L110. Absorber, (ATU 2028), Th F911.6. .10.-.13.15.-.20.22.-.24.27.-.32.34.-.37.40.42.-.44.46.50.59.61.72.74.

The character swallows lots of people and/or animals. In the end, his stomach is ripped open, swallowed unscathed, or removed and revived.

Bushmen, Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Suto, Chwana, aka, Shambhala, Pende, Kiniramba, Maragoli, Rwanda, Rundi, Kikuyu, Isanzu, Sukuma, Chagga, Safwa, Swahili, Kiluguru, Luba, Lamba, Ronga, tonga, bena-lulua, songe, luba, ovambo, herero, douala, beta, neyo, baule, mamprusi, von, eve, jukun, ikom, ashanti, bambara, guro, dan, bedik, hausa, igbo, songhai, nalu, sarah, zagawa, nzakara, moru, acholi, lango, kalenjin (nandi), anuak, Masai, Iraku, Malgashi, Aragon, Italians (Marche), Sardinians, British, Irish, Germans (north?) , Palestinians, Qatar, Aranda, Kamoro, Gudinaf, Tanna, Yap, Taku, Karen, Andamans, (Himachali Pahari), Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Chhattisgarhit (Bilaspur), Bengalis (?) , Santals, Hungarians, Greeks, Serbs, Macedonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians (Terek Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ryazan), Karachays, Abkhazians, Avars, Georgians, (Hittites?) , Uzbeks, Tajiks, Baluchis, Turkmens, Eastern Sami, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders, Mordovians, Chuvash, Mari, Komi, Bashkirs, Khakas, Tuvans, Baikal Buryats, Khalkha Mongols, Ordos Mongols, Oirats, Northern Selkups, Sym Evenks, Evens, Northeastern Yakuts, Udege, Bering Strait Inupiat, Lillouet, Kurdalen, Flathead, Kalispel, klikitat, yakima, tenino, ne perse, western sachaptin, winnebago, sarsi, grovantre, santi, yankton, omaha and ponca, osage, iowa, papago, napo or canelo, pemon, vilela, tehuelche.

SW Africa. Bushmen [in 1990 Botswana recorded varints from Kxoe, Kua and ‼ Gana Bushmen; a monster devastates the country by swallowing people, animals, bushes, dwellings; one or two people remain who he is killed; it is a young man, boy or two twin boys, a woman who lets herself be swallowed, kills a monster from within; or a boy or man jumps into the monster's mouth with blacksmiths accessories, makes a fire, a monster dies]: Schmidt 2007:284-285; Bushmen Kam [Fire is a Giant, Man Who Eats Everything, Man Who Is a Bush, Porcupine's Father is a Foster Tsagn's daughters; C. tells him to invite him; Porcupine dissuades her, because her father will swallow everything; tells him not to give him anything from his hands, he will burn them; the Eater swallowed everything and everyone, including C. and her husband Quammang's daughters; young Tsagn and young Quammanga decided to cut it with spears; withstood the test of the red-hot spear to which Porcupine had subjected them; and the All-Eater's ripped belly swallowed; the children said that the shrubs and sheep should be where they were, and the one who swallowed them should disappear; the wives of Tsagn and Quammang told them not to drink all the water, they drank, fell dead, their wives revived them ]: Bleek, Lloyd 1923:34-40 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 296:167-168; (cf. nama [Gamaghorib, Hau-Gai-Ghaib and Lev lived at a crossroads; Haytsi-Abib people disappear; GG collides those passing into the hole; GG sends the Hare for HE, offers to run around the pit; pushes him into the hole, but HE tells the hole to throw him out; so twice; the third time HE pushes GG into the pit, tells the pit to return the dead people; curses the Hare, let him eat only at night]: Hahn 1881:65- 66 in Kotlyar 2009, No. 6:38-39).

Bantu-speaking Africa. The scythe [when leaving, the woman leaves the hare to watch her children; wild animals want to eat them, but the hare drives away the animals; then the chief of the animals comes and eats the children; the woman takes two sharp iron blades, lets herself be swallowed, her children are alive in the belly of the beast; she makes a fire with friction, cuts off and roasts pieces of the beast's body; cuts through the way out; all swallowed come out alive; the woman becomes the chief those she saved]: Klipple 1992:360; Zulu [=Wright 1960:107; the chief's daughter decides to go to the Ilulanga River (now unknown); father and mother say they don't return from there; girl takes with him a hundred virgins on one side of the road and a hundred on the other; girls bathe, the monster takes their jewelry; gives it to those who ask for it back; Untombinde refuses to ask, the monster swallows it; the chief sends an army, the monster swallows the army, the chief, all the inhabitants of the village, including two handsome twins; their father kills the monster, frees everyone]: Callaway 1868:59-60; Swazi [woman, taking her little son and daughter, she ran away from her abusive husband; found and took with her a nest with three eggs; eggs guide her and taught her what to do; she hid on the roof of the cannibal house, and then ran away; saw a huge cannibal sleeping; took an ax (which turned out to be unexpectedly light for her), climbed a tree, threw an ax on the cannibal's head, and then cut off her head; swallowed out of the cannibal men and cattle, made a woman queen; three eggs cut into three princes, one of them married her; said an ex-husband was killed in a fight]: Bourhill, Drake 1908, No. 7:66-77; chwana [Kammamapa Swallow everyone, the only woman left; she gave birth to a son Litaolane ("soothsayer") with amulets around his neck; he asks where the rest of the people are; takes a knife and lets himself be swallowed; cuts through the way out, everything swallowed come out alive]: Klipple 1992:361; aka [Nzôya is a great hunter, other men are jealous, try to kill him unsuccessfully, he leaves; in one place a big crocodile does not let him approach to the river, a girl should be given every year for the right to use water; N. killed a crocodile, ripped open his belly, swallowed children came out of it all day, but one died when N. hit the crocodile with a knife; leader handed over his post to N., married a rescued girl and another]: Motte-Florac 2004, No. 33:146-155; Rwanda [Kwisaba went to war; after falling ill and left without firewood, his wife exclaims, if only The thunder has come to chop them; a thunderstorm begins, Thunder cuts wood, tells the woman to promise to marry his daughter; when she returns, K. tells her not to let Miseke's daughter go outside when she becomes a girl; other children say that beads are falling from the girl's mouth; one day, other girls go for pottery clay, take M. with them; Thunder demands that everyone laugh, discovers M. by falling beads, takes away; M. gives birth to two boys and a girl, her husband allows her to visit her parents, brings cattle and beer with him; M.'s motorcade goes astray, gets to the cannibal; he eats all the goods, servants, M.'s children; the girl manages to send the eldest boy to her parents; warriors come, kill the ogre; he tells him to cut off his big toe, all swallowed ones come out; a month later M. decides to return to to her husband, Thunder takes her back]: Werner 1933:57-61 (retelling Kotlyar 2009, No. 100:100; in Scheub 2000:149-150); 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 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; pende [the giant scorpion ate everyone, left the Pondo woman and her daughter Galula; the god Mawase told G., when the scorpion came, to hit with a knife in the toe; she first hit him in the chest, in the neck - it did not help; when the scorpion died in the finger; G. cut his belly, the swallowed ones came out]: Frobenius 1983:161-162; shambhala [boys they are surprised at the big pumpkin, she replies that she "will pick them if they pick it"; they do not believe them; sisters come to check, the pumpkin is silent; grows up, swallows everyone, hides in the lake; one woman stays in alive, her son grows up, summons a pumpkin, she rolls after him, he splits it with arrows, swallowed ones come out]: Seidel 1896:174 in Basset 1903:297-300 (retelling in Werner 1909:450, =1933:216-217); kiniramba [Kiali's husband kills her sister; K. goes to her mother; on the way, the cannibal porcupine throws her into a hole, takes her form, comes to her house; the real K. comes to life, the cannibal is exposed, thrown into the fire , buried under the hearth; in the morning a pumpkin grows there; repeats everything the people of the village say; they come to chop it with an ax, she swallows them, remains a woman hiding in the cave with her son Mlilua; he, starting with grasshopper, hunts larger animals; kills Kiali pumpkin with arrows in the lake; dying, K. orders to cut it from the back so as not to injure the swallowed ones; swallowed come out; cutting K., M. injured One woman has an ear, she gives him poisoned beer, he dies]: Johnson 1931:334 in Werner 1933:217-218; maragoli [brother hunts, sister goes home; when brother comes back he sings a song the sister unlocks the door; the cannibal heard, sang, the sister heard a wonderful voice; he went to the blacksmith to make his voice thinner; the sister opened it, the cannibal swallowed it; the brother sharpened his sword, found the ogre, ripped open his stomach, the sister and other swallowed people went out; an old woman returned for a pipe forgotten in the ogre's stomach; the people asked the young man to leave the old woman to him so that her stomach would not be completely empty; sister and brother happily lived]: Kavaji 2005, No. 7:215-217; maragoli [a man found a little kitten, began to feed; his name is Nunda, he is growing up; asks what to eat; owner: all the cows in the world; ate; answer and goats - then But; ate the owner (and other people), went to the forest; one woman hid, gave birth to a boy; he asks where the people are; she talks about N., he has 12 heads; they go to the forest; the young man cuts off all 12 heads, rips open her stomach, swallowed came out alive]: Kavaji 2005, No. 13:230-232; iramba [the pumpkin spoke, began to grow, when someone raised an ax to cut it, she swallowed it; the last woman hid in a cave with the child; the boy Mlila grew up, brings his mother bigger and bigger game, asking if it's an absorber; finds a giant, kills with arrows, who dies and tells him to cut him from behind, so as not to cut the swallowed; swallowed people and animals come out of the stomach; ripping open the giant's womb, M. cut the ear of one woman, who killed M. with witchcraft]: Millroth 1965:194; isanzu: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 16 [The 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 changes her voice; finally, the sister believes she is swallowed; the brother makes a drum, all the animals are going to dance, Hyena is among them; her brother kills her by throwing a stick and a drum at her; she tells her to cut it from behind; The sister comes out first, all swallowed for her; one old woman's ear was cut; she put poison in the young man's beer, he died], 32 [the monster Msisirimbugwe ate all humans and animals; pregnant a woman hid in a cave, gave birth to a son; he kills a giraffe, then an elephant, but the mother each time replies that it is not M.; M. takes the elephant, the young man chases, catches up with M. swimming in the river; M. invites him into a cave where there are many weapons; the old man feeds him there; for 4 days he grazes M.'s cattle; secretly carries arrows into his mother's cave; fires at M., on the 15th day M. chases him, the young man's mother throws him at M. a red-hot iron rod; he swallows it and everything inside it lights up; swallowed people and animals come out; ripping open M.'s stomach, the young man touched the ear of a swallowed old woman; she poisoned him with beer], 34 [Mulilwa boy released the bird from his father's trap; the bird promised to help him; his father sent him to the tree for fruit, cut off the lower branches, left him; M. sat in the tree for five days; the bird flew to help, ordered to throw down her fingernail, snot, hair, some excrement, picked M. up on her wings, lowered it to the ground; ordered it to be cut from the back, eat it, fold the bones; M. covered the bones with a stone, from there it came out a herd of bulls; the zebra refused, the bird brought his little sister the news of his salvation; the girl told her mother, she also heard; M. came with the bulls; stabbed one, asked her father to open his mouth to put there is fat, threw a hot stone down his throat, his father died; a pumpkin grew on his grave; his wife (mother M.) cut it, a monster jumped out of it, ate everyone], 39 [father warns three sons not to go with girls who will laugh; sons converge with girls, one notices that at night they turn into lions; brothers make a stupa out of wood, fly away in it; who sees danger, tells the brothers not look around, they looked around, the lions ate them; the rest reached home; his lioness girl came, he pushed her into a hole with hot coals; a pumpkin grew, brought fruit, he swallowed them all]: 17-18, 40-42, 44-47, 53-54; sukuma [1) grew a pumpkin, repeated the words spoken to it, became gigantic, the monstrous Shingwengwe came out of it, ate everyone, a woman with a small child escaped; he grew up to bear bigger game, the mother replies every time that it's not Sh.; the real Sh. comes out, he and the boy build every seven walls around them; Sh. and the boy take turns firing seven arrows; the monster's arrows burn seven hedges, the young man's arrows do not reach; when Sh. fired all his arrows, the young man came closer and killed him with an arrow in the forehead; when he dies, he tells him to skin him, starting from behind, not from his stomach; when the young man cut his stomach, all the swallowed people and animals came out; 2) the three-headed and multi-armed giant Simungala swallowed a piece of land with the people living on it, the boy and grandmother escaped; the boy grew up, S. won when he was dying, cut off his little finger on his left hand, everyone swallowed came out of there; 3) like (2), the man hit the stone, the fragment that flew off hit S., who ordered his little finger to be cut off; S. had many hands, man cut off all; trees came out of the first, animals from the second, people swallowed from the last; S.'s body was buried]: Millroth 1965:192-193; kikuyu: Mwangi 1983 [man went help the blacksmiths, leaving his pregnant wife; the cannibal began to come to her, ate everything; helped give birth, but continued to eat everything; the woman is barely alive; put castor seeds in the sun, the bird began to bite; woman: once you bite, fulfill my request, fly to the blacksmith, sing about me and the ogre there; blacksmiths to the woman's husband: this is a song about you, come back; the blacksmith came back, hid, killed the ogre when he fell asleep, he went with his wife and child to live in a new place; a pumpkin grew at the scene where the ogre was killed; one person found it, called the people, they began to cook beer in a pumpkin by the large fire; every time the child came in see if the pumpkin swallowed it; so with all the children; one young man saw that there were no children and the pumpkin was moving slowly; it was split, cut into pieces, the children came out alive]: 86-89; Radin 1952, No. 80 [ Rautledge 1910; giant Mukunga M'bura ("rain snake", rainbow) swallows a shepherdess, his father, boys, women, bulls, goats, a house, barns; one little boy hides; grew up, came to kill MM, that asked him to cut his middle finger, from there swallowed came out alive, swallowed supplies fell out; then, with the boys, the boy killed MM, but one of his legs threw himself into the water; MM children took his remains and water, left; cattle remained in place of the river, people took them]: 296-297 (translated to Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 111:255-257); chagga [people were arrogant, oppressed the poor; Ruwa warned them in vain; girl sees a man's head in the lake, says he will marry the strongest; the one in the lake replies that it is him, comes out, turns out to be a giant Rimu, swallows the girl and all the people who escaped in the forest, Ruwa destroyed the mountains; only a woman with cattle, a young daughter and a newborn son escaped in the shelter; Ruwa's messenger told them to go out and rule the world; the woman's son Mkechuwa became a hunter, kills R. with poisoned arrows, swallowed people come back, M. married his sister; since then Ruwa has not sent Rimu to destroy people]: Dundas, S. 117 in Sicard 1952:65-66 and Millroth 1965:194-195; kaguru [a monster swallows all villages, a pregnant woman escapes to a cave, gives birth to a boy; he sees a monster, realizes that onions cannot kill him; asks his mother to make cakes, gives the monster that satisfied, every day asks for more; the young man throws hot stones into his mouth instead of cakes, the monster dies; the mother tells her son to rip open the monster's belly, the swallowed ones come out; the mother's brother accuses the young man that when he cut the monster's belly, he cut his (uncle)'s eye, made him pay for it {it's not said how}; the young man had a chain that he could swallow; his uncle asked for it, swallowed , could not regurgitate; the young man demanded the chain back, his uncle's stomach was ripped open]: Beidelman 1967d, No. 2:8-11; Swahili [Nundu is a monstrous absorber of people and cattle the size of a mountain defeated by a grown-up far off the beaten track, by the son of a god and earthly woman, or by a child found on a mountain; the hero either kills the monster with a spear, sword, or ax, or is swallowed by a monster and tells others to dance in the absorber's belly; That's bad, the hero cuts the way out, everyone goes out]: Knappertt 1997:231-232; kiluguru [Numbe's dog ate everyone, the king and his wife are left; the wife gave birth to a boy Chaukalange; he ordered him to forge weapons, bake bread; N. sends various animals, C., sitting on a tree, kills them, the king each time explains that it is not N., but a rhino, etc.; C. kills N. with his last spear; he will gut her with his father, swallowed go out; C.'s brother's finger has been torn off, he reproaches for it, his father drives him away]: Gromova, Urmanchieva 2005, No. 9:305-307; bast [the cannibal eats each of the children his wife gives birth to- a cannibal; she hides one in a cave; the ogre changes his voice to be like his wife's voice, calls the child, he opens the door, the ogre eats him; his wife takes needles and razors, lets herself be swallowed cannibal; inside he finds his swallowed children, gives them razors, they rip open the cannibal's belly, go out]: Klipple 1992:69; lamp: Doke 1927, No. 78 [the chief orders to kill all fathers; one young man hides his own in a cave; the cannibal has swallowed many people, disappeared into the abyss; no one knows how to lure him out; the escaped old man tells the dog to put hay, porridge to the goat; the cannibal goes out to explain what to do on the contrary; he is killed; the Black Ant does not know what to do, the Lizard draws a line on the cannibal's stomach with coal, makes a razor, the swallowed ones go out; the leader transfers power to the old man]: 151-153; Klipple 1992 [Doke 1978:64; when a woman is gone, the cannibal grabs her child, puts her in the drum, takes her away; when he comes to villages, takes the child out of the drum, makes her dance; the child's mother sends his father trace; the ogre is killed; two ants conjure over the corpse, it bursts, swallowed people come out]: 67; safwa [the monster ate everyone, Uxyira and his mother remain in the forest hut; W. kills the monster with arrows, cuts, releases people, makes a chief]: Kootz-Kretschmer 2, S. 131 in Sicard 1952:66; ronga: Junod s.a., No. 12 [the cannibal swallowed the bulls, the shepherd's staff, the shepherdess himself, his hut; he sings in his stomach; the ogre agrees to have his stomach cut, bulls and all the people swallowed along the way come out; the father is made chief], 13 [the girls are lost, the old woman has come to the house; she is theirs hid it; her son Ngumba came, swallowed everyone, let go of one with his eyes out; people went to kill him, he defeated them, swallowed them; there was only one woman left, successively gave birth to three sons from the knee; they killed N. with arrows; their mother ripped his stomach apart, swallowed out; each of the brothers received five wives; they began to argue who would be the chief; one was driven into the forest, he went crazy]: 115-116, 116-118; Klipple 1992 [1) the sorcerer swallowed the shepherdess, then all the bulls, the calebasses; the men hear the shepherdess singing in the sorcerer's belly, cutting the belly, the shepherdess and the cattle come out, made the chief; 2) three girls are lost, they come to an old woman, her son is an ogre; he swallows two girls, blinded one in one eye; people are going to war against him, but he swallowed them all; there is only one woman left, gave birth to three children; they grew up, killed monster; their mother cut his belly, swallowed out]: 364; Knappert 1977, No. 6 [the one-legged, one-armed giant Ngumba (onomatopoeic name) swallowed the shepherdess and the girls; they dance in his stomach; he fell asleep; people tied him by the leg, by the hand, ripped open his stomach, swallowed out; the shepherdess married all those girls, became patriarch]; Tonga [mother goes for fruit, the beast comes to her children, imitates her voice, the children unlock them, he swallows them; the mother sings, all the animals raise their paws, only the swallower does not do it, she pierces him with a spear; the bird says that the little finger should be cut off; after this animal bursts, inside are the (probably alive) children of the woman and her neighbors]: Klipple 1992:67; Zulu: Snegirev 1937:76-79 [pigeons took the girl Situngusobenhle, their leader Zubatente took as her wife, she gave birth to three sons; when they went hunting with their father and other men, they pretended to be sick, returned and ran away with their mother; the sea parted before them; to the soldiers J. S. threw the rope, told him to grab it, promised to transport it, cut off the rope, they drowned; at home S. saw that the monster had swallowed everyone to Kukumadev, it was like a mountain; S. cut his stomach, a rooster came out, then man, then bull, goat, sheep, then others], 197-199 [various animals ask three children who their mother is; when they learn that it is Nanana Bosele (Nanana of the Frogs), they pass by; The elephant swallows children ; NB comes, he swallows it too; inside the forest and river, there are many people and animals; NB cuts off pieces of the Elephant's liver, feeds the children; other people also cut and eat; The elephant is dead, the NB cut his rib with an ax; they went out dogs, goats, humans; people who come out give NB cattle, it gets richer]; Arnott 2000 [Unanana leaves two children and a little nephew at home each time; different animals each time they say how beautiful children are; the elephant is the last, swallows the children, the nephew stays; W. talks about everything; she takes a knife, finds an elephant, he swallows it; there are many people and animals inside; W. makes a fire, cuts off pieces of the Elephant's body, roasts, feeds everyone; the elephant died, W. made a hole, everyone went out, ate fried elephant meat]: 69-74; Knappert 1977, No. 2 [various animals ask three children who their mother is; when they learn that it is the Mother of Frogs, they pass by; The elephant swallows children; the mother (Una Nana) comes, he swallows her; there are many people and animals inside; UN cuts off pieces of the Elephant's liver, feeds children; then cuts the way out; The elephant dies; those who come out give UN, she gets rich]: 115-117; Callaway 1868:56 in Wright 1960 [girls bathe, the monster takes their clothes; gives them to those who ask return; Untombinde refuses to ask, the monster swallows it; the chief sends an army, the monster swallows the army, the leader, all the inhabitants of the village, including two handsome twins; their father kills the monster, frees everyone]: 107; braid: McCall Theal 1882:74-83 [=Held 1904:1-11; the old man sees seven extraordinary birds, tells the chief; he says they will replace his seven sons who died in the war; tells his dumb son Sikulume and six other young men to catch them; they catch them, come to an empty house where the fire is burning; S. hears the cannibal thinking out loud who he will eat; S. is speechless, tells his comrades; the next night he wakes them up, they run away; the cannibal brings other cannibals, who see that the prey has run away, eat the cannibal himself; S. forgot his bird, decides to return; if The assegai will tremble, he is killed, if he falls, he dies; S. grabs the bird, runs; the old woman gives him fat; he throws it on a stone, cannibal pursuers begin to fight for this stone, one swallows it, the others killed and eaten; the same again; S. threw his cape, she ran the other way, the cannibals followed her, S. returned to his comrades; the old man turned the stone into a hut, the young men disappeared into it, and for cannibals it stone; they gnawed at it, broke their teeth, came back; only an old woman at home; everyone was swallowed by a person living in the inabulele river; S.: if the water shook, then I let myself be swallowed, if I stained with blood, then killed I.; S. kills the monster from the inside, he comes out swallowed; S. tells his sister to make a cloak out of his skin; goes to marry his daughter Mangangezulu; no one returned from there; the mouse tells her to kill her, throw in the skin, the skin tells M. to enter the house from the wrong side, not to sit on a new mat, not to spend the night in an empty hut; M. tells the cattle to herd, the storm begins; S. pulls out his cape, she turns into a stone canopy, young men bring cattle safe; M.'s wife turns S. into an antelope, but her daughter back into a human; they run; the girl throws an egg (fog), a wineskin of milk (water), a pot (darkness), smooth stone (rock); M. stops persecution, S.'s houses are chosen as chief], 129-134 [boy and girl live with their grandfather; want to visit their parents; grandfather explains that their mother is cannibal, although their father is not; they come, the father hides them, but the mother finds them by the smell; the father explains that if dogs bark in their mother's belly, people sing, animals growl, then she is sleeping, you can run; they run, the mother catches up; brother asks her sister to sing beautifully; the mother comes back, wants to kill her husband, then rushes after the children again, swallows them and everyone she finds in the village; she sees a beautiful bird, comes up; it becomes huge, takes her axe, tears off her arm, leg, rips open her stomach, children and people go out; brother becomes chief, sister finds a good husband], 161-164 [a woman quarrels with her husband, goes to her native village, and everyone is there eaten; she hides in a house under the roof; animals come, make a fire, eat, leave in the morning; a woman gives birth to twins; when animals come again, she throws a stone down; animals decide to go to live in the water, in forests, into the savannah {where they live now}; she trapped a buffalo but can't take off her skin; an absorber (anthropomorphic) comes, she asks him for help; he roasts meat; she goes out, blows into an empty calebass , The absorber is afraid of sound, leaves; she chases, blows, he throws a bag of meat; on this meat she lives with her sons; they grow up to kill the Absorber with arrows in the eyes; swallowed out, give the woman cattle], 165-167 [the woman left the hare to guard her children; animals came, led by a monster; he swallowed the children; asked the hare who they were; the mother found and swallowed them; but she had them with her pieces of iron; she cut off pieces of monster meat, made a fire, began to fry meat; the monster died; the monkey said that all animals should go to their places where they now live; the woman did a hole in the monster's body, she and her children, and all the people, the cattle, the dogs came out; her sons grew up, killed the ogre, and lots of people came out of his belly as well]; suto: Abrahams 1983, No. 91 [Rahlabakoane and his wife they work in the fields, their son Hlabakoane herds cattle, their daughter Thakane stays at home; they have a tree, when hit with an ax, milk pours out of the trunk; children are not allowed to touch it themselves; H. refuses to herd cattle, if his sister does not give him milk from the tree; she has to hit him with an ax, the milk flows in a stream, R. comes running, decides to take his daughter to be eaten by the cannibal; along the way, T. tells three types of antelopes his story, each antelope replies that the cannibal must give her father; only the son of the cannibal Masilo is at home; he marries T., gives birth to her father, he fried and ate him; T. gives birth to a girl; according to the law, girls they give the cannibal, save only the boys; T. asked permission to drown her daughter; an old woman comes out of the water, takes the baby; T. comes to visit her daughter, she grows up quickly; M. followed, saw a beautiful woman, gave the old woman cattle, she let the girl go; M. sends his wife and daughter, accompanied by people and cattle, to visit her mother and brother T.; the rock blocked the way, Father T.'s heart turned into her; the rock wants to eat T.; swallows people, cattle, then T. and her daughter; inside the cave, where one young man cut his way out; the cannibal rock died, everyone came out, only swallowed long ago died; T.'s mother is glad]: 326-333; Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 114 [the Kho-dumo-dumo monster swallows people and animals; a pregnant woman, covered in ash, hides in a cattle pen; fat K. gets stuck in a gorge; a woman's born son becomes a man, cuts K.'s stomach, swallowed out, makes the woman's son chief; when cutting K., he accidentally injures one of the swallowed ones; he persuades others to push the leader into a hole with hot coals; people mistakenly push their own; in the end, the chief himself agrees to be killed]: 269-271; Casalis 1859, No. 3 [the monster Kammapa swallowed everyone; one pregnant woman hid, gave birth to a son with a necklace from amulets around his neck, called Litaolané ("fortuneteller"); he instantly grew up, rushed with a knife at K., who swallowed it, L. began to cut it from the inside; cut the way out, and swallowed screamed for him they did not touch them; when they came out, they decided to kill L.; they made a trap pit, but the amulet warned L.; the same with other attempts to kill L.; they chased him, he turned into stone, the man threw a stone across the river - this is how I will break L.'s head; on the other side, the stone turned into L. again]: 363-365 (=Scheub 2000:38-39); songe [a monkey ran away from the woman, she went looking for her; the animals she met replied that they don't know anything; the cannibal Malo called all the animals, among them the woman saw her monkey; M. swallowed it with the monkey; there was a whole village of people inside; the woman had a knife, she cut into M.'s stomach hole, swallowed out, formed a village]: Frobenius 1983:161; bena-lulua [a giant scorpion ate everyone, the Mbuyu woman hid in a cave, gave birth to twins Katende and Tshaale; they smelted iron, made daggers and spears, killed a scorpion, cut its belly, swallowed out; many had already died by then, others were weak, but many were in good health; they had formed village]: Frobenius 1983:158; luba [Tshilumi-Tshikulu swallowed all the women; one had skin and salt (apparently a leather vessel); she made a hole in his stomach with it, went out with the others swallowed, Tshilumi-Tshikulu bplj []: Frobenius 1983:160; owambo: Estermann 1956 [the boy went with his father to herd cattle, the father fell ill and died, the boy carried the body home; towards an evil spirit, says who was a friend of the boy's father, asks for a piece to eat, eats his leg, then the whole corpse; the boy runs, climbs a tree, taking a rope and blacksmith's fur (fole - blacksmith's fur, leather bag); discourages a rope, he climbs it, the boy cuts it off; throws the spirit into the mouth of a fruit, a branch, it swallows everything; sits in a bag, jumps the spirit into the mouth, inflates a bag in his stomach (põe-se a dar a fole); spirit bad, he is thirsty, he drinks, dies of thirst; the boy and all the people swallowed by the monster go out]: 191-193; Loeb 1951 (kuanyama) [=Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:398-402; Simbaba and his sister saw before the kraal a fruit tree that did not exist before; his sister climbed it, the tree took her away; S. followed; the tree stopped with the chief, who sent him to bring his wife; he killed Simbaba; all wives gave birth eggs, the chief beat them, thinking that the chickens were rushing; the new wife hid the egg, the son hatched when the chief was away; S. revived; the young man fired all the arrows at once, destroying the chase; the mother's husband was killed by his knee, he turned into a one-legged spirit; from the fork, the woman walked along the road of honey, S. and her nephew on manure; they came home, and the woman met a one-legged spirit, he swallowed her; her son began to beat the drum, perfume came, everyone said he did not eat the woman; the one-legged said he ate, he was wearing iron pendants in the form of the sun, moon, stars; the young man cut off his head, his mother came out and everything swallowed]: 300-302; Herero [on the migration, a pregnant wife returns for a forgotten needle, meets a monster, hides from him in a hole; gives birth to twins; they kill increasingly big game, the mother explains who it is; they meet a monster, hide on the baobab; the younger brother relieves himself, the monster under the tree drinks it, eats it; looks up; the brothers throw him pieces of meat with stones wrapped in them; the monster suffocates; brothers they go down, see an old man, he advises to fresh the monster from behind; there are a lot of people and cattle inside]: Estermann 1961, No. 2:176-178; duala [husband and wife quarreled, wife went to their parents; to meet them echelecete, he swallowed it; he already had many other people in his stomach; the woman had a knife with her and began to cut her intestines; he asked his wife to give him pepper (apparently to poison the woman), but she cut it in half, people came out and Ekelekete died]: Lederbogen 1903, No. 8:77-78 (retelling in Klipple 1992:362); (cf. bukushu [an old one-legged one-armed Dikithi leads his people to a new place; steals cattle; hitting the waters of the river with a guinea fowl, makes them part, moves their cattle to the other side, kills animals, he eats all the meat himself; in the morning people find empty cauldrons; the Kadimba trickster hare attaches fireflies to his pants; the next night D. thinks K.'s eyes are open, afraid of eating meat; kills his mother-in-law Kakurukathi, decides to return to where he used to live; mother-in-law comes to life, chases after him, wanting to cut off D. testicles; D. kills her many times (with fire, locusts, lions, birds, eventually she burns ); descends from the tree where he was hiding, makes a whistle out of K.'s leg bone; his father wants a whistle for himself, K. kills him; tells the red bird to rip open the old man's stomach, and people and animals come out form a community]: Scheub 2000:37-38).

West Africa. Mamprusi [the hunter planted a pumpkin, it grew up, decided to roll towards it on its own; all the animals and the hunter himself run away from it; Leo, Elephant first volunteer to help, but when they see the pumpkin, they run away; Wasp swallows a pumpkin, but it falls out of its belly; then the Wasp tells the hunter to bandage her stomach, swallows a pumpkin; since then, the wasp has a narrow waist]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 7:13-16; jukun [woman swallowed his children; Adi-bu-ma ("Adi is the son of Ma") was born, holding a bow and arrow, from a tumor on his thigh, did not fall on a plate, but went into the forest; breaking an egg, created a city surrounded by a wall, people and animals in it, became king; everyone went to the fields, the elder wife was unwell, went to the forest to buy herbs, met her husband's mother, who gave her herbs, she exclaimed that this was not enough, remembering her husband's name; the cannibal understood who was in front of her, she came to town with her, swallowed everyone; A. consistently throws 60 kopecks at her mother, she throws one of her 60 teeth each time, both miss; the bird advises A. only to pretend to throw a spear , the mother throws her last tooth in response, the son kills her; swallowed ones fell out of her cut abdomen, A. revived them with herbs; those in her stomach became white for a long time, with reddish skin for a short time, for a short time blacks; A. did not revive his wife; the cannibal's body was burned, the ashes were thrown into the river, some of the ash fell ashore, the pumpkin grew, the pumpkins began to swallow people; A. fed the goat, it slaughtered pumpkins, burned them, A. revived swallowed by herbs, some of the ash came ashore again, on the woman's clothes, she became a witch (the origin of witches)]: Meek 1931:193-196; ikom [there were no slit gongs before; people disappeared by for an unknown reason; Ibanang's parents never leave her alone; but she decided to watch her mother work in the garden; told her father that she would go get water, and went to her mother herself; when she reached her forks, did not want to take the cola nuts from the cripple, but ran along the right road; did not listen to him warn that this was not the way to her mother's garden; the same with the little gong; then she meets the gongs bigger and bigger; the last one is huge, he swallowed it; the swallowed ones dance inside; they have no fire or knives to cut off the gong's heart; the girl's mother came back, rushed to look for her, taking her Many sharp razors; the cripple also warned her, but she said she was following her daughter; when the gong swallowed her, she gave the men razors, they cut the gong's heart into pieces, he died; then they cut through a hole, came out with the swallowed cattle; they ate the gong meat and made drumsticks out of the bones; when they returned home, people made slit gongs in their villages]: Dayrell 1913, No. 20:52-55; Ashanti [the girl rejects the grooms; the serpent turns handsome, marries a girl, leads to her; on the way, swallows the servants and cattle accompanying his wife, then herself; the white parrot talks about it mothers for promising to paint his tail red; the pond is drained, the Snake's stomach is cut, the swallowed ones are taken out, the parrot revives them]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1937, No. 16:82; nalu [girl brings home everything it finds; the serpent pretends to be a doll, she brought it; at night the doll asks for something to swallow; consistently swallows chickens, ducks, goats, cows, utensils, mother, girl; father cuts off the doll's head, all swallowed go out unharmed]: Nikolnikov 1976:56-59 (=Pozdnyakov 1990:196-198); von [The hummingbird swallowed five people, the sixth fled to Europe; Europeans came with him to fight, he swallowed them too; the turtle ripped his stomach with a knife, the swallowed ones came out]: Müller 1908:277; eve [contrary to the sage's advice, Fale plants only Calebass trees in the field; grew up the only calebas pumpkin; every time F. knocks it with a knife to see if it's ripe, the pumpkin takes his knife and knocks on F.; he cuts the pumpkin, she sings a song, swallows it, then everyone in village, in other villages; the ram sings itself, puts out its horns, the pumpkin splits, swallowed except F., come out; since then, Calebass trees have been planted only among other cultivated plants]: Pozdnyakov 1990:218-223; beta [the burnt down hut has a kalebas pumpkin; boy: my father's seed has sprouted; pumpkin: it's my mother that sprouted; the boy goes to talk to the pumpkin; it's ripe and swallowed him; children and adults begin to disappear; pumpkin swallows everyone in the village, devastates the country; a woman with a child comes up; a pumpkin swallows a child, a woman runs; an old woman teaches how to make a sticky mixture from siako grains, mushrooms, salt and pepper, do not try to try, grease the rock, they will open; the woman tries, the rock does not open; the old woman goes with her, prepares the mixture, lubricates the rock, she opens; a woman walks through a country where there is no vegetation, but streams flow; finds a white goat, leads to an old woman; at the sound of thunder and lightning, the goat rips open the pumpkin with its horn, blood floods the ground; the people who were smeared in it turned red, and those who bathed in rotten water after heavy rains turned black]: Paulme 1976:278-279; neyo [the little calebasa in the village swallowed all the people and animals; ran away alone a pregnant goat gave birth to a kid in a rock grotto; he grew up and asked outside; the goat asked him to break the rock with its horns, he only scratched it; grew up and shattered the rock to pieces; Kalebes: I thought that she swallowed everyone; they grabbed and the goat smashed the calebas with horns; everyone swallowed came out, so people live everywhere]: Paulme 1976:281-282; wobe: Paulme 1976:293 [the boy and girl have no father ; the girl planted a pumpkin, and when she wanted to cut it, the pumpkin swallowed it; then swallowed her brother and all family members; a young child talked about it in the village; people can't break a pumpkin, and a goat smashed; all swallowed came out, but their skin turned white (the origin of white people)], 293-295 [the pumpkin swallowed them all; one woman escaped; gave birth to twins named the Famous Warrior and Soldier of God; woman told them that the pumpkin swallowed their father, grandfather, grandmother, and all relatives; they came to the hillside, where the pumpkin rolled up and down and screamed that it had swallowed everyone; one shot from below, the other struck with a spear from above; the pumpkin split, swallowed out; they lay in four layers (black below all, then red, yellow, white; so people of different races of different colors]; baule: Paulme 1976:280-281 [A farmer planted a pumpkin seed; the vine grew rapidly, but only one pumpkin on it, a huge one; one day a farmer knocked on a pumpkin with a knife and said: my pumpkin is not ripe yet; the pumpkin took it away from him knife, knocked on it and said: my man is not yet ripe; the same for the second time; on the third, the pumpkin swallowed the peasant, and then all the people and animals in the village; then in other villages; towards the goat ; the third blow of the horns split the pumpkin in half; one gave rise to the ocean, and the other gave rise to a land of valleys and mountains], 291-282 [the old woman found a pumpkin seed and planted it; the pumpkin grew; old lady: the pumpkin went growing; pumpkin: old lady has grown; pumpkin is ripe; old lady: it's time to cut it; pumpkin: it's time to chase the old lady; old lady runs, weavers sit on the outskirts of the village, old lady calls for help, weavers too they run; the old woman sees a goat, calls for help; the goat smashed the pumpkin with horns; the seeds have crumbled, people have picked them up; since then they have been planting pumpkins, but pumpkins do not roll by themselves]; bambara [there is fire only in the sky; A monster came out of the sea, swallowed all the people except the pregnant woman in the cave; her son told him to give birth and collect firewood; instantly grew up, got fire, smelted the first iron, made a spear; the monster swallowed it; inside the young man found many living people; cut through the monster's belly with a spear, everyone went out, but no one wanted to greet the savior out of fear of his power; he returned to his mother, did weapon for people; later he was defeated by Sundyata]: Mariko 1984:102-106; guro [the boy picked up a pumpkin seed; a seed: I picked up a boy; he planted him in the field, it sprouted; boy: the seed sprouted; the pumpkin: the boy sprouted; etc.; when the boy said that the pumpkin was ripe, the response was: the boy was ripe; rolled after him, swallowing all humans and animals along the way; only one pregnant the sheep hid in the crevices of the rock and it closed behind it; a lamb was born, went out, refused to return; the pumpkin answers him, rolled up, he smashed it with horns, all the people and animals swallowed came out; this one A ram still has God's power]: Tououi Bi 2014:97-100; bedik [the boy told his father he would go looking for evil; found someone's egg, put it in a jug, something hatched out of the egg {more this too called an "egg"}; it ate a chicken, a goat, a ram, a cow, a child, an adult; every time the boy reports it to his father, who replies, "OK"; ate everyone in the village; a woman with a child came to guests to their parents; egg: everyone went to the party with the cattle; and I'll go get medicinal herbs; in fact, the egg went for firewood; the woman's child tells me to run; the egg calls "kipo, kipo", and the tuft the hair replies "we are here, we are going home"; the egg is chasing; they meet gingam (a spirit of initiation whose name cannot be pronounced to children and women); they ask them to hide them, he hides them in a snuffbox; the egg runs up, calls, the answer is heard from the snuffbox; the gingam grabs it; the gingam and the egg take turns swallowing each other; finally, the gingam filled the egg with boiling water]: Paulme 1976:297-299; hausa [girl, the chief's only daughter wants to pick a small pumpkin, not the big one nearby; the chief agrees; the pumpkin says it should eat meat, first devours goats, rams, cows, camels; then slaves , free and finally the leader himself; chases the girl; towards the goat (a ram); jumps, hits the pumpkin with horns, everyone swallowed comes out]: Rattray 1913:304-310 in Paulme 197:291-292; Igbo [husband warns his wife not to return from the bazaar after midnight; she does not listen, she is swallowed by a vulture; her eldest daughter goes to look for her; the vulture sings that he swallowed her mother, swallows her; the same with the middle , with the youngest daughter (lists who he swallowed each time); the father of the family goes, swallows, cuts the vulture from the inside; swallowed daughters come out, but the wife is dead]: Ugochukwu 1992, No. 17:135-141; songhai [the mother thought the boy was studying the Koran at school, but friends took him to the forest; there girls and boys collected firewood; the boy was loaded with a heavy log, he carried it staggering; he threw it at the house ground, walked into the house; It screams: Where is Yaabulu? mother: give him the camels; It swallowed the camels and screams again; then successively cows, slaves, the mother herself, the father; then a thunder falls from the sky (we are talking about ancient stone tools) and smashes a monster; camels, cows, slaves, mother, father came out unharmed]: Calame-Griaule 2002:193-195.

Sudan - East Africa. Sarah (mbai): Fortier 1967, No. 7a [Sou has 10 dogs; he went to cut reeds by the river; a witch lived there; he asked for a meal worthy of a guest; she cooked a child; Su noticed in brewed your head, poured food under the bed, and chewed a dry cake himself; witch: I gave you food as a guest, now you must be my lover; took your pest, chased Su; for the night they went in the hut, the witch released her teeth to eat Su, but the dogs began to bark; the witch calmed down, threw a pestle into the fire and said that tomorrow Su should go across 4 rivers and bring her a new one; in the morning asked lock the dogs in the hut, they're angry; they went across four rivers, Su had an axe to make a new pestle; the witch told Su to climb the tree: cut it above and I'll be below; then: you poured out my food and now you're going to die! my teeth become an ax, my child's teeth become an ax! and Su began to sing, calling the dogs; they escaped from the hut, but the big dogs could not swim across the river; the smallest swam across, came back and carried the others; they tore them apart by the sorceress; Su went down with a tree, cut it down, made a fire and burned her remains; a woman collected ash to make salt, brought it to her; her daughter tells her mother that ash sings: I am ash (from the burned) witch, and my name is ash (for cooking) salt; the mother only replies that she will give this salt to her daughter when she has her wedding; but still scattered ash; she has grown a pumpkin vine; a huge pumpkin has come off the stem, rolled around the village, devouring everyone; the pregnant woman asked the lion to hide it: if you have twins, you can eat one; when she gave birth, she asked the lion to wait: let the boys grow up; the woman caught on the stump, which teaches to feed the lion with food and sleeping pills; when the lion woke up, the lion caught up with them, the woman pretended not to run away; stump: feed the lion to the dump so as not to wake up; they they ran to the blacksmith, the young men made throwing knives, climbed a tree, called the pumpkin sorcerer; the thrush screams, naming two vines; the young men smeared the knives with the juice of these vines; cut the pumpkin, all swallowed came out; therefore, there are many people on earth now], 7b [Luba (aka Loa, the creator god) created all people, including the sorceress Ki-ngué-té-gueu; she destroyed all people, the last two young men and two girls; a pregnant woman remained, gave birth to twins of different sexes; the girl found ash, brought it to make salt; ash sings that she is ash from a witch, and she is mistaken for ash to make salt {why The witch burned down and where did people come from again is not said}; the ash was thrown away, a pumpkin vine grew out of it, it had a huge calebass, it came off, began to roll and devour people; the thrush speaks of twins that Calebas was swallowed by their mother and continues to swallow people; brother and sister climbed a tree, called Calebasa, split her with throwing knives, but she grew together again; thrush: grease vines juice; they smeared the halves, the calebass could not grow together; on the advice of the thrush, brother and sister began to grind one of the pieces with a pestle; after the first blow, white came out, after the second, black, after the third - manja (Adamawa-Ubangi language), after the fourth - villagers, including the mother of twins]: 177-183, 184-187; Zaghawa [the seven-headed Tirène snake swallowed the villagers; lived nearby a woman with seven sons and a daughter; she quarreled with an old woman; the old woman advised, out of revenge, that the girl send her brothers to get a bell from T.'s neck; each of the brothers cut off one of the heads, another was swallowed; the youngest was left, cut off his last head, released the brothers, all swallowed animals and people from T.'s womb; he was allowed to choose the most beautiful girl as his wife; he chose swallowed slave; brothers brought a bell to his sister; younger wife has 6 brothers; 1) catching everything that falls from the sky; 2) discovering the ground; 3) throwing a spear to the center of the earth; seeing what is in heaven; 5) running like the wind; 6) cultivating the field; the husband beat their sister; the old woman advised him to tell him that her brothers were stronger than him; she led her husband to them; said that the river was her mother's urine, if he set foot, he would die; he set foot, lost consciousness, she pulled him out; the same happened to the second river (her mother's excrement); his wife's parents are giants; the servant mistook him for a stick, threw him at the bulls, he flew into his mother-in-law's eye; a week later, she said that something caught her eye, his wife pulled him out; he fell into a well, his servants pulled him out; one cow was missing; six brothers, using each of their abilities, began to look for her; she was tied to in the sky, they knocked her down from there, caught her; her husband recognized the power of his wife's brothers, did not beat her anymore]: Tubiana, Tubiana 2004 (1), No. 16:92-100; moru [Cuban girl did not find roots, picked up a caterpillar on the trail , put it in a pot, called Ndila, told her to grow up; she became the size of a rat, then ate chickens, got off a buffalo, ate people, became like an elephant like Neil, ate Cuba, other people; pregnant Kiden hid in hole; son Kenny grew up, forged a sword and spear, hit N. from the platform, everyone swallowed came out of his ripped belly; people said that now all the girls are sisters Kenny, he has gone to marry in a distant land]: Evans -Pritchard, Mynors 1941, No. 30:77-78 (Katsnelson translated 1968:309-311); nzakara: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 42 [children are not allowed to play on the rock (a flat rock exit that is usually dried on underwear, food); children play, the Yangui girl is done, stuck to a stone; no one can tear her off; then her mother covers her with a pot, regularly brings food; teaches her to respond to her voice; if Boulou-Zali (flying cannibal) will come to remain silent; BZ overhears his mother's song from the tree; sings, I. does not respond to a rude voice; the old woman teaches me to eat sour berries, the voice will become thinner; this time Y. answers ; The BZ rips her off the cliff with a knife, takes her to his wife; the feathers of the BZ helmet tell him everything that happened in his absence; the Rat finds Y., runs away with her, taking all the property; puts on at the crossroads helmet with feathers; BZ first runs on the wrong road; Rat and Y. run to the village; men kill BZ with spears; burn, soak ashes, drop everything BZ ate], 43.5, 43.6 and 43.7 [spider Toúlé marries Thunder's eldest daughter; builds a house; he is told that there is no straw for the roof, Panther has it all, who devours everyone; T. suggests that Panther hide her in straw, bring her to the village Thunder so that she eats everyone there; straw, ties it up, brings it, the sons of Thunder stab her with spears, throw it into the fire; T. tells me to sift the ash, from the sifted all those previously eaten come out alive; become subjects of T., now he is as powerful as Thunder; there are no drums in the sky; they are owned by Ségbounbboussé; everyone is offered a drum according to their height, asks them to get inside and try them on; covers the holes, eats the person who comes; T. pretends not to understand how to measure the drum; S. climbs inside himself, T. covers the holes, brings the drum to the village of Thunder, burns, filters the ash, those eaten come out alive, become subjects of T.; the owner of Ngbéngbélétou xylophones asks every buyer to bring his sister; tells his dogs (lion, black panther, serval, panther , hyena) grab the buyer, eats him, takes the woman; while N. is gone, T. replaces all N.'s copper weapons with his clay, which strengthens N.'s oil and healing ointment when ingested; plays xylophone; throws meat to the guard animals, they calm down; N. drinks changed oil, rubs himself with a powerless ointment, takes a changed weapon, attacks, kills; captive wives beat his body; from sifted N.'s ashes are reborn killed]: 253-259, 272-275, 275-277, 277-285; anuak [a huge snake eats people; when he sees a pregnant woman, he is going to swallow her; she said that she carries something in her womb that will kill her, the serpent gave up its intention; ate all the other snakes; the woman gave birth to a son; one day he saw a fiery red mouth; the mother told me everything; the young man made platforms with one or two spears on each who belonged to the inhabitants eaten; threw the first spears at the snake and ran; took spears from the platforms and threw them at the pursuer; the snake pierced the latter's eyes with spears, he died; the young man cut his stomach, the swallowed came out; the last was the young man's father, he was all red, because he was in the guts and snakes would soon monster him; the young man refused the girls offered to him and went in search of a distant beauty; with him two dogs; took the form of a monkey; she was caught and the girl's father told her to carry firewood; leaving the village, the young man regained his human form and fed his dogs; this was noticed by a girl, the sister of the leader's daughter; She saw for herself, got together with the young man and gave birth to a boy; when the child was 4 years old, the chief called the men: let the boy hit the monkey with a wand; he hit the monkey; the leader wanted to kill the monkey, but she became a young man and dogs became lions, chewed on the people; the young man recalled the lions, they turned into dogs again; the young man brought cattle and married the leader's daughter]: Evans-Pritchard, Beaton 1940, No. 17:72-74; Acholi [Lucoro ate all humans and animals, leaving Min-kwet pregnant; she hid in a cave, gave birth to 8 daughters and 20 sons; they immediately grew up asking where their father was; the mother replied that they should first make 5,000 copies and build a stand; called L., who smokes tobacco, smoke spread across the sky; L. goes to M., her sons throw spears at him; when he reaches the platform, L. fell dead; brothers they cut his little finger, all the swallowed ones came out]: Oryem, Wright 1960:121-122; lango [Omot ate everyone, a pregnant woman hid in a cave, gave birth to twins Opio and Ocen; they make weapons, they say mothers call the ogre; the weapon does not harm him for a long time, at the last moment he falls, dies, swallowed out; since then, people rejoice at the birth of twins, their umbilical cords are kept in a vessel - like in a cave]: Wright 1960:107; kalenjin (nandi): Chesaina 1997:85-87 [{only the beginning of the text meets the definition of a motive, then a different plot}; when an ogre devoured people, a pregnant woman hid in a hole; when he left, gave birth to a son and a daughter; went to work with other people, got grains, fed the children; the next time she leaned the basket against her thigh, the basket disappeared; same Once again, the owner cut the woman's thigh and she died; the children grew up, the sister was kidnapped by cannibals {it is clear that snakes}; the brother weaved a beautiful basket, went to look for his sister; when he came to the woman (she is from cannibals), said that she could take the basket; then asked her back, the woman did not give it; the guy cried, one eye bleed, the other pus; the woman returned the basket; the guy went on, found sister; she told him not to look into the pot or put it on fire; that's exactly what he did; there was a big snake in the pot; when he put it on the fire, everything caught fire, he grabbed his sister's child and ran; sister followed; said that she would pretend that her child had been stolen and she was running after her; towards the snake, her sister told them this; when the snakes saw that everything had burned down, they rushed in pursuit; but brother and sister were already crossed the river; the snakes drowned in it], 93-94 [the cannibal ate everyone, Kipkawal, his wife and 7 children remained; the wife stole flour from the ogre's house; K. watched, there was flour left, the cannibal caught him; K. asked not to eat him, promised to show where his wife and children were; the cannibal first ordered three children to be cooked; the next day three more; then his wife; she welded the bones, hid herself with the last child; the cannibal told K. to cook himself; he also welded the bones, hid where his wife was; the cannibal found them, wanted to swallow them, but the boy killed him with a knife]; Hollis 1909 [the demon swallowed all humans and animals, only a woman with a baby hid in a hole; the young man has grown up, hunts with a bow, every time he brings the carcass of the beast, asks if it is the right demon; heats the stones in the fire; the demon comes to the fire, the young man asks him to open his mouth, promising throw food at him; throws hot stones; when he dies, the demon tells him to cut off his little finger, swallowed cattle will come out; thumb, people will come out; those who come out have chosen the young man as leader]: 107; (cf. Oromo (Borana) [Liqimsa were two elephant-like monsters that ate people every day; humans tried to escape, but L. caught them; only 30 warriors escaped on Namdur Hill; two of them the brother is one very clever and the other very brave; the older brother came to L. and said that whoever eats him would be immortal; monsters began to fight each other for the right to immortality; at this time younger brother heated the ends of two spears on fire and plunged monsters into the bellies; L. died]: Dseagu, MS); Masai: Hollis 1905:115-116 [two brothers go to slaughter a bull where there are neither humans nor animals, no insects; the elder gives the younger stomach to bring water; the water screams that it is being taken away; the youngest is frightened, the eldest goes by himself, responds to the water that takes it on purpose; the same with brushwood; with with a meat skewer; a nine-headed evil spirit extinguishes the fire, his younger brother takes his burning eye for fire, is swallowed; the elder catches up with the spirit, cuts off two heads, then finishes off; cuts off his big toe, swallowed animals and younger brother come out of there], 221-223 (taveta) [the demon devoured all people, only a woman with a child hid in a hole; the boy has grown up, kills larger birds and animals, each once asks if it was not a demon; he climbed a tree with his mother, made a fire there; the demon noticed that he came to cut down a tree, the young man killed him with arrows; when he died, the demon said that if his little finger was cut off, from there swallowed cattle will come out, and people will come out of his thumb; one person will come out to cut his face; those who came out chose the young man as chief; the one who came out of his face demanded that he be brought back; people provoked him pick a tobacco leaf, demanded to return it to its place; he could not, he had to abandon his demand]; Kipury 1983, No. 10 [a handsome man with a second mouth on the back of his head ties bells to trees, to make people think he had a herd there; a group of men brought cattle, the owner swept the parking lot, removing the bones they had previously eaten, people settled down, slaughtered the cow, shared it with the owner; one young man noticed that he was eating with two mouths; they did not believe him, he climbed a tree at night; at night he ate 8 sleepers, did not find a ninth; the young man went down unnoticed, ran to people; under his guidance another came a group of warriors; they pretended to know nothing, but at night they put logs in their place, covered with blankets; people jumped up, killed the ogre with spears; before his death, he ordered his toe to be cut off; all previously eaten people and animals came out intact]: 46-48; Iraq: Kohl-Larsen 1963:11-15 [Haidér's bull tells a shepherd boy to share with him the porridge his father gives threatens to kill; boy losing weight; father suggests that H. let him fill the bowl with his blood from his vein; leaves a hole in the bowl, the bull loses most of his blood; he is tied up and left; one girl has been forgotten, she is back from the field, bull asked him to untie; swallowed the girl, then all the people; a pregnant woman with a pregnant sheep managed to escape into the cave, the bull only bit off her flesh from her ass; she gave birth to twins, and a sheep also gave birth; boys ask why the mother does not have flesh behind her, she explains; the twins consistently kill and show the mothers of different animals; each time the mother replies that this is not the monster; finally they see bull; they bring lots of arrows from other tribes, shoot a bull from a tree, killing him], 31-34 [the giant Ama'irmi ate a man's cattle; he called people, they killed A. with arrows, ripped open his stomach, swallowed people and animals went outside, with them a new A.; two young men have a sister Zani; every night they come back, sing "Zani, Our Beloved", she unlocks; A. heard, began to imitate; many times she did not unblock 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 cannot open it because she is sick; asks for boiled meat, they swallow everything at once; the brothers killed A. with arrows, swallowed sister came out alive]; malgashi: Korneev 1977 [Beandriac's sailor promises to disembark in six months; the ship has not yet returned, B. orders him to be lowered into the sea in a boat; gets on an island, there are two princesses whom Itrimube swallowed and belched on the island; B. plays with him, beats him, hits him to death with an iron bar, previously swallowed people and animals come out of his ripped belly; B. sails in a boat to the father of the princesses, who sends a ship to pick them up, gives the eldest to B.]: 205-208; Rodman 1965 [the beast swallowed the warriors and destroyed the entire village; only one pregnant woman hid in iron house; the twins born grew up, cut off the monster's head, ripped open its belly, released the swallowed ones; only the leader was nowhere; the drongo bird ordered the smallest kitten to be ripped open, the leader was there; he promised to give possession to the twins, forbade killing and eating drongos; but he did not give up the possession; war broke out and he was killed]: 146-148; malgashi (sakalava) [pregnant woman wants to eat kiridi liver; husband: if I don't come back in a month, kiridi ate me; he struggles to overcome deserts and rivers with crocodiles, shooting at K. missed, he swallowed him; a boy was born, grew up quickly, friends say his mother confirmed to him about the fate of his father; he took a gun, went to kill k.; cuts the monster's belly with an ax, from there the voice: be careful, son; swallowed people and animals come out; blood turned into a lake, bones in birds, flesh into clay and soil, wool into plants and herbs; people who came out formed a village, made the young man a leader]: Haring 1982, No. 1.3.07:134; malgashi (sakalava) [young man finds an egg; from it The monster has hatched; it grows, requires more and more food; it eats animals, people, only one woman remains; the young man's friends kill the monster, the swallowed ones come out]: Haring 1982, no. 1.3.08:134.

Southern Europe. Aragon [the goat in the pantry swallows three girls and then various assistants (distinct ayudantes); the ant defeats it ("Soy la cabra montesina/del monte montesinar/ y al que pasa de esta raya/me lo tengo que tragedy" - "Soy la hormiguita, chiquita, nobita, del monte hormigal, que te pico en el culo y te hago bailar")]: González Sanz 1996, No. 2028:144; Italians (Marche) [ the crystal rooster was wandering, found a paper on the road that read: crystal rooster, crystal chicken, countless geese, abbess duck, golden bird: come to the boy's finger wedding (Tom Thumb); the rooster consistently meets all those mentioned, and then the wolf; he is not on the list, but he is afraid to refuse; he has consistently eaten everyone, but the bird jumped on his head, he won't catch it; she promises to feed him; flies next to a peasant woman, she tries to catch her, leaving a basket of food; the wolf came up and began to eat; a peasant woman called for help, people killed the wolf with sickles and sticks; from his belly came out alive crystal rooster, etc. and went to the wedding of a boy with a finger]: Calvino 1980, No. 98:360-362; Sardinians [the girl took dinner to her father and brothers who worked in the field; towards cannibal (orco); she refuses to give him dinner; he swallowed her father and brothers, her mother died of grief; the girl gave birth to a boy; he decides to take revenge on the ogre, tells him to prepare iron armor, a sword and a shield for him; He meets people on the way; they promise him half of his property if he brings 7 cannibal languages; the cannibal regurgitated those swallowed alive; the young man killed him, brought his tongues, received an award]: Aprile 2000:79.

Western Europe. British, Irish, Germans (north?) : Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522

Western Asia. Qatar: Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522; Palestinians: Hanauer 2009 [A childless woman asking God to give her a child, even if it was a black euchok; after giving birth to bugs, she burned them in the oven, but one grabbed her skirt; grew up and became Hanufsi's girlfriend; her mother sent her to take food to her father in the field; she ate food, plowman and oxen; when she returned, she ate her mother with dough and sauerkraut; comes to her grandmother, says that I swallowed four loaves of cottage cheese, a plowman with oxen and a baker with dough, if you like, I'll swallow you with a spinning wheel; swallowed it; I turned the same to the sheikh sitting on a pile of manure, and he had a dagger; sheikh ripped her belly open, everyone came out alive; since then, people have always pointed their fingers at a living being when talking about it, otherwise a genie will appear instead]: 179-180; Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 40 [ a childless woman asks God to give her a child, even if it is a piece of manure; she gives birth to manure, it is thrown away, a piece rolls under the closet; when it is necessary to carry food to the woman's husband in the field, the manure pops up suggests taking it; the father greets him, he swallows (each time with a saying, what the victim is doing at the moment) the father, then the father's mother, sister, another aunt, grandmother, two blind people; one of them rips it open with a knife, the swallowed ones come out]: 285-288.

Australia. Aranda (a similar story in North Australia) [the winds covered the old man with sand, he got up, turned into the demonic dog Erintja; tracked down, swallowed two women; nearby the initiation of the young men; the participants fell asleep, E. swallowed them all; when one person twisted the whistle, the hairline broke off, the whistle flew off, turned into a young man; he threw a churing at the dog, which cut it his head from ear to ear, swallowed out; the dog became old again, returned to where it appeared]: Robinson 1956:69-71.

Melanesia. Camoro: Drabbe 1950, No. 21 [two boys found a monitor lizard's egg, mistook it for a bird's egg, put it in a shoulder bag; the monitor lizard grew, hatched, had wings, ate the boys and all the people in the village; a pregnant woman escaped, her son Awámora grew up in a few days; shoots lizards, then birds, wild boar, cassowary, sea turtle, stingray; builds huts with sharp axes, knives, etc.; the monitor lizard comes to destroy the huts, injures himself, dies; A. cuts his meat into pieces, puts the pieces on the huts, in the morning next to him and his wife's other men, men beat the drums]: 228-229; Kooijman 1984 [ Mirokoata, a pregnant "snake woman", goes to the swamp with other women to crush sago; the children who remain in the village find an egg, a crocodile comes out of it, makes a shrill sound, devours children and sick people, then returning with their boats, sails to the sea, lies down on the shore; a huge monitor lizard devours dogs and houses; M. escaped alone, gave birth to a boy; he immediately grows up, first shudders out onions into a pigeon, a wild chicken, an iguana, then brings a wild pig, a cassowary, a kangaroo; goes to the seashore, creates, drawing on the sand, three pairs of ritual ones home for three ceremonies, inside there are stocks of spears; gets a drum, hits it, a crocodile comes, rushes to the house, filling it up, is wounded with spears, the young man manages to jump out; so three times; the son and mother finish off the crocodile, take out the insides and bones swallowed, put in three piles: for black, for white, different; the son copulates with the mother, she gives birth to tobacco and leaves, wrap it; they throw the white and brown parts to the west, of which Europeans and dark people appear; black is thrown to the north, south and east, from which Papua emerges; three white pieces are brought home, they become two wives for a son and a husband for M.]: 37-39; Gudinaf [Manubutu (osprey) ate almost everyone, the rest fled the island; there was no room for the young pregnant woman and the old woman in the boat; they hid in a cave, the young woman gave birth to twins; they are called in different ways: Kewala and Wiwia (two types of parrots {hereinafter K. and V.}), "The one above the ground", and "The one who is underground", "Born first" and "Born second"; the old woman cares about them, they grow incredibly quickly; they ask why to whisper; the mother explains, usually calling the osprey "Seer"; the grandmother secretly teaches how to make various spears; taking their dog, the brothers go to look for the osprey, leave along the way spears in different places; when they stumble upon sleeping M., they wake him up by throwing stones; he first thinks it's the wind; surprised that someone is alive; brothers hide under an inverted boat; M. pierces the bottom claws, and his brothers stab him from below with spears; not sure that M. is dead, they are afraid to approach him, but tell the dog to bring his heart; let him go through his mouth, penetrate his ass, then turn back and only then will his heart tear off, going out again through his mouth; {the dog brings the heart}; when they return to women, the brothers put M.'s heart on a raft with a sail and let them go to sea; (in some cases, brothers and women eat M.'s body at this time); the twins' father sees a raft that has sailed to Ferguson Island, realizes that M. is dead, but decides to wait to return; the grandmother reports that M. has a wife Vinetauna (" The Woman Herself"), which is more terrible than him; the brothers again leave their spears along the way; climb a tree, throw nuts at V.; V. puts on a "combat skirt", dances, takes off his skirt, puts on another one, trying many, more and more burning with anger; brothers run, throwing their prepared spears, but they do no harm to V.; they have the last double-tipped spear; brothers argue who will throw it; K. ("elder") strikes V. in both eyes, V. dies; the brothers again tell the dog to bring the heart, send it back on the raft; this time the people returned, the father saw his sons, they were made leaders]: Young 1993:384-385; Tanna: Humphreys 1926:95-97 [one woman left her baby daughter to eat tree sap; she and all others were eaten by the giant Semsem; Nepkalam ate a slice edible stone, gave birth to twins Kasasaou and Kaniapnin; taught them how to make spears; they killed S. with spears; asked birds to check if he was dead; two flew into his wound, got blood stained; the third (now this parrot is all red) flew through; the brothers cut the ogre's body, the pieces turned into swallowed] (retelling in Poignant 1967:95), 99-100 [Ramsumas ate everyone, left a group of boys fatten behind a stone fence; Matiktik (the name is known all over Oceania) broke the wall, told the boys R. wanted to eat them, climbed a tree with them, which made them first low and then tall again ; R. sees the reflection of those hiding in the pond, dives; they laugh; he asks how they got in; on his knees; on his back; R. just hurt himself; M. lowered his vine, cut him off, R. crashed; three birds follower they fly into the wounds to make sure the ogre is dead, they get red plumage; the body is cut into pieces, blew into the horn of shells, the pieces turn into people eaten by the cannibal].

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [the cannibal Norol came from the north, ate everyone; the last survivors climbed the tree, lowered the cannibal's rope, let go four times, broke his legs, arms and neck, died; he was cut, swallowed out, only the people of one of the villages were already dead; toy boats were made out of him; his fellow tribesmen saw the boat out of his head; they began to ask whose head, when they called N., the head was a boat sailed; they wanted to go to war, but two girls made holes in their boats]: Müller 1928, No. 63:581-583; Taku [Ariki has Temus's son; people go missing, their boats are swallowed by a shark; when swallowed T.'s boat, he makes a fire with a fire drill, the shark dies, is thrown ashore, the swallowed ones go away; the same is the tridacna shell; T. cuts its muscles, swallowed up; the heron tears off the heads of those sitting in boats are carried away, left on the roof of their house; T. kills her with an oar, tells the parents of the victims to take their heads]: Moyle 2003:143-147.

(Wed. Burma - Indochina. Karen [(cf. Abkhaz); Ná (an evil spirit possessed by man) sees other people as animals to hunt and their eyes as fruits; sometimes it is told about a stomach that goes and eats people]: Mason 1865:208).

South Asia. Uttar Pradesh (Fatehpur County, Hindi) [a cat and a parrot decide to grow and harvest together; every time a cat calls for another job, the parrot says it can't - it sharpens beak; when to divide the harvest, the parrot took half; they agreed to invite each other to visit; the cat did not even cook, but told the parrot to do it itself; the parrot cooked a huge basket of cakes; the cat swallowed everything; the parrot gave the last two left for him; then offered to eat it, which the cat did; then she goes, swallows everyone, says every time whoever she had swallowed before; an old woman; a laundress man; the king's wedding procession with all the elephants and horsemen; at the end of two crabs; they perforated the cat's belly, all swallowed came out alive]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 43:186-193; Chhattisgarhi (Bilaspur) [the louse tells the crow that he will eat it and eat it; consistently meets and swallows a loaf of bread, a goat, a cow, a buffalo, five sepoys, a wedding procession, an elephant, water in the pond; women came for water, the pond was empty, they noticed a louse on the shore, the warrior cut it with a sword, all swallowed out safe and sound]: Gordon 1908:56-58; (cf. himachali plowmen [the jackal eats everyone he meets on the way; swallowed a tiger, a leopard, a mouse; the cat directed him to the dead buffalo; there was no buffalo, and the cat ran away]: Stokes 1879:255); Bengalis (?) [the rat brought milk and flour, told the frog to bring brushwood, cooked food, went swimming, telling the frog to guard the food; she ate everything and said that the dog came and ate it; she ate it three times; after the third time the frog swallowed the rat; then the baker; the orange and lemon merchant; the horse and the groom; asked the barber to shave it; he cut her stomach with a razor, all swallowed went out]: Stokes 1879, No. 6:24-26; santals [the jackal invited a drawing bird, made beer from lizards and frogs, she could not eat it; after inviting the jackal, she served narrow-necked mice, the jackal could not put her face in there ; he ate the drawing itself; goes, every time he says who he has already eaten; swallows a chicken, a goat, a cow, a buffalo, a pond of water, a pole; he pierced his stomach and the jackal died]: Bodding 1925, No. 14:199-207.

Burma - Indochina. Karena [as soon as the pregnant woman hung her clothes to dry, the sun disappeared behind the clouds; got angry at the Sun and cursed her; she remained pregnant for three years and gave birth to a son Ta-ywa the size of a yuyuba fruit; it is voracious; becomes monstrously strong; makes an onion; comes to a spring from which the children of the Sun take water, threaten them, they have to ask their father to make T. larger; The sun sends different animals against T., but in the end he is forced to comply with the requirement; people are afraid of the strongman, they try to get rid of him; he leaves, meets, takes Long-legged as companions, then Long-armed, Big-Eared, Three-Toothed, Empty; they quarreled while sharing fish; T. went one way with Long-armed and Long-legged and others to the other; T. and his companions decided to cook rice, there was no fire; came to Shie-oo for fire; he offers to fight: the loser will support the ground; they knocked him down and drove him into the ground; when Shie-oo moves, earthquakes occur; come to an empty house; under the floor where T. lies down is a girl; she stabs him with a needle; he thinks someone is biting, raised the floorboard; the girl says that the eagle ate her parents and siblings, and her parents herself did hide; T. hid the bamboo iron roof, the eagle could not break through the roof; T. asked for permission to shoot it with an old bamboo bow, but shot an iron bow and killed; then killed the other two eagles; T. took out swallowed bones from the eagle's womb, spread them out in groups (men, women, buffaloes, pigs, etc., hit each with a rope and revived them; revived the girl's parents; left Long-legged there, commanding look at the plants planted: if they wither, he's in trouble; goes on; the same episode with another girl, where tigers instead of an eagle; T. kills them, leaves the Long-armed one there; with the third girl, three snakes; killed two T., the third swallowed him; the plants planted by T. dried up, Long-legged and Long-armed understand that T. is in trouble, they come, kill the snake, revive T.; he returned home and saw his brother cook live fish; he shot him in anger; repented; fired an arrow into the sky to hit him; the tenth arrow hit him; he weakened; sent a monkey-tiger (?) bring the Karen and the tupaya to him - bring the Burmese; gave the first flint to cook the shrimp quickly; the tupaye gave two pieces of bamboo: it is difficult to get fire with them, let him hesitate; but monkey-tiger decided that the shrimp was still raw, since it was red, waited, and the dumaya quickly came to the Burmese, who were the first to come to T., asked him for elephants, horses, oxen, and their dogs asked for ears of rice the size of the ends of their fluffy tails and three harvests a year; the karen came when T. had already died and was burned, with baskets and wicker fans; only a trace of the patterns remained on the ash, the karen remembered him; buffaloes and The Karen couldn't catch elephants, they only caught a pig; that's why the Karen have pigs]: Mason 1865:178-187.

Malaysia-Indonesia. The Andamans [The Monitor lizard climbed the tree, began to eat fruit; threw it to others, but the people wanted more and more; he threatened to call Uču; male and female came, swallowed all the people; went away, but burdened, stuck at the edge of the mangroves; the lizard ripped open their bellies, swallowed out alive]: Radcliffe-Brown 1933:225-226.

(Wed. China - Korea. Ethnicity is not a decree. ("Hans or Minorities") [A clay doll turns into a monster, eats all the rice, drinks all the water, then swallows a girl, a boy, a shepherd with a bull, a mason with a hammer; the latter tears up clay a person's stomach swallowed comes out alive]: Ting 1978, No. 2028).

The Balkans. Hungarians [the poor man stabbed a pig, hung a sausage koloban in the attic; the poor man sent his youngest daughter to cut him off, and he swallowed it; the other two daughters and wife; the owner himself; the kolobanchik rolled down into the street, swallowed the Kostsov artel, a regiment of soldiers, a swineherd boy with pigs; but the boy had a knife, he cut the kolobanchyk's stomach, swallowed out alive]: Ortutai 1974, No. 63:435 -436; Greeks: Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522; Serbs [a dragon in the form of a hare lures, swallows an older, middle brother; the youngest asks the old captive woman living with the dragon to find out what his strength; she kisses the stove, the tree, then the dragon says that his strength is in the sparrow, that in the dove, in the hare, in the boar, in the dragon in the lake in the kingdom of far away; the prince is hired to herd sheep on the shore of that lake, every day he fights a dragon coming out of the waters; when a local king sends his daughter to kiss a young man, kills a dragon, dogs, a falcon grab a boar, a hare, a sparrow; before killing a sparrow, he learns from him, where prisoners are in the dungeon; frees people from all over the kingdom]: Dmitriev, Volkonsky 1956:23-29; Macedonians [one of the songs says that the inhabitants of St. The three did not believe in Jesus Christ, but believed in gold and silver; when their 70 springs were dry, they asked God to fill them with gold and silver; they became rich but thirsty; God he took pity and a lake opened in the vicinity, but Sura Lamia owned it; in exchange for water, she demanded a girl a day; in the fourth year it was the turn of the royal Christian daughter; when she was standing on the shore of the lake, St. Giorgi got off his horse, lay down to doze off; the girl's tear woke him up and he put his spear in his mouth, brought him to the city alive; hit the heart, lamia vomited 300 living girls, they danced in a round dance; hit the second time - half alive, half dead; third time - all 300 dead; after that, the tsar and all people became Christians; George went around all the springs, from which water flowed]: Derzhavin 1945:87-88.

Central Europe. Czechs [childless spouses dream of a child; the old man dug up a stump, cut it, brought it into the house, the old woman began to pump, cooked porridge, Poleshko came to life; ate porridge, then all the food that was in the house, the old woman, a girl with a clover cart, a peasant with a whip, a pig with a shepherd; his grandmother hit him in the belly with a hoe, all the swallowed ones came out]: Erben in Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:152-156 (retelling in Stroke 1879:255-256); Slovaks: Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522; Russians: SUS 1979, No. 2028 (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Vologodskaya, Yaroslavskaya) [Glinyany Ivanushka (Pykhtelka): eats a spindle, girl, men, women; he is smashed and everyone is taken out alive]: 384; Balashov 1991 (Teresky Bereg) [childless old man and old woman made the guy out of clay; he came to life; the grandfather went to the forest for firewood, the grandmother is spinning a tow; asks Clay to bring a spindle; he: I ate a coub with a rope, seven bread ovens, seven rolls; and eat you with a spinning wheel; then he consistently meets and swallows a grandfather with an ax, a girl with an ax a tub, a jonka with a rocker arm, a haymower with braids, a rake rower; a ram of golden horns tells you to open your mouth, close your eyes: he will jump off the mountain himself; horns in the stomach, Clay crumbled, everyone came out, thanks ram]: 10-12; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [old woman to grandfather: we make a boy out of clay; put it on the stove to dry; clay Ivanushka: give bread pulp and milk tub; then ate grandmother with a spinning wheel, grandfather with a stick, a bull with horns, women with rakes, men with braids; a goat and eat you; goat: stand downhill, and I'm on the hill, I'll put it in my mouth; from a blow to my belly, the clay fell apart, everyone swallowed came out]: Razumova, Senkina 1987:15-16; Russians (North: Olonetskaya?) [A childless old woman asks her husband to make a guy out of clay; he comes to life, asks for food; eats everything in the house, eats her grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a stick, an aunt with sauerkraut, a beggar with a bag, woodcutters with axes, girls with mushrooms; the goat offers to jump into his mouth herself, breaks Glinyany Ivanushka with horns, swallowed to come out alive]: Karnaukhova 1948:23-28; Russians (Zaonezhye) [Grandfather and woman lived with two children: Manya and Vanya. One day, old people went to town, warning the children not to go to the cellar. Vanya disobeyed and was swallowed by Pykhtelka. Manya after Vanya, the same goes for her. Old people arrived, began to look for children, climbed into the cellar, Pykhtelka also ate them and burst]: Karnaukhova 2008, No. 34:106; Russians (Vologodskaya) [Childless old people make a boy out of clay, he comes to life. The old woman, after dozing off, drops the ball into the gollet, Ivan the clay summons to raise the ball - he eats both it and the spindle. She invites her mother to tell a fairy tale: "I was in a cabbage roll, I ate a ball, and I'll eat a spindle with a spindle!" The mother eats it. Then he eats his father with an ax, girls with buckets, women with rakes, men with braids, a man with firewood - repeating the fairy tale on the rise. He meets a bear, begins a fairy tale, but the bear crumples him. He crushed it, freeing all those eaten - they attack the bear and drive it away, and return to their seats themselves]: Burtsev 1895, No. 26:132-133; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [There was a tenant, a palace on a handful, he had a palace five sheep, a sixth stallion, a seven calf, an eighth old woman, a ninth old man. Biryuchok came to them: Grandpa, Grandpa, give them a lamb! And he says to him: Go to the base and get it! So he ate all the sheep, and the calf, and the old man, and the old woman. So he came to eat the stallion, grabbed his leg, and the stallion said: You can't heal! I kicked him on the belly, this birch, and everyone jumped out: grandfather, grandmother, lambs, and tyalushki! And everyone is alive]: Samodelova 2013, No. 50:55-56.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [a man made a scarecrow from straw, it came to life, swallowed a man with his wife, then women collecting fruits, girls carrying water; the goat invited him to stand under the rock, she will jump into his mouth; jumped, ripped her belly with her legs, swallowed to come out alive]: Dzhurtubayev 1991:64 (=2007:13); Abkhazians [the old woman stabbed the chicken, hid her stomach in the attic for guests; came the guest, the old woman, climbed into the attic, swallowed her stomach; then swallowed the owner, the guest, passers-by (first two, then three, so until 20; the workers began to beat him with hoes, he burst, swallowed out alive ]: Shakryl 1975, No. 2:15-16 (=Bgazhba 2002:98-99); Avars [three brothers got lost, came to a house where cards with three daughters; the younger Fool Chilbik answers cards every time that he is awake sends bring water with a sieve, puts cards in the place of the brothers of the daughters; at night she cuts off the heads of her daughters; finds the head in the bundle not C., but her daughter; running away (the same every time), C. crosses the bridge of ash, K. does can catch up with C.; the ruler tells C. to bring the cards belonging to 1) tsach (blanket?) ; H. stabs sleeping cards from the roof, she thinks that there are fleas in the tsakh, throws it away; 2) the cauldron (C. throws stones at the roof, splashes of fat fly into the cards, she throws the cauldron away); 3) the golden goat (C. stabs it with a stick, the goat bleats, throws it away); 4) the cards themselves; H. meets cards in the form of a beggar, she asks to make a strong chest; climbs into it, it falls apart; the next strong, C. closes cards in it, brings; C. climbs the tree, the nucleers open the chest, swallows everyone's cards; C. throws bags of flour from the tree at it, the cards burst, the swallowed people and animals come out; there is no daughter of the ruler; C. cuts finger cards, a girl comes out from there, C. marries her]: Saidov, Dalgat 1965:301-310 (=Khalilov, Osmanov 1989:138-141); Georgians [the stomach eats the owner, hostess, guest, children; the priest tears him up, swallowed go out safely]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 2028:108; (cf. Hittites [as soon as Hedammu was born, he ate cattle, horses, lizards, frogs, snakes without the number of cattle, horses, lizards, frogs, snakes; he famine; he covered at least 130 cities with his belly; Ishtar seduced him, H. does not drink or drink eats (text ends)]: Ivanov 1977:150-152).

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks: Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522; Tajiks: Levin et al. 1981, No. 4 (Urgut near Samarkand) [there were chicken and Buyrak hero; the chicken offered to tumble down the mountain, whoever rolls first, he will eat the other; the chicken is the first, swallowed the hero; tells sparrows that he will eat them; sparrows: everyone bites you, you will die; the chicken swallowed sparrows; also forty; a crow; arbakesh with whips; the old woman invited her to warm up by the fire; the chicken fell asleep, the old woman put a skimmer in her ass; her ass burst, arbakeshes, sparrows and everyone else came out]: 113; Amonov 1961 [the chicken laid a small egg, it asked the old woman did not cook it, but first let it take a walk; met and swallowed boys with sticks and chizhiks, women who embroidered skullcaps, a caravan with camels and donkeys; the egg came back, wanted swallow the old woman, but she persuaded him to let her bake bread first; touched the egg with hot tongs, it burst, all swallowed and came out]: 16-16 (=Ottomans 1989:295-297); baluchis [on a bowl of turi, a louse and a rooster remained in the camp; the louse suggested that whoever reached the Turi should be the first to eat the other; ran first, ate a turya and a rooster; then a horse, a camel, a hunter, a pregnant woman; the shepherd hit the louse with a stick, ripped open his belly, the swallowed ones came out]: Zarubin 1932, No. 21:218-220; Turkmens [large snakes that have not seen a person for 40 years (or another period) turn into ajdaha; after they make this huge, able to take the form of any creature, protect treasures; legends speak of villages devastated by Azhdaha; Musa Pihamber throws his hasa staff into the mouth of Azhdaha, made of zeytun (olive) wood, she chokes on it, after which swallowed people come out of her womb; or the staff is called ak ("white") ajdaha, it swallows the punishment ("black") of ajdaha, i.e. ajdaha itself]: V.V. Ivanova, personal speaker, 2007.

Baltoscandia. Estonians, Danes, Icelanders: Uther 2004, No. 2028:521-522; Latvians [Clay girl. Husband and wife make a girl out of clay. When she comes alive, she swallows the stove, father, mother, shepherds with cows, pigs, sheep. Finally, the dog promises to jump into its own belly. All swallowed are released]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 2028:378-379; the Swedes [the giant ate and drank 7 barrels of porridge and 7 barrels of milk; everyone he meets says that he will trample him, and a giant swallows it; it is a cow, a horse, a calf, a ram; when it meets a squirrel, it dodges, it attacks a branch, swallowed, comes out alive]: Stier 1971, No. 51:186-188; Eastern Sami [the old man made a man out of clay, said to his wife, she looked out the window, the clay came to life, came to the house, swallowed old men, then girls with a rocker arm, women who went with baskets to pick berries, three fishermen along with the boat, he drank the river, swallowed the guys with axes along with the house they were building; on the mountain, a deer says that the clay man does not need to go up the mountain, he will jump into his mouth, ripped his belly with its horns , all swallowed out; the girls caught a deer, the guys brought gold, the deer was gilded with its horns, he became Oleshka Golden Horns]: Charnolussky 1962:159-161; Finns [wife advises childless potter make a son out of clay; he ate what his mother gave, then his parents, a hog, a mowl with a pitchfork and a rake, a hare, a fox, a bear; the elk suggests that he will jump into his mouth, smash the clay man, everything swallowed out]: Concca 1993:82-84; Karelians: Evseev 1981 [old man and old woman made a clay son; he ate a spinning wheel, mother, sheep, father, firewood, ax, reapers, sickles, clerk with a cross, priest, mowers with sickles, peasants with rakes; the ram offers to lie under a rock, close his eyes, open his mouth, he will jump there; the clay man butts, all swallowed came out]: 261; Onegin 2010, No. 66 ( Kalevalsky district) [Chuli comes into the house, asks if I should tell a fairy tale; hostess: tell me; Chuli: I used to live in amtar, ate oil from the tub, eat you with a spinning wheel; and then a man with firewood and a horse, another who was carrying pine needles, another with hay; goats advise you to rest under a pine tree first, knocked down a pine tree on Chuli, all swallowed came out]: 521-522; Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 46 [old people childless, the old man sculpted Vanka out of clay, put him to dry on the stove, he came to life, there was little food, ate an old woman with a spinning wheel, an old man with a yoke, girls with a rake, guys who went to work, women and men with braids; the goat offers to jump from the take-off to her mouth, hit her in the stomach with horns, Vanka became a pile of clay; since then they have not made vanek out of clay, they make stoves], 100 [grandparents have no children, they make a daughter out of clay; Annushka spins, drops a spindle underground; went down there and ate a spindle, then ate her grandfather and grandmother, meets a herd of sheep: "I'll eat you!" ; the ram offers to sit on his back, throws him on a stone in the middle of the river, butts; clay Annushka breaks, grandparents come ashore], 131 [clay Ivanushka eats a spindle, a spinning wheel, a shovel, sawflies; a ram deceives I. and pushes him into the river, where he drowns], 150 [an old man sculpts a clay boy who eats a spindle, a spinning wheel, grandmother, grandfather, boys, girls, women and men who meet to him; a goat breaks the boy Glinka - all victims are released]: 164-165, 209, 210, 213:164-165, 209, 210, 213; Lithuanians [The wolf tells the old man to give the sheep; so all five sheep; then a dog, a goat, cat, daughter, wife; swallows it; the old man cuts his belly with a knife, everyone swallowed goes out]: Löbitte 1965:66-60; Norwegians [the old woman has a glutton cat; the old woman decided to drown herself, but first gave the cat a portion of porridge; she ate it and ran away; meets different characters, tells everyone she ate only (lists all those swallowed, starting with porridge), swallows the character, moves on; this is a man an old woman, a cow, a man who cut branches, an ermine, a squirrel, a fox, a hare, a wolf, a bear with a bear, a wedding procession, a funeral procession, the moon, the sun; a goat butts her, she falls from bridge, bursts, everyone swallowed goes out, returns to where they were]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:161-167.

Volga - Perm. Mordva (Erzya) [Old man and old woman, they don't have children. They decide to make a child out of clay. They knead clay, mold it, sculpting a son. He comes out big, clumsy. The old woman says that when it's dry, she'll be good. Put the idiot on the shelf to dry. He dries up and gets back on his feet. He tells his father he'll eat it. The old man is scared, but he can't help it. The idiot swallows it, goes to his mother, says he'll eat her. The mother eats it. An aunt enters the hut, he eats her, then his uncle, swallows all his relatives, goes outside, goes wherever his eyes look. He meets a Russian woman walking with buckets to get water, and he swallows it along with buckets and a rocker arm. Then he meets a man with a cart who goes to the bazaar to sell bast. The idiot swallows a man, a horse, a cart with bast. He goes on, everything is not enough for him. It starts to rain, the idiot rushes through the field, gets wet and falls apart. People come out of the idiot, scold the old man and the old woman, they say they will never sculpt idiots again]: Anikin 1909:59-60; Komi [childless spouses carved the child out of the log; he came to life asked for a spindle and a ball; swallowed them; began to sing: I swallowed the spindles and the ball, and I will swallow you too, mother; then I swallowed my father, the man with the firewood cart, the second with a cart of wooden blocks, the third with with a carriage of straw, the fourth with a carriage of hay, the fifth with a cart of logs; and when he swallowed another woman, his stomach burst]: Wichmann 1916, No. 25:75-80; Marie [Clay boy: swallows parents and carts Mari; women break it, swallowed saved]: Sabitov 1989, No. 333*B: 25; Chuvash: Danilov, Nechaev 1975 [=Yukhma 1990:357-360; when older brother Kekhitran is 12 years old, younger Kehermen-Ketil (KK) - one and a half; the whirlwind took the KK to the kingdom of Peri; the king adopted him, but the KK is so strong that he cannot play with anyone, maims everyone; King Peri sends him to the underworld; KK meets an old man, he says that the underworld is owned by an all-devouring 12-armed king; hands reach for the KK, grabbing, he hardly tore off one; KK comes to the 12-armed, asks to heat the bathhouse; the 12-handed agrees first evaporate, then eat KK; at this time, KK, on the advice of the old man, replaced bottles of living and dead water; they began to fight, KK cut the monster, many swallowed people came out alive, including father and brother KK]: 22-27; Chuvash tales 1937 [the serpent knocked down from the sky with its tail and captured the sun and the month, swallowed peoples and tribes; three babies remained and each foal - white, black, savras; one in the steppe, another in the forest, the third in a crevice of rocks; grew up, became Ser-Pattar, Yuman-Pattar, Tu-pattar ("earth-, oak-, hero mountains"); S. met first J., then T., drove together; stayed in a house, near the bridge across the river; at midnight S. woke up: a wave carries a snake sitting on a copper throne with three crowns on three heads; S. fights him on the bridge, killed him, hid his heads and pieces of body under the bridge, his brothers have nothing said; they drove up to the village; S. peeks out the window of the hut: there a woman rocks a baby, a star in her forehead, stars in her ears; she tells the baby that avenging the death of his father will become a bush raspberries, heroes will eat berries and die; S. cut the bush, black blood has flowed; brothers stay in another house at the bridge over Shura-Shyv ("white river"); J. must guard, but falls asleep, S. sees how the ninth wave carries a snake on the silver throne, silver crowns on 9 heads; he drove S. waist-deep into the ground, but S. cut off all the heads, hid them under the bridge; S. spies into the hut again; the same episode, stars on the woman even more, sits on a silver chair, promises to turn into a spring; S. cuts a spring, black blood has flowed; brothers spend the night at the bridge over the Black River, T. goes to guard, falls asleep; twelfth the wave carries a 12-headed serpent, with gold crowns on its heads; he drives S. into the ground, but S. went out, cut off 11 heads; to save the last one, the serpent took the sun out of one ear, gave it away from the other; S. all cut off his head equally; in the hut, a woman with stars on her body is sitting on a golden chair, promising to turn into a bed with a feather bed; S. cuts, black blood has flowed; the mother of snakes surrounded the heroes with her body, swallowed J. and T., S. jumped over his horse, jumps away, the snake chases; S. locked himself in the forge, invited the snake to lick the iron door, grabbed his tongue with hot forceps, went out, began to cut from the tail, all swallowed came out, everyone threw a handful of earth, a mountain formed; S. took the sun and moon out of his pockets, they returned to heaven]: 27-40; Bashkirs: Barag 1989, No. 123 [two khans stabbed to death the piebald sheep, put its head and legs to cook, then threw the spleen into the cauldron; she jumped out, met a sparrow chirping a chick tweet, swallowed it; then (cumulative fairy tale) met and swallowed a crow croaking a carr-carr, a lumberjack, a mower, seven daughters of a silk weaver, nine sons of a domrist; the goat does not tell you to swallow it, he will run down the mountain, jump into his mouth by himself; the belly of the spleen burst, everyone came out, the goat himself was the last], 124 [the childless old woman made the boy out of dough, put it in the oven; he jumped out, came to life, asked for food, ate a loaf of bread and all the supplies, swallowed the old woman, the old man, lumberjack, mower; grandmother poured boiling milk on him, he softened, everyone swallowed went out, thanked his grandmother]: 449-450, 451.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas [old people stabbed a ram, began to throw each other's spleen, the husband offered food to his wife, the wife to her husband; the spleen ran away, ate a herd of horses; a herd of cows; a herd of sheep; a herd of goats; rolled on the ice, froze, her belly burst, swallowed out]: Katanov 1907, No. 415:422-423; Tuvans: Grebnev 1960 [before his death, Father Myoge Bayan-Dalaya (DB) sent him for Lama Kolda- Burgan; he came and began to read sacred books, but the camp was surrounded by enemies - brothers Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara; the DB horse tells him to aim higher, because the brothers will jump, but the DB did not listen, the arrow flew by; he did not jump himself, he was killed; his pregnant wife Sai-Kuu fled to the steppe, gave birth to a son Kara-Kogel; three days later he was already walking and talking; asking his mother about animals, from small to large, easily kills them with stones; their mother taught them how to make a bow and shoot; KK brought 6 bears at once; his mother does not tell them to go to the sacred mountain; he went, the mountain is moving, this is a giant maral that eats the forest like grass; KK hit a vulnerable spot on the forehead, where animal hair; ripped the belly of the maral, and many people came out alive (this episode on p. 102); KK made a home out of the skin of this maral; the mother sent the KK to meet him halfway his grandfather Aldyn-Aas; he is going to marry Manchin-ege-Khan's daughter; people without an ear; without an arm; without a leg; they answer that they were attacked by two eagles; two birds of Khan Hereti; two lions; this was when they went to Manchin-Ege-Khan; AA gives the DB a name that the mother only vaguely said: Kara-Kogel, riding an Arzylan-Kyskyl horse; this horse has no cracks between its ribs; AA stays with KK's mother, and his sends it to Myncheung-ege-khan; the DB's father once married him, gave him steel bars and scissors; to cross the sea, the KK fired an arrow, she scattered the passage between the waters; the khan has competitions, the winner will get his daughter; the son of the moon, the son of heaven, the son of the sun participate; the KK arrow went through the needle eye, through the hole of the shoulder blade, set fire to a pile of firewood, etc., but he threw a lasso over her and returned it; compete running from a place where heaven meets earth; the strongmen sent fairies instead of themselves; they served KK to drink - he fell dead, poisoned; the horse ran away, pushed the jug away, the winds revived the KK, he overtook the old women, dragged those who wanted to hold him with hooks; horse racing, those old women on horseback, the horse tells me not to look back; AA turned around, saw his mother's chest, fell down to her, fell poisoned; the horse he woke him up, he overtook the old women; to fight the strongman for 90 days; in winter only hoarfrost creaked under his feet, in summer the dew rustled; AA overcame him and buried him in a hole; fighting a strongman from which sparks fall; AA beat him with an icy fur coat, threw him into the sea; to defeat the bull, AA threw the bull by the rock scree; fighting three bears; in winter, hoarfrost creaked under their feet, in the summer the dew rustled; threw all three KK against the stones; these strongmen are from the lower world, they licked the arrow, vowing not to attack again; horse: they will demand me for the bride, do not give me iron fetters; but Malchin-ege Khan took the horse along with his fetters; they gave the KK a drink at the feast, Heroes attacked him; KK shouted: Earth is my mother, Heaven is my father, where are you? Stones fell from the sky, destroyed half of the Khan's squad; his wife brought the KK to her, and in the morning he called out again to Earth and Heaven, asking them to be benevolent; the sun shone, half of those killed came to life; broken The KK melted the bronze bowl and poured it again; the KK horse almost died of thirst and hunger, but the khan's little son let him go and gave him water; the horse was offended by the KK for giving it along with the fetters, but then forgave him him; after visiting his looted camp, KK saw the remains of a long-dead man; this is his father; KK smeared his bones with drugs, the body revived; hit the whip with a golden handle and jumped over - man got up, but could not speak; from the book, Sudur KK learned that the magic mouse had carried the vocal cords across 7 layers of earth, 9 layers of dust; KK became an ermine, caught up, killed the mouse, returned the ligaments, put it in his father's mouth; The DB came to life, but the KK told him to look after the house, and went to take revenge; learned from the shepherds that life was hard under the new owners; invited Ak-Khan and Kadyn-Kara to shoot at each other the way they shot with his father; their arrow bounced off the KK's chest and crumbled, his arrow pierced both at once; the KK returned the people to their original place of nomadic]: 87-141; Taube 1978, No. 56 [earlier, when Milk Lake it was a puddle, and Mount Sümber was a mound, the old people had a son, Döng Sööshük; his father told him to sit on a white ox and bring calves; D. did not find calves, and when he returned, he did not there was a trace left; his ox fell, he began to burn his fat; Chylbyga appeared, put it in a bag, carried it to her children; he cut a hole, hid behind a bump; when she saw that the bag was empty, C. screamed so much that D. came out of the shelter; she hung it in the chimney, went to get firewood; D. promised her seven children to play with them if they released him; stabbed everyone, put their heads to bed, cooked meat, collected blood in empty stomach, hid himself behind the yurt; C. found the meat cooked, called the children, found heads; D. ran, spilled blood on the ice; C. began to lick it so that it would not spill into the water, his tongue froze, D. cut her throat; cut her stomach, his parents and all the cattle came out alive]: 273-276; Baikal Buryats: Burchina 2007, No. III.2 (Alarsky District) [Uliger episode: Alma Gokhon Abhay meets Heavenly Stupid Girl on her way; she does not let people walking through the valley pass: she picks them up with an iron hook and swallows them; Alma Gohon Abhay pierces Heavenly Stupid Girl's chest with an arrow; the girl falls out of her gut Many people come out]; No. III.5 (Nukut district) [uliger episode: after shooting at Argalan Khan, Mor Mergen Khubun curses an arrow: if he is destined to die, let him fly away for countless ten thousand sides, and if you are destined to survive, let him hit ten thousand enemy's back eyes; the arrow shoots through Argalan Khan's ear; he wakes up and breathes in and sucks in Mor Mergen Khubun; Mohr Mergen Khubun catches the palate with two arrows and cries for help; Abay Geser fires an arrow ordering to hit ten thousand enemy eyes; Argalan Khan, hit by an arrow, falls dead; Mor Mergen Khubun rips open his stomach; people (walking and carting) and wild animals come out]: 151, 190; Sanzheev 1936 (Bulagat-Ekhirite aimag, uliger episodes) [on the advice of the horse, Alamji Mergen conjures his an arrow, it pierces the heads of six geese, in which the life of a mangadhai, with 600 heads and 60 poly horns; another AM arrow pierces the entire interior of the mangadhai, and then cuts off the head; from the back herd wounds came out, Russians and Buryats came out of the front wound, went to the mill with flour, mothers and children came out, the whole valley was filled with people]: 93-99; Mongols [Irin-Sain comes to Mangys's wife; she replies that the husband will come with rain, wind and thunder, hugging the sky and lower earth with his upper lip, swallowing people and camels; breaking the bowstring on the back of the mangys, I. kills him, freeing the swallowed]: Potanin 1893, No. 2a: 132; the Mongols of Ordos [Ondey, the best man, is immensely rich in cattle; someone kidnaps the foals that his mare gives birth every year; he is going to give birth to Hormuste's foal; the mare gives birth, but the yellow rainbow takes him away; O. fired an arrow, the foal fell, the mare licked it; the long yellow llama also fell; said that he stole foals by order of the Burkhan; O. dug a deep well, lowered Dolny there, put a bull and a camel in the hole, telling them not to get up, even if they were beaten and the brushwood and stick broke; went to inspect the herds; O.'s wife hears song, comes to the well; Long advises to offer animals herbs and water - O. did not tell them about it; the animals got up, Long got out, the woman brought him to her; says that he will not return to her husband again ; Long advises to pretend to be sick, ask for the heart of a monstrous snake; O. took his dogs Arja and Barja, a peacock and a parrot, went in search; came to a black yurt, gold and silver in front of her horseback riding, O. tied the mare to the gold one; the girl called to the house, the old woman fed and paid tribute; when he reached the mountain, behind which the serpent, the horse teaches to close his eyes, the horse will ride, thunder, the snake in fear will close its mouth, you have to shoot, swallowed people will come out of its mouth, then insert an arrow, enter the snake, cut off the heart; the snake's upper lip is flush with the mountain in the west, the lower lip is flush with the mountain on east; when O. pulled out his heart, blood flowed, causing a flood; when he reached the yurt, O. lost consciousness; the old woman tells her daughter to throw a snake's heart into the abyss, replace the bull with her heart; at home Long advises a woman to feed a snake's heart to her husband - it's poisonous, he will die; O. is not dead; Long advises to look at the patient again, ask the brain of a 12-headed black mangus; O. goes to a black yurt, there are other girls and old woman; old woman tells the girl to cook a bull for a guest, keep her brain separate; the horse trampled on the mangus, O. collected her brain; the old woman tells her daughter to replace the mangus brain with the brain of a bull; the wife only pretended to eat brain; gave her husband a drink to the point of insensitivity; Long got out of the chest, cut O. into pieces; a mare, a peacock, a parrot and both dogs grabbed and carried away pieces; the wife gave birth first to son O., and then to son Dolny; animals protect O.'s severed body, Naran Gho (daughter of an old woman from a white yurt) found them, his mother gave a magic object to revive O.; marries him a daughter, gives him a new name Shudurg Mergen Chagadai Khan (Chagadai Mergen); The long one flew to heaven; the World Cup (i.e. former O.) arrived when only his son was at home; opened up to him; took the animal's meat out of the cauldron, cooked Long's son; asks his wife if she wants to live with five jings or with to those she does not love; she: with jings; he tied her to five horses; when the World Cup mare started, her son, on whom Long was sitting in the sky, rushed carrying a rider; S. cut it into 5 pieces and cooked it; lives with wife, her mother and son; by order of Hormusta, he became the son of Genghis, became emperor]: Mostaert 1937, No. 1 in Solovyov 2014; Oirats [episode in the epic story: black bald mangus unsuccessfully tries to suck the hero Dainy-Curul into his mouth and swallow; then they start fighting, D.-K. gains the upper hand, cuts off the head of the mangus and rips his stomach off; "people began to wander from there for generations, chasing cattle in herds; caravans of loaded camels began to leave, people began to roam villages"]: Vladimirtsov 2003:478-479.

Western Siberia. Northern Selkups [the cannibal Karynda flew to the fishing village; the grandmother managed to hide her grandson under the cauldron; K. herself did not eat - bony; the grandson promised to grow up and kill K.; grandmother at all grew old, gave her grandson to an old man; the old man made wings to his grandson from the feathers of various birds, the guy flew to look for K.; flew to the village; there K.'s wife said that the other wife had him; she sent him to the third; the third to fourth; K.'s seventh wife invited the guy into the house; he refused, ordered him to go out; the guy began to fly between trees, up and down; K. ran out of strength, crashed into the ground, crashed]: Stepanova 2018, № 38:17-19.

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 41 (Chirombu) [Evenks dance all day; the old woman hears Korendo's noise, they don't believe her, the children stuff dog droppings into her mouth; K. swallowed dancing Evenks, the old woman hid under the cauldron; collected grouse droppings, rocked, it did not come to life; in the spring she collected goose droppings, he came to life, became Unyana's boy; she trades for a bird, hazel grouse, larger animals, every time asks his grandmother if this beast ate his uncle; she explains that she ate K. from the sky; W. makes wings, flies to heaven from one wife K. to another, their names are Scraper, Myalka, Needle, Thimble Case; ripped apart K.'s belly with his wing, the Evenks came out, some alive, some dead; W. consistently flies, sings with three sons K., ripped off each's belly, freed the Evenks; flew to K.'s wife named Brusok, sang to her that your K. was killed]: 41-44 (retelling in 1959:183); Shatilov 1927 (Narym; the narrator chained to Narym Krai from Tym, and to Tym from Sym) [an old woman and an old man want a child; an old woman takes swan droppings, shakes it; a child appears, an old woman drops him, he breaks; then he finds goose droppings, shakes it, a child appears; he grows up, he finds a woman, they have children; they dance, songs they sing; grandmother warns that after sunset they can be dragged away by their spirit; children do not believe, they play; the spirit comes and eats everyone; the old man and the old woman remain and the youngest child, Unyany; he grows up wants to catch that spirit; forges iron wings, flies away; catches up with Corenda's spirit in the middle of the sea; he sits full, with a big belly; Unyany rips it off with a knife; from there fall out swallowed, some rotten, some alive; Unyan washes the living in the sea and takes them with them on their wings; people are born from them]: 14-15; Evens [5 sisters live, the eldest Naruk takes care of the younger Chimcheng; turns into a cannibal giant, devours people and deer; C. tells his older sisters about this, who do not believe it for a long time; when N. appears, each of the older sisters tries to fly away on one of the household items (a board, stick, etc.), they fall into N.'s mouth; C. flies away on a teal, flies to Ergagen, remains a wife, gives birth to a son; N., E. appears, tells her to open her mouth, shoots, N.'s head splits, alive N. herself, as she was before, and all the people and animals swallowed go out; N. marries the person she had previously eaten in the form of a monster]: Lavrille, Matic 2013:79-118; Yakuts (Western 1985 in Yakutsk from a native of Verkhoyansky ulus) [Angaa Mangys took horses, cows, sons, daughters from old woman Nyy-Nyy; Chyngyrykaan advised to bury two eggs near the hearth, next to a tub with two pike and a poker, from Cover the threshold with a horse last, nail awls in the door, traps on the window; go for pike in a thimble sleigh, harness a louse, two needles - servants; AM came in, slipped on a stone, broke ribs, trapped with his fingers, began to fan the fire, the eggs burst, burned his eyes, he put his hands in the tub, his pike grabbed him, the old woman killed him with a palm tree; C. ordered him to prick the pad of his left thumb, horses, cows, sons, daughters of the old woman came out from there; AM's body was burned]: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 16:177-185.

Amur - Sakhalin. Udege people: Arsenyev 1995 (2) [The bond is strong and ingenious, Egda is smart; they are sailing in a boat; E. wants to stop and kill fish, duck, red deer, but Uza only pushes back harder with the pole; ahead the giant animal Gambau buin; E. wants back, W. wants to go forward; they broke the boat; E. climbed the hill, W. stabbed G. with a spear; the nuthatch tells him to open his belly, the swallowed people came out; tell W. to dig a hole into the lower world where E. always sits; W. covered the hole with birch bark, E. fell into Buniha; since then, the dying have been going there, and used to go to Gambau Buin]: 172-173; Podmaskin, Kireyeva 2010 [Huna Ziti's seven brothers disappear one by one; she comes to the cannibal; at night she tries to pour hot lead fat into her ear; H. does not sleep, does not give up; the cannibal falls asleep, H. pours on her fat, finds the brothers' bodies, revives by mixing the same potion with water; next time the brothers disappear into the sea one by one; the tit tells you to throw crushed birch bark into the sea; for aquatic life it is clothing, X . hears children's voices, everyone asks for clothes; a whale with human hands pops up; a tit tells them to be cut off; swallowed people come out of their sleeves; H. rips open the whale's belly, from there they come out the rest of the people inhabit the earth; the brothers H. also come out; the youngest kills the squirrel, the shamanic spirit; H. tells the brothers to hide in the sky, hides in the ash herself; each of the brothers shoots seven times at the sky, it goes down, they climb in, the sky rises; hordes of squirrels look for H., old torn boots give them away (so you can't keep used shoes); squirrels scratched X., but ash blinded them, they're gone; brothers went down, made X. winged skis, she flew them, found seven girls, brought them to their brothers as wives; H. flies away, finds her husband, gives birth to a son, gives him gifts received from her brothers; boy finds his mother's brothers, they recognize him by gifts; everything is fine]: 138-141.

The Arctic. Bering Strait Inupiat (village. Shishmaref): [the boy lives with his grandmother; the food is over, the grandmother sends him to look for food on the shore; he finds cod, tears off its head, swallows it; then the same with the seal, oogrook, whale- white whale; drinks a whole pond of water; cannot crawl through the door of the house; through the window; into the vent; goes through the ear of grandmother's needle; stumbles over the lamp, it jumps on it, the grandmother has time to jump out; When he comes back, there is a pond on the floor with cod, seal, lahtak, beluga whale swimming in it]: Keithahn 1958:19-20.

NW Coast. Uvikino [The Magnificent The original was the first to descend from heaven to earth, with his wife and child; the boy asked for a sling, now there are many traces of sling stones on the stones; son asked for salmon, my father carved a wooden one, which did not swim at first; then he put a leaf of salmon on his nose, made two small salmon; only two old people lived on the shore, the rest starved to death or they were eaten by a sea monster; the boy killed him, took out the bones swallowed, revived them with live water; people began to catch salmon]: Hilton, Rath 1982:36-42.

The coast is the Plateau. Lillouette [boys in the boat call small fish, then scream, Keith, whale; old man Cutler doesn't tell you to scream like that; Keith swallows the boat; K. breaks it, makes a fire, heats fat , cuts off Keith's heart, tells him to jump ashore; people open the carcass, swallowed, come out bald; people have been bald ever since]: Elliott 1931:177-178; curdalen [Grizzly shoots Rabbit in the eye, but he puts a bubble to his eye in advance; shoots Grizzly in the eye, who howls in pain; The rabbit comes to the woman, that daughter; the rabbit kills her, is fresh; the daughter's husband has a broken arrow, he realizes that the wife died; The rabbit runs, leaves the baked camas rubs behind him so that the victim's chasing husband stops eating them; asks the Coyote to hide it; he hides it in the knee of the cereal plant; at the pursuer the dog is a Grizzly; one of the advisers to the Coyote (his excrement) also turns into a dog, the Coyote puts a knife in the back of his head; the Coyote quarrels with the Stalker Absorber, they decide that their dogs get into a fight, the Coyote dog climbs under the Grizzly, rips his stomach with a knife; the Absorber swallows the Coyote; there are many people inside, as if they do not understand that they have been swallowed; the Coyote tickles the Absorber's heart, that he regurgitates; Coyote says he swallows people; suggests closing his eyes, regurgitating swallowed; swaps people regurgitated by the Absorber and mice regurgitated by him; The absorber again He swallows the Coyote, he hurts his heart, inserting hoops into his mouth and nostrils; swallowed people come out through them; the Coyote tells the Rabbit to cut the giant's body, throws pieces, saying which one will give birth to which people; when a piece falls, there is smoke, a dwelling appears; blacklegs come out of their legs, they are tall; ne perse is made of ribs, they have good heads (I mean beautiful hair); the stomach is pot-bellied grovanter; the heart is curdalen, they are evil (mean); wiped their hands on the grass - they will be spokane, they are poor]: Reichard 1947, No. 2:68-71; flethead [Coyote enters the womb of a giant creature unnoticed; feeds swallowed people fat monsters; cuts off his heart with a knife (it turns into a mountain range); swallowed creatures jump out of his mouth; clenched jaws flatten the Tick]: Edmonds, Clark 1989:30-31; McDermott 1901, No. 2 [ the volcano is the heart of the monster, lava is blood; (Quail in Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:223-225)]: 240-241; kalispel [unnoticed, Coyote enters the womb of the giant Rattlesnake; finds many inside dying people; cuts off the monster's heart, it turns into a rock ledge; puts two trees to put the monster to close its mouth (they still grow); cuts its tail (now a narrow canyon) through it hole people come out]: Teit 1917, No. 2:115-116; ne perse [Coyote is swallowed by a monster lying in the river; finds animal people inside; cuts a monster's heart, he dies]: Aoki 1979, No. 4 [Coyote ties himself to the mountains; the ropes burst when the monster sucks it in; the Coyote breaks five stone knives before the heart is cut off; makes various tribes cut off and thrown in different directions monster members; ne perse made of blood and water]: 27-28; Clark 1953 [huge Beaver; Coyote lets himself be swallowed into a spruce branch; makes Chinook from his lower body, clickitate out legs, forelimbs, rib yakima, head ne perse, oriental bison hunters made of blood, hair, mud]: 172-175; 1966 [animal people jump out through various holes in the body monsters; Coyote makes tribes (like in Aoki); heart and liver turn into rocks]: 27-30; Phinney 1934 [Skylark tells Coyote about the Monster; he takes tar and flint with him, kindles a fire under his heart Monster; when the Monster dies, animal humans jump through every hole in its body; clamped by the sphincter, the Muskrat's tail becomes bald]: 26-29; Spinden 1908, No. 2 [monster with a deer body; Coyote breeds fire under his heart]: 14-15; clickite: Jacobs 1929, No. 9 [The Coyote wants to see a water monster; it swallows it; there are many people and animals inside; the Coyote makes a fire, the monster dies; swallowed go ashore]: 225-226; 1934, No. 28 [when a girl comes to marry Eagle, his younger brother Coyote leaves; a monster lives in the Columbia River, swallows boats; Coyote invites him to swallow each other friend; the monster does not pay attention to him, finally swallows him; the Coyote cuts his heart with a flintlock knife; previously swallowed people go outside; the cannibal Basket advises Coyote to cross the river with the help of her husband; this is the Crane, he lays his legs like a bridge, collides those who turn into the water; Coyote crosses in a boat; tells Basket he turned white when he was smeared with resin and lay down on hot stones ; The basket burns, the Coyote crane turns into a crane; defecates, his two excrement sisters say that a man with one leg and one hand harpoons salmon; the Coyote turns into salmon, but The one-legged knows it's a Coyote; hits him with a harpoon, pulls him ashore, lets him go; the Coyote turns his sisters into two dogs; the boy invites everyone to play off his dogs against his dogs; they are terrible and dangerous; Coyote dogs kill them; Coyote goes further, depriving dangerous creatures of power]: 64-74; Tenino [the Coyote chief has five sisters in his stomach, these are blueberries (rather Coyote excrement); every time when he asked them for advice, they said they would not answer this time, because he would say again that he knew everything himself; the Coyote threatened them that it would cause rain, they would get wet; blueberries agreed to give tip; to kill Nash-lah, who swallows boats with people on the river, you need to take firewood, tar and 5 flint knives with him; Coyote says he thought so himself; Coyote calls NL, forcing him to swallow himself; finds hungry people inside frozen; makes a fire, cuts off and roasts the monster's heart; N. regurgitates swallowed, dies. coughing up swallowed ones; Coyote gives first ancestors (animals) names (you are animals) you'll be an eagle, you're a rattlesnake, etc.); now new people (Indians) will come; NL will live at the bottom, but stop swallowing people]: Hines 1991, No. 1:12-15; yakima: Beavert 1974 [in Vinacha in the water the rocks lived a dog-like monster, sucked people in; the Coyote's "sisters" say that the monster has informants; this is Sandpiper's husband and wife (Scolopacidae); Coyote cuts off their tongues, promises beautiful paint if they were silent; but the female had time to squeak, the monster came out; the Coyote pruned the climbing plants (with which the monster tied himself?) , the monster fell off the cliff, died, the rock turned red; the Coyote freed the swallowed, painted Sandpipers; the other monsters fled; the Coyote tied himself to the rock; the last monster tore the vines, swallowed the Coyote; previously swallowed freeze; the Coyote made a fire under the monster's heart, he died, the swallowed ones managed to jump out through the ass; the smoke turned many gray and black, the Heron's wings darkened, the Coyote became yellowish, uneven in color; Coyote tells monsters not to live on land; killer whales and sharks have gone to sea]: 28-31; Hines 1992, No. 1 [the Istiplach monster on the Columbia River sucks everyone into itself; afraid of the Coyote; The coyote hides knives, firewood, etc. in a bag, takes the form of an old woman, is swallowed; there are many living and dead animal people inside, it is cold there; he makes a fire, cuts off his heart with a fifth knife, I. belches everyone; Coyote tells him never to swallow when real people come]: 19-22; Western sachaptine [the monster swallowed people; Coyote offered to draw each other in, swallowed; inside there is a rattlesnake, a grizzly want kill him; he shamed them not to kill the monster; cut his heart, made a fire under it; the swallowed ones came out; the Coyote made blacklegs out of the monster's legs, the crowe, the Sioux, the jar from the other parts; washed his hands, out of this waters - ne perse (short but strong); var.: Coyote prepared fuel and resin in advance; ne perse arose from monster blood]: Farrand, Mayer 1917, No. 4:148-149.

The Midwest. Winnebago Burlin, p. 247-253 in Edmonds, Clark 1989 [The bunny lived with his Grandmother Earth; the monster in the form of a grassy hill devoured people; the bunny showered himself with crushed flint, gave himself swallow; inside alive and dead; The bunny turned a flint fragment into a flint knife; cut a hole, people came out; the monster's children were thrown overseas, so elephants do not live here; put them on the path the Sun caught the net made by his grandmother in it; freeing him, scorched his hind legs; trying to kill a huge ant, he himself was killed; his grandmother revived him; he brought a huge pine tree from the edge of the earth, knocked him down ant, which turned into many scattered ants]: 266-269; Radin 1956, No. 14 [The hare covers itself with flint arrowheads, lets a water monster swallow itself; finds itself alive inside humans; the monster belches him four times and swallows him again; he has several stomachs; the hare kills him by cutting his heart, releasing the swallowed ones; burns the monster's children and pregnant wives]: 76-78.

Plains. Sarsi: Curtis 1976 (18) [husband does not tell a pregnant wife to look out of the tipi if she hears something; wife pierces a hole with an awl; an old man comes in; refuses to eat the food offered at a tray made of wood, a dried stomach, a bark; on a woman's blanket (that's better!) , on her moccasin (even better), greed (more!) , wearing her dress (very close! ); when she puts food on her bare stomach, the person eats the offer with her flesh, pulls two babies out of her womb, throws one into the stream, the other beyond the floor of the tipi; the corpse's face puts in a fire, it wrinkles as if laughing; he leaves the corpse facing the entrance; the husband first thinks the wife is laughing, then crying; notices the prints of small legs on the ash; leaves his blanket on the hill for disguises, he flies up in the form of a pen; hears one boy calling another to come out of the river to play; next time his father grabs Domashny, Rechnaya slips away; convinces Domashny to lure Rechny ashore , he also grabs; brothers shoot arrows up above the mother's body, she comes to life; the father does not tell you to go in certain directions; the brothers go, defeat monsters; 1) the bison; 2) the bear; 3) the old man who killed them mother (Domashny searches in his head, protecting his stomach with a flat stone; the old man cannot bite into him, Rechnoy kills him with an arrow); 4) a living hill draws in and swallows people; brothers find skeletons inside ; cut off Hill's heart, make a hole in his side; revive the swallowed, go out with them; 5) Domashny tries to grab the Eagle's feather, the Eagle takes him away; the old woman finds a baby lying on eagle feathers ; only her youngest son agrees that she bring the foundling into the house; he is called Zillunna ("lousy"). The chief promises to give his two daughters to the one who will get two silver foxes; C. the old woman is ashamed to offer the leader Ts as her son-in-law, for the third time she says that he got the fox; the older sister refuses to marry C., the youngest goes out; only C. turns bison cakes into bison, gets buffalo; creates beautiful clothes for herself and his wife; the older sister turns into a mole out of envy, digs a hole under the sleeping C., who falls, she defecates on him; the old Wolf calls animals , they tear off C.; The she-wolf adopts C., she is killed, C. returns to his wife; tells the Wolves to execute her older sister; The Wolves tore her apart, Wolverine took the vulva and climbed the tree]: 136-140; (cf. Dzana-gu 1921, No. 26 [when going hunting, the husband tells his pregnant wife not to look out when she hears the sound of a bell; she looks out, the man comes in, refuses to eat from the plate, from the moccasins, from the greaves, from the dress, eats from her belly, tears it up, pulls out twins, throws one into the river, the other behind the floor tipi, leaves, leaving the corpse standing; the husband mourns his wife, notices small traces, leaves a bow and arrows, goes to hill, sees a boy; next time he leaves his cape on the hill, he comes closer unnoticed; the boy, thrown next to the tipi, shouts to the man thrown into the river that his father is far away on the hill, he goes out his family grabs him, calls his father; all three live together; brothers shoot arrows, tell his mother to beware, she comes to life; the father does not tell him to go to the river where their mother is murdered; the brothers go, that man suggests looking for parasites from him, one brother ties a person's hair to willows, the other puts a stone on his stomach; the person jumps up, wants to dig into his stomach, breaks his teeth, remains tied to his hair; father warns not to go where the bear, the bison, the brothers kill them; do not go to the cave, they go, they are drawn in by the wind, they see the heart, it is an absorber monster, skeletons inside; brothers they tie knives to their heads, dance, bounce, cut the monster's heart, return to their father]: 32-34); grovantre [a good daughter tells her husband that SK is a girl; the boy grows up, kills his son-in-law, three evil wives and their children; travels to destroy monsters; a tree crushes and swallows passers-by; SK turns into a feather, cuts down a tree, releases swallowed ones; the bridge stands on the head of a bison, throws off passers-by; The UK jumps over it, the bridge goes under water forever; the SC allows the Wolf to swallow itself, cuts his heart, goes out with a hole in his side, releases those who have been swallowed before; the man shakes over the river passers-by, throws off a water monster; SK turns into a feather, allows itself to be swallowed, kills the monster from the inside with arrows, frees the swallowed ones; kills the owner of the swing; a man with a sharp leg plays with others, kicks to death; SK puts a poplar in its place, its leg gets stuck in it; SK marries; father-in-law tells 1) to get a glowing object (this is the Morning Star, the son-in-law brings); 2) kill a bear (son-in-law brings meat); 3) get arrow feathers (the son-in-law climbs into the Thunderbirds nest; they produce lightning, blinking, and thunder as they move; Our mother will fly in a black storm cloud, and our father in a white cloud with thunderstorm and hail; son-in-law kills parent birds, leaves chicks, brings feathers); 4) bring bison tendons (brings); 5) arrow flints (the cliff falls on it, it flies up with a pen, brings flints); 6) bring water at night (breaks the horn of a water monster, brings him to his father-in-law); he is furious that all his assistants have died, shoots at his son-in-law, misses; his son-in-law kills him with an arrow]: Kroeber 1907b, No. 20: 82-90; Yankton [people find a baby, the leader's daughter adopts him; at night he hears terrible sounds from his throat; the chief says it is Oia, swallowing entire camps; everyone runs; in the morning I. in his true The appearance is chased, but the warriors kill him; a camp appears at this place; its inhabitants are happy to have been released]: Zitkala-Ša 1985:131-141; Omaha, Ponca [two options; alive the hill swallows people; the rabbit lets him swallow himself, cuts his heart; the hill splits, the swallowed ones go out; the rabbit brings Holm's heart to his grandmother, they eat it]: Dorsey 1890:31, 34-35; Osage [a living hill swallows everyone; a young man lets him swallow himself, hurts his heart; swallowed animals go outside; a chief marries a young man to his daughter]: Dorsey 1904c, No. 34:42; iowa [ Ue (the female organ of the earth) sucked the Hare; threw it back; Hare's grandmother cured him in the steam room; he rolls hot stones in Uya; Uye's death cramps caused earthquakes]: Skinner 1925, No. 39:497-498.

The Great Southwest. Papago [dark at first; The Creator of the Earth (NW) and the Yellow Vulture (JS) meet four times in the void, each forcing the other to create peace; the NW has taken something out of his heart or rolled dirt off his skin he put it in the palm of his hand, a green branch, greasewood; the louse on the plant produced resin and from this NW created the earth; he sang, bored it, it became flat; he placed mountains on the ground, on the tops of the mountains bird fluff (clouds) and shamans; when the earth spread, shamans and mountains spread everywhere; the Earth expanded to the dome of Heaven; I'itoi jumped out, said he was the son of Heaven and Earth; he was small, bearded, gray or blond; from the northwest, a Coyote came out from under the bush; the earth swayed, Coyote, I. and JS unsuccessfully confused to fix it; two Spiders did this, connecting heaven and earth with a web; all the mountains were inclined to the west, all the rivers flowed there; the JS flew by, waving its wings, gave the mountains a variety of shapes, the rivers flowed in different directions; the NW splashed water to the north, west, south, east, the moon appeared and the sun; spit out stars like saliva; created people from his body, she began to fight; he and I. sent a flood; for this purpose I. created Handsome Man, who became pregnant with all the girls, each gave birth the next morning; the sorcerer made the Handsome man himself give birth; he left the child, he began to cry, his tears flooded the earth with a flood; the NW escaped on a magic rod, I. in a large vessel, the Coyote in the reed, the JS pierced the sky; some people became birds, clung to the sky with their beaks; others became trees and took root; others with their dog climbed to the top of the mountain, turned into stones there; traces of foam on the water can be seen on them; NW and I. agreed that whoever emerges first after the flood is older; the first NW, then I., the last Coyote; but I. made sure that he was considered the oldest; all three began to sculpt new people; made The coyote is shapeless, thrown overseas; the NW made is also shapeless, and I.'s people are real; the NW and I. began to argue; the NW tried to pull the sky down, then fell through the ground, spreading diseases; I.'s people became pima, papago, apache, maricopa; I. made papago his people, taught culture (bow and arrow, house-building, drinking ceremony); I. retired to the cave; people, especially maricopa, kicked a defenseless rattlesnake; I. gave her poison; she bit maricopa, who died; he was burned (maricopa has been cremated since then); Coyote stole the heart from the funeral fire; a hole in the ground opened, from there water or the wind; closed when two boys and two girls were thrown at her; this is how Santa Rosa ceremonies arose; the cannibal stole children, she was strangled with smoke in a cave; I. killed the cannibal eagle, feathers for witchcraft; the monster sucked everyone into himself; I. let himself be sucked, killed the monster, freed the swallowed; I. grew old, began to attack the girls during the adulthood ceremony; people killed him three times; to the advice of the Sun, JS managed to kill I. with an iron bow (gun); after 4 years, I. revived, went west; I. created deer, an evil shaman drove them into the pen; two brothers paid the shaman to hunt everything; JS is scalped so bald; I. sometimes comes back from the underworld]: Underhill 1946:8-12.

Western Amazon. Napo or canelo [on the Marañon River, the Porahua snake swallowed a man in a boat; there were wild boars, deer, bakers inside; the snake inside was bald for a long time; there were various birds; the Dove and The heron was advised not to cut a hole in the side of the snake so as not to drown, but to cut his heart when the serpent was at the shore; he did so, everyone swallowed came out]: Ortíz de Villalba 1989, No. 34:66.

Guiana. Pemon [water monster Rató swallows boats; the shaman gets into the boat, swallows; makes a fire; R. sends a fish to another R. to fool, he comes, but the first R. does not get better; man holes side by side R., all swallowed go out]: Armellada 1988, No. 45:117-118.

Eastern Brazil. Apinaye [a huge eagle settled on a reaper palm tree, people fled, a couple of old people and their grandchildren Kenkutá and Akréti were left, their parents were eaten by the eagle; grandfather is surprised how easily A. catches up and kills other birds; the brothers stay in a hut by the river, the grandfather brings food there, makes them clubs; the brothers call the tapir a rat; the grandfather builds a hut at the foot of the harvester, A. lures an eagle, hides in the hut; K. does the same less quickly; the eagle is exhausted, the brothers finish him off with clubs; the grandfather plucks him, blows his feathers down the wind, they turn into different birds; another huge Kukád bird lives on a rock, cuts off people's heads with his beak; grandfather builds a hut there, A. lures the bird, hides; K. does not have time, the bird cuts off his head; A. leaves K.'s head on a branch, can no longer lure him out poultry, goes to look for people, meets people with a series, black arar people, monkey people, each group tells what it does; A. finds fellow tribesmen, marries, brings meat to her father-in-law and mother-in-law ( nandu ostriches); calls his wife for honey, offers to put his hand in the hollow, his hand gets stuck, A. kills his wife, roasts her meat, brings her to the village; the victim's brother realizes what he was given, finds her head and bones sisters; people push A. into hot coals; his ashes turn into a nest of earth termites]: Wilbert 1978, No. 172:451-454; crash: Wilbert 1978, No. 170 [(Schultz 1950:93-112); people lived near a tree that supported the sky; the boy was carried by a harpy eagle to a nest on a rock, fed to the chicks; nightjars flew at night, people's heads were cut off; people put a ladder to the tree, went up to the hole in in the sky, they went to heaven, threw away the stairs; the old man, his wife and two grandchildren accidentally stayed on earth; A-krey's elder brother knew how to turn into animals, the younger Kengunã did not know how to; the grandfather did it to his grandchildren the platform was in the water, they lay in the water to become strong, to avenge the birds for the death of their father; the brothers killed a huge emu, scattered feathers, they became current birds; the same with a large partridge (every grandfather since he does not believe that the brothers will be able to approach the monsters unnoticed); the grandfather took shelter under the rock where the birds lived; K. jumped out and then hid in the shelter, teasing the eagle; he was exhausted, K. killed him; A. also wanted to try it, but cut off his head with a nightjar; K. put it on the fork in the tree, his head became a swarm of bees; K. went to look for another tribe; saw emu, koati, monkeys, tapir burn grass, trees, to get larvae, fruits; K. himself from the kraho tribe, i.e. paki (kraho - paka); met a girl from the Koati tribe, became her husband; he is a good hunter, everyone is happy]: 424-446; 1984a, No. 135:411-412; apaniecra (Mehin): Wilbert 1978, No. 176 [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:192-194; the huge Hoktí hawk devoured people; those who were still alive were afraid to leave home were weak from hunger; Kenegumã and his brother Waiitôme asked his uncle and his wife to leave them in a well-built young man's hut and feed them well; K. put his finger in from time to time; one day, an aunt saw that her finger was plump, which meant that the young men had become strong; they built a house near Hokti's home, his uncle gave him a wooden sword; K. was dissatisfied with the sword, his uncle made another one heavier and bigger; V. went out and hid again, Hokti spent his energy trying to grab it; when completely tired, K. killed him with a sword; the carcass was brought to the village, plucked, all the birds appeared from the feathers], 177 [Pompeu Sobrinho 1935:194-195; Hokti was killed, but now the night bird Kukói has begun to devastate the village; Kenegumã and Waiitôme put up a hut near his nest; V. ran outside and returned, and the bird lost its strength trying to grab it; K. threw his sword and cut off the bird's head]: 466-167, 168-469; ramkokamekra [Kokodyótómre's daughter and daughter's husband ate Hakti's giant harpy eagle; people have fled the village; Kokodyótómre and his wife raise grandchildren Akréi and Kenkunã; they are building a hut by the river, they live there, become strong; they take shelter at the foot of a tree on which X.'s nest; they show themselves to him, then hide in the hut, exhausting H., kill with a club; the Nightjar lives in the cave, cutting off people's heads with his beak; he killed A.; Kenkunã left his brother's head at a fork in a tree where bees nest; looking for departed people, asks birds; Nandu says they passed a year ago, series - that two or three days ago; Kenkunã finds people; Kokodyótómre and his wife were wandering around the savanna; by the mountain, the husband went to the right, told his wife to go to the left; when they separated, they both turned into anteaters; Kokodyó ; tómre was killed by hunters; wife waited, cried and left alone]: Wilbert 1978, No. 175:461-463; Xavante: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 138:420-422.

Chaco. Vilela [contrary to his mother's warning, the young man kills many hummingbirds; finds colorful pebbles on the river bank, makes himself a necklace; turns into a snake in his sleep; devours people and animals; The dove advises the last man to fire arrows while running away; they turn into trees, the serpent climbs on each one; the dove summons birds to war; the Little Owl manages to blind the snake; the birds tear his body, swallowed out of the womb; after the rain, the corpse disappears, and a rainbow appears in the sky]: Lehmann-Nitsche 1925b: 221-225.

The Southern Cone. South Tehuelches: Hernández 1992:139; Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 26 [the huge monster Goshge kills people; Elal turns into a gadfly, flies into his mouth, bites from the inside, kills], 46 [ the whale lives on the ground, swallows people; Elal turns into a gadfly into his mouth; there are many swallowed inside, some alive; one gives Elal a knife, he cuts a whale, the dead and still alive are outside; Elal puts a whale in the sea], 47 [the whale swallows people and animals; Elal turns into a gadfly, lets himself be swallowed, bites the whale in the heart, it dies; E. cuts the whale with a knife, goes out, pulls it out dead from the heat and still alive], 48 [the monstrous canyon swallows people and animals; Elal turns into a gadfly, lets himself be swallowed; inside swallowed, some are still alive; one gives a knife, Elal cuts where gently, aorta; a canyon forms, people get out through it]: 41, 69-70, 71-72, 73.