Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue translated by Jon F White

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Ethnicities and habitats

L110B. The stomach eats the oak tree. (.27.) .29.32.34.

The stomach (spleen) taken out of the body of a pet or bird turns out to be a voracious monster.

(Hungarians), Abkhazians, Ingush, Megrelians, Georgians, Bashkirs, Khakas.

(Wed. 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).

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [the old woman slaughtered the chicken, hid her stomach in the attic for the guests; a guest came, the old woman climbed into the attic, swallowed her stomach; then swallowed the owner, the guest, passers-by (first two, then three, until 20; workers began to beat him with hoes, he burst, swallowed out alive]: Shakryl 1975, No. 2:15-16 (=Bgazhba 2002:98-99); Ingush [the man asked Dyala (Dyala is the Supreme deity) remove the stomach from him, because all his earnings are spent on food; D. fulfilled the request, the man threw his stomach on the oak tree; after eating the oak to the roots, the stomach said that it would now roll; nettle asked him not to roll: she would soon be ripe and her stomach would eat her; his stomach did not roll, and the man was free from work, but felt that he was missing something; D. made him want to regain his stomach; he took it back, and nettles are considered healthy]: Sadulaev 2004, No. 117:299; megrels [St. George ate a bull, two pounds of millet in a day, drank a pound of wine; God took his stomach out of it, put it on the top of an oak tree; G. did not want to eat anymore, and the oak was eaten by his stomach in a day]: Kobalia 1903, No. 4:91- 92; Georgians [the stomach eats the owner, hostess, guest, children; the priest tears it up, swallowed safely]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 2028:108.

Volga - Perm. The Bashkirs [two khans slaughtered a piebald sheep, put their head and legs to cook, then threw their 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 carr-carr, a lumberjack, a mower, seven daughters of a silk weaver, nine sons of a domrist; the goat does not tell him to swallow him, he will run away from mountains, he will jump into his mouth; the stomach of the spleen burst, everyone came out, the goat himself was the last]: Barag 1989, No. 123:449-450.

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.