L103B. Animals are taken away from the demon, (ATU 314A*).

.27.-.34.36.

A girl or boy falls into a demonic creature. A captive (prisoner) rides a pet (usually a calf, a bull) that manages to escape from the chase. Usually, animals of different species consistently try to save the prisoner, but only the latter succeeds.

Kashubians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Pskov, Moscow, Ryazan, Gorkovskaya, Bryansk, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Chernigov), Belarusians, Kumyks, Tajiks, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Udmurts, Komi-Permyaks, Mari, Salars, Khalkha Mongols, Central Yakuts.

The Balkans. Gagauz [Sindik's girl asks her father to buy a doll; he has no money, he promises to make a doll himself; instead of a doll, he made a bear out of iron; S. began to play with him, once blew in her mouth, the bear came to life and began to grow; ate the old men, and S. made servants; the eagle offers S. to carry her away; carries it, but the bear blows and the eagle falls; the calf carries away; the bear is chasing; the calf tells us to throw a stone (mountains), an igloo (a forest of needles), a knife (a field of knives), a jug of water (a lake); a bear drinks, drowns; S. and a calf live in friendship]: Anikin 1986:89-92.

Central Europe. Kashubas [the childless owner of Cieczkow Castle finally has twins; the boy was named Morning, the girl was named Vesnyanka; once the castle owner met a witch, she promises six months later send an iron wolf for the children; the father builds a stone fortress for the children, surrounded by a moat; the wolf comes, says he should not be afraid of him, jumps into the fortress, takes the children; while sleeping, the elk offers children save them: their father once let him go for his children; the wolf caught up, swallowed the elk; next time, a wild horse, whom the children's father let go; gives them a comb, a brush, a handkerchief; the wolf catches up, the horse tells you to throw the comb (the mountain, the wolf gnaws through the passage), the brush (the forest, the wolf broke the passage), the handkerchief (the lake); the wolf stops chasing, the children return home; since then this lake has been called Good]: Puu 1991 : 17-23; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Leshukonsky district, p. Zasulye, 1928) [when he dies, the tsar gives his son Ivan the keys to all rooms, but forbids entering one room. Neither I. nor daughter Elena gives a blessing for marriage. I. unlocks the door, the wolf runs out, destroys the palace. I. and E. climb onto the balcony, they are carried away by a huge bull. The wolf catches up, eats the bull, returns the prince and the princess, forgives the escape. A thin bull appears, takes his brother and sister away, they doubt his strength. I. falls his ear to the ground, hears the chase, pulls a comb out of the bull's right ear with his right hand and throws it to the left, a dense forest grows, and detains the wolf. Ivan hears the chase again, pulls a handkerchief out of his left ear with his left hand, and a bridge across the lake appears. After moving, E. picks up the handkerchief, and the lake detains the wolf. The bull disappears, I. and E. spend the night with the old man, stay with him, I. hunts, E. cooks. The old man dies, leaves his guns and dogs Katay and Valya behind. E. sees a great fellow on the lake, throws a handkerchief, well done, goes down the bridge to her, hits the ground and turns into a wolf. She offers to surrender to him and kill her brother, she agrees. The wolf offers to pretend to be sick: I dreamed that in order to heal you need to get a nightingale, a bear and flour from under the millstone of the mill. If he dies, his golden tooth could kill I. I. gets everything, feels sorry for the crow, the nightingale and the bear along the way, the last two give him a cub. At the mill, the wolf locks I. inside and is going to eat it, he asks for permission to twist the cigarette. While twisting, the crow tells how many doors his hunt has gnawed, she breaks through and tears the wolf apart. I. reproaches his traitor sister, she hits him with the wolf's golden tooth, I. dies. Katay licks the place where the tooth hit, I. comes to life, the dog dies. The animals take turns reviving each other, dying on their own, the bear licks the nightingale, holds a frying pan in front of his forehead, the tooth flies out, falls into the pan, E. Ivan leaves her with a barrel and coals, says that if she cries for a barrel of tears, she feels sorry for the wolf, and if she eats the coals, she feels sorry for her brother. He comes to the city, settles in with an old woman, learns about the snake, the princess's turn to be eaten, with the help of his hunt I. wins the snake. She saves the second and third princess (snakes are torn apart by dogs and bears). She receives a personalized ring and towel from the girls, remembers her father's request not to marry. The water carrier forces the girls to admit that he is the winner of the snake. I. comes with animals to the wedding of the water carrier and the younger princess, the girls recognize him and tell her father the truth. I. shows snake tongues, a ring and a towel. The king orders that the water carrier's hand be cut off. I. marries a younger princess, returns for her sister, she cried a barrel of tears, I. feels sorry for her, brings her to herself, but settles separately. She enters her brother's room at night, hits him with a wolf's tooth, and I. dies. E. persuades I. not to feed or release animals. At the funeral, the animals are released without Elena's knowledge, they lick I., the tooth falls into Kataya, he dies, I. comes to life. Those present run away in horror. Animals lick each other, I. takes out a frying pan, pulls out a tooth, talks about his sister's actions and shoots her. She does not die, then animals tear her apart, burn her body]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 114:290-300; Russians (Olonetskaya: Zaonezhye) [The old man and the old woman have no children. The old woman asks to throw the brushwood into the oven, you can hear something from the oven, the old woman took the girl Liver out of there, she became their daughter. In the forest, P. came across a bear's hut, who asked him to shake. P. shook, the bear fell asleep "in one eye". P. runs to meet the sheep - sit on us. P. chose the "best sheep", the bear saw it with one eye, caught up and took it away. Same for the second time (cows). On the third, P. rocked the bear in both eyes, towards the horses, they brought them to the elderly]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 32:104-105; Russians (Olonetskaya: Zaonezhye) [granddaughter went with her friends to pick berries, got lost , went into the hut, cleaned everything up; a bear came, told him to swing in a shaky way; allows him to go out to play chips; the lamb offers to sit on it, runs, the bear caught up, returned Masha; the same with the cow; horse brings home, the bear did not catch up]: Onegin 1986, No. 71:187-188; Russians (Vologda) [Childless old man and old woman go to pick mushrooms, bring home a bilyanochka; lying in a pot, she turns into a girl named Annushka. A. grows by leaps and bounds. Girls persuade old people to let A. go with them for mushrooms. They get to the "egi-baba", she treats the girls with a mess, and everyone, except A., hides part of the food; when he demands to return the tea, only A. has nothing to give and is not let go. Returning friends tell the old people about what happened, they grieve. Meanwhile, Yeghi Baba gives A. a horse's hoof and tells him to look in his head. She does as she says and lulls Yeghi Baba to sleep. Going out on the porch, she meets a herd of horses, the horse learns about her grief and offers help. Yeghi baba wakes up and sets off in pursuit. The horse takes the girl home, and the Yeghi Baba is killed by an old man who is going to search for Annushka. Yeghi Baba is buried, a horse is treated, old people and Annushka live happily]: Burtsev 1895, No. 21:119-121; Gura 1965, No. 18 (Vologodskaya) [the old man and the old woman went to pick mushrooms, found a white Voldyanka, put them at home in pot; from there the voice: grandfather and grandmother, open it; there is a girl Annushka; her friends ask her to let her go to the forest with them to pick mushrooms; they got to Baba Yaga, she feeds them; everyone hid what they gave, and A. ate everything ; Baba Yaga did not let her go; gave the horse a hoof, tells her to look in her head, say; A.: sleep a peephole, sleep another, sleep an ear, etc. (handle, leg); a horse ran, tells her to sit on it, hold his ears; Baba Yaga sat in a stupa, caught up; the horse to the old man on the road, the old man shot Baba Yaga; the horse was taken to the barn to the whole ground oats; the old people are still making everything, and Anna is dressed up, but they promise to be married]: 229; Kuzmina 2008, No. 41 [Masha got lost, came to Baba Yaga; she tells her to rock her bed, fell asleep; the rooster offers to take her home; Masha: you can't take it; she shakes Baba Yaga again; the ram offers to take her; Masha: her legs are liquid; she shakes again; the bull; Masha sat on the bull, and when Baba Yaga almost caught up, he hit her face, she ran to wash; her grandparents got drunk, fed the bull]: 106-107 (about the same in short, No. 40:106); Russians (Pskov) [granddaughter went for berries, got lost, met the wolf, wants to eat; the dristunok goby tells me to sit on it, the wolf catches up; the goby dristnet, the wolf runs wash; like this twice; the goby brought the girl home]: Ploschuk 2004, No. 23:91; Russians (Moscow) [three sisters came to the house on chicken legs, on spindle heels; there grandfather offers pancakes; two the sisters ate, the third did not; he took two home, left the third, told him to rock; when he fell asleep, the girl went out onto the porch, the hare offers to take her home; grandfather in a mortar, chasing a hare with a broom caught up, took the girl away, tells him to pump again; next time the dristunya chick; grandfather caught up, and she hit his snout; he ran to wash, the girl escaped]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 28:73-74; Russians (Ryazan) [granddaughter got lost in the forest, went out to the hut on chicken legs; tells her to turn backwards to her, to the forest; entered; human heads under the bed, tits in the oven on a baking sheet; Baba Yaga spins, let the snot go to the floor; replies that it is her rutabaga and pies; treats her to raw meat, the girl throws everything out the window; BYU began to sharpen knives, tells the girl to spin; she jumped out the window; the bull tells her to sit on it, runs away; BYA catches up, and the bull jerks into her face; while she was washing her face, the bull drove the girl home, the bull was released]: Samodelova 2013, No. 70:80-81 (approximately the same No. 71:81-82); Russians (Ryazanskaya) [brother and sister went for berries, got lost; they come to the hut: turn backwards to us, to the forest; an old woman is in the hut, promises to feed her, let the girl shake her child; the girl went out into the yard, the bull offers to take her; the old woman sits on a chair, caught up with the bull, hit him with her butt, took the girl away; {without continuing}]: Smirnov 1917, No. 238:133; Russians (Gorkovskaya) [Snezhurochka lived with mother, girlfriends called for berries; they will give them a handkerchief, a jug; it began to rain, the girls ran to Baba Yaga's hut; she feeds them with pancakes, soup; they put them in their sleeve, but S. does not know - she puts them in her mouth; woman- food requires food back; S. cannot give it away; she tells her to stay and pump it; the rooster offers S. to take her home; baba yaga caught up and took it away; the same ram; the goby began to dig the ground with hooves, spray baba- yage in the face; brought S. home]: Eremin et al. 1979, No. 12:183-184; Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky district) [the tsar leaned to the well to drink water, the tsar bear grabbed him by the beard, let him go for a promise to give what she does not know in the house; at this time the queen gave birth to twins: Ivan Tsarevich and Mary Tsarevna; the children were hidden in an underground ward; the parents died, the king bear came, the palace was empty, and into the wall a chisel is stuck; replies that he must be thrown: wherever he sticks, dig there; the king bear found I. and M., took him to his place; the children asked for a drink; when the king bear went to get water, the eagle picked up the children and carried it, but the king bear scorched his wings; next time the children want to eat, the eagle carried; the third time the children are carried by a dristun goby; defecates three times in the face of a catching bear; then gives I. a comb and a towel; the abandoned crest turned into a forest, the bear gnawed; I. waved a towel - lake of fire; the bear stopped chasing; the goby brought him to his house in a clearing; tells him to slaughter and burn it, scatter the ashes three by three ridges, a horse, a dog and an apple tree will grow up; I. took a horse and a dog, brought a wolf cub and a bear cub from hunting; once he did not take the dog with him; the six-headed snake flew in, became handsome, asked M. to throw it over the bridge across the lake, took her away, and locked the dog and threw the key into the lake; I. went to look; in the open field, a hut on chicken loaps, on dog heels; I.: turn your back to the forest, in front of me; in front of me; in the Baba Yaga hut, the bone leg from corner to corner, the nose has grown into the ceiling; Baba Yaga tells you to break three twigs from that apple tree, hit the castle, it will stop, you can pick up the dog and go to the snake; the dog, the wolf and the bear tore the snake , I. returned M.]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 201:90-93; Russians (Bryansk, Karechevsky district) [iron wool bear eats people; the tsar ordered to build a high pole; placed Ivan Tsarevich and Elena upstairs Beautiful with a supply of food for 5 years; the bear ran to the palace, began to gnaw on the broom with annoyance; he told him to go to the field, there was a pole; the bear began to rock the pole, I. threw him food, he fell asleep; I. and E. ran, sat on a horse, the bear easily caught up with him, tore it, brought I. and E. to the pole in their mouths; the same for the second time (the geese carried them, the bear scorched them); the third time I. and E. carried a third goby; covered the bear three times with his eye droppings; swam across the river, and the bear drowned; the goby tells him to slaughter him, collect his bones, hit him, a fist man will come out of them - himself from his fingernail, a beard from his elbow; the peasant brought I. and E. to the robbers' house, Interrupted everyone and locked everyone in the same room without telling E. to go there; she went and fell in love with the chieftain's head; asked I. to get living and dead water, revived the chieftain; to lime I., sent him for wolf milk; the she-wolf gives in addition to the wolf cub; the same with the bear; the lioness; E. sends a firebird for eggs; she swallowed the fist man; E. and the chieftain were going to kill I.; he asked permission to wash in bath; the animals came running and told I. that the fist man had escaped; he told the animals to tear the chieftain apart, and E. tied the naked woman to a tree to be eaten by flies and mosquitoes; brought I. to the heroic girl; I. her with difficulty won, married; at night she put her hand on I.'s chest, it's bad for him, he called the peasant; the man beat the girl until he tamed it; his wife persuaded I. to release E.; she began to look for I. in her head and let him into a dead tooth's head; the lion cub saw it, pulled it out, began to die on its own; then a bear cub; then a fox, but she threw the tooth into a frying pan and it crumbled; I. ordered E. to be tied to the horse's tail and open it across the field]: Afanasiev 1958 (2), No. 202:94-97; Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [shuffling {in this case, a witch, a witch} buys a boy from a poor man with many children; fattens him; the horse offers to take him away; the shuffling caught up; boy: my mother forgave me the first guilt, beat me for the second, and you can kill me for the third; the second horse is the same, the shuffling beat the boy with a rod; a thin skate tells me to take a comb with you, towel and dust (something burnt; goblet); requested comb - thick thickets, dust - ice, towel - bridge over the river; they crossed, the bridge has disappeared; the horse orders to cut it into three parts, they turn into three dogs; the guy saw a girl on the other side, she was afraid of dogs; he locked them, threw in a towel, a bridge appeared; the guy did not know that it was his sister; seeing the bridge and the dogs locked, the shuffled caught up with the guy; he asked permission to climb the tree and play on the pipe; the dogs escaped, broke the shuffle; the guy returned to his father; they probably still live well ("manage") now, if they did not die]: Day 1981 : 69-73; northern Ukrainians (Chernihiv, 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 her milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the 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 death climb the ash tree; 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.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kumyks [the wolf ate everyone; the rich man hid his son and daughter in a hole under the hearth; the wolf ate him and his wife, heard voices, found the children, left them on the roof of the house; the gray horse invited the children to sit on it, flew to the sea, the wolf caught up with her, ate her, brought her children back; the black horse carried her across the sea; brother and sister live there, the girl goes to the sea to get water; the wolf sees her, asks her to look in the mirror, then he she will fly across the sea, promises to marry; she hides the wolf in a chest, who advises to be sick, send her brother seven mountains to bring milk from old women; the old woman explains that her sister has a lover; tells Walk 40 doors in the cave for 20 minutes, if you don't have time, you won't go out; the young man passes, takes out the milk, but his dogs are left outside the door; he brings milk, the wolf rushes at him, the swallow flies to the dogs, says that the owner is in trouble; they break out, kill the wolf; the brother walled up his sister in the room, promised to let him out when a puddle appears in front of the window, reeds on it, ducks will swim in the reeds; after many years it it happened that my brother released his sister, the tsar married her]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 35-38 (=Khalilov 1965, No. 65:195-199).

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [the old man sees fresh sheep's liver on the road; an old woman touches it, jumps out, threatens to kill her if he does not give her his son Khaidar-Kokul; tells him to cut firewood continuously; to HC a horse, a bull, come, they cannot escape from the old woman, she throws her torn tooth under their feet; the calf takes HC to the fortress where the diva has a girl languishing; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; the divas reluctantly promises not to kill HC; the girl gives HC a comb, a mirror, three arrows, tells them to run; objects turn into a forest, a river, three poplars; when the divas knocks down the last, dogs come running, pushing him into the river, fighting him underwater; first red blood rises, HC wants to run, but then black blood means that the divas is killed; HC and his wife return to their parents]: Amonov, Ulug- Back 1957:145-150 (=1960:164-171).

Baltoscandia. Finns: Goldberg 1953 [the childless king sets sail, the water stops the ship, lets go 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 an underground shelter for them; the waterman who came tried to give him a foal, a calf, a lamb; he himself looked for children; in the forge, a hammer ordered him to take him and walk; fell where refuge was, the water took the children away; they grew up, the girl 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 water man and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on a wolf; at the direction of the wolf, takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; the waterman returns for a hammer and a chisel, makes its way; wants to leave tools, but forty begin to shout for them; 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 bear bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky; then the same episodes; the third time brother and sister run away on a fox, she tells us to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, he stops persecution; brother and sister build a house for themselves beyond the bubbling river; the wolf, bear and fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with 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 man grabs the young man, throws it into a hot bath ; the animals are torn, breaking one door after another; the raven tells the young man to hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water one to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; she found a water bone in the ash, put her brother under his pillow; a bone pierced his head, his sister buried the deceased; the animals dug the body; the bear put his head on it, a water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from bear into wolf; the fox put her head up, managed to pull them back, the bone got stuck in the pine tree; they all came to the parents of brother and sister, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father kicked out the traitor daughter, his son became king]: 170-186; Concca 1993 [after the death of his parents, the brother took the cat and the sister took the goat, they went to seek happiness; the goat had to be stabbed and fried; they came to the giant; he agrees first fatten and then eat; the horse invites brother and sister to take them away from the giant, the giant easily caught up and killed him; the eagle is the same, the giant shot; the bull tells him to take a branch, a stone and a tin bottle with water, throw behind when the giant catches up; the branch turns into a forest; the giant cuts through the passage, the fox promises to steal the ax, the giant spends time taking the ax home; stone (mountain; same; fox promises to carry the hammer); bottle (sea, the giant tries to drink it, the fox advises you to gird yourself with hoops, gnawed them, the giant burst); the bull is about to die; tells you to keep the horns to summon it; brother my sister and I came to the copper castle, a dog got involved with them; the cat and the dog scratched the chest, but the brother did not open it; when he left, Satan came out of the chest in the form of a boy; the girl fell in love with him; he advises pretend to be sick, send a brother for wolf's milk; a she-wolf gives milk and a wolf cub; the same is a bear; Satan advises sending the boy to the mill for living and dead water, he will poison the springs along the way; a cat and a dog drank from the first, a wolf and a bear from the second; the boy revived them with live water; they tore Satan apart; the sister begged his brother to take it with him; they came to the silver castle, the guy married mistress princess; Satan came to life, brought his sister a tooth, told his brother to put him in bed; he died; the animals broke the coffin hoops, but fell dead themselves; two crows brought live water and revived the boy, and he animals; hitting the horn with his horn, the guy summoned the bull, which brought him to the silver castle, Satan and his sister were killed; the spell hanging over the princess broke; everything is fine]: 67-81; Karelians (Tver) [baba put a pot of thick porridge in the oven; a voice from the oven: it's hot; a girl came out, called Ogushka (Ogone); went to the forest, got lost; the hare offers to bring her, she finds herself in Baba Yaga's house; she tells her to heat bath and steam it; the bull offers to take it to grandparents; baba yaga catches up; the bull drizzled, baba yaga went to wash, the bull brought O. to his grandparents]: Makarov 1963, No. 41:59-60; Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 2 [the girlfriends asked her grandparents to let Masha go for mushrooms; she got lost, went into the house, there is a Bear, asks him to look for lice and lure: bayu-maya Misha, close your eye, close your eye, close your nose; The bear fell asleep, the horse invites Masha to bring her home; the same is the cow; Masha to the Bear: we do not have a kettle, dishes, cereals; The bear went to the bazaar, frightened people, brought them; winter they lived; in the spring, Masha put the bear to sleep and stabbed her; returned home along a path trodden by a horse and a cow; the Bear's goodness was brought to the village], 39 [the children went for berries, the boy got lost; the horse offers to take him home; Baba Yaga jumped out of the house, took the boy away, told her to talk; he begged him to comb his head on the porch; the bull offers to take him away, ran with him, baba yaga chases, the bull raised its tail and covered her with droppings, she went to wash, the bull brought the boy home], 44 [the girls went for berries, got to Baba Yaga; the hut is spinning, they ask them to turn the door to them, windows to the forest; baba yaga gives horse droppings and blood, the girls unnoticed; tells her to pump her in the cradle; each girl asks for permission to go out to urinate; asks for white (others red, black) take her away; Baba Yaga is chasing her, the horse hit her with a hoof in the face, Baba Yaga has returned to her place]: 32-34, 151, 161-162.

Volga - Perm. Udmurts (Sosnovka Sarapulsky y. Vyatka Gubernia): Vereshchagin 1886:165-166 [In spring, a mother sends three daughters to the forest for brooms, the girls are lost. One of the sisters climbs a tall tree and looks around. He says that blue smoke rises like a thread in the distance. The second sister doesn't believe it and climbs the spruce tree. He looks one way and says that a blue smoke as thick as a finger rises in the distance. The third sister doesn't believe it and climbs the spruce tree. He says there's a hand-thick blue smoke in the distance. Girls come to the hut. An old woman, a disgusting doll, sits on the stove and breastfeeds the baby, and the baby has a scab on his head. K. asks if the girls are hungry. The girls agree. K. scrapes the scab off the baby's head and treats the girls. The girls turn their eyes away. K. says that if they don't eat, she'll eat them herself. One takes it, she vomits; another takes it, the third one vomits too. The girls want to leave. K. says he'll let them in when they jump over their stupa. She has a large wooden stupa at the door in the corner, and she brings the girls there and tells them to jump over it. Two sisters jump and leave, and the third cannot jump over, remains with K. K. leaves, tells me to pump the child, sing: "Uh! UH! OH! OH! Sleep, fall asleep", don't leave the hut. The girl shakes the baby, cries. The rooster tells me to sit on it, the girl rides the cock, K. catches up, throws a wooden pestle at the rooster, the rooster drops the girl. K. takes the girl back to her hut. Again, the girl shakes the baby and cries. The hare comes - the same thing. A thin horse arrives, covered in mud and manure. The girl is riding it. They see that K. is chasing. They reach the water, there is a log on the water. A girl gets off her horse and walks on a log. K. is coming too. A girl goes ashore, shakes a log, K. falls into the water, dies. The girl comes home at night, when all the family is sleeping. She takes the door ring, knocks - they don't unlock it: no one heard it. She goes to bed on the canopy, where someone eats her at night, leaving only her hair. In the morning, the girl's father and boy go to the hay to feed the horses. The boy finds his hair, tells his father he found the strings. Dad lets me take them. The boy brings his hair to the hut, puts it on the table. The hair begins to cause in the plaintive voice of the girl eaten: "Father, mother! Hands and fingers were knocking on the door-you didn't unlock it." Everyone gets scared and throws their hair into the oven. In the oven, the ashes speak too. The family is not happy to live. Women shovel ash, take out leftovers, throw ash into the forest. Since then, there has been no cause in the oven], 158-159 [the man has lost his horse; he has no sons, he sent him to look for three daughters; in the forest they hear whining, then they see a bell on the spruce branch, then they go into the hut; there is a scary man with long teeth in it; replies that he saw knows where the horse is, but let the girls sit with him for a while; brings fried human fingers and treats them; girls they pretend to eat, throw their fingers under the bench; the long-toothed brings a stupa in which they push the laundry, says he will let go of the one that jumps over the stupa; the younger and middle jump, the eldest jump no; the long-toothed leaves the eldest, sends the girl to the mill; the girl sits there and cries; the hare offers to sit on him, the long-toothed chases, throws a pestle in front of the hare, the hare leaves the girl; the same with the fox; with the wolf; finally a thin horse comes, covered in mud and litter; the girl wipes her sides with grass, sits on horseback, they ride, the long-toothed catches up with them, but the horse oppressed him, and he fell behind ; girl escapes]; 1989 [A woman and her daughter go to the forest for raspberries. We got lost on the way back. They climb a tall spruce tree and see a light in the distance. They reach the hut with a Kalmyk woman with cow legs in it. Mother and daughter are frightened, but they ask for food. A Kalmyk woman cooks cabbage soup for them with human hands and legs, with lice, and invites them to eat. They eat and soon vomit. They go to bed but can't sleep. When the sun rises and the birds chirp, a Kalmyk woman brings a trough to the hut, where laundresses push clothes. She tells them to jump over the trough, warning them that the one that doesn't jump will remain in her service. The mother jumps and leaves, the daughter can't. It's hard for a mother to part, but a Kalmyk woman is inexorable The girl lives with a Kalmyk woman: she cooks, sweeps the floor. She longs, cries. When a Kalmyk woman leaves home, a pig comes, tells her to sit on it, and promises to take her home. The girl sits down, the pig carries her. The Kalmyk woman chases, catches up and takes her back. The next day a salt horse comes and asks to sit on it. A Kalmyk woman sees a girl with experience, but no matter how much she chases, she cannot catch up; this happens already at dusk. The girl knocks on the ring, but she is not unlocked. She has to spend the night in a sheepfold with her sheep. At night, a Kalmyk woman comes, eats it, leaves only her hair. In the morning, the mother walks into the sheepfold, and there are voices: "Oh, mama, mama! Why didn't you unlock your daughter? She ran away from the Kalmyk at dusk; she knocked on your porch and you didn't unlock it. A Kalmyk woman came to her and ate her." - "Daughter! daughter! If I heard, I would unlock it for you," her mother answers her, crying]: 185-186; Komi-Perm [Three girls go to the forest for berries, get lost, and come to the bear's hut at night. After a while, the bear comes and starts cooking porridge. She cooks and throws wool into it. When the porridge ripens, the bear tells the girls to eat. The older two eat, the youngest refuses. When the girls have eaten, the bear brings a stupa and tells the girls to jump over it: whoever jumps over it, he will let go. The two older ones jump over, the youngest could not and hit the stupa. The bear brings shakiness, climbs into it and tells the girl to rock it, saying: "Sleep, bear, sleep, fat!" This is how the girl lives for several days. A ram comes to her and offers to take her away. The girl sits on a ram and rides. The bear wakes up, catches up with the girl and sits down again to rock her. Another time, when the bear is sleeping, the girl runs away in a bull]: Smirnov 1891:279-280; (cf. Komi [the bear needs babysitters for the cubs; the fox advises taking the hunter's daughters; Yoma gives a basket, a spindle, a silk ball; the younger sister sees the basket, it rolls, she follows it, gets to bears; the same middle one - runs after the spindle; the ram offers to take the youngest home; bears catch up, beat, return the girl; the same with the middle sister - tried to run away on a goby; the eldest goes to the bears herself; asks to take gifts to her father; while the bear and the cubs are not at home, she dresses three stupas, puts her younger sister in a chest; on the way, the bear wants to look into it, the girl says that She sees far, does not tell them to open it; the same with her middle sister; then she sits down herself; the bears come back, take their stupas for girls; then they push them, their stupas fall on them]: Plesovsky 1975:38-44); marie [four sisters got lost in the forest, came to Vouver Kuva's hut, she was not at home; noticed sauerkraut; three went to pick strawberries, the youngest Fökla was hidden under the bunk beds, told her not to respond; V. comes, sees that the sauerkraut is involved, counts the spoons: this one is Sopsyn Wondo, this one is Muzin Pulysh, this one is Lime, and I'll take a spoonful to the phoklin; F.: don't touch my spoon; V. dragged F. into the forest, she calls her sisters, they heard, took F .; so three times; everyone gathered in the hut; F. lay down on the bench: whoever jumps over, I'll let him go; F. did not jump over; V. lay down shaky, told her to swing, fell asleep; F.: mother, father, send a pig with silver horns; went to a pig, V. caught up; the same was a ram with silver horns; caught up again; a bull with silver horns drove home]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:27-29.

Turkestan. Salara [an old woman was returning from the market with her daughter; met an old woman whose face turned into a wolf's face; she ate a woman and took her daughter with her; the girl was forced to to work for this old woman; when he went to get firewood, he saw a calf and told him everything; he promised to come pick her up and told her to bring along a comb, a bizi {translation not given} and a sharpener; at midnight took her from the old woman's house; the old woman ran in pursuit; the girl threw the comb, it turned into a forest; the old woman gnawed at it and broke it; the girl threw bizi, bamboo thickets appeared; the old woman She gnawed at them too; the girl threw the sharpener, the mountain grew; the old woman climbed over her; the calf told the girl that she needed to kill him in order to escape; the girl disagreed; the calf turned into a lion and ate old woman]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 3.3:29-32.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khalha Mongols [the boy forgets grandmas (toys) at the old camp; the father advises to sit on a calm mare, the mother forgets the eight-legged stallion; the witch plays with the grandmothers; the boy grabs them, jumps; the witch catches up with the horse, (successively?) breaks his eight legs, takes the boy to his yurt; the sheep tells him to gut her, ride a calf with her giblets; throws sheep droppings, guts, gum (each time the witch cleans herself for a long time); swims across the river on a calf; advises the witch to swim across her neck with a stone tied around her neck; the witch drowns; the calf tells her to kill the louse on her head (this dies), scatter his legs, go to bed in his womb; boy wakes up in a yurt, around the herd]: Mikhailov 1967:167-170.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts (summary of the archival text, place of recording not specified; central?) [the old man cuts an ice-hole, a half-bear half-wolf jumps out, demands that his son and daughter be given; the old man sends them to the ice-hole, the abaas carry them away; the bull, the horse try to save, the abaas catch up, return them; they the deer takes away; when the Abaas girl catches up, they throw a comb (forest), an igloo (an iron wall), a scarf (a river); they move to the other side, run away; the deer dies, tells them to throw it ribs, they turn into a house, a barn; the head is a stove, the lungs are a guard dog, the heart and liver become wolves; while the brother is hunting, the sister hides the abaas, digs a hole under her brother's bed; the brother kills his sister, leaves; meets three companions; each cooks in turn, a man in Doha squirrel does not let dinner be cooked; a young man defeats him, descends to the lower world, takes wealth and women, gives them away brothers; comes to an old man and an old woman, tells everyone to stick to bed; sticks them off as a promise to marry him; marries, lives richly]: Ergis 1967, No. 127:190.