L103C. A protective dog and a cannibal. .14.28.31.32.
Ademon, usually an old cannibal, cannot enter the house as long as he is guarded by a dog or cat. The demon or the inhabitants of the house who do not understand the danger consistently cut off parts of the animal's body and eventually kill them. After that, the demon devours those in the house.
Algerian Arabs, Kabila, Russians (Ryazan, Gorkovskaya), Lutsi, Mordovians.
North Africa. Algerian Arabs: Bellarmi 1990 (eastern Algeria) [leaving seven daughters at home, the father went to the Hajj; the daughters must be guarded by the dog Zniber; the cannibal asks to be unlocked, calls herself the girls' aunt Z. replies that she will not let her in; then six sisters fulfill all her requests, the youngest does not believe her, but is powerless to influence her sisters; the dog was tied up; killed; burned; only a fang remained, he continues to answer the cannibal and she is afraid of him; but when the fang is thrown into the river, the cannibal is unlocked; the youngest asks how the "aunt" sleeps (she lets the air out of her ass so that the house shakes); tries to convince the sisters to run, they are not they listen, she runs away alone; asks the moon what is going on; she answers every time what the cannibal's sister eats now; when the cannibal begins to pursue, the girl calls the river honey and sugar, she parted; the cannibal calls the river dung and frog, almost drowned; the girl asks the snake to cover her; hides in his cave; the snake sprinkles poison in the face of the cannibal, killing her]: 73-79; Despart 1910: 229-234 (Blida) [], 235-248 (Medea) [when leaving home for a year, the father leaves his daughters 7 eggs and asks what they would do with them; six offer to make scrambled eggs, the youngest realizes that this is a sign: take from they will break by themselves, leave them - they will deteriorate; suggests locking them in a house with enough food for a year and dig a well in the yard; the father walled up the gate and left the watchdog; in fact, it is jania, {good } female spirit; one day the fire went out; the older sister went to the roofs to look for someone to give; in the seventh house, Gulya took the form of an old woman and, when she found out that the sisters' father had left, offered to live with them; came in the evening, but the dog drove her away; when her older sister came to the drone again, she was wearing a necklace of donkey giblets and sitting on a donkey's head; she says that they killed the ghoul who took the form of a donkey, they feed it to the dogs and jackals; the older sister believes that there is a guli around, and the old woman will be calmer, offers to kill the dog; the sisters threw her from the terrace into the yard, but the dog barks from there, gulya is afraid of her; then six sisters killed a dog, but a drop of blood hit the wall and barks; gulya advises the older sister to kill the youngest and tell the father that it was the youngest who killed the dog; the dog comes to the youngest in a dream; tells him to pretend as if wants to go with her older sister to call Gulya, and jump off the terrace herself, run away; the good spirit of Jania's brother brought her younger father, but she is speechless; Gulya tells the sisters to transfer all their property to her, and Taking a donkey head for yourself will warn you of the appearance of ghouls; tell her father that the thieves stole everything; when she returned home, the youngest was speechless again and told her father everything; Rouhani, the dog's brother, told the rest; he became a lion, brought a ghoul and her 7 daughters, threw six sisters into the well; the youngest stayed with his father]; kabila: Desparmet 1910 [father leaves, leaving seven daughters with supplies for a year and telling no one to unlock; Ceriel took the form of an old woman, knocking under the guise of their father's mother; the dog barks, C. runs away (C. is afraid of dogs); after all, the 6 older sisters believed, unlocked the door, despite warning to Lila, the youngest; the dog woke up and began to bark and say to C.: You will not be able to eat Leela; C. asks to kill the dog, the sisters do so, but the blood barks and C. leaves again; the next day the leash barks; then the peg to which the leash was tied; the peg was pulled out, C. came in, L. hid behind the seventh door and ran away; C. asks the first sister where to start eating it; "From the head that did not listen to Lila's warning"; L. runs and speaks to the stars - where are my sisters? the stars say that now C. ate the first one; then the second; etc.; tell me to hide - C. is close; L. enters the cave; there is a serpent, he promises to protect it; L. agrees to be his daughter; L. goes out in the morning. comb her hair, she has it all the way to her toes; the shepherd sees this, tells the king; the prince spies, asks the father to marry him to his daughter a snake; the serpent asks for 50 wineskins of honey and 50 butter, as well as 100 sheep and lambs ; the king agrees; when sending L. to her husband, the serpent does not tell him to come to him anymore; but L. forgot something and returned; sees the snake drinking butter and honey; the snake says it will cost her dearly; L. gave birth gold-haired boy; went to the marab; at this time the serpent carried the baby and left the severed finger in the cradle; everyone believes that L. ate her child; so three times; the snake raised the boys, led them to the king; they ask what kind of woman she is in dirty rags; king: she ate her children; the serpent exposed the boys' heads, revealing their golden hair; everyone is missing one finger; everyone is happy]: 229-234; Grim 1983 [The man has 7 daughters; one is smart (Dzidza), one is stupid, the others are so-so; he went on the Hajj, leaving food, drink and fuel for a year; left a dog named Khudaya; Gulya lives nearby, she is afraid dogs; every time Gulya comes and says that he will eat D., the dog replies that he is on guard and Gulya D. will not eat; after learning from Stupid that supplies for a year, Gulya came when the girls began to leave home; told Silly that she would bring food, but the dog was interfering; they killed her together; but the dog's blood was responsible for her; D. found blood, hid it in a hole in the wall; when the Stupid washed the blood off the floor, the blood from the wall continues to answer; but the Stupid Gulya was also found there; after the dog did not answer, Gulya began to break through the door; D. ran away, asks the moon what the cannibal is doing now; she replies that she ate one sister; then another; and so on; D. came to a house where seven hunters lived; they said that if a man came, he would be their friend, and if a woman would be the wife of whoever found her; one of them found D.; when the hunters leave, they tell you not to eat the beans that the cat plays; otherwise she will write on the fire, it will go out, she will have to go to the ghoul for the fire; this happened when she looked at the ghoul and grabbed the coals, D. saw that he eats the mule, put his skin and guts on his head; in the evening, the ghoul came and asked what D. saw; she replied that the ghoul ate a fat camel, there was a caftan on his shoulders, a beautiful turban on his head; the ghoul was gone; so 4 evenings in a row; on the fifth day, the hunters returned; told him to tell Gulya about the guts on his head, he would break the doors and they would kill him; and so happened; the hunter who found D. married her]: 22-32.
Central Europe. Russians (Ryazan) [the old people have a Funtik dog, guarding the house; at night he barked - the Habias are coming; they are frightened, ran away; grandfather: F. prevents him from sleeping, I'll cut off his tail; the next night - his paw; on the third - head; on the fourth night, the Habias came, Funtik does not bark, ate an old man and an old woman]: Samodelova 2013, No. 81:91 (cf. SUS -333S*); Russians (Gorkovskaya) [Baba Yaga is a child eater: parents, when leaving, punish their daughters to invite their grandmother to spend the night; she turns out to be Baba Yaga; for each visit she demands to cut off their dog's leg and then head, one of the girls complies with the old woman's requirement; the old woman eats everyone]: V.M. Potyavin 1960, 12 in SUS 1979, No. -333C*.
Baltoscandia. Lutsie (Western 1893) [parents are dead, three brothers are gone on business, sister is home alone; the devil comes, seduces her to go with her, feed her pancakes; the cat asks not to listen or go anywhere; the devil broke the cat's legs; the next time she tore off her ears; the third time she pulled out her eyes; the cat was over; when the devil came for the fourth time, there was no one to protect the girl; the devil threw her into the coffin and burned her, put on her shadow; the girl's shadow turned into a bird, flies to meet her brothers, sings to the elder: who will he give earrings, to whom pearls; the older brother drives the bird away; the same middle brother; the younger one listens; at home the brothers feel substituted: the sister is rude, dissatisfied; the youngest goes to the healer; he tells me to catch the bird and hold it; it will turn into snakes, lizards, bears, wolves; only when she becomes a spindle - put it under the bed and cross it, become a girl; call the hell to the bathhouse, give it a beer, throw it into the cauldron and cover it with a lid; that's what happened]: Annom et al. 2018:178-181.
Volga - Perm. Mordvians [parents died, 6 girls and a boy were left; chickens, lamb, goby were slaughtered, a dog remained; the boy began to fish, transported his sisters in a boat to the forest across the river; one came across Baba Yaga's hut; invited them to their house; she tells the reeds to form a bridge, but the dog does not let her in; the next day, the sisters tied her legs, but the dog rolled to the shore, barks; the sisters put her in pea's ears, but the dog sees; their eyes are sewn up, but the dog senses; they covered the nostrils with clay, but the dog feels the ground trembling; then they put a bone in the dog's throat - unable to bark; Baba Yaga came up, stepped on the dog, she hit it with her tail, Baba Yaga ran away; the dog was buried in the threshing floor, Baba Yaga swallowed her sisters, climbed onto the stove for her brother; he put a log in her throat, knocked out the teeth of others, cut it with a knife belly, let the sisters go; the dog was opened, everything was untied, widened; sisters and brother grew up]: Samorodov 1972:116-121.