Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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L108b1. The blacksmith makes the voice thin.

.11.13.16.17.27.28.-.32.

To make his voice subtle, the character turns to a blacksmith.

Maragoli, Shilluk, Sudanese Arabs, French, Palestinians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Voronezh, Tambov), Ukrainians (Galicia, Grodno, Podolia, Volyn, Chernihiv, Kherson), Belarusians, Slovaks, Poles, Adygs, Dargins, Baluchis, Latvians, Lithuanians, Mordovians, Chuvash, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs.

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.

Sudan-East Africa. 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; the ants advised Leo to go to the blacksmith, who forged his face Leo, his voice became thin; Leo picked up fish, the boy took them out 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 the lion cub, put them down cook it; Leo lost the magic remedy, the boy bought it again]: Hofmayr 1925:367-368; Sudanese Arabs [husband with pregnant wife, son Muhammad and daughter Fatma come to the cannibal, husband leaves her family there; while F. took M. to play, the cannibal killed her mother, began to cook, ordered to cook porridge; answered the children that their mother had given birth; F. lifted the lid of the cauldron, saw the remains of her mother; took brother and ran away; they got to the old woman; there was a cauldron, F. found it full of gold; asked her brother what to do with gold; he told him to buy him a scourge, a sword and a horse; they built a house; returning from the hunt, M . every time he asks F. to open the door; the ghoul heard it; pretends to be 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.

Western Europe. French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 1 (Gascony) [the goat tells the goats to unlock only when they hear her song; the fox overhears, sings, the goats unlock, the fox carries the cheese; seeing a wolf, 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 to the blacksmith; the wolf is coming, the blacksmith has thinned his tongue, the goats do not unlock; the wolf goes again; this time the older goats warned that it was not his mother, but the younger ones 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 returned soon]: 32-40; (check Cosquin 1887, No. 66 []: 247-248); Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 123 [a huge number of entries; among the options are to make his voice thin, the wolf {goes to the blacksmith and he} flattens his tongue with a hammer]: 375-385.

Western Asia. Palestinians [Hyena sees the Goat talking to its three goats, who then open the door; the Goat's tail is cut off, it warns the children to look at the tail if anyone asks to open it; 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 them to bring a herd of oxen, the oxen tell the pond to drink them, he drinks, the goats see the circumcised tail, unlocked, 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.

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; Bulgarians [The wolf imitates the voice of the Goat, calls the kids; they say that the voice and paw are rude, not mothers; 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, Vologda, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Ryazan, Tambov), Ukrainians (Volyn, Galicia, Grodno, Podolia, Chernigov, Kherson), Belarusians [boy (Ivas, Zhikharko, Lutonyushka) and a witch: a witch lures a boy to her, imitating his mother's voice; instructs her daughter to fry him or shows him how to do it herself sit on a shovel; a boy shoves a witch's daughter or witch into the oven; climbs a tree; swan geese bring him home: in a fairy tale like 327F, a fisherman boy catches fish while sitting in a boat; a witch forges his rude voice into a thin one and pretends to be a mother who brought food (grabs a boy, brings him home)]: SUS 1979, No. 327C, F: 120-121; Russians (Vologda) [the wolf overheard how the goat causes when he returns home; began to sing the same song, but the voice was rude, the goats did not unlock them; 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 her belly, sewed it up]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 9:49-50; Russians (Pskov) [when leaving, the goat tells the goats to unlock only her voice; 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 is heavy because swallowed, burned their belly, the goats came out alive]: Ploshchuk 2004, No. 10:71-72 (about the same, No. 10, 11:50-51, 53-54); Russians (Vologodskaya) [Mitoshka swims in a boat, fishing; mother calls from the shore, takes the fish, gives pies; the 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, she took it away; yagi baba three workers: Ulyashka, Matryoshka, Parashka; M. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel with each of them, 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 (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 egg 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 spin 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 returns 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. 54 (Tambov, Lipetsk University, 1848) [A pregnant goat asks an apple tree and hazel tree to allow it to give birth under them, they refuse - it can take goats fall an apple or a nut. 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]: 76- 77; 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 (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, St. Gadyach, Poltava Province) [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. The last goose that has fought off takes him 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, they chew, they 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; 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 he does not believe it, 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, goats 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 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.

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); 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's hand was wearing a bracelet; the wolf asks H. where the bracelet comes from, she calls craftsmen from Kubachi, the Wolf orders the same from him; the same goes for slippers (from a master obstetrician); the goats are unlocked, the Wolf swallowed them; the Goat put on wolf skin, went to dance with the wolves, pushed him into the fire his belly burst, the goats jumped out, left with his mother]: Ganiyeva 2011a, No. 47:155.

Iran - Central Asia. Baluchi [the goat has Hlail and Blail, the wolf is her friend; the wolf called the kids instead of the goat, ate them; the goat asked the jackal, fox, bear, leopard - no one ate the kids; the wolf confessed; suggested for the blacksmith to 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's stomach, the goats jumped out]: Porozhnyakov 1989:134-136.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [The witch tells you to forge a subtle language to imitate the voice of the boy's mother and lure him to her]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 327F: 277; Lithuanians: Grishina 1993 [boy Bebenciukas is swimming in a boat, fishing; 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; laume told the blacksmith to tie her tongue thinner; B. swam, the lauma took him away; the fool came, released the fish left in the boat, she told her where to look for B.; the older sister went: she refused to pick the apples from apple trees, milk a cow, bake bread in the oven, wash the board 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, laume fell asleep; the girl covered the black dog with a pot, grabbed B., ran; the laume and the dog were chasing, the board, the stove, etc. were being sent; laume grabbed B. with her sister, carried them back; the same with her middle sister ; the fool picked apples, milked the cow, etc., grabbed B. and the sisters, ran; objects prevent lauma from chasing, do not tell me where the fugitives went; they returned home]: 23-32; Kerbelite 2014, No. 58 [161 options; Lipnickelis's parents (from the word "linden tree") let him 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 do it for her thin voice; L. swam, grabbed the laume, brought it home, tells her daughter to fry; L. asks to show her how to sit in the oven, baked it himself, hung her braid on the hook; laume and the guests ate their daughter laume; L. from an oak tree shouts to her about it, she sees her daughter's braid; lauma gnaws on an oak tree; only a third flock of geese picked up L., brought it home], 84 [the elderly have a daughter Aguonele ("top"), black as poppy seeds; mother to father: take it to the well will bleach; the 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. called him to a wedding, dug a hole with coals, told him to move, the wolf fell, his mother killed him with a poker]: 131-134, 186-188; Lebite 1965:42-44 [The goat tells five kids to unlock only her, sings what it brought grass on its horns, milk in the udder; The wolf repeats, the goats feel a rude voice; The wolf goes to the blacksmith, he makes his tongue thinner, the goats unlock; one kid hid under the stove, survived; 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 fence, sprinkles hot coals down 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 Grazhina rowan girl, he makes a hut for her; every time she asks to unlock - he brought milk and bread; The wolf overheard, 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 reports old people about it; the same is a pig, they do not believe it; they find T., ask why he died, 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, Wolf had to return G.].

Volga - Perm. Mordva (erzya) [linden, oak do not let the goat laugh, 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 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]: Evseviev 1964, No. 1:16-18; 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, tell the 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, presses millstone; after that, the Bear calls the girl, she does not respond; The bear honed the blacksmith's tongue, calls in a thin voice, the girl repeats the words about the 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; his wife warns him not to enter, he comes in, falls on stakes; the wife stays with parents]: Eisin 1993:33-35; Kazan Tatars [returning home, the Goat sings a song, the goats unlocking; the Wolf sings in a rude voice, the goats do not unlock; asks the Bear Blacksmith to forge a thin tongue for him; goats they unlock them, 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); Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 7 [Fatima and daughter-in-law went to rinse their clothes, her daughter-in-law pushed her into the water; the father asks by the river if his daughter is on the ground; he hears a voice from under the water - not in heaven, at the bottom, her hair 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, called, 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 her out, took her to him; F. asks the Bear to take the gifts to the village, she will climb onto the roof herself; climbed into the gift bag, 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, her black hair remained; her brother pulled them over the violin, the violin sang - let her 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 the seven goats to unlock only 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 it, the Wolf came in, fell, drowned]: 63-65, 428- 433.