L108B. Thin voice, (ATU 327F).
.10.-.17.19.27.28.-.32.38.
To prevent the victim from recognizing him, a predator, an ogre makes his voice thinner with the help of mechanical means - he lubricates his throat (tongue) with fat, cauterizes it with a hot stone, iron, bites ants, turns to a blacksmith, etc.
Hottentota, Kamba, Isanza, Kinga, Maragoli, Kiga, Zulu, Xhosa, Angola, Hausa, Sapo, Dan, Bambara, Mamprusi, Sunufo, Dagari, mofu-gudur, bari, shilluk, Masai, Sarah (mbai), Nzakara, Mundang, Sudanese Arabs, Western Sahara, Kabilas, Egyptian Arabs, Spaniards, Catalans, Basques, Galicians, French (Gascony), Palestinians, Jordanian Arabs, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Mono, Moldovans, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Slovaks, Poles, Belarusians, Russians (Vologda, Pskov, Vadimir, Tver, Ryazan, Tambov, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Poltava), Adygs, Turks, Setu, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Udmurts, Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash, Volga Tatars, Bashkirs, Japanese, North Ryukyu.
SW Africa. Hottentots: Schmidt 2007, No. 13 [Leo tries unsuccessfully to grab two boys; his wife advises him to swallow a hot rock to make his voice thinner; hiding in the bushes, Leo calls in the voice of an old woman; brothers see a lion, they hardly run home], 23 [two orphan sisters found an abandoned village, began to live there; when they leave, the eldest tells the youngest to lock the door, unlock only to her voice, when she sings a song; the ogre overheard and sang, but his voice was rude; he went to the sorcerer, who told him to swallow a hot stone, his voice became thin, the girl unlocked the door, the cannibal took her away; the eldest the sister came to the cannibals, saw her sister's corpse cut, took her heart away; put it in milk, began to knock down butter there, the sister was born], (cf. 24 [woman married to an ogre; gave birth to a girl, hid her in a hole in the veld; when she came to feed, she sang a song, ordered 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 him to swallow it so that his voice became thin; the cannibal died; the woman took her daughter and went to her mother]: 37-38, 72-74, (74-75).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Maragoli [Anakamuna and Anakanani are friends; when hungry, Anakamuna offers to eat his mothers; Anakanani has eaten, 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 [the hunter is cut a tumor on his leg, in she has two boys and a girl; he stays with them in the forest, makes a house on a baobab; when he comes up, he sings, her 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 to his village, tells them to weed the field; the father finds them, tells his son to answer rude M., kills him; before By death, M. tells him to cut off his little finger, throw him into the fire; those killed by him come to life]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 128:310-315; isanzu [Hyena and Antelope (dwarf digdig) agree to kill their children, eat their 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]: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 17:18-19; kinga [woman has 4 children; she goes to work in the fields, the children are playing in the cave; the jackal overheard a woman calling them; said the same words, the children answered, he ate the elder; the mother asks not to sound a rude voice; 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 of the third; the fourth; the woman complained to the sorcerer; he told everyone to jump over the fire; the snake, the deer, etc., jumped; the jackal was the last to fall into the fire; said that it was his tail to blame tore off his tail, jumped again, fell again; tore off one leg - fell again; so he tore off all his legs one by one; burned down]: Wolff 1905, No. 1:129-132; Zulu [cannibals captured the girl, left, forbidding her fry meat so as not to attract the smell of other cannibals; they lived in a rock that opened at their word; the girl began to fry meat, other cannibals came, the girl did not open it when she heard the wrong voice; cannibal burned his voice with a hoe, girl, he ate meat, told the girl not to leave; she ran away, sprinkling corn behind her; the pursuers are wasting time picking it up; the girl climbed the tree, the cannibals sat under him; the girl peed herself, the cannibals noticed her, began to cut down 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 down to get their game; brother went upstairs himself, found himself in a beautiful country with his sister; (var.: gave tobacco to the cannibals, let the dogs go, they tore the cannibals, brother and sister returned home); brother and sister they lowered the cannibal's rope, let him go for the first time, he fell; picked him up the second time, starved him; went down and found his sister]: Snegirev 1937:107-112; braid: Okhotina 1962 [Nompunzazan has three children, a tree hut; when she leaves, she tells no one to unlock; the cannibal asks to open it, but the children hear a hoarse 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 cannibal, open only to his voice; the cannibal comes, sings a song, the sister replies that it is not his brother's voice; another ogre advised him to burn his throat with a hot iron; the sister believed it, opened the door; the cannibal carried her, she dropped the ash, on the ash trail her brother ran into the ogre's house; sent him to fetch water, took his sister out of the bag, filled it with bees; the cannibal tells his daughter, son, wife to open the bag; they answer that bites something; the cannibal opens himself, goes blind from bee stings; ran, fell into the pond, became a deck, the bees made a nest in it; but there is no honey from there, the hand gets stuck; brother and sister take possession of it cannibal property, got rich]: 111-114; kiga [The hare agrees with the Leopard that everyone kills his mother, hides his mother in a cave, goes to her to eat; the Leopard finds out about this; asks the blacksmith forge a voice for him like a Hare; imitating the voice of the Hare, asks the Hare's mother to open the door, enters and kills her; sitting by the fire, asks the Hare why he is crying; the hare replies that the smoke eats his eyes; the Hare kills the Leopard by throwing a hot stone into his mouth]: Wright 1959:191-192.
West Africa. Hausa [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 go one at a time for necklaces and garments; one refused to give it, he refused to give it did not let go; there was a small hole at the top of the hollow; 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 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 make it to 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 were being repaired; on the way, a place where food was prepared for 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 the water; in the city, people took bones, asked a woman gets cattle; she gives the animals ripe fruits, eats green fruits herself; the bull roars, saying that the woman is kind, let her daughter be repaired; with a living and healthy daughter, the woman returned home; from the same husband another wife, her daughter, is ugly; her mother crushed her in a mortar, carried her bones to the city; ate greedily all three times; grazing cattle, ate ripe fruits herself; the bull ordered her daughter to be repaired badly; she was made in the form of a half man (with one leg, one arm, etc.); mother tried to give it up, but she came for her, began to live with her]: Radin 1952, No. 67:250-253; mamprusi [The goat loves only the eldest two out of three daughters; hyena Kundungu overheard the Goat's song, asked the blacksmith to forge a thin voice for her; he warned her not to rush into carrion on the road; K. rushed to the dead antelope, the voice became rude, the youngest the goat understood the deception; next time K. avoids falling, the older goats open, K. takes them away; The goat finds only the youngest daughter who is hidden, no longer scolds her]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 30:51-53; senufo [the hunter took his wife to hunt; built a house for her with 14 doors; when she comes, his wife opens them and he gives her game; the hyena overheard, said what her husband says, but the woman found out someone else's voice; then the hyena went to the blacksmith, who changed her voice, the woman opened the doors, the hyena ate it; the hunter came in, slipped on blood, and died; at the funeral, his spirit told his wives not to be taken to the savannah so as not to leave her 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, said, to swallow the white a bone so that her voice would be like Z.'s mother; Z. opened her voice, the hyena ate it, 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; the hyena's bones were turned into whistles, the best one for an orphan, the chief gave him a wife for this]: Métuolé Somba 1991:165-168; bambara [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; the Hyena eats her, leaves her arms and legs; the mother tells the king what happened]: Görög 1979:18-19; dan [all women admire the hunter, but the wife cannot 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 a song, but the woman did not open it: the voice is rude; the same 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 swallowed seventh, the voice became like a woman's husband; she opened and saw a monster with one leg and one hair on his head; he told him to take out his nits and eat them, not only biting, but also swallowing; the spirit was gone, the woman vomited, but the husband who came still does not believe: just an upset stomach; a month later the woman became thin; after that, the husband hid to protect his spirit, but was frightened and did not shoot; like this all week; The hunter's younger brother came; he shot, his head of spirit flew off and became a bunch of nuts on the palm tree, from which oil is now being squeezed out; the couple returned to live with people in the village]: Tiémoko 2019:18-24; Sapo: Pinney 1973 [When Dwarf Antelope's husband leaves, a chimpanzee knocks on his wife, who 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, takes the meat away; the husband goes to the healer; he says that the killer will be the last in the herd; the husband hears how a chimpanzee sings that it ate a woman; kills him; when the chimpanzee falls asleep, he sticks half a cola nut (the shape of a chimpanzee's ass) to their buttocks so everyone knows chimpanzees are evil]: 267-268; Schwab 1947 [when the Dwarf Antelope (KA) husband leaves, the chimpanzee knocks on his wife, who recognizes a rude voice; the chimpanzee asks the healer to thin his voice; he tells him to swallow hot iron, the chimpanzee does not dare swallows cold, goes to CA's wife, she recognizes her rude voice again; the third time the Chimpanzee swallows hot iron, the CA's wife opens it, the chimpanzee kills her, throws her stomach into a vessel of water; she had two children; the bird tells the KA about what happened; the witch doctor says that the killer will be the last in the herd; the KA hears the Chimpanzee singing that he ate the woman; kills him; when the chimpanzee falls asleep, cuts them off from their ass piece (chimpanzee ass shape)]: 455-456; mofu-gudur [while the husband is away, a panther comes up, the wife gives her a beer thinking she is giving her husband; the panther says, hum-um, the wife replies that it would be better if he watched as a child than to moo; a panther takes the boy away; a clairvoyant shows his parents the cave where their child is; he sings a song (Giziga words), 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 you to eat sheep fat, the child believes that this 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 comes after them; one hunter awaits her when she came up, killed with an arrow]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 21:156-162.
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; nzakara [children are not allowed to play on the rock (a flat rock exit where clothes and food are usually dried); children play, girl Yangui is done, stuck to the stone; no one can tear it off; then her mother covers her with a pot, brings her food regularly; teaches her to respond to her voice; and if Boulou-Zali (a flying cannibal) comes, be silent; BZ overhears the mother's song from the tree; sings, Y. 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 the cliff 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 crossroads; BZ first runs along on the wrong road; Rat and Y. come running to the village; men kill BZ with spears; burn, soak ashes, drops give rise to everyone eaten by BZ]: Retel-Laurentin 1986, No. 42:253-259; mundang [ Matallé 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., her father heard a rude voice, did not open it; the fortune teller advised Hyena to go to the Guianriang monster, who gave her a subtle voice; her father believed that M. had come, opened it, Hyena ate it; M. saw Hyena 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 told her to be hit with a millet stalk, became beautiful, and M. in Hyena's shoes was ugly; both came to the chief, he took The frog, M. sent 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. bathes, throws 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; bari [a witch doctor advises a barren woman to settle by the river; she gives birth to a girl Yata Joputo; she bathes her, she turns into a fish; every day her mother calls her, feeds her with soup; Hyena hears, calls the same way, the fish finds out that this is not the mother's voice; the Turtle tells Hyena 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 people]: Katznelson 1968:252-257; shilluk [the spirit gives the boy a magic means to lure fish; the lion stole it, but the fish did not come when they heard Leo's rude voice; the ants advised Leo to go to the blacksmith, he 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 put the fish to cook; the boy took them out, killed a lion cub, put it to cook; Leo lost the magic remedy, the boy bought it again]: Hofmayr 1925:367-368; Masai [after opening a tumor on his knee, a single man removes two boys; returning in the evenings, singing 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 contrary ways to make the voice thinner; they eat the lizard and ant, the children learn the deception again; the next time they eat nothing, the children unlock the door, the enemies take them to their kraal; their father finds them by calling and hearing crying in response; the inhabitants of Kraal say that only a person who swallows the medicine can enter; a person opens his mouth, throws a hot stone at him, he dies; children remain in the kraal]: Hollis 1905:153-155; Sudanese Arabs [husband, 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 her mother, began to cook, told cook porridge; answered the children that their mother had given birth; F. lifted the lid of the cauldron, saw her mother's remains; took her brother and ran away; they got to the old woman; there the cauldron, F. found it full of gold; asked her brother what to do with the 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; a ghoul heard it; pretending to be M., F. answers 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 thing again; F. opens; the ghoul asks Should he 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 it to be unlocked, 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 ones]: Hurreiz 1977, No. 34:113.
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 doesn't 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; 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 cannibal 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, Fox 1937 [The sheep knocks on the door every time, says to its two lambs, "The jug between the legs, the hay on 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 had them ate; The sheep threw hay on the Jackal, lay down on it, told the shepherd who killed the Jackal]: 77-79; the Arabs of Egypt [the ogre changes his voice (with the help of a blacksmith, ants) to lure the victim]: El-Shamy 2004, NO. 327F: 164-165.
Southern Europe. The Spanish (Murcia) [the goat tells seven (three) goats to 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 He pours perfume on himself; the goats unlock them, he swallows them, hides alone; the goat finds a sleeping wolf, rips his belly open with scissors or horns, pulls out live goats, replaces them with stones; the wolf goes to drink drowns in the river]: Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 66:66; Galicians [The goat tells seven goats not to unlock someone else's door; the wolf says he is their mother, they say the mother is white (Wolf sprinkles flour on herself), 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.
Western Europe. The French (Gascony) [the goat tells the goats to unlock only when they hear its song; the fox overhears, sings, the goats unlock, the fox carries the cheese; seeing a wolf, it 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 thinned his tongue, the goats do not unlock it; the wolf is coming again; this time the older goats warned that it was not his mother, but the younger ones were unlocked; the wolf rushed to the cheese, and the goats hid; the wolf fell asleep, the goats boiled water, poured it on the wolf; he ran; the goats: a scalded wolf! wolf: only on one side! The goat came back soon]: Arnaudin 1967, No. 1:32-40.
Western Asia. Palestinians, Arabs in Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia [the ogre changes his voice (with the help of a blacksmith, ants) to lure the victim]: El-Shamy 2004, No. 327F: 164-165.
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; (cf. Aoba [Tagarombiti ("Little Tagaro") swims into the sea, feeds the fish, calls them affectionately with his song, 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 it food; M. replies that the food is bad; T. kills M., burns his house; takes out the fish, puts them back 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).
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; Hungarians [the goat forbids its 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 make carrots their voice was thin; finally, the goats unlocked, the wolf ate them, except for the smallest one; after learning about what had happened, the goat found the sleeping wolf, cut his belly, released the living kids, put them in his belly stones and sewed up; the wolf woke up, went to the river to drink, drowned]: Kovács 1987, No. 123:272; Bulgarians [The wolf imitates the voice of the Goat, calls the kids; 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. 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 has a rude voice; the wolf went to the blacksmith; the elder kid again does not He believes, 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 chute 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 overhears the song, repeats it in a rude voice; the boy does not recognize his mother's voice, sails back into the sea; the witch told the blacksmith to reforge her tongue; her voice became thinner, but the boy understood the deception; the blacksmith explained that her throat should be rearranged; 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 on the maple tree himself; the witch ate her daughter, starts rolling on the grass, the boy from the tree sings along with her, saying who she is ate; the witch began to nibble on the maple, breaks two teeth, the blacksmith makes her steel; the boy asks the geese to carry it; the first two flocks refuse, the last short tail takes it, gives it a stone, he throws it in the forehead witches, killing her; the tail brings the boy to his mother]: Dombrovsky 1992:158-166; Belarusians [the woman tells her grandfather to cut down a stump, make a cradle and swing in the forest; the stump has become a boy; asks to make him catch a shuttle on the river; when his mother brings him food, she sings a song (Ivanka, son, golden shuttle, silver merry); the snake found out, told her daughter Alenka to melt the stove, went to call I.; he it's not mama's voice that hears; the snake told the blacksmith to forge her tongue to make her thinner - it didn't help; threatens the blacksmith, who made his tongue very thin; I. swam, the snake dragged him into the bag, brought him home, told A . fry, went to invite guests; I. pretends not to know how to sit in the oven, A. began to show, he fried it himself; the guests ate A., ride on bones; I. on the roof, asked the geese to throw a feather, they they threw it off, he flew with them; he was tired, sat on the oak tree; the snake was already here, brought an ax from the blacksmith, began to cut; the oak tree was ready to fall, the bunny was 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; Ukrainians (Poltava) [in old age, a childless woman asks her husband to cut down a chock, put it in a cradle; the chock turns into a boy named Telesik (Russian. 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; Russians (Vologda) [Mitoshka swims in a boat, fishing; mother calls from the shore, picks up fish, gives pies; yaga baba overheard, calls in the same words, but in a thick 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 to know how to sit down with each of them on a shovel, fried all three, the 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 (Pskov) [leaving, the goat tells the goats should only unlock her voice; the wolf imitates a goat, but his voice is rude; he asked the blacksmith to reforge his tongue; the goats opened, the wolf ate them, but one escaped and told his mother; the goat offered the wolf jump over the fire; the wolf is heavy because of the swallowed, burned his belly, the goats came out alive]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 10:71-72 (about the same, No. 10, 11:50-51, 53-54); Russians (Pskov) [leaving, goat tells the goats to unlock only her voice; the wolf imitates a goat, but his voice is rude; he asked the blacksmith to reforge his tongue; the goats opened, 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, burned his belly, the goats came out alive]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 10:71-72; Russians (Vladimirskaya) [the wolf overheard the goat singing a song, to unlock the goats; sings 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, forged 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; Russians (Ryazan) [the lady's son Ivanushka (I.); got on a 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 the mother; did not swim; baba yaga asks the blacksmith 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, there is a girl sitting in the meadow, spinning and plays with a little boy, the child has a golden saucer, a golden egg on a golden platter; the maid asks for help finding I., otherwise the lady will drive out of the light; the girl offers to spin Lenok while looking 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 a golden egg; the maid asks for help to find I.; the girl offers to stick 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 turn around; got up, prayed to God; Baba Yaga turned to the other side, asked what she needed; the maid prepared resin in her skull, put it in the stove, cooked cotton, and sat down for her gunpowder ; searches and says: 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 (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]: Afanasiev 1958 (1), No. 54:76-77; 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 kids open it 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.
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, covered 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]: Maximov 1937:54-63; Turks (Istanbul, Ankara, Kars) [y goats are three kids; the wolf asks to open it, they don't unlock it; then he eats the egg, his voice becomes thin; smears his paw with flour or mud, it turns white; the goats unlock, he eats all three or one hides; the goat either adjusts so that the wolf falls into a coal pit, burns, or rips open its belly, swallowed to jump out alive; in one version, instead of a wolf, a bear]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 8:32.
Baltoscandia. Seto: Mägiste 1990 [The wolf lived in an icy hut, it melted; the goat and two 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, sharpened his tongue; the goats opened, 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 he had stomach ache; Goat hit Wolf on the head with a hammer, cut his stomach, goats jumped out alive; wolves stayed to heal the wounded]: 43-48; Normann, Tampere 1989:58-62 [while parents are gone, brother and sister decided to cook coal porridge; my sister tried it, turned black, my brother put it in the sea to soak it; in the morning she asks from the shore if my sister has turned white, she replies that she has not yet; Damn (vanapagan) heard, called himself, the girl replies that this is not her brother's voice; for the fourth time he sharpened her 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 Devil sings under the window of the house, the sister hears something, the devil replies that it was a creaking wheel (he was making a wagon); next time the brother sings, calling his sister to bury him, he has teeth on his side; sister goes out, Damn believes that her brother is dead; decides to brew beer on this occasion; there are no dishes, offers to cook it in his mouth; sister tied him up, poured boiling water into his mouth, brother jumped out of the grave, threw Devil in his mouth hot stones, he died; brother brought his sister home]; Estonians (records are in different districts, although Seto has the most; there are 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 apart belly, goats came out alive]: Kippar 1986, No. 123:102-103; Latvians [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]: Arys, Medne 1977, No. 327F: 277; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [boy Bebenciukas sails in a boat, catches fish; he has two smart sisters, one fool; she brings him food: I'll give him boiled fish, and you give me a raw one; lauma overheard; B.: my sister has a thin voice, and this one is rude; lauma told the blacksmith to shackle her his tongue was thinner; B. swam, lauma took it 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 apples from the apple tree, milk the cow, bake it bread in the oven, wash the board across the river; laume sits in a bluegrass hut covered with fern, lip to the floor, asking her to comb it; the girl began to comb it, the laume fell asleep; the girl covered it with a pot the black dog, B. grabbed, ran; the laume and the dog are chasing, the board, the stove, etc. are being sent; laume grabbed B. with her sister, carried it back; the same with her middle sister; the fool picked apples, milked 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; parents Lipnickelis (from the word "linden tree") is allowed to fish in a boat to the lake; bringing porridge, his mother sings a song, L. swims up; laume sings in a low voice; then asks the blacksmith to make her a thin voice; L. swam, laume grabbed it, brought it home, tells her daughter to fry; L. asks her to show her how to sit in the oven, baked it himself, hung her braid on the hook; lauma and the guests ate their daughter laume; L. shouts to her about it from the oak tree, she sees daughter's braid; laume gnaws on an oak tree; only a third flock of geese picked up L., brought him home], 61 [to prevent witches from stealing Lukošukas's son, the man let him go to sea in a boat; mother calls a song, L. swims up, mother He feeds him; the witch heard him, began to imitate him; each time L. realizes that she is not his mother, replies that his mother had only one arm, one leg, one eye; the witch tells the blacksmith to cut off her hand, etc.; then tells me to make the tongue thinner; L. says that the mother did not have a head; the blacksmith cuts off the witch's head], 84 [the old people have a daughter Aguonele ("top"), black as poppy seeds; mother to father: take it to the well - will bleach; mother carries A. food, asks him to stick her hand out - still black; tells him not to stick out if someone else's voice; the wolf tells the blacksmith to shove his tongue, A. thought that his mother was calling, the wolf took her away; the wolf and A. were called to wedding, they dug a hole with coals, told him to move, the wolf fell, his mother killed him with a 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 slides"); the old woman sends him to herd the cows; when you find a berry, throw it over his shoulder, he threw it, the girl Wagyale ("berry") appeared; R. built a hut for her, told strangers not to unlock; the wolf calls rude in a voice, W. does not unlock it; asks the blacksmith to tie his thin tongue; speaks in a thin voice, W. unlocked her, the wolf swallowed it; R. hanged himself; the cow came running, says the old woman is chasing her; sheep: the same; pig; the old men went and found R.; at the funeral, the wolf saw the coffin and was so afraid that he regurgitated W. alive, she became a cuckoo, cuckoo at the coffin, R. came to life, they kissed; and I was there, I drank honey beer, not in my mouth lingered, flowed down the beard]: 131-134, 138-141, 188-191; Lebite 1965:42-44 [The goat tells five goats to unlock only her, sings that it brought grass on their horns, milk in the udder; The wolf repeats, goats they feel a rude voice; the wolf goes to the blacksmith, he makes his tongue thinner, the goats unlock; one kid hid under the stove, remains alive; the Goat collects bones, cooks, tells Wolf that he is cooking fish, he asks for a treat, she tells him to stick his tongue into the crack of the fence, sprinkles hot coals down his throat, the Wolf is dead, the Goat ripped his belly, the goats jumped out alive], 73-76 [the old woman tells the old man to cut down the alder branch , puts a berry in the cradle, a young man Trivinelis appears; he herds cattle; throws a berry behind his back, she turns into a girl Grazhina mountain ash, he makes a hut for her; every time he asks to unlock, 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. they ask why he measured, he says; the old woman bakes pancakes, the Wolf asks for a try, the old woman tells him to stick out his tongue, grabs it with ticks, the Wolf had to return G.].
Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars [The goat sings a song when returning home, the goats unlock; the Wolf sings in a rude voice, the goats do not unlock; asks the Blacksmith Bear to forge a thin tongue for him; the goats unlock, the Wolf swallows them; The Goat ripped the Wolf's belly with horns, the goats 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); Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 1 (erzya) [linden, oak do not let the goat laugh, let the house go; the goat went to eat, drink, bring milk; at that time a bear came, began to speak it in words, the goats opened, he ate one; the goat tells you 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 bear jumping over 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 twice forges the blacksmith's tongue; I take him for his mother, replies 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, led to mothers]: 19-21; Marie [Alym-Patyr lives in a house behind the iron palisade; his sister Aktalche is with him; the house is guarded by Shekshincha and Okshinca's dogs; AP hides under a bone bridge, eating Vuver-Kuva on it, singing 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]: Aktsorin 1984:126-132; Chuvash [the old man's three daughters ask the Sun twice whose face is cleaner and whiter, the Sun replies that the youngest; the sisters push the youngest into the river, they 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 the blacksmith's tongue, calls her in a thin voice, the girl repeats 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 her parents, leaves until Wednesday; parents put stakes under the floor; wife warns him not to enter, he comes in, falls on stakes; wife stays with parents]: Eizin 1993:33-35; Bashkirs [Fatima and daughter-in-law went to rinse underwear, her daughter-in-law pushed her into the water; the father asks by the river if the daughter is on the ground; hears a voice from under the water - 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 his father was calling, said about the hook; The bear pulled it out, took it home; F. asks the Bear to take the gifts to the village, she will climb onto the roof herself; she climbed into the gift bag, putting a mortar wrapped in her dress on the roof; in the village, the Bear threw it I wear it, ran away from the dogs; F. went out, but they did not open it to her, she went to the sheep's barn, she was eaten by wolves, her black hair was left; her brother pulled it over the violin, the violin sang - let her brother not press her, otherwise her head hurts, The brother supposedly did not open the door; the brother broke the violin, F. jumped out healthy]: Barag 1989, No. 7:63-65.
Japan. The Japanese (including the northern Ryukyu) [a cannibal comes to a woman, eats all her food, then herself; disguised as a mother, she comes to her house, asks the children to open it; they tell her to slip in hand, they feel that the hand is stiff, not maternal; next time they recognize a rough voice; the cannibal returns, wiping her hand with a tarot leaf, softening her throat with oil (sugar, honey); she is let in, at night she eats a 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 tie them up, climb on tree; the cannibal climbs as the children tell her, falls, breaks, tries to drink the pond, seeing their reflection; the children ask the sky for help, climb the rope that has descended from the sky; the cannibal is lowered rotten, she It falls, breaks, her blood stains the roots of the millet; or the children descend from the tree, rip open the cannibal's belly, take out her living mother]: Ikeda 1971, No. 333A: 91-92.