head and thus turns her into a needle). Baba Yaga feels that "rus-bone smells", the girl feeds her and puts her to bed, then both girls take a brush, comb and wipe (towel?) , run away. When yaga catches up with them, objects (comb forest, brush reeds, lit duck) are thrown. Danila can't recognize her sister because the girls are similar. The cook helps to find out: he puts a bubble of a pig filled with blood under Danile's arm, pretending to be quarreling with him. The cook stabs Danila with a knife, blood flows from the bubble. His sister is the first to run up to Danila, he marries her]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 26:129-132; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky u.) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan cries; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, carries him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed in it; brother his sister and his sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they appeared dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; his sister went to the river to wash, snakes from another the shore asks to get a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask the animal milk; when I. comes up, the serpent turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let him milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, a she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before climb the ash tree by death; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282.

Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [the old man pulls birch bark, the Frog tells her to marry, otherwise he will stab her to death with scissors; they have sons Hewn Stump, Reindeer Collar, daughter Vostroeye; Frog and her children ate the old man and his old woman; she manages to tell her daughter to collect her 99 bones, hit Ostroeye, the hundredth bone will fall out, put it in a bag, run, a house will emerge from the bones; an old woman's daughter plays with with the sun, embroiders a silver belt; stabs with a sleepy match Stump, Yoke, they lose sight and hearing; Vostroeye has second eyes on the back of her head; The Frog and the Eye sew the old woman's daughter into a seal skin, they throw it into the water; she ripped her skin with a knife, came to a house with blood on the floor; she scooped it out with difficulty, washed the hut, broke it off and ate a piece of cake; she hid, turning into a spindle; Flashes came, saw that one of them, Ninas, had a cake bitten, left, Ninas stayed; asked to show up (if the old man, you will be a father, if the old woman is a mother, if the young woman is a brother, if the woman is a sister , if the girl is a wife); the girl opens; N. says that she can't live here, Flashes are cut here, gives a ball of thread, he rolls to his mother; The flashes scream, Ninas's wife is coming, but she will soon take her The sun; mother N. carries her across the river; at night she hangs a silver belt over her bed; N. sleeps with his wife, believes that they are stars, even though it's already a day; mother N.: take reindeer skins, they will dry out from the sun; she goes out , The sun grabs her hair, N. tries to hold her, dies; she suffers from the heat, the Sun irrigated her with water, married her, she gives birth to him a daughter; daughter grew up, she was given silk to cook three scarves, sent to the ground, told to marry the first person she met; she married a shepherd; sold scarves; people envy their wealth, they want to kill their husband; the wife brought him to her Sun Father, who was riding a deer; the Sun tells her son-in-law ride around the ground in the morning on a bear, in the afternoon on a male deer, in the evening on a vazhenka; at noon, my son-in-law rides a male deer, sees an image of a man, kicked him; "I had a deer calf, you're not him kept it, don't stand on the road"; soon the deer fell, the son-in-law returned in a vazhenka; the next day the Sun went by himself, saw a dead deer, told his son-in-law to treat the animals gently; on the third day, the Sun let his son-in-law and daughter go, they began to live even richer]: Kharuzin 1890:348-351; Veps [after her mother's death, the girl persuaded her father to marry Baba Yaga, who promised to give her milk and wash her milk; when the old man left, the stepmother took the girl to a cold hut, gave her ash instead of oatmeal, sand instead of cereal, bricks instead of bread; in the evening the girl cooks porridge, the mouse asks for permission to lick the whorl, the girl gave; the mouse tells her not to be afraid of anything, promises to hide; old people come, the girl fed them dinner, they invite them to sleep with them, she replies that she must clean the table, wash the dishes; mouse turned it into a rolling pin, put it on a shelf; the old people fell asleep; the rooster sang and they fell through the ground, the goods remained; the next evening (the mouse turned the girl into a needle, stuck it into the wall); many girls came in the morning, the girl in the hut asks them to give her father to pick her up; the father arrives, the girl has a chest of silver and gold, the dog barks about it; baba yaga takes her to my own daughter's hut; that mouse hits, is rude to old people (toad in your mouth!) , they killed her, put her bones in the corner; the man came, took the bones, the dog barks about it, Baba Yaga beats her; seeing her daughter's bones, he died]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 48:169-171; Karelians ( Kalevala district) [the old woman died, the old man met Syuoyatar, she asked for a wife; went to get her daughter's dowry; tells the old man to take his daughter to a forest hut; gives ash instead of flour, resin instead of oil, moss instead of yarn; the girl's ash becomes flour, moss becomes silk; she shares with the mouse, she promises to help; the old man comes in, tells him to lay near the door and himself at the back wall; the mouse turned the girl in the needle, stuck her in the crack in the wall, began to run in the dark with a bell; a rooster sang and the old man fell dead, in the yard a sleigh with gold, silver, precious stones; the girl finished silk cloth; the old man brought his daughter, the dog barks at the sleigh with jewelry; the old woman sends her daughter, gives silk, flour, butter, they turned into moss, ash, resin; the girl hits the mouse; the old man ate the girl, and the breasts and put his jaw on the window; S. came, took her breasts for buns; opened the door - the old man's corpse fell on S., she died; the old man stayed with his daughter]: Onegin 2010, No. 27:275-277; Lutsie (1893) [old people are childless, they have found a white snake, at night she turns into a beautiful young man, and during the day she turns into a snake again; asks to marry him a princess; the old man went to the king; king: you will receive it if you come not full and not hungry; not naked or dressed; son: sip oatmeal; wrap yourself in a net; king: come in a horse-drawn carriage; create a palace, the road to my palace is covered with velvet, silver along the edges and golden apple trees with silver and golden apples; the church is made of wax, they serve in it, the candles light up themselves; the snake son does everything; the evening after the wedding, the serpent turned into a young man; the princess's sisters threw snakeskin into the fire; husband: now look for me with three pairs of iron shoes; also three iron hats, three iron beans in your pocket; go to my sister, she will teach me further; the one in the room that turns on a chicken leg; turned the girl into a needle, hid it on her chest; an old devil came, the hostess said he was the one who was flying around the world; in the morning she gave me a gold spinning wheel, a silver spindle; sent it to her second sister (all the same, gave a precious handkerchief); the third (still the same) gave an embroidered tablecloth and gave a ball to follow; tyn around the apple orchard, only on one stake has not yet been planted; the damn daughter bought a spinning wheel with a spindle overnight with her husband, but gave him a sleepy potion; the same second night (handkerchief); on the third he quietly poured a potion; the husband killed the devil with an iron rod, took the precious items, he and his wife run to her older sister, her head is cut off; he revives her with dead and alive vodka; the same with her middle and younger sisters; yudas are chasing, husband threw the tablecloth, it became a lake of fire, the youths could not cross; everyone got home, they still live]: Annom et al. 2018:84-89; Lithuanians [the elderly have two daughters (only one beautiful) and two sons ; the younger brother decided to marry a beautiful sister; in winter she went out to rinse her scarves and the door was locked; she consistently addresses all members of the family; everyone answers the same way: if you call it not a mother , and with my mother-in-law (not father, but father-in-law, not sister, but sister-in-law, not older brother, but brother-in-law, not younger brother, but sweet), she has to call her brother sweet; when she enters his room, she asks that the earth has opened, one hair remains in the brother's hand; in the hut, two of the witch's daughters sew, hide the girl under a needle (more often they turn her into a needle); the witch arrives, believes that the smell of a person because of her hand or leg left between her teeth; the witch comes back, finds the girl under the bed; the girl asks to show her how to sit on a shovel, pushes the witch into the stove, the witch's daughters give her a brush, whetstone, towel; the witch gets out of the stove, chases, the girl throws objects, they turn into a forest (the witch tells the blacksmith to tie an ax, cuts a path), a mountain (shovel), water (the witch drinks, bursts); the girl was hired to work on the estate, married Panych]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 44:102-107; (cf. The Finns [the childless king sails, the water stops the ship, releases for a promise to give back someone who was born at home in the king's absence; this is his son and daughter; the king secretly dug for they were an underground shelter; the waterman who came tried to give a foal, a calf, a lamb; he himself began to look for children; in the forge, a hammer ordered him to take him and walk; fell where the shelter was, the water took the children away; they he grew up, his girlfriend married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, told him to sit on him and run; the young man enters the room where the waterman and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on the wolf; at the direction of the wolf, takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; the water returns for a hammer and a chisel, breaks through the passage; wants to leave the tools, but begins to shout for them forty; the waterman takes them home, comes back, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man cries again, the bear comes, everything repeats; the young man throws the bear's bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky; more the same episodes; for the third time, brother and sister run away on a fox, she tells them to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, he stops pursuing; brother and sister build a house for themselves across the bubbling river; wolf, the bear and the fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with the girl; during the day she turns into a pin, the girl hides it in the cracks in the wall ; the animals feel it; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; the water grabs the young man, throws him into a hot bath; the animals are torn, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; she found a water bone in the ash, put her brother under his pillow; the bone pierced his head, sister buried the deceased; the animals dug the body; the bear put its head on it, the water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from bear to wolf; the fox put its head up, managed to pull it back, the bone was stuck in a pine tree; they all came to the brother and sister's parents, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father expelled the traitor daughter, his son became king]: Goldberg 1953:170-186).

Volga - Perm. Mordvians [on his way from abroad, the old man leaned over for a drink, the devil grabs his beard, tells him to promise to give what he does not know at home; his daughter meets at home, her front tooth is silver, he is flooded with wax; 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, the devils are chasing, the follower girl throws back parts of the spinning wheel; a lime, maple, birch forest grows, the devils gnaw through them; when she throws the spindle (Wirtel), a tin mountain grows, a girl climbs it, calls her older 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, girl climbs a rope to his 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 it girls; 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; outside the house The Bear was attacked by dogs, he ran away, his 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 millstones there, the Bear dies]: Paasonen 1941:282-291; (cf. Kazan Tatars [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed him by the beard, ordered him to give him what was not in the world; the fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate with his wife, who gave birth to a son; the divas began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man will come by himself; he goes to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses the help of the eldest, middle daughters of the diva, promises to marry the youngest; she helps to fulfill the diva's assignments: 1) uproot forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the argamak (this is the diva himself); 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters (raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became with a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; they run, the divas sends their men in pursuit, they do not understand that the fugitives have become 1) a yellow and red flower; 2) a church and a bell ringer; The diva chases himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; the diva tries to drink water, the daughter tells him to fall knee-deep, turns him into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58:264-273).

Western Siberia. Mansi: Rombandeeva 2005, No. 23 [stepmother hates her stepdaughter, tells her to be taken to the forest; the husband cut down his daughter's log house, left her raw intestines and burbot tails to eat; at night the monster tries to crawl into the house, the girl replies that she only has raw intestines and tails to eat; became a needle and hid in the trash; the monster did not find her, thought that she was skinny with such food and left; next time she came a handsome man and married her; the father came, was surprised how well his daughter was living; she gave him guts and tails, but then gave him a piece of fatty meat; the stepmother sends her own daughter, gives him liver and caviar burbot, opens the monster, thinking it was the groom; he ate it; when the father came back to his daughter, she fed him, and sent his stepmother only guts and tails]: 223-233.

Eastern Siberia. Northwestern Yakuts (Deer) [a poor old man takes his three daughters to the forest, leaves old Doha on a stump; the girls found a farce, one picks up an iron child; returning, they see that fish porridge is cooked in a pot; the youngest does not eat, hides, becoming a needle, sees the child turn into an iron man; next time the middle, older sisters hide; sisters they put the potted child in the fire, run away; he chases them with a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, they cross; she asks the abaas if the leg is rough, he replies that very much, she throws it off, he drowns; Abaasa's daughter, with an eye on her forehead, cuts wood with one hand and one leg; catches and locks girls; as needles, they get out, but the eldest tells her lung, her stomach swell; sisters pull, tear off her head; put her head on a tree, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; at a pine tree, she laughs; since then, the coffin has been made of pine]: Ergis 1964, No. 66 [poor parents go with two daughters for berries, leave them in the forest; they find a hut, a black stone and an iron cradle nearby; the younger sister suspects that this is an abaasa child; at home, a stone turns into a baby; sisters find baked crucian carp at home; the youngest hides in the cracks with a needle, sees how the baby turns into a giant, commands the fire to ignite, the fish to bake; the older sister hides, sees the same thing; they they throw a pot of boiling water over the child, run; the youngest throws a needle (thicket), a thimble (forest), a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask the old woman Talas-Talas ("walkways") to throw a bridge; she stretches out both legs, girls cross; abaas says she is busy; stretches out one leg, cleans, he drowns]: 245-246; Yakuts (recording place?) : Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:64-71; Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [younger sister forgot her grandmother toys when migrating; older sister, younger brother said that they work and did not know where the toys were; ostyak said that he poured out behind; the girl saddled the deer, took the dog, came to the old place, where the Bear was; he asked the names of the deer and the dog, tied the girl and the dog to the tree; the girl speaks three times Bear, that her late parents did not take a bed of urine and feces when they were going to fresh the vazhenka (i.e. you have to cook everything away); The bear goes to cut away; Crossbills can not untie the girl's fetters, their beaks were bent; the fox freed her, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; the Bear wants to eat the Fox instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut her with an ax; the fox dodged, The bear cut its legs, began to eat its own bone marrow; since then, the tip of the fox tail is white, the bear has no bone marrow; the girl went to the river, called her father, mother, uncle; everyone refuses to transport, they say, the girl is a crybaby; she tells the rock to slide down, crush them all; the ostyak cuts out the scoop, carries the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings - "lower, taller"; Bear enters the water, sinks; tells his heels to become bars, his legs with sharpeners, his back with a shovel, his skull with a stone for rubbing paints, his shoulder blades as a paint stone, his blood with red paint, his feces with black paint; now everything it is in the mountains; the girl became the wife of Ostyak; carries water, he pours out every time, says that she wears feces and urine; the girl asks the birds to carry her away; cranes, swans refuse shamanic birds gasha give her feathers to fly with them; the ostyak tells her to fall, promises to make a dress, a bib, an occipital ornament, a hat, a fringe on her belt; she says she does not need it, does not fall; she sits at the door of an old woman; She asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringes on her belt ("smelly"), hides in a needle; the sons smell it, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she flies away, catches up with gasha, they swear that their mother released her, shoot her, injure her wing shoulder; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, speaks on how many stands; when 10 stands, the girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha came; the woman pretends that the child is dirty, goes out with him, hides in the storage; gasha gnaw the stands; they managed to gnaw three, the woman three She sang once, the third time G. came, killed two gashes, the third ran, leaving a fang; G. comes to people, steps over the fire, everyone laughs; he looks - people have intact teeth; when through the third fire, he sees toothless; asks to remove his lice, stabs gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, tells others that his grandfather fell asleep and leaves]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 42:45-51; Western Evenks (Kirensky) [two sisters they find a cradle with the baby, bring them home; they see that when left alone, the baby turns into a giant Manga, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; the sisters knock over a boiling pot on him, they run away; he chases them; one throws a comb, the other a bag, they turn into a forest, into a rock, they can't stop M.; old woman Achekai stretches her legs for them across the river like a bridge; when M. goes, removes his legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from his blood, a shuttle from his spine; at the fork, the sisters drove along the left path, get to the old woman; she hides them, turning it into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the older thimble girl laughs, the cannibals eat her; the youngest old woman gives a bird's wing, she flies away in it, meets a guy, gets married] : Pinegina et al. 1952:58-61; Upper Lenki Evenks (p. Tutura) [the old man and the old woman have three daughters; after becoming swans, they swim in the lake; ask to hide them from 70 vagrants; the father refuses, because the daughters did not help with the housework; the eldest became a needle, two were taken away; The elder father sent to Akshire-Bakshire, he will hide it; his ears are like cauldrons, his eyes are like stars, his nose is like a foot, his chin is like a paddle, reeds on his knees; she went]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 82:118; Baikal Evenks (North of Transbaikalia, p. Chapo-Ologo, 1948) [two orphans went for berries, found an iron cradle with the baby; the youngest told me not to touch it, the eldest brought the child to the plague; when they returned, there were a lot of fish in the plague; the next day they hid and spy; the child got out of the shaky, became a giant, sat down, a bunch of fish appeared {i.e. he threw it out of himself}; when the girls entered the plague, there was again the child shaky; they knocked over the cauldron on him boiling fish soup, rode on deer; Mangi catches up, a cauldron on her head instead of a hat; one of the sisters threw a comb (thicket), Mangi made his way; threw her bag (the rock is the same); on the other side, old woman Acekai, the girls ask her to stretch out her legs, crossed them to the other side, the old woman removed her legs; when Manga asked her to stretch her legs, the old woman removed them in the middle of the river; Manga screams: make ladles out of my hands, a bucket from the back, paint from the blood, a shuttle from the spine; then drowned; at this time the girls reached the fork; one tells me to follow the left path, the other on the right; turned to the left, came to plague, it has an old woman without arms and legs; turned one into a needle, the other into a thimble; cannibals came, saying that it smells like gifts; the older sister laughed, she was eaten; when the cannibals left, the youngest asks , are there any toys; the old woman gave a bird's wing; the girl flew to the top of the plague, then to the tree, then flew away; reached the river, sat on a stump, found an old bone in her pocket, began to gnaw; in the morning the deer run , they are driven by a handsome guy, he married her]: Pinegina 2019:87-91; (cf. Severobaikal Evenks [mouse and bird agreed to prepare supplies for the winter together; mouse took everything for themselves; bird she pecked out her eye, animals and birds began to sue; the lion hit the Eagle, who could not fly away without feathers; the man picked him up; his wife cursed, but her husband fed him for two years; the Eagle brought him to his sister, told ask for a box as a reward; there is a hut in it, maids; on the way, the man forgot how to fold the box back; the old man folded for a promise to give what the man's wife had done during this time; this is the son; he went for a red one a dog, hid the clothes of one of the three swan girls who bathed; she helps the old man complete the difficult tasks; 1) build a house overnight; 2) tame the horse; 3) sends his wife to the bathhouse, sets fire; the girl turns them into a needle and thread, they run away; the servants chase, they turn into a church and a warden, sheep from a shepherd, a lake and a perch; this time the old man chases himself; stops chasing; at home the guy kisses the child, forgets about his wife; at the wedding, on the other, she reminds him that he marries her]: Voskoboynikov 1960b, No. 10:43-53_).

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanaytsy (Amur District, 1968) [the older sister invites the younger sister to go looking for husbands, dresses up; at the fork, she tells the youngest to follow a path with crutches; the youngest replies that the path chosen by the eldest will lead to a rich man; the youngest comes to the house of seven bald cannibals; breaks crutches folded outside the house; hides in ash, becoming a needle; cannibals ask at the skull, where the girl, they see a needle, but the girl flies away with a midge; cannibals chase because the crutches are broken; the girl comes to Mergen, is well at home, becomes his wife; taking the form of a mess, in a thin nag, she comes to her sister; she is idle, the servants do everything; when leaving, the younger sister takes her true form, lets water into the elder's house; at night, the eldest and her husband run to the youngest's house, them treat; since then, the eldest has begun to do everything herself]: Kile 1996, No. 321-329; Udege people [=Podmaskin, Kireeva 2010:105-107; two sisters are getting married; the eldest Ohoni is afraid that the youngest Adiga is more beautiful, makes her follow the left road; A. comes to the cannibal spirits, runs away, turning into a needle, huchen, mosquito; throws a comb, a thicket appears; comes into the house hunter Nient; he drives away the spirits with smut; goes away for seven years, returns after killing spirits; tests A.'s loyalty by trying to hit A. with a spear; it bounces; he marries A.]: Podmaskin 1991, No. 26:136-140; Wilta [Old Man: "We must take our girls to the forest 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 returned home, there were already two wives there, and he began to live with them]: Sam et al. 2012:134-143 (=Sanghi 1989:289-294); (cf. 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 beds, scolds the stick with a knife, blood flows; returns for a knife, the stick turns into a girl, he takes her as his wife; the father-in-law asks his daughters-in-law to bring him treats, dowry clothes, bring him relatives; The frog cooks frog caviar, brings leaves, frogs; the girl goes to the larch, bags of delicious food rich in clothes fall from the top to her; two handsome men descend from the sky - they her relatives; take away Frog's clothes and jewelry; Frog and her husband choked]: Cincius 1982, No. 25:135-139; 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. ; he repaired her frog clothes; they caught up with her older brother and the Frog; B. took 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 chumiza, 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, the brothers gave it again; her father-in-law went with B., she showed he was happy with his brothers; 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 they injure a squirrel that comes to play with them; she promises revenge by bringing other squirrels; brothers hide their sister under the hearth with a bag of blood on top; they shoot arrows into the sky, they pierce the tail alone the other, forming a chain; climbing into the sky, the youngest is the last, picking up arrows; old boots give the squirrels how the brothers left, where the sister is hidden; squirrels pierce the wineskin, think they have killed the girl, they leave; the sister goes to look for her 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 at the stick, scares her with a knife, blood sticks out on her; the eldest leaves with the Frog, the youngest returns for a knife, finds a naked girl, she does not have time to hide in the stick again, tells his story; in his older brother's house, the Frog shows his brothers' father-in-law - they are frogs; he drives his daughter-in-law away; the girl calls her brothers, Enduri sends them from heaven; they give them rich clothes, they 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).