L39. The hero is forced to come down from the tree.

.12.-.17.19.-.21.23.24.27.-.31.42.43.47.49.50.52.55.-.61.

.63.-.65.67.-.70.72.73.

By force or deception, the character forces another to come down from the tree and brings or leads to himself.

Mukulu, Sudanese Arabs, Malgashi, Kabila, Arabs of Morocco, Algeria, Berbers of Tunisia, Arabs of Egypt, Italians (Friuli, Tuscany), Sardinians, French, Syrian Arabs, monumbo, Kiwai, Yap, Rai , Kirati, Bhutan, Garo, Nepali, Hindi, Kashmiris, Rajastans, Oriya, Tamils, Sinhales, Maldives, Mentawai, Greeks, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Gagauz people, Russians (Moscow, Ryazan, Tambov), Ukrainians (Podolia) , Karachays, Lucks, Dargins, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Lurs, Persians, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Uzbeks, Parya, Yagnobs, Pashais, Swedes, Lithuanians, Nootka, Bellacula, Quarry, Shuswap, Sanpual, Koulitz, Tunic, alabama, koasati, utah, mescalero, oriental ceres, masateki, mountain hills, lacandons, embera, shikuani, maquiritare, sanema, warrau, taulipan, arekuna (?) , carinha na Orinoco, kalinha, lokono, makushi, oyampi, azuay, sekoya, parintintin, tenetehara, urubu, anambe, junin, tacana, chacobo, surui, iranshe, paresi, tapirape, kayapo (shikrin), chorote, kaigua, chiripa, apapoquwa.

West Africa. Mukulu [6 Geteye brothers went to have fun with the daughters of Death; G. himself is still in his mother's womb; refuses to go out through his vagina and ass, went out through his thigh; immediately sat on his horse and caught up with the brothers; they threw stones at his forehead - they bounce off; they threw coal - blood appeared; then recognized his brother; G. warns not to water horses where Death's daughter takes water; the brothers did not listen; In the morning, one of Death's daughters placed a jar of oil at the door of the room; G. ordered not to be touched, but the brothers rubbed their faces with oil; then their eyes fell out; G. took the form of a woman, came and said that she was 6 sons lost their eyes; Death's daughter gave her eyes, G. put them in to the brothers; one brother tried to insert himself, was left without an eye; G. put an antelope eye in him; they galloped away; Death told him to stop horses who drank her water; the brothers' horses got up; G. put the brothers on his own and brought them home; Death created a tree with fruits near their house; G. ordered them not to touch, but the brothers climbed the tree; Their death from there she stole it and took it away; G. came there, first in the guise of a goat, began to overturn everything; Death told the brothers to drive the goat away; G. taught them to change clothes with Death's daughters; Death killed their own daughters; created a sesame closure near the brothers' house; the brothers came for sesame seeds; G. suggests Death to pick herself; cut off her breasts and she died, the brothers went to the sesame seeds]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 17:78- 83.

Sudan - East Africa. The Arabs of Sudan [an infertile woman went to the holy man; he ordered to fry the sheep, bring it to him; read it from the Koran, returned it, ordered it to eat it after midnight; the wife left the roast, left the house; the husband (he is the son of a prince) found, ate, became pregnant; begged God to move the fetus to his leg; opened the tumor, there was a girl; the bird took her to its nest; she grew up, became beautiful; Wad al-Nimair (VN) with his comrades stopped under a tree, noticed the girl; they went on; VN pretended to forget the ring; took out the girl, took out his mother to raise her; married her, she was pregnant; VN's mother does not love her, tells the servant to take her away and kill her; the servant brought the blood of the gazelle; the VN wife settled on an island on the Nile; the VN mother pretended to be his wife, said that the mother was dead; the imaginary wife was pregnant and wanted something to eat only on the island where the real wife; a slave has come, turns to the mistress of the island, let her lion and crocodile let him in; she says that VN is pregnant with his mother, calls scissors, they cut off the slave's tongue; the same with another slave; VN came himself, rejected the scissors, found his wife, found out everything, returned her, returned her, his mother kicked her out]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 9:79-81; malgashi: Haring 1982, No. 3.2.327g (sakalava) [mother brings children wild plums; children go for plums themselves, climb a tree; an ogre comes, takes the children to his place; brings them wild boars, snakes, honey to eat, they do not want to eat it; the younger one answers wittily and the cannibal admits this; the younger one finds out that the cannibal is going to eat them, tells them to run; they ask for help thorny herbs, a thorny tree, a lake; he returns for sandals; for an ax; drinks a runner; children throw rice, he they pick him up; honey, the cannibal stops again; he is greeted in the village, given a poisoned drink, he dies], 3.2.327t (Tulear County) [parents decide to leave three children in the forest to be eaten by an ogre Bibibe; twice the place is familiar, the children are back, the third time they stay in the forest, climb a tree, call their parents, B. took them away; the youngest advises to fatten them first; says that they do not get fat, because B.'s pets interfere; B. kills his animals; children run, climb a tree, B. rushed to break it, crashed to death; in his stomach, children find a purse with money that belonged to one of those whom B. ate earlier; the children returned to their parents, everything is fine]: 384, 389-390.

North Africa. Kabila: Taos Amrush 1974:22-26 [Velajuda boy climbed a fig tree where there were no figs, called everyone to eat figs; blind Ceriel pulled him down, put him in his wineskin, tied him up grass, walked away; he got out, filled the bag with stones, shouted from a distance that she was carrying stones; the next time she stole it, tied the bag tightly, locked V. in the closet at home, fattened it; he held it out instead a spoon, a hatchet; C. went to invite relatives to a feast, told her daughter to cook V.; he cooked daughter Ts herself, put on her dress, bandaged her eye (she had a thorn); the guests noticed an eye with a thorn in the soup; C. grabbed V., but he said that she was holding the root; V. set fire to the house, ran away], 88-95 [when she dies, the woman tells her husband not to sell the cows; the stepmother keeps the orphans starving, but the cow gives them her milk; machehina daughter Jokhra lies down; stepmother tells her to slaughter a cow, brother and sister drink butter and honey from straws on the grave; J. tries - blood and bile for her; stepmother tells me to burn the grave; orphans leave; brother drinks from a stream turns into a gazelle; Sister Aisha climbs a palm tree; the witch Settuta pretends not to know how to bake cakes, A. goes down, the sultan marries her; the elder wife pushes pregnant A. into the well; the elder wife demands that the gazelle be slaughtered; the Gazelle brother tells A. that they want to slaughter him, A. replies that he is unable to get out; the sheikh tells the Sultan about this, he gets A. and his son, the eldest wife is executed; the sheikh returns the gazelenka to its human appearance]; the Arabs of Morocco [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of the children; he takes his son and daughter to the forest, but the girl throws bran along the way, finds her way home; next time their father takes them to a ghoul cave; a ghoul woman feeds them with dates, hiding them from her husband; when he sees children, he rushes at them, but they push him into a hole, burn him; ask a ghoul woman to fan the fire herself, they push him into the fire; every day the brother goes to herd the cattle, the sister climbs the tree to watch him; the Sultan's man sees a woman in the river, thinks it's a siren, tells the Sultan; his people come, a girl asks them for water, they see her, pull her hair, bring her to the sultan; he marries her, her brother lives with them]: El Koudia 2003, No. 25:126-126; Algerian Arabs [gulya all He tries to catch Hadidouane, but every time he hides in his bronze house; promises to go with her for water, for firewood, but let her pour out the water that still exists first, does not take ropes with her; he does not goes to get water, Gulya cannot cook bundles of firewood; finally she caught H., carried it in a bag; H. recalled that Gulya missed the prayer time; Gulya went to pray, H. filled the bag with stones, ran away; one day found a coin, bought a fig tree, ate it, threw it away, a large tree grew out of it overnight; H. climbed a tree, began to eat fruits; gulya asks to give it, not to throw it, but to hand it from hand to hand; gulya again she grabbed him and brought him home in a bag; she began to fatten her hand every time - whether he was fat, but H. put her hand not her hand, but a spindle; realizing the deception, Gulya went to call her relatives, telling her daughter to cook." calf"; H. says that there is a dangerous louse around Guli's daughter's neck, she asks her to kill, H. cuts off Guli's daughter's head, cooks meat, puts on her clothes; while gulya eats, H. runs away and shouts from afar that there is a gulya his daughter; cannibals covered H.'s house with wood and set it on fire, but H. sat in a vat of water]: Belamri 1982:100-106; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [mother dies, stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson, cow gives them her milk; when the stepmother sent her own daughter to the cow, she knocked her eye out with her hoof; the stepmother tells her husband to sell the cow, but he, selling it at the bazaar, predicts the misfortune of the person who bought it; the cow is not they buy; then the stepmother persuaded the butcher to buy a cow for any price and slaughter it; the husband asked for the udder to be given to him, put it on the grave of his first wife, milk continued to flow from the orphan nipples; when the stepmother's own daughter venerated her, there was blood and pus in her nipples; the stepmother threw the udder to the dogs and ordered the children to be taken to the forest; but they returned; then the stepmother, her husband and daughter left themselves; the stepmother left the poisoned bread, but her sister gave it first to the cat, she died; brother and sister went on a journey; the shepherd warned: if you drink water from a spring and then breathe, you will become a gazelle; brother deliberately left the talisman at the source to return; drank, sighed, became a gazelle; the sister began to live in the forest, the gazelle with her; while combing her hair, the sister dropped her hair into the stream; the Sultan noticed him, decided marry the owner; old Settoute went up the stream, found the girl, told the Sultan; he came with his men; to force the girl to come down from the tree, S. began to grind the grain, placing the millstone is wrong; the girl went down to show how to do it, S.Yu quietly nailed her clothes to the ground with a peg, the sultan grabbed the girl, married, promised not to harm the gazelles; a beggar, young The Sultan recognized her father, put a gold coin in his bread; the stepmother guessed that the Sultan was her stepdaughter; brought her daughter to the palace; when the Sultan was ready to give birth, she began to comb her hair and pushed her into the well, took her place; ordered the gazelle to be slaughtered; the gazelle asks her to say goodbye to her sister, comes to the well; "They sharpen knives, the boilers are boiling"; sister: "My sons Lahcène and d'El are on one of my knees -Hocine, and on the other, a snake with its mouth open"; the sultan asked the wise El-moudjarrab for advice; he ordered the freshly slaughtered cow to be lowered into the well; the serpent climbed into the carcass, at which time the Sultan and the children were pulled out; the sultan cut off his imaginary wife's head, cooked the meat, put her head in a bag, the meat on top; sent the cat and dog to take the bag to her stepmother; she ate the meat, believing that she was eating a gazelle, then found daughter's head]: 15-28; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [Jew sells conception apples; childless king is interested; his youngest wife heard and bought an apple, cut it in half, ate half; when she wanted eat the second one, it turned out that the king ate it himself; the wife gave birth to a boy, and her husband was bloated on his leg; he was opened, something alive was taken out, but the female peacock who climbed into the room grabbed it and took it to a nest in a tree; raised a girl; the prince also grew up, went to find out what the goats were afraid of; saw a girl's reflection in the source; fell ill with love; told that Jew; he turned the girl into a dove; the dove flies away; but on the seventh day, the Jew managed to make the dove go down to the prince under the tree and become a girl again; the prince was already married to his mother's sister's daughter; his father married him to a girl, who was mistaken for a jinnia; the prince's first wife and mother asked the Jew to turn her into a dove again; he gave her a pin, the prince's mother stuck it in the head of her daughter-in-law, and she flew away as a dove; gardeners hear voice: I was born from an apple, Pava raised me, your mother and your first wife turned me into a dove; it starts raining, but as soon as people hide under a tree, the sun comes out again; so many times; Upon learning of this, the prince asked the old woman for help; she came under the tree, put the hand mill upside down and began to grind; the dove girl began to explain that they did not do this; the old woman asked me to go down and show me how to do it; then she sifted the flour, putting the sieve upside down; then baking tortillas on the convex side of the bowl; finally the dove came down and the old woman caught it; the prince kept the dove in the cage in her room; the mother picked up the key, pulled out the dove and threw it on the pile of coal; the prince washed the dove, felt for the pin and pulled it out; the dove became a girl again; the prince executed his mother and first wife; prince with his wife was visited by a woman in a luxurious outfit - she took the form of a pava]: 11-23; Tunisian Berbers [Ali's father has a garden with figs; a witch comes up to Ali, asks for figs; she does not want to pluck it herself, pick up - let him give it from hand to hand; grabs the boy and takes it away; asks people to drink; they fix her bag, take the boy out, put a jug in the bag; the witch comes again, everything repeats, this time she brought the boy to her daughter, told her to raise her; when Ali grew up, the witch went to invite her sisters to a feast, and her daughter told Ali to kill and cook couscous; but Ali heard them negotiate; himself stabbed the witch's daughter with a razor, cooked it, put the severed breasts in a bowl, put on the clothes of the witch's daughter; while the witch and her sister were eating, Ali prepared the horse, collected valuables; invited the witch to look in a bowl daughter's breasts; killed a cannibal; returned home]: Stumme 1900:44-45; Egyptian Arabs [childless woman bought a pomegranate, put it under sauerkraut; husband came and wanted to eat; wife: eat what is under the bowl for washing pan, but not like under sauerkraut; but he found and ate a pomegranate, thought his wife was hiding the best from him; he became pregnant; when 9 months had passed, his wife told me to go to the desert; if born boy, you have to wrap it in a cloth and bring it, and if the girl, wrap it in silk and leave it; a girl was born, her father left her in a tree, the falcon took her to his nest and raised her; the Sultan's son began to water the horse, saw the girl's reflection in the water, fell ill with love; his grandmother promised to lure the girl out of the tree; brought the sheep and pretended to slaughter her from the tail; then from the back; from her leg; The girl says what is wrong every time, the old woman pretends not to understand; the girl told the tree to be the size of her finger, went down to show her; the prince grabbed her, took her to the palace and married her; went on Hajj; his mother did not give bread to her daughter-in-law, gave her hand in exchange for permission to cut off her hand; so with all her limbs; she threw what was left out the window; she fell on the "ring of royalty", spirit asked him what to do; the girl demanded that she be made whole and healthy again, and that the palace and garden with fruits be out of season; the prince's mother took the form of his wife and said that his mother had died; became pregnant, asked for grapes from a nearby garden; the prince sent a servant to the hostess (i.e. his true wife), and she responded: my father conceived me, the falcon and the peacock fed me, and now the Sultan's son is pregnant with his mother, let the scissors cut off the tip of the questioner's tongue so as not to bring it to me; the same with the second servant; then the prince went himself; she told him what had happened; the prince poured kerosene on his mother and burned it, returned it wife]: El-Shamy 1975:159-163.

Southern Europe. Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 37 (Friuli; the plot is known throughout northern and central Italy) [Pierino Pierone boy climbed a pear; a witch asked him to go down and give her pears; PP refused, threw a pear, it fell into a cow going into the horse droppings; then PP went down, the witch put it in a bag, carried it, stopped on the way and went to relieve himself; PP gnawed the rope, filled it the bag ran away with stones; at home, the witch dumped the contents of the bag into the boiling pot, which crashed, boiling water flooded the room; the witch put on a wig, came back to the pear tree; PP recognized her, but still went down; could not gnaw the rope, but at that moment the hunter came up, untied the bag, replaced the boy with the dog; when the witch untied the bag, the dog bit her and ran away; the third time the witch had a red wig; she brought PP home; left for a while, telling her daughter to cook it; PP pretends not to know how to put her head on a board for Margarita to cut it off; cut off her head, threw it into the cauldron; climbed on a shelf above the hearth; a witch asks how he got there; PP says he made a ladder out of a spoon, knife and fork; the witch tried it, fell into the fire and burned down]: 110-114, 723; Crane 1885, No. 85 (Tuscany) [ Buchettino found the money, bought a fig, climbed a tree and began to eat; the cannibal asked him to throw it off; one, the other fell into the mud; the cannibal asked B. to get down and hand it in his hands, grabbed it, carried it away in a bag, along the way stopped, walked away; B. cut the bag, filled it with stones, ran away; at home, the cannibal threw the stones into the cauldron, realized that he had been deceived; went back; B. on the roof, says that he climbed in with pans on top of each other, pots and other dishes; the cannibal did so, fell and crashed]: 265-267; Sardinians [the mother allows the boy to go into the forest; on the way he throws crumbs on the ground, but the ants ate them; the boy found them fig tree and climbed it to eat fruit; a cannibal comes up, asks him to throw a fig tree; says that he has fallen into the mud; in manure; asks for a hand; grabs the boy, pulls him off the tree and takes him away; in absence of an ogre, a boy gets out of the cage where he is planted, kills the ogre's wife and makes soup with her; the cannibal eats him; the boy has returned home, everyone is celebrating his return]: Aprile 2000:398; Sardinians [a woman found a coin, gave her son named Pochettin to buy figs; one of the figs fell out the window; the woman advises not to touch it: a tree will grow; P. climbed this tree to eat fruit; (the dragon lured P., carried it away in a sack); left out of need, P. got out; the episode repeats, this time the dragon brings P. to his place; the rat tail motif; when leaving, the dragon tells his wife to fry P.; he pretends that he does not know how to sit on a shovel; the ogre's wife shows that P. pushes her into the oven; climbs onto the roof; shouts to the dragon that he is eating his wife's breasts; advises the cannibal to climb to him, placing the pots alone on another; the cannibal fell and crashed to death]: Aprile 2000:399-400.

Western Europe. French (Alpes-Maritimes) [Pitchin-Pitchin-Pitchot (PP) boy found money, asks his mother what to do with it; she offers to buy peppers, apples, dogwood, PP rejects the offer each time; when he offers to buy figs, agrees; eats them in front of an open window, the penultimate one fell into the garden, a tree grew the next year; PP climbed a tree to eat figs; the cannibal asks to throw it off; then tells bend over the branch, PP falls into the ogre's bag; on the way he left the bag, went for a drink, PP cut a hole with a knife, filled the bag with stones, climbed onto the roof of the cannibal's house, hid behind a pipe; at home, the cannibal tells Katrina's wife cook a cauldron, pours the contents of the bag into it, the cauldron from the stones split; PP laughs; the cannibal asks how he got onto the roof; PP: put all the pots and plates on top of each other; The cannibal did so, climbed, everything fell apart; PP: sat on a red-hot iron bar; the cannibal did so, died]: Delarue 1957, No. 327C: 328-329.

Western Asia. Syrian Arabs [the merchant gave an apple to make the woman pregnant; she cut off a piece, the rest was accidentally eaten by a man; his ankle was swollen, nine months later a girl was born; she was carried away by a hawk, brought it to a palm tree, began to bring food, the girl grew up; the prince drove up to the spring to give his horse a drink, saw a reflection, the girl refused to go down; the prince returned home, the old woman offered to help; became pretend that she cannot fry scrambled eggs on the fire (either a frying pan upside down or pours fuel into the fire); the girl came down to show, the prince took her away, hid her in his chambers; tells her mother to bring double portions of food; goes to Mecca, the mother finds the girl, leads to the window, throws her out the window; below the black snake fought against the white snake, the girl wished black victory, she won, offered to fulfill any wishes; the girl wanted a palace with servants and a vineyard in front of the prince's palace; when the prince returned, her mother pretended to be his wife; he asks why she has different eyes, mouth, nose, etc., she each time she replies that because of fatigue, waiting, etc.; and the mother supposedly died; the imaginary wife pretends to be pregnant, asks the prince to send the maid for grapes; the girl answers who she is, tells her to scissors cut off the maid's tongue; the same with the second, with the third maid; the prince comes himself, everything is explained; he executed the mother, her long bones were turned into the crossbars of the ladder; when the prince's wife I went up on them, they creaked]: Kuhr 1993:218-224.

Melanesia. Monumbo [Manumbo and his younger brother Liwowo searched for fire and roast the dead pig; only an old woman had the fire; she asked for pork in return; they filled a bamboo jar crap, they put a piece of meat on top; the old woman chased them, they climbed a tree; she knocked down the tree with an ax, the brothers move on to the next one, so several times; L. fell, hid in the ground, old woman pulled him out by the hair, chopped him, began to fry him, left her little son to guard; M. killed his son, replaced his brother's remains with meat, took his brother away, put the pieces together, adding bones from the sugar stalks cane; L. came to life]: Höltker 1965:71-72; kiwai [Shido left his wife Sagara only a bony piece of fish he had caught, then did not come to bed with it; she left to leave a false trail, turning her legs into the legs of a bird, a crab, a kangaroo, a cassowary, a pig; the tree became low, she sat down on it to rest, it lifted it high; Sido saw its reflection in a pit of water; rushed there for him; Sagar told him to cut down the tree with an ax; he cut it, chips and pieces of bark became fish; she advised him to heat the ax, then put it in the water; it split, so deteriorated all the axes; Shido knocked down the tree, causing the wind; the tree fell, Sagaru fell at Meuri's home, became his wife]: Landtman 1977, No. 12:76-78; kanaka [older brothers give younger only the peel of the tubers; they push him into the oven, he gets out alive; leave him on the reef, which is flooded by the tide, the youngest swims, gets to the shore; the older brother climbs the tree for fruit; old woman Tibo tells him to get off her tree, leads him to her, tells him to sleep without kindling a big fire; at night she cuts off his head, throws him on a platform under the roof; the same with his second brother; the younger one kindles fire, puts up a wood-carved figure at the entrance to the house; T. does not enter him; he revives his brothers with herbs, they throw the old woman into the oven; live together]: Leenhardt 1932:409-413.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Yap [one brother went fishing, the other stayed at home, caught mice; there was a cannibal breadtree nearby; he climbed on it, ate fruit; the ogre saw, shouted that he would eat the boy; he threw the mouse, she swallowed it; he left alive, she chased her, the boy went down, ran home; the next time the same, but all the mice were dead; the cannibal took the boy home, locked it in the closet, where human bones; a fisherman brother came to her, heard her brother's voice from the closet; asked the cannibal what she was afraid of, she replied that the newt's horns, spears and belts were tšagal; the young man replied that he was afraid eat fish and baked tarot; brought a spear, attacked the cannibal, and she threw fish at him; when the fish ran out, she hid in a crab hole; it rained, the hole was flooded, the cannibal drowned; both brothers returned home]: Müller 1918, No. 58:573-574.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai: Ebert, Gaenszle 2008:83-92 [Orphan Khosipa (X.) has two older sisters - the elder Tõwama and the younger Khliyama; their uncle Saphopte (an owl; they are all birds too) is angry; K. teases him, he He tears his throat, eats him, leaves only his bones; his sisters revive him by putting his bone in a calebass with beer; they have difficulty getting some rice, putting him to cook, he accidentally overturns the pot; falls asleep; they they think that he is dead, buried with a knife on the grave; he wakes up, gets out of the grave, tells the banana to grow and ripen right away, eats bananas; the cannibal Cakrodhoma asks to let her down a banana, tied to the boy's long hair, pulls her hair off, brings it to her, tells his daughter to cook the prey, goes to call her brothers; the daughter is surprised how long the boy's hair is; he says he doused it on them with boiling oil; puts her head in boiling oil, pushes her pestle, puts on her clothes; K. eats her daughter; H. shouts to her what she ate, runs away; throws ash (a cloud of fog), a shard (a mountain), an egg (a river) behind her; K. asks how he crossed; you have to tie your hands and feet, go into the water; the river carried it away; then motive F7], 111-124 [two sisters, they have a younger brother Hecchakuppa (X.); their father went up (i.e. north, mother down (i.e. south); sisters fed brother pine resin; he let his stepmother talk about it, she put soot in the resin to spoil the taste; they had a goat, she gave the children everything they needed; the stepmother pretended to be sick, only a medicine made from the goat's flesh would cure her; the goat was slaughtered, the children were crying, the stepmother pretended to feel better; H. lost consciousness from hunger, the sisters thought he was dead, they buried him with a knife and a calebass; they trampled the grave, heard the calebasses crunch, they think it was a crunching skull; Tangwama's sister went to her mother, Khiyama's sister to her father; when T. returned, it turned out that their grandfather killed K.; she revived her by putting her bones in the pig's trough; the sisters were spinning; the brother got up from the grave, called the sisters, they left the excrement, urine, drooling and snot responsible for themselves, left; a banana grew, H. climbed in at him; the cannibal asked her to throw off her bananas; he threw her foot, she asked to tie her to her hair, pulled her hair, brought her home, told her daughter to cook, put her to sleep, taking out H.'s lice; daughter the cannibal fell asleep by herself, H. killed her with a pestle, cooked her, the cannibal ate her; H. shouted who she ate, ran away; threw fried rice and chicken eggs behind, the cannibal picked them up and ate them, wasted time; the fishermen transported H. across the river; he answered the cannibal to enter the water with ants on his buttocks; the water carried her away; she was dragged through chicken and pig crap, and H. was carried in a palanquin; both were given bags; from this Tigers came out to the cannibal, ate her; from this X. - food and wealth]; kirati (? eastern Nepal) [brother asks sister to give him bread; sister: now, wheat must be sown first; etc., all operations; when the bread is ready, the cake rolls and turns into a banyan tree; the boy is on him climbs in; Rakshasi comes, threatens to cut down a banyan, the boy falls into her bag; on the way she leaves out of need, the boy runs away; at home, Rakshasi finds only sand laid by the boy in her bag; she returns to the banyan, everything repeats itself, a wasp nest instead of sand; the third time Rakshasi goes straight to the house, goes to call his aunt, tells her daughter to cook the prey; she likes the boy's black hair, he promises to make her hair just as beautiful, cuts off her head, puts on her dress, cooks meat; tells Rakshasi who has returned that he does not want to eat, will go to bed upstairs; takes flails and millstones with him; screams Rakshasi that she ate her daughter; Rakshasi runs out, killed with an abandoned flail; aunt killed by a millstone; all is well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 16:129-133; Bhutan [parents have a daughter Boded; they decided to leave, leaving her: the harvest on the plot is scarce, and there are Shinpo demons around; they told B. to dry the grain, driving away the birds from it; the raven screams that the parents are leaving; B. rushed into the house, but they have not yet left; the crow no longer listens; finally, he screams that his parents are gone; no one is at home, the girl climbed a peach tree to see if they can be seen on the road; someone asks to throw him a peach; she threw it; "fell into the manure, go down, throw it more"; same; "give it in your hands"; D. held out a peach, Shinpo grabbed {man} her, put it in a bag and took it to his house; there is an old hungry dog; whispers: if you feed it a little, I will give three words of wisdom; B. she had food with her, she fed the dog, who told her to take three bags of seeds out of her ear: they will come in handy when you run; Shinpo tells B. to grind rice and say "I'm here" every now and then; the louse promises to be responsible for her: let her take her out of her hair and leave her in a spit; when the saliva dried, the louse died and stopped responding; Shinpo rushed in pursuit; B. threw the seeds of pepper trees, a forest of pepper trees grew; then - pine seeds; bamboo; shinpo is about to break through bamboo; the moon has risen; B. asks her to lower her iron chain, not a wool ladder; the moon Acho La La answers every time: wait, I'm still washing my face; I'm making breakfast; having breakfast; cleaning the dishes; looking for a chain; straightening it; the moon lowered the chain, B. climbed; shinpo asks him to lower the chain; the moon answers the same as to the girl (I wash my face, etc.); lowered the stairs made of wool; when he climbed half way, cut off the stairs; shinpo fell, fell deep into the ground; you can see a girl milking a moon cow on the moon]: Choden 1994:35-40; garo: Mandal 2009 [ brother and sister are orphans, went to the forest for fruit, got lost; sister went to look for water but did not return; brother climbed the fruit tree; began to eat fruits and call his sister; Rakshasa came from Rakshasi; boy agreed to shed fruit for them, but refused to go down; they say that the fruit fell into the mud, swore not to touch it, but put it in a basket and brought it home; left it in a pigsty and left; the son of the Rakshasa asks why the boy has fair skin; he explains that he should take a dip in hot water; the Rakshasa son released him, the boy put him in the basket and scalded him to death; returned home, but his sister missing]: 109-110; Rongmuthu 1960 [Jerang boy, an orphan, climbed into a fruit tree in the woods; a pair of Matchadus (werewolf tigers) came up; they asked them to shed fruit; said they fell into the mud, let them fall into the mud, let J. will give them the fruit, holding it between their toes; they steal it, bring it home, tell his son to cook it, and they leave themselves; the son of cannibals asks why people have fair skin; J.: we wash in boiling water; cannibal let J. out of the cage, undressed him, and he scalded him to death with boiling water; put on his clothes and smeared him with soot; his parents ate their son, thinking they were eating J.; the imaginary son asked where the parents hid their treasures; they answered and left, and he hid them across the river; asked the cannibals to teach him how to swim; swam across the river and said who they had eaten; said that the river could be swam across the river in jugs full of holes; the cannibals drowned; J. brought the treasures he had obtained to the cave; there was a boa constrictor, J. killed him, filled his skin with treasures and climbed into it himself; the peasant's two daughters chased parrots; J. answered the one he was bigger liked it; she went into the cave, J. got out of the skin of a boa constrictor; taught the girl to ask her parents to pass her off as a boa constrictor; her father resettled her, brought a boa constrictor from the cave, which contained a young man and treasures; The servants spied on the wedding night: the girl was a young man, there was wealth in the house; the elder sister also demanded that she be passed off as a boa constrictor; he ate her at night; and J.'s descendants became kings, queens and brave warriors]: 100-194.

South Asia. Nepalis [the witch asks the shepherdess to get fruit from the tree, teaches her to stand on a dry branch, grab a green one, the dry one breaks, the shepherdess falls into the witch's bag; on the way she stops for water, the traveler unties the bag, the boy puts a hornet's nest in his place; the witch brings "meat" to her daughter, who has been bitten by wasps; next time the witch advises the shepherdess to step on a green branch, grab a dry one; the ploughman unties the bag, puts stones in it; the third time the witch pulls the shepherdess off the tree by the legs, carries her home, leaves, telling her daughter to grind rice; the shepherdess offers help, kills the witch's daughter with a pestle, runs away; the witch has stopped catching children]: Bystrov et al. 1962:165-168; northern India, Balundshahr County, Hindi [the potter's son climbed the tree for fruit; the cannibal asked for fruit as well ; when he went down and handed her the fruit, she grabbed the boy, put it in a bag, carried it away; on the way he got out, put stones and thorns in his place; the next time it happened again, but the cannibal reported the boy went home; told her daughter-in-law to cook it; she is surprised how beautiful the boy's eyes and head shape are; he says that his mother pierced his eyes with a hot needle and treated his head with a pestle; the boy blinded her, crushed her head, put her down to cook, put on her clothes; when the ogre was eating, she also gave her to the cat; he told her to spit it out: she was eating her daughter-in-law; the cannibal did not hear, young man (disguised as a daughter-in-law) said he would explain now, ran away; he did not fit that tree anymore]: Crooke 1895, No. 540:193; Kashmiris [Sanykisar's son and daughter in the family; son found hair in food and promised to marry only him to the owner; the mother said that it was his sister's hair, but the son insisted; when she found out what was going on, S. ran away crying; to meet the fakir, he gave 7 seeds - seven trees would immediately grow out of which; and so it happened, S. climbed the tree; the father came with the men, they cut down the tree, S. moved to the next one; when the last tree was ready to fall, S. asked Mother Luna to pick it up; the moon lowered her ray, S. rose to the moon; Luna asked her to comb her hair, but not to touch one place on the top of her head, otherwise terrible pain and hair would begin to fall out; once C.. accidentally touched, the Moon threw her on the ground, S. fell into the crow's nest; he is happy that he has a daughter; mother, then father, brother come to the tree and ask them to go down; the mother says that S. is waiting for her dolls, the father is waiting for a multi-colored spinning wheel, brother - what wedding clothes and jewelry; S. refuses, but every time asks the crow to bring it to her and he brings it to her; the prince sees S. and asks him to go down; S.: I need the permission of the crow father; but that will arrive only in the evening, the vizier advises to cut down the tree; they did so; the prince already has 6 wives; he promises to make the main one that 1) will exfoliate rice faster (the raven tells the birds to do this for S.; when 6 wives ask how S. managed to do everything so quickly, she advises pouring rice into the water, but the husks did not float at all); 2) make the rooms fragrant (the raven tells different birds to bring the most fragrant infusions and rub them into the walls; S. advises 6 wives to mix manure with crap and cow urine, the stench is terrifying); 3) cook meals (the raven tells the birds to bring the best; S. advises 6 wives mix inedible grass with manure and cook it in cow urine); prince sent 6 wives away and lived happily with S.]: Beck et al. 1987, No. 17:50-56; Rajastans [widow fasting to improve karma; her son wants to fast with her; she persuades him not to do so and he agrees only after she has baked him his favorite treat - gulguls (sweet cakes); he ate 6 gulgul and the seventh buried it, watered it, ordered it to grow up with a tree on which gulguls grow; he climbed it, began to eat, two grow in the place of each plucked one; a witch and her daughter come up; the witch also asks for a gulgul; does not tell her throw it off, asks him to put it in a turban and lower it; pulls the turban, the boy falls, the witch puts him in a bag of thorns and carries him to eat; on the way he asks for permission to drink in the lake, dives , swims away; climbed back on the gulgulu; the witch comes again, changing her face; the same (she takes him away in a water keg); at home, the witch tells her daughter to stretch the pestle caught, cook it, and she went for wine ; the boy shows the witch's daughter's teeth; she wants her teeth that are just as beautiful; he says that his mother kneads it with a pestle every day, but she has to change clothes before that; the boy smashed the witch's daughter head, cooked meat; the witch eats it; the cat asks for it, since the mother eats her daughter, but the witch is drunk and does not listen; finds her daughter's finger, but does not want to believe it; the next morning the groom came for her daughter; on the way imaginary the bride gave a sign to stop to relieve herself, ran away; the witch came back to the gulgul tree; this time the boy did not fall, but threw the stone he had prepared on the witch, killing her; since then, the mother and son always ate gulguls and gave them to neighbors]: Dinesh 1979:99-114; ho [the boy grazes cattle, his mother gives him bread every day; one day he left a half-eaten piece, it grew into a tree that brings bread instead of fruit; one day he climbed a tree to buy bread; Rakshasi came, asked for bread, told him not to throw it - it would get dirty, she was old to catch; the boy went down, she put it in a bag took it away; while going down to the water for a drink, the travelers heard the boy screams, released him, he put stones in a bag; Rakshasi's daughter found them at home; the next day, Rakshasi lured the boy in the same way brought her daughter, went to buy firewood; the daughter answered the boy that she would crush his head; he asked him to show how she bored her head, put on her clothes, cooked meat; Rakshasi ate her daughter and fell asleep; the boy killed her with a stone, returned home]: Bompas 1909:464-465; oriya: Kudinova, Kudinov 1995 [the shepherdess planted a rice cake, a tree grew on which the fruits were cakes; the cannibal took the form of an old woman, asked for cakes; the boy asked her to collect the ones that had fallen, but she needed fresh ones; he went down, she pulled it off the tree, put it in a bag, carried it away; went to drink water; at this time, the ploughmen released the boy, they put stones in a bag; the witch's daughter found them there; the next time the witch carried the boy home; he persuaded her daughter to let him go, promising to teach him how to grow beautiful hair ( rub goat's milk into her head); the witch went after the boy again; he asked her to open her mouth, threw a crowbar at him, killing the witch]: 280-284; Mohanti 1975 [the boy planted a cake, a tree grew on which cakes as fruit; the cannibal took the image of an old woman, asked for cakes; the boy asked her to collect the ones that had fallen, but she needed fresh ones; he went down, she put it in a bag, took it away; she walked away on the way relieve the need; the boy ran away, putting thorns and stones in the bag; at home, the cannibal saw that the prey was gone; the next day, but the cannibal did not stop, brought her daughter's bag, told cook, and she went to the blacksmith to sharpen her teeth; the daughter was adopted, kidnapped; she hid the boy, cooked the birds; this is how they live for a while; the girl pretends to be afraid to be alone; the cannibal says that gold is under the floor, and you can only kill her by pulling out one of the hairs on her head; the girl began to comb her hair, pulled out her hair; she and the boy took the gold and got married]: 103-105; Tamils [brother and sister, younger sister; they went to herd goats, sister climbed a tree to pick fruit; pey {drink, some evil spirit} came, the other children ran away and she wouldn't get down; pey asks him to throw him off the fruits with my hand; then with my legs; then my hair; I could not grab my arm and leg, but pulled it down by the hair and brought it to him; 7 parrots took it to their house; tell me not to unlock the door; stand on the roof and if in the well you can see the fire, then it's us; the food is over, the girl went looking for people, came to the house to drink; when she saw it, she rushed back and locked the door; but drink put one claw above the door and the other under the door; When she saw the light in the well, the girl unlocked the door and went out; her claws pierced her and she died; the parrots put her in the coffin and let her go to sea; the raja and the vizier caught the coffin; they agreed that the vizier would take it for himself the coffin, and the Raja is inside; he took out his claws and the girl came to life; brought him home, but three women already live in his house; he promises to marry someone who will peel the rice without damaging the grain; parrots did it, and three women crushed grain; Raja married a parrot pupil]: Blackburn 2005, No. 17; Sinhalese [Yakshini has a son and daughter, a son brought flour under his fingernail, the pot was filled to the brim, the mother pressed pies (kevums), ate everything with her daughter, my son got only one that fell into the ash (the mother said that the owners of the flour took everything); the son planted a pie, a tree grew, kevums ripened on it; yakshini asks throw her kevum; says that he fell on a spit, in the mud, in the manure; asks her to take the kevum in his mouth and jump into the bag; takes the boy, leaves the bag for a while, people untie it, the boy puts it in his place clods of mud, returns to the tree; yakshini tells her daughter to slaughter the boy, put a cup of blood under the stairs, let the meat fry; the girl found only clods of earth in the bag; the yakshini goes back to the tree ( the same, the boy puts rat catchers in his place); the third time Yakshini brings a boy; he invites Yakshini's daughter to comb her hair, stabbed her, left the meat to roast, put a cup of blood, taking a pestle, pestle and mortar, climbed a tree; yakshini began to eat his daughter's meat, the boy began to sing about it; she climbed a tree, he threw a pestle, mortar, pestle at her, killing Yakshini]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 162:368-371; Maldives [poor old lady found a coin and let her daughter Koe' buy a pie; on her way home, K. ate half a pie and then, hiding the pie under the leaf, went to relieve herself; crab dragged him into his hole; a tree grew on this place, on which there were pies instead of fruit; and no matter how many K. ate them, their number did not decrease; one day a cannibal came up and asked him to drop the pie; said that he fell into the sea; etc.; asked not to throw it, but to hold it between her toes and give it to her; the cannibal pulled K. by the leg, put it in a bag, brought it to her daughter and told her to cook while she was washing herself; the daughter untied the bag out of curiosity; K. offered to first change clothes and jewelry, and then see who was sleeping better; when the cannibal's daughter closed her eyes, K. cut off her head, chopped her body into the pieces, cooked it; climbed a tree; the cannibal ate her daughter; K. began singing about it, answering that she was talking to a crow, a bat (and others), but then told how it happened; the cannibal became try to knock down a tree; K. jumped down, ran; the cannibal followed, but fell into a pit with lime, caught fire, burned down]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 18:65-71.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Mentawai [Simondoroikot climbed a tree to catch birds, handed them to his younger brother, told him not to make noise; heard him say that S. was catching his birds; the birds flew away; S. went down and beat him brother, but the forest spirit of Sikokong said these words, he took his younger brother; S. shouted after his brother to spit sugar cane and throw bird feathers; followed these steps to Shikokong's home, but not I was able to get in, it was smoky; the shaman said my brother could not be saved]: Loeb 1929, No. 4:88-89.

The Balkans. Greeks (Lesbos) [a woman bought an apple from which children are born, left it on the table, her husband ate it, his thigh began to swell, he went to the doctor through a bush, an abscess broke, a girl fell out , he did not notice it, decided that he had recovered; the Eagle raised the girl in his nest in a tree above the spring; the prince's horse came for a drink, noticed her shadow on the water; the prince sent the old woman to lure the girl out; she pretended to be blind, began to pour water into the inverted pot; the girl went down to help her, the prince grabbed her, married her; in his absence, his mother dressed his wife as a shepherdess, sent geese to herd, said son that his wife is dead; prince heard her song in which she told her story; brought his wife back]: Paton 1900, No. 9:335-336; Bulgarians [brother and sister flee from cannibal parents or from evil stepmother ; flee from the chase (magical escape); contrary to his sister's warning, the brother drinks from the deer's footprint, becomes a deer; the sister climbs a tree (poplar); the prince notices her, but she refuses to go down; the old woman lures her out, starting to do some ridiculous homework in front of her eyes (the girl goes down to show her how to do it); the king's son takes the girl as his wife, brother -the deer remains with her, a) takes on a human form, 2) slaughtered, and from his bones collected by his sister, an apple tree or cypress grows into wonderful objects; a gypsy, a maid, a stepmother, a daughter collides a girl in a well, where it is swallowed by fish or turned into fish; takes her place; wants to kill a deer who knows the truth; a deer complains at the well to his sister; it is noticed, the fish is caught, sister (with her baby) takes her place next to the prince]: Mladenova 2006:56-57; Macedonians [three sisters are orphans, the older ones are ugly; envious of the younger Dafa, they smeared her face soot; but men still like it better; the sisters left her in the forest; for the night she climbed the sycamore tree above the spring; the prince's servant came to water the horse, he was frightened; the prince himself arrived, noticed a girl in goatskin; to lure her out, the prince called the old woman; she brought flour and tried to bake cakes in a ridiculous way; D. went down to show that the prince married her; everyone went to wedding; D. took off her goatskin, dressed in a luxurious dress and also came; the prince's mother shows what beauty he should marry; prince: so this is my wife, she took off her skin; prince's mother burned her skin, everything was fine; when she found out that D. married the prince, her sisters pretended to be beggars, came to her; put two needles in her head and two under her arms, turning them into an owl; they did the same to D.'s children, turning them into an owl them in the owls; when she heard their tender voices, the Queen Mother ordered the owls to be caught; she took the needles out of the owls' bodies, they became three children again; but the mother owl flew away; her grave voice has since been heard]: Douma 1893: 414-417; Gagauz people [stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his children from his first wife; he took them to the forest, hung an empty pumpkin on the tree, who knocks in the wind as if he was still cutting wood; the children went to look house; the boy wants to get drunk from a wolf trail, his sister does not say: you will become a wolf; he drank from a bull, became a goby with golden horns, silver hooves and tinsel hair; on the poplar by the well, gold swing, the girl climbed onto the poplar, sat on the swing; the prince sees her, she refuses to get down; he orders the poplar to be cut down; at night the goby brings food to his sister, licks the felling; to lure the girl, woman sifts the flour through the underside of the dough, puts the pot upside down, the tripod upside down, the firewood standing; the girl went down to show how to cook hominy, caught, the prince married her; the goby went with them]: Moshkov 1904, No. 52:90-92; Aruanians (Macedonia; {the text is the same as that referred to the Macedonians; it is more reliable to consider it Macedonian until the Romanian version is found}) [two older sisters they envy the beauty of the youngest; they took her into the forest and left her; she came out of the forest, pulled on a goatskin, climbed the plane tree above the spring; the prince brought her horse to water, the horse is frightened when he sees the reflection in the water; the girl refuses to get down; then the old woman began to cook noodles, doing everything against common sense; the girl got down to show her how to do it, the prince took her away, married her; the Queen Mother agreed to marriage, only when the daughter-in-law took off and burned her skin; the older sisters came to the wedding, stabbed a pin into their sister's arm and head, who flew away an owl; they also stabbed their sister's three sons, they also became owls; the prince caught them, took out their pins, the sons became human again; but he didn't catch the owl wife, she still flies and calls children]: Dähnhardt 1910:382.

Central Europe. Russians (Moscow): Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 34 [the cat went fishing, Khikhilyushka planted him on an apple tree to play with golden apples; Baba Yaga asks to give her an apple in her hand; grabbed H. I took it; he calls the cat: Brother cat, help me out! the third time the cat went far and did not hear; Baba Yaga told her daughter to fry H.; he pretended not to know how to sit on the shovel; Baba Yaga's daughter sat down to show, H. put her in the oven; Baba Yaga goes and sings," I'll ride, lying on the gikhilyushkin bones"; H. from the attic: over her daughter's bones; she climbed into the attic, he pushed her down the stairs, she crashed to death; H. returned home, began to live happily ever after with the cat to make good money], 35 [Fefelya lives with two brothers; they tell him to watch for apples; Buryaga (Bur-yaga, Bura-yaga) asks to give her an apple from hand to hand, takes it away; F. shouts: Oh cat and ram, And Fefelyushka loban, She dragged me, Bura-Yaga, Beyond the viburnum bridge, By the curly bush, For the dark forests, For the steep shores; the third time they did not hear; B. tells the worker to fry F., he asks him to show me how to sit on a shovel; that one from the stove asks to open it, promises to show where the bag is; fried; F. from the tree: Ride, Bur-Yaga on a worker's bone]: 84-85, 85-86; Russians (Ryazan) [cat and Khikhilyushka lived; cat planted H. on an apple tree to play with golden apples; Baba Yaga asks to give her an apple from hand to hand; grabbed H., carried it; H.: brother cat! the cat caught up, took H.; the same second time; the third time the cat is far away, does not hear; Baba Yaga tells his daughter to fry H.; he asks to show how to sit on a shovel, pushes Baba Yaga's daughter into the oven; Baba Yaga has returned, sings about riding, lying on X. bones; H. from the attic: over your daughter's bones; Baba Yaga climbed into the attic, H. pushed her, she fell, crashed; H. returned to the cat]: Smirnov 1917, No. 231:120; Russians (Ryazan) [when dying, the wife tells her husband to marry someone who will fit her ring; the husband did not find anyone, put the ring on the window, put the ring on the window, put the daughter on, the father wants to marry her; daughter: must order I ordered to make a bed with a secret drawer, sat down in it, my father did not find it; they began to sell the bed, Ivan Tsarevich bought it, put it in his room; someone eats the food he had brought him; for the fourth time I. hid, grabbed the beauty; put a dress on her - a transferable miracle; told her mother to feed the beauty with what she eats herself; he went hunting; his mother forgot the miracle; it was in the corner in the room; he was not fed; the girl took off her dress and ran away; climbed an oak tree near the well; a virgin with three daughters lived nearby; the eldest comes to the well, sees a shadow (reflection), thinks she is beautiful, for She does not need to walk with water; the same with her middle daughter; with the youngest; the mother went by herself, saw a beautiful woman on the oak tree, told her to get down, her mother took her in a virgin; I. came home - there is no beauty; bored, ill; the portable miracle found out about this; baked prospira for I. and squeezed out her monogram with a ring; sent it with the woman; I. ate it - it became better; asked for more, the woman brought it for the second time; I. noticed the monogram; went for a walk , went to the virgin; show me what that monogram was squeezed out; they brought the ring; asked the owner of the ring to take it out - they took her out; I. recognized her, got married]: Khudyakov 1964, No. 14:80-82; Russians (Tambov) [Vanyushka they left apples to watch; Brown: give it from hand to hand; V.: they did not tell me to give it from hand to hand; but Yaga still dragged him; he shouts, "Brown took me beyond the steep mountains, beyond the high forests!" Parents caught up, took away; next time the same; parents warn: now they will go far, they will not hear; the third time Buraya brought V. to her daughters, ordered them to fatten; V. is not getting fat; for the Buraya holiday told me to cook it anyway; V. pretends not to know how to get into the stove; Bura's daughters are shown that he fried them himself; Buraya came in - Vanya is not there, but her daughter is fried in the stove]: Smirnov 1917, No. 250:251 -252; Ukrainians (Podolia) [boy asks his grandfather to make him a pack (?) crows shoot; killed two, the third took away the fart; the boy asks for their return; crow: if you go over that mountain, I'll give it back; lords go, offer the boy to sit in their carriage, plant it on an apple tree; a snake flew in: Ivasik- Kutasik, give me an apple; IK: the lords did not tell me; snake: bend the branch, he bent over, the snake grabbed it and flew away; IK calls the pan for help; the pan took the IK, planted it again on the apple tree; the snake asks for an apple with his left hand, grabbed IK and took it to her place; went to call the guests, and told him to sit on the wagon so that the snake's daughter could put it in the stove; he sits down wrong, the snake's daughter shows, he put her in the oven himself; guests they ate meat, throw IK bones; he shouts from the top of the hornbeam: these are Olenka's bones; the snake gnaws on the hornbeam, broke its teeth, went to the blacksmith to forge new ones; IC asks the flying swan geese to take it on its wings and take home; front: the middle ones will take you; those: back; back: the crooked gander will take; he brought IR home]: Levchenko 1928, No. 466:302-303.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [the old man has a son Kokaichik, the old man does not tell him to go over the mountain; after the death of his father, K. goes and climbs an apple tree; Emegensha asks him to drop her apples from another apple tree; K. tries jump there, falls into the hem of an emegenshe; she brings him home, starts cooking, goes to get firewood; he throws her cubs's clothes into the cauldron, climbs under the roof; Emegensha finds her son's hat in the cauldron; K. answers who climbed upstairs, putting benches and barrels on top of each other, stuck a red-hot awl on top, stood on it; the Emegensha does so, falls, K. finishes her off]: Kapiyeva 1991:221-222; varnishes [Aimisey's girlfriend climbed a pear, a witch asks her to throw pears to her; shakes a tree, A. falls into the witch's basket; at home, her three daughters Ahrazhat, Khhaja, Mallazhay feed mother halva so that she does not eat Aimisey; the witch starts sharpening the knife, all four girls run away; cross the river on a pole; the witch steps on a pole, falls, drowns; the girls get married]: Kapiyeva 1991:271-273; Dargins [the father sends the boy with the bulls to a watering hole, does not tell him to look around; he looks around, sees an apple tree, climbs for apples, the witch's daughter talks about it to her mother, she takes the boy in a sack; leaves the bag by the forest to collect firewood; shepherds find, release the boy, put a stone in the bag, the witch brings the stone home; the shepherds put the stone in the bag the next day angry pass; on the third day, the witch goes home without stopping; while sharpening her teeth, the boy speaks "zilpipipi" from the cauldron; the witch's daughter likes it, she pushes the lid, the boy shoves her into the cauldron instead himself, hides under the roof; a witch eats her daughter, asks the boy how he got in, he replies that he was on a red-hot crowbar; the witch burns]: Osmanov 1963:112-114; Georgians: Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 93 (Onsky District) [the bob peasant's ankle was swollen, a baby girl fell out of the abscess, the peasant left her by the river; the crow took the girl to his nest, began to raise her, stole clothes for her; the girl became beautiful, the prince saw her, but could not climb the tree; the old woman asked for a goat, an awl and a sleepy potion; under the tree she pretended not to know how to slaughter a goat, so she stabbed with an awl; the girl tells the goat to be cut; the old woman begins to shred the carcass, the girl goes down to show that you must first take off the skin, the old woman cooks the kebab, puts dope in it, brings the girl to the king; she she only cries, is silent; the old woman stains the prince's clothes with blood, says that he was wounded while hunting, and then eaten by wolves; the girl starts singing, telling who she is]: 134-138; Chikovani 1954, No. 60 (Psavia) [= Chikovani 1986:279-284; stepmother pretends to be sick, stepson's liver heart will cure her; father sharpens a knife; Koasnukh's bull tells the boy to sit on it, take a sharpener, a comb, a bottle of water; father chases a pig; a boy pours water from a bottle (a pig swims across the sea), a comb (a pig gnaws through the forest), a sharpener (the pig falls down the mountain, breaks); the bull leaves the boy on a high poplar, gives two flutes; that plays joyful, butterflies dance; the shepherd, then the king want a pipe for himself; if trouble, let him play on the painful, the bull will come to the rescue; to lure the boy off the tree, they send an old woman; she brings a goat to the poplar and begins to stab it with an awl - supposedly does not know how to slaughter it; the boy came down to show him, he was grabbed and locked; he asks a crow, a crow, an eagle, a bird to bring it from the poplar flutes; everyone refuses, because the boy did not leave them prey, caught them in snare; the swallow brings; the boy plays the joyful flute, Rubella comes running, breaks eight doors, breaks the horn; the mouse He takes the horn for the promise to eat it with carrion; the bull breaks the ninth door, brings the boy to the poplar; one day he played the joyful flute, but the bull did not appear; the boy went down and found it a corpse pecked by birds; after that he never played his flutes again]: 299-303 Armenians [the bear forced the boy to come down from the tree, put it in a bag, brought it home, told his mother slaughtered the boy, cooked it, ate his mother, thinking it was a boy, put a millstone around his neck, jumped and crashed]: Gullakian 1983:202; Turks: Stebleva 1986, No. 33 [stepmother wants to throw the children into the oven; a boy and sister go to his mother's grave; a voice tells them to take a comb, a brush, a soap; the stepmother sent soldiers in pursuit; the abandoned comb became thickets of thorns, a brush with snakes covered the ground, soap by sea; children walk along the steppe, the boy is thirsty; the sister does not tell me to drink from a deer hoof, he drinks, turns into a deer; a girl climbs a poplar, shahzade sees its reflection; tells her to cut; felling overnight overgrows; the old woman begins to bake bread, putting the pan upside down; the girl goes down to help her, shahzade picks her up and the deer, gets married; while bathing, the arapka pushes her into a deep place, puts it on clothes, says that they have turned black while waiting for her husband to return; asks to slaughter a deer; a deer brother tells his sister how knives are sharpened to slaughter him; the sister replies that it is in the stomach of a fish, her son is at her chest; people hear, shahzade eavesdrop, take out the Sultan and the child, tie the arapka to the tails of 40 mules]: 131-134; Kúnos 1901 [after the death of the padishah, his son and daughter went bankrupt, went on a journey; sister warns her brother in vain not to drink dirty water, he drinks, turns into a deer; the sister climbed a tree above the spring, the padishah's horses see her reflection, are frightened; then the servants also see; she refuses to get down, the padishah tells them to cut down the tree; when the servants went on vacation, the deer licked the felling, the tree became intact; the next evening; then the old woman was called; she pretended to be blind, put the cauldron upside down, poured water by; the next time you cooked not meat, but ash; on the third day you slaughtered the sheep, poking it with a knife from behind, rather than cutting her throat; the girl went down, her padishah grabbed him, she agreed to marry him if he took her fawn brother; the black maid pushed the padishah's wife into the spring, she was swallowed by fish; the maid took her place, saying that she had darkened in the sun; pretended to be sick: the meat of a deer will cure her; he says to her sister: the knife is sharpening, the water is boiling, hurry up, sister; sister in response: I am inside the fish, there is a golden saucer on my hand, there is a silver sandal on my leg, I have a silver sandal on my chest little padishah; the padishah heard, the spring was drained, the belly of the fish was ripped open, there was a wife and son; the deer licked the fish blood, became a young man again; the maid's padishah: 4 swords or 4 horses? maid: let swords against my enemies, I choose horses; she was tied to the tails of horses, torn]: 1-11.

Iran - Central Asia. Lura [when leaving, the husband demands that his wife have a son and daughter by his return; the mullah turned the egg into a girl, the tibia into a boy; the husband returned a month later, did not believe that they were children, threw the egg on the manure heap and the bone at the dogs; the dal bird asked if she could pick the egg; the woman allowed it, the bird carried the egg to its nest, it became a girl; (the egg turned into a girl again) ; the girl has grown up, the bird brings her everything she needs; she weaved the carpet; wants to go down to wash; the bird teaches how to tell the rock to go down and how to lift it back; the girl has lost her shoe and curl of hair, they fell into the eye of the prince's mare; he wants to marry the owner; the old woman promises to find her; refuses gold, asks for a skein of rope according to her weight; began rubbing rice on the bottom of the inverted mortars, pouring water on top, extinguishing the fire, pretended to slaughter the ram with the back of the knife; the girl shouts to her how to do it; old woman: I can't see anything; the girl went down to show; the old woman asks look in her head; at this time, the old woman's daughter pinned the girl's dress to the ground with pegs; the horsemen arrived and took the girl away; the old woman told the riders to leave, put the girl's clothes on her daughter, passed it off as a king, and left the girl tied to a tree; the lion ate the girl, but a drop of blood fell to the ground and reeds grew in this place; the shepherd cut it off and made a pipe, played, she sings; "Play, shepherd, play, play beautifully! I was the daughter of a Dali bird in a cave on a rock. The old woman tied me to the willow, the lion ate me"; the mother of the prince's imaginary wife heard me, threw the pipe on the pile of manure; the woman who grazed the geese picked me up to burn when it was dry; someone cooks and cleans her house; she waited for the girl and grabbed her; she replied that she was both a man and a fairy; the girl stayed with a sheep's stomach on her head - as if she were lousy; once she took off sheep's stomach to wash; the prince went to pick up his dice and saw the girl; ordered the old woman and her lousy daughter to be taken to the palace; pretended to be sick: let the lousy one bring it a bowl of broth on his head; ripped off her lamb's stomach, married her]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 17:83-88; Persians: Osmanov 1987:240-243 [Raven tells boy and girl that their stepmother is is going to kill them; they leave, the sister does not tell them to drink from the springs so as not to turn into chamois; the brother drinks, turns; picking pistachios, the sister finds them rich in clothes and jewelry; climbs on tree; does not get off when shahzadeh asks her to go with him; the old woman pretends to be trying to collect water with the boiler, lowering it with a hole down; the girl gets down to explain to her, shahzade takes her away; goes away year; an old woman covers the hole with a plate of salt, pours warm water on his wife shahzade, the salt melts, the girl falls into a hole, gives birth to a golden-haired boy there; the old woman replaces her with her daughter; she explains Shahzade, who has returned, has changed from separation from him; asks to slaughter a chamois; brother complains to his sister, sister replies that let the butcher go blind; the other will break his arms and legs; for the third time shahzade hears a voice pulls the wife and son out of the hole; pushes the false wife into boiling water, cooks pilaf from her, sends her to the old woman; the son and husband of an old woman see the hand of a sister/daughter in pilaf; the old woman does not believe, kills them with a skewer; seeing for himself, he jumps into a hot tanur], 316-318 [a boy as tall as the top (that's why his name is Vershok) climbed onto a date palm asking him to drop his dates; he only dropped green ones; the diva shook the palm tree, V. knocked it down, the divas carried it in the bag; while he sat down to rest, V. ran away; the same next time (put thorns in the bag); the third time the diva brought V. home in his fist; told his mother to cook; V. shoved it himself into the cauldron and cooked it; hid in a niche, climbing a pile of thorns; said to the diva that he was eating his mother; diva: how did he get up? on thorns; divas climbed, V. set fire to thorns, divas burned; V. took possession of everything]; mountain Tajiks (Darvaz) [Odin's boy nicknamed Zardoliyak planted an apricot kernel, a tree grew, he climbed on it to eat fruit; the old woman asked herself not to catch the thrown apricot, told her to go down, give her a handful in a skullcap, carried Z. in a bag; on the way she walked away for a while, Z. cut the bag with a knife, filled with stones, returned to eat apricots; the old woman brought the bag to her daughters, poured the contents into the cauldron, the stones split the pot; the next time the old woman brought Z. home, who hid under the roof of her house; said he sat on a hot shovel, she lifted it under the roof; the old woman sat on a shovel and burned down]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990:208-209; Tajiks [boy Bakhrom planted an apricot; apricot quickly grew up, B. climbed on top of it, began to eat apricots; the blind witch asks her to drop the fruit, go down and serve her; takes B. in a bag to his home; while he kindles the fire, B. runs away, climbs the poplar; says that climbed, sitting on a hot shovel; the witch dies]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:148-149; Uzbeks (Kokand) [the girl did not split the apricot bone, but planted it, ordered it to grow quickly; climbed on an apricot for with fruits; an old woman came, asked her to drop her fruit, asked her to go down - it was difficult for her to collect; the girl went down, the old woman carried her in a bag; sat down to rest, the girl ran away, climbed the apricot again ; the old woman came again and finally persuaded the girl to get down; this time she tied the bag, brought it home, left the girl to her 40 diva sons; they fell asleep, the girl cut off their heads with a golden sword, ran home]: Ostroumov 1890, No. 25:141-143; parya [Bahram boy found an apricot kernel; his mother advised not to split it, but to plant it; by morning a tree grew, B. ate on it every day apricots; asked not to throw off the diamonds, but to serve her; took B. in a bag to her home; while she was making a fire, B. made a hole in the bag, climbed the tree; said the diamonds that he climbed, sitting on a hot shovel; the diamonds heated the shovel, burned down]: Vinnikov 1977, No. 9:161-162; Yagnobtsy [Shomilty asks the reaper to help reap the sickle; he sends for a sickle to his wife; S. tells her that the tsar requires girls; she does not gives it, he shouts it to her husband, he tells her to give it back, S. takes the girl away; promises to cure the bald shepherd, buries it up to the neck in the ground, kills, takes the herd away; plants an apricot seed, threatens to grind it, the apricot grows in a few days, S. climbs on it; the old woman asks to throw off the fruit, asks for it in her hands, grabs S., takes it away in a bag; the reapers offer her to eat bread, S. runs away, leaving it in a bag stones; the old woman's daughter lowers the contents of the bag into the cauldron, it breaks; the old woman catches S. again in the same way, does not stop eating bread, brings S. home; while she sleeps, S. gets out, cuts off her daughters an old woman's head, throws one into the cauldron, hides at the top of the plane tree; the old woman eats meat, discovers her dead daughters; asks how S. climbed; he says he hit himself in the ass with a hot iron; she he does this, burns, dies]: Andreev, Peshereva 1957, No. 33:167-169; pashayas [the orphan boy said that when the mulberry grows and the fruits on it ripen, he will eat; she grew up, he climbed on a tree; a cannibal came, asked her to pick off the fruits, said that they were not good, he threw off a branch, she grabbed it, brought it home, told her daughter to cook it; the boy asked the cannibal's daughter to give him her dress, dressed like her, threw her into boiling water; the cannibal did not understand that her daughter had been replaced; the imaginary daughter says that she does not want a human being, she will eat chicken; asks the cannibal to give her long hair; binds runs away; the cannibal sees what her daughter has cooked, cries; the boy killed her with a stick]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 21:127-129.

Baltoscandia. Swedes [a witch catches a boy in a bag; sometimes he picks fruit from a tree and she makes him go down; the first time he runs away on the way, then she brings him home and tells his daughter cook; he convinces her to release him, promising to comb her hair or help her in some other way, kills her and cooks her; a witch eats her own daughter]: Liungman 1961, No. 327C: 65; Lithuanians [princess, going for trouble; at night she climbs a tree in the forest; a hunter is under him; dogs have smelled her, she has to go down; the hunter sleeps with her braids in his hands; she cuts them off and leaves unnoticed] : Balys 1936, no.*871:90-91.

NW Coast. Nooka: Boas 1895, No. XIII.9 [the cannibal seals the children's eyes with resin, carries the children in the basket; some run away on the road, the cannibal smokes the rest; women cry; one blows her nose, from snot appears boy; hides in a tree above the water; Resin Woman sees his reflection, thinks it's herself; he drops a leaf; she asks him to go down, make her beautiful; he breaks her head between stones; comes to her house; the pot screams, calls the mistress; the cannibal comes to life, comes; her heart hangs on the wall; the young man pierces him with an arrow; the woman dies; he revives children, those return to their parents]: 114 (=2002:267-268); 1916, No. 6 [as in Boas 1895; Forest Woman; three boys run away; cannibal asks Snot to be her husband]: 903-907; Sapir, Swadesh 1939, No. 21 [as in Boas 1895; Resin Woman; one girl runs away]: 89-97; Carmichael 2006 [The girls in the boat sailed to the shore where a cannibal (chehah) named E-ish-so-oolth lived; she covered their eyes with resin, threw it at her basket; two clung to the 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 to feed her and shelter her; he explained that he was handsome because his parents put his head on a stone, and another stone was placed on her forehead; the cannibal asked her to do the same, 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 to the ground, got up as a boy; the cannibal wants to try it too, crushed by a log; in the cannibal house, the boy frees the girls from the cage, washes them with them resin eyes]: 27-35; poppies [like a noot; the cannibal herself reports that her heart is hanging at home; leads Snot there, he pierces her heart with an arrow; without a watchdog pot; see motif J58, motif K27] : Densmore 1939:211-213; bellacula: Boas 1898 [boy plays with girls; chewing resin, Sneneik comes up; girls ask for resin, S. throws everyone into his basket; boy cuts through With a knife hole, everyone gets out except one girl; her mother cries, snot turns into a boy, he grows up quickly; hides in a tree above the river; S. takes his reflection for his own ; then he sees a young man, asks to make her just as beautiful; he says that to do this she will have to cut off her head; kills S.; in her house he revives dried children, brings them home; marries, he has a son; he tells his wife that his name is the Son of the Sun; he rises to the sky on eagle fluff]: 83-86; McIlwraith 1948 (2) [children play; the cannibal Sninik puts them in her basket, carries them home; children make a hole with a knife, they run away; one girl could not get out; her mother cries, snot turns into a young man; he hides in a tree above the river; S. sees his reflection, dives behind him; then decides that it is her own reflection, admires it; having learned the truth, asks the young man to make her just as beautiful; he breaks her head between stones; burns the corpse, the ashes turn into mosquitoes; the young man finds a girl in S.'s house, leads to his mother; he returns to his father (unnamed)]: 441-444.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [the cannibal seals the children's eyes with resin, takes it away in the basket; one runs away, talks; the parents cry; a woman's tear turns into something alive; she puts it under her clothes gives birth to a boy; he goes to look for a cannibal; climbs a tree; the cannibal takes his reflection for her own, enjoys his beauty; he laughs; she promises not to eat him, but to make him a husband, leads him to herself; he promises make it beautiful; to do this, you have to put your head on a stone, hit others on top; he kills her; revives the dead from their bones; in the village he shoots arrows into the sky, they form a chain; he climbs on sky; then arrows fall down]: Jenness 1934, No. 17:164-165; shuswap [Chipmunk girl lives in the forest with her grandmother; grandmother sent B. to pick berries, ordered to pick, not eat, beware of the Owl; B . climbed onto the bush, began to eat berries; saw an Owl below walking and catching children; Owl Chipmunku: your father is waiting for you; B.: I have no father; then all relatives, but when Owl said that Her grandmother is waiting for her, B. promised to go down; but let Owl close her eyes; Owl just pretended to peek; B. jumped over the Owl, she only managed to rip off her back, the stripes remained; B. ran to her grandmother ; she hid it under the bed in the basket; but she rustled and grandmother hid B. in a bowl of soup, almost drowning her; lark: hide her in a quiver/sink (clam shell); so that the lark would not give them away, his grandmother gave him a necklace; the lark flew away to show it to everyone; the Owl came and searched everything; the lark came back: I'll tell you if you reward me; the owl gave him a yellow sleeveless jacket; the lark: B. in a quiver/sink; this necklace and sleeveless jacket are still at the lark; Owl pulled B. out her heart and ate it; went to look for other children; lark for grandmother: put a berry instead of a heart; grandmother I did so, I crossed B. three times and she came to life; the owl met the Coyote; Coyote: I also love to eat children, let's go together; Coyote: let's eat the children in your basket; let's send the children to buy firewood to fry them; for children: bring resinous fir branches; Coyote Owl: spread ash and resin so that when we start dancing, the paint does not come off; light a fire, a lot of smoke; Coyote: let it dissipate, otherwise the meat it will be bitter; we will dance, and we will send the children to bring meat skewers; the owl is tired of dancing, but the Coyote cheers her up; pushed her into the fire; Coyote for children: shove the Owl into the fire with these skewer sticks; eyes Owls burst and two types of owls appeared from them]: Kuipers 1989, No. 28:134-144; sanpual [Rabbit (K.) tells her granddaughter Burunduk (B.) to pick berries, says that Owl (S.) is not dangerous during the day; S. pretends to be K., asks B. to come down from the bush; she does not believe, tells her to hide under the basket, S. peeks, manages to scratch B. with her claws, the trail still remains; K. hides B. in the basket, under the pillow, The lark is in the shell; S. threatens to eat K., she has to give her away B., she asks for the bones back; S. wants to be white like K., she replies that she fried herself on hot stones; S. goes for resin, K. revives B. from bones, they burn S.; at night, the owl's eye bursts, hooting is heard, K. says S. will be an owl; S.'s three sisters tear her grave, eat meat, recognize her sister; the youngest did not eat; Coyote them fools, runs; asks his feces what to do; he says he will be home with the dancers, let the Owls dance with their eyes closed; Coyote sets fire to the house; the youngest S. does not enter the house, shouts to the elders; Coyote asks let her kiss, bites off his tongue, runs, hides in a hole; the feces turn into a noisy camp, S. goes to look for the Coyote there, he runs away]: Ray 1933, No. 18:165-167; colitz [The chipmunk raised Olenikha's grandmother; he climbed a tree, eats berries; a dangerous woman came, pretended to be his grandmother, promised to give roots to the kamas; he threw her branches, jumped away, but she had time to scratch his back (since then since there are stripes on her), licked the blood from her fingers, she liked it; the grandmother hid it under the basket; the grandmother promised to make the dangerous woman white and beautiful; you have to cover yourself with resin, jump on a white stone, then tear off the old skin; tried it with one finger - it all happened; my grandmother cut her neck with a sharp stone, covered her with stones; 5 sisters of a dangerous woman came, each tasted this one by her grandmother meat and died; Coyote found out that the children of dangerous women were still alive; asked his "sisters" what to do; those: then you'll say you knew everything yourself; Coyote: start, rain! They were frightened: the souls of dangerous women's children hang on the walls; the Coyote cut them; when people come now, they will populate the whole world, there will be no dangerous creatures]: Adamson 1934, No. 26:218-220.

Southeast USA. Tunic [the young man runs away from the cannibal, climbs a tree on the river bank; the cannibal's two adopted daughters catch his reflection; they find it when he spits; they take him to his mother and marry him]: Haas 1950, No. 4:39-43, 53-57; Swanton 1911 [the uncle left the orphan nephew to fast in the house; his sister brought him food; the uncle's wife lured the young man out of the house in vain to kill the white squirrel; then asked him to kill a squirrel through a hole in the house; the young man pulled out the squirrel's claws, one did not notice; the woman scratched her body with it, told her husband that the young man went out and did it; the uncle demands to bring 1) arrow reeds ( dangerous creatures live in reeds; the rabbit pulls out), 2) the feathers of a dangerous fishing bird (the young man climbs into the nest, the eagle gives him feathers and one chick, ordered him to be released at home; the chick takes his uncle's child); 3) the uncle takes the young man to hunt deer on the other side of the fresh ocean, sails away in a boat himself; the young man wanders through the forest, curses owls, woodpeckers; the woodpecker asks not to curse, brings him to his house in a hollow; the young man got up, makes a ladder out of mushrooms; the cannibal brings his dogs (cougars, jaguars, wolves, raccoons) to the tree; climbs a tree, the mushroom step breaks, she falls, shouts "It's me", her "dogs" are a little bit of her not bitten; a young man goes to the water, climbs a tree; two women catch his reflection; he spits, they see him, take him home as a husband, give a mirror; these women were stolen as a child by a cannibal; when she came in, a young man let the bunny in a mirror, the cannibal liked it, she did not kill him; the young man and his wives ran to the shore, began to sing; sends turtles, catfish, garfish, and agrees to swim on a crocodile; throws arrows forward; the crocodile swims up to them, bites; the young man throws skins and cakes, the crocodile swallows them; the last arrow falls at the shore, the young man and his wives have time to jump off; the sister recognizes the arrow brother; nursed her uncle's child; threw it into boiling water; uncle told two people to kill her with batons away from home; brother fired lightning, people turned into vulture and opossum, their batons (paddle and pestle) turned into theirs tails; brother began to go up to heaven, told his sister to grab his leg, she failed, became a forest night chicken, sings before dawn; brother became thunder]: 319-322; alabama [so far five brothers they hunt, the sixth looks for a tuber that has fallen into the water, finds a baby girl tied to the board; she becomes the brothers' sister; Sharp Ass comes to her in their absence, putting his finger in her and holding her over with fire, lie on his stomach, her back serves as a plate for him; it kills her; comes to life; so twice; the third time the brothers stay, put fish on the sharp ass of the spirit, fry, eat fish on his back, he dies, they drop the corpse down the river in a boat; the boat is spinning in one place, five brothers go one by one to find out why they disappear; the sixth climbs the persimmon, the ogre who comes up tells them to go down, fight her; he kills her with a baton, cuts off her head; she grows, but for the fourth time the cannibal dies; he throws her heart, it turns into a tree fungus; her intestines into vines; he cuts it off nose; comes to her daughters, says it's not a nose, but a smoking pipe; told her to lie down, promising to tickle, killed her with a club; throwing an arrow up, revived the dead from the bones; they looked around, turned into a lynx, crow, hawk, etc.]: Swanton 1929, No. 13:129-131; koasati [five brothers disappear one by one; a sixth climbs a tree; an ogre with a basket tells him to get down and fight against it; he killed her with her own club , cut off his head, but each time its dicks grew together; pulled out his heart, threw it against a tree, it became a tree mushroom; then she died; the young man brought his sister who was left home, who put the club in the basket, they came to the cannibal's house; began to assure her daughter that her mother's basket and club were not her mother; asked where the remains of the dead were; the young man threw an arrow up, the dead came to life from their bones; when they left, despite his prohibition, they looked around turned into a lynx, a cougar, an owl, a crow; sat on an arrow, told his sister to hold his leg, but she grabbed him by the testicles every time; he turned it into a partridge, flew an arrow into the sky; similar in stories it turns into thunder]: Swanton 1929, No. 10:169-170.

Big Pool. Utah (Wintah) [two brothers spend the night in a tree; contrary to warning, the youngest goes down to eat; the cannibal takes him to the bottom of the lake; the young man's grandfather dives, kills the ogre, raises his grandson from the bones and pieces of flesh left on the ogre's teeth]: Kroeber 1901, No. 11:279-280.

The Great Southwest. Mescalero [the boy sees a giant, climbs a tree; the giant cuts a tree, puts the boy in the basket, carries him home; he grabs a branch on the way, runs away; the giant's wife finds only in the basket excrement left by the boy]: Opler 1946:271; oriental keres (Sia) [twins hide in a tree; a cannibal finds them, brings them home; they push her into the fire, run away]: Boas 1928a: 251-252.

Mesoamerica Masateki [an old woman hears the words take me from the hollow; finds an egg, brings me home; a boy is born from an egg; he grows up, runs away from an old woman]: Portal 1986:49-50; mountain half-hearted [like the Masateks; sees first the reflection of an egg in the water, then an egg on a tree]: Elson 1947:195-196; lacandons [the hunter gets lost in the forest; climbs a fruit tree; the owner's daughter wants to take the dead to him; stops under a tree, scalps off his scalp, taking out the lice; he throws a fetal bone on her head; follows her, marries; her father tries to kill him; he runs away returning to earth]: Boremanse 1986:78-79, 293.

The Northern Andes. Embera (chami) [a man was born from a woman's leg; too bright the moonlight prevents him, he climbed, pulled out the moon's eyes, now her light has faded; someone has cut off the vine, the person has fallen into the underworld; there people without anus; the man pierced the child's anus, he died; someone was walking, a man climbed a tree, the person who came saw his shadow, began to catch it, then looked up, told him to go down, brought home; the man ran away, hid at the Old Partridge; she drove the pursuer away, showed the way home]: Zuluaga Gómez 1991:97-100.

Llanos. Sicuani [Munuani (Munuane, Munuanë) catches fish, notices the reflection or shadow of a fisherman who has climbed a tree, hits him with an arrow, takes him home by raft or boat to eat; on the way, a person slips into the water unnoticed and runs away; arrows do no harm to M.; when he learns that M.'s eyes are on his knees, a person kills M. by hitting the knee with an arrow]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 115-118:404-412.

Southern Venezuela. The young man spends the night in a tree above the river; the cannibal month sees a reflection in the water, makes the hero go down, carries him home; the daughter or son of the month warns the hero that the Month intends to eat him; the hero runs away. Makusáni hunted in the forest, chased the frog, it galloped away, he got lost; the forest chicken (gallineta) looked like a pretty girl, invited her to her house, did not tell her to be touched; M. tried to get along with her, she became a chicken, flew away; M. came to the river; Otter (perro de agua) took him to his house, promised to take him home if he did not look forward or back; M. looked through fingers, the Otter left him in the water; M. climbed the tree to sleep; Nuna (Month) saw his reflection, realized that he was not in the water, but in the tree when M. spat; brought him to heaven, married two daughters; sends for firewood, the wife admits that his father will eat him; he throws sand in her back, she thinks wasps, rushes to run, M. runs the other way, comes to Shi (Sun); N. looks for M., Sh. says that this was not the case here, drives N. away with heat; M. marries one of Sh.'s two daughters; S. gives a wind gun, tells him not to look through it; M. looks, sees his house, mother; his wife also wanted to look, both were on the ground in M.'s house; M. hides his wife under the basket; when he left, her mother found her, began to beat her; M. reconciled them; all three returned to heaven at S.'s house, live there now]: Civrieux 1959: 119-120 (same in 1980:119-120 {pagination is correct!}) ; sanema [Colchester 1981:72-74; the young man went to the otter people, fell behind them; met a tinama girl; she invited him into her hammock, but flew away when he tried to have sex; told him to wait three days, but he left, climbed a tree above the river; the Month came, saw the reflection, began to catch; the young man spat, the Month looked up; brought him home, told his wife to bake cassava for meat; the son of the Month ordered the young man to run, showed three roads - to the stars, to the vultures, to the Sun; the young man came to the Sun; when the Month came for him, the Sun baked it with its heat; now there are spots in the month; the Sun gave a sarbakan, told him not watch; the young man looked through him, flew out with a dart, fell outside his house; his mother did not recognize him, wanted to copulate; he said who he was, she was happy]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 324:568-570.

Guiana. Warrau [Roth 1915, No. 210:263-265; Nohi-abassi climbs a tree to watch for animals going to the watering hole; the cannibal Nahokoboni comes; takes two fish out of the river, eats one immediately, puts the other in a basket; she has a calebass on her head, which she throws into the water from time to time, forcing her to spin; next time, NA's younger brother asks for permission to climb the tree and him; the cannibal sees his reflection, catches it in the water; her movements make her younger brother laugh; the cannibal sends ants, the brothers have to go down; she kills the youngest, brings the elder home; he her two daughters like her, the youngest becomes his wife; she hides a crocodile or shark under the boat, who ate her mother; the couple is running, the eldest daughter sharpens a knife, chases; they climb a tree, the pursuer manages to cut off ON her leg; the leg turns into the spirit of the Maam bird (Tinamu sp.) and into the Orion Belt; the wife into the Pleiades, NA into the Hyades]: Wilbert 1970, No. 188:431-433; taulipan [Makunaí ma and his brother Manápi climbed a tree where all kinds of fruits grew to shoot monkeys; Man. warned his brother not to respond to the voice of the spirit; Piamáng called, Mac. answered, P. noticed his finger, shot, killed; ordered Man to throw him off; he threw the monkeys, but his brother's corpse had to be thrown off; P. carried Mac. towards him, Man crept behind, the wasp collected the dripping blood; the lizard lay down a bridge over the river; said that his magic weapon was hanging at the entrance to P.'s house; Man. killed P. and his wife with it, put his brother's body parts in a basket, blood there, revived it]: Koch-Grünberg 1924, No. 11:48-50; pemon {arecuna?} [a man with wives and children went to hunt turkeys; while her husband is away, Piaimá comes up, the wives ask for turkeys; he does not pay attention, the second P. says that the third will give, he gives; the children are all they told their father, who hid his wives and children in a tree; P. came for them, noticed, killed them with arrows, forced the Indian to climb and throw off his bodies; took them away; the man followed a bloody trail; P. crossed the river a snake hanging like a vine; the lizard agreed to transport the man across the river on his back; the man came to P.'s house when he was not there, pulled the wives' bodies out of the cauldron, revived them; the lizard transported everyone across the river back]: Armellada 1988, No. 44:114-115; carinha on Orinoco [two hunting brothers hide from the cannibal Tarunmio, climbing a tree above the pond; she grimacs, one of brothers laugh; T. causes the wind to break branches; one brother falls with a seed, T. eats it; the other with a frog, T. brings him home; her daughter takes him as her husband; he creates piranhas by throwing pieces into the water bark; T. enters the water to devour fish, they devour it themselves; the head remains, it rises into the sky, turns into the Morning Star; the wife avenges the mother; the husband tells objects in the house not to chase him, forgets the spindle; the spindle and his wife catch up with him; the baby in the woman's belly wants a flower; she asks her husband to climb a tree to get a flower; at this time she cuts off his leg; he turns into Orion's Belt (" Someone without legs"); woman turns into voletolo]: Civrieux 1974:87-89; curl [twins climb a tree above the river, the cannibal sees their reflections in the water; makes them go down by sending ants; eats one, brings the other home; he marries her daughter, kills her mother-in-law, runs away]: Magaña 1988a, No. 60-61:107-109, 240; kalinha [two parrot hunters see a woman from a tree , who eats shrimp and fish, laughs; she causes a storm, the tree falls, she carries them home; the cannibal's daughter asks not to kill them; the hunters run away]: Goeje 1943, No. d34:124; makushi [Anikê brothers ; and Inskirã set up a bird-hunting shelter in the tree; Okreimã appeared with a wind tube; A. told him not to look, I. looked, O. noticed him, killed him; told A. to throw off the corpse, otherwise he would kill and him; A. followed; O. cut it, began to cook the prey, his wife Kamaiuapá was cooking cassava; the girl at their house said that a special leaf should be shaken in front of O.; A. shook in front of her, she died; He killed O. and his wife in the same way; covered pieces of I.'s body with leaves, began to blow, he came to life]: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 4:81-82; oyampy [two hunters ambush birds in a tree; living underground woo (creatures like huge sloths) went out, noticed one, looked at his head; the second followed his footsteps to the hole under the roots of a tree, went down to the lower world; two children in. Replied that theirs parents are fresh in kinkaju, told how their weapons work (you just have to direct them); the hunter demolished their heads; for two months the hunter stole peanuts from the Sun's garden; was caught in a trap; a month asked The sun sold him a "monkey" for his son; brought man to earth; from him we know what's underground]: Grenada 1980:322-324; 1982, No. 20:167-168.

Ecuador. Azuay [a man in a tree guards a thief in the field; a cannibal chews on a tree, a man falls into her basket; at home she makes him her husband, he runs away]: Gutierrez Estevez 1985, No. 3:340; Astudillo in Lamadrid 1993:19.

Western Amazon. Sekoya [two hunting brothers hide in a tree from demons; one looks out, a demon kills him with a poisoned arrow, carries him away; the other kills a family of demons with their weapon]: Cipolletti 1988, No. 44:205- 209.

Central Amazon. Parintintin [Anyan-Pian (forest spirit) and Tandav-u hunts coati; T. climbs a tree, AP tells him to go upside down, makes the trunk thick; he falls, AP carries it to basket along with game and leaves; T. runs away on the way; AP kills his family; T. kills AP children; AP kills T., who turned out to be a weaker shaman]: Pereira 1980 (2): 605-606.

Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [Aruwé hunter shot birds from a tree shelter; the Jaguars came for wild honey, then left; so for several days; Brother A. asked to let him into hiding; contrary to warning , shot the Jaguars; they climbed a tree and tore it up; A. followed the anthill, became an ant, went down to the village of Jaguars; married the daughter of the one who killed his brother; learned songs and dances, honey festival rituals; the Jaguars allowed him to see his relatives if he took his wife with him; A. left Jaguariha waiting, came to his former wife; tired of waiting, Jaguariha left with a hole in the anthill; A. taught people the honey festival]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 18:143-144; urubu: Huxley 1956 [ae look like arachnids; they are jaguar people underground, only one is a dog; they have blue bones; The tourist decided to make beads for his wife out of such bones; hid in a tree; at night a. stele express the juice of this tree's flowers into calebasa (for a. it's like manioc soup); T. killed him with an arrow ; Brother T.'s wife also wanted beads for herself; brother missed, a. killed him with a club, took him to the underworld; the hunters followed the trail to the ant hole; T. went down, found the murderer at home; he was dancing with with a club on the occasion of killing an enemy; offers to dance T., he kills a. with a club; T. runs to the exit to earth; others a. chase him, but people pour boiling water on them]: 227-231; Ribeiro 2002 [ a man climbed a tree to hunt, saw a red jaguar on a branch, shot, it fell, the man went down, but the jaguar killed him with a club, dragged him to the lower world through the opening of the Sun; the shaman spoke about this to the brother of the deceased; he was lowered on a rope through the same hole into the lower world; there the jaguars, Aé; looked like people; one showed the wound, told the man that his brother, whose meat he had inflicted it on him now he is cooking; all Aé took turns dancing in front of the man, gave him jewelry; the man killed his brother's murderer, ran, he was pulled out of the hole, the pursuers were lowered with boiling water; c since then, people know ritual dances and make jewelry]: 607-610; anambe [a young man climbs a tree above the river to fish; an old woman Seushi (Pleiades) sends ants to force him to go down; brings home; her daughter puts a waxed pestle into the fire instead of him, helps her escape; he throws palm leaves behind; they turn into animals, S. devours them; throws her baskets of fish; monkeys hide it in empty pot; Snakes hide in a hole, want to fry and eat; he asks Falcon for help, who kills snakes; the stork brings him in a basket to his mother's garden; the mother sees that her son has become an old man]: Couto de Magalhães 1882:63 (per. Tynyanova 1962:193-198; Barroso retelling 1930:93-97).

The Central Andes. Prov. Jauja (dep. Junin) [the parents of three boys were eaten by wild animals; the middle one had a star in his forehead; the boys come to the old woman; the middle one understands that you have to run at night; the eldest kills the old woman's little niece, they they run, climb a tree; the younger one does not have time, the middle one climbs to the middle, the eldest to the top; the old woman hits her bag like a drum, the middle one falls into the bag; the eldest does not fall; the old woman climbs after him wood; the youngest lets the middle one out of the bag; they hit the bag, the old woman falls into it, she is thrown into the river]: Arguedas 1953:232-233.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [three brothers hide in a tree; a cannibal hits her drum, two brothers fall, she hides them in a bag; while the cannibal is relieving her need, the third brother goes down, hits the drum, releases brothers; a cannibal climbs a tree; falls; she is put in her bag, killed]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 275:418; chacobo [those who lived underground mainá went out to hunt people; one of two brothers climbed a tree for the shot monkey; m shot him; the other fired arrows at m, but they bounced off his body; the brother walked a m to a hole in the ground; people lit fires at the entrance, strangled everyone with smoke; left one girl, but it was difficult for her to get used to animal meat; called people bakers]: Kelm 1972, No. 6:233-234; surui [man hides in a tree, hunting birds; laughs when Ne-V swallows fruit; Ne-V makes him get down, takes him home in the basket, blows into his flute, killing prey; this is how many people disappear; one day he leaves a basket on the trail; the Vulture frees a man, takes him to the village; at home, Nee-V finds only rotten things in the basket; people come to Ni-V, blow his flute, he and his mother fall dead, go up to heaven; sometimes Ne-V goes down and takes kids away]: Mindlin 1995, No. 9:32-36.

Southern Amazon. Iranshe [young man goes to look for a wife; climbs a tree above the river; Mae-do-Sol (Euchroma gigantea) takes his reflection for his own, wonders how beautiful she is; the young man says she is ugly; she leads him towards her, gives chicha from excrement; he leaves; see motive A1]: Pereira 1985, No. 4:45-46; paresi [the girl hides from the cannibal in a tree; she kills her with a stream of poisonous milk from her breast; carries home in the basket; her grandson revives the girl and sleeps with her]: Pereira 1986, No. 11:206-210.

Araguaia. Tapirape [Vare kills a coachi tree; when he descends, the forest spirit hits him and puts him in the basket; on the way, V. wakes up, puts a stone in the basket, runs away; the son of the forest spirit finds a stone instead of game; the forest spirit comes to V., kills his mother; V. kills everyone in the forest spirit village]: Wagley 1977:182.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (shikrin) [two brothers hunt birds in a tree; people come out of the ground, notice and kill one brother with an arrow and knife; the other comes to the village, two men go underground , kill two cannibals, come back; they chase, people kill many when they go out; then they pour boiling water into the hole, cut off the vine so that underground cannibals no longer rise]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a , NO. 19:48-49.

Chaco. Chorote [two brothers hide in a tree hunting birds; they see naked and hairy cannibals; this is the owner of the forest and his wife; despite the ban, one of the brothers laughs when they pull it out pubic hair; cannibals find it, cut it in half and swallow it; the second brother runs away on the way, comes to the village; Falcon kills cannibals, revives what they eat]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 124:239- 241.

Southern Brazil. The demon hunts koati; makes the hero or his brother come down from the tree; carries it in the basket with the koati; the hero runs away; the demon's family only finds koati (and stone) in the basket. Kaigua [brothers climb a tree, make koati; Anya tells him to throw them to him; elder Nyanderike-y throws the koati away, but A. finds it, puts it in the basket, tells the brothers to go down; N. descends, A. beats him, puts him in the same basket, carries him home; leaves the basket for a while, the younger brother revives the elder, they put a stone in N.'s place, run away; domestic A. only coati and stone are found; A. goes looking for brothers; N. throws a stick, it turns into a doe, A. chases it, kills it, thinking it's N.; puts a wand in his mouth, says, Here's the mouth that called me; etc. (Here's my eyes, what I'm they saw; the nose that smelled me); the brothers come to A.'s daughters, painting their heads red; they tell the girls that they must peel off their father's head and rub the crown with pepper to hand over A. just as beautiful; A. died; the brothers set fire to the long hair of Anya's daughters, who also died]: Strelnikov 1930:307-308; chiripa [see motif J8; Ñanderú Guazú came from the west, placed land on a wooden cross (palo cruzado); with him Ñanderú Mbae Kua; they found the first woman under a clay pot, both met her; NG went to the plot, came back, told his wife to go pick corn ; she did not believe that the harvest was ripe for her; NG got angry, left, promised to forgive his wife if she found her way; from his mother's womb, their son Kuarahy (the future sun) showed her the way; asked her to collect flowers, the woman was bitten by a wasp, she scolded K., he fell silent; the woman came to the old woman, who hid her under a pot from her nephews Añag; she herself told them they killed and ate the woman; the old woman asked her to eat fruit from the womb, but not to cook it, not to bake it; K. considered the old woman to be her mother, shot butterflies, called them by the names of birds, since then the birds have names; the old woman does not tell her to hunt Blue Woe; K. goes there, finds his mother's bones, mixing them with cornmeal makes himself a brother Yacy (next month); brothers destroy Añag jaguars and demons; K. gave Y. power over cultivated plants and by harvest; K. created honey, but Y. asked to leave some of the hollows empty; the urubu vultures had fire; K. was afraid to approach them himself, created a cururu toad, which swallowed the coals, brought them, regurgitated; K. did sugarcane, Y. imitated, a snake came out; K. and Y. saw A. fishing; K. bit off and took the hook, I. got caught; A. caught him in the form of a bagre (first fish); K. asked for bones, Y. (moon phases); the brothers came to Saria (this is also Añag); Y. said that he had many sisters, A. asked them to marry, Y. ordered K. to ask permission; he told A. to bring fish for his wives, gave the girl, from his feet which the fish is dying; A. began to beat the girl, she turned into a timbo vine; K. gave A. a crown of feathers, it caught fire, A. burned down; a partridge flew out of his stomach, the ashes turned into mosquitoes; I. got together with a married woman; on a full moon, the Month copulates with girls, causing menstruation; K. did Venus; after copulation, Y. tells Venus to wash it, so it rains on the new moon; K. and Y. did a chain of arrows to go to heaven to my father; I wanted to climb first to become the sun, but K. was the first to climb himself]: Bartolomé 1977:16-40 (episode on p. 33-34); apapokuwa [Nyanderikoy creates a koati, throws Anyaya from the tree; he asks N. to go down, puts it in the basket; leaves it for a while; brother N. revives him, they put a stone instead of him; Anyai's daughters are found in the basket is only koati and stone; A. returns; N. creates a deer, A. chases him, mistaking him for N.; brothers cover their heads with flowers; tell A.'s daughters that their father should scalp off and rub the crown pepper to be just as beautiful; A.'s head bursts, the brain turns into mosquitoes and barig (horseflies?) ; brothers marry A.'s daughters; set fire to the grass around, women's hair lights up, heads burst, mosquitoes appear]: Nimuendaju 1914:397-399.