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L108. The Wolf and the Goats, ATU 123.

.10.-.17.19. (.20.) .21.-.34.36.38. (.45.)

Every time a character who has left returns, he or she sends a conditional signal to his relative (usually a child) or friend who remains at home with a song, etc., who lets in to yourself. The antagonist pretends to be the departed person, imitating his voice, supposedly showing his hand, etc. Cf. L27a motive.

Hottentots [orphans and cannibals], kamba [orphans and cannibals; and hyena], arusha [children and hyena], isanzu [orphans and hyena; antelope and hyena], maragoli [any animals?] , kikuyu [boy and girl], ziba [girl and leopard], rundi [girl and cannibal], digo (or chagga) [girl and cannibal], nyanja [hare and man], luba [girl and cannibal], ganda [turtle and crane], kinga [hare and man] jackal and kids], tonga [kids and beast], zulu [girl and cannibal], congo [gazelle and wild cat; and leopard], kiga [hare and leopard], suto [girl and cannibal], braid [children and cannibal], Angola [hare and leopard], hausa [ girl and hyena; dog and hyena], lelemi [turtle and leopard], samo [children and crocodile], sapo [dwarf antelope and shipmanzee], bambara [girl and hyena], dan [woman and forest spirit], susu [girl and snake], tenda [hare and panther], limba [monkey and baboon], mamprusi [goat and hyena], dagari [girl and hyena], mungaka [elephant and mother of a dwarf antelope], wolof [goat and hyena], senufo [woman and hyena], background [ hare and hyena; duker and other animals], igbo [squirrel and rat], mofu-gudur [boy and panther], banen [dwarf antelope and leopard], sarah (mbai) [girl and hyena], zagawa [children and cannibal], bari [girl and hyena], shilluk [boy and lion], Masai [children and enemies], nzakara [girl and cannibal], zande [Thur spider and leopard; girl and beast], mundang [girl's father and hyena], Iraku [girl and cannibal], Sudanese Arabs [ girl and cannibal; woman and cannibal], malgashi [boy and cannibal], Western Sahara [goat and hyena], Morocco [goat and wolf], kabila [old man and cannibal; sheep and jackal; goat and evil spirit], Algerian Berbers, Arabs Tunisians [goat and cannibal], Arabs of Egypt [goat and cannibal], Catalans [goat and wolf], Basques, Spanish [wolf and goat; goat and bull], Galicians [goat and wolf], Portuguese [goat and wolf], Aragon [goat and wolf], Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazio, Molise, Puglia) [wolf and goat], Sardinians, Corsicans [girl and prince], Irish, Scottish, French [goat and wolf], Bretons [goat and wolf], Walloons [goat and wolf], Flemish [goat and wolf] goat and wolf], Friezes, Dutch, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein), Syrian Arabs [goat and hyena], Palestine [goat and hyena], Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia [hyena and fox], mono [fish and evil spirit], Aoba [fish and evil spirit] Merombiti], Tibetans (Amdo) [children and cannibal], Kachins [kids and tiger], Meitei [girl and cannibal; girl and tiger; children and cannibal], Burmese [girls and tiger], Karen [fish and old woman], Sikkim [children and rakshasa], Sindhi [gazelle and crocodile], Rajastans [deer and wolf], Hindi (?) [crow and predator], Sinhalese [girl and rakshas], bajau [girls and princes], galela [girl and stranger], paiwan [kids and cannibal], Koreans [kids and tiger], chuan miao [two sisters and a tiger], namuzi [girls and a cannibal] , lolo (bai) [children and witch], fox [two sisters and cannibal; sister and brother and cannibal], Chinese (Shanxi [Wolf], Shandong [Tiger, Leopard], Hubei [evil spirit], Hunan [Tiger, Leopard], Gansu [Tiger], Manchuria [Tiger]), Bajau [princes and girls - buffalo daughters], Moldovans [goat and wolf], Hungarians [goat and wolf], Slovenes, Serbs [fox foal and wolf], bosses [fox mare and wolf], Bulgarians [goat and wolf], Greeks, Russians (Vologda, Pskov, Vladimir, Ryazan) [goat and wolf], Russians (Tver, Ryazan) [woman (girl) and Baba Yaga], Russians (Kursk) [boy, his mother and witch], Ukrainians [goat and wolf] , Ukrainians (Poltava) [boy and witch], Belarusians [goat and wolf; boy and witch], Czechs, Slovaks [goat and wolf], Poles [woman and witch], Adygs [hare and wolf], Ossetians, Ingush [goat and wolf, goat and witch] bear], Kumyks [goat and wolf], Rutulans [children and wolf; goat and wolf], Avars [children and wolf], Khvarshins [children and wolf], Georgians [fox lamb and bear], Armenians [goat and wolf], Turks [sheep and wolf, goat and wolf, goat and wolf, goat and wolf, goat and bear], Kurds [goat and wolf], Talysh [sheep and wolf], Tajiks [goat and wolf], Persians [goat and wolf], Bukhara Arabs [goat and wolf], Yazgulyam [goat and wolf], Rushans [goat and bear], Khufs [goat and bear] bear], parya [goat and wolf], Uzbeks [fox lamb and wolf], baluchis [goat and wolf], shina [wild goat and bear], Danes, Swedes, Norwegians [wolf, goat and goats], Latvians [roe deer and wolf; witch and boy], Lithuanians [goat and wolf; girl and wolf; boy and witch; girl and wolf], Livons, Estonians [goat and wolf; snake husband and woman's brothers], Setu [goat and wolf; girl and devil], Lutsi [goat and witch], Veps [boy and witch], Finns, Sami, Udmurts [hare and wolf], Komi [wolf and goats], Marie [bear and goat; girl and witch], Mordovians [boy and bear; goat and bear], Chuvash [girl and bear], Kazan Tatars [ goat and wolf], Bashkirs [goat and wolf; bear and girl], salars [girls and witch], Dongxiang [girls and witch], Mongors [girls and witch], Mongols of Ordos [girls and witch], central Yakuts, Sym Evenks [women and bears], Kirenian Evenks [woman and ogre or two cannibals], Japanese [children and witch], North Ryukyu [children and witch], (Tuscarora [children and predators]).

SW Africa. Hottentots: Schmidt 2007, No. 23 [two orphan sisters found an abandoned village and began to live there; when she leaves, the eldest tells the youngest to lock the door, to unlock only her voice when she sings a song; The cannibal overheard and sang, but his voice was rude; he went to the sorcerer, who told him to swallow the hot stone, his voice became thin, the girl unlocked the door, the cannibal took her away; the older sister came to the cannibals I saw my sister's corpse cut, took her heart away; put it in milk, began to knock down oil there, my sister was born], 24 [the woman is married to an ogre; gave birth to a girl, hid her in a hole in the veld; when she came to feed , sang a song, told me not to go out if someone else's voice was heard; the cannibal overheard, sang a song, but in a rude voice; went to Jackal, who heated a stone, ordered it to swallow it to make his voice thin; the cannibal died; the woman took her daughter and went to her mother], 25 [the woman is married to an ogre, he eats her newborn children; she gave birth to a girl, hid it in a hole in the veld; when she comes to feed, she sings a song; the husband overheard, sang, at his place a rude voice, the child did not get out; then he sang in a thin voice, the husband ate the child; at home, the wife deliberately makes the fire smoke; the ogre leans over the fire, the wife cuts off his head; leaves]: 72-74, 74-75, 75-78.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Maragoli [Anakamuna and Anakanani are friends; when hungry, Anakamuna offers to eat his mothers; Anakanani ate, and he hid his mother in a tree; she warms and feeds her son; when he comes up, he sings a song, for his mother to pull the rope down; Anacanani followed, sang the same song, but his mother did not recognize the voice; then he told the blacksmith to correct his voice; after that, the woman missed the song, killed Anacanani and ate it; Anakamuna offered to go for honey, told me to climb a tree and set fire to Anacanani's tail; the burning Anacanani fell from the tree and rushed into the river, but Anakamuna dried it; so with all the rivers; he is Anacanani]: Kavaji 2005, No. 3:196-202; maragoli [brother hunts, sister is at home; when brother returns, he sings a song, sister unlocks the door; the cannibal heard, sang, sister heard a wonderful voice; he went to make the blacksmith's voice thinner; the sister opened it, the cannibal swallowed it; the brother sharpened his sword, found the ogre, ripped open his stomach, his sister and other swallowed people went out; one old woman returned for her forgotten stomach the cannibal with a pipe; the people asked the young man to leave the old woman to him so that his stomach would not be completely empty; sister and brother lived happily]: Kavaji 2005, No. 7:215-217; kamba: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 127 [brother and the sister remains orphans; returning from the hunt, the brother sings a song, the sister answers, unlocks it; Hyena overhears, but the sister recognizes someone else's voice, then recognizes someone else's dance, unlocks it for the third time; Hyena eats a girl but cannot leave the house; her brother kills her], 128 [the hunter has a tumor cut on his leg, she has two boys and a girl; he stays with them in the forest, makes a house on a baobab; when he comes up, sings, the son lowers the rope; the cannibal Muvia comes up twice, sings the same song, his voice is rude; the sorcerer advises to exude his tongue with the bites of ants and scorpions; the son lowers the rope, M. takes the children into his village, tells him to weed the field; the father finds them, tells his son to answer M. rude, kills him; before his death, M. tells him to cut off his little finger, throw them into the fire; those killed by him come to life]: 308-310, 310-315; Arnott 2000 [The widower has two boys and a girl, he makes a tree house; every time he comes back, he sings a song, the children go down the stairs; the witch overhears, the two older children understand that this is not the father, refuse lower the stairs; the witch turns to the sorcerer, who advises the ants to stick their tongue out, he will swell, there will be the right voice; the children lower the stairs, the witch takes them away, makes them work; with the help of the sorcerer, the father finds her way, hides in the witch's house, kills her; before she dies, she tells her little finger to be burned; the people and cattle she has eaten come out of it; the father and children get rich]: 142-151; isanzu: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 16 [Hyena ate all the villagers, brother and sister are left, hid in different places; Hyena tries to summon her sister in her brother's voice, she does not believe it; every time she goes to the sorcerer to change her voice ; finally, the sister believes, is swallowed; the brother makes the drum, all the animals are going to dance, the Hyena is among them; the brother kills her by throwing a stick and a drum at her; she tells her to be cut from behind; first to go out sister, all swallowed after her; one old woman had her ear cut; she put poison in the young man's beer, he died], 17 [Hyena and Antelope (dwarf digdig) agree to kill their children, eat them liver; Hyena kills, Antelope hides a baby in a termite mound, kills a bird; Hyena is surprised that her baby's liver is stiff and Antelope's baby is tender; hears Antelope calling a child to him feed; calls in the same words, but her voice is rude; chews bones does not help; the sorcerer advises bringing fat to the termite mound calebas; after eating fat, Hyena speaks in a gentle voice, Antelope's child comes out, Hyena eats it, runs away]: 17-18, 18-19; kikuyu [a childless man's knee is swollen; the sorcerer cut it, three girls came out: Njiruni, Nyamatuananga, Nyamathiriti; coming to the house, M. always sings and daughters they deny his voice; one of the men managed to reproduce M.'s voice, he took Njeruni away; she gave birth to a son; M. grieves; once noticed castor plants that grew along the path that Njeruni was taken away; M. came to his daughter, she did not recognize him; he taught her son his song; everything was clarified, M. stayed with his daughter and son-in-law]: Mwangi 1983:123-126; ziba [father sends son and daughter to herd cattle; brother herds, the sister stays in the hut; the leopard asks the blacksmith what to do to make his voice look like the girl's brother; the blacksmith does not tell the blacksmith to eat goats before that; the first time the leopard eats, the second time abstains, girl opens, he eats her; brother finds, kills a leopard, cuts off his head, finds a living sister]: Klipple 1992:68; bast [the cannibal eats each of the children he gives birth to his wife; she licks pus from the cannibal's eyes, who advises her to give birth in a cave; the child opens to his mother's voice, and the ogre has a rude voice; the cannibal tells him to change his voice; he calls the child again the child opens the door, the ogre eats it; the wife looks for the ogre, finds it, he swallows it, but she has needles and razors in her basket; there are swallowed children in the ogre's stomach, the mother gives them razors, they rip open her stomach cannibal, come out]: Lambrecht 1963:288-290 (retelling in Klipple 1992:69); arusha [two children are born from an abscess on a man's knee; when he leaves, he tells them to open only to his voice; the hyena asks the sorcerer makes her voice look like the voice of the children's father; he tells her not to eat a beetle before that; the hyena eats, the children feel that the voice is someone else; next time she does not eat, the children open it, the hyena eats them]: Klipple 1992: 67; Rundi [Nyanyange, Thunder's sister, becomes the ogre's wife; he eats all their children, but the mother hides one daughter, tells her to open it only to her voice; the ogre changes his voice, enters the girl, cuts off her head, hangs her in the doorway; Thunder kills the ogre with lightning; when he dies, he tells his wife to cut off his little finger, all swallowed children go out]: Klipple 1992:68; digo (or chagga) [Mwanisi girl lives with her brother; when he returns from hunting, he calls her, she lowers the basket from the tree, picks it up; the monster calls M., but she lowers the rotten basket, the monster falls; so several times the hare advises the monster more do not eat centipedes, the voice will become more tender; he still ate the small one, the voice is rude; when he stopped eating at all, his voice changed, M. lowered the basket; the monster took M.; on the way she threw her things with her; According to them, her brother found her, entered the house when the monster went swimming; he asks who M. is talking to; M. replies that he says there are a lot of fruits; M.'s brother killed a monster]: Arnold 1984:55-56; king [the woman has 4 children; she goes to work in the field, the children are playing in the cave; the jackal overheard the woman calling them; said the same words, the children answered, he ate the older one; the mother asks for a rude voice not to hear; the next time the jackal put his tongue in the anthill, the voice became thin, the children answered again, the jackal ate the second child; the next day, the third; the fourth; the woman complained to the sorcerer; he ordered everyone jumped over the fire; the snake, deer, etc. jumped over; the jackal was the last to fall into the fire; said it was his tail to blame, tore off his tail, jumped again, fell again; tore off one leg - fell again; so Tore off all his paws one by one; burned]: Wolff 1905, No. 1:129-132; Nyanja [The hare offers a man to kill his mothers; the man killed his own, and the Hare smeared the knife with red juice, hid his mother in the sky; from there she lowered the rope every day, picked him up, fed him; the man peeked, shouted instead of the Hare to lower the rope, but his voice is too rude; next time the man called in a soft voice, mother lowered the rope, the man climbed, killed the Hare's mother and all the Bunnies, only one hid; returning from the sky, the Hare replied to the man that he was crying, because the sun blinded his eyes; heated the stones, told the man to lie on on the road, open his mouth, close his eyes, he will throw meat to him; threw hot stones down his throat, the man died]: Holland 1916:139-140; ganda [The Turtle offers the Crane to kill and eat their mothers - they are still old and sick; they killed, cooked and ate the Crane's mother; the Hare's mother is in the hollow; when he gives a voice, she lowers the rope; the Turtle brings viscous elastic resin to the Crane under the guise of meat mother; The parrot tells the Crane the truth; he imitates the voice of the Turtle, the Mother Turtle lowered the rope, the Crane killed her, fried it, brought the meat to it; knowing that the Turtle would understand who the killer was, moved to the top of the tree; Rabbit advised to pay Soko (Gorilla?) so that he would tie a rope to the Crane's nest and then climb it; But the Parrot told the Crane everything again; the Turtle climbed, the Crane pushed it down; so twice; then the Turtle complained to the Lion Jackal, Elephant, Snake; she climbed a tree and killed the Crane; they ate it]: Stanley 1893:188-209; Tonga [mother goes for fruit, the beast comes to her children, imitates her voice, the children unlock them, he unlocks them swallows; the mother sings, all the animals raise their paws, only the swallower does not do it, she pierces it with a spear; the bird says to cut off the little finger; after that, the beast bursts, they are inside ( probably alive) the children of the woman and her neighbors]: Klipple 1992:67; Zulu: Snegirev 1937 [the cannibals captured the girl, left, telling her not to fry meat so as not to attract the smell of other cannibals; they lived in the rock that opened at their word; the girl began to fry meat, the other cannibals came, the girl did not open it when she heard the wrong voice; the cannibal burned his voice with a hoe, the girl unlocked it, he ate the meat, told the girl did not leave; she ran away, sprinkling corn behind her; the pursuers are wasting time picking her up; the girl climbed a tree, the cannibals sat under it; the girl peed herself, the cannibals noticed her, began to cut her the tree; every time they cut down the tree, it took root again; the girl's brother came with the dogs, the cannibals asked him to help cut them down to get their game; the brother climbed upstairs with his sister I found myself in a beautiful country; (var.: gave tobacco to the cannibals, let the dogs in, they tore the cannibals, brother and sister returned home); brother and sister lowered the cannibal's rope, let them go for the first time, he fell down; Raised for the second time, starved; went down, found her sister]: 107-112; Frazer 1889:167 in Werner 1933 [when leaving, the mother tells Tselane to unlock the door only with her voice; the cannibal imitates the mother's voice, takes away girl; girl runs away, cannibal chases, turns into a tree]: 179-180; braid: Okhotina 1962 [Nompunzazan has three children, a tree hut; when she leaves, she tells no one to unlock; the cannibal asks open, but the children hear a hoarseness voice; he ate herbs, his voice became tender, the children opened it; at that moment a man with an ax and dogs came out, hit the ogre, the dogs tore him apart; N. brought food to the children]: 356- 357; McCall Theal 1882 [Demane's brother and sister Demazana leave home, live in a cave; brother tells sister not to fry meat so as not to attract the ogre, open it only to his voice; the cannibal comes and sings a song, the sister replies that this is not her brother's voice; another cannibal advised me to burn her throat with a hot iron; the sister believed it, opened the door; the cannibal carried her, she dropped the ash, her brother on the ash trail ran into the ogre's house; sent him to get water, took his sister out of the bag, filled it with bees; the cannibal tells his daughter, son, wife to open the bag; they say that something bites; the cannibal opens himself, goes blind bee stings; ran, fell into the pond, became a deck, the bees made a nest in it; but you can't get honey from there, the hand gets stuck; brother and sister took possession of the cannibal's property, got rich]: 111-114; suto [ the mother leaves her daughter at home (apparently tells her to open it only in her own voice); the cannibal (imitates the mother's voice, the girl unlocks her), the cannibal carries her in a sack; the girl's aunt manages to save her, put the dog in a bag and poisonous ants; the cannibal opens the bag, is bitten by ants; he rushes to run, falls upside down into the swamp, turns into a tree]: Klipple 1992:66; Congo: Dennett 1898 [Wild Cat and Gazelle they agree that during hunger, everyone can eat the mother of another; the Gazelle eats the mother of the Wild Cat, hides her own; the Gazelle tells the little son of the Wild Cat to carry her food; calls out to her, she goes to him voice; he tells his father about the deception; the Wild Cat imitates the voice of the Gazelle, kills his mother, arranges a feast, invites the Gazelle to eat meat; he realizes the deception; he goes to live with his people elsewhere]: 85; Struyf 1936 [The leopard kills his mother at the suggestion of Gazelle; the Gazelle hides his mother, kills the ram; when walking from the bazaar, he sings a song, the mother unlocks the door; the leopard sings the same way; Gazelle's mother on unlocks for the second time, the Leopard eats her; the Gazelle takes the image of a pretty girl; the leopard burns with passion; the imaginary girl feeds him hot pepper, the Leopard dies]: 39-43; kiga [Hare Negotiates with Leopard that everyone kill their mother, hides their mother in a cave, go to her for a meal; the Leopard finds out about this; asks the blacksmith to forge a voice for him like a Hare's; imitating the voice of the Hare, asks Hare's mother opens the door, comes in and kills her; sitting by the fire, asks the Hare why he is crying; The hare replies that smoke eats his eyes; the hare kills the Leopard by throwing a hot stone into his mouth]: Wright 1959:191-192; Angola (ethnicity is not a decree.) [The hare hid by his mother, who feeds him during hunger; the leopard learns the secret, eats it; The hare takes revenge]: Hauenstein 1976, No. 60:167-169 in Retel-Laurentin 1986:252.

West Africa. House: Olderogge 1959 [=Klipple 1992:69-70; Hyena overheard her brother returning from hunting and turning to his younger sister to open the door; imitates the voice of a young man, the girl finds out deception; Leo gives Hyena a remedy for lisp, the girl opens the door, the Hyena swallows it; the young man collects all the water from the pond into a magical calebass; promises to return if everything is regurgitated; everything someone belches, Hyena is silent; the lion tore it, the girl came out alive; the young man returned the water]: 204-206; Tremearne 1910, No. 22 [Hyena and the Dog agree to eat their children if they do not get anything hunting, start with Hyena's children; The dog eats them; puts its puppies on a tree; they lower her rope when they hear a hail, Puppies, sur-r; the Hyena goes to the sorcerer to teach her how to say the Dog's hail; he promises, but tells you not to be distracted on the way to the bones; she gnaws bones, says Shia Puppies; goes back to the sorcerer, then says correctly, the puppies lower the rope, but throw it off, Seeing Hyena; it turns into a wooden mortar; the Dog comes, the puppies talk about what happened]: 492-493; 1913, No. 84 [=Radin 1952, No. 67:250-253; all the girls in the village went to the forest to collect herbs; hid from the rain in the baobab hollow; the devil closed the exit; let them out one at a time for necklaces and garments; one refused to give it, he did not let it out; the hollow had a small hole at the top; the mother came called "daughter, daughter, reach out, take food"; the daughter took it; Hyena heard it, came, said the same words, the girl found out that the voice was a stranger; Hyena went to the blacksmith, who corrected her voice, but on the way Back she ate a centipede and the girl again said that the voice was a stranger; Hyena came back, told the blacksmith that she would eat it if he did not give her the right voice; he obeyed; the girl decided that her mother had come , held out her hand, Hyena pulled it out and ate it; the mother collected the bones, carried them to the city where people are being repaired; on the way, a place where the food is prepared by herself; it asked the woman to eat, she refused; told her to go from the fork to the right; the same with meat that roasts itself; with flour that mixes itself in water; in the city, people took bones, asked a woman to get cattle; she gives the animals ripe fruits, eats herself green; the bull roars, saying that the woman is kind, let her daughter be repaired; with a living and healthy daughter, the woman returned home; the same husband has another wife, her daughter is ugly; the mother collided her in a mortar, carried bones into the city; ate greedily all three times; grazing cattle, eating ripe fruits herself; the bull ordered her daughter to be repaired badly; she was made in the form of half a man (with one leg, one hand, etc.); the mother tried from her refuse, but she came for her and began to live with her]: 401-407; mamprusi [The goat loves only the two eldest of three daughters; hyena Kundungu overheard the Goat's song, asked the blacksmith to forge a subtle voice for her ; he warned not to rush to the carrion on the road; K. rushed to the dead antelope, his voice became rude, the younger goat understood the deception; next time K. avoided falling, the older goats opened them, K. takes away; The Goat finds only the youngest daughter who is hidden, no longer scolds her]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 30:51-53; mungaka [dwarf antelope {apparently kanchil} invited an elephant to kill its mothers - too old; and cook and eat the meat; advised me to wait down the river; when the water turns red, it means that the antelope killed its mother and you can kill yours; the antelope painted the water with red paint, which kept in the bark of a tree; an elephant cut its mother's throat with a knife; they cooked and ate meat; vegetable food should be received from its mother; the elephant began to eat grass, became thin; the antelope's mother continued feed her bread, the antelope remained fat; the ant told the elephant about the deception; the crab confirmed this; the elephant came to the antelope's house and started calling: Mother, give me bread; antelope mother: Your voice is too loud, it's not my son; the elephant changed his voice; the antelope's mother let him in, he killed her; the antelope elephant: why are you crying? antelope: from smoke; the antelope dug a trap hole, covered it with grass, called an elephant, it failed, it finished it off with stones]: Meyer 1942, No. 10:228-234; senufo [the hunter took his wife to hunt; built for she has a house with 14 doors; when she comes, his wife opens them and he gives her game; the hyena overheard, said what her husband said, but the woman recognized someone else's voice; then the hyena went to the blacksmith, who cheated on her voice, the woman opened the doors, the hyena ate her; the hunter came in, slipped on blood and died; at the funeral, his spirit told him not to take his wives to the savannah so as not to leave them alone]: Diep, Bamba 2007, No. 5:25-26; dagari [the woman has a lazy daughter Zezene; the hyena asked God to let her eat Z.; God allowed her, said that it was necessary to swallow a white bone so that her voice would be like mother Z.; Z. opened to her voice, The hyena ate her, left her head and intestines in the yard; Z.'s mother called all the animals to jump over the fire; whoever ate her daughter will fall into the fire; the hare and others jumped over, the hyena fell into the fire and burned down; from hyena bones blew whistles, the best in an orphan, the chief gave him a wife for it]: Métuolé Somba 1991:165-168; lelemi [{long text with passes; main episode: the king promises a daughter who is the first to mow and bring grass to cover the roof; the turtle, by cunning, does this and gets a wife; every time he returns, he sings a song, the wife unlocks it; the leopard overheard, sang the same the song, the Turtle's wife opened the door, the Leopard killed her; more about the Leopard and the Spider]: Funke 1920, No. 1:289-294; background: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010 [in drought, Hyena invites Zaichikha to eat her children; The hare suggests starting with Hyena's eldest son; Hyena kills all children except the youngest blind man, sends meat to Hare, and she sends it back under the guise of a hare; Hyena finds the Hare's children alive; asks someone to come to help knock down the oil; only Zaychiha's youngest daughter is smart enough, Hare sends her to Hyena; she changes places with Zaychiha's son, who kills and cooks her son; Zaychiha's daughter runs away, they all hide in the baobab; they lower the mother's stairs when she comes; Hyena sings in the voice of a Hare; the youngest daughter does not believe, but the other bunnies lower the stairs; the Hyena dozes off, she was tied up thrown into a boiling pot, ate]: 212-216; (cf. Müller 1907 [during famine, only the dwarf antelope (Cephalolophus maxwellii) remains well-fed; she goes to her mother, summons her with a song, she lowers the rope, the antelope rises and eats; the animals sent the Cat to follow; when she heard the song, the Cat called the animals, they grabbed the rope; Antelope's mother felt that her child could not be so heavy, cut the rope; where the animals were fell, the sea formed, and Mawu sent food to the animals and now they are not hungry]: 279); Igbo [when hungry, animals decide to eat their mothers; the squirrel hid its own in the hollow; coming up, she sang a song, her mother lowered the stairs; the Rat overheard, sang in Squirrel's voice, the animals climbed into the hollow, ate the supplies and Belka's mother; since then she has been living separately from everyone else in trees, does not like to go down]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:65-66; bambara: Görög 1959 [father and brothers lock the girl in a hut on their field; Hyena imitates her mother's voice, asks to unlock, eats the girl; mother accuses her of what happened to her husband]: 18-19 in Retel-Laurentin 1986:251; Görög 1979 [a mother locks a beautiful girl in a hut so that the king does not take her away; Hyena hears her calling her daughter to unlock the door; calls herself, the girl hears a rude voice; Hyena tells the blacksmith to soften her voice; this time the girl unlocks her; Hyena eats her, leaves her arms and legs; the mother tells the king what happened]: 18-19; susu [Seid and his younger sister Syrah are orphaned; brother tells his sister to unlock only when he hears his song; the serpent overheard, hissed, Syrah did not unlock the door; next time the Serpent asked the sorcerer to do it her voice was ringing; Syrah unlocked, the Serpent ate her heart; Seid came to the Snake - let his heart eat; she crawled out, he killed her with a spear; Seid died of grief]: Mendelssohn 1971:129-133; dan [all women admired the hunter, but the wife could not be found; finally found it; they live in the forest; there is a termite mound behind the house, there is perfume in it; when the husband returns, he sings a song for his wife to open to his voice; the spirit overhears, sings but the woman did not open the song: the voice is rude; the same a couple of dozen times; the husband does not take the danger seriously; then the spirit went to the sorcerer; he orders to swallow 7 axes; the spirit first heated in the fire and swallowed 3; did not help; 3 more; when I swallowed the seventh, the voice became like the woman's husband; she opened and saw a monster with one leg and one hair on his head; he tells me to take out his nits and eat them, not only by biting, but also swallowing; the spirit is gone, the woman vomited, but the husband who came still does not believe: just an upset stomach; a month later the woman was thin; after that, the husband hid to protect the spirit, but got scared and did not shoot; like this all week; the hunter's younger brother came; he shot, his head flew off and became a threat of nuts on the palm tree, from which oil is now being squeezed out; the couple returned to live with people to the village]: Tiémoko 2019:18-24; herself [the woman has four young sons, a younger leper; every day, when she returns home, she sings that she has brought delicious things; calls three, The leper is not told to approach; the crocodile sings her song, the brothers want to open it, the leper warns that it is not the mother's voice, that the leper did not allow gifts to be taken; others complain to the mother, that scolds the leper; the next day, the brothers open it, swallow it, only the leper hides; asks for a knife and a donkey; stabbing the swamp with a knife, dries it, rips open the crocodile's stomach, revives Brothers, brings home; mother is ashamed]: Platiel 1984:249-259; Sapo: Pinney 1973 [When Dwarf Antelope's husband leaves, the chimpanzee knocks on his wife, she recognizes a rude voice; the chimpanzee asks the healer to thin his voice; he tells him to swallow hot iron, the Chimpanzee's voice becomes thin, the KA's wife opens, the chimpanzee kills her, throws her insides into a vessel of water, carries the meat away; the husband goes to witch doctor; he says that the killer will be the last in the herd; the husband hears the Chimpanzee singing that he ate the woman; kills him; when the chimpanzee falls asleep, he sticks half a cola nut to each buttock (shape chimpanzee ass) so everyone knows chimpanzees are evil]: 267-268; Schwab 1947 [when Dwarf Antelope's husband leaves, the chimpanzee knocks on his wife, she recognizes a rude voice; the chimpanzee asks the healer to thin out his voice; he tells me to swallow hot iron, the chimpanzee does not dare, swallows cold, goes to KA's wife, she recognizes her rude voice again; for the third time, the Chimpanzee swallows hot iron, the wife of the CA opens, a chimpanzee kills her, throws her stomach into a vessel of water; she had two children; a bird tells the KA about what happened; the healer says the killer will be the last in the herd; the KA hears the Chimpanzee sings that he ate a woman; kills him; when the chimpanzee falls asleep, cuts off a piece from their ass (the shape of a chimpanzee's ass)]: 455-456; tenda [The hare and the Firefly decide to wander; they killed a goat on the way; the Hare each time he says that it is better to divide the meat later, but here he was born (then he began to walk; etc., stages of life; apparently, in order to take all the meat for himself); night came, Firefly extinguished his the lantern, changed the meat in the bag with bones, left; the hare meets the Panther, who hires him to look after the children; the hare kills them, tells Panther that the beans are delicious because he put some bark; the last the cub tells the mother about what happened; the hare changes signs with the cub, at night the Panther strangles the cub; then it is about the Hare; she gives birth to bunnies at the top of a palm tree; goes to buy food; hearing the mother's voice , The bunnies throw her rope; the Panther asks to drop the rope, the bunnies feel that this is not the mother's voice; then she imitates the Hare's voice, the children drop the rope; the Panther climbs, they call her mother, asked to pick it up on a leaf, the base of which they cut; the Panther falls, breaks to death; Hare makes a bag out of the skin of her young to carry children; says Panther (the other?) that the bag is made of Serval's skin, and Serval is made of Panther's skin; The Hare and the Bunnies are hiding in a termite mound, the Panther and Serval climb after them; the Hare and the Bunnies come out unnoticed, close the holes in termite mound, strangle pursuers with smoke; eat (the bird breaks a hole into the termite mound again)]: Ferry 1983, No. 34:173-180; limba [Baboon is surprised that the Monkey remains fat when hungry; sees , as Monkey calls his grandmother, she lowers her rope from the sky; the Baboon collects animals, calls his grandmother in the voice of Monkey, everyone climbs up the rope; the monkey comes running, telling his grandmother to throw the rope; animals fall, the blow turns Baboon's ass red]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:172-173; mofu-gudur [while her husband is gone, a panther comes up, his wife gives her a beer thinking she is giving her her husband; the panther says, hum-um, wife replies that he would rather watch the child than muddle; the panther takes the boy away; the clairvoyant shows the parents the cave where their child is; he sings a song (Giziga lyrics), the panther answers, hum-um , the boy goes out to get her food; the boy's mother says hum-um, the child recognizes someone else's voice, hides in a cave; a black ant advises eating goat fat, the child still recognizes the substitution; a red ant tells me to eat sheep fat, the child believes that it is the voice of a panther, comes out, the mother takes it away; the panther comes to the village, the child sings the same song; the parents go to other villages, but the panther follows them; one The hunter waited for her when she came and killed her with an arrow]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 21:156-162; the banen [the dwarf antelope offered the leopard to each of them kill their mother; the leopard agreed; antelope: I'll kill mine upstream, if you see blood, kill yours; put red powder into the water; after killing my mother, the leopard put the meat in two bundles; the antelope hid its mother in a hole, wrapped it in bundles sand and resin; when the leopard fell asleep by the fire, the antelope changed the bags; said that if the meat was cooked for too long, it would turn into sand and then resin; the antelope goes to the mother, addressing her with with agreed words, the mother opens; the leopard is surprised that he is losing weight and the antelope is getting fat; followed, said the same words, the antelope's mother opened it, he killed her; the antelope came, the mother did not respond; the antelope's funeral called animals, dug a trap hole, the leopard fell into it, the antelopes filled it with boiling water]: Dugast 1975:342-348; wolof [the goat has 5 kids, but it only loves four, the fifth does not gives milk; the hyena spied, overheard a goat come and call the children a song to feed them; sang instead of a goat, killed and carried away four kids; the goat found only the fifth at home; he first refused drink her milk, but after a couple of days I agreed]: Copans, Couty 1988, No. 60:152-154.

Sudan-East Africa. Sarah (mbai) [the woman has two beautiful daughters and one ugly; they went for firewood, the beautiful ones collected a lot, but the ugly ones did not find anything; when the beautiful ones went to drink and came back, they noticed that there was less firewood in their bundles; they accused their sister, left her in the termite and returned to her mother; the mother came, sang a song, the daughter went out, ate, returned to her hole; the hyena overheard, began to sing, but the girl realized that it was not her mother's voice; the hyena tripped over the stump, which advised her to swallow hot pebbles; the first time the pebbles were not hot enough, the girl again realized that her mother was not singing; the second once the hyena swallowed the hot pebbles, the girl believed it, went out, the hyena tore off her head, took her body away and ate it; the mother found her head and carried it to the one who revives the dead; asks the hedgehog for directions; he replies that (people) ate his parents, drives the woman away; the hare shows the way; the reviver of the dead is on one leg, he cannot be laughed at; the reviver tells me to bring the lion's tail and buffalo's teeth; the woman I found it in the savannah and brought it; the reviver took a throwing knife, divided the calebas into four parts; all the savannah animals came out of the first, white from the second, black people from the third, and the daughter from the fourth women, she is more beautiful than her sisters]: Fortier 1967:163-167; Zaghawa [Kiré ("king") Hassan brought fruit from the perfume tree to a pregnant mother; her mother asked to take her there; Kh hid her under the basket; devils with one, two, etc. horns consistently ask what is in the basket, the KH replies that water; with 10 horns, tells you to open, tells you to choose the life of the mother or twins in her womb, KX chooses brothers, the hell eats the mother, throws the twins away; Kh takes care of them, keeps them behind the fence, they open to his voice when he says he brought them game; hell overheard, repeated the same words ate twins; Kh came back, cried]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (2), No. 28:53-56; nzakara [children are not allowed to play on the rock (a flat rock exit where clothes and food are usually dried); children they play, the Yangui girl is done, stuck to a stone; no one can tear her off; then her mother covers her with a pot, brings her food regularly; teaches her to respond to her voice; if Boulou-Zali comes ( flying cannibal), keep silent; BZ overhears the mother's song from the tree; sings, I. does not respond to a rude voice; the old woman teaches her to eat sour berries, her voice will become thinner; this time Y. answers; BZ rips her off rocks with a knife, takes him to his wife; the feathers of the BZ helmet tell him everything that happened in his absence; the rat finds I., runs away with her, taking all the property; puts on a helmet with feathers at the intersection; BZ first runs along the wrong road; the Rat and Y. come running to the village; men kill BZ with spears; burn, soak the ashes, and everything that BZ ate comes from the drops]: Retel-Laurentin 1986, No. 42:253-259; Zande: Evans-Pritchard 1965 [a woman asked her younger sister to bring a spoon from home to stir food; when she tried to pick up the spoon, her hand was stuck in a hole; people moved on to a new life place; a woman regularly brings food to the girl and sings: if Thur (spider) comes and calls you "my girl", don't open it; beast {Thur? squirrel?} overheard the girl's mother sing (now her mother, not her older sister}, sang her voice, the girl opened it, he ate her; people staged a party to find out who the killer was; when the squirrel reacted to the drumming people realized it was a squirrel; he was killed]: 73-74; 1966 [the leopard caught rats and started frying; Thur put a torch of wood resin by the fire, it hissed; he says that rats burn; let the people's leopard on his back and opens his mouth, fat will drip into it; pours burning resin on the leopard's face, carries rats away; when he dies, the leopard asks his children for revenge; Thure climbed the tree with his wife; when he left and he came back, sang a song about a burnt leopard, his wife lowered the rope; the leopard's son's amulet advised him to contact a duker (Sylvicarpa grimmia); he brought him to the Thura tree and taught him a song; Thur's wife she picked up the leopard; he told her not to show it or she would eat it herself; when Thure got up and saw the leopard, he told his wife to feed the guest elephant skin; pretended to cut it and cut off the branch himself, which the leopard was sitting; he fell into the water and fell into a fish trap; the man brought him home, but the leopard ran away; the amulet told him to call everyone to dance, hide under a pile of dry leaves and wait for Thur; Thuru his amulet advised him to take a knife with him; standing over a pile of leaves, Thur swung a knife, the leopard jumped out and ran away]: 270-273; 1967 [Thur spider hides his wife in a tree by the river; when he comes, his wife pulls him upstairs on a rope; the leopard gets advice to make his voice thin like a Spider's; ends up in a tree; The spider cuts the branch on which the Leopard sits, saying it cuts meat for him; Leopard falls into the river]: 130-133; mundang [Matallé's girl went to a distant village in the evenings to dance; returning, she sang a song, telling her father to open the door; Hyena overheard, sang for M., father I heard a rude voice, did not open it; the fortune teller advised Hyena to go to the Guianriang monster, who gave her a thin voice; her father believed that M. had come, opened it, Hyena ate it; M. saw The hyena was covered in blood, told two young men to kill her, put on her skin; began to grind millet for beer for her father's funeral, asked the frog for help; she ordered her to be hit with a millet stalk, became beautiful, and M. in Hyena's shoes ugly; both came to the leader, who took the Frog, sent M. to herd oxen; while swimming, she sings every day that the beautiful woman is herding oxen, and the despicable woman is in the palace; the old woman hears, advises the leader to listen; tells the hawk to grab the hyena's skin while M. is swimming, throwing it into the fire; M. grieves for the skin, the chief grabs it, leads it to the palace, sends the Frog to herd oxen]: Louafaya 1990:117-120; Iraq [giant Ama'irmi ate a man's cattle; he called people, they killed A. with arrows, ripped open his stomach, swallowed people and animals came outside, with them a new A.; two young men have a sister Zani; every night they come back, they sing "Tsani, Our Beloved", she unlocks; A. heard, began to imitate; many times she did not unlock it, but once A. sang in the voice of his brothers, she unlocked it, he ate it; the brothers come, the imaginary sister replies that she did not can open it because she is sick; asks for boiled meat, they swallow everything at once; the brothers killed A. with arrows, the swallowed sister came out alive]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:31-34; bari [a healer for a barren woman advises to settle by the river; she gives birth to a girl, Yata Joputo; bathes her, she turns into a fish; every day her mother calls her, feeds her soup; Hyena hears, calls in the same way, the fish finds out that this is not the mother's voice; The turtle tells Hyena to swallow a hot pebble, the voice becomes softer; so twice; the fish believes that the mother is calling, Hyena takes her away; mother's brother Hawk grabs the Fish, brings the mother; he and the fish take the form of human beings]: Katznelson 1968:252-257; shilluk [the spirit gives the boy a magic means to lure fish; the lion stole him, but the fish did not come when they heard Leo's rude voice; Ants advised Leo went to the blacksmith, who forged Leo's face, his voice became thin; the lion picked up fish, the boy took them in vain; when Leo left home, the boy came to his house; there Leo's old blind wife laid fish cook; the boy took them out, killed the lion cub, put it to cook; the lion lost the magic remedy, the boy bought it again]: Hofmayr 1925:367-368; Masai: Hollis 1905 [after revealing a tumor on his knee, a single man pulls two boys out of there; returning in the evenings, he sings a certain song, the children open it; the enemies overheard the song, sang, but the children realized that the voice is not their father; the enemies go to the healer, who tells them not to eat on the way back to make their voice thinner; they eat a lizard and an ant, the children will learn the deception again; next time they eat nothing, the children unlock the door, the enemies take them to their own kraal; their father finds them, calling and hearing crying in response; the inhabitants of Kraal say that only a person who swallows medicine can enter; a person opens his mouth, throws a hot stone at him, he dies; children remain in the kraal]: 153-155; Kipury 1983, No. 32 [a man torments a pregnant wife to work, she dies in the seventh month; he has an abscess on his knee, a few months later he opened it, two came out girls, he named them Nasira and Noltau; they grew up, unlocked the door in response to his song; the enemies overheard, sang a song, took the girls away, the man was left alone]: 119-121; malgashi [Ifara is wife the ogre Itrimube; they have a son, Indesuka; the girls hid their clay jugs, told Indesuke they had broken him, persuaded him to break the silver one; fearing his father's anger, Indesuka hid in the cave, closing the exit with a stone; his mother brings him food, Itirumbe comes singing the same song, Indesuka does not unlock it; Itirumbe was advised to eat raw chicken, his voice became thin, Indesuka unlocked, Itirumbe killed him; Ifara kept, crushed the bones, Indesuka reappeared from them; while combing her husband, Ifara ties his hair to a pole, kills him; feeds his crushed bones to his relatives]: Korneev 1977:222-226 (retelling similar text in Klipple 1992:70); Sudanese Arabs [husband with pregnant wife, son Mohammed and daughter Fatma come to the cannibal, the husband leaves the family there; while F. took M. to play, the cannibal killed the mother began to cook, ordered to cook porridge; answered the children that their mother had given birth; F. lifted the lid of the boiler, saw the remains of her mother; took her brother and ran away; they got to the old woman; there the cauldron, F. found that he was full of gold; asked her brother what to do with gold; he ordered him to buy him a scourge, a sword and a horse; they built a house; returning from the hunt, M. asks F. to open the door every time; the ghoul heard it; gives out himself for M., F. replies that the voice is like a donkey; the ghoul told the blacksmith to change his voice; he changed, but warned that the ghoul should not eat carrion; the ghoul ate, the voice is like a donkey again; the same again; F. opens; the ghoul asks if he should eat it or M.; she replies that M., let the ghoul hide in addition; the ghoul attacked M., but he called animals {which ones?} , ordered to eat ghoul, dog, throat (dog and turtle came to see) and F., leaving only tendons; F., dog and turtle say this is unfair]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 5:68-69; Arabs Sudan (jaaaliin) [the woman went to look for food, her three young sons stayed at home; the cannibal came and asked for an unlock, but the children realized that it was not their mother's voice; she went to the blacksmith to do it her voice was thin; this time the children unlocked; she swallowed two, and the third rubbed her body with something (okra), so that it became slippery and the cannibal did not catch it; the woman came back and beat the cannibal until until she regurgitated the swallowed]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 34:113; Sudanese Arabs (jaaaliyin) [brother hunts, sister at home; returning, brother sings a song, sister unlocks; ghul overheard, sang the same a song, but the voice is rude; he went to the blacksmith and he advised him to sit on the anthill; the ghoul's voice became thin, his sister unlocked it and the ghoul ate it]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 35:113.

North Africa. Western Sahara [The goat gave birth to four goats and a goat, hid with them in the bushes, the shepherd had to leave them; returning in the evenings, the Goat sings a song, asking the kids to open them the door, calling them by name; Hyena overheard, came to sing, but the goats realized that it was not their mother's voice; Hyena told the carpenter to make her throat thinner, the goats still understood the deception; again to the carpenter, this time the goats opened the door, the Hyena took the goat away, only the goat remains; the Goat runs to look for Hyena, asks Scorpio, then the serpent, the lizard, etc., they show the way; tells Hyena to leave the cave; she does not go out for a long time, then makes himself clay horns, goes out to butt; the Goat ripped open her stomach, the goats came out, the Goat brought them home]: Aris, Cladellas 1991:131-134; the Arabs of Morocco [when leaving, the Goat tells them the goats cannot unlock the door to anyone; the Wolf overheard, says, "I brought you food and water"; the goats recognize the Wolf's voice, say that his mother will raise him to his horns; then he reproduced the Goat's voice, the goats opened , he took them to his lair; the Goat hit the roof of Wolf's house with its hooves, he jumped out, she tore it to pieces with its horns, brought the kids home]: El Koudia 2003, No. 29:234; Kabila: Taos-Amrush 1974 [ the paralyzed old man opens the door by pulling the rope when his granddaughter Aisha brings food; asks her to rattle with bracelets; the cannibal hears, asks to open, the old man recognizes someone else's voice; the sorcerer tells the ogre lubricate your throat with honey, open your mouth, ants crawl, make his voice thin; the cannibal speaks in the voice of A., rings with bracelets, the old man opens it, the cannibal eats it, puts on his clothes, lies down in his place; A. sees blood from under the door, calls people, they burn the ogre, an oak tree has grown in this place]: 136-138; Frobenius 1921b, No. 14 [=Frobenius, Fox 1937:77-79; The sheep knocks on the door every time, says to its two lambs, "A jug between his legs, hay on his horns," they unlock; The Jackal overheard, knocked, the lambs heard a rude voice, did not unlock it; the healer advises him to lie on the anthill, the ants thinned his tongue, his voice became thin, The lambs were unlocked, the Jackal ate them; the sheep threw hay on the Jackal, lay down on it, told the shepherd, who killed the Jackal]: 43-44; Hasluck 1925, No. 6 [the man sent his son to herd goats; he brought them to the watered pasture; in the evening, the goats told the owner that they did not eat or drink; he killed the son; so he killed seven sons and his wife; he went with the goats himself, realized that they were lying, killed them; the seventh goat fled to the mountains; left two at home goats; an evil spirit knocked, they opened them, he ate them; the goat cared for him]: 177-198; the Arabs of Tunisia, Egypt [the goat has two goats; every day it brings them hay on its horns; an ogre comes, penetrates the goats under the guise of their mother, eats them; the goat goes to the leopard, to the hyena, finds out that the cannibal is to blame; summons him to fight, kills him, rips his belly, the goats come out alive]: Nowak 1969, No. 16: 58; the Arabs of Egypt [the goat has three kids: Haz, Baz, younger Yidrab Bil-Ukkaz; every day, when she returns home, she sings a song (milk in my udder, grass on my horns), the goats unlock; the wolf heard.. (two pages missing); when the goat arrived, J. said that he did not want to unlock it, but the brothers unlocked them and the wolf ate them; the goat went looking for him; the oil seller, the brick makers did not see anyone; finally , a goat comes to the cemetery, knocks on the crypt, there's a wolf.. (hereinafter pass)]: El-Shamy 1999:64-69; Algerian Berbers: El-Shamy 2004, No. 123:48-50; (cf. The Arabs of Algeria (Biskra) [the man has a wife, 7 sons and 7 goats; he sent his eldest son to herd the goats; they are drunk and full, and at home they answer the owner that they were not fed or watered; the father killed the son; then But with the rest of his sons, with his wife; when the man went to herd goats himself, he received the same answer, killed six goats, the seventh ran away, found a house in the mountains, lived in it with two goats; one day she went to get grass; An evil spirit came, knocked, the goats let him in, he ate them; the goat found him, slaughtered him to death]: Hasluck 1925, No. 5:177-178; Tunisia [Once upon a time there was a woodcutter. He met a shepherd once. They talked and the shepherd gave the lumberjack a pregnant sheep. When he brought her home, she gave birth to two lambs, named Abirik and Shamarik. The woodcutter loved these lambs very much. The wolf found out about them and decided to eat them. He came to the lumberjack one day and let him in. They started talking, and the woodcutter showed his lambs to the wolf. The wolf asked the lumberjack to give him one of them, but the woodcutter refused, so the wolf decided to take revenge on the lumberjack. One day, when the woodcutter went to the forest, a wolf came to his house and knocked. He told the lambs he missed them and wanted to see them because they must have grown up. The lambs opened the door for him and he ate them. The woodcutter decided to take revenge on the wolf. He went into the woods with a rope, stick and leather and painted it green. The woodcutter met the wolf and started talking to him as if nothing had happened, and then pretended to be frightened as if he had seen a hunter. The wolf asked him to hide it, so the woodcutter asked him to climb into the skin and pretend to be a tree. The wolf climbed in, the woodcutter tied him up and beat him until he beat him to death]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 80 in Korovkina MS).

Southern Europe. Basques, Sardinians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Italians (Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Latius, Molise, Puglia) [wolf and goat]: Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 123:24; Corsicans [y The witch's daughter is Blood and Milk; she is so beautiful that her mother keeps her in the lock for fear of being kidnapped; every time she returns, she says: "Blood with milk, open the door, I die of the cold"; the daughter descends from the windows were braid, the mother went up to her; the prince saw it; said the usual phrase, the girl lowered her braid, he came to her; when she heard her mother's voice, she hid it in an orange; the mother began to sniff: I feel human flesh; I wanted to eat an orange, but my daughter slipped her another one; the same next time (the prince is hidden in a nut); they decide to run; the girl tells the prince to choose a thin skate, but he took fat; girl: he flies like the wind, and thin like trouble (souci); the witch chases her husband, the girl tells him to throw soap (smooth mountain, the sorcerer returns, says that there is only a mountain, the wife explains, tells me to chase again), comb (prickly thickets; same, the wife chased herself); girl {throwing a thread? she took it along with soap and comb} creates a river, turns herself into an eel and the prince is on the other side; witch: if your husband hugs someone at home, he will forget you; one of his aunts hugged the prince, he forgot his wife; she became a dressmaker, set up an inn; each of the three young men who came wants to spend the night with her; she asks the first to close the door below, he sticks and stays at the door until morning; in the morning the hostess is surprised: why did he fail to close the door? the same with the second (prevent the coals in the hearth so that the fire goes out faster; he does this until morning), the third is a prince who has forgotten his wife, she tells him to pour out the night pot, he does it until morning; he is going get married; the sorceress sews a dress for the bride, but in church it turns into rags; next time the sorceress takes out the dress the prince wore for the first time; he remembered everything and stayed with the first wife]: Massignon 1984, No. 20:43-47; Spaniards: Shishlova 1971 [the goat pulled a wasp out of the stream, it promised to come to the rescue; the goat tells the goats to unlock only her voice; a bull comes, roars, the goats are not they open; then overheard the goat's song, sings in a thin voice; the goats let the bull in but hid; the goat called the wasps, they drove the bull away]: 59-63; Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 66 (Murcia) [the goat tells seven (three) goats can unlock the door only for her; the wolf first speaks in a rude voice, changes it after eating raw eggs; sprinkles flour on his black paw; sometimes also pours perfume on himself; the goats unlock, he swallows them, one hides; the goat finds a sleeping wolf, rips its belly open with scissors or horns, pulls out live goats, replaces them with stones; the wolf goes to drink, drowns in the river]: 66; Portuguese [ The wolf pretends to be a Mother Goat, enters the house, eats the kids; the Goat rips open the sleeping Wolf's belly, puts stones in the place of the goats; The wolf drowns when it comes to drinking water]: Cardigos 2006, No. 123:39; the Portuguese [when leaving, the goat tells seven goats not to unlock strangers; the wolf tries to imitate the goat's head; the elder kid tells them to stick his paw under the door; the goats do not unlock; the wolf smeared his paw with flour; the youngest kid unlocked the door; the wolf ate everyone, only the eldest hid in the watch; the goat and the older kid found the wolf sleeping under a tree with his belly full; cut his belly, took the kids out alive, stoned their belly, woke up the wolf and drove them to the river; the wolf drowned]: Dias Marques 2019, No. 63:102-103; Aragon [wolf, goat and seven kids]: González Sanz 1996, No. 123:70; Catalans ( incl. Mallorca) [When going to town, the Goat tells the goats to unlock only if they hear its song; the Wolf does not know the song at first, then sings in a rude voice, then the goats see that he has a black paw; the goats let in him when he whitewashed his paw with flour; one hid, the Wolf ate the others; the Goat finds the Wolf, rips his belly open, there are live goats]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 123:42-43; Galicians [The Goat tells seven goats cannot unlock someone else's door; the wolf says he is their mother, they say that the mother is white (the Wolf sprinkles flour on himself), she has a thin voice (swallows eggs); swallows the kids; the Goat finds him sleeping, the goats jump out, the Goat puts stones instead of them, sews up the Wolf's stomach, he drinks from the well, drowns]: O'Neille 1983:42-43; (cf. Maltese [even before birth, Torsina Torsinella is promised by her father or mother to a witch (Nanna Ghula); the witch places her in a tower, where she climbs the girl's lowered braids, calling her in a certain rhyme; the prince sees it, says the same words, climbs into the tower himself; the girl hides it, turning it into a chair, a tripod, a needle; the prince and the girl run away, throw 3 balls behind them threads; they turn into a garden with a church, a sea, a fire; at the same time, fugitives turn into a priest and a church, a bird and a fish, etc. {it is difficult to isolate options from the paraphrase}; the witch does not understand that there are fugitives in front of her, the gardener pretends not to understand the witch's questions; the witch's dog helps her (tries to drink the sea, fill the fire); in at the end of one version of the episode "The Forgotten Bride"]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 313A: 59-64).

Western Europe. Scots, Flemish, Frisians, Dutch, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Irish [the king's first wife died, leaving three sons and daughter Gilla; every day N. takes food to the brothers to the island; she has a magic cloak, but she does not know that if you lend it to someone, his strength will run out; the poultry house tells the new queen about her children the same; she sends her eldest daughter to the island, G. throws fog, the daughter of the new queen returned; the same from the middle one; the youngest reached the island and saw G. cut off the brothers' heads, washed them and placed them on place; the next time she asked G. for a raincoat, sailed in her place; one brother doubted, but the other unlocked the door; the imaginary G. cut off the brothers' heads and threw them away; G. found the heads, but they were no longer grew up; G. called out to God, the brothers came to life, but in the form of "water dogs" (otters) and G. became fourth; then turned into pigeons; G. turned water into wine and made the blind sighted; the brothers said that they will become human again if she makes them shirts out of ivy leaves in a year and day without shedding tears; George na Riell found her in a forest house, she has a child with him; the queen's daughter killed the child, blinded a lump of ash and blood, put G. in her mouth; said she ate her child; George na Riell ordered G. to be burned, but at the last moment three crows flew in, G. put shirts on them and they became human. everything was told; the Queen's daughter was burned; George na Riell married G.]: Larminie 1893:179-187; French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 1 (Gascony) [the goat tells the goats to unlock only after hearing her song; fox overhears, sings, goats unlock, fox carries cheese; seeing a wolf, he climbs a tree, taking a stone; the wolf asks to drop the cheese, the fox throws a stone, breaking the wolf's mouth; promises to tell you where to get the cheese; the wolf goes to the goats, sings a song, but they recognize someone else's voice; the fox advises you to go to the blacksmith; the wolf goes, the blacksmith has refined his tongue, the goats do not unlock it; the wolf goes again; this time the older goats warned that it was not the mother, but the younger ones unlocked it; the wolf rushed to the cheese, and the goats hid; the wolf fell asleep, the goats boiled water, poured water on the wolf; he ran; the goats: a scalded wolf! wolf: only on one side! The goat returned soon]: 32-40; Cosquin 1887, No. 66 []: 247-248; Dähnhardt 1912 (Auvergne) [The goat warns the kids to unlock the door only with her voice and when they see her white leg; the wolf smeared lime on his leg, the goats opened, the Wolf ate the eldest two, the youngest hid in his mother's shoe, but the Wolf bit off his tail; so the goats have a short tail]: 277; Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 123 [countless entries]: 375- 385; Bretons (West 1883) [when going to town to buy a pot to cook soup, the goat tells three goats not to unlock the door - the wolf will eat them; the wolf knocks, the goats ask them to show their paw, it is black; then he smeared his paw with flour, goats unlocked; seeing a wolf, one climbed onto the stove, the other on the closet, and the third in sauerkraut; then a goat came in, ripped the wolf's belly with its horns, dug a hole and buried the wolf in it; everything is fine]: Sébillot 1910, No. 63:224- 226; wallons [the goat tells three goats to unlock the door only if they see its white leg; the wolf sticks its paw, hits him with a stick; he sprinkled flour on his paw - the same; chalk; the goats are unlocked, but they run away; one climbs into the barn, the wolf climbs there, but the goat that returns puts a pot of boiling water at the stepladder, the wolf falls and cooks]: Laport 1932, no.*123:29; (cf. French [parents keep the girl Blood and Milk (CM) locked up; every evening her mother calls her, KM lowers her braid, her mother goes up to her; the Queen overhears, calls her mother in her voice, KM lowers her braid ; hides the young man in an orange; the mother says that she smells like a human spirit, the daughter lets her eat another orange; the next evening, a nut; KM offers to run, tells her to take a skinny horse (runs like care) the queen takes a smooth one (runs like the wind); KM throws soap (soap mountain), a comb (thicket); the pursuer-father returns both times; the mother says that the mountain of soap was fugitives, she chases herself; KM throws a thread - the river; the mother says that when the Queen hugs someone, he will forget the KM; the queen's house is hugged by his aunt, he forgets everything; KM works for a tailor; three fellows ask for a date, she tells close the door one, the other to turn off the stove, the third to take out the garbage; the door cannot be closed all night; the same with the other two fellows; the Queen tells me to sew a dress, KM sews the way he first saw it in , he remembers, marries]: Shustova 1994:300-306); Flemish [the goat does not tell the goats to unlock strangers; the wolf changes his voice, sprinkles white flour on his paw, hides under a cloak; eats six kids, The seventh hides, tells the mother; she rips open the wolf's stomach, pulls out the goats alive, puts stones instead of them; the wolf goes to drink, drowns]: Meyer 1968, No. 123:25-26.

Western Asia. Arabs of Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 123:48-50; Syrian Arabs [the goat has Sanasil, Samasil, Rabab; every time she comes and asks them open the door; the hyena heard, said the same words, the goats did not believe it at first, but then opened it, the hyena ate them; the goat went to look for the culprit, summoned the hyena to fight, ripped its belly apart, the goats went out safe and sound]: Kuhr 1993:259-260; Palestinians [Hyena sees the Goat talking to its three goats, they then open the door; the Goat's tail is cut off, it warns the children look at the tail if anyone asks for it to be opened; the Hyena asks the Ant to cut off its tail, he tells the Hyena to bring him a measure of wheat from the threshing floor, the threshing floor tells him to bring a herd of oxen, the oxen to order give them a drink in the pond, he gives them water, the goats see the cropped tail, unlock them, the Hyena eats them; The goat asks the blacksmith to forge iron horns for her, rips Hyena's belly open, the goats come out]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 38 : 281-283; Saudia [Hyena has children; Lisa imitates Hyena, asking them to open the door; the elder asks the imaginary mother to put her tail in the crack, he turns out to be tough; the hyenyats answer that their mother smears nightly the tail with egg white; The fox does the same, the hyenyats open but hide, the Fox does not find them; decides to leave, puts her grandmother on a donkey, she falls, dies; the fox lets the donkey with her dead grandmother on it into the field, the owner chases the donkey, Lisa says he killed her grandmother; Lisa receives a ransom, lives well]: Lebedev 1990, No. 1:23-26.

Melanesia. Mono (Shortland Islands) [two boy brothers caught a fish, it began to cry; they let it into the pond, started feeding it; Nita heard her name; the brothers warned the fish not to swim if someone would call her in a rude voice; N. called, the fish did not swim; then N. smeared his voice to make it thin, the fish swam, he took it to his cave, cooked it and ate it; the boys called in vain fish, saw blood; came to the cave, killed all Nitu, the last one to eat fish]: Wheeler 1926, No. 52:61; Pentecost [the evil spirit asks the young man to throw off his ripe fruit from the tree, he sheds immature; then the immature asks, gets mature; the spirit tells the tree to grow tall; the young man's mother sings, which makes his hair long, she ties yams to it, he raises it to his tree, eats; the spirit takes the form of a mother, comes up, the young man lowers his hair, the spirit pulls him off for it, brings it to his house, kills him, cooks; the mother comes there, the spirit invites her to cut his hair, she ties him hair to logs, kills him with an ax, takes his son's body parts out of the fire, the young man comes to life]: Firth 1930:59-60; Aoba [Tagarombiti (Tagaro Little) swims into the sea, feeds the fish, calls them affectionately With his song, he swims away to come back later; Merombiti hears his song, cooks, swims to the fish, they hear a rude voice, do not swim out; M. makes himself a thin voice like T.'s, the fish swim out, he catches them all on the hook, puts them to bake at home; T. does not find fish, comes to M.'s house, asks them to try his food; M. replies that the food is bad; T. kills M., burns his house; takes out the fish, again lets them into the water, they come to life; but one side has burned down, only the other is flounder]: Codrington 1891, No. 7:371-372 (retelling in Coombe 1911:28-29).

(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [Mu gave birth to many children; tells them not to go to the backyard, where the cannibal Moral lives; M. went to the fruit tree there, hit the trunk, the fruits fell down; the children decided to go see; went the eldest, M. swallowed it; when V. came, she missed one child; so every day the last one was finally swallowed; Wu took a sharp bamboo, came to sleeping M., cut his belly, the children went out alive; M. asked not to kill him, but she cut his throat, killed him]: Mitchell 1973, No. 79:234-236).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [mother digs wild tubers, tells her daughter not to unlock it; a demon comes, puts her paw under the door, the girl says that her mother's hand is hairless and oily; the demon asks for fire and oil , scorches her hair, rubs herself with oil; puts her paw again, the girl unlocks it, hides under the roof; the demon blows the wind, the girl giggles, the demon notices her; she says she has climbed on a pile of needles; pots; he can't; jugs; he climbs in and takes her away; the mother comes, goes looking for her, gives tsampas to the crow, the fox, the wolf, they go with her; first the wolf, then the fox distract the demon (he is afraid that the crow is afraid that the crow will spoil the skin of a supposedly dead fox), the girl's mother and the wolf take the girl out of the basket, put ice and thorns there; the demon puts the basket on the fire, the ice melts, he thinks that the girl pees; pricked; chases behind the fox; she appears to be another fox three times; the demon agrees to learn how to sift the sand (the fox covered his eyes), cook glue (filled his face), weave the basket (braided it in the basket, lowered it down the mountain, he drowned in the river); mother and daughter, fox, wolf and crow remained friends]: Kajihama 2004, No. 1:1-6; (obviously same text; recorded by refugees from Amdo? Tibetans (Sikkim) [mother goes to dig tubers, tells her daughter not to open strangers; Rakshasa knocks, shows her paw; the girl replies that mother's hands are smooth as oiled; Rakshas asks oil and fire, burns the hair on her hands, oils them, the girl opens them, hides under the ceiling; to find the girl, Rakshasa makes indecent sounds, she laughs; Rakshas asks how she got in; Putting needles on top of each other; Cups; finally admits that buckets; Rakshas takes the girl away; the mother goes to look, shares the zamba with the crow, the fox, the wolf; the wolf drove the Rakshasa sheep, that rushed after her; saw a dead fox, a raven above her; ran to the fox, she jumped up, Rakshasa followed her; the mother and the wolf in the Rakshasa house took the girl out of the bag above the fire, put ice and thorns inside; the rakshas returned , water has flowed, he thinks that the girl is peeing; hits her, scratches her against thorns; realizes that she has been deceived; looks for a fox; she pretends to be a different fox every time; throws sand in his face; smears glue; offers learn to climb into the basket, descends from the mountain, he dies]: Krapivina 2001:51-65); (cf. kirati (? eastern Nepal) [the old woman has a grandson, a tree house; when she leaves, the grandson must lower the stairs; the demoness promises the boy turquoise, he lowers the stairs, she takes him away, hangs him in a bag under the roof to he is fat; the crow, the mouse, the mungo, the chicken promise to help; while the demoness weaves, the crow puts her to sleep with singing, the mouse gnaws the rope, the old woman takes her grandson; the crow is promised arms, legs and eyes for singing boy; the crow pretends to look for him; the chicken throws dirt into the demoness's eyes, mungo offers to clean her eyes, pulls them out; the crow cuts off the demoness's legs and arms with its beak, she dies]: Heunemann 1980, No. 17:133-139); Kachin [the mother went for firewood, told her daughters not to unlock the door; the Tiger pretends to be a mother, says her eyes are red with pepper, her hands are dirty from work; the girls open they hide in a tree; the eldest advises to smear the tree trunk with oil, but the middle one advises to make notches on it; God lowers a golden vessel on a rope from the sky, picks up the girls; he raises the tiger in a clay vessel with a rotten rope, the Tiger falls, breaks; the older sister becomes the sun, the middle moon, the younger star]: Kasevich, Osipov 1976, No. 29:104-106; Meitei (Manipur) [Kabui-Keioiba could to turn into a tiger; an old woman came to eat; she offered him better to eat the girl Thabat, whose 7 brothers work to make her a dowry; said what words to say; when she heard a rude voice, T. did not open the door; the old woman went with the KK, said in the voice of the brothers T., who opened it; K. decided not to eat her, but took her away to marry her; on the way, T. threw away pieces of her clothes; gave birth to a child, pretended to love K. to tell her the secret of his life; sent her for water, giving her a leaky bamboo jar; burned down the house with her child; when T. ran, she killed him, knowing the secret of his life {what exactly we are talking about}]: Borgohain, Roy Chaudhury 1975, No. 11:58-62 (=Singh 1985:274-277, =Oinam et al. s.a.); Meitei [father died, left a girl and two brothers, the youngest is a sucker; mother went to the bazaar, did not return in time; the witch heard crying; knocked, called herself a mother; girl: this is not the mother's voice; brother: this is the mother; the witch climbed through the window, took the baby: he cries, give it back; girl hid in the corner and the witch eats the baby; older boy: mom, give me what do you eat; witch: these are lotus stalks, not for children; sister took the older boy on her back and ran; the witch finished eating and rushed after the baby; the neighbor sheltered the children, and in the morning gave them to their real mother, but she said that she did not know the children (she has a lover); agreed to recognize as a child the one who would send the pest to the edge of the yard; the girl asked, the boy did not; the sister could only feed her brother unpeeled rice; he scattered rice, and the bird immediately pecked it; the sister gave three hairs to make a snare; the bird was caught; asked not to kill her, gave her a diamond ring that fulfilled wishes; her brother and sister left the village; they built a rich house and household in a deserted place; a new village appeared around; and her mother and lover became impoverished; when they came to ask for mercy, their son ordered them to be thrown into prison, but their sister forgave them, gave them food, clothes, cattle, etc.; the brother married the princess and the sister married the prince]: Oinam et al. s.a.

Burma - Indochina. Burmese [the mother goes to the village for a holiday, tells her three daughters not to open it - a tiger may come {rather a tigress; gender is not specified}; the mother has not returned; the eldest daughter is the first to guard, replies to the tigress that her voice is rude and does not unlock it; then the middle daughter asks her hand to be put under the door, says that it is a paw covered with hair; the youngest unlocks it; when they see the tigress, the sisters jump out the window they climb a walnut tree; the tigress, still pretending to be the mother of girls, asks for help climbing the tree; the older sister advises to pour liquid soap on the trunk, the middle one with oil, and the tigress slides; the simple-minded youngest feels sorry for her mother, she advises making notches on the trunk with an ax; the tigress rises, the sisters ask the rain god to save them; at that time he was pulling water from the sea with a bucket and rope, threw the rope to his sisters, they went to heaven; the tigress asked her to throw it too, but under her weight, the rope broke off and she drowned; the rain god turned his older sister into the sun, the middle sister into the moon, the youngest into the moon evening star]: Coyaud 2002, No. 7:25-29

South Asia. Sindhi [a gazelle stands on a road with ox-drawn carts; each driver asks to step aside so as not to take sin on his soul; the gazelle asks to give her one bag for this; this is how he gets salt, sugar, wheat, rice, lime; makes himself a cozy home, gives birth to a kid; every time he comes back, he sings a song; the crocodile overheard, sang the same song, the cub opened it, he swallowed it; a gazelle comes; hearing her voice, the crocodile thinks there is another cub in the house; sings a song, the gazelle opens, jumps out, locks the crocodile, says that a hunter is approaching with dogs; the crocodile belches the swallowed alive, and the gazelle releases the crocodile]: Schimmel 1995, No. 35:218-221; Rajastans [a pregnant deer is about to give birth; lay down on the road; refused to get off, when a person carried hay; persuaded him to give hay to her to build a house out of it; then consistently with the people who carried the doors to the house, sugar and rice; every deer blesses; when children born and grown up, she tells them not to unlock until they hear her song: my sweet little ones, in a house covered with sugar molasses, decorated with rice, open the mother's door; the lame wolf came up, he did not they opened it; he overheard the song and sang it, but the saffron tree near the house prevented the deer from unlocking the door; the wolf uprooted him; but his trunk lying on the ground again warned the deer; the wolf burned him, He spread ash in the water and drank it; the tree is silent, the deer unlocked the door, the wolf swallowed them; the deer followed in his footsteps; told the wolf to go blind; broke his legs; to make his belly burst; and so it happened alive and well, reindeer jumped out of the wolf's belly; and the wolf's corpse went to crows and kites]: Dinesh 1979:14-19; Central Provinces (Hindi?) [The crow has 4 chicks; they only unlock the door when their mother calls them by name; the predator overhears, calls the crows, they unlock them, it eats them]: Venkataswami in Thompson, Roberts 1960, No. 123:31; Sinhales transfer to Volkonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 113:276-288; husband clears the plot, wife weaves a basket; on the current, the husband saw a wild melon vine (Cucumis callosus); ate the fruit; and when the wife came, the fruit turned out to be many; she began to eat and gave birth to a girl; husband: take the girl or the bag? wife: a bag; a pair of black storks carried the girl to her nest; she grew up; storks went to bring her bracelets, telling her not to let the fire go out and not let the Parrot, the Dog and the Cat in; but on the third day the girl let the cat in and it extinguished the fire; the girl sent the Parrot to find out where the fire was; smoke rises above the Rakshasa house; the girl came there, only Rakshasi at home; she gave 7 baskets of rice, 7 pots of water, 7 bundles of firewood and a leaky coconut shell, where she poured coals; an ash trail remains on the way back; Rakshas came to the girl's house; says he brought gold; Parrot: don't unlock; the next two once the same (Dog, then the Cat does not tell); Rakshas caught up and killed the dog and cat, and the parrot flew away; for the fourth time he does not order to unlock the Noringa pterygosperma tree; Rakshas knocked him down, cut him down; then the log speaks; the rakshas burned logs and branches - ash says; the rakshas poured ash into the river, but now the water is talking; the rakshas tried to drink it and burst; and just as the storks arrived, brought gold bracelets]: Parker 1910, No. 12:120-124.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Bajau [the white buffalo gave birth to a chick, died; the chick walked, drank water, she had the king's urine in her; she gave birth to seven female daughters, lived with him in a cave, went to the cave for food, asked to open it, they opened it; seven princes overheard, asked the girls to open their mother in their voice, they opened them; the princes took them to their homes, married them; the buffalo came to look for daughters in the village; the eldest daughter hit her with a spear, she fell into the water, swam along the river; her youngest saw her, asked her husband to catch her; the buffalo told her daughter to bury her by the ladder post, to take care of the tree that will grow up on the grave; gold grew on the tree, the youngest daughter and her husband became rich; the older sister asked where the wealth came from, asked for permission to take care of the tree; began to break branches, they turned into snakes, scorpions, centipedes; a big snake bit her, she died]: Miller 2007:440-450; galela [the woman has a daughter Rombia and a little son Makara; she cooked fish, told her to leave her caviar; but M. became whimper, his sister gave him caviar; his mother got angry, went to the mountain, the rock opened, she entered it and disappeared; R. ram built a house; M. grew up; when he left, he ordered R. to lower the stairs to his voice; a stranger came, R. took him for his brother, let him in; he put his head on her knees, she had to look in his head; M. came up, began to cry, tears formed a flood; rooster: M. drowned in his in tears; R. took a knife, stabbed someone else; threw jasmine flowers into the water, the water came down, M. came to life]: Bezemer 1904:391-392.

Taiwan - Philippines. Payvan [mother in the field, three children at home; Tjakuvukuvuł came; the children do not believe it is a mother, they demand to put their hand in; someone else's hand; the children broke it off, and T. ran away]: Whitehorn, Earle 2003, No. 12: 100.

China - Korea. Koreans: Choi 1979, No. 100 [The tiger ate the mother, puts on her clothes; her three children do not open the door because they do not recognize the mother's voice, they see the shaggy paw; when they open it, the Tiger eats the youngest; two others were asked to be allowed to go out of need, ran away, hid in a tree; two ropes came down from the sky, new and rotten; brother and sister took to heaven, brother became the Sun, sister Moon; Tiger climbed along rotten, fell into a millet field; since then, the millet stalks have been red with his blood; options: The tiger tied ropes to the children when they came out, they tied them to a mortar; the Tiger fell into the well, drowned; sister it's scary to shine at night, asked to give her a day; embarrassed, became a bright Sun not to be looked at; three sisters are running, turning into Sun, Moon, Stars]: 27-28; Cho 2001, No. 78 [woman returns at dusk, bringing her children cakes; the Tiger meets her on every hill, consistently demanding that she give her cakes first and then her garments; on the last hill there is nothing more to give, the Tiger eats a woman (obviously taking her form); her three children do not open the door at first, because they do not recognize their mother's voice, they see a rough paw; the imaginary mother explains that she is hoarse, her hands are rough from work; asks for her younger; sister and brother peek, see her eat it; hide in a tree in the yard; the Tiger first sees their reflection in the well, then looks up; the brother explains that they climbed in with the trunk sesame, castor oil; but the sister says what they did on the trunk of the notch; at the request of his brother, a strong rope descends from the sky, the children climb it; the Tiger asks God to lower his rotten rope, believing that he would do the opposite; she cut short, the Tiger fell into a millet field, since then the roots of the millet have been red; at first, the brother became the Sun, sister Moon; but the sister was afraid to walk at night, so they changed; To avoid staring at her, the Sun Sister dazzled those who looked at her]: 118-122; Park 1991 [a woman returns at dusk, bringing roasted beans to her children; the Tiger ate her, put on her clothes; her three children At first they do not open the door, because they do not recognize the mother's voice, they see a rough paw; the imaginary mother explains that she is hoarse, her hands are rough from work; the children unlock; while the sister and middle brother are eating beans, the Tiger climbs in under the blanket, eats the youngest; the children ask for more beans, the Tiger gives the boy's fingers; the sister asks for permission to go out of need; in the yard he climbs the willow with his brother; the Tiger first sees their reflection in the well; The brother calls out to him, he looks up; the brother explains that they climbed in with soyoil on the trunk; then he says what they did on the trunk of the notch; at the sister's plea, an iron chain descends from the sky, children climb it; the Tiger asks him to lower his rusty chain, she breaks, the Tiger fell into the stubble, since then the roots of the corn have been red; the sister has become the Sun, Brother Month; so as not to be stared at, the Sun Sister throws looking needles]: 46-51; Koreans (Hebei, Funing County, Korea; Western 2004 from a 68-year-old woman, teacher, lower secondary education) [there was no sun and moon; an elderly widow earned money selling sweet buns; giving birth to a son and a daughter (the older one); when she leaves, she tells her daughter not to unlock someone else's door; on the way back, the woman was met by a tiger; first demanded a bun; then, each time returning, he ate the whole arm, the second leg, the second; the tiger knocked, the boy wanted to open it, the girl asked why the rude voice (tore it off while selling buns); asked to stick her hand, she was covered in wool; children hid in a tree in the yard; the tiger jumped into the yard: how did you get in? girl: you have to smear oil on the trunk; the boy is naive: we have to make notches on the trunk; my sister prayed: "O Grandpa Heaven, feel sorry for us brother and sister, lower a good rope, and if you don't feel sorry for us, rotten." The sky was good, my sister and brother went to heaven; the tiger also asked, the sky lowered rotten, the tiger almost caught up with the children, but the rope burst; the tiger broke into a stubble, millet {in the text "sorghum", but obvious anachronism} turned blood and has since turned red; sister and brother decided to become the moon, and let the brother be the sun; however, at night she was frightened, her brother agreed to change; ashamed of people and They did not stare at her, her brother gave her a needle to stab her eyes (rays)]: Bai Gengsheng 2007a: 10-11; Chinese [mother of several children goes to visit a relative; meets a woman who is actually an evil spirit, tiger, etc.; she kills her; infiltrates children (in the south to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, etc., this motive has not been developed); tells the youngest to lie down with her, eats him at night; the eldest girl notices this understands that they have a cannibal with them; children ask for permission to go out into the yard, climb a tree; the antagonist is also trying to climb (hereinafter referred to as different endings); antagonist in Shanxi Wolf, Shandong Tiger, Leopard, Hubei evil spirit, in Hunan Tiger, Leopard, Gansu cannibal, Manchuria Tiger; antagonist dies]: Eberhard 1937, No. 11:19-23; Chinese (Shanxi) [woman went to take lunch to her husband in the field; werewolf asks for permission to remove the louse from her head, eats the woman; comes to her five daughters under the guise of a mother, consistently asks each of the daughters to unlock the door; each replies that The mother had a bruise on her right knee and a white spot on her left knee, saying that the caller was not the mother; the youngest unlocked the door; in the evening, the imaginary mother told the younger fat girl to lie down with her and ate her; replies that she was eating beans; each of the sisters asks for permission to go out into the yard out of need; imaginary mother: the spirit of the window in the window, the spirit of the doors in the door can harm; the younger one ate; the sisters went out into the yard, climbed the tree; the eldest replies that climbed, stepping on branches, the others - that the eldest picked them up with a rope tied to her leg; the older sister raised her imaginary mother to half the height, let go of the rope, the werewolf fell and became a head of cabbage; the older sister exchanged it for a string from a beggar; a head of head to a beggar: if you carry me (too) high, I will cut your neck, if low, my legs; the beggar asked the innkeeper to cook a head of cabbage; when he I was brewing, you could hear something like "I'm eating your mother's ass"; it turned out to be a pot full of soup]: Serruys 1946:210-214; Chinese (Gansu) [an elderly woman went to the mountains with a bag, sat down on a rock to rest; The tiger took the image of a peasant woman, began to ask questions, found out that the woman had 3 daughters and a son at home, found out their names; offering to look for lice, killed the woman, put on her clothes; began to call the children by name, they unlocked; the daughter asks why the mother's face turned black; the Tiger smeared her face with flour; refused to light the lamp - it's expensive and the midges flew off; the sisters went to bed separately, and the brother went to bed with his imaginary mother; at night Tiger hit one girl with his tail, said it was hemp brought by her uncle; What do you eat? - Turnips. - Give it to me! The imaginary mother gave the boy's finger; the girls asked for time off, climbed a tree, called the imaginary mother, pulled her up twice on a rope, threw her down; the Tiger climbed the trunk, was doused with oil; the Tiger said that he would go to sharpen his claws and come back; in the morning the girls got down; the needle merchant stuck needles by the bed, the egg merchant put an egg in the cauldron, the turtles put a scorpion in the firewood compartment, and the ducks put the duck flowers, millstones - hung a millstone above the doors, with carts - tied a cart to the doors; at night the Tiger came, sat down on the bed, pricked; he was bitten by a scorpion, an egg burst into his eyes, the duck frightened him with quacking, the millstone fell on him, the wheels of the cart spun; in the morning, the girls buried the dead Tiger; a huge cabbage grew in this place, but they did not eat it]: Eberhard 1941, No. 8:27-33; namuzi [cannibal invites the woman to look in each other's hair; first she looks for a woman, then a cannibal, kills her with her fingernail, eats her; comes to her two daughters, asks her to open the door; the eldest replies that the mother has there was a skirt; a headband; the cannibal leaves, comes back in a skirt, bandaged; puts her breasts in the slit, the youngest wants milk, says that the door is supported only by a hemp stem; the sisters give the cannibal a whole bread, she eats it; the girls say that the mother shared bread; the cannibal tells the one who does not have lice to go to bed with her; the eldest has, the youngest agrees to lie down; the cannibal tells her to put her in a rooster's bed, a bucket of water, a ball of thread, hemp seeds; at night he eats the youngest girl, replies to the eldest that he is chewing seeds, that the rooster splashed water, threw off the ball; that the eldest can relieve the need for at home; she replies that the kitchen, the millstone will bite her, let her mother tie 9 threads to her; climbs a tree above the pond in the yard; seeing the cannibal rinse the intestines of what she has eaten, drops a tear; throws her fruit, that I like it; tells you to grease the trunk, get up; the girl tells me to bring a spear; the cannibal replies that her flesh will turn into ndo pu, blood into seas, bones into rocks, she will not be able to descend from the tree; and it happened; the deer replies that it would not be able to let it down, dogs followed by dogs that they were running after the deer; two hunters spread their clothes, the girl jumps off; they want to sacrifice it; while they go for with branches (they are used to make images of animals), the girl lubricates them with chewed hemp seeds; hunters think that the birds have spoiled, which means that the ritual cannot be performed; the mother lowered the basket from the sky daughters, began to lift it up; those men slashed their legs with a knife, so people's toes are of different lengths]: Lakhi 2009 (2): 101-134; pumi (Yunnan) [{brief retelling, but probably the same as namuzi}; the evil sorceress, who ate the girls' mother, took the form of a mother, went to bed with the girls, started eating the youngest at night; the eldest ran away, hid in a tree with red flowers (C aflor dyed); asked Luna to pick her up, she held out her hand and took the girl to her place along with the tree (message. Riftin 28.31.03; cm. Yuan Ke, Zhongguo Shenhua da Cidian (Big Dictionary of Chinese Myths), Chengdu, 1998, p.1001); fox: Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994:167-179 [father did not return from hunting; mother goes for roots, tells daughters Am ìma (eldest) and Alěma don't open the door; the cannibal (t'ishüma, category of evil spirits) ate her, came and asked her to open it; Amima talks to her; mother always brought a herd of cows; cannibal brought; show her ear; the cannibal picks up a mooing cow; the same herd of sheep; pigs; a basket of roosters; the mother always has a spinning wheel in her hands spinning hemp; show; slips; the mother's hand is not shaggy; cannibal rips hair out; not bloody; licks blood; younger sister: if you are a mother, break constipation; cannibal tears off, comes in, sends sisters for water; Amima brings dirty, Alema is clean; cannibal: brought she will sleep clean with me; at night, Amima hears Alema's blood sucking blood, eating it; she says she drinks water, gnaws hemp seeds; in the morning, Amima pretends to believe, calls the cannibal have breakfast, offers to wake Alema up; cannibal: let her sleep; cannibal wants to relieve her need; Amima tied a ball of thread to the fence: when you unwind, you can do your business; after a little reeling, cannibal each time she asks if it is possible; Amima replies that her mother is at this time (all episodes of hemp processing and clothes making), then her father at this time (episodes of preparing a bow and arrow, a knife); finally the ball unwound; Amima ran into the house, found her sister's bones, told all objects in the house to be responsible for her; then sticks and wooden balls on the road; runs away; the cannibal consistently devours everything objects that answer her; chases; sees Amima's shadow under an apricot tree; how did she climb? throwing her left breast to the left and right; the cannibal ripped her breasts off the bark, cannot climb; Amima promises her apricots if she brings her father's gold-silver spear, burning it in the fire; tells open your mouth, close your eyes; misses for the first time, tells her to heat her again; pierces the cannibal, her blood floods the valley; Amima asks Grandpa Month to pick her up, then Grandma Sun; everyone says that busy; blood rises; at the last moment the Sun picks up Amima; when the bloody flood has passed, the Sun wants to bring Amima back; she is afraid of cannibals; the Sun gives four dogs to protect Amima from her head , from the feet, on the sides; three times a night it is necessary to change the place of sleep; when dogs killed almost all cannibals, the Sun decided to take them away; Amima begged to leave the male and female to defend themselves from the remaining cannibals; these couples happen today's dogs], 409-426 [an orphan girl and her younger brother live with her grandmother; went to chase birds to the site; someone mimics their words; grandmother does not believe, she goes by herself; she does not mimic; children: tease so that the grandmother believes; now someone repeats the grandmother's words; the cannibal t'ishüma appears; invites the grandmother to look in her head; she takes ticks out ticks from the cannibal's head; the cannibal is the brain, ate the grandmother; the children saw it, ran home, locked themselves; the cannibal comes disguised as a grandmother; the girl repeatedly says that everything looks different for her grandmother; the cannibal consistently cuts off her shaggy, breasts, changes her complexion and tooth shape, dresses; girl: grandmother came carrying hemp yarn; trough; cannibal with yarn, then with a trough; this time the boy said the formula allowing her to open the door; pretending to be a grandmother, the cannibal sends the children to get water, then for fuel; the girl brings dirty water, raw branches, the boy brings clean, dry; at night, the cannibal takes him to herself; ate, crunches her bones, supposedly a crunch of magic beans that give immortality, which she chews; first the cannibal gives the girl beans, then her brother's finger; in the morning asks where to relieve her need; girl rejects all places (her mother or father did something there); you have to go to the mountain, she will let the ball down the mountain, where the thread runs out, relieve herself; and then wind the ball back; the girl tied the thread to a tree, ran home, found her brother's guts, wrapped it in cloth, took it with her, hid under the bridge; then climbed a tree; peed herself; the cannibal thought it was raining; the girl laughed; the cannibal: how climbed? legs forward; the cannibal climbs; not so: throw your legs around your neck; then: bring my father's spear, hot in the fire, knock down the fruits for you, throw it in your mouth, open it wider; throw the spear, missed; bring a spear my grandfather with two points; the same; great-grandfather: with three points; this spear fell into the mouth of the cannibal, she died; the flood began; the girl consistently asks for deer, dogs, hunters, bushes, knife, leaves, people who carry meat, flies to drink water; everyone refuses, is busy with each other (cumulative story); the frog drinks for the promise to give her a needle; the girl pierced her stomach with this needle, the water again spilled out; the same was another frog, but the girl pierced her back; since then, the frogs have a stain in the back; the girl got off the tree, began to pick up the rest of the yarn that the women had thrown, began to weave them; the moon came down to drink from the stream, she can't drink; girl: sideways; the grateful moon took her along with the tree under which she was sitting; you can see how she weaves on the moon; if only half of the moon is visible, the moon drinks; people mortal because they can no longer eat magic beans]; lolo (buy) [a witch eats a woman; knocks on her children; they say that her voice is rude, her hand is hairy; the witch puts on a woman's clothes and shoes, children let her in; at night she eats a boy; a girl asks to go to the yard, ties a rope to the dog's paw, climbs a peach tree; a witch asks to throw her a peach, a girl throws a knife; a witch dies, turns into nettles; merchants spread white and red carpets, girl jumps, misses, falls into nettles, turns into wormwood; wormwood heals nettle burns]: Cherkasova 1961:360-364; Chuan Miao [the woman was eaten by the witch Na Bo Ntsong; her two daughters went to the forest and called their grandmother; the NBN answered her voice; when she came, she sat on a vessel, not on a chair, to hide her tail; said that she would sleep with the granddaughter who did not have lice; the eldest specially poured sesame seeds into her clothes; shook her clothes over the fire, the seeds cracked, the imaginary grandmother decided to sleep with her youngest granddaughter; the eldest in the attic hears the witch devouring the youngest; she replies that she is eating beans; when asked for her, she gave her younger sister's finger; in the morning the witch noticed the eldest's shadow in the well, found her sitting on pear tree; she says that the witch will be able to climb the tree wearing leather shoes that are at home; she could not climb into them; the girl asked for a spear to knock down pears for her; the girl asked her to open her mouth, pierced her with a spear; the witch turned into a thicket of blackberries that surrounded the tree in a ring; fabric merchants were passing by, the girl promised to marry someone who would help her descend; merchant covered the thorns with a cloth, let the girl down]: Graham 1954:276-277.

The Balkans. Moldovans [the older, middle goats are naughty, the youngest is good; the Goat tells them to unlock the door only to her voice; Kum Wolf sings the same song in a rude voice; next time tells the blacksmith sharpen his tongue and teeth; the youngest kid does not believe, hides in the stove, the middle one under the sauerkraut, the eldest unlocks it; the wolf eats him; sneezes, the middle one speaks, For health, the Wolf finds, eats him; puts goat heads with grinned teeth out the window, leaves; The goat first thinks that the goats are looking for her through the windows; the Goat invites the Wolf to visit, puts him on a wax chair above the coal pit; The Wolf burns]: Moldavian tales 1968:14-21; Serbs [Lisa makes clay cakes, anointed it with honey, offered to exchange it for a turkey; she was refused; the same with a pig, a calf; grazing horses agreed give the foal; the fox tells you to eat cakes only after it hides behind the mountain; people have not caught up with the fox; it loves and cares for its foal; tells it to unlock only in response to its singing; The wolf overheard, the foal did not open it to a rude voice; the next time the Wolf spoke in a thin voice, ate the foal; the fox pretended to be dead, the peasant picked her up, she stole cheese from the cart, said to the Wolf, that the cheese is in the river (this is the reflection of the moon), advised him to take out the river; holding his ears, nose, mouth, he rides the Wolf on horseback, saying that he is sick; in the attic he opens holes in the Wolf's body, water pours on the guests below, The fox runs away, the Wolf is beaten; the Fox tells the Wolf to jump over the haystack, he falls to the bottom]: Karadzic 1854, No. 50:264-270 (=Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1991:242-244, =Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:104-107); Bosnians [a fox makes cakes out of clay, smears honey, offers shepherds in exchange for sheep, lamb, goby; every time shepherds refuse; grazing horses gave a mare; faces: when I hide behind the hill, break the cakes; they broke it, there is clay, but there is no fox; when leaving, the fox tells the stranger mare not to unlock; the wolf called the fox in the voice and the mare opened the door, the wolf ate it; the fox invited the wolf to jump over the stake, waved her tail, the wolf believed that she had jumped over; jumped and sat on a stake; fox: spin, get down; the wolf only sat deeper; fox: rightly so]: Eschker 1992, No. 50:216-218; Hungarians [goat forbids his seven goats to unlock someone else's door; the wolf knocks, the goats don't unlock; he sprinkles flour on his paws; eats chalk or carrots to make his voice thin; finally, the goats are unlocked, the wolf ate them, except for the smallest one; after learning about what had happened, the goat found the wolf sleeping, cut his belly, released the living kids, put stones in his belly and sewed it up; the wolf woke up, went to the river to drink, drowned]: Kovács 1987, No. 123:272; Slovenes, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Bulgarians [The wolf imitates the voice of the Goat, calls the goats; they say that the voice, the paw, is rude, not the mother; the Wolf makes them thin at the blacksmith, the goats open them to him, he swallows them; the Goat offers to jump over the hole, there is a stake in it; the wolf attacks the stake, the goats come out of his belly alive]: Daskalova-Perkovska 1994, No. 123:63.

Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Pskov, Vologda, etc.), Ukrainians (Galicia, Poltava), Belarusians [Wolf and goats: wolf in the absence of a mother, a wolf eats the kids; the youngest kid escapes and tells everything; the goat rips the wolf's belly, the goats come out of there]: SUS 1979, No. 123:72; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Vologodskaya, Vladimirskaya, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Ryazan, Tambov), Ukrainians (Volyn, Galicia, Grodno, Podolia, Chernigov, Kherson), Belarusians [boy (Ivas, Zhikharko, Lutonyushka) and witch: a witch lures a boy to her, imitating his mother's voice; instructs her daughter to fry him or shows him how to sit on a shovel; a boy puts a witch's daughter or witch in the oven; climbs a tree; swan geese bring it home: in a 327F type fairy tale, a fisherman boy catches fish while sitting in a boat; a witch forges his rude voice into a thin one and pretends to be the mother who brought food ( grabs a boy, brings him)]: SUS 1979, No. 327C, F: 120-121; Russians (Vologda) [the wolf overheard the goat causing when he returned home; began to sing the same song, but the voice is rude, the goats are not unlocked; then the wolf went to the blacksmith, who forged his tongue; the goats opened, the wolf ate them, only one was left; the goat ripped the belly of the sleeping wolf, the goats jumped out, put stones in his belly, sewed them up]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 9:49-50; Russians (Pskov) [when leaving, the goat tells the goats to unlock only her voice; the wolf imitates the goat, but his voice is rude; he asked the blacksmith to reforge his tongue; goats they opened them, the wolf ate them, but one escaped and told his mother; the goat invited the wolf to jump over the fire; the wolf was heavy because of the swallowed ones, burned his belly, the goats came out alive]: Ploschuk 2004, No. 10:71-72 (approximately the same, No. 10, 11:50-51, 53-54); Russians (Vologda) [Mitoshka is swimming in a boat, fishing; mother calls from the shore, picks up fish, gives pies; yaga-baba overheard, calls in the same words, but fat voice; M. advises her to go to the blacksmith; the blacksmith forged her tongue, she called in a thin voice, M. swam up, she took him away; Yaga Baba has three workers: Ulyashka, Matryoshka, Parashka; M. pretends not knows how to sit on a shovel, fried all three, yaga-baba ate them; then the yaga-baba herself goes, M. and shoved her into the oven]: Smirnov 1917, No. 40:211-213 (=Gura 1965, No. 21:234); Russians (Vladimirskaya) [wolf overheard a goat singing a song to unlock the goats; singing in a thick voice; then the wolf changed his voice, the goats unlocked; one hid under the stove, told his mother; the goat hid, the wolf came, the goat came out, faked him with a horn]: Ivanov, Kargin 2004, No. 860:430-431; Russians (Tverskaya, St. Kuvshinovo, 1989) [Ivanushka asks to let him go fishing; for the third time his parents let him go; in the evening his mother calls, I. swam to the shore; Baba Yaga overheard, but she has a rude voice; then asked the blacksmith to give her a thin voice; I. swam up, she took it away, told Alenka to bake it, went to invite the guests herself; I. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; A. shows that he shoved her into the oven, climbed on wood; the guests ate meat, began to ride bones; I. from the tree: to the Alenkins; Baba Yaga gnaws on the trunk, broke her tooth, asked the blacksmith to make her two iron ones; the tree is about to fall, asks his geese pick up; the first pack points to the second, the second to the third, the third picked up and brought it to parents]: archive of the Center for Tver Local History and Ethnography, sent by V.E. Dobrovolskaya; Russians ( Ryazanskaya) [the goat has 7 kids, she tells to open it only in response to her song; the wolf sings, the goats: the mother has a thin voice; the wolf asked the blacksmith to reforge his tongue; the goats opened, one hid behind with a stove; the goat goes to look for the wolf; the veal shepherd replies that he did not see; the cow - the same; the sheep indicates where the wolf sleeps; the goat cut the wolf's belly, released the goats, put stones in their place, sewed them up; the wolf got up, went to drink, fell off the steep bank under the weight of stones, drowned]: Samodelova 2013, No. 24:24-26 (options: No. 25-38:26-41); Russians (Ryazan) [the lady's son Ivanushka (I.); sat on shuttle, went for a ride; the lady calls to the shore to eat and drink; I. sailed; the lady gave food and drink, sent her to ride again; Baba Yaga calls ashore to eat and drink; I. realizes that the voice is not mother; did not sail; baba yaga asks the blacksmith to shackle his voice like a lady; the blacksmith shackled; Baba Yaga calls I., he sailed, grabbed him and dragged him away; the lady sends the maid girl to look for I.; she comes to the palace, where a girl is sitting in the meadow, spins and plays with a little boy, the child has a golden saucer, a golden testicle on a golden platter; the maid asks for help finding I., otherwise the lady will drive you out of the light; the girl offers to be spun Lenok, while looking for a ball to follow; the maid refuses, moves on; comes to another palace: a girl sits, knocks yarn, plays with a little boy, the child has a golden apple with golden testicle; the maid asks for help finding I.; the girl offers to dry the yarn while looking for a ball, the maid refuses again; comes to the forest; there is a hut on chicken legs, on spindle heels; the maid tells the hut to turn; she got up and prayed to God; Baba Yaga turned to the other side, asked what was needed; the maid prepared resin in her skull, put it in the stove, cooked the cotton and she sat down to look for gunpowder; she looked for and said: fall asleep, peephole, fall asleep another! If you don't sleep, I'll fill it with resin, shut it up with cotton; Baba Yaga fell asleep, the girl filled her eyes with resin, covered her with cotton, took I. ran with him; runs to one girl, asks to hide it; she refuses to refuse knock yarn; the cat purred; Baba Yaga woke up, found that I. was not; rushed in pursuit; runs to the palace, asks the girl if the red girl and the boy ran here; she said; baba yaga ran on; caught up with the maid, took the boy away, tore the maid to pieces; the lady did not wait, sent two more girls, and Baba Yaga tore them apart; the third comes to the palace; saw the girl and a boy, asks where to find I.; agrees to be spun; the girl gives a ball; the maid went for the ball; came to another palace; gave the ball to the girl's sister, said that her sister bowed to her; agreed to spin; the girl said that I. was in the hut and gave a lump of oil; the maid came to the forest, told the hut to turn; got up, prayed to God, saw the child; Baba Yaga turned to the other side asks what to do; warm up; baba yaga suggests looking in her head; (hereinafter the same as in the first episode); gave the cat oil; grabbed the child and ran; the girl in the palace agrees in gratitude for hide the work in the basement; baba yaga asks if the girl saw the fugitive with the boy; did not see; baba yaga ran home; pulls the cat for not watching the child; the fugitive with the child ran over to to another palace; (same: hides in a chest); Baba Yaga ran home, pinched the cat to death; the maid and her child ran to the lady, she is glad she awarded the girl]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 12:80-82; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1968, p. Aleksandrovka, Pavlovsky District) [Ivashechka asks her parents to give him a shuttle and goes fishing. At lunchtime, the mother calls Ivashechka and Baba Yaga, and he says that this is not Mother's voice. Yaga comes to the blacksmith and asks him to shackle his subtle voice. Another time she calls Ivashechka, he swims to the shore, she grabs him and takes him to her hut. Orders her daughter to fry Ivashechka. He cannot sit on a shovel, Baba Yaga's daughter shows how to sit, he throws it into the oven, goes outside himself, sits on an aspen tree. Baba Yaga comes back and eats her daughter with her friends. She goes outside, rides underwire, Ivashechka says that these are her daughter's bones. She chews on aspen, Ivashechka grabs a migratory goose, who brings the boy to the roof of his house. He hears parents drinking tea and crying for it. Shouts to them that he's alive, they take their son off the roof]: Kretov 1977, No. 18:35-35; Russians (Voronezh) [the wolf hears a goat song by which the goats recognize their mother and open the door to the house; sings this song, but the goats notice that the voice is too rude to open it; the blacksmith forges the wolf's voice, makes it more subtle; the goats notice that the voice sings burr; one blacksmith puts a "gag in the goose" the other sits on his nose, they try to knock out his jaws (cheekbones), but they can't change it, and the blacksmith inserts a "pishshyk" that turns the wolf's voice into a goat's voice; the wolf sings a song and the goats open to him, he eats everyone but one; he tells his mother that the wolf ate the goats; she demands that the wolf show his tongue, sees hair in his mouth, hits the wolf with horns, and all the goats fly out of it]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 12:82-83; Russians: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 53 [when leaving, the Goat tells the goats to lock the hut, open it when they hear its song; the Wolf repeats the song, but the goats hear a rude voice; next time he sings a thin voice, the goats unlock them, he eats them, one hides in the oven; the Goat invites the Wolf to jump over a hot coal pit, he falls, his belly bursts, the goats come out], 54 ( Tambov, Lipetsk University, 1848) [A pregnant goat asks an apple tree, hazel to allow it to give birth under them, they refuse - an apple or nut may fall on the goats. The goat asks the hut to turn to her, enters, gives birth to children and stays in it, locks them in the daytime, and goes into the forest herself. The wolf watches the goat, sings in his rude voice and asks the kids to let him in, they don't recognize him or let him in. The blacksmith makes the wolf a thin tongue, the goats open it to him, he eats everyone but one. The goat cooks pancakes and invites the wolf and fox to visit, lights a fire and sticks nails in the underground, invites the fox and the wolf to jump the hole, the fat wolf falls through and burns; the Goat and Fox eat pancakes]: 75- 76, 76-77; Russians (Kursk) [childless old men wrapped the deck in a diaper, Tereshechka's son appeared; made a shuttle, fishing; his mother calls him, he swims to the shore, she gives him milk; witch The dude calls in a terrible voice, T. sails away; next time she sings in a learned voice, T. swam, she took him to her place, told his daughter to fry; he put the witch's daughter in the oven himself, climbed the oak tree ; Ch.: take a ride, eat tereshechkin's meat! T.: ate her daughter; C. asks the blacksmith to tie her ax; he tells her to cut her butt; the tree is unharmed; then C. dug into the trunk with her teeth, he swung; swan geese are flying, each pack replies that they will take next; the last plucked goose agrees to take T. home; the goose was fattened, released]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 112:183-184; Ukrainians (Poltava) [in old age, a childless woman asks cut down the husband's chock, put it in the cradle; the chock turns into a boy named Telesick (Russ. Telepen); he asks his father to make him a golden shuttle, a silver oar, will fish; every day his mother brings food, calls T. with a song, tells him not to respond to someone else's voice; the Snake overheard, twice sang, her voice was rude; went to the blacksmith, he forged her a thin voice; T. swam, she grabbed him, brought him home, told her daughter Olenka to bake it; T. asks to show her how to get into the oven, fried O., climbs on sycamore; The snake ate her daughter, T. shouts to her about it from the sycamore; she gnaws on the trunk; tells the blacksmith to tie her good teeth; many geese fly by, only the last goose picks up T., brings her home]: Pankeev 1992:331-336; Ukrainians (ca. 1878, г. Gadyach, Poltava Gubernia) [A childless grandfather and woman dream of a child, she asks him to make a wooden stroller, puts a "tree" in it, treats it like a child, sings, the next morning the "tree" turns into a boy Telesica. He asks his grandfather to build a golden boat to fish. Telesick catches fish, his mother calls him to the shore with a song, picks up his catch, brings him lunch. The snake tries to lure the boy, sings like his mother, but he does not recognize his voice and does not stick to her shore. The snake asks the blacksmith to reforge her thick voice into a thin one, the boy takes her singing for his mother's, the snake brings it to his hut, tells his daughter to fry it, and flies away to visit. He does not fit on a shovel, says he can't, Olenka shows how to sit, he puts her in the oven, climbs onto the sycamore. The snake returns, eats its daughter: "I'll ride, fall, Telesicovoy imagining!" , sees a boy, chews on a tree, breaks a tooth, a blacksmith puts new ones. The boy asks the swan geese to carry him away, and the first and middle groups of birds say he will be the last to pick him up. He is picked up by the last goose that has fought off and puts him on the roof of his parents' house. He hears his parents sharing pies, asks what he will get, they bring him into the house, feed him, and rejoice. The saying "they live, chew hlib, wear good at the table, carry water with a rocker. And I was bula there, I drank honey wine: it flowed down my beard, but it wasn't bulo in my mouth!"] : Rudchenko 1870, No. 15:38-43; Belarusians [the woman tells his grandfather to cut down a stump, make a cradle and pump it in the forest; the stump has become a boy; asks him to make him a shuttle on the river to catch fish; when his mother brings food for him, she sings a song (Ivanka, son, golden shuttle, silver merry man); the snake found out, told her daughter Alenka to melt the stove, went to call I.; he did not hear mama's voice; the snake told the blacksmith to forge her tongue to make her thinner did not help; she threatened the blacksmith, who made his tongue very thin; I. swam, the snake dragged him into the bag, brought him home, told A. to fry, went to invite guests; I. pretends not knows how to sit in the oven, A. began to show it, he fried it himself; the guests ate A., ride on bones; I. on the roof, asked the geese to throw it on the feather, they threw it off, he flew with them; tired, sat on an oak tree; snake already here, she brought an ax from the blacksmith, began to cut it; the oak is ready to fall, the bunny is fart! cutting down the thicket; the snake cuts again, the ax broke; the snake ran after another, cuts again; ducks are flying, I. asks to throw it off, they threw it off, I. flew away with ducks, returned home]: Romanov 1887, No. 49:268 -269; Czechs: Loorits 1926 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Slovaks [returning, the goat sings a song, the goats unlocking; the wolf sings the same song, the goats say that the mother has a thin voice, and he was rude; the wolf went to the blacksmith; the elder kid does not believe again, but the others unlocked the door; the wolf found and swallowed them, did not find the eldest; the goat asked the blacksmith to make a knife, managed to approach the wolf before he drank water, ripped his stomach apart, the goats are alive, the goat washed them; if the wolf had drunk water, they would not have come to life]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 39:206-207; the Poles [the widow gave her son a golden shuttle with a silver paddle, tells him to approach the shore only three times a day at her call, she will bring him food; the witch overheard the song, repeats it in a rude voice; the boy does not recognize the voice mother, swims back into the sea; the witch told the blacksmith to remake her tongue; her voice became thinner, but the boy understood the deception; the blacksmith explained to reforge his throat; this time the boy swam; the witch took it to her daughter, told her to wash it, comb it, cook it; the boy pretends not to know how to get into the oven, asks the witch's daughter to show her, shoves her into the stove, climbs the maple himself; the witch ate her daughter, began rolling on the grass, the boy from the tree sings along with her, saying who she ate; the witch chews on the maple tree, breaks two teeth, the blacksmith makes her steel; the boy asks the geese to carry it; the first two flocks they refuse, the last short tail takes him, gives him a stone, he throws it at the witch's forehead, killing her; the tail brings the boy to his mother]: Dombrovsky 1992:158-166.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [when leaving, the Hare tells the children to lock the door, open to her voice; the Wolf overheard, but speaks in a rude voice; the blacksmith mosquito forged a silver voice for him; the bunnies were opened, the Wolf ate them; The fox promises to help, offers to complain to the Wolf that someone ate the Bunny; the Wolf says the Bear is to blame; the Hare and the Fox complain to the Bear; they call the animals to the wake, dig a hole, pour hot coals, cover with a carpet; The wolf does not want to go, but then comes and fails; The bear threw branches into the fire, the guests feasted at the wake]: Maksimov 1937:54-63 (=Kerashev 1957:278-285); Ossetians : Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Ingush [The goat leaves seven kids at home; The wolf shouts that it is their mother, brought milk, the goats hear a rude voice, do not unlock it; the next day the same Bear; the goats grew up, the owner took them home, started a herd]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 173-174; Dargins [Khamis the goat tells three goats not to unlock the door; the wolf says he brought milk, shows his hand, the goats say that the mother had a bracelet on her hand; the Wolf asks H. where the bracelet comes from, she calls the master from Kubachi, the Wolf orders the same from him; the same goes for slippers (from the obstetrician master); the goats are unlocked, The wolf swallowed them; the Goat put on wolfskin, went dancing with the wolves, pushed him into the fire, his belly burst, the goats jumped out, left with their mother]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 47:155; Rutultsy: Bulatova 2003 [Adiday has 7 daughters; she tells them not to open the door; the wolf knocks, asks him to show his hand, they say that his mother had a silver bracelet; the wolf burns wool on his paw, bandages his wrist with silver; eats 6 sisters, the seventh hid in the chest; told all the mothers; Lisa advises A. to pour sorbet on the ice; The wolf sticks to the ice, A. and Lisa beat him, freeing six girls]: 267-268; Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 59 [The goat Bykbiche has Heliy and Balaly goats, she does not tell you to unlock the door; the wolf asks to open, they say that the mother has a gentle voice, then tender hands; The wolf returns, changing his voice, ripping off hands wool; goats say that the mother had a ring on her finger, the Wolf makes a ring and bracelet from rose hips, the goats unlock it; Grandpa Fox promises B. to return the goats; weave the basket, climb into it queues, Wolf wants too; B. invited him to her place, the Fox ripped open his belly with a knife, the goats jumped out]: 173; the Avars [Shudukai (the name is not etymologized) have five daughters; she goes for spoons, at this time The wolf asks to open the door; the daughters recognize the rude voice; next time the Wolf imitates the voice of Sh., the children open the door, he swallowed the two smallest ones, ate all the porridge, hid one daughter in ash, the other in chest, hung the third from the ceiling; The fox promises to help, invites the Wolf to ride down the mountain when he rolls down, pours water, the Wolf's tail freezes; S. beats the Wolf, two swallowed ones come out of his nostrils girls]: Atayev 1972, No. 4:15-16; khvarshins [old woman Lyluka has 9 daughters; she cooked porridge for the children, there were no spoons, warned her daughters not to unlock the doors, maybe the wolf would come by herself went to the forest to make spoons; in the forest she met a wolf, warned her daughters not to eat; the wolf went to L.'s house, the children, without recognizing the voice and seeing chrome boots on the wolf, did not let him in; Wolf changed his clothes, forged his voice, came, knocked again; the children opened the door; the wolf of all but one who hid in tawhana; the wolf meets L., she asks why his mouth is covered in blood - ate a bird, who wanted to bite him in the eye; L. finds only one daughter at home; cries; Lisa passes by, promises to help the children out if L. cooks her a miracle of meat; found a wolf, invited him to ride on the ice, poured water on the ice, the wolf froze; Lisa killed him, pulled the children out, but went to L. alone; says she should take a dagger and go pick up the children; L. cooked a miracle, but with meat for the children, and for the fox with ash; when L. and her daughter went to pick up the children, Lisa took the meat miracle and left]: Musayeva 1995; (cf. varnishes [The cuckoo warned the children not to let strangers in; Owl persuaded them to let them go, tell fairy tales, ate cuckoo; Magpie told the Cuckoo about this; the Cuckoo's tears turned into yellow flowers; She cursed the owl to go blind and afraid of the sun; the cuckoo asks other birds to shelter her eggs]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 69:190); Armenians [returning with a full udder, the goat turns to the kid with the song, when the kid hears it, unlocks it; the wolf overhears, sings, the kid replies that his voice is rude; the goat tells the visitor another time that his mother cares for him]: Tumanyan 1984:109- 111; Georgians [the shepherd gives the Fox a lamb for forcing the herded lambs to disperse; the bear pretends to be a Fox, the Lamb unlocks him, he eats it; the fox sees the wedding, suggests To sing a bear, people beat him; The fox calls to treat him, burns him with a hot iron; offers to lie in the basket, derails it]: Kurdovanidze 1988 (1), No. 20:57-60; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953 (Istanbul, Ankara, Kars) [the goat has three kids; the wolf asks to open it, they don't unlock it; then it eats the egg, its voice becomes thin; smears its paw with flour or mud, it turns white; goats unlocked, he eats all three or hides one; the goat either adjusts so that the wolf falls into a coal pit, burns, or rips open his belly, swallowed to jump out alive; in one version, instead wolf bear], No. 8:32-33; Stebleva 1986, No. 7 [the sheep has Aisha and Fatma; every evening the mother returns, sings about what she brought milk for them in the udder; the wolf sings, he has a rough voice, puts it under his feet the paw, it is black, not white, the lights do not unlock; The wolf sings in a thin voice, shows his paw, putting it in a bag of flour before; he is unlocked, he ate the yarochek; the Sheep calls the Wolf to the wake, he falls into a hole with burning brushwood prepared for her; The wolf burned down, the Sheep gave birth to new birds]: 27-28; the Kurds [the goat has Tityl and Bibyl goats; the wolf knocks: I am your mother; they recognized the wolf's voice, did not open it; wolf overheard the goat say: Mom's Tityl and Bibyl, I have milk in my udder, I have grass in my teeth, open the door to my mother! The next day, the wolf repeated these words, but the goats still did not open; then the wolf broke the door, ate T., and B. climbed under the lock and the wolf could not pull it out; B. told his mother everything; the goat came to the wolf and offered to fight; asked the blacksmith to sharpen her horns so as to pull the thorn out of the monkey's ass, for which she gave yogurt; the wolf also asked the master to make him such horns, but filled two the wineskin with gases and put two peas in it; when the master opened the wineskin, the pea that flew out almost knocked out his eye; the master made the wolf's horns out of felt; the wolf's horns bent and the goat ripped his stomach apart, T . came out alive; goat: where were you; T.: I went to visit my uncle; goat: what did you eat there? T.: boiled wheat; goat: why didn't she bring my share; T.: I put it in my hand - my hand was burned, put it in the hem - the hem burned; goat: well, welcome!] : Eyyubi, Smirnova 1968:264-267; Talysh [the sheep has children Shangul and Mangul, she tells them not to unlock the door, sings a song when he returns; the wolf has learned the song, opened the lambs, the wolf ate M., Sh. hid behind the door; the sheep started fighting the wolf, pierced his stomach with its horns, took Mangula alive]: Miller 1930:43-44.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks: Levin et al. 1981, No. 47 [the goat with a porcelain nose has Halulak and Balulak goats; the fox tells us to open the door, says that he is their mother; goats: our mother is blue; the fox was lying in ash, the goats still did not open; the wolf came, the goats said that their mother was green; then that it was black; the wolf was wearing makeup, the goats did not open; the wolf broke the door, ate the kids; the goat comes to the fox, he assures that the kids did not eat; they come to the wolf, they go to the judge, the goat brings a bag of cakes, the wolf brings a bag of manure; the judge ordered the master to sharpen the goat's horns, and the wolf to replace his teeth with cotton grains; the goat ripped apart the wolf's belly, the goats came out], 212 [the goat had 7 kids, the wolf asked to open, five hid, and Alulya and Bulyulya ate the wolf; the goat fought the wolf, both broke their teeth, the goat broke their horns; they went to the master, the goat brought tortillas, and the wolf brought manure (as the goat advised); the master made steel teeth for the goat, and the wolf from cotton seeds; the goat only pretended to drink water, and the wolf drank and became heavy; the goat ripped him apart belly, A. and B. jumped out], 412 (Samarkand) [~ (212)]: 148-150, 221-222, 305; Sukharev, Sukhareva 1934, No. 1 [], 2 [], 3 [], 4 [], 5 [], 6 [], 7 [], 8 [the goat has 7 kids; she returned, with flowers on one horn, on water alone; no kids; she climbed onto the roof of the turtle: I'm a goat - a porcelain nose, milk jelly in both nostrils, who ate my Halul, who kidnapped my Balyul, who has arrows and a bow, who will go out fight me? turtle: I did not eat; same with the jackal; wolf: I ate, I will go to fight; the wolf drank a lot of water, the goat tore his stomach with its horns, the wolf burst; the goat gave birth to young every year, they grew up; there is one apple on this shelf, there is one apple on that shelf, you eat one, me eat one]: 28-29, 31-33, 34-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42, 44; Persians: Rosenfeld 1958 [Goat has goats Shangul, Mangul, Happaye-angur; tells them not to unlock, Look through the keyhole first; the goats do not unlock the Wolf, he has a rough voice; he speaks in a thin voice, puts his paw under the door - it is black; the goats say that his mother's hands are white; he lowers the legs are in flour; the mother's legs are red; he smears her hind legs with henna; the goats are unlocked, the Wolf ate S. and M., H. ran away; the Jackal denies that he ate the kids; the Wolf agrees to fight the Goat; she took the oil and cream to the grinder, who sharpened her horns; the Wolf brought a bag of air to the barber, who did not sharpen his teeth, but replaced him with cotton wool; the Goat ripped open the Wolf's belly, the goats jumped out whole]: 52-55; Romaskevich 1934a, No. 31 ( Shiraz) []: 141-143; Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 1 (Kerman) [the goat has children Alil, Balil, Ginger Stick and Black-eyed; she follows the grass, tells the wolf not to open the door; let him put her hand into the crack; if her hand black, do not open if red, it's really me; the wolf overheard; paints his hand with henna; when the goats ask for a hand, he sticks a red one; the goats open the door; the wolf takes three, the Black-eyed hides; tells the mother everything; from the roof, a goat throws a handful of earth to the wolf into ash (āsh; thick soup); the wolf asks who dares to do it; the goat offers the wolf a fight; takes cottage cheese and butter to the grinder; the wolf fills the bag with air, takes the zuboder, tells him to sharpen his teeth; the zuboder discovers deception, replaces all the wolf's teeth with woolen lumps; before the fight, the goat offers to drink water; drinks, jumps over the stream; the wolf, drunk, fell into the stream; the goat ripped his belly with a sharpened horn; the wolf died, the swallowed goats jumped out alive]: 3-5; Bukhara Arabs [returning home, The Goat says, Well, tick-tik, the goats unlock; The Wolf calls, Ooh, they also unlock them, he swallows them; the Goat and the Wolf come to the master, give cakes, the Goat has butter, the Wolf has bad ones; the master pulled out the Wolf's teeth, sharpened the Goat's horns; the Goat tore the Wolf's belly, the goats jumped out]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 49:304; Yazgulyam [Goat has five kids: Kulyul, Bulyul, Khoksyrmakhak-zolnik, Vyzamak- ceiling lamp, wall girl (these names include words for ash, ceiling beam, wall, respectively); The wolf came, sang his mother's song, they opened it, he ate K. and B., three hid respectively in the ash, behind the beam, into the wall; The fox denies that she ate the kids, the Wolf confesses; the Goat gives the master milk, he sharpens her horns; The wolf gives his crap, the master gives sour apples, wolf teeth blunted; he could not bite the Goat, the Goat ripped his stomach, swallowed goats jumped out from there]: Grunberg, Steblin-Kamensky 1976, No. 77:506-508 (=Edelman 1966, No. 15:211); Rushans [at the Goat two kids; she brings them grass in their mouths, water on their horns, milk in the udder, says Shirin gal-gal, Photma jig-jig, etc.; they unlock; the bear overheard, sang, Photma said it was not a mother, but Shirin said that their mother, they discovered them, the Bear ate them; the Goat asks the Wolf, who denied the Bear, he confesses; Judge Majid tells them to fight; the Goat took the blacksmith's soup, he gave her iron horns; The bear carried his feces, which gave him a kamul horn (a soft-stemmed plant); the bear drank a lot of water, the Goat cheated and did not drink; the bear hit first, his horn broke; the Goat ripped his stomach, the contents the intestines went one way and live goats the other]: Pisarchik 1954, No. 3:35-36; Khufs [the goat has Shiringalgay and Fotmagalgay goats; every day she brings herbs for them; the bear found out, asks open the door, S. opened, the bear ate the kids; the wolf replies to the goat that he did not touch its kids; the bear admits that he ate it; the goat asks the blacksmith to make her iron horns; ripped the bear's belly, the goats jumped out alive]: Sokolova 1959, No. 18:18-19; parya [the goat ate the bald man's bread, he beat her off, she ran away; gave birth to kids named Bangak, Sangak and Kulolasantak; when she comes, she calls them names, says that she brought water on his horns, grass in his teeth, they unlock the door; the wolf repeats the words, Sangak unlocks, Bangak hides in the tandoor, tells his mother that the wolf ate his brothers; the goat gives to a milk blacksmith, who makes her horns steel; the wolf gives crap, he makes his teeth charcoal; they fall out, the goat rips open his belly, the goats come out]: Oransky 1977, No. 4:158-159; Uzbeks [ the old woman baked a cake, began to argue with the old man which of them should break it, the cake rolled, the old man and the old woman did not catch up with her, she offered the herdsman to eat it, rolled away from him, and then to to the dekhkanin, then to the fox; she pretends not to hear the song, the cake screams in her ear, the fox grabbed it, ate the middle, put clay in it, brought it to the shepherd, received a lamb as a gift, brought her to her; went to mow the hay; at this time the wolf ate the lamb, put his head on the threshold, legs four corners, went through the chimney; the fox sings its song, asks the lamb to open it, it is silent; the fox made a hole in the house- a hot coal trap, invited the wolf, he fell into a hole, burned, barely got out; the fox came to treat him under the guise of a healer, advised him to run in the thorny thickets, the wolf became even worse; under the guise of another the healer advised the fox to ride in the ash, he is a little alive; under the guise of a third (urban, not from the mountains, not from the valley), she ordered to cut through the ice on the river, sit down, water himself with cold water until the morning; the tail froze to the ice; the wolf died]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 29-33 (=1984:131-134, =Konovalov, Stepanov 1986:11-15); Baluchi [the goat has Khlail and Blail, the wolf is her friend; the wolf called the kids instead of the goat, ate them; the goat asked the jackal, the fox, the bear, the leopard - no one ate the kids; the wolf confessed; suggested that the blacksmith sharpen his teeth and the goat's horns; but the blacksmith put pistachio in the wolf instead of his teeth; the goat ripped open the wolf belly, the goats jumped out]: Porozhnyakov 1989:134-136; tire [the wild ibex goat left three kids in the house and went to the pasture herself; in the evening she came back and called the kids named Shuurujanaa Paalo, Maamujanaa Paalo, Phaacunaa Paalo; the first two are obedient, the third is not; the bear overheard, came up and called the kids; SP and MP did not want to unlock, but FP unlocked; the bear swallowed it, and the other two ran away into the forest; the goat found them, fed them, left them at home and came to the blacksmith; he made two sharp knives for her, which the goat attached to her horns; found a bear and ripped open his belly; FP jumped out alive; for 2 of the day he cringed to the size of his thumb, but then grew up and recovered again]: Radloff, Shakil 1998:110-111.

Baltoscandia. Livs []: Loorits 1926 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Estonians: Dähnhardt 1910 [the daughter found a louse in the king's hair, who fattened her for three years, ordered her to be slaughtered, made of leather shoes for the daughter; whoever guesses what they are made of will get a princess; a snake crawled, gave the right answer, the princess had to go with her; there was a bridge across the sea in front, water behind them, they came to the palace; at night husband man, serpent day; a year later, the wife gave birth to a son, wanted to show her father; her husband took her ashore, explained how to call him (Kiilu, kaalu, come out, your wife, etc.); the woman's brothers began to demand in order for her to tell her how to call her husband, she eventually let it slip; the older brother called, the husband thinks it is not his wife's voice; the same middle voice; when the younger one called, the husband believed that his wife was calling; the brothers cut off the snake's head; the wife called in vain; became a birch tree (Maserbirke) and her son became drake]: 473-474; Kippar 1986, No. 123 (records in different areas, although the set has the most; usually two kids) [ when the goat leaves, the wolf asks the kids to unlock the door; returns several times to make the voice more like the mother of the kids; finally, the goats unlocked the door and the wolf ate them; the goat (old man, old woman, big wolf, king of wolves) ripped the wolf's stomach, the goats came out alive]: 102-103; Estonians (1940, Tallinn) [returning, the goat sings a song, the goats unlock; the wolf sings the same thing, one kid unlocks it, the wolf took it away; the goat sings three times pitifully, each time the wolf brings one kid; the goat got all three back]:? : 34-36; Lutsie (West 1893) [the goat has three kids; when she comes back, she sings a song every time: the udder is full of milk; Kurjababa ("evil woman", witch) overheard, began to sing the same song, one kid opened it, she took it away; the next day of the second; then the third; the goat sits on the rubble and sings: They fry it, burn it; Kuryababa comes, returns one kid: no one is fried, on, hold ; so with all three]: Annom et al. 2018:317-318; Veps [Vanya goes by boat across the lake; a witch lures a boy to her, imitating his mother's voice; instructs her daughter to fry him, but she herself gets into the oven; swan geese bring the boy home]: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 3:201; Danes, Swedes, Sami, Finns: Loorits 1926 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 123:94; Norwegians [while the goat is gone, the wolf comes and eats the kids; the goat rips open his stomach, the goats jump out]: Hodne 1984, No. 123:39; Latvians: Alksnite et al. 1958 [returning, Roe deer every time asks the kids to unlock the door, sings "there is grass on the horns, there is a milkmaid in the nipples"; The wolf hears, sings to rude voices, the goats do not unlock; then thin, the goats are unlocked, he swallowed them; the fox promises to help the Roe Deer ; offers the Wolf porridge, pours hot porridge down the Wolf's throat, he regurgitates live goats, runs away]: 76-77; Aris, Medne 1977, No. 327F [Witch and Boy. The witch tells you to forge a subtle tongue to imitate the voice of the boy's mother and lure him to her]: 277; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [boy Bebenciukas swims in a boat, fishing; he has two clever sisters, one fool; she brings him food: I'll give him boiled fish, and you give me a raw one; lauma overheard; B.: her sister has a thin voice, and this one is rude; lauma told the blacksmith to tie her tongue thinner; B. swam, Lauma took him away; the fool came, released the fish left in the boat, which told me where to look for B.; the older sister went: she refuses to pick the apples from the apple tree, milk the cow, bake the bread in the oven, wash the board, what lies across the river; laume sits in a bluegrass hut covered with fern, lip to floor, asking her to comb; the girl began to comb her, the laume fell asleep; the girl covered the black dog with a pot, grabbed B. , ran; laume and the dog are chasing, the board, the stove, etc. are being sent; laume grabbed B. with her sister, took them back; the same with her middle sister; the fool picked apples, milked the cow, etc., grabbed B. and sisters, ran; objects prevent lauma from chasing, do not tell where the fugitives went; they returned home]: 23-32; Kerbelite 2014, No. 58 [161 option; Lipnickelis parents (from the word "linden") they let him fish in a boat; bringing porridge, his mother sings a song, L. swims up; laume sings in a low voice; then asks the blacksmith to give her a thin voice; L. swam, grabbed laume, brought her home , tells her daughter to fry; L. asks to show her how to sit in the oven, baked it himself, hung her braid on a hook; lauma and the guests ate her daughter lauma; L. shouts to her about it from the oak tree, she sees her daughter's braid; lauma chews on an oak tree; only a third flock of geese picked up L., brought it home], 60 [old people sewed a bag, put various things in it, including soot; a girl Nigella appeared; the old woman was advised to dig up the basement and pour it there milk: let C. sit until it turns white; mother came, told me to stick her finger out - it's still black; lauma came, said in a low voice; next time she said in a high voice, C. stuck her finger out, laume brought it, fattened it, told her daughter to fry; the fox advises asking the witch's daughter to sit in the cart to ride her; she sat down, the fox cut off her head; the witches ate the meat, C. shouts from the birch tree that they ate the witch's daughter; lauma found her daughter's head in bed, began to cut a birch tree; while they were resting, the fox blunted its axes; took C. to her parents], 60 [the old men sewed the bag, put various things in it, including soot; a girl Chernushka appeared; the old woman was advised to dig up the basement and pour milk into it: let C. sit until it turned white; the mother came, told her to stick her finger out - it's still black; lauma came, said in a low voice; next time she said in a high voice, C. stuck her finger out, brought lauma to her, fattened her, told her daughter to fry; the fox advises asking the witch's daughter to sit in the cart to have her take a ride; she sat down, the fox cut off her head; the witches ate the meat, C. screams from the birch tree that they ate the witch's daughter; lauma found her daughter's head in bed, began to cut the birch tree; while they were resting, the fox blunted its axes; took C. to her parents], 84 [the elderly have a daughter Aguonele ("top"), black as poppy seeds; mother to her father: take it to the well, it will bleach; mother carries A. food, asks him to stick her hand out - still black; tells not stick out if someone else's voice; the wolf tells the blacksmith to shove his tongue, A. thought his mother was calling, the wolf took her away; the wolf and A. were invited to the wedding, dug a hole with coals, told him to move, the wolf fell, the mother killed his poker], 95 [the old woman asks the old man to carve the child out of the tree; he came to life, called Rekechukas (from "a knotty pole for drying the slides"); the old woman sends him to herd the cows; when you find the berry, throw it over his shoulder, he threw, a girl Wagyale ("berry") appeared; R. built a hut for her, told strangers not to unlock it; the wolf calls in a rude voice, W. does not unlock; asks the blacksmith to tie his thin tongue; speaks In a thin voice, W. unlocked it, the wolf swallowed it; R. hanged himself; the cow came running, says the old woman is chasing her; the sheep: the same; the pig; the old men went, found R.; at the funeral, the wolf saw the coffin and was so scared that W. regurgitated alive, she became a cuckoo, cuckoo by the coffin, R. came to life, they kissed; and I was there, I drank honey beer, it didn't stay in my mouth, it flowed down my beard]: 131-134, 136-138, 186-188, 188-192; Lebite 1965: 42-44 [The goat tells five goats to unlock only her, sings that it has brought grass on its horns, milk in the udder; the wolf repeats, the goats feel a rude voice; the wolf goes to the blacksmith, who makes his tongue thinner, the goats are unlocked; one kid hid under the stove, survived; The goat collects bones, cooks, tells the Wolf that he is cooking fish, he asks for a treat, she tells him to stick his tongue into the fence, sprinkles it in hot coals in his throat, the Wolf is dead, the Goat ripped his belly apart, the goats jumped out alive], 73-76 [the old woman tells the old man to cut down an alder branch, puts it in the cradle, the young Trivainelis appears; he herds the cattle; throws a berry behind her back, she turns into a girl Grazhina mountain ash, he makes a hut for her; every time she asks to unlock her, he brought milk and bread; the Wolf overhears, sings in a rude voice, G. does not unlock; he tells the blacksmith to thin his tongue, swallowed G.; T. died of grief, the dog tells the elderly about it; the same is a pig, they do not believe; they find T., ask why he died, he tells; the old woman bakes pancakes, Wolf asks for a try, the old woman tells me to stick out his tongue, grabs it with ticks, the Wolf had to return G.]; set: Mägiste 1990 [The wolf lived in an icy hut, it melted; Goat with two the goats lived in a woolen one; the Wolf asked to let him in, imitating the voice of the Goat, the goats felt deceived; the same for the second time; the third time the Wolf cut off, sharpened his tongue; the goats discovered, the Wolf swallowed them, ran into the forest; the Goat gathered all the wolves in the forest; one did not come for a long time; when he appeared, he said that his stomach hurt; the Goat hit the Wolf on the head with a hammer, cut his stomach, and the goats jumped out alive; wolves stayed to heal the wounded]: 43-48; Normann, Tammpere 1989:58-62 [while parents are away, brother and sister decided to cook porridge from charcoal; sister tried it, turned black, brother put it in the sea get wet; in the morning she asks from the shore if her sister has turned white, she replies that she has not yet; Damn (vanapagan) heard, called himself, the girl replies that it is not her brother's voice; for the fourth time he sharpened his tongue so that the girl did not understand the deception, replied that she turned white; the brother did not wait for an answer, the witch doctor said that his sister was taken away by Damn; brother sings outside the window of the house Devil, sister hears something, Damn replies that it was a creak wheels (he made a wagon); next time brother sings, calling his sister to bury him, his teeth aside; sister goes out, Damn believes her brother is dead; decides to brew beer on this occasion; no dishes, offers to cook it in his mouth; his sister tied him up, poured boiling water into his mouth, his brother jumped out of the grave, threw hot stones into the devil's mouth, he died; the brother brought his sister home]; (cf. Järv et al. 2009, No. 34 (Vascelia) [when she dies, the mother tells her son to take a wife who looks like her sister; no, he wants to marry his sister; she goes to dress in the barn, leaves the spits responsible for herself, goes out on the other side, climbs an oak tree, asks it to rise higher, the sky lower; in the sky she comes to a house where two girls look like her; their mother goes ice-headed at night to eat reeds, drink water from seas; during the day, the girls hide the visitor, tell their mother that the smell is from a scorched pig; returning before dawn, the mother sings, asks her daughters to let her into the house; daughters tell the girl that they have special earbuds - some to hear, others not to hear; the girl replaces the earbuds; daughters do not hear the mother, her head melts in the sun, she dies; all three girls go down to the ground; brothers (there are three of them) cannot say which of the three is their sister; the old woman advises the eldest to cut his finger; only the sister rushes to tie; older brothers marry girls from heaven; the younger is dissatisfied that left without a wife again; makes a coffin in the forest; when his sister brings him food, puts her in the coffin, boils her up; the brothers' wives call her to the bathhouse in vain; a bunch of berries grows on the lid; the hunter brings her home; someone cooks and cleans; the old man advises to spy, the hunter finds the girl, hangs a cross around her neck, marries her; meets her brothers]: 142-147).

Volga - Perm. Udmurts [The Hare tells the Bunnies to unlock the door only to her voice; the Wolf utters the same words in a rude voice; next time he speaks in a thin voice; Bunnies unlock, the Wolf eats them, alone jumps out the window, hitting the smoky frame with his ears; the wolf has time to bite off his tail; therefore, hares have black ear tips and a short tail]: Munkácsi in Dähnhardt 1912:277-278; Komi [in the absence of a mother, the wolf eats the kids; the youngest kid escapes and tells everything, the goat rips the wolf's belly, the goats come out of there]: Korovina 2012, No. 123:76; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 1 ( erzya) [linden, oak do not let the goat rot, let the house go; the goat went to eat, drink, bring milk; at that time the bear came, began to speak it in words, the goats opened it, he ate one; the goat tells me to open it only in a thin voice; the bear went to the blacksmith, sharpened his tongue, the goats opened, the bear ate the second one; the third did not open the door, the bear squeezed himself and ate the last one; the goat invited the bear to jump through a ravine with hot coals; the bear fell, his stomach burst, the goats came out]: 16-18; Pomerantseva 1973 [Yaraska was born black; his mother put him in a well, told him to sit until he turned white; every morning his mother calls him, asks him if he has turned white; I replies that he has turned white to his ankles, knees, waist; The bear hears, asks instead of his mother, Y. replies that the voice is rude; the bear forges the blacksmith twice my tongue; I take it for my mother, answers that he has turned white to the neck; The bear comes the next day, when I turn white completely, pulls it out, takes it away; people beat me off, brought him to my mother]: 19-21; Marie: Aktsorin 1984 [Alym-Patyr lives in a house behind the iron palisade; his sister Aktalche is with him; the house is guarded by Shekshincha and Okshincha's dogs; AP hides under a bone bridge, Vuver-Kuva rides along it, sings, that AP is going to eat; her horse stops; A.'s dogs gnaw V., she runs away; at the house, AP says to her sister "Iron chains are yoldyrt!" , she takes off her chains, lets him in; AP warns her sister not to let anyone in who asks in a rude voice; V.'s voice is rude, Aktalche does not open; V. lies down on the mountain with his mouth open, the bird bites her tongue, voice becomes thinner; Aktalche opens, V. eats dog soup; AP calls dogs again at the bone bridge, they drive V. away; V. V. first, AP comes to Aktalcha, eats dog food and AP, Aktalche turns it into a silver ring, hides it from his brother; again an episode at the bone bridge; the next day V. turns into a skein of silk, dogs want to swallow it, Aktalche scolds them; an episode at the bridge; sister asks her brother bring her a live ferret; V. turns into a green ball; Aktalche throws him, the dogs follow him, get stuck in an iron fence; V. attacks AP; he asks his sister to throw ash under his feet, V. - peas; she does the opposite; V. binds the AP, carries it on a cart; AP says to the rye, then oatmeal, barley haystack that it will remain in the field; Aktalche explains to V. that the AP fetters have weakened, V. pulls them up; V. tells AP to throw into a hole, a needle is stuck in his forehead; he is fed to become fat, throwing barley and other sheaves into the pit, but the youngest daughter V. gives him good food; V. washes AP in the bath, go to sharpen the knife; AP asks The crow, the Magpie to convey the message to his dogs, they refuse, answer that they will eat fat from his eyes and ass; The cuckoo is flying, the dogs dig under the iron palisade, release the AP, eat V. and her two daughters, marries the youngest AP]: 126-132; Sabitova 1992 (meadow mari) [the goat has three kids; when she comes up, she sings a song, they unlock it; the bear overhears, sings, but has a rough voice; next time she sings in a thin voice; ate one kid; then another; a third; every time the bear climbs onto the stove, shakes the dough, the hidden goats laugh, he finds them, eats one; the goat finds a bear, ripped his stomach apart, the goats came out; the goat asks everyone if it is warmer in the bosom of his father or mother; one replied that the father was left with the bear, the goat took two for himself]: 40-44; Chuvash [three daughters The old man is asked twice by the Sun whose face is cleaner and whiter, the Sun replies that the youngest; the sisters push the youngest into the river, tell their father that the Sun called the youngest the dirtiest, she stayed to wash; the mother goes to the river, the daughter replies that she is strangled by a snake, the millstone is crushed; after that, the Bear calls the girl, she does not respond; the bear honed his tongue from the blacksmith, calls in a thin voice, the girl repeats the words about millstones, etc.; The bear pulls her out of the river, brings her wife; she gives birth to a son, the Bear carries them to visit their parents, leaves before Wednesday; parents put stakes under the floor; the wife warns him not to enter, he enters, falls on stakes; wife stays with parents]: Eisin 1993:33-35; Tatars [returning home, the Goat sings a song, the goats unlock; the wolf sings in a rude voice, the goats do not unlock; asks the blacksmith- Forge a thin tongue for him; the goats unlock, the Wolf swallows them; the Goat ripped the Wolf's belly with horns, the goats have jumped out; the Goat and the goats are digging a hole, the Wolf fails, they burn it]: Zamaletdinov 1992:39-41 (=2008a, No. 15:53-55); Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 7 [Fatima and daughter-in-law went to rinse their clothes, her daughter-in-law pushed her into the water; father asks by the river if her daughter is on the ground; hears a voice from under the water is not in heaven, at the bottom, the hair is entangled in willow roots, let the father bring the hook; the father brought the hook, but could not pull F. out; the same episodes with his older brother; the bear listened, began to call, F . did not respond; he shoved the blacksmith's tongue, began to call again, F. decided that her father was calling, said about the hook; The Bear pulled it out, took it to him; F. asks the Bear to take the gifts to the village, she will climb on her own roof; got into a bag of gifts, putting a mortar wrapped in her dress on the roof; in the village, the Bear threw his burden, ran away from the dogs; F. went out, but did not open it to her, she went to the sheep in the barn, she was eaten by wolves, black hair remained; the brother pulled it over the violin, the violin sang - let the brother not press it, otherwise his head hurts, the brother supposedly did not open the door; the brother broke the violin, F. jumped out healthy], 111 [The goat tells seven goats can only unlock her voice; the wolf tries to imitate her voice, finally imitates her well, eats six kids, the seventh hides under the stove; the Goat put a barrel of water in the basement, covered, Wolf came in, fell, drowned]: 63-65, 428-433; Shagapova 2010 [description of the "cabbage game" based on the plot of "wolf and seven kids"; children choose "mother" and "ubyrly karsyk" (an old vampire woman) the rest are "cabbages"; when leaving, the mother builds an "iron gate"; Ubyrly-karsyk comes, cannot enter without knowing magic words, her children do not let her in; she addresses one of her daughters on behalf of her mother, promising gold earrings, ribbon; the daughter does not let me in at first, next time she takes the karsyk for her mother, tells her to hit the stone three times, the door will open; seeing that the karsyk has entered, the girl says the phrase "There is a snake lying on the doorstep, a toad is on the windowsill, come into the house, do not walk, but jump"; ybyrly-karsyk takes away several "cabbage", i.e. children; the mother comes, goes to look for children, the river replies that they have been taken away karsyk; ybyrly-karsyk denies that she has children, but they give a sign, bleating like lambs, mooing like calves; mother utters magic words, ybyrly-karsyk turns to dust, mother takes the children; daughter those who let the karsyk in are punished (they tell you to sing, dance, etc.)]: 64.

Turkestan. Salary: Tenishev 1964, No. 7 (Ujirem, Xunhua-Salar Autonomous County; "According to the narrator, this is a Tibetan fairy tale he heard from the Salars") [the old woman went to mow the grass; her daughter Tutyrja stayed at home; Mungiskarjah took the image of an old woman, came to the door and began singing: "Tutyrzha-ah, open the door! Ma-ah-at came, mowed the grass with a sickle, collected the grass with a rake, waded across the river, the ditch crossed"; T. replied: "You are not my mother. My mom is white, [and] you're black!" ; M. rolled in the whitish dust and came back to the door; T. looked into the crack, mistook him for his mother, let him inside, and then hid under the grain measure; M. found her and ate it; promised the old woman who returned that she would eat her in the evening; the old woman went out on the road, met a needle, an awl, scissors, an egg, a frog, a couple of rams, a liquid dung and a stone roller for threshing wheat; they promised to help her; a needle hid on the old woman's head, an awl on her stomach, scissors at her feet; an egg in the hearth, a frog in a water tank; a couple of rams stood outside the door, the dung was at the doorstep, and the roller was above the door; in the evening he came M. and said that he would start eating the old woman from his head; a needle and an awl pricked his mouth, scissors pierced his lips, a pitchfork fell on his head in the hayloft, an egg burst and covered his eyes with dust, the frog hit him him on the cheek; M. ran, slipped on the dung, but got up; the rams knocked him down, the roller fell off the door and killed him], 26 (Altiuli) [the old woman had three daughters; before going to the mountains, she told them:" Don't open the door [to anyone] until your mother comes back! When your mother calls [you] at the door, then open it!" ; Mungiskarchi ate it in the mountains; when he came to the house, he began to sing: "Tuttyrja, open the door! The mother came, stung the grass with a sickle, cleaned the grass with a rake, swam across the Morin River, the ditch crossed [through] the waters, open the door!" ; T. asked: "Why is the face yellow and why is the face white?" ; M. was lying in the dust and singing again at the door; T.: "Why is his face yellow and why is his face red?" ; M. was lying in the reddish dust and singing again; T.: "Why is his face yellow and why is his face blue?" ; M.: "Will you open the door or not? If you don't open it, I'll break the hook!" ; T. opened the door; the youngest sister pressed against M.'s chest; in the evening he ate it; the older sisters heard a crunch of bones, saw the younger sister's head and decided to run; going out into the yard, they sang loudly: "The girl Luna, hold out the rope! Sun Maiden, help me!" ; after that, the savior came; he took two girls with him; M. also went out and sang: "Maiden Luna, hold out the rope! Sun Maiden, help me!" ; the one who took the girls appeared, attacked M. and shredded him with a sword], 56 (Ullagyl) [a lonely girl fell asleep and cried out in her sleep; her voice touched the stone, and Mungiskarchakh came out; he asked the girl , does she know where the spring is; the girl, crying, set off; met a knife, scissors, a knife, an awl, a frog, an egg, a dung and a stone roller; told them that M. wanted to eat it; they promised to help; In the evening, M. came to the girl and demanded that she open the door; the girl refused; the ax {not previously mentioned} protected her legs, scissors her cheeks, the knife her ankles, the frog sat next to the sword, the egg fit on his chest, the dung sat down at the doorstep, the roller sat on the lintel; M. began to shout: "My daughter, open the door! [Your] mother came, mowed the grass with a sickle, raked the grass, swam across a big river, crossed a small river, brought you clean water, and there won't be any left for you!" ; the girl opened the door, M. entered the house and said he would bite her in the head; the knife jumped up and pierced his lips; M. felt no pain and said he would bite the girl in the leg; defenders pricked him on the lips; M. laughed, hit the girl in the stomach, but the scissors prevented him from biting her on the lips; M. again did not feel pain and asked the girl very close to her lips where to bite; the awl pricked him on the lips; everyone went to the hearth, M . also went to him; the egg covered his eyes with ash; everyone dragged M. under his sword, knocked him over on his back; the frog hit M. on the cheek; he escaped, but was caught, rolled in ash, beaten and killed]: 19-21, 65- 66, 115-117.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dongxiang [the old woman has four daughters, the eldest has a daughter, the old woman went to her with gifts; on the way she is swallowed by a monster, takes her form; the youngest daughters do not open the door, they say that the mother had sleeves of a different color; the youngest fourth daughter opens; at night the monster eats her, the second and third daughters run away (the first is not mentioned); the girls tell the river to become narrow, they cross; the tree is low, they climb it; they answer that they have risen, holding a stone slab on their heads, leaning on a stick; then they lift the pursuer to half, cut off the rope; the fallen monster turns into a dog, a delivery man kills it; one girl marries a peddler, the other marries another person]: Todaeva 1961, No. 2:80-83; Mongors: Jugui et al. 2012 [mother, going for brushwood , warns daughters (eldest Nduangmu, middle Kangxi, youngest Zuzuri) not to unlock strangers; the nine-headed old woman changed her appearance, asked the woman what her daughters were called, swallowed it, came, asked N. to unlock it, she refused - her mother had white clothes; the old woman was lying in white clay, called K.; she replied that her mother had green clothes; she was lying in the grass, called Z., she: her mother had red clothes; she was lying in red clay; N. and K. asked not to unlock it, but Z. believed and unlocked it; the imaginary mother asked her to put a bowl of wheat grains and a bowl of water at her bed; at night Z. began to eat, K. and N. replied that eats wheat grains; when only their heads were left, the sisters asked them to leave the house to urinate; the old woman tied them to a rope; they tied the chickens to their legs, climbed a tree; the old woman pulled the rope, ate chickens; went out, asked how the girls climbed the tree; piercing her nails into the trunk; sliding on her stomach; the old woman tries, got hurt, could not climb; they tied her, lowered their belts, picked up, thrown off, she crashed to death]: 51-54; Stuart, Limusishiden 1994 [the old woman has four daughters, the eldest is married, she has a grandson; the old woman goes to visit him, tells her younger daughters not to anyone open; a mangus in the form of a woman meets an old woman, invites her, takes on her true form, eats; taking the form of an old woman, comes to the house where the girls are; the older three do not unlock, they say that the clothes are not the same color; the mangus changes the colors of the clothes; the youngest hesitates, sticks her finger, the mangus grabs it, has to open it; when going to bed, the mangus tells the youngest girl to lie down with her; at night sisters hear sounds - mangus eats a girl, drinks her blood, her head rolls to the floor; sisters ask to go to the toilet, mangus ties a rope to them; they tie her to the kettle and to the chicken, run away; ask the mountain to become low, behind them high again; the river is narrow, wide again; so 9 mountains and 9 rivers; ask the tree to become low, then raise them; mangus answer that you can climb by eating pigs, human, dog crap; they lower the rope, let go; the mangus breaks; a young woodcutter walks by, finishes off the mangus, cuts it, buries it]: 112-116; the Mongols of Ordos ["Ordos Ardyn Ulger". - Hohhot, 1992, p. 311; eldest daughter Goadagur, middle Shirbigul, younger Davigur; mother went to her sister for flour; G. advised to follow the shepherds' path, S. - the one she likes, D. - along the path of dogs and birds ; towards the old mangas woman; offered to take out her lice, asked about her daughters, swallowed it, put on her clothes, started knocking on the house; G.: our mother has a black mole on her cheek (the mangas smeared her cheek mud); Sh.: Our mother does not have hair on her back; D. opened it; G. asks how much water to pour and cook rice; mangas: how much you need; G.: this is not the mother, she always knew exactly; while G. called her sisters, mangas one ate all the rice; G. and S. refuse to lie down with their imaginary mother, D. goes to bed; G. at night: what do you eat? mangas: old cheese; G.: give it to us too; she gave it is D.'s little finger; G. asks for permission to go out of need, ties a rope, but on the street she ties it to two roosters; the sisters are running; in the morning the mangas chased I saw them in the tree; how did you get there? G.: they coated the tree with oil and grease; the mangas did it, slides; G.: they tied a millstone and a stone from the stove to the feet; the mangas fell again, threatens; Sh.: cut down the steps with a chisel and an ax; G. pushed mangas, she fell, injured her back, took on its monstrous appearance; a white swan, Tangry's messenger, flew, turned her legs into gold and silver hooks, carried it to heaven; a black swan flew, turned its legs into iron hooks, the mangas grabbed them; white: we curse the black crow and the evil mangas; they fell and crashed; Tengry tells G. to become the Dagina of the Sun, and S. to become the Dagina of the Moon]: Egupova 2012:27 -31.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (recorded in Yakutsk from Megino-Kangalassky Ulus, a native of the Taragay Nasleg, 1935) [When going to pick berries, old Habarata told her children not to open doors to anyone but herself when she sang a song; her neighbor Alaa Mongus overheard her song; when the old woman left, he sang like this Like her; one child opened the door; AM ate him; so in six days he ate all six of the old woman's children; on the seventh day she burned AM's tongue through the crack in the door with a hot iron; from then since Alaa Mongusov is gone]: Ergis 1964, No. 43:134 (summary in Ergis 1967b, No. 82:177); Sym Evenks [the hunter spat, saliva picked up by the river, the bear asked whose you are; saliva: hunter; and Who are his wives? Mischievous and Maludi; the bear came to the storage shed, asked them to drop the stairs; women: you have someone else's voice; bear: lost his voice in foreign lands; they threw down the stairs, the bear tied them up, beat them with cups; became rip off the birch bark to make the body; women: it's dirty here, go away; a fox came to the bear, says "Shaludi, Maludi"; bear: you let them go; fox: no, my paws and ear tips are soot; the bear came back to storage shed, women ran away a long time ago; fox bear: you let them go; fox: hack me, I'll sit on your knee; he cut both his legs, eats bone marrow; cedars started screaming; bear: when I eat myself, cedars barked]: Lukina 2004, No. 3. 14:73-74; Kirensky Evenks: Vasilevich 1966, No. 35 [the house was like a storage shed on stilts; when the husband left, the wife raised the ladder; Chingit picked up the dropped mittens, her husband's hat, came to the house, began to sing an ordinary song; the wife replies that the voice is a stranger; chingit shows the mittens first, then the hat, the wife lowers the ladder, the chingit takes the woman away; the husband asks the pine tree, she refers to larch, larch replies that his wife was taken away by Chingit; the husband breaks into Genghit before he kills his wife, kills him with an arrow, returns his wife]: 322-324; Pinegina et al. 1952 [wife Siktan tells him to throw his mittens into the hole when he returns to the plague, then he will open it; he forgets the mittens in the forest, they are picked up by Gadar and Gelon flying across the sky; they throw them to his wife S., she unlocks them, they take her away; S. shoots at them, arrows break pieces of stone from their bodies; the deer brings S. to a country where G. and D.; S.'s wife burns a red squirrel in which their strength is; S. kills them, returns his wife]: 67-69; Evenks in Kachug and Katanga districts of the Irkutsk region [a giant finds a hat, mittens, and sash thrown off during a moose chase; an old man comes to an old woman; she does not believe that the monster's voice is her husband's voice; tells me to throw a hat into the smoke hole , mittens, a sash; when he sees them, he lets a giant in; the old man kills him, saves the old woman]: Voskoboynikov 1980:35 (full text in Voskoboynikov 1967:360).

Japan. Japanese (including northern Ryukyu): Ikeda 1971, No. 333A [a cannibal comes to a woman, eats all her food supplies, then herself; disguised as a mother, she comes to her house, asks the children to open ; they tell them to stick their hand, feel that the hand is stiff, not maternal; next time they recognize a rude voice; the cannibal returns, wiping her hand with tarot leaf, softening her throat with oil (sugar, honey); her they let in, at night she eats the baby, one of the children hears that the imaginary mother is eating something, asks for it to be given to him, this is the baby's finger; the children say they need to go to the yard, they are tied by ropes, they bandage them, climb a tree; the cannibal climbs as her children tell her, falls, crashes, tries to drink the pond when they see their reflection; children ask the sky for help, climb a rope that has descended from the sky; a cannibal they let down rotten, it falls, breaks, her blood stains the roots of millet; or the children come down from the tree, rip open the cannibal's belly, take out the living mother]: 91-92; Markova 2000, No. 17 [father is dead, mother has gone on the grave, told the children not to unlock strangers; a witch knocks, the children ask her to show her hand, she is hairy; the witch shaved her hand, sprinkled with buckwheat flour, but her voice is hoarse; then she drank a bean broth, her voice became like a mother; two older brothers sleep separately, the youngest with the mother; they ask what she is chewing, she replies that the roots; they ask for them, see the child's pen; brothers climb a tree above a pond, the trunk is poured with oil; the witch tries to catch their reflection with a net; then looks up, climbs the trunk, slides; began to make notches with a sickle; the brothers ask God to lower the chain from the sky, climb along gold chain; God lowers a rotten rope to the witch, she climbs it, the rope breaks, her blood stained the roots of buckwheat; her older brother became a month old, the younger brother became a star]: 71-73.

(Wed. Northeast. {This is the only text in which different animals come under the guise of a parent, rather than the same character. The historical connection with Eurasian traditions is practically excluded}. Tuscarora [mother asks her daughter to look for insects; she finds a strange louse, shows her father; he replies that it is an owl louse; daughter and son tell father that the mother is leaving home for his absence; he goes to the forest, turns into a turkey, invites other turkeys to let them down the mountain in the basket; they are happy; offers to close their eyes, closes the basket, brings the turkeys home, the children turn their necks; he hangs a caress skin from the ceiling; if blood flows, he is killed; puts calebasses with water in the corners; does not tell them to open the door; Bear, Lynx, Wolf consistently come, everyone pretends that the father of the children has come, the children do not unlock; the giant breaks the door, the brother and sister go underground under the hearth; before that they see blood dripping from the face of the caress; the giant spends time rushing to Calebasses who make a sound follow the children underground; they go out, climb a tree, find themselves in the upper world where the Owls live; their mother is there; their father killed her lover, she told the Owls they killed father; the mother refuses the children, says that she did not give birth to anyone; they are placed in a basket, hung on a tree that bends over the river; they are found by a hunter, brought to him; the boy grows up, destroys the Owl race ]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 27:414-428).