L118. The hand was pinched in the log, H1532, ATU 38.

.14.-.16.23.27.-.32.35.40.-.43.48.52.66.

One character provokes another to stick his hand or paw into a split log (between two boards, etc.) and knocks out a wedge, leaving his hand or paw clamped. See motive K27 {we need to transfer the resume from there}.

Arabs of Sudan, Algeria, Berbers of Morocco, Kabilas, Spaniards, Basques, Catalans, Portuguese, Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazius, Calabria Puglia, Abruzzo, Molise), Ladins, Irish, Scottish, French, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Austria), Flemish, Frisians, Iraqis, Iraqi Arabs, Uttar Pradesh (Hindi), Croats, Slovenes, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Romanians , Moldovans, Russians (Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod), Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia, Volyn, Kiev), Belarusians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Armenians, Turks, Kafirs (Prasun), Georgians, Turks, (Abkhazians), Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Seto, Western Sami, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Mordovians, Mari, Komi, Northern Selkups, Evens, Kodiak, Aleuts, Northern Alaska Inupiat, Helmet, Tlingits, haida, tsimshian, heiltsuk, quakiutl, nootka, makah, quarry, thompson, lillouet, comox, halkomel, quinolt, lower chinook, tillamook, alsea, yurok, viyot, karok, itza, lacandons (?) , chayahuita.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 38.

North Africa. Algerian Arabs (possibly influenced by Shawía Berbers, with whom many marriages) [a young lion brags of strength, his mother warns that the "woman's son" will be stronger; the camel he meets, the bull and other animals reply that they are not "sons of a woman"; finally, the lion met a man; he agrees to face off, but first asks for help to knock down a tree that he has already tilted; the lion put it in The target of the paw, a man knocked out a wedge, killed a helpless lion with an ax; lions have respected people ever since]: Hilton-Simpson 1924, No. 1:83-84; Moroccan Berbers (West 1950) [a panther met a cat and asked why it was so small; cat: I deal with people; the panther asked me to show her people; they met a camel, a horse; every time the cat says it's not a person, but his a servant with whom a man treats harshly; they approach Patriarch Noah, who splits a tree; a panther asks for answers to her questions; Noah asks for help first - to put his paws into the crack; knocks out a wedge; Hits a pinched panther with an ax handle; lets go for promising not to attack people]: Leguil 1988, No. 21:133-139; Algerian Berbers (Mzab) [the lioness teaches her son not to approach a person, he is dangerous; the young man goes in search of a man; the horse replies that he is not a man, he rides him; a donkey and a camel give similar answers; everyone says that the person is shorter than them, the lek promises to eat him; dog: the man is mine the owner; brings the lion to the man; he replies that he is not human, but as soon as he finishes the work, he will take the lion to him; asks for help to make it faster; split the stump, asks the lion to put his paws into the crack, pulls out an ax; hits the lion with a stick; says that he will eat him, not his lion; the lion begs for mercy; the man released him a little alive; the lioness cured his son; the lion gathered other lions, the man climbed on tree, lions climbed one another; man: well, carry a stick; the beaten lion rushed, everyone else fell; the lion advises the rest of the person not to touch]: Reesink 1977, No. 10:133-137; kabila: Frobenius (Kabylen III, No. 14:35-37) in El-Shamy 2004, No. 38:11

Southern Europe. Spaniards, Basques: ATU 2004 (1), No. 38:37; Catalans [a lion comes to a person to find out which one is stronger; a man asks a lion to help him pull the wedge out of the log first and for put your paw in the crack; the lion is pinched]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 38:28; the Portuguese [the old woman adjusts so that the wolf's paw is pinched in the log; finally escaping, the wolf runs away from another woman, whose genitals look even more dangerous than a gap in a log; or a person pinches the paw of a lion, wolf, fox; then they see him with his wife and think he's doing to her what he did to them]: Cardigos 2006, no. 38:26; Italians (Piedmont, Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Rome, Lazius, Calabria, Puglia, Abruzzo, Molise): Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 41:14-15; ladins [the miller has daughters Mengia, Mariosla, Maroia; the elders are arrogant; the miller is impoverished; towards him in the forest a man in green; promised to enrich him if the miller gave him what was outside the door; the miller thought there would be a broom, and Maroia's youngest daughter (M.) turned out to be; at night, a knock on the door, the miller asked M. to open it, she went out, but took blessed water with her; no one; in the morning, hell with a barrel of gold; he was going to take her away, but the miller promised that next time M. would leave without blessed water; the miller hid the vessel, but the next night M. dawned on herself with a cross of blessed water; the same; on the third night, finding no water, M. dawned on herself with a cross, moistening your hands with slop from a garbage bucket; the same; then the devil teaches you to go with M. to the forest, pretend to split the fallen spruce, let M. hold the wedge; then pull out the ax and cut off the girl hands; the miller did so; the prince hunted and found M., married her; and the miller became rich, his daughters told him to buy an inn; the prince went to war, M. gave birth to boys named Son and Satken; messenger stopped at the inn; Mengia changed the letter: the handless gave birth to a puppy and a kitten; replaced the prince's reply letter with an order to expel M. with the children; the hangman did not kill M., but told her not to return; she cannot lean down to drink from the spring; the Mother of God appears, orders the stumps of her hands to be lowered into the water, her hands grow back; for M. and her children, a house is ready, it will have everything you need; when she returns from the war, the prince went to look for a wife and came to that house 7 years later; refused to go to bed, but lay down on the chest; heard M. tell one son first, then the other, to fix his leg that had fallen from the chest father; they returned to the palace; everyone is happy; the miller with his wife and daughters were torn apart by horses]: Uffer 1973, No. 32:120-127.

Western Europe. The French: Arnaudin 1967, No. 5.3 (Gascogne) [In winter, the fox and the wolf went to chop wood; at this time the loggers left, they took their axes; the wolf does not know how to split a large block; the fox teaches him put her paw in the crack, she will take out the ax and hit again; the wolf's paw is pinched, the fox laughed, left; the loggers returned, began to beat the wolf, one cut off his clenched paw; the wolf ran to the fox hole, grabbed the fox by leg; she said it was the root, the wolf let her go; made a fire at the entrance, but the fox promised to feed the wolf with honey and they reconciled; in the cold, the fox piled up a pile on the ice, steam from it, the fox said that there you can warm up; the wolf went, failed and drowned]: 88-96; Joisten in Delarue, Tenèze 1976, No. 34 (Dauphine) [when the lumberjack drove the wedge into the log, the bear who came up was about to fill up his mule; the lumberjack asked the bear to help split the log; he put his paws in and the lumberjack knocked out the wedge; the lumberjack took the mule and left]: 190; Germans (Austria) [a man cuts firewood in the forest, a leshachikha bothers him with questions ; he replies that his name is "I"; the leshachikha puts his hand in the split stump, the man takes out his ax, his hand is clenched; the goblin who comes running to her cry asks who did this to her, she answers, Me; the goblin laughs ]: Steblova 1999:263-264; Flemish [the fox tells the bear that there is honey in the split log; when it sticks its face and paws in it, the fox knocks out the wedge, clamps the bear]: Meyer 1968, No. 38:22; Germans [the lion king sends a bear for the fox; he offers the bear to feed him honey, tells him to put his face and paws in a wedged log, knocks out a wedge, people who come running beat the bear, he has difficulty breaks out with his ears off]: Goethe 1972 Song 2:8-11; Irish, Friesians, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein): Uther 2004 (1), No. 38:37; Scots [Alexander Carmichael, Lochaber: ' Traditions of the Land of Lorne'. The Celtic Review 8 (1913): 314-33]: Shaw 2012.

Western Asia. Arabs (?) Iraq: El-Shamy 2004, No. 38:11

South Asia. Uttar Pradesh (Saharanpur, Hindi) [the lioness teaches the lion cub that only a person should be afraid of; he grew up and went looking for a man; the ox replies that he is not a person, but a person keeps oxen in slavery; the same camel, elephant; when he meets a logger, he does not believe that he is a man; the lumberjack says he has a mind; the lion asks to show; the lumberjack split the log and invited the lion to stick his paw; when he took out the wedge, the lion roared for a long time and died]: Rouse, Crooke 1899, No. 41:176-181.

The Balkans. Croats [the vineyard was beaten with hail, the blacksmith squeezed the juice out of what was left, carried the barrel towards Death; he offered her to drink juice together; asked if she could crawl into the hole from plugs, locked it in a barrel, hung it in smoke labor; God sent the Devil to the blacksmith; the blacksmith asked permission to forge a knife, ax and hoe first, and the Devil to get into the bellows and blow; covered it in fur, beat; three devils came, the blacksmith asked for help split the deck, pinched their fingers in the cracks, told the apprentices to beat them; went to heaven, he was not allowed to go to hell - the same; slipped into heaven, sat down on his old pants given to the beggar; God allowed him to stay]: Arkhipova 1962:60-64; Romanians (Banat) [after retiring from service, soldier Petru immediately lost all his money; in the forest he met a rocking tree and playing with stones; they began to live in a hut, cook one by one; every time a dwarf appears riding a hare with a huge beard; eats everything, beats the cook; when P. remains, he grabs the dwarf by the beard, chases him to the crevice into which he fled; P. tells him to be lowered on a rope; cut the dwarf to pieces, but cannot get up, because the companions removed the rope: they were afraid that the dwarf would come out; light in the distance, P. went to the ground; the house, in which a blind old woman eats hominy with milk; P. began to eat too, the old woman felt it; if a girl would be a daughter, if a boy, then a son; asked P. to herd her sheep, but not to go to the land of dragons, who stole her eyes; P. went and began to play the flutes; the dragons listened, asked them to teach them; P., playing, led them to the oak tree, split them, ordered them to stick their paws into the crack, knocked out a wedge; ordered me to tell you how to restore the old woman's eyesight; dragons: there is a milk pond next to us, let her wash her eye sockets three times; P. cut off the dragons's heads, the old woman washed her eyes, began to see; P. left the old woman to meet him fox: don't shoot, I'll give you a fox; then the same wolf and bear; P. came to town, there's mourning; the 12-headed dragon demands girls, the turn of the king's only daughter; the princess was left in the swamp; P. fell asleep, putting the princess's head on his knees; woke up from a dripping tear; the princess took one of P.'s arrows; he hit 11 heads with arrows and the 12th with the princess's pin; cut out his tongues; the gypsy cut off the head of P. who had slept, and he brought the dragon's heads to the king; a snake crawls, grass in his mouth; a fox: why is it? snake: to grow severed heads, my son was cut off; the fox took the grass, grew his head, but P. is still dead; the wolf met a woman: what are you carrying? woman: living water; the wolf took the water, P. came to life; came to the palace, showed his tongues; the gypsies were put in a barrel of nails, lowered from the mountain; wedding; after the death of King P. reigned, his animals always reigned remained held in high esteem]: Schott, Schott 1975, No. 10:65-75; Moldovans [mother tells Fat-Frumos that his father was eaten by wolves; but he still became a hunter; saw bird maidens descending to swim in the lake, hid his wings; fairies follow him, sing; FF looks around twice, two pairs of wings fly away; FF brings the third fairy home without looking back; at the wedding, people admire the bride's dance; she promises to dance more it is better if the groom gives her wings; FF reluctantly gives it back, his wife flies away; FF wanted to shoot her, but she turned into a cuckoo and you can't shoot the cuckoo; she tells you to look for her in a golden palace in the golden forest; FF goes in search; the old man calls animals and birds; the goat comes last, she knows the places, but now there is a terrible drought; the man says that the owner of the palace was stolen by snakes; people milk the sheep in walnuts shells, milk drops; FF leads sheep to the snake's pastures; watchmen wolves and bears are fascinated by FF's play on the pipe; he says that the pipe needs to be repaired with wood from the middle of the oak tree, splits it, wolves and the bears stick their paws, FF takes out the wedge, burns the clamped wolves, one charred one escapes; pulls out the heart of the bears, one escapes; the shepherd tore off his tail, since then the bears have no tail; the guard of Vyzh-Surviil FF cuts off his arms and legs; he grabs the vein of the spring with his teeth, orders him to return his limbs, gives him strong water, FF killed BV; the snake opened its mouth from ground to sky, but FF killed him and returned his wife]: Moldovan tales 1968:434-450; Bulgarians [the lion or bear thinks he is the strongest; another animal tells him that man is stronger; or the lion thinks the cat is his relative but does not understand why it is small; because he lives under the yoke of man; a lion (bear) goes in search of a person, meets a horse, an ox, a buffalo, who advise not to deal with a person; when a lion (bear) gathers with a person to fight, he replies that he has forgotten his combat armor (or valor) at home, asks to be allowed to tie himself, otherwise he will suddenly run away; or the person pinched the legs of a lion (bear) in a tree; he admits human seniority]: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, no.*157B: 69-70; Hungarians [(episode); the dragon asks the guy to teach him how to play the pipe; he says that the dragon has clumsy fingers, they must be put in a crack in a split log; fingers pinched, the guy cut off the dragon's 34 heads]: Hungarian... 1955:35-52; Slovenes, Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 38:37.

Central Europe. Western Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia) [a son under 16 sucks his mother's breast, becomes a hero, pulls out and drags a beech alone, goes wandering; meets, takes as companions 1) Pulling out oaks, 2) Month-old iron; they are given jobs, but they have so much strength that they break everything; they take turns cooking in the forest, hell comes, eats everything, hits the cook; Messiiron asks the devil to help split a log, knocks out a wedge, his hands are clamped; M. hits him, making him say where the three kidnapped princesses are; hell runs into the hole, Vyrvibuk, Vyrvidub is afraid, M. goes down, hell says princesses have 6-, 9-, 12-headed dragons; 6-headed smells a man, the younger princess says her brother has come; they fight, M. drives the dragon into the ground, cuts off heads, cuts off tongues; so frees everyone princesses, Vyrvibuk and Vyrvidub pull them out, throw them by M.; he covers the chicks from the fiery rain, their mother takes them to the ground; to feed her, he cuts off the meat from his leg, on the ground she puts it back; the tsar gives his daughters, M. shows dragon tongues, rings presented by princesses, takes the eldest]: Giryak 1978:215-237; Eastern Ukrainians (Kanev, Kiev Gubernia) [The poor brother has 12 wicked people under the stove, which is why he is poor; the rich brother asks the poor to pray for a child; the poor prayed, the child was born, but the rich did not invite the poor to crony; the poor man brought his evil ones to the forest, asked for help to separate half of the oak tree, knocked out a wedge, pinched his hands more angry; a whirlwind killed a horse and broke the cart that the poor had borrowed from the rich; the rich came to the forest for them, freed the wicked, they ravaged it]: Sumtsov 1913:59-60; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Zaslavsky, Slavuta) [the man lived in poverty because of what he had under his stove He was twelve angry; during dinner he began to play the violin; saw that the evil guys were climbing out and dancing with the children; then they ran away again; the man asked if they were cramped under the stove; one replied that it was cramped; the man brought the barrel, the wicked moved into it; the owner closed the barrel, took it to the field, returned home; that man's elder brother asked why they had begun to live richly; the man talked about everything; the brother wanted to look at the wicked; went to that barrel, opened it a little; one evil man grabbed the man; they could not take it off; the man returned home; told his wife and children to pack; went to the forest; it became frosty; the man ordered to make a fire, told everyone to break the pine tree; they began to break it; the angry man put his hands in the gap almost to the elbows and began to help; he was crushed there; so the man and his family were freed from the last evil man; returned home]: Chubinsky 1978, No. 111:396-398 (retelling in Sumtsov 1913:60); Russians (Vologda) [turnips do not grow; old man: to bad things and turnips; turnips have grown, bad came to tug her, he does not give it; the eldest goes, then the middle son is the same; the youngest breaks the stump, invites the bad one to get the trap from there (?) , knocks out a wedge; let go for promising to bring money, a pipe and a pig with piglets; Ivan plays, a pig and piglets dance; the princess wants to buy them; I. gives the first pig for being a princess she raised her dress to her knees; then to her navel; to her breasts; she has silver and gold hair under her breasts; the king will give it to someone who knows the signs; I. and the general's son both know; she was put to sleep between them: who would turn around; I. pretended to give a damn on the window, and then ate it; the general's son really repeated; he stinks, the princess turned to I.; the king gave his daughter to a fool, he grabbed the king's mind]: Novichkova 2003, No. 6:431-433; Russians (Nizhny Novgorod Region, Vetluzhsky Krai) [Izosim and Savvatey built the Solovetsky Monastery; noticed that the horse was foamed: a bear was chasing it; asked Nikola- teach the bear a lesson; he drove a wedge into a tree stump, asked him to put his paws in the gap and help, knocked out a wedge; began to beat; since then, the bear has been afraid of man]: Azbelev 1992, No. 322:462; Poles: Shcherbakov 1980 [a golden life has grown on the shepherd's field; he tells his three sons to guard him; when it is the youngest's turn, the bird took the sheaf; the young man behind her; there is a house in the forest, an old man lies on that sheaf by the fire; a young man invited him to be his son; the old man's blind wife agrees; the old man lets the sheep herd, does not tell them to be allowed into the dry pond - the Rock Spirit will take away; gives the violin; the spirit drove the sheep; the young man gave him the violin to play, he broke the string; the young man promises to teach him to play, first he must straighten his fingers; the spirit put them in the split trunk; the young man let him go for promising not to touch the sheep; the spirit points to the grass that will return blind vision; old people promise to get a girl for their adopted son; you have to drive a goat to the sea; three ducks will arrive, throw off their clothes, become girls; you have to hide the shirt you like; the guy succumbed to persuade, gave the shirt, the duck flew away; a year later the old man sends the guy again; after bringing the girl home, the guy took pity again and returned his shirt; the third time is the last; the goat (this is the old man) is lucky to to another sea; the young man did not give his shirt, the old man gave the maiden a cape; the young man, his wife and newborn daughter went to visit his real father; having a golden life, the shepherd became a prince; at a feast, his daughter-in-law asks his father-in-law to get her best outfit - her husband hides it in a chest; became a duck and flew away with her duckling daughter; that old man gives the young man a masm to become a hare, fish, fly; the young man has reached the top glass mountain; overheard that his wife was grieving without him, became a man again; his wife's parents handed him the throne; he sent for his real father and for that old man, made them ministers]: 115-125; Wratislaw 1890, No. 19 [the master wants to take the poor man's daughter by force and tyrannizes him; the poor man and his family decide to leave; a poor girl appears from behind the stove - this is Poverty; the poor man agrees to take her with him, but let her help carry her a log; split a log, Poverty put his hand in the crack, the benyak knocked out a wedge; at a new place things went uphill; the gentleman saw the girl and released him; she stayed with him and he went broke]: 125-127; Czechs, Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 38:37.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [Tania Eskhak caught the line, cut the stump, pinched it in the middle; the hell asked to let him go, promised never to harm him; TE let go, the hell told (people?) to remain without water, firewood, fire]: Todua 2012; Georgians [a fox persuaded a bear to stick his paw into a split tree]: Kurdovanidze 2000, No. 38:13; Armenians [son, daughter was born; dough disappears; brother watches, sees how the baby got out of bed, swallowed the dough, came back; parents refused to kill their daughter; brother left, saw a herd of sheep, blind husband and wife with him; several days the young man is slowly eating milk; they notice that milk is disappearing; the young man admits that he stays with these people; they do not tell them to drive sheep east and west; in the west there are devils who have blinded them, and in the east, a cannibal lioness; a young man goes to hell, splits a log, offers to stick his hand, knocks out a wedge; demands that the devils return their eyes and teach them how to insert them; then kills them all; lioness: if I have the face of one lion cub, you can pass, or if more, I'll kill; a young man hides two lion cubs in a bag, raises them like dogs; the lioness believes that she has given birth to only one; the young man decides to go visit his native places, leaves a saucer of milk: if it turns black, he is in trouble; the house is empty, one sister; says she will go cook, eats the horse, asks if the brother came on foot; he says yes; she again leaves; rooster: she went to sharpen her teeth; brother runs away leaving a sandbag; sister thinks brother is in a sack, bites her, sand in her eyes; brother climbs on a plum that has grown from a bone he threw, leaving home in his youth; sister chews on the trunk, brother moved to the second plum; the milk turned black, the lions were lowered, they came running, tore the cannibal]: Gardner 1944:165-168; Turks [the cat answers the tiger: he is small because he has visited humans; leads the tiger to people to show how large animals serve people; the woodcutter persuaded the tiger to stick its paw into a split tree trunk]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953 , NO. 13:35.

Iran - Central Asia. Kafirs (prasun) [Imra created Moni from his breath; at that time, demons led by Lazoro stole the sun and moon; M. split the log, invited the demons to put their hands in the crack, knocked out the wedge, all the demons were trapped, died; M. came to Badiluk, the mother of these demons; she said that the sun and moon were stolen by the demons of Dizano, their fortress in the air was tied with the thinnest thread; M. shot an arrow in the thread, the fortress fell, but the sun with the moon was not inside; M. came to the mother of the seven demons; they returned, their mother persuaded them not to kill M., he was good at the household; he was told not to open one door; M. shoved it into the slit of his finger turned gold; he tied it, said that he had been injured; the mother and her sons broke the stone that allegedly injured M.'s finger; left alone, M. knocked out the door, the sun and moon flew into the sky; M. ran , threw needles (forest) behind, a ball of threads (fence); demons stopped pursuing, M. returned to Imra]: Hussam-ul-Mulk 1974a: 28-30.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians [woodcutter Mass sees a ball of thread rolling, then sees a beautiful woman; she takes him to her cave for three days; when he once split a log, she brings him a soup of sour cream in silver bucket; M. notices his wife's tail, knocks out a wedge, his tail is pinched; instead of a bucket, he has a birch bark basket with mud and tadpoles; five years later M. looked through the window of the forest hut; there a woman tells the boy to bring his father a beer; after that, M. did not go to the mountains]: Asbjørnsen 1987:26-31; Norwegians [the old woman promises the king that he will have three daughters, tells them until they are 15 years old, not to let them out of the house; the queen gives birth to three daughters one after another; one spring they ask the guard to let them into the garden, they are carried away by a whirlwind of snow; the captain, lieutenant and soldier go in search; they see an abandoned estate; a soldier throws meat to a bear and a lion, they let in; the companions cook one by one; a dwarf comes to the captain, lieutenant, asks for a coin, hits; when a soldier remains, he splits the log, invites the dwarf to look into the crack, pinches his beard; he has to tell him where the princesses are; the soldier lets him go; the companions raise the stove, under it the way to the lower world; only a soldier descends in a basket through water and fire; in the castle, the princess spins a copper thread; gives a drink of strong water, hides; a three-headed troll comes, falls asleep, the soldier cuts off his heads; the same with princess spinning a silver thread, a six-headed troll; gold, nine-headed; companions pick up princesses and treasures, cut off the rope; the youngest managed to give the soldier her gold ring; the soldier opens the closet, the chicks fly out, cannot pick it up; call her eagle mother; she carries the soldier upstairs, he feeds her cooked meat; she brings him to the king's palace, blows a whistle to call her if necessary; a soldier is hired by a jeweler; a younger princess demands a gold board like she had in the lower world; a soldier summons a bird that brings a board, a jeweler gives it to the princess, admits that he did not do it ; a soldier marries, gets half a kingdom, a captain and a lieutenant are executed]: Asbjíørsen, Moe 1960:31-48; Danes [the youngest of three brothers is a loser; hired; sends letters asking send money, then he gets the rank; brothers come and find out it's a lie, he's still a private; he leaves, meets a sergeant and a major; they live in an empty house; every time it's time to cook, the dwarf does not allow the cook to make a fire; when it is the turn of a guy (i.e. a former soldier), he splits the log and asks the dwarf to put his hand in the crack, his hand is pinched; makes him say where the kidnapped from princess royal castle and golden moon; companions bring the guy on a rope into the cave; he kills the husbands of all three princesses; sends princesses upstairs; sends a stone instead, the companions let go the rope, believing that the guy has now been disposed of; he finds a piece of paper that says "Master Hans"; as soon as the guy says the name out loud, Hans appears and waits for an order; takes the boy to England, where the sergeant and major are preparing to marry princesses; princesses demand that they be offered the golden moon they had in the underworld for the wedding; the guy hired a jeweler and at the last moment tells Hans to bring the moon from the cave; the jeweler admits that the moon was not made by him, but by a worker; he is called to the palace; married to a younger princess, and the sergeant and major were flogged to death]: Holbek 1987:510-511; Lithuanians: Lebite 1965:54-55 [Mr. has a bear in his basement; pan threw a violinist there as punishment; when he heard the game, the bear asked him to teach him; violinist: your fingers are thick; bear: do it thinner; the violinist split the pole, asked the bear to put his paws in the crack, pulled out a wedge; beat the bear until he promised to eat only raspberries and honey], 267-269 [the carpenter met Thunder and the devil, began to live in the same hut; Lauma started stealing turnips; they took turns guarding, Lauma hits the line, Thunder; the carpenter plays the violin, invites her to thin her fingers so that she can play too, suggested put his fingers in the crack in the stump, knocked out a wedge, began to beat Lauma with an iron stick; she broke her claws, ran away; the carpenter, damn it, Thunder agreed to scare each other; the thunder frightened the devil, he ran away; the carpenter became sing Lauma's song, Thunder decided that Lauma was back, the carpenter went to the hut and field]; Estonians: Kippar 2010, No. IV.1 (Rõuge) [The bear asks Lisa to teach him how to play the pipe; Lisa offers to shove his paw into a split oak block, a wedge knocks out, the Bear's paw is pinched, he yells, Lisa says he has learned to blow; people ran, killed the Bear], IV.2 (Pärnu) [Lisa stole a horse from a drunk man with a cart; Hare, Wolf, Bear ask them to put them on the cart; in the swamp they insist on driving further; the horse breaks the gullies; the Hare, the Wolf, the Bear bring the unusable; the fox brings suitable ones, but sees that comrades eat up the horse; decides to take revenge; smeared with goose blood, promises the Hare that he will also have the same beautiful fur coat, he must get into the haystack; sets fire to the haystack, the Hare burned; pretends to be dead, man carries the fish, picks up the Fox, she throws the fish off the cart, jumps off herself, carries a bag of fish, answers the Wolf that he needs to put her tail in the ice-hole, the fish will catch; the tail is frozen, the Fox called the dogs, those they tore the Wolf to pieces; smears the block with honey, advises the Bear to stick it inside his paw, knocks out the wedge; people killed the Bear], IV.6 (Viljandi) [devil (vanapagan) hired Hans on condition not to be angry; who will be the first to get angry, He would cut off the other nose; when the devil began to rip out the spruce trees with roots, H. pretended to have a stomachache; suggested that the devil carry the butts and he should sit on the Christmas trees himself, carry it with them; H. pretends to count wolves; hell runs that there is urine and does not look back; hell tells me to cook beer in three days; H.: while they were running, he twisted his leg; hell brings barley to the brewery; H. sold barley, bought tar, damn it instead of beer and praised it; in haymaking, X. mows braids with a pen; hell, I have to say he's not angry; but then gives X. the best pieces, before that, only bones; hell: let the tools they work themselves; while the hell was sleeping, H. mowed his plot; hell called the devils and they did everything for him; hell offered to fight; H.: first with my older brother; set a bear on the hell, barely escaped; hell: race; H. offers his younger brother, a hare, the hell did not catch up with him; they began to throw stones; the line fell back by noon; H. threw the sparrow, three days later the hell thought that the stone H. is stuck on a cloud; hell with a club from his grandfather, he threw it almost to the cloud; H. cannot lift it; pretends to wait for the clouds to float, throw it at him; sorry for the devil, tells him not throw; hell suggests choosing part of the crop; H. chooses the tops of wheat, then the roots of the turnips; both times the hell loses; in the forest both wanted to drink, H. offered to drill holes in the birch trees to drink juice; We will drill with a penis; H. has a drill with him, the hole is ready, the poor devil is suffering; in the forge he taught H. to fuse pieces of iron; hell went to the wedding, told X. to clean his children and bring them to him he would also throw his eyes {in the sense of looking}; H. gutted the children, washed his intestines, strung his eyes on a rope, brought a line, threw his eyes into his chest; hell remembered that he should not be angry; decided from H. get rid of; told the old woman to climb a birch tree under the window and cook {that means the end of the term of employment}; H.: it's too early for the cuckoo, took a gun, shot; hell: where do you sleep? H.: on the stove; he lay down where the grain was dried; at night, the devil threw a knife on the stove, there were dishes with milk, everything spilled; hell: I'm in cockroaches; the same the next night (H. said he would sleep on a bench near stoves, on the stove myself); hell: I scared the cat; the same on the third night (I lay down not where the grain is dried, but on the bench by the stove); hell decided to run away from H., took a bag of money with him, H. hid in it; Halt H. slowly got out: he barely caught up with you! I had to pay the line, he became impoverished himself, and H. bought a farm; in winter he cut down the forest; devil: I also froze; H. offered to put his hands in a half-split log, knocked out a wedge; freed me for promise to bring a bag of gold; hired H. as a shepherd; fell asleep on a hot day, the cattle rushed home, trampled the line to death]: 69, 69-72, 78-85; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 87 (Yuri) [to the one who cuts down in a day an oak tree in his garden, the king promises a daughter, and whoever does not have time will have his belts cut out of his back; his older brother went, cut down more than in the middle; the princess came up with dinner; when the boy was about to finish work, saw that the gun was intact again; came back with his back torn off; the same middle brother; the younger burak took a pipe with him; on the way he saw a chopping axe, commanded him to "Get into the bag!" ; the same with a shovel; with a whip; the ax cut down the oak tree himself; the king ordered to dig a well by morning, dug a shovel; ordered the hares to herd and return them safe by evening; the guy plays the pipe, the hares gather; the king sends his daughter to buy one hare; she paid in gold; the guy played the pipe, the hare returned; the same with the second daughter; with the king himself; each time the pay is higher; the king promised to give his daughter, but first ordered the guy should spend the night in a room with a bear; the bear demands to shave him; the guy asks to put his paws in the crack of the log first; the paws can't be pulled out, the guy whipped the bear, he tore off all his hair; the king let the guy and his daughter go, then sent the bear to lift them both up; the guy stripped the princess, showed the bear; the bear came back and told the king that those as naked as himself, he could not do anything against them]: 296-298; Seto [in winter, the Bear and the Fox agree to get food together; The bear lifted up a horse, killed a man who was carrying fish, brought everything into the forest; Lisa offers to get more honey, advises the Bear stick your paw into a split block, knocks out a wedge, calls people; feeds on bear prey all winter]: Kippar 2010, No. IV.3:72-73; Finns (Satakunta) [more detailed (and accurate?) translated into Bertram 1854:3-17; fortune tellers tell the king not to let three daughters out of the house until they are 20 years old; when the youngest is 15, the king lets his daughters and servants go into the grove, says the roar and the girls disappear; those who go in search do not want to take the young groom, come back with nothing; the groom meets the old man, asks for help to pull the axe out of the stump, the old man sticks his finger, the guy takes out the ax, the finger is pinched, the guy promises to release the old man if he says where the kidnapped princess is; the old man: they are at the mountain kobold; the youngest in an iron underground cell with an iron crown and an iron crown with a ring; others in a silver, gold chamber, with silver, gold crowns and a ring; the boy freed the old man; he gave a rope, a sword, a flask of living water and a pipe; if you play on it, the old man will appear to help; the king allowed the guy to go after the princesses; the guy called the old man, who drove him to the iron door in the mountains, told him to hit her with a sword, the door fell apart, followed by a younger princess and a kobold; he had a horn, one eye, he could not see well; he sensed a man, but the princess said that it was a raven who flew by, carrying carrion in his beak; the guy heated a poker in the hearth, burned the kobold's eye; he cut off the head of the blinded man; the old man ordered to leave the iron crown and cut the ring, take half for himself, return half to the princess; the same with the princesses for silver and gold animals; the old man raised the princesses on a rope; when wanted to pick up the guy, the courtiers arrived in time, cut the rope; told the princesses to tell the king that they had released them; the guy did not crash to death, drank live water from a flask and recovered; played on flutes, an old man came, put the guy on a crow, he carried him to the ground; the guy hired a blacksmith; princesses demand their own crown; the blacksmith cannot make; the guy calls the old man, he gives these crowns ; the blacksmith brings an iron, silver crown; the guy calls the old man, who gives horses and a carriage, the guy carries the golden crown himself; the courtiers sent murderers, but they did not understand that this gentleman was a former groom; the guy showed the princesses his halves of his rings; the princess in the golden crown called him husband and gave the kingdom; he punished the courtiers: one ordered to wear birch bark bast shoes, the other to ride a pig, the third was thrown into the air]: Schreck 1887, No. 16:137-151; Latvians [Paws pinched. A man teaches a bear to play. Persuades him to put his paws in the crack of the block]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 38:253; Swedes: Klintberg 2010, No. E51 [the lumberjack just split the log with an ax when a forest woman came up and asked if not whether to help him; he is afraid of being in her power and therefore asks to put his hands in the crack to tear the log; pulls out the ax and leaves, the woman's hands remain clamped with a log]: 107; Liungman 1961, No. 38 [fox convinces a bear to stick his paw into a crack in a split log]: 9; Western Sami: Kohl-Larsen 1982, No. 26 [the bear tells the lion that man is strong; the lion wants to see a person; towards a boy - the future man; the old man is a former man; then a young man with a bow, sword and ax; the lion invited him to measure his strength; the man knocked down a birch tree, drove a wedge into the crack of the trunk, invited the lion to show his strength - break the trunk; when the lion put its paws into the gap, the young man knocked out a wedge; pulled out his paws, but was left without claws; the lion wanted to rush at the man, but he cut off his tail with a sword; the lion opened his mouth, and the man let him go there arrow; bleeding, the lion ran away; tells the bear how the man spat in his mouth; decides not to date the person again]: 153-156; Qvigstad 1925, No. 38 (Piteå, Sweden) [paw {bear?} pinched in a log]: 9.

Volga - Perm. Tatars: Zamaletdinov 1992 [=2008a, No. 29:82; =2009, No. 68:281; the woodcutter replies to Shurala that his name is Byltyr ("last year"); asks for help split the block - put his fingers in the crack; Sh. , other shurales say that since he was pinched last year, now you won't find the culprit]: 228-229; Koblov 1910 [to get rid of Shuryale, you have to offer him (her?) put your hand in a split log, knock out a wedge; say that Byltyr Kysty did it ("Last Year infringed"; when they hear this answer, other Shuryales who ran to the scream will only laugh]: 430; Nasyrov 1880 [the churals live in the forest, their breasts are thrown over their shoulders; I should invite her to put her finger in a split tree, knock out a wedge, say, My name is Bylyr Kysty ("I infringed last year"; those who ran to scream other churals will laugh - why did you call me, since it happened so long ago?] : 253-254; Bashkirs [Shaitan suggests measuring strength; Aldar asks for help to finish the work first: put your fingers in the crack of a log to knock out a wedge; says that his name is Byltyr ("last year"); the howl of Satan came running; they began to scold him: he pinched him last year, and now he is yelling; A. asks Satan to prop up the crooked shore, he leaves himself; he says to Satan that the bag of tricks is left at home, it is necessary take the firewood first; Shaitan is surprised that the sleigh is going by themselves (from the mountain); A. gave the sleigh to Satan, cleaning the bottom, the sleigh went, Shaitan fell; (other episodes in which A. deceives Satan)]: Barag 1992, No. 12:45- 50; Chuvash [the youngest son is Bald, they don't like him, he goes on a journey, meets him, takes a bear and an imp as companions; they built a house, made a lake full of beer; someone steals him, they queues guard; the old man beats an imp, a bear; Bald plays the harp, generously allows the old man to drink, asks him to put his hand in a half-split log, promises to teach him how to play, knocks out a wedge, cuts off the old man's head; three decide that someone who scares others will remain in the hut; the bear and the devil Bald were not afraid; he showed the old man's head in the window, they ran away; Bald called the brothers to help move the hut to the village; they began to respect him]: Sidorova 1979:146-148; Mordovians: Evseviev 1964, No. 44 (Erzya) [the tailor, the bear and the unclean began to live together; they brewed beer; someone drinks it at night; they take turns guarding; Viryava hits a bear, an unclean one; the tailor agrees to eat it, but asks for help split the tree; V. puts his hand in the crack, the tailor knocks out the wedge, hits her with an iron arshin until then until she promised him a daughter, money, a house and a yard with cattle; the bear and the unclean want Viryava's daughter for themselves: let him take it who is not afraid; no one is afraid of either a bear or an unclean one; a tailor dresses up, hits the bucket, they think Viryava has come, run away; the tailor gets everything]: 309-314; Samorodov 1972 [the old man split the oak tree, sat down to rest, the Viriava girl has come; asks to teach her how to play, the old man tells you to put his hands in the crack, knocks out the wedge, runs away; the other Viryavs pulled the girl, tore off his arms; the old man enters the Viryav hole, runs away with the captured girl and gold; the Viryavs pursue, he surrounds himself and the girl is in a circle of fire, the Viryavs leave; returns the girl to her parents, whose parents replaced her with a big-headed boy (he has already died); the girl is safely married]: 300-305; Mordovians [tailor, the bear and the unclean began to live together; they brewed beer; someone drinks it at night; they take turns guarding; the bear and the unclean see Leshachikha {apparently Viryava} drinking beer, but they are afraid and hiding; tailor plays the balalaika, making the leshachikha dance; I agree that she eat it, but asks for help split the tree; the leshachikha puts his hand in the crack, the tailor knocks out the wedge, hits her with a bird cherry stick; let her go; suggests that the hut should go to someone who is not afraid; no one is afraid of a bear and an unclean one; the tailor shouts that the leshachikha is coming; he will get the hut]: Yurtov 1883, No. 19:109-119; marie [man writhes and brings stumps to one place to melt resin; hell comes and throws stumps one on top of another; a person breaks a stump, clogs a wedge; hell takes a stump, a wedge falls out, his hand is pinched; hell promises to help a man, he released him; a man is recruited into the army; in two years he asks the devil to take him home; flies on the line, the hat has fallen; hell: it's already 500 miles away; two months later, hell brings the soldier back; at this time he served instead of a man; (hereinafter a long text with a general meaning: you can't escape fate)]: Beke 1938, No. 19:66-86; Komi: Limerov 2005, No. 64 [Mikhailo decided to stand up on all fours and be a bear; the goblin turned him into a bear; the woman went to the forest, he stole her; the woman died, but the cubs remained; the bear wanted to eat Mikola Ugodnik; he first asked for help split log; clenched the bear's paws, began to beat, let people go for promising not to eat; the bear asked for his thumb; Nikola is ready to give on the condition that the dog receives a gun; the bear took his request back]: 62- 63; Rochev 2006, No. 106 [Nikolai the owner cut down a birch tree, began to split it, the Bear came to eat it; he first asked for help split the trunk, put his paw to break the wedge; took out the wedge, his paw was stuck, N . began to beat the Bear with an iron stick; let him go after promising not to attack people]: 155; Fokos-Fuchs 1951:241-244 in Ulyashev 2011 [Mikhailo got on all fours, decided to become a bear, Leshy turned him into a bear, he stole a woman, they gave birth to cubs, they began to eat people; Mikola Ugodnik came down, the bear came to eat it; then as in Rochev 2006]: 215.

Western Siberia. Northern Selkups (recorded by G.N. Prokofiev in Selkup from a forest nenka) [Jompu lives with his grandmother; once there are no fish, but dead bones float along the river; J. wrapped his arms and boat with birch bark, He broke the dead barns on the hill, swam, the dead chased, only ripped off the birch bark from his hands and from the boat; J. sailed to the people, they started shooting at him with bows; he let the perch and brush dam the river, the shooters drowned; the damn old man makes a dumpling boat; J. put a frog and a lizard in the boat, they immediately crucified the boat; the hell split the log, asked Y. to split the log with his hands, knocked out the wedge, left, "now dry for 7 years"; but J. has a beaver jaw hidden, it split the larch; J. put on the skin of a mousetrap hawk, flew to where the devil was swimming along the river, put a snare from the top of the larch, damn it, hung; J. drilled the bottom of the boat, sprinkled it with sand, two drowned; the old man began to shamanize - he sees nothing, the old woman is shamanite - these people drowned; she was tied by a rope {obviously not to fall into the hearth}; everything fell asleep, J. volunteered to hold the rope, let them go, the old woman fell into the hearth and burned down; J. ran away, shot people, threw them into the water with their property; came to people who were diving from two tied larches: they are trying to break the water plague, which locked the fish while his son is sick; J. volunteered to dive, shamanil, cured the water son, he released the fish; but J. cannot get out of the plague; got together with the water's daughter; she Y. ordered J. to jump out through the smoke hole, the watchman bears only tore their forearm; they run with the water's daughter, a beast with a horn is harnessed into the sledge to the sky; the water catches up, J. against him is a one-clawed female put it, "one-clawed grandmother, hold it well"; the same two-clawed, etc. to seven; then puts a one-horned - and up to semirog - choir (male deer); six features defeated, the seventh cared for him, the water carried her to the northern ocean; J. came to his grandmother, she died long ago, J.'s wife revived her, she became a girl; his wife put "Land on the ridge (located) sacrificial chortov chum"]: Prokofiev 1935, No. 2:105- 106 (=Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 37:165-171); Simchenko 1995 (zap. Simchenko from the same informant from whom Prokofiev wrote down in Yanov Stan) [Yompu has stopped constipating fish, his grandmother is hungry; dead bones (i.e. the spirits of the dead, Latars themselves) float along the river; J. sails to the hill, where the Latars, makes a tambourine mallet, a birch bark cover on his clothes, the latars only scratch the birch bark; next time he places a perch and a ruff to dam the river, the Latars sink; the vines do With a hollow, J. tells the chips to bounce into his nose; while the vines are sleeping, J. places the lizard and the frog in the hollow, they expand it (these animals are able to expand the gap); eating the beaver, J. hides his jaw; the vine splits the larch, asks Y. to stick his hand, knocks out the wedge, leaves; J. tells the beaver's jaws to split the trunk; in the skin of a polar owl he flies over the sea, gets tired, throws a whetstone, he becomes a rock, J. on she rests; makes a noose on the larch; when the vines float in the boat, it is raised in a loop, remains hanging; two chase linden ducks, J. quietly holes in their boats, they sink; J. comes to their plague; an old woman shamanite, says they drowned; at night J. pushes her into the fire; people suspect that J. is to blame, he kills everyone with onions; other people bend larch and throw people into the water to break the plague a water vine that covered the fish; he did it because his son is sick; J. shoots into the water, follows the arrow into the underwater plague; shamanite, the son of the vine recovers, the vines let go of fish; J. in the plague lies with his daughter; cannot go out with an ermine or a squirrel, because the vines have put bear guards; goes through a smoke hole, a vine runs away with his daughter; they ride a sledge drawn by an animal, whose the horn draws the sky; J. throws a one-clawed female, then a two-clawed female, so until seven, they detain the stalker vine; a one-horned deer fights with the vine, etc., a semiric drowns the vine in the sea; the daughter of a water the vine revives the deceased grandmother Y., turns her into a girl; turns its gold ring into a golden plague; puts pillars for comlania]: 98-109; Tuchkova, Wagner-Nagy 2015, No. 13 (Turukhan, 1976) [Ichekichika lived with his grandmother; Los offers I. to split the tree, both hands pinched; I. asked the bear to tear the tree, freed himself; pulled a kite skin over himself, put a loop on the river, bent two trees; Los swam with with two daughters, fell into a noose, died; I. killed his daughters by trampling him in clay]: 79-80.

Eastern Siberia. Evens [a young man is fishing, a girl comes up, asks for fish; he remembers that the dead are afraid of fish caviar, throws caviar at the girl, she runs away; next time the girl wants to warm up, he split the larch, offered to stick his hands, took out his ax, the girl's hands were pinched; when people got there, there were decayed human bones in the cracks; an unburied person turns into a ghost]: Danilov, Danilova 1991:21.

The Arctic. Kodiak [a man kills his sister's sons; she pretends to have given birth to a girl, her brother finds out the truth; 1) drops a wedge into the crack of a log, asks her nephew to get it, knocks out other wedges (the young man rubs a log of sour cranberries, it opens its mouth); 2) sends his nephew to get ducks and eggs from a steep cliff, pushes him down (he holds fluffs in his hand, descends like a feather); 3) sends him past a huge oysters (the nephew is swallowed, cuts the muscles of the oyster with a knife); the uncle puts his nephew in a deck with a lid, lets him go to sea; he sails to the country of the Eagles, marries the leader's daughter, gets eagle plumage; brings a whale to his uncle's village; an uncle drives the young man's parents away from the meat; an eagle nephew lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; takes his parents to the country of Eagles], 9 [at a time when the winds were not yet there, the young man gets mink skin from his grandmother; sails into the bay, gets married; 1) the father-in-law asks for firewood (a monster rushes at the young man, he kills him with an arrow, brings firewood); 2) his wife and her sister call him to swim ( it is swallowed by a whale, it turns into a hole, jumps out through the whale's breath); 3) the whale shakes the young man's wife and her sister on its tail (the young man quietly kills the whale with an arrow, only then steps on the tail); swims home; A huge wave follows him, he breaks it with an arrow; he is swallowed by a monster, he becomes a mink, gets out through the gills; remains a mink]: Golder 1903, No. 8:90-95; Aleuts; Jochelson 1990 [ like alutik], No. 35 (Unalashka) [a man kills his sister's sons; she pretends to have given birth to a girl, her brother learns the truth; 1) drops a wedge into the crack of a log, asks her nephew to get it, knocks out other wedges; he escapes as a beetle, brings firewood; 2) his uncle takes him to hunt seals, sews his skin into a seal, throws him into the sea; his nephew sails to the country of the Eagles, gets two wives and eagle plumage; arrives to the mother, brings the whale to the uncle's village; the uncle drives the young man's mother away from the meat; the eagle nephew lifts his uncle into the air, throws him into the sea; returns to his wives]: 269-277; Lyapunova 1984 (Commanders) [in the leader's village some women (they also do all men's work); men are exterminated, boys born are killed by the chief; one woman hides her son under the guise of a girl; the chief discovers him when he knocks him down with stones flying birds; the chief tries to 1) pinch him in the tree trunk (the mother gives a magic bone wedge); 2) throws him off the cliff (the mother gives magic feathers); 3) takes seals to fish, leaves them on the island; With a woman's knife, the boy takes off the skin from the seal, sews himself into it, swims, throws him to Orlov Island; the young man marries, learns to fly in the skin of an eagle, to his mother's village, brings her two whales; the leader tries to take them away, the young man takes him into the air, throws him into the sea; when he returns to the village, swaps idle women and slaves (including his mother), flies to his wife]: 27-28; inupiat Northern Alaska (Point Hope) [Ukungniq goes south, where people disappear; relieves a split log; when a wedge knocks out, it flies past its head (others have been killed); two people come up, look at holes in Wu's shoes; he says his toes eat people; those who come run away; W. goes with other people, spends the night with a woman; the blanket turns into a partridge wing, people were partridges; W. throws a caught rabbit into the hole in the dugout; whoever he hit was killed, these people were very vulnerable; the cannibal had skis and a copper sledge; W. fills his park with branches, puts it in cannibal's camkan; shouts to him from a distance to take off his pants and jump into the fire; the cannibal jumps, dies, W. takes his skis; the girl combs the grooms, they disappear; W. disappears voluntarily, equal to her in Sila, marries her; throws dirt at her, she gives birth to a son; he eats her father and mother's amulets (gaining the strength of both), this is the winner of the Qayaqtugungnaqtuaq monsters]: Lowenstein 1992, No. 4:21-28.

Subarctic. Helmet [A beaver sails in a boat down the river; an old shrew helps him with advice, gives him two fish; a snake on both banks of the river; he throws fish into his mouth, they eat fish, Beaver swims by; turns into a bird, lets two sisters catch himself; the eldest takes him to their bed, he turns into a man; his father-in-law cooks him in a cauldron, he flies out as a bird, comes back; father-in-law demands 1) finish the boat (takes the wedge out of the log; the Beaver is not crushed, splits the log); 2) get arrow feathers (Beaver climbs into the Eagles' nest; asks the chicks how their parents will arrive; Mother at noon with wind and rain, father in the evening with wind and hail; kills one chick, kills adult eagles with a club, brings feathers); 3) get the tendons of a shaggy monster (The shrew digs a hole under the lying a monster, hides Beaver there, gnaws hair from a place under her heart, supposedly to warm her children; Beaver shoots at this place, kills the monster, brings tendons); 4) bring paint (The serpent lies on the paint; A shrew lets a clay doll go with the flow; the Serpent rushes after her, the Beaver pulls out paint); 5) get a huge fish to cook glue (Beaver kills it with a harpoon); father-in-law mourns the death of his pets; turns daughters into bears, Beaver kills them with arrows; father-in-law chases him, Beaver hides at the bottom of the lake; father-in-law tells the Bird (species not specified) to drink water; Snipe holes the Bird's belly with its beak, water pours back; Beaver revives wives, comes to people with them; one day sleeps with his former wife; new ones rise to heaven, almost all people die from the terrible heat; Beaver goes to look for wives; to him for the night is a father-in-law, replaces their hanged pants to dry; Beaver throws his father-in-law's pants into the fire early in the morning; he admits defeat, rises to the sky, he is the Sun]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:435-441.

NW coast. Tlingit [splits a boat]; haida; tsimshian; heiltsuk; quakiutl (nimpkish) [Gyi'i goes to marry a girl whose father kills suitors; sails in a self-propelled on the boat, taking feathers and wings of seagulls with her; sails to his aunt, who gives him three stone tiles to tie to his legs and buttocks; gives shells; G. gives these shells to a person who also helped with advice; he leaves them on the shore, since then he has shells to feed people; gave another person the same thing, but they are inedible shells; he swam to four blind duck women, steals the roots they bake ; each thinks the other one took it, they fight; they smell it; G. spits in their eyes, restoring their sight; they tell him that a girl and her father are about to come; G. ties an octopus to their face to look old; a girl takes him as a slave, her brother doubts; in a boat, a girl tells an imaginary slave that she must marry G.; G. throws off an octopus, appears in her guise; the door to the girl's father's house slams shut, crushing the incoming ones; G. makes a false move and then slips; father-in-law offers to sit down, G. ties his stones, they break the tips that killed the other suitors; G. throws into the fire shells, the fire goes out; under the guise of salmon and berries, the father-in-law gives meat and milk to siciutl; G. pretends to eat, hides pieces under her clothes; gets a wife, she gave birth in the morning; father-in-law calls to split the trunk, deliberately drops a wedge, asks for it; sees blood, but it turns out that G. quietly jumped out and waits for his father-in-law in the boat; when they swim, G. throws coniferous needles and pieces of wood into the water, they turn into fish and dolphins, jump on their father-in-law, he dies; at the coast G. revives him, father-in-law admits defeat]: Boas 1895, No. XV. 1:135-137 (=2002:307-310); chickpea [the girls in the boat sailed to the shore where she lived a cannibal (chehah) named E-ish-so-oolth; she covered their eyes with resin, threw them into her basket; two clung to overhanging branches, ran away; the rest in the village were mourned; one mother's tears formed a puddle, turned into a boy Eut-le-Ten; his mother told him about his sister's fate; he went to save her; climbed a tree; the cannibal saw his reflection in the water; she told him to go down, promising feed, shelter; he explained that he was handsome because his parents put his head on a stone and put another stone on his forehead; the cannibal asked him to do the same to her, the boy killed her; came to her husband ; he split logs with a wedge; dropped a wedge, asked them to pull it out; the boy climbed in, the cannibal pulled out another wedge; the boy again turned into a puddle of tears, went into the ground, got up as a boy; the cannibal wants too try, crushed by a log; in a cannibal house, a boy frees the girls from the cage, washes their eyes from resin]: Carmichael 2006:27-35; poppies.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry; Thompson; Lillouette; Comox; Hallcomel; Quinolt [Sisemo marries Thunder's daughter; father-in-law demands 1) get snow from mountain peaks (S. brings a handful, snow covers the whole ground); 2), 3) bring two cougars, two bears (S. leads, Thunder is frightened); 4) split the log (Thunder knocks out the wedge, S. is not crushed, brings a log); 5) bring lightning from the underworld (the inhabitants there play ball with her); S. turns into something, I don't know what, takes lightning away; Thunder floods the pursuers' torches with rain; puts lightning under his arms, gives a piece to everyone red colored animals and birds]: Farrand 1902, No. 9:113-114; lower chinook; tillamook [Thunder gets stuck]; alsea.

California. Yurok; viyot; karok.

Mesoamerica Itza [the woodcutter asks the Jaguar not to eat him; promises to give him many cows if he helps him split the log; the Jaguar sticks his hands, the man knocks out the wedge; hits the Jaguar with a stick, cuts off his fingers; since then the jaguar has topless paws, spots on the skin]: Hofling 1991, No. 12:102-112; lacandons [episode series: each time with a new puma ("many cougars"); the new cougar can't help the previous one, but it's coming kill the rabbit; the rabbit asks for help to split the log: the cougar is strong, let him put his paws in the crack; takes out the wedge; various animals pass by and say that they have no hands to help the cougar; rabbit turns into a beautiful woman; says he is afraid of a cougar, because he has claws (scratches), teeth (bites), eyes (too big); the cougar has pulled out her claws, teeth, eyes; the cougar sees a rabbit on a hill in a cave; rabbit: I keep the cave and the whole land; if you kill me, everyone will die; help me hold it while I go to eat; by the end of the day, the cougar let go of the rock, but nothing happened; the rabbit pretends to try drink the lake, otherwise it will break up and flood everything; asks the cougar to drink; she can no longer; she came across a thorn, her belly burst and she died; the rabbit tries to prove to the cat that he did not see it when he came up from behind; cat rushes at the rabbit; rabbit: you're right; my descendants will be little rabbits]: Cook 2019:405-422.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita [husband went hunting; while he was away, the pregnant wife gave birth to a girl; heard a pu'u owl singing in the forest; the woman said that if she were a human being, she could help her bring firewood and make a fire; pu'u came out of the forest in the guise of a woman, gave the woman the firewood she had brought with her; asked her to spend the night; at midnight she put her finger into the little one's eye to the girl, replied that she was crying because she pulled a tick out of her age; when her mother fell asleep, she picked out the little girl's eye, ate it; then from a sleeping woman; the woman's little son climbed under the roof, from there I saw what had happened; heard his father return from hunting; when he went down and told him what had happened; the pu'e woman stayed in the house, put a stone in the hammock, and babysitted him as if it was a child; while going to get water, the man warmed up wax on the fire; asked the woman to let him paint her face to go to the party; tied two boards, told her to stick his nails between the boards, or he afraid of them, they are too long; threw boiling wax on her face, set fire to the house; dying, the pu'u woman said, Yo'uira choka, ma'ma' choka, ascho' choka, uyyouan choka; therefore, from her eyes after death tubers of whitina, sachapapa, sweet potatoes and uyyouan plants grew]: Shlyakhtinsky 2008.