L115. A perfect gentleman. 11.12. (.20.)
Thegirl who rejected her suitors finally finds someone she likes. The groom turns out to be a werewolf: on the way to his house, he distributes borrowed garments and parts of his body.
Zombo, Sakata, Von, Hausa, Tenda, Kono, Gola, Bassa, Wai, Dagari, Liela (probably), Songhai, Igbo, Ibibio, Ijo (Kalabari), Ekoi, Ikom, Yoruba, Vute, Mukulu, (Ponape).
Bantu-speaking Africa. Zombo [older sister died, married in the underworld; younger Maria rejects suitors; dead man goes to earth, borrows various garments along the way, M. readily goes with to him, on the way, he distributes everything he borrowed, leads his wife to a hole in the ground; tells his fellow villagers in an underground village that he brought the girl to feed and eat; sister M. takes her back to the ground, explaining to the watchman that M. is still alive; the dead burn down the house where M. was locked up before, find nothing, fried and ate the one who brought the girl; M. returns to his parents]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:282-285; sakata: Colldén 1979, No. 13 [girl refuses grooms; an inhabitant of a country where heads live without bodies went to marry, borrowed body members from friends on the way; the girl married him; did not tell his younger brother accompany her, but he followed her imperceptibly; her head handed out the borrowed arms and legs; in the village of heads, the brought girl was fried and pieces of meat cut off from her; the younger brother heard screams and began beat the drum, the inhabitants began to dance and left; brother saved his sister, came home with her], 14 [modern version; Muzenga Nfinda, who is actually a boa constrictor, comes to marry a girl; on the way back gives out borrowed clothes (but not body parts); the girl's younger brother draws a plane, they fly away on it; cannibals also chase them by plane, but come back], 15 [Kenshune-nshune had only a head; borrowed the members of the body, came handsome to marry the girl; led him back, distributed everything; the deceased gave the girl nine eggs, told her to run; she ran, throwing eggs, each of them blazed a fire, stopping pursuers; managed to run home]: 165-166, 167-168, 168-169.
West Africa. Background [a girl rejects her suitors; meets someone she likes at the bazaar; he takes her to his house, handing out borrowed garments, a stick, then arms and legs along the way; he lives in a hole with another wife and children, looks like a snake; his wife and children bite a girl; a hunter sees this, kills, disperses demons; marries a girl]: Herskovitz, Herskovits 1958, No. 53:243-245 (translation in Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 137:332-334); house: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010 [the princess rejects the grooms; she also rejected the poor handsome Dukushani, noticing a scratch; the Serpent borrows from friends garments and body parts, comes disguised as handsome; on the way, the Serpent gave everything away, brought his wife to a house under the roots of a tree to snakes and scorpions; D. hears her complaint in the forest, tells her father; he leads people The daughter promises to cut down the tree to the one who cuts down; the leper knocked down the tree, he got the beauty]: 81-84; Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 138 [Mother, daughter of the king of the city Garun Gabas, rejects the grooms; promises to marry someone who says where the dry and wet seasons wait for each other; one of the rejected princes comes to the dodo (rolling cannibal heads); promises that if the dodo king gets a woman, she will wear it is in the basket; King Dodo's grandfather explains that the seasons wait for each other on acacia trees (it is green in dry weather and dries up during the rains); the prince brings the dodo to the city gates; he rolls for old woman; tells her to call the genie, he gives her money; the dodo sends her to marry the princess for him, answers the question; gives a rich ransom; the king and his daughter are happy; when they see the dodo, they mourn, but too late; to the king dodo join other dodos, take the girl away]: 332-346; tenda [Nyano girl rejects suitors; werewolf borrows a leg, an arm, comes with one hand, leg; pays for N. cola nuts, picks her up, returns her busy limbs on the way, kauri; after 4 days N. returns to pick up the dowry; takes a calebasa, a spoon; does not take her younger sister; she turns into a calebass, into a spoon, N. them throws it away; she is still with N.; tells you to leave the werewolf wasps in their place in the house, run; the werewolf chases, the sisters run home]: Ferry 1983, No. 12:81-86; naked [girl rejects suitors; The forest spirit borrows various parts of the body from others along the way, comes handsome, the girl goes with him, he returns the loan, the girl is forced to live in his lair; the girl's mother gives birth to twins, they go to look for their sister; by the river, one makes a bridge of arrows, the other crosses in clouds of smoke; they come to their sister, live with her, their two big dogs protect them; while the spirit is gone, the brothers pour in the rooster of the spirit rice, so that he does not raise the alarm, run away with his sister to their parents; the spirit again appears disguised as a beauty, one of the brothers takes her as his wife; the wife takes her husband to the forest to collect fruits; when the husband climbs a tree, takes on its true form, tries to knock down the tree; the husband restores the tree with witchcraft; so several times; her husband's dogs come running, killing his imaginary wife]: Westermann 1921, No. 20: 101-102; kono [girl wants a groom without any scars on her body; every time she sends a fly to examine the applicant, they all have scars caused during initiation; the monster goes to the girl along the way takes smooth skin from an earthworm, a complexion from a centipede, hair on her head from herbs; the fly reports that the groom is perfect, the girl leaves with him; the youngest of her six brothers follows her in uniform lizards; on the way, the monster distributes what he has taken, does terrible; crosses the river dry, throwing black powder into the water; the younger brother picks up the powder that has woken up to the ground, follows; also they overcome a fallen tree, a mountain; in a monster village, they all have a head like an iron bell, their feet are flat, they eat meat raw; in the morning they are woken up by a rooster with 7 heads; his brother throws him grains, runs away with sister, overcoming obstacles with the same powder; brother and sister spend the night in a tree, monsters, without noticing them, make a fire nearby; the young man throws fruit at him, sparks burn one monster, that accuses the other, everyone starts fighting; brother and sister come home]: Holas 1975:158-168; Bassa [Daggu, the chief's daughter, rejects suitors, demands perfection; a monster with one leg, one tooth, With one ear, one eye on his forehead, he took the eyes, skin, teeth, legs of a deer, otter, monkey, pigeon, came to D.; contrary to his father's warning, D. left with her fiancé; on the way he handed out what he had borrowed; D. remained live with a monster to death]: Pinney 1973:126-127; Vai [girl rejects suitors; monstrous Loso takes parts of the body of the most beautiful owners along the way, comes handsome, the girl leaves with him; he gives her half a nut, takes the other for himself so that they can then get to know each other; distributes the busy, turns out to be a monster, shows his half of the nut; the brothers born after her departure they are ugly; their mother reproaches them - it would be better to find a sister; they come to their sister; they do not sleep at night, they frighten L. with strange voices, he is afraid to eat them; on the third night they run away with his sister; they frighten L. In a mysterious voice, L. dies; siblings return to their mother]: Creel 1966:47-55; dagari [no one can help a childless woman put a bunch of brushwood on her head; she asks God, wind raises a ligament; God gives two fruits, tells them to bury houses, from which a son and daughter are born; a daughter rejects grooms; a boa constrictor borrows two sticks from the forest, puts them on the body, and has arms and legs; takes the monkey's face, it becomes human; it occupies the vine's bark, it becomes its pants; the tree has a bark shirt, others have different flowers, these are other garments and shoes; the boa constrictor gets the wife, on the way back, gives away everything she borrowed; a year later, the woman gave birth to a husband of snakes in the hole; the other wife of the same husband, whose wife was the girl's mother, came to her, was four days old, liked Boa; going into the hole, she politely addressed her husband's father, also a boa constrictor, he missed it; returned with a basket full of corn, peanuts, etc.; the mother envied, also went; insults the boa constrictor; drives snakes; returning, she does not follow the path that her daughter told her to follow; the boa father strangles her, cuts her into pieces; the daughter cries, sings, feeling sorry for her mother; the boa father asks again, she replies every time that it is a smoky log in at the fire; when he fell asleep, the daughter asked God to revive her mother from pieces, she came to life; both are running; by the river an old woman asks to rub her back; the daughter rubs, the mother continues to run; a hole opens in the old woman's back, the old woman allows a pebble, a straw broom, a chicken egg to be removed from there; after catching up with her mother, the daughter throws a stone (mountain), a broom (forest), an egg (lake); the boa constrictor threw himself into the water, his body is bloody after overcoming mountains and forests, he was eaten by fish]: Hien 1995:124-148; liela (Grumshi; probably Gurunsi, i.e. lyela) [the chief's daughter rejects the suitors; the serpent has taken the form of a handsome man, the girl leaves with him, at night he is hers swallowed it, becoming a snake again; one person smelled the snake's trail to the water, the other drank the lake, the third removed all the silt, exposing the hole, the fourth reached and pulled out the snake, and the fifth revived the snake found in his stomach snake girl; who made them bigger?] : Abrahams 1983, No. 30:130-131; Songhai: Hama 1967 [beautiful Biba rejects suitors because everyone has a scar, a flaw on their body; Boa constrictor turns into a person, borrows a turban from Pigeon, Vulture's boubou, Raven's pants, Stork's belt, Giraffe's horse; B. agrees, her husband takes her away, asks if she knows the area on the way, brings her to an unfamiliar forest, distributes busy things, turns into Cannibal boa with a horn on her head]: 259-261; Prost 1956 [the girl says she will not take a husband who has a scar; rejects the grooms; the genie hears it, comes handsome, the girl agrees to marry; along the way garments fall off him one by one, he drops his spear, brings his wife and her slave into his hole; hunts; there is no game for a long time; then he eats the slave first, then his wife; the cat comes to her parents, brother realizes that his sister has been eaten; goes to the blacksmith, who forges a spear and sword for him; by the swamp he cuts down the genie's heads one by one, pulls out the remains of his sister from his womb, she comes to life]: 217-219; Igbo [parents hide the beauty because light emanates from her; the mother did not lock the door, the daughter went out, the forest spirits of Nndi Mmo (NM) saw her; the one who overcame the others went to marry her, borrowing parts of her body and clothes; met the girl, agreed; came to her parents, the daughter agrees to leave her husband; on the way, the NM distributed clothes, arms, legs, left some ball; left the girl to the fool; Kite told her parents ordered to turn to the soothsayer; he agreed to help for the promise to give his daughter to him; killed the NM, brought the girl; realizes that the parents do not want to give her back; he agrees not to take it - let them get the Kite; he came, got permission to steal chickens, became an assistant to the soothsayer]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:74-78; ibibio [Nkoyo, Okun Edem's daughter, rejects suitors; The skull from the Forest of the Dead borrowed various from others body parts and garments, appeared handsome, N. chose him as her husband; on the way to him, he returned everything, became a skull again; in Skull's house she became friends with her old mother-in-law; promises to be diligent, good; the old woman tells Spider to give her a beautiful hairstyle, gives her beautiful clothes, gold bracelets; tells the Winds to take N. to her parents; first Thunder and Lightning came, but the old woman drove them away, N. carried a quiet breeze; everyone is happy; the chief tells girls not to marry outsiders anymore]: Jablow 196:184-188; ijo (kalabari) [Afiong rejects suitors, wants to marry only a handsome man without bodily defects; the skull took Friends have different parts of the body, A. immediately agreed to marry him; took him to him; her father poked and realized that her daughter had taken the spirit away; in the land of spirits, the skull was the members of the body back; the mother of the skull was an old woman, A. became to help her; she warned that the perfume would eat her, hid her; caused the wind to take A. home; rejected the hurricane, gave A. to a good wind, which brought A. to her house; it was a holiday, and the leader forbade the girls marry strangers]: Dayrell 1910, No. 8:38-41; ekandem [Ekandem is the daughter of Obassi Nsi (one of the two creators, god of the earth); rejects grooms; sends a maid to the bazaar to find the perfect handsome man; She finds the third day; the handsome man warns E. that he is the Chief of the Heads (without a body) in the Land of Heads, but she insists on marriage; on his way to his country, he distributed all the members of his body, left only naked skull; E. wanted to return, but her skull did not let her go; the skulls rejoice that the leader brought them good meat; but then decided to marry E. and her maid to a giant, their king; it's better than being eaten; y The Nkundak bird saw them in the well, told them to grab its wings and brought them to their father; for this he painted it; only the man who killed the enemy can wear the feathers of this bird]: Talbot 1912:273-277; ikom [ 'Ndere, the daughter of a wealthy chief, rejects the suitors; the boa constrictor asked Chief Kaku to lend him various body members to marry N.; K. himself had previously been rejected by her; decided to agree, and then kill the boa constrictor and take possession of N.; asked the young people to lend him their arms, legs, teeth, etc., gave them a boa constrictor; he called himself K.'s son, liked N.; her parents dissuaded her, but N. said that he would hang himself otherwise; the imaginary son K. brought her to K., who held a feast; at midnight, the boa constrictor returned the borrowed members, N. did not recognize him as her husband; in the morning K. confirmed that the boa constrictor was his son, but ordered the young men to arm themselves to kill the boa constrictor; but the boa constrictor guessed it, took his wife along the other road; K. sent N. to help him kill the boa constrictor, N. agreed; when the boa constrictor and his boas went to cultivate the field, he hung a necklace on N. shells to rattle when she brings him food; Father N.'s men came to this place, killed the boa constrictor, brought Father N. his tail and head; other boas decided not to farm anymore, but to live in the forest; K. married N.; she taught people to eat catfish - they used to think that the one who ate would die]: Dayrell 1913, No. 21:88-93; Yoruba [Adun refuses grooms; his head took one hand, the other leg, the third had a body, A. went with him; on the way, the head distributed the borrowed back; when leaving for the site, the head told the turtle to blow the horn if A. tried to escape; she tries every day, but was immediately caught ; babalawo taught me how to soak dry cakes in palm oil, fill the horn with them; the turtle wanted to blow, but started eating cakes and the girl ran away]: Ellis 1894, No. 4:267-269; vute [older sister Ningagkuri, the youngest is Kwalinga, the mother loves her youngest; when the sisters went fishing, N. invited K. to climb into a hole full of fish and walled up the exit with poles and clay; at home she said she did not know where K. left; parents rushed to search; on the fourth day they found, brought K. home, N. was beaten; (to get rid of her), the mother announced that N. was going to marry; N. said that she would not marry scabies; everyone found a defect on their skin; Agama (agama lizard) took the feathers from the bird Turako and then from the Kingfisher; N. declared that she loved him; on the way to Agama's house, he returned the feathers to the owners; the entrance to his house turned out to be narrow; N. cried, stayed outside; she lived like this for three weeks; a man named Mbene came up; N. at one time rejected him like others, but now began to assure him that she loved him; they returned home; N . promised her mother not to try to harm her sister anymore; gave birth to three children]: Sieber 1921, No. 50:232-237; mukulu [the cannibal borrowed a face from a snake, a fly's head, a basuwa fruit's teeth, skin color from a pitch-black goriye bird; came to the father of a girl named Yageda; he offered his daughter to give water to a stranger; I. to my father: I will drink with him myself, otherwise I will die; then I shared a meal with the guest - otherwise will die; wash together is the same; sleep; I became pregnant; in the morning the guest said that he was returning to my place, I went with him; on the way her husband gave away everything he had borrowed; I gave birth; asked my husband to bring her brother to herding goats - she can't cope with everything; her husband went, took Brother Y., killed and ate it by the stream; buried her hair in the sand, but some blood remained on the blade of grass; told his wife that her brother's parents did not let go; I. asked to bring her younger sister; on the way, the cannibal began to beat the girl, tore her hair out; she buried it in the sand; in the cannibal's house, my sister recognized me, but I did not recognize her; the husband said that my sister was not allowed in and he I brought a slave; I treated my sister like a slave; my brother's blood became a bird, she flew to Me and asked her; - Who do you eat with? - With dogs. - What do you drink with? - With chickens. - Who do you sleep with? - With goats; I told my brother that she always had a large pot of hot water ready; one old woman heard everything and told Yageda's sister to listen for herself at night; her sister overslept the first night, and heard the second night ; the sisters killed the child Y., put his head on the gate, the meat in the pumpkin, set fire to the house, ran; the cannibal ran, ate the meat, thought it was his wife's meat; found his son's finger; along the way, my sister and I turned sometimes in a downpour or a tornado; at the place where my brother was killed and my sister was beaten, I found my hair, grafted my sister back, found a drop of blood and revived my brother; all three returned to their parents]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 26 : 134-139.
(Wed. Micronesia-Polynesia. Ponape [Tai lived under a rock; he was gray, bags under his eyes, affected by elephant disease; swam to the leader's daughter, left gray hair, bags under his eyes, elephant disease on the way, was handsome; daughter the chief agreed to marry him; when they were sailing in the boat, he took back everything he had left behind, became an ugly old man; told the stones to fly in on the rock, the girl was locked in a stone house; at night he called other demons to eat the girl; sister T. Litepin Malekelek heard her cry; told her to become an ant and get outside; told her to run, politely addressing all the trees; but on the way, the girl wrote to one of the plants and it got angry; T. chased, asking the trees; everyone kept silent, because the plant said that the girl ran and rushed into the sea; the girl asked the sea to detain T., asked the reef to rise from the sea; climbed the reef, I met two women, asked me to hide her; when T. ran up, they threw ash in his eyes and then advised him to wash them, but muddied; T. went blind and died; the girl ran home]: Fischer 1954: 263-269).