L15a1. Achilles heel. 27.29.30.

When a baby is hardened to make his body invulnerable, a small area remains unhardened. A mature hero dies when struck at this place.

Ancient Greece, Kabardian people, Ossetians, Burish people.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece ["Argonautics" by Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC): "His boundless sadness immediately struck him {Peleus}; never /He saw her {Thetis} since he left his bed/And his home Peleya, angry for the baby's Achilles. /For she burned her son's mortal flesh at midnight/She burned vigilantly in the flame of fire, and rubbed it/Ambrose's tender body, trying to make him immortal/And forever him protect from old age vile. /But one day Peley noticed, getting up from his bed, how darling /His son was spinning in a bright flame. He could not hold back, /The husband was foolish, at the sight of a loud scream./Hearing his voice, she picked up the child/She threw her tears to the ground./Like the wind, /Like a dream, she immediately disappeared in anger from home./She sank into the depths of the sea and did not return" (trans. N.A. Chistyakova)]: Apoll. Rhod. IV. 866-879; ["Achilleid" by Publius Papinius Statius (1st century); Thetis about Achilles, addressing Chiron: "<... > and I often think about horror! - take the child to Tartar/Abyss, wash it again in the springs of Styx"; Thetis, addressing Achilles: "<... > If/I, a nymph, knew Susha and called my mortal husband/ For you, if my son was the harsh moisture of Styx/I protected it, it's a pity, not everything! - Accept it for a while /These clothes are reliable - they will not affect the soul" (translated under general editorship. A.V. Podosinova)]: Stat. Achill. I. 133-134, 267-271; [Vatican and Sabbaite epitomes to the Mythological Library of Pseudo-Apollodorus, the first of which may have been compiled by Tsetses (12th century): "Memnon, son of Typhon and Eos, with a large Ethiopian troops arrived near Troy to take part in the battle against the Hellenes. He killed many of the Hellenes, including Anteloch, but he died himself at the hands of Achilles. While chasing the Trojans, Achilles was hit in the ankle by Alexander and Apollo's arrow at the Skay Gate. A battle began over Achilles' body: Eant killed Glavk and allowed Achilles's weapons to be carried to ships, picked up the body himself and carried it out of the Sich, while Odysseus repulsed the onslaught of enemies. The death of Achilles depressed the entire army" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)]: Apollod. Epit. V. 3; [Myths attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the era, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: "When, after Hector's funeral, Achilles wandered around the Trojan walls and said that he would take it alone Troy, angry Apollo, said to have taken the form of Alexander Paris, hit him with an arrow in his ankle, which was mortal, and killed him" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]: Hyg. Fab. 107; ["The First Vatican Mythograph" (compiled at the turn of the I-II millennium by an unknown medieval compiler): "Achilles, immersed by his mother in the waters of the Styx Swamp, became invulnerable with his whole body, except the part he was being held for. When he decided to meet Polyxena, whom he fell in love, at the temple, he was killed by Paris, who was hiding behind the statue. That made it look like Paris had lowered an arrow directed by Apollo" (taken from Serv. Aen. VI. 57; per. V.N. Yarkho)]: I Myth. Vat. I. 36.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kabardian people [sledges strive to destroy too strong Sosruko; offer him to roll a wheel up the mountain; push him with his head; S. performs everything; the old woman says that when S. was taken out of the stone womb that gave birth to him, the blacksmith grabbed his thigh with forceps, it became covered with bone and became vulnerable; sledges offer to roll the wheel with his thigh; the wheel crushed his thigh, S. died]: Lopatinsky 1891a:46; Ossetians: Abayev et al. 1957 (southern) [Gumir raids, captures sledges; Sozyrko frees prisoners, smashes the village of G., cuts off his head; G. manages to send him to Balsag with a request send his wheel; S. asks Oak, Hazel, Linden, Hops to stop the wheel; Oak and Hazel refuse because S. broke their branches into arrows; S. tells pigs to eat acorns, and Hazel to be crooked, fit on axes; Lipa says she is powerless, S. tells her to be barren; Hops holds the wheel, S. rewards him - he will be an intoxicated wander; after knocking down the wheel, S. tells him to cut off B.'s legs; Syrdon, taking the sight of an old man, an old woman, a girl, advises only to cut off B.'s ring finger; after that, B. sends the wheel to harden again to Kurdalagon, and then cut off S.'s legs, because he has a steel body, but his knees remained unhardened; the wheel cuts off S.'s legs; Syrdon begs S. for the horse to report the incident to the sledge, but he drives the horse himself, mocking S.; the Raven refuses to peck at S., for he always provided him with food; S. rewards the Raven, he will always be full; the same Wolf (will be brave), Fox (expensive skin), Hedgehog (gives his mustache for his stubble), Owl (will see at night); Swallow flies to Sledges with lime, Syrdon interprets her words as if S. will return with prey; says Sozyrko that sledges will bury him in a manure heap, cover him with snakes and frogs with skin; sledges solemnly bury S., Batradz promises revenge]: 331-347; Libedinsky 1981 [the shepherd saw Shatana bathing, his seed fell into the stone; S. brought the blacksmith Kurdalagon, who split the stone, the baby was taken out; this is Soslan, he tells temper it in she-wolf milk; K. tells him to make a deck where Soslan would fit, but Syrdon advises shortening it by 4 fingers; the progenitor of the dogs Sili drove a pack of wolves behind the fence, helped Uryzmag To milk them out, K. heated Soslan, put them in milk; but since the trough was shorter than necessary, his knees remained unhardened and vulnerable]: 85-87.

Iran - Central Asia. Burishi [a rich man picked up a baby in wheat, named Dungpa Miru, he grew up, he was given a wife, but she gives birth to 100 sons with animal heads; DM shot a goat while hunting, but hit the same goat Someone else's bullet; two people came up, gave meat for promising to give their son or daughter if born; the name of the person who came up is Fasan Karaski, and he lives in Yal Butot; his wife gave birth to a boy and a calf; DM brought him to FC ; when parting, the son tells his father to wait 12 months later on the roof with a cauldron: he will fall into him in a raindrop, let his wife drink and he come back; she is pregnant; the son speaks to her from her womb; left when she was sleeping; then a second boy was born; the first put it in his mouth, his mother cried out; the first son: if it were not for her, his whole body would be like iron, and now his armpits remain vulnerable; with everyone In the afternoon, Pangchu's first son weakens, and the second Bumliftan gains strength; the name of all hundred sons is Kiseré; the eldest of them Aba Kitung divided land and property between them, and P. received a cemetery, fording through a river and a miserable hut; did not allow him to be buried there; when AK wanted to cross, P. did not allow it, replaced his lionheart with a fox; after that P. received as much as everyone else together; king wants to give her seven daughters away; P. took the form of a lousy one; decided to take the eldest Langa Brumo; gave her a dormant embryo sleeping; she has to agree to marry P. so as not to be disgraced; father and sisters shocked by her choice; when other sons-in-law go hunting for the golden bull, P. goes too; LB and her stepmother secretly follow him, see him first take the form of a magnificent king, then hiding his horse in sleeve, becomes a miserable freak again; mocks his sons-in-law; getting into the bull's ear, feeds him poison; dying, the bull says that he was predicted to die at the hands of Kiser; tells him to remove the knife from his ear, cut it; P. takes the golden tail and hooves; sons-in-law find the skin, bring wool to the king, everyone says that he killed the bull, the king denounces them of lying; P. does not tell his wife that he killed the bull, but gives a nut with its bone marrow; when the king and courtiers taste it, they taste great; P. gives the king a golden tail, hooves, bull horns; asks for one grain and a drop of oil in return, puts up a bag, the king's bins are emptied; Kiser left his forehead, conquered another country and took another wife there; at this time King Pahardang Gaipo stole his forehead; she said that Bumliftan's armpits were vulnerable; provoked him to raise his hands, the hidden warrior shot, but the arrow did not pierce Bumliftan through and he galloped away; but when the arrow was pulled out, he died (you had to drag it through his body forward, then the tip did not remain in the body); Keeser went to return his forehead, the rocks on the way; when he arrived at them, K. fires an arrow, only the tip of the plumage is crushed; slips on the horse, but its tail is clamped; K. wants cut off the tail, but the Rocks promise to let the horse go if K. brings each of the two boys that the forehead gave birth to the kidnapper; K. comes unrecognized to King H.; there everyone pulls K.'s bow; unrecognized K . pulls the bow so that it falls into pieces, they kill everyone but King H. himself; taking his form, tears the kidnapper to pieces; takes his treasures, the dev-servant carries them; cuts off the heads King H.'s sons, when they drive up to the cliffs, gives them the heads of the boys, they let him pass; he reigns with his wife LB]: Lorimer 1935, No. 4:102-179.