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A man is going to get married. An evil spirit, animal, etc. is forced to accompany him (usually helps, feeds him, or simply says that he will then require half of his wife). After the wedding, he picks up or tries to pick up the bride or demands that she be divided. In the text of the goal, a man gets a wife for the spirit and demands that she be divided.

Congo, sakata, mongo, wili, yaka, chokve, samo, gola, kpelle, hausa, zande, (Czechs).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Congo (Angolan zombo) [Makenga goes to marry, paying a ransom to the girl's parents; on the way, a rolling head tells her to be allowed to carry calebass with wine; the girl's parents eat food, offered to the groom; on the way back, demands to give her a woman; other heads roll up; the king of birds Ngumbe promises to resolve the dispute, demands a drink, sends two heads to bring water in a leaky calebass; those they try unsuccessfully to get water, do not return; other heads go for the missing; when the last one rolls, M. takes his wife home safely]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975:61-66; wili [ Kwaki caught a partridge and a guinea fowl in his snare, they persuaded them to let them go; he goes to marry; stops to eat at a place where the gnomes (Bibolubo) do not allow them to stop; on the way back, they demand to give their wife; K. calls for help, a partridge and a guinea fowl fly in, a partridge sends a gnome to bring water in a leaky vessel; he cannot, leaves the vessel at the source, runs away; so one by one all the gnomes; K. brings his wife home]: Raponda-Walker 1967:123-126; Sakata: Colldén 1979, No. 33 [a man goes to marry; releases a trapped Leopard on the way; a big dog appears and follows as a man; in the village he drives him away, does not let him eat; when a man takes his wife and goes home, the dog reappears, many others join him; the dog says that they will eat his wife a person sent for leaves, on which pieces of body should be placed to prevent blood from reaching the ground; a Leopard appears, promises to help; a man hides him under a mountain of leaves; opens, Leopard kills dogs], 34 [as in (33), in short, dogs are going to eat both the woman and the person himself; note: Herero has the spirits of the dead in the form of white dogs], 36 [the wife is pregnant, wants meat; one day the husband is nothing I did not get it; the leopard was trapped, the man let him go; the wife became angry, went to her mother; the husband followed her, on the way the dog imposed his companions; the wife gave birth, agreed to return, they went home; a dog appeared, demanded that the child be eaten; when a two-headed dog appeared, they had to give it back; then a three-headed dog, they demanded that the wife be chopped to pieces to eat; the man went for leaves, so that blood does not get to the ground; the leopard advised to disguise it with leaves, bring it, jumped out, tore the dogs; var. (note 94, p.411): dogs are only heads without a body], 37 [a pregnant wife wants lion meat; the husband catches the lion in a trap, lets go at his request; the wife is offended, goes to the mother; the husband escorts her; the dog comes up, orders to divide the property; dogs with two, three, etc. up to ten tails follow him; send her husband to bring leaves to cut the woman; the lion asks him to hide him in a pile of leaves, tore the dogs ]: 190-193, 193-194, 195-197, 197-198; mongo [like sakata; the dog is forced from the very beginning to accompany the person who is going to marry, promises to help; in the bride's house demands that he be served eating like a person; trying to get on a bed between young spouses]: Colldén 1979:410-411 (note 91); yaka (Angolan border) [orphan goes to marry; releases trapped rat, leopard, catfish; on the way to his companions, a Dog (this is an evil spirit) is imposed; demands that he be allowed to eat from the same bowl with him, sleep on the same mat; the bride's parents demand that the groom eat and drink a lot (rat takes food, catfish beer); on the way back, the dog demands to divide the property, including the woman; many dogs gather; the groom asks for permission to decorate the bride with leaves; in the pile of leaves brings a leopard, that kills, disperses Dogs]: Plancquaert 1982, No. 43:111-113; chokwe [Shamohangi ("giant") with his wife and young son went to visit his wife's sister; they passed through a deserted village, from There was a sound of the ground; the boy asked for a grasshopper, S. dug up, Tshingandangala went out, imposed himself as companions; in the village of his wife's sister he ate all the food three times; when they reached the village of H on the way back ., he demanded that the boy and half of his wife be given to him; Marten invited C. to pick up a piece of hollow wood where she would hide; C. could not; she invited him and all of the Chingandangal to climb into the hollow, threw a tree in the fire, all hours burned down; she took four chickens from S. as payment for help]: Frobenius 1983:108-109.

West Africa. Samo [Red Millet, Sorghum, Small Millet consistently go to take a wife; on the way, an evil spirit meets everyone, promises to take half of the wife; the first two are forced to cut the woman, give half (Red Millet gives the upper one); Small Millet prepared poisoned arrows; an evil spirit came out to meet him, burned a tree with an arrow to test, burned the hat on Little Millet's head, but he set fire to arrows himself, he threw himself into the water, Small Millet fired arrows into the water, it boiled, the spirit died; Small Millet brought his wife, Red Millet and Sorghum lowered their heads in shame; so when the top of the stems ripened these plants lean down]: Platiel 1984:217-221; naked [on behalf of the spirit, the young man gets him a wife; leads him to the spirit; does not want to take the girl's insane brother with him, he follows them secretly; in the spirit, the young man tells him to give him half of the bride; while they argue, a brother appears with a sharp knife; the spirit runs away in horror, the brother takes his sister back]: Westermann 1921a, No. 21:103 (=1921b, No. 21:292-293); kpelle [the young man goes to take his wife, for whom they ask for a bull, copper dishes and three bags of salt; the demon finds out about this, gives it all to the young man, he gets a wife; the wife's demented brother went with the young, although the sister is not wanted to take him; the demon met a young man, ordered his wife to be divided; his wife's brother appeared, cut a tree with a machete, said he would cut down the demon; he ran away, the young man and wife came to the village]: Westermann 1921b, No. 13 : 387-388 (=1924, No. 16:142); hausa [Mom, daughter of the king of the city Garun Gabas, rejects suitors; promises to marry someone who says where the dry and wet seasons wait for each other; one of the rejected princes come to the dodo (rolling cannibal heads); promises that if the Dodo king gets a woman, she will carry it in the basket; King Dodo's grandfather explains that the seasons wait for each other on acacia (it is green in the dry season and dries up when it rains); the prince brings the dodo to the city gates; he goes after the old woman; tells her to call the genie, who gives her money; the dodo sends her to marry him The princess, gives the answer to the question; gives a rich ransom; the tsar and his daughter are happy; when they see the dodo, they mourn, but too late; other dodos join the king dodo, take the girl away]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 138:332-346.

Sudan - East Africa. Zande [Ture, spider) goes to marry, is accompanied by a young man; after receiving his wife, he goes back with her; asks his companion how to pay for accompanying him; he demands share his wife; they meet three Big Ears, who side with the companion, explain that they love the taste of blood; their leader sends T. for leaves on which the woman will be slaughtered; T. asks enemies for help The Large-Eared - Eye Bees; brings those in a bunch of leaves; they attack the Big Ears, chop their ears; they run away]: Evans-Pritchard 1966:281-283 (=Arewa, Shreve 1975, No. 13:210-211; in Evans-Pritchard 1964:71-73 talking about people with one, two, three ears).

(Wed. Central Europe. The Czechs [the king says that since turning to God did not help and he has no children, let him have a child at least for hell; the queen gives birth to a daughter, Lidumila; when she is 17, she turned black and fell dead; the king ordered guards to be placed at her golden coffin; every night the sentry, on duty from 11 to 12, is torn to shreds; the queue is for Bohumil, the sixth son of a shepherd; he decides to leave the city; sees an old man helps him get up; old man: L. was born against God's will, so she is obsessed with the devil; tells him to go guard the princess, draw a circle with holy water, not leave it; at 11, the deceased got up from the coffin, flew around the church, returned to the coffin at 12; the same the next night; before the third, the old man tells B. to promise to give him half of the reward; he must lie in the coffin instead of the princess, dawning his head on the godparents a sign; skeletons danced around the coffin; when 12 hit, the monsters disappeared, at B.'s coffin in the guise of a girl; wedding; B. and his wife go out of town, meet that old man; he demands half L.; B. is going to cut L. in half; the old man stops him: it was just a test; all is well]: Němcová 1990:221-233).

(Wed. Baltoscandia. Estonians (Jüri) [the mother gives her son money, sends it to the bazaar, he gives everything to the poor; so three times; the old man offers him a job as an employee for a year; they sail to another with a load of bricks the city; everyone who comes brings gifts to the king; the young man brings two bricks, but the king is happy; from every ship that comes, someone must spend the night in the church, where evil forces are at the mercy of evil forces behind the altar princess; the young man spends three nights for himself and for others, does not pay attention to evil spirits; two in the morning a puppy approaches him, the princess comes out on the third; the king gives her to him as his wife; they swim on the ship back; the owner demands half of his wife for help; cuts her in half, removes snakes, frogs and lizards from the inside, makes her whole and healthy again; gives the ship, disappears itself; the bricks turn into gold]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 22:104-107).