L110C. Clay child. 28.29.31.32.

Elderly spouses make a child out of clay (wood, straw). The doll comes to life, consistently eats everyone she sees. Usually a goat (ram) breaks it, swallowed ones come out alive.

Czechs, Slovaks (?) , Russians (Teresky Bereg, Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Karelia, Vologda, Yaroslavskaya), Karachays, Latvians, Eastern Sami, Finns, Karelians, Veps, Mordovians, Mari, Bashkirs, Komi.

(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).

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; Russians (Teresky Bereg) [childless old man and old woman made a guy out of clay; he came to life; grandfather went to the forest for firewood, grandmother yarns tow; asks Clay to bring a spindle; that: I ate a coub with a rope, seven bread ovens, seven roll ovens; and eat you with a spinning wheel; then the grandfather with an ax consistently meets and swallows, a girl with a tub, a jonka with a rocker, 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 went out, thank the ram]: Balashov 1991:10-12; Russians (Arkhangelskaya) [old woman to grandfather: we make a boy out of clay; put it on the stove to dry; clay Ivanushka: give bread a pulp and milk tub; then I ate my grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a stick, a bull with horns, women with rakes, men with braids; a goat and eat you; a goat: stand downhill, and I'm on the hill, I'll put it in my mouth; from a blow to the belly, the clay fell apart, that's it swallowed 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 (1927, Olonetskaya, Zaonezhye, d. Skoryatino) [the old man and the old woman knead clay for a week, mold Glinushka, put him in a pole, then in a goltz, from everywhere Glinushka asks him to release; asks him to buy him a boat, an oar and an accordion, the old man buys; G. boats on the river and sings; Baba Yaga wants to catch him, bakes treats, calls her to stick to its shore; G. puts her to sleep ("Sleep your eye, sleep another, sleep, Yagishna is all"), picks up pies and shanegi, beats Yaga and swims away; on the second day she forgets to put all Yagishna to sleep (she says only the first line about putting one eye to sleep), she grabs him, tries to put him in the oven, he says he can't ("one foot to the ceiling, the other in a pillowcase"); Yagishna shows and he puts her in the oven, does the same with Yaga's two sisters; picks up treats and swims away to his parents]: Nikiforov 1961, No. 45:112-113; Russians (Karelia) []: Lyzlova 2013, No. 76:306-307; 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, releasing all those eaten - they attack the bear and drive it away, and return to their seats themselves]: Burtsev 1895, No. 26:132-133.

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 she will jump into his mouth; she jumped, ripped her belly with her legs, swallowed to come out alive]: Dzhurtubayev 1991:64 (=2007:13).

Baltoscandia. 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; Eastern Sami [the old man made a man out of clay, told 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 with a boat, drank the river, swallowed the guys with axes along with the house they were building; on the mountain, a deer, he says that the clay man does not have to go up the mountain, he will jump into his mouth, ripped his belly with his horns, everyone swallowed came out; the girls caught a deer, the guys brought gold, the deer's horns were gilded, he became Oleshka Golden Horns]: Charnolussky 1962:159-161; Finns [the wife advises a childless potter to make his 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, fox, bear; elk suggests that he will jump into his mouth, smash a clay man, all swallowed out]: Concca 1993:82-84; Karelians [the old man and the 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; butts clay man, all swallowed out]: Evseev 1981:261; Veps: Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 46 [the old people are 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 bunch clay; since then they have not made vanek out of clay, they make stoves], 100 [grandfather and grandmother have no children, they make a daughter out of clay; Annushka spins, drops a spindle into the underground; went down there and ate a spindle, then ate grandparents are greeted by 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.

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; Bashkirs [a 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 bread and all the supplies, swallowed the old woman, the old man, the lumberjack, the mower; the grandmother poured boiling milk on him, he softened, everyone swallowed went out, thanked his grandmother]: Barag 1989, No. 124:451.