L106. The requirement to return the harpoon .11.-.13.19.-.24.38.

A person takes an item from another and loses it; the owner demands that the item be returned; the hero goes to another world for it, usually finding and bringing it back. See K56a3 and L105 motifs.

Batanga [brothers], luchazi [neighbors], congo [two women], mongo [two brothers; father and son], (luba), bemba [father and son], ndau [two son-in-law], nyanja [father and son], safwa [neighbors], isanzu [ neighbors], luguru [husband and wife], kamba [father-in-law and son-in-law], kikuyu [neighbors], Swahili [neighbors], sakata [father and son; brother-in-law; father-in-law], nzema [neighbors], aka [relatives], sorko [neighbors], beta [neighbors Left and Right hand], bobo [brother and sister], gyula [stepmother and stepdaughter], western dan [neighbors], ife [stepmother and stepson], yoruba [older and younger wife], basa [stepmother and stepson, stepdaughter], yambasa [stepmother and stepson] , banen [stepmother and stepson], baule [companions Roth and Hand], mano [two women], rowing [two women], Dogon [boy's bride and sister], nalu [stepmother and stepdaughter], tangale [father and daughter; two brothers], mofu-gudur [ two brothers], hausa [stepmother and stepdaughter], mukulu [stepmother and stepdaughter], nzakara [two brothers], joluo [two brothers], sandave [father and son], (dinka), oz. Kutubu [brothers-in-law], Palau [father and son], Yap [brothers], Marshall Islands [brothers], Kapingamarangi [brothers], (Hawaii?) , Khmer [neighbors], Ancient India (Kashmir?) [brothers], minahasa [neighbors], boogie and/or makassars [two friends], bataks [uncle and nephew], toraja [brothers], Kai Islands [brothers], tetum [brothers], bunak [brothers], North Ryukyu [brothers], "Kojiki" [brothers].

Bantu-speaking Africa. Batanga [the eldest half-brother caught an unusual fish; the youngest asked for a look, missed it; the eldest demanded it back; the youngest dived; when he met fish, shared food with them, they showed the way; washes, feeds a dirty, sick old woman; she turns young, teaches her to come to the next village, demand the fish that belonged to his murdered uncle; he was given the fish he was looking for; that woman gives him a cane made of sugar cane; he returns the fish to his brother; he plants cane; one day his older brother cuts off, eats a piece; the youngest demands it back; he goes to the bottom without feeding the fish, does not go to the old woman; returns, gets lost, drowned]: Nassau 1915, No. 16:45-47; luchazi [elephants ruin a cornfield; the owner asked a neighbor for an arrow; the wounded elephant carried it away in his body; the owner refused the ransom, demanded the arrow back; following the elephants, the man entered the cave; there is a village of elephants; the old woman teaches how to pull a fragile bowstring over the bow; he is asked to shoot at the antelope, in fact This is not an antelope, but a leader, the bowstring breaks, everyone laughs; the chief gives an arrow, brings two elephants with him; they ruin the arrow owner's field; once he asked for a bracelet for his daughter, the man borrowed it; the girl grew up, the man demanded the bracelet back; it cannot be removed; the man refused the ransom, the girl's arm was cut off, she died]: Mesquitela Lima 1968:257-260; bass: Binam Bikoï 1977:55-60 [the woman and her children abuse an orphan; the woman cooked mushrooms, went to the site for vegetables, at which time the children ate mushrooms, oiled the mouth of the sleeping orphan; the woman kicked him out at night in the rain, told him bring mushrooms; the boy meets different animals, finally elephants; these are his dead parents and grandmother; they give baskets of mushrooms and yats; one thing must be broken right away - he ends up at his foster mother's house, gives her mushrooms, she does not recognize him; another breaks on the edge of the village, houses, people, women, wealth appear; he lives well], 100-115 [stepdaughter broke a wooden spoon; stepmother tells her to go to her let the deceased mother give a new one; on the way, the pot asks for his soup (the girl eats), the tree for fruit (the same); the old woman gives seed and rice to cook, a lot of meat and rice appear; hides the girl under the bed; her children, wild animals, come to the night; the old woman tells the girl to prick them at dawn; they think that fleas are biting, running away; the old woman tells her to take the egg that will ask him not to take; it turns into a bird, sings, the old woman gives it to the girl; on the way back, the bird sings, the dead mother appears, gives a spoon and three pots, teaches when to break them; from the first comes out people, warriors, call the girl is the lady; the village comes from the second; the third lion, the warriors kill them; the girl gives her stepmother a spoon, stays in her own village; the stepmother sends her own daughter; she breaks the pot, burns wood, cooks meat and a lot of rice (they turn into bone, rice), takes an egg that asks him to take; the bird is silent; the old woman gives a spoon and three pots herself; the girl first breaks last, lions eat it; (translated in Pozdnyakov 1990:205-212)]; ndau [a good man is married to a younger, angry sister; guarding the field from wild boars, a good man takes an evil bow, a boar carries an arrow ; the evil demands the arrow back; the good comes to the mistress of the wild boars, who allows him to find his arrow among those stored in the barn, pick it up; gives a rubber ball; if swallowed and the medicine is taken, his easy to belch; everyone started playing with the ball, the angry swallowed it, but could not regurgitate; the owner demanded the ball back; explained that if it were angry, he would rip open his stomach]: Boas, Simango 1922, No. 14: 186-188; Congo [Kinkenda's mother died a long time ago; when Nsansa's mother also died, she borrowed K. to dig a grave; the men who helped forgot a hoe in the grave; K. demanded it, refusing any compensation; N. was forced to dig the grave, returned the hoe; a few months later K. left her child with N.; she made a low bead, the child swallowed the bead; N. demanded it, the child cut, take out the bead, K. cried bitterly]: Struyf 1936:75-81; (cf. bast [Kazula wounded a wild boar with a spear; he disappeared into the cave, carrying a spear; K. followed, came to the world of the dead; he is greeted by his dead brother; K. expresses a desire to learn the dances and rituals of the dead ancestors; brother says that in order to initiate, you need to bring cassava and chickens, sends that wounded wild boar (in fact, one of the ancestors) to show the way; he tells K. to go to his own ( ancestor) field, pick cassava, and chickens in the same place in the house; K. is taught three types of rituals; K. returns, talks about rituals; Chief Mbuli wants to see everything himself; K. leads him, he has cassava and chickens with him; both return after learning rituals; since then they have been with humans]: Colle 1913:542); bemba [father gave his son a fishing hook on condition that he would certainly return it; the hook came off the line; young man dived, ended up in a village of women; remained an employee for the Queen; she saw his penis, at night they lay down together, she liked it; she decided not to let him go; allowed him to enter all rooms except alone; he found meat supplies in the rooms; once he opened a forbidden room and found himself in his native village; there was no meat, only vegetables; the young man could not find a way back]: Verbeek 2006, No. 81.4:427-429; nyanja [the father caught the pigeon, put it in a cage, told the children not to open it; the son heard the sad song of the pigeon, opened the cage, the dove flew away; everyone ran after him to the lake; only the pigeon who released noticed how the spider threw the thread to the other side; ran across the thread, the dove flew back, the boy returned along the same thread, caught the dove, returned it to his father along with the monstrous grasshopper caught along the way; the father said that if the pigeon went missing, he would kill the culprit; missed the grasshopper; the son demanded his return; the father went to catch him, did not return]: Holland 1916:128; safwa [the man dug a hole; a cow fell into it another; he did not demand compensation (money, daughter as wife), but the same live cow; the one who dug a hole went to the lower world to the spirits of the dead; he was offered to find that cow, he found, although not immediately; perfume they gave another bell; if swallowed, it rings; the man regurgitated it; perfume: let the cow owner swallow it, but he cannot return the bell; at home, the pit digger gathered people, swallowed the bell; that rings: swallow, swallow, cow owner; spit out, spit out, cow owner; everyone tried to do the same; but when the cow owner swallowed, he could not regurgitate the bell; the digger refused to take money or girls, cut the owner of the cow, pulled out the bell; went to tell the spirits; they said: well done]: Arnold 1984:124-127; isanzu [the pig began to ruin the man's garden, he waited for him her, she ran away with his spear in her body; this spear was given to him by a friend, now he refused a new one, from 500 bulls, demanded his own; the man came to the hole, people (the dead) were inside; they said that he wounded his dead sister; when he got up at night out of need, there were only bones around; old people play by throwing, swallowing and coughing up a white pebble; agree to give it to man along with a spear; man brings a spear to the owner, throws up and coughs up a pebble in front of his eyes; he asks to give him a try; cannot regurgitate a stone; a person does not agree to accept 1000 bulls in return; demands that the person who swallowed his stomach was ripped open; on the sixth day his stomach swelled and died]: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 38-40; kikuyu [man borrowed a spear from another to hunt porcupines that were ruined field; the wounded porcupine took the spear; the owner demanded it back, refused the new one; the man climbed into a hole, found himself in a cave where people were sitting by the fire (the name of this underground place is the same as the world has long been the dead); they gave him a spear, fire, told him to grab the roots of the tree, he was on the ground; there was no fire before, people ate raw food; the man returned the spear; said that if the owner of the spear wanted to have fire , he must get up with smoke and bring it; he tried it unsuccessfully; the old people chose man as leader, made the fire common property]: Paulme 1968:198-199 (translated to Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 42:108- 109); (cf. Gagnolo 1863, No. 30 [The chicken borrowed a razor from Vulture; forgot to give it back; The Vulture came, demanded his razor, not compensation; The chicken is still looking for a razor, digging into the ground; Vulture, demanding compensation, he began to take the chickens away]: 129-131); Luguru [the husband has two wives, each has a child; the eldest went to the river, dropped the child, the husband demanded that he be returned; the wife went through several backwaters, the old woman sent her to the backwater, where the reeds, went down with her, asked her to lick the mucus from her eyes, she did it; sent her to another old woman, who also needed to clean her eyes; the old woman told her not to open a clean and smoky vessel with a child in it; the woman returned home, the child became incredibly obedient; then the youngest wife deliberately dropped her child into the river; both old women refused to lick discharge from the eyes; she was asked to choose any vessel; she chose a beautiful one with a child in it, she brought it, but she refuses to get off her back day or night; when she heated the water and poured it out on him, the child became a baboon and returned to the river]: Brain 1973, No. 2:120-125; kamba [the porcupine ruins the cornfield; the owner gives a spear to his daughter's fiancé, tells him to guard; the wounded porcupine takes away spear; the owner says he will not give up his daughter if the young man does not return the spear; walking down the hole, the young man comes to the land of the dead; his late father says that the wounded porcupine is the boy's mother; the mother herself returns a spear and gives tobacco; a young man brings a spear to his father-in-law, gives tobacco; he cries after inhaling it (the origin of tobacco); gives his daughter, saying that tobacco is good]: Lindblom 1928 (2): 83-87 in Frolow 1968:245-247 (=Lindblom) 1935:83-87 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 254:154); Swahili [Mohamedi (the son of a merchant) threw a spear at the wild boars that had ruined the garden; the boar ran away, carrying the pierced spear; it was the spear of his friend Saidi, the son of the Sultan, he demanded it back, did not accept compensation; M. went for a spear, met an old woman, licked her ulcers, they were gone; she gave the calebass with fire; the same with the next old woman, gave a calebass with sea water; M. found sleeping wild boars (they were genies who had moved into wild boars), pulled out his spear, ran; threw the calebass with fire (fire), then with water (river); the wild boars stopped pursuing, M. returned, gave the spear to S. ; saw monkeys swallowing the ball, letting it through them; the monkeys gave him a potion, he gained the same ability; S. wanted to play the same way, the ball remained in his stomach, M. demanded the ball back, Sultan ordered S. to be cut, he died]: Baker 1927, No. 12:283-286; mongo [originally the older brother borrows a harpoon from his younger brother, but in reality a spear]: Retel-Laurentin 1968:208-209 [poor brother borrows the rich spear is driven away from the field of elephants; the wounded elephant leaves with a spear in his body; the rich does not want a replacement, demands his spear back; when he sets off, the poor meets the dead mother; she says that the wounded the elephant is her husband; gives a spear, takes her on the road home; the poor returns the spear to the rich; soon he borrows a calebass from the poor, breaks it; the elders give the harem of the rich to the poor; the poor gets rich, the rich is impoverished], 215-219 [after the death of his parents, the older brother became impoverished, the younger brother became rich; their younger sister lived with their older brother; the elder borrowed a spear from his younger brother to drive elephants away from the field; the wounded elephant took his spear; his younger brother demanded it back; the sister prepared food for the elder, he went to look for elephants; two months later he came to the field, next to the house; the old woman asks her to wash her with warm water, comb her hair, cut her hair nails; he did it; he cooked meat, offered it to her first; she explained that elephants were dead, that he had wounded his own father; he saw his mother dead; in that house there was a dog serving like a human being; the older brother quietly takes out his spear; the mother gives him that dog and much more; he tells the dog to build a new home for the old woman; brings people hemp that did not exist before; returns the spear; the younger asks for a calebasa with tobacco (i.e. hemp), accidentally swallows it; the elder cut it, took it out a calebas, he died], 225-226 [the patriarch reluctantly lends his special calebas to his son; he misses her in the river, the owner demands it back; sailing in a boat down the river, the young man gets to the old man; builds a hut for him, brings firewood; the old man warns not to spend the night on an island where dangerous parrots; the young man sails to a village of women; everyone calls him husband, he wives; they give him a calebas; two years later he goes home; they give him a drum and property; he hits the drum himself, drives the boat; a young man gives Calebas to his father; in his absence, his father takes a drum, goes with him to the party, breaks him; to return him, he swims along the river, does not help the old man, but insults him; on the island, parrots peck him, peck him out eyes, he falls into the water, sinks]; sakata: Colldén 1979, No. 22 [the father brought three nuts, the son ate them, the father demanded that he bring the nuts from where he picked them; the son is coming, an old woman from whom skin disease, asks her to wash; he washes it, she gives two packages, big and small; at a fork in three roads, a young man asks a large parcel, which says it's none of his business; the little one shows the way; the young man shows the way; the young man hears laughter, asks if he should laugh; a small bundle says no; the young man picks nuts and banana leaves, brings them home; leaves leaves, the father eats them, the son demands that the father bring new ones from where he picked them off; father goes, refuses to wash the old woman; laughs, stones fall on him, he dies], 85 [=Colldén 1971:70-72; wild boars ruin the garden; the owner borrowed a spear from his wife's brother {husband sisters? - brother-in-law}, wounded a wild boar, he left with a spear; his wife's brother demanded a spear back, refused compensation; the man went down the hole, went underground to the village of the dead; the wounded boar turned out to be a brother man's mother; his wife hid the man in the house; the man stayed there for a month until his uncle's wound healed; the man saw his uncle's children go into the forest turning into monkeys; saw his uncle in in the form of a hare, other inhabitants of the village of the dead in the form of other animals; the uncle returned the man's spear, escorted him to the edge of his garden, returned underground himself; on the occasion of the man's return, they arranged a holiday; he no longer ate boar meat; var.: In the village of the dead, a man asks for a banana, but he is told that if he eats something, he will not return to earth], 86 [the man released pangolin from the trap; borrowed father-in-law's spear, threw it at the boar, he left with his spear; the father-in-law demanded his spear back; the man came to the animal village; Pangolin said he would help if the man let him go; he hid it, found the spear himself, gave it to the man; he gave it to his father-in-law; the father-in-law replied that he was ending the man's marriage to his daughter]: 177-178, 251-252, 252-253; (cf. sakata [the farmer has 12 sons; he cleared the plot; it turned out that there were vines that are used to make fibers; the owner demands to buy new ones, otherwise he will kill; the father gives his sons money, sends money buy vines; each of the 11 older brothers marries, stays with his wife; the girl wants to marry the youngest, he refuses, explaining the reason; she replies that her father is the owner of the vines; they come back brothers kill the youngest, bring vines to the father; the wife revives the murdered man, they come to his father; the father expels the eldest sons, transfers power and property to the younger]: Colldén 1979, No. 55:217-219); aka [Tôlé and four wives went to clear the plot; when they left, the old women came, told pieces of trees and vines to join and stand up; in the morning the forest was intact; so 4 times; taking a hoe and his relative Disokodi, T. waited for the old women, they ran, he threw his hoe, she pierced one of them's back; D. demands his hoe back; T. goes in search, finds a body with a pierced hoe, there is a rooster nearby; he screams if you try to pick up the hoe; T. promised him to make his voice louder, sealed his beak with tree sap, carried away his hoe; when the rooster finally screamed, he climbed the tree; threw it fruits that came to the pursuers; at night he ran away, covering the noses of two fortunetellers with wood resin; they no longer see him; D.'s mother died; T. dug the grave and left his hoe in it; began to demand it from D.; he guessed that the hoe was in the grave and took it out; since the corpse had already decomposed, D. smelled like a corpse, becoming a smelly ant]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 3:27-35.

West Africa. Nzema [Kofi crocodile hunter broke the tip of his spear, borrowed another from neighbor Kwao; the spear broke, the crocodile swam away with the tip; Kwao demanded that not the same one be returned; Kofi went down to the underwater city, was warmly received; three months later, the wounded officer (= crocodile) recovered, the chief returned Kofi's tip, gave a precious bead as a gift; he gave it to his niece; she washed along with Kwao's niece, dropped a bead in the mud, Kwao's niece found it and accidentally swallowed it; Kofi demanded that the same bead be returned; the woman was cut, found in the twins's stomach, and stuck in her throat bead; twins and a woman died, Kofi was avenged]: Grottanelli 1989, No. 3:84-86; sorco [Brave (H.) asked Cowardly (T.) for a spear to fight off a hyena attacking peasants; the hyena runs away with with a spear; T. demands it back; H. comes to the Hyenas, must identify his spear among others; the oldest Hyena teaches how to get the moon; H. returns with a spear and with the moon; T. takes the moon, misses it, H. Demands it back; T. comes to the Hyenas, they kill him]: Paulme 1968:196-197 (=Retel-Laurentin 1986:127); beta [The left hand commanded the Right hand because he owned a spear that killed at the slightest touched; The right one asked the spear to drive the wild bulls out of the field; the wounded bull left, carrying his spear; The left one demanded the spear back; The right one meets the old woman, she gives him water, bananas, a pot of butter; oil the pierced spear, the bull will recover; the right one receives a spear and the moon as a gift; returns the spear; throws the moon to the sky, it returns to it; in his absence, the Left threw the moon, she stayed in heaven; the Right demanded her back; the Left could not return, handed over his power to the Right]: Paulme 1968:190-191; bobo [man asks his sister to sweep his court; she sweeps, hurt something, the fire hit the cow's tail, the tail was burned; the brother demanded a new one; the girl came to the old woman; she asks to rub her back with a stone, gravel, broom; the girl puts it in her left hand, rubs it gently right back; the old woman says where the cows graze with their tails piled up; you have to choose the right one; the cows will chase; you must throw sand, broom brushwood, stone, egg; gives these items; the abandoned turns into 1) a sandy space, 2) a forest, 3) a mountain, 4) a river; the cows are drowning; the girl gives the cow's tail to her brother; the neighbor herself asked her brother for permission to sweep, set fire to the cow's tail, contrary to her brother's wishes, she went to look for a new one; she does not want to rub the old woman's back, then rubs it with a broom; then, like a kind girl, but she throws an egg in front of her; trampled by cows]: Sanon 1968:270-273; nalu [stepdaughter dropped calebas into the river, stepmother demanded that it be returned; the girl went down the river, all the people gave her rice, peanuts, she wrapped each handful in a separate sheet to remember who gave; on the second day she found a calebas, filled it with the food she had collected, brought it to the swords; she poured everything into a pile, said that her stepdaughter would already remember who to thank; the girl complained to her father; he told his wife put everything on separate leaves again; stepmother could not, cried for a long time, since then she has not offended the orphan]: Mendelssohn 1971:124-126; Gyula [Mekok's wife is evil Manyanga; she harasses the youngest to death a wife named Edima, is joined by her son Boto; sends her to a distant river to wash dishes; when B. returns, M. says that one plate is missing, tells her to look for her in the land of the dead, where B.'s mother is; B. goes down the river; shares sweet potatoes with a hedgehog, gives medicine to an old woman; he is led by a bird, his mother's soul; turns into a beautiful woman; gives a spear, the leader's sign; gives a white one (smashed by the river to protect him from spirits), gold (give to stepmother), bronze (break in her room) plates; when B. breaks the bronze one, the house turns into a palace; M. went crazy]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:160-163; catch-up [ the girl forgot the comb while combing her lover's hair; returned for it; the boy's mother said that her son died in the war; the girl refuses to pay, demands the comb back; the boy's father sends his daughter (i.e. the older sister of the victim) behind the crest; she goes to the land of the dead, sings at the grave; the brother goes out, tells her to follow the tornado, which leads to the crest; she takes it, returns to the grave, the brother gives her something else then tells me to leave without turning around; the mistress of the comb brings the dead young man's gift to her lips, accidentally swallows it; the sister demands it back; the girl's stomach was cut]: Paulme 1968:191-192; tangale : Jungraithmayr 2002:104-127 [a man works in the field, a bird comes to peck at his head; he puts a sticky calebass on his head, catches a bird that promises to give him a grain cover; shave the razor; close beans; let's close the red grain; the man refuses every time, takes a marking blade as a ransom; with this blade he put beautiful scars on his daughter's stomach; told him not to go out, until she heals; but she went to bed in her usual place; Nanamudo and the woman with one leg, with one leg, asked her who had painted her; she did not answer; but answered the groom {did they hear it?} ; the next day, everyone began to come to have this man decorate them; a woman with one leg and one hand hid his blade under her arm; the father told his daughter that the blade was missing because of her; the daughter caught up women, told everyone to jump; when the thief jumped, the blade fell out, N. swallowed it {N. immediately swallows everything that has fallen, dropped}; the father demands a blade, the daughter went to N., daughter N. hid it When N. fell asleep, her daughter removed all the blades from her womb, the girl took hers, returned it to her father; gave him a vessel that had a crack in her throat; the vessel split, she demanded that her father be whole; he tried to steal one from the craftswoman, he was caught; the daughter turned into a bird, distracted people's attention, the father ran away, came back], 343-374 [the older brother stayed to build the house, the youngest went hunting with him with a spear, wounded an antelope, she took away his spear; at home, the young man was denied food, he went to look for a spear; Josongom {animal owner?} never misses, shoots, but arrows fly past the young man; J. says he is his own man, greets him; warns him not to take the food offered; chooses his spear among many; two nights cannot run away, because the ram raises the alarm, the young man is brought back; the third time the ram is not listened to; J. lets the young man go home, he returns the spear to his brother; after a while, the older child brother sticks his hand to wash the younger's ceramic pot, the hand gets stuck, the youngest does not agree to break the pot, the child's hand was cut off, he died; he {it's not clear whether the older or younger brother} gave his bracelet to the child the other, he could not take it off, his hand was cut off, the child died; so they took revenge on each other]; mofu-gudur [after the leader's death, his youngest son inherits him; the eldest borrows a spear from one person, hunts, the wounded monitor lizard carries a spear on his body, hides in a termite mine; the owner demands the return of the spear; the young man digs a termite mound for three days, finds himself in the underworld; The monitor lizard in the guise of a young man tells him to ask his father, God, to return the spear, also ask for a ring, eat nothing but wild eggplants; the young man returns to earth with a spear and a ring, immediately becomes a leader instead of his brother; contrary to warning, agrees to sleep with his younger brother's wife, she steals the ring; the mouse, the cat, the dog sneak into the room, carry the ring, staging the cat chasing the mouse, the dog after the cat; the older brother becomes again chief]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 19:135-140; yambasa [one wife has a son, the other has a daughter; the boy's mother died, his stepmother bullies his stepson; sent him to wash dishes, he lost his spoon, he told me to get it her from the Bedeng Sea; on the way, the boy sees a pot of rice brewing himself, a tree that falls and gets up, two cassava pestas that work themselves (deux bâtons de manioc qui se battaient) ; every time he kneels reverently, receives a blessing; by the sea he comes to an old woman who owns animals; she hides him from animals for the night, gives him a grain of corn and a devoured bone, they turn into corn porridge and meat; at night he tells the animals to be stabbed quietly with a sharp stick; they think fleas bite, go away; he catches a spoon from the sea, gets three eggs; they must be broken near the pests for cassava (warriors come out), at a falling tree (wild animals come out, warriors drive them away), at a boiling pot (wealth appears); stepmother sends her own daughter; she laughs at wonderful objects, they wish her failures; throws away grain and bone; stabs animals heavily, they are dissatisfied; she is the first to break eggs with wild animals, they kill her; the eagle picked up her heart, left the girl's mother, she died of grief]: Binam Bikoï 1977:127-131; banen [one wife has two children, the other has one son; she is dead, father and stepmother are tyranting the boy; sent to the river to wash wooden bowls, one swam away, the boy was told find her; the old woman shows the way, tells me to wait for it; the pot standing on the fire asks to fill it with water, the tree asks to pick fruits, under the weight of which the branches bend; the boy does everything; comes old woman, tells her not to respond to the young woman's offers if she appears in her absence; the old woman leaves, turns into a young woman, comes, invites the boy to play, he refuses; comes again old woman, praises the boy; tells him to choose an egg that asks him not to take, break it at home in the square; at home, the boy gives a bowl to his stepmother, breaks an egg, women, slaves, elephant tusks appear; parents they send the other wife's son to deliberately miss the bowl, follow it; he does not pour water into the pot, does not collect fruit, begins to play with the young woman, at the same time all the dishes in the house are broken; beret the egg he asks him to take; red men came out of the broken egg, beat the man and his wife, beat them to death in the evening, their son also died, and the orphan got it all]: Dugast 1975:386-394; Western dan [Maja took a flintlock gun from his friend Dan to hunt elephants without asking; the bullet was stuck in elephant skin; D. demanded a bullet back (an elephant bullet is used many times); M. went along the path elephants; woman Se took him to the village of Elephants, where they looked like people; when they found out why M. had come, the Elephants rushed at him with spears, but M. stopped them with their witchcraft; told the son of the wounded Elephant that came to heal him; he was left in a dark hut; Snakes, Leopards, Spiders, Scorpions came asking him what he needed; all the bullets that hit Elephants hung on a huge tree, and M.'s bullet on the uppermost branch; Düzo climbed, asked M. if the bullet was his; he answered no every time until D. took out his bullet; the elephant showed M. the way home, ordered him not to hunt elephants anymore, M. and his family should not eat more elephant meat; Se brought M. to his village; D. was shot back, went hunting, the monkey tore his stomach; he came back, took M.'s snuffbox sink, used it to place the intestines back in the stomach; M. demanded the shell back, people ripped D.'s stomach again, took out the shell; so they don't eat elephant meat]: Fischer 1967:714-715; ife [the boy's mother died, father put a concubine (Mitweib) in her place; she sent the boy to the river to wash his scoop (Schöpfteller), he dropped it, she demanded to find it; the boy went down the river, came to God Bukú; he showed he had lots of scoops, the boy found his own; B. gave him three calabasses, told him to throw them on the ground at home; gold fell out of the broken calebas, people and cattle came out; the boy became rich]: Müller 1906: 516-517; Yoruba [the older wife is unhappy that her husband took the youngest; she left a bucket of water in the yard; when the youngest used water, the eldest said it was water from the sky and demanded the same; the youngest went to look, left the child on the grass, the bird Abiba picked him up; when she heard the mother's complaint, returned the child, gave him gifts, gave him special water; the eldest went, left the child, Abiba took him away and did not return; husband kicked out his eldest wife]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:53-54; mano [two women, one loses calebas the other, she demands to return (eine geliehene Kalebasse kann nur bei Zerstörung enter Pflanzung zurückgegeben werden}; you can only return the shell by cutting the belly; same motifs in the row (Grebo; Pinney s.a.: 206)]: Becker-Donner 1965:94 in Fischer 1967:714; baule [Hand, Leg and Roth came to the swamp; Roth asked Hand to shoot the fish, missed, the arrow disappeared into the swamp; Hand refused to accept compensation, demanded his arrow back; at the bottom of the swamp The mouth saw a waterline; he felt sorry for him, sent him to the house, where his arrow and many other toys, let him take whatever he liked; there were months; Roth took a month, returned to the village, gave the arrow, hung up the month is like a lamp; The hand tried to grab the month, it went up to heaven; Roth demanded that it be returned, the Hand could not, became a slave to the Mouth]: Himmelheber 1951b: 21-24 (translated into Himmelheber 1960:137-141); hausa [a woman sends her own daughter and daughter of her deceased sister for water; her own daughter has broken a calebasa, said that her stepdaughter is to blame; her stepmother told her to bring calebas; the girl meets goats, sheep, cows, they ask her; the old woman asks her to wash her back; tells her to take the calebasa who will be silent, not the one that asks her to take it; the girl brought her calebass; the old woman told her to break the jug, from there gold fell down, various cattle came out; five days later, a rich girl returned home]: Lippert 1905, No. 3:230; mukulu [Mandoko and the other girls went to catch frogs and forgot by the stream a spoonful of calebas; when she returned, her stepmother asked her for a spoon; M. offered to go to her neighbors, but her stepmother demanded her own spoon; M. came back, took a spoon, but the lion met her; since M. carries a spoon, then let him take him on his back and carry him; {then another story, I omit some of the details}; M. carries a lion from one relative to another, everyone says he can't help; the young man she is loved, refuses too; whom she did not love, kills a lion; marries M.)]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 27:139-147; (cf. background [the hunter killed only elephants; the wounded elephant disappeared into the river; the hunter follows him under water; there is a village, there are people in it; the hunter explains to the leader that the chased beast is somewhere here; the leader speaks that he did not allow his men to go ashore; tells him to open the doors of houses, invites the hunter to find the one he wounded; tells the wounded to go with the hunter; on the shore he put his hands and feet in four calebasses, became an elephant, the hunter finished him off]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 55:248-249).

Sudan-East Africa. Nzakara [when he dies, his father gives both sons a spear; in the absence of the elder Dieudonné, the youngest Molissi (Maurice) takes his spear to hunt wild boars; the boar runs away with the pierced with a spear; D. says she will not sleep until M. returns her spear; M. comes to the old woman, her chest to her feet; she cuts them off, tells M. to cook with the milk they contain, salt and peanuts; M. cooks, does not eat anything alone; the old woman asks her breasts, salt, they say that they were not eaten; the old woman and M. eat together, the old woman teaches what to do; in the land of wild boars, M. rolls on the ground, crying for a relative, promising that he will not hunt wild boars; gets both the spear and the carcass of the victim; on the way back he buys the ball from the store (originally the moon?) ; returning his spear, plays the ball behind the fence; in his absence, D. takes the ball to play outside, the ball disappears; M. demands it back; D. follows the ball; eats the old woman's breasts, salt, etc. in her absence; they they tell the old woman that they were eaten; she eats D.]: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 19:127-132; Joluo [Niylak woman gave birth to sons Nyabongo, Gipir and Gifol; N. founded a dynasty in Bunyoro; a sign of the chief Gifol's virtues were a ritual spear; when the elephant began to trample on the garden, Gipir grabbed this spear, hit the elephant, which left with a spear in his body; Gifol demanded the spear back; in search of the elephant, Gipir met an old woman (this is the Mother of Elephants), spent the night, talked about his business; goes on, the Elephant leads him to the place where the spears are stacked, Gipir finds his own; on the way back, the Elephant Mother gives him a beautiful bead; at home Gipir returns the spear to his brother, gives the bead to his wife; Gifola's little son accidentally swallows it; Gipir demands it back; three days later the child is cut, a bead is found; then Gifol takes the land to the east from Neil, Gipir to the west]: Belcher 2005:154-157; sandave [did the person have Irangari (?) ; he decorated it with pearls, she looked like a man; he forbade his little son to enter the hut where she was; he came in, irangari was frightened, ran to the village of chiefs, stayed in the chief's hut; the father demanded that the irangari be returned; the boy ran to look for her to return his father's jewelry; came to the chief, who allowed the irangari to be taken; on the way, the boy picked up a cricket; put it in his father's hut under the basket; when the father entered, he picked up the basket, the cricket disappeared; the boy demanded that his father return the cricket; he went to the forest to look for it, did not find it, died]: Arnold 1984:167-168; (cf. Dinka [Ajang stole Ashol's black cow from Ayei; she was attacked by a cobra, Ayang threw a spear at the cobra, hit the tail, the cobra dragged her spear down the hole; Afyang hardly dug the hole, pulled out both the spear and the cobra's daughter ; married her and returned the cow to Aya]: Stubbs 1934:250-253).

Melanesia. Oz. Kutubu [the woman's younger brother takes her husband's jail without asking, harpoons nafa fish, she goes into the water with a jail in her body; the sister's husband beats the young man; he swims with his sister in a boat, tells her to wait, himself he goes down a rope to the bottom; there is peace as on earth, but local people do not eat pork, but earthworms; the young man eats hunting cassowaries; he is received as a guest; during dances arranged for a purpose to heal the patient, the young man notices his prison in his body; slowly pulls it out, returns to the ground; after packing his things, goes back to the lake; his sister quarrels with her husband, accusing him of her brother is gone; turns into a snake, her husband into a palm tree from which jails are made; at the bottom a young man gets a wife; one day in the dark he takes food prepared by his wife in his mouth; it is worms, he turns into fish, sees others also in fish guise]: Williams 1941, No. 9:139-140.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Kapingamarangi [Apart's younger brother throws a chisel received from Apari's older brother at the frigate bird; the bird takes it away, Apari demands his chisel back; Apara comes to the blind old woman, she cooks tarot; he makes her sighted; carries out her three errands (not a decree, which ones); gets two beauties, they have a chisel in their hands; (obviously, returns the chisel to his brother); Apari comes to the same woman, does everything on the contrary, he gets two ugly old women; they chase him, he runs, dies of exhaustion, ari l from the eldest.]: Elbert 1949:243; Palau [the young man took his father's mother-of-pearl hook, the hook was carried away by the fish, the father was angry; his mother advised me to dive into the sea; in an underwater country, a young man met a Tudalem fish; he saw a girl who came for water; she invited her to the house, said that the woman had a sore throat; Tudalem fish began to dance ridiculously, the woman laughed, belched her harpoon, the young man took it, returned to earth]: Eisenstädter 1912:90-91 (=Matsumoto 1928:110-111); Yap: Müller 1918, No. 83 [younger brother asked the elder for a hook, the moray eel bit it off and took it away; the eldest demanded the hook back; the youngest was sitting on the shore, chewing betel; two fish came, became girls; asked for bethel, he gave it; they ordered swim between them; the first time he could not get down, swam back; the second time they did not let him go, they went deep, found themselves in the house; there were many hooks; the moray eel (male) always bit them off, then in front of she was danced, she laughed, the hook fell out of her mouth; but the young man had no hook; they began to dance especially funny, she dropped the hook; invited the young man to swim in a clean pond or one in which she relieves himself; the young man chose the second one; the moray eel rewarded him, giving him not only the hook, but also the girl; a year later the young man returned; the older brother also wanted a wife; he chewed betel, asked the fish girls for him let him down, but swam in clean water; the moray eel gave him two old women in anger; on earth, his elder brother did not want to let them in, but they came in, one held him, the other copulated with him; like this every day; The older brother broke his testicles against a rock and died]: 655-657; (cf. Mitchell 1973, № 69 [Gilwaay returned home, found out that his brother had died, was buried with a lut shell bracelet; G. decided to return the bracelet; cut the boat out of the barrel; while he was cutting, Lanman collected chips for his hearth; G. demanded that he now go with him; L.'s parents taught him how to deceive G.; he ate a lot of coconuts on the boat, vomited, vomited red; G. decided that he was ill, ordered throw overboard; L.; swam home; on the way, the rest of G.'s satellites died, were left alone; he and G. sailed to the rock; G. wondered, said that it was necessary to climb it up; satellite - what to go west; the satellite left, G. saw blood, a monstrous crab lived on the other side; G. himself reached the eagle's nest, which was flying to heaven; sat on an eagle; when he was in the sky, he threw hidden pieces of fish, the eagle went down for them, G. jumped; in the sky, Gudubwo left the stove in the sun seven portions of food for her sons (they did not know the fire in the sky); G. stole one; Gudubvo distributed portions, the youngest did not have enough; she She waited and grabbed G.; said she saw his brother pass by, he was the last; hid G. from her sons under one of her long breasts; then said that G. was her youngest son; ordered not pick up a stone near the house; at first G. did not see the spirits passing by; Gudubvo made him see them; G. grabbed his brother's hand, but centipedes and ants began to bite him, he let go of his hand, a bracelet returned to spirit; the next day he did not let go, received a bracelet; picked up a stone, saw his parents below; began to cry, ask to go home; Gudubvo realized that he had violated the ban; tied him to his hands roosters; told her heels to be tickled when she falls asleep; kicked her feet, he fell into a hole, fell on roosters; returned home; today's roosters come from those heavenly]: 98-202); Marshall o- wa [Laikjet and Ladiljet brothers took their father's fishing hook and lost; the father demanded his hook back; the elder Laik decided to go to sea, Ladil agreed to sail with him; Laik witchcraft drove away the shark, the eel that wanted to eat them; arrived at Irodjerilik's house; he showed the hooks, the brothers took theirs, returned home, gave the hook to their father, left him forever; the father repented bitterly]: Krämer, Nevermann 1938:275-276; (cf. Hawaii [text recorded by Bastian and not fully understood; the fisherman loses the hook, goes down to sea after him, finds a girl there and returns ashore with her]: Frobenius 1904:283-284).

Burma - Indochina. Khmers [the man borrowed an ax from his sethay neighbor (rich man, landowner), went into the forest to buy firewood; the axe flew off the axe, pierced the deer's back, and ran away; the neighbor refused several new axes, the old man demanded; the man gave him his son; once he found a dead deer in the forest with an ax in his body, brought it to a neighbor, who returned his son; the sethay borrowed the man's pot, the dogs broke him, the man demanded his pot, not compensation; told the judge the whole story; he ordered Sethay to give his daughter to the man as a maid]: Gorgoniev 1978:307-309.

South Asia. Ancient India (probably Kashmir) [King Vīrabhuja's sons want to get rid of Çringabhuja, their father's other son born to his beloved wife; they urge him to take it father's golden arrow and shoot Rakshasa, who took the form of a crane; Rakshasa flies away, carrying an arrow that pierced him, the brothers tell C. to return it; C. comes to the Rakshasa Palace, his daughter Rūpa çikha fell in love with him; rakshas tells me to 1) identify her among 100 girls; 2) cultivate a giant field in a day; 3) sprinkle and collect sesame seeds again; the bride helps to do everything (she will have pearl ribbon on the head, ants collect sesame seeds); Rakshas tells C. to invite his (Rakshasa) brother Dhūmaçikha to the wedding; the bride gives him a horse, earth, water, thorns, fire, tells him, handing him invitation, run immediately; D. chases, C. throws land (mountain), water (river), thorns (forest), fire; Rakshas stops pursuing, C. returns, gets a wife; the young run away, taking the golden arrow and treasures; R. turns himself and her husband into a lumberjack peasant; Rakshas does not recognize them; the imaginary woodcutter replies that he mourns the newly deceased son of Rakshas and cuts wood for his funeral fire; Rakshas hurries back, sees his son alive, chases again; R. turns into a messenger, says that Rakshasa's son is dying; Rakshas returns again, pursues again; the story ends the release of C.'s mother, who was imprisoned by other wives, and the expulsion of C.'s brothers]: "Ocean of Tales" (Kathāsaritsāgara), 11th century, Kashmir, in Aarne 1930:7-8.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Minahasa (Houmbulusan boy borrowed a fishing hook from a friend, he was carried away by a fish; the friend refused to accept compensation, demanded his hook back; he went down to the underwater world, a sick fish turns out to be a girl; the young man promises to cure her by being alone with her, pulls the hook out of his throat, hides it in her clothes, receives gifts from the girl's parents; returning to the surface, does not finds his boat; a big fish agrees to take him ashore, for which he gives it a beautiful name]: Frobenius 1904:282-283 (Dixon 1916:214-215 in Matsumoto 1928:111); toraja [seven The brothers were hunted for wild boars; every time one of them stayed to dry the meat, a man appeared and carried it away; the youngest managed to hit him with a spear, the wounded ran away; the young man's grandfather demanded that he be returned to him a spear; they reached a deep hole; only the youngest dared to go down the vine; in an underground village he was told that the local chief had been wounded by a spear and was stuck in his back; the young man volunteered to heal the chief, but finished him off and took his spear; on the way he picked up seven beauties who wanted to go to earth with him; the brothers pulled them out, each received a wife]: Adriani 1898:365 in Dixon 1916:214-215; boogie and/or makassars [wild boars ruin the garden; the owner asked a friend for a spear, threw it at the boar, it broke, the boar took the tip; the owner of the spear demanded it back; the man found it in the forest a bottomless hole, went down on a rope, found himself on the crown of a mango tree; the girl came for water; said that the prince's son had returned from the ground seriously ill, no one could cure; the man pretended to be a healer , ordered him to be left with the sick for three days; killed the prince, took not only a spear, but also an expensive necklace and sword with a golden handle; returned to earth; after learning about his adventures, the ruler gave him a daughter and throne; the treasures brought are still kept]: Bezemer 1904:369-371; bataks [a young man wounds a boar with a spear borrowed from his uncle, a boar carries a spear, an uncle demands his spear back, refuses from replacement; a young man descends to the lower world, where the chief's daughter is wounded in the leg; the young man takes his spear out of the wound, marries a girl; wants to go home, is watched, not allowed in; he deceives the watchmen, returns to the ground]: Matsumoto 1928:111-112; Kai Islands [there are three brothers in the sky (the oldest is called Hian) and two sisters; the younger Parpara took the elder's hook, went fishing, the fish took the hook; the brother demanded him back; the fish said that the other had something stuck in his throat; brought a hook; in order to take revenge, P. placed a jar of palm wine over his brother's bed; when he got up, he could not help but touch him, the liquid spilled; P. demanded that H. return everything; H. began to dig, dug a hole; the brothers lowered the dog into it on a rope; when they picked it up, they found sand on their paws; three brothers and one sister began to descend the rope; when the second one began to descend, her brother looked at her from below; she was ashamed, pulled the rope, the people who remained upstairs pulled her out; three brothers and sister became the ancestors of the island's inhabitants; others went out from mangrove trunks, water, or ground]: Bezemer 1904:415-416 (=Frobenius 1904:283, narrated in Dixon 1916:156-157); bunak (Papua Central Timor) [two brothers catch two pigs, ruining the garden; they turn into two girls, the older brother takes both for himself; the youngest leaves, breeds buffaloes; the crow sits on the back of buffaloes, bites them to blood; he asks the elder to give him his father's golden arrow; the crow is wounded, flies away with an arrow; the bird brings him to the lake, dives with it into the water; he sits on a coconut palm, throws a coconut flower at those approaching the spring; they explain that the Raja has an incomprehensible illness; his younger brother undertakes to cure him, takes out and hides a golden arrow in his clothes, shows a wooden fake, smeared it with red betel juice; the Raja recovers; local people hang oranges on a tree during the day, turn into people at night and dance; a young man asks for two ripe oranges as a gift; two girls; the Raja adds cloth, a fan, a panicle, a horn with butter, tells you to put oranges only on cloth; the bird carries the young man back; he bathes, leaving oranges on the cloth, hears laughter, oranges have turned into two girls; realizes that he saw these girls dancing at Raja is a raven; the older brother asks one of them for himself in exchange for one of his two wives; the youngest does not agree, the elder kills him; the girls revive him with a fan, a panicle, oil; together they kill older brother, younger takes his widows]: Berthe 1972:57-59 (=Hicks 2007, No. 5:48-49); Tetum (East Timor): Hicks 2007, No. 1 [(=Sá 196:44-65); younger single brother asked the eldest married fishing hook; Na'I Lou, the island's chief's only daughter, turned into loli, grabbed the hook, went with it into the water; the older brother demanded that the hook be returned; the youngest threw the net, she how a boat brought him to the island; the young man climbed a tree; there was a spring nearby, guarded by crocodiles; two maids came to the spring; the young man chewed the fruit, spat; they first thought they were birds, then saw the reflection, decided that they were their own, that they were very beautiful; when they saw the young man, they told them to go down without fear of crocodiles; they said that the princess was suffering from a sore throat; the young man took out and hid his hook , replaced it with a bamboo fake, then removed it, showed it; he was married to NL; he sailed home, gave the hook to his brother, returned to the island, the chief handed him the throne], 2 [on Atauro Island, younger and middle brothers crocheted the elder, the hook caught on something at the bottom, disappeared; the eldest demanded it back; the younger and middle sailed in the boat, the middle one went down into the underwater world, climbed the banyan tree, for which the woods were entangled; I saw three girls below; they explained that the hook was stuck in the tooth of their shark grandmother, she was sick; the young man pulled out the hook, received five betel leaves, blacksmith tools; leaves turned into a flock of fish; in the field of brothers sown five grains of corn, five beans and five peas, a rich harvest ripened], 3 [(=Pascoal 1967:132-137); parents learned that Bíli-Loba, the youngest of seven sons, does not work with his brothers on the site, but hunts; his mother put sewage on his plate; he left home, started growing arek palms and betel trees, fishing; the fish bit off his hook; someone steals the crop; BL waited for the thief, who explained that the betel and areca needed to treat the wounded queen; asks to close his eyes, BL is next to the patient, sees his hook in her throat; takes out the hook , instead of him shows a thorn as if he had pulled it out; he is given buffaloes, his brothers take them away; as punishment, with the help of a sea chief, he floods the village, saves only one brother who was kind to him; for the help of water residents is forced to marry his daughter for the queen's son (at first he tried to bring a maid instead of her)], 4 [the younger brother took the hook from the elder, the crocodile took the hook, the elder demanded a hook back; the youngest was waiting for a cockatoo woman stealing bethel from his garden; she explained that she needed a betel to treat her crocodile grandfather, who has a sore throat; her younger brother goes with her to underwater world, pulls its hook out of the Crocodile's throat, replaces it with a palm thorn (supposedly he removed it); asks buffaloes as a reward; they appear in the corral; the crocodile asks for a woman in return; a young man tries to give a maid, but has to give her sister]: 45-46, 46-47, 47, 48.

Japan. Ancient Japan [Hoderi no mikoto is a lucky fisherman, his younger brother Hoori no mikoto is a lucky hunter; offers to exchange fishing and hunting gear, caught nothing, missed the hook; does 1,000 hooks from his sword, but his older brother demands his back; Shio-tsuchi-no kami (God-Spirit of the Sea) takes him by boat to Wata-tsumi no kami (God Spirit of the Sea) palace, telling him to sit there on a katsura tree, he will be noticed by the daughter of the sea god; her maid goes to fetch water, sees a shadow in the well, notices the young man; he asks for a drink, throws a pearl into the vessel; the daughter of the sea god Toyotam-bine (Virgin of the Abundant Zhemchuzhin) finds her, her father passes her off as a young man; he has been living with her for three years, remembers the reason why he got to sea; the sea god calls fish, who answer that the Tai fish (perch genus) complains about a thorn stuck in his throat; the sea god hands his son-in-law a hook, promises to ruin his brother; sends him home on a crocodile; with the help of a pearl, the young man drowns and then saves his older brother (floods his fields); the wife comes to give birth on land, does not tell me to spy; he spies, sees a crocodile, the wife returns to sea forever, leaving her son, the father gives him up to his younger sister]: Kojiki 1994, ch. 33-35:90-96; Ryukyu Islands (northern) [fisherman brother and hunter brother change their fishing and hunting gear; the hunter loses the hook, the fisherman demands that it be returned; the old man on the shore explains how to get to the palace king of the sea; at the gate, a young man hides in a tree above the well; the maid sees his reflection, tells the princess, she falls in love, the young man marries her; three years later he wants to return; the king collects subjects, the hook is stuck in the mouth of the fish (red snapper), she is sick from it; the young man with his wife and gifts (jewelry that controls the tide) returns to the ground; returns the hook to his brother and curses him; good luck leaves him, he obeys his brother; the husband violates his wife's ban on watching her give birth; she turns into a crocodile and swims away]: Ikeda 1971, No. 470C: 121-122.