Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

L4. Assassin Unveiled, ATU 311, 312.

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The character consistently (almost) kills girls (rarely: his nephews or his wife's younger siblings) who he brings in (usually a male character kills wives). The heroine or hero (the youngest of all) avoids a common fate, usually after discovering prisoners or their remains.

Hottentots, Sala, Makua, Dinka, Hadza, Iraku, Tunisia, Spaniards, Catalans, Aragon, Portuguese, Goa (Portuguese component), Sardinians, Corsicans, Sicilians, Italians (Piedmont, Ticino, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata), Ladins, Basques, Maltese, Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Harz, Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Austria), Dutch, Flemish, Frisians, Irish, French, Bretons, British, Palestinians, Lebanese Arabs, Keva, Tibetans, Tibetans (Ham), Oriya (dombo), Kuruba, Varope, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Croats, Slovenes, Moldovans, Greeks, (Greeks- Cypriots), Slovaks, Poles, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonets, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia, Kherson), Ossetians, Adygs, Tatas, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Baluchis, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Setus, Karelians, Veps, Eastern Sami, Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedes, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Mordovians, Udmurts, Komi, Mansi, Northern Khanty, Udege, Asians Eskimos, Bering Strait Inupiate, Northern Alaska Inupiate, McKenzie Eskimos, Baffin Land, East Greenland, Labrador, Khan, Tanaina, Tagish, Helmet, Quarry, Shuswap, Clackamas, Menominee, montagnier, nascapi, colorado, tupi (b. Madeira), tenetehara, ashaninka, machigenga, piro, takana, chacobo, iranche, paresi, matako.

SW Africa. Hottentots: Schmidt 2007, No. 5 [the cannibal marries the eldest of seven sisters; on the way to him, he tells him to take off his loincloth, necklace; eats the girl at home; after a while he comes for the next sister, supposedly to watch the child first; and so on to the last sister; she refuses to take off her bandage and necklace, sees bones at home at the ogre; refuses to sit by the coal pit; herself pushes the ogre into her, he burns], 6 [starting as in (5), 4 sisters; the fourth is still small, secretly followed when the cannibal led the third; returned, told her parents; when the cannibal came for fourth, he was offered a rest, pushed him into a hole with fire; when he died, he said that they would die now]: 18-19, 19-21.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Sala [a ferocious rainbow goat devours several wives who do not know how to deal with him properly; a girl passes all the tests with a rooster's feather]: Chaplin 1959:159; makua [ the girl comes to offer herself as a wife, does not pay attention to the dirty old woman on the edge of the village, marries a handsome young man; cooks, but when she wants to take food in her mouth, her husband does not give, eats everything, the wife dies out of hunger, he throws the corpse down the hole; so with many wives; the latter approaches the old woman, who teaches her husband to be named Likanga; when she hears him, the husband rushes to the river and drowns]: Junod s.a., No. 28:171-181.

Sudan - East Africa. Hadza [Wagambo asks a woman to give him one of her daughters; glances giraffes, tells trees to become men for a while, carry meat; tells his wife to burn fat; when the calabasses are full, sends a horn to kill his wife, takes her and the vessels of fat to the cave; tells his mother-in-law that the wife was killed by a buffalo, asks for a new one; so with four sisters; the fifth is accompanied by her brother, the bird tells him about V. shows a cave where the corpses are; brother kills V. with an arrow when he calls his wife to kill her; rains revive sisters; Sun-Ishoko turns V. into a rhino]: Col-Larsen 1962:82-89; Dinka [wife the person is a lioness {in the sense of a cannibal, gulya}, lives separately, they have a son Kon; the father married her son a girl; Kon's mother asks to bring her young daughter-in-law to her; ate her; so consistently with all the girls; the last one left, Nyanbol, was left, and her little sister went with her mother-in-law; N. insisted on sleeping not with her mother-in-law, but with her sister; the house is full of skulls; mother-in-law replies that they died from relatives are ill; the next morning he goes hunting, the sisters run away; at the sacred palm tree, N. asks her to bend down, climbs a tree, and her sister runs to the camp where the men; mother-in-law begins cut down the tree with an ax; the husband managed to run; agreed that they would all return to their mother-in-law; at night, N.'s husband blocked the exit from the house where his mother stayed overnight and burned her and home]: Deng 1984:103-106; Iraq [Tsáchara and his wife are cannibals; two women came in during the rain; they allegedly began to cook for them, scalded them with boiling water, ate them; C. went to marry the daughter of another woman, that three daughters {from It follows that four}; brought one, ordered not to say when entering, "Hello mother! Hello father!" , as is customary, but to say the magic formula; the first wife of C. pretends to be sick; at night they cut the new wife's throat, ate her; the same with the second daughter; then two more women came, one of them pregnant; they were told not to go into the back room - there was a ferocious bull; the girl looked - there were skulls of the dead; while C. was leaving, and his wife fell asleep, the girl ran away, and pregnant did not want to go out in the rain and stayed; hid in the back room and ate the bones of the dead; gave birth to a boy, he grew up six months later; the woman tried to hide under the ceiling, cut off her head, ate her; C. ate almost all the meat himself, He gave his wife a little finger; the boy went out, he was also eaten; now C. came to marry the woman's third daughter; C. and his wife thought the baby appeared like an egg in birds; they locked the girl in the back room and waited when the eggs appear; the girl said that chickens also do not lay eggs without a rooster; then C. and his wife ate her; C. brought the fourth girl; when she came in, she said, "Hello mother! Hello father!" ; she ran away at night, C. then people killed him with arrows; another C. came to his wife; they got into a fight, he cut her throat, ate him; stayed alone]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:155-164.

North Africa. Tunisia [The widow has seven daughters. She spun wool and sold it at the market. One day an old lady woke up at night. The moon was shining so brightly that she thought it was day now. She collected wool and went to sell it to the market. There she met a huge man who bought all her wool at a very high price. He followed her home and came to marry her the next day. Then he brought his wife to his house and asked her mother, "What should I eat?" "Eat your guest!" He left it for three days and then came and ate it, as happened to the other five girls, and every time he told their mother that the girl died of natural causes. When he married the seventh girl, she told her mother everything; they dug a hole in the cellar, lit a fire in her, covered her with stones. Ghoul came, fell into the hole and died. The girl returned to her mother, gave birth to a boy and decided to see how he would grow up. Once a handkerchief fell off her head, the boy said: "How I want to bite your ear!" She threw him off her back and killed him]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 50 in Korovkina MS; Kabyles (Frobenius, Bd 2, no.1:3-11), Tunisian Arabs: El-Shamy 2004, No. 311:119.

Southern Europe. Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1995, No. 311 [the lumberjack has three daughters; he cuts a tree, his tree owner, a giant, appears; gives gold and orders his eldest daughter to be sent to him; a girl comes to a tree, it opens a staircase to an underground palace; when leaving, the giant leaves the girl a human hand; if she does not eat it by his return, he will kill her; she threw her hand on the roof; the giant has returned , called out his hand, she replied, he killed the girl, threw her body into the closet; the same with his middle sister (threw her hand into the latrine); the youngest Mariquita hides her hand under her apron; the hand replies to the giant that she is in the girl's stomach; the giant calls M. his wife; gives the keys, forbiding to unlock one of the rooms; she unlocked her murdered sisters there; she found a vascular with living water, revived her sisters; the father came, the daughters were recruited a bag of gold and went with it; moved to another village], 312 (Andalusia; there are also other areas) [a stranger gives the poor man a lot of money, asks his daughter; the eldest is ready to go with him; he forbids unlocking one door; girl unlocks; {does the dog inform the owner about this? Andalusian text, not everything is clear}; the girl is killed; the same with her middle sister; the youngest, having opened the forbidden door, kills the dog and runs away, comes to the old woman; that dog has it; she ate pursuer, youngest daughter returned to her father]: 67-71, 76-78; Aragon [the woodcutter consistently gives his daughters to a nobleman (demon, cannibal), who pays for every money; in his castle he forbids enter a specific room; girls break the ban, they are given a key or ring that is colored with blood; the youngest finds bodies, revives the sisters and, after deceiving the ogre, frees them]: González Sanz 1996, No. 311:75; Catalans [the merchant has three daughters; when he leaves, he promises to bring them a ring, a dress, a rose; forgets the rose and picks it up in someone's garden; the giant demands that his daughter be given; the eldest agrees; the giant forbids opening one of the rooms, and if she opens it, a stain will appear on her apple; she breaks the ban, in the girl's room with her throat slit; she drops the apple, the giant cuts the girl the throat and leaves it in that room; the same with the middle sister; the younger one wraps the apple in a handkerchief and, although she drops it, it is unharmed; the girl cut the sleeping giant's throat; he says where the ointment is to heal him; she smeared the giant's wound, but put her head backwards; the giant started fighting and killed; with the same ointment, the girl resurrects her sisters and other stabbed to death, everyone returns home]: Oriol , Pujol 2008, No. 311:68-69; (cf. Catalans [a man asks his eldest daughter to be a maid; gives an apple, it will stain if she enters the forbidden room; the girl enters, there are other girls hanging from the ceiling with a cut with her throat; she drops an apple, stains on it, the owner cuts her throat and hangs it; the same with her younger sister; her brother finds them, revives them, punishes the villain]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 312:70); Portuguese [ the robber marries the eldest sister, or the father is forced to promise to give the first to meet at home, this is the eldest daughter; then the robber consistently takes other daughters; forbids the wife enter a specific room with an object that indicates a violation; the wife opens the door, where the bodies of previous victims are broken or covered in blood, the husband kills the wife and throws it into that room the room; the youngest manages to stay unexposed (she does not bring the object into the room); she revives or heals her sisters or the wounded prince; exposed, sends a signal to her brothers, they are quick; either the wife puts the sisters in a bag, tells her to take it to her parents without looking inside; she stands by the window, he sees her looking around; then puts the doll out by the window, sits in the bag herself, or runs away with prince, hiding in a cart under straw; the robber hides in the couple's room; the wife asks to leave a lion (or a soldier at the door) under the bed; the lion kills the robber]: Cardigos 2005, No. 312:67; ( cf. Goa (text written in Portuguese, no Indian parallels are given) [only the youngest of the king's three daughters is awake, cuts off the rope that the thief climbs through the window; next time she cuts him off hand; the thief pretends to be a prince, gets an older princess as a wife, then an average princess, tells them to cook broth, kills (there are many dead in the house); the youngest gives broth to the sick, takes them away, goes beyond the real prince; the thief tells the servants to put themselves in a bottle, send them under the guise of wine; the younger princess tells them to keep the bottle in boiling water; when it is opened, the thief is dead]: Davidson, Phelps 1937, No. 9:32-33); Basques [The poor shoemaker has three daughters; someone gives him a lot of money, marries his eldest daughter; when she leaves, leaves the keys, does not tell him to unlock one room; she unlocks, there are bones, she drops the key; confesses to a returning husband who has violated the ban; he puts her in the basement, feeds her with a human; the same with her middle daughter; the youngest takes a sword in the forbidden room; giving the keys, drops them, the husband bends down, she cuts off his head; frees his sisters and the captive prince; marries a prince, sisters and father live in the villain's castle; there is also a version that coincides with classic French]: Webster 1879:173-176; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 19 [the mother has three daughters; the eldest goes to look for a better life, comes to a rich house, the owner hires her; when she leaves, she allows her to enter all rooms except one; gives a golden ball; she opens the door, there are screams, she bends down, sees that this is hell, which means that the owner is the devil; the ball falls out and falls; when she returns, the owner demands the ball; throws the girl into the abyss in that room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest leaves the ball in the closet, shows it to the returning owner; after two or three years, the youngest asks the devil to take the gift to her mother; pulls out the middle hand Sister, puts it in a box; if the devil wants to open it on the way, I must say: I can see everything! After another two or three years, the youngest sent her older sister home in the same way; to transport herself, the youngest made a doll, left it in sight; realizing the deception, the devil came to the sisters' house, but they they put crosses around and sprinkled everything with holy water; but the devil blew, the facade of the house collapsed, but it was never possible to repair it], 25 [the master marries the girl, takes her away, nothing is heard about her; takes her sister; when she leaves, she goes down to the cellar; there is meat in front of the donkey, straw in front of the dog; the girl shifts; hears her grandmother's voice from hell: don't do it! the girl shifted it as it was; the grandmother tells me to find the room in which the other sister is locked; the girl finds it, promises to make a box, put it locked there and send it home; teaches her sister to say, "I see everything!" , if the husband wants to see what is in the box on the way; the grandmother sticks her hand out of hell, gives soap, glass, a razor, tells me to run; the girl runs away, throws objects, two slippery mountains appear, and the last with sharp edges, the stalker stops chasing; the girl ran to her parents]: 40-43, 56-58; Italians (Piedmont, Ticino, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Rome, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata), Sardinians: Cirese, Serafini 1975, No. 311:60; Sardinians [the poor shepherd has three daughters; the sheep is missing; the master (not explicitly stated that it is the devil) returns the sheep in exchange for a promise to give one of his daughters for him; in his palace shows the bodies of previous wives killed because of disobedience; after killing his wife, asks the shepherd for a second daughter; the third stains his hands with ash; revives the dead, in including a prince; learns that you can only kill an ogre by putting the bark of a certain tree in his ear; the prince pulls it out and kills a sleeping ogre; they revive murdered girls]: Aprile 2000:203-204; Italians : Crane 1885, No. 16 (Veneto) [=Widter et al. 1866, No. 11:148-151; the devil decided to marry, turned into a handsome man, created a rich house, married a girl; allows you to go everywhere, but not unlock one the room; the wife opened, there was a fiery abyss, the fire scorched the flowers on the woman's chest; when she saw them, her husband threw her into hell; the same with her middle sister; the youngest had previously removed the flowers, pulled out the sisters; seeing the flowers are unburned, the husband believes that the wife is obedient; she asks her parents to take three chests, not to look into them on the way; sends one sister, the other, home; when the devil is about to sit, sitting in the chest says that she sees everything; when the younger sister sits down by herself, she first puts the doll in her clothes on the balcony; when she returns, the devil finds a doll and an empty jewelry box; runs to wives' parents; wives laugh at him while standing on the balcony, the devil leaves]: 78-81; Gubernatis 1872 (Piedmont) [the widow has three daughters; the signor passes by, takes the eldest as his wife; this is the chieftain of the robbers; he commands the time of his absence to take care of the puppy; gives keys, forbiding him to enter two rooms; the girl does not feed the puppy; enters rooms, one has severed heads, the other has ears and tongues; the chieftain returns , the dog tells him everything, he cuts off his wife's head; the same with the middle sister; the youngest is affectionate with the dog, feeds it, the dog and its owner are happy; while the dog is in the garden, the girl enters the forbidden rooms, finds in the second of them an ointment to grow dicks and revive the dead; after reviving the sisters, she hides each in a large jug and asks her husband to take them as a gift to her parents; forbids looking inside - will see; the chieftain is about to look in, but hears a double whisper, frightened; at this time the wife cooked the dog in boiling oil; among the lively was Carlino, the son of the French king, they got married; chieftain comes to Paris, bribes the maid to put sleeping pills on the pillows of the prince and servants, hides in a golden pillar that he ordered to leave in front of the palace; the chieftain is going to cook the prince's wife in oil; she grabbed her husband, his head is no longer on the pillow, he woke up; the chieftain was burned alive]: 35-36; Calvino 1980, No. 8 (Piedmont) [the laundress widow has three daughters exhausted from work; the eldest is ready to hire at least a devil; a gentleman with a silver nose arrives; the mother is in doubt, but the eldest daughter is ready to go with him; in his house he gives the keys to all rooms, forbids entering one of them; at night he quietly sticks a rose into the girl's hair; when she unlocks the forbidden door, hell behind her, the flame burned the rose; when she returned, Silver Nose pushed the girl to hell; the same with her middle sister (Silver Nose explained that one maid can't do all the work; stuck a clove in her hair); younger Lucia noticed jasmine in her hair, put it in the water, it was not scorched; before Silver Nose arrived, she stuck it again him in her hair; asked her mother to take a bag of laundry; warned that she saw far away - let Silver Nose not sit down to rest on the way; instead of laundry, L. put her older sister in a bag; when Silver Nose intends to look into the bag, the sister says "I see, I see" instead of L.; L. sent her middle sister in the same way; then she made a doll in her own likeness, said she was ill, and sat in bag, also taking money; when all the sisters returned, they put a cross in front of the house and the devil did not come again]: 26-30; Keller 1981 (Ticino) [Philomene's hairdresser comes to Philomene's hairdresser every 8 days Giovanni; does not say where she lives, brings gifts; she agrees to come to him; the Madonna in the chapel tells me to turn back; next time she allows him to go; F. enters the castle, hides in the hall under the table; J. comes in with a beautiful woman, kills her, cuts her to pieces; his finger rolls under the table; F. takes off his ring; returns home; the guests are going to the wedding; F. talks about what he saw, J. is thrown into prison ; this is how the world was freed from the monster]: 233-235; the Sicilians [the lumberjack has three daughters, the youngest Maruzza; he sighs, Oh, my! , Ohmy appears, offers to give him his daughter as an assistant and wife; the eldest comes; O. shows her the corpses of women who have violated orders; leaves, ordering him to eat the hand of the deceased during this time; the girl throws away her outside the window; O. asks, the hand answers that she is here; O. kills the girl, gets the middle sister; the same with her; the mother's spirit teaches M. to burn his hand, collect the ashes in a bag, attach it to her belt; O. thinks that the hand answers from M.'s abdomen; shows the ointment to revive the dead; tells me not to go into the same room; she finds a young man in her body with a dagger in his body, revives him, he is a prince; they agree that she will kill him again and in this time finds out how to kill O.; O. says that if you break off this twig and put it in his ear, he will fall asleep; M. put him to sleep, revived everyone, everyone came back, she married that prince; a few years later the twigs rotted, O. woke up, found M., made a silver statue, ordered it to be worn, played musical instruments inside; the statue was brought to the palace; O. went out, put everyone to sleep except M., and began to boil cook it; the potion bottle fell, everyone woke up, O. cooked it in oil]: Gonzenbach 2004a [1870], No. 44:287-294; frets: Decurtins, Brunold-Bigler 2002, No. 86 [the gentleman married the eldest daughter of the miller; gave an egg and a key, told me to look at all the rooms except one; the girl also unlocked her, there was a man on hooks; she dropped the egg, the blood could not be washed off, her husband killed her; the same with the middle sister; the youngest hid the egg in the drawer; her husband praised her for her obedience; when he fell asleep, she cut off his head with a sword and returned to his parents]: 231-232; Uffer 1973, No. 40 [the peasant's daughter Greta and Cilgia; in the spring, G. is the first to go to herd cows; the father warns not to turn left along the path, where you will fall into the hands of a wild man; G. {obviously, turning left} meets a man in a pointed hat; he makes her go with him, opens the door in the rock; there workers greet him, calling him "Gian Pitschen (GP) with a pointed hat"; he has a lot of treasures; he gives G. a gold-plated needle, forbids him to unlock one of the rooms; G. must make coffee every day; once she opened the door, there are the remains of women, she dropped a needle, not can wash off blood stains; the GP pushes her into the same room, locks the door; Cilgia goes to look for her sister; the old man tells her to greet the little man with the words his employees do; in the monastery, GP S. does not cry, but she pretends to be happy, the GP is happy with her; she first hides the needle, then opens the door, feeds her sister; pretends to be afraid for her parents - they are starving; the GP tells me to pack a bag of provisions, promises carry; S. puts his sister in a bag, teaches him and says, "I see!" as soon as the GP wants to open the bag; he is told he will look after him from the balcony; if he drops the bag, she will throw himself into the water; S. hung her red dress on the stake for the GP to see and think that she was watching him; when the GP was completely tired and threw the bag, he saw a red dress in the water {its reflection?} , rushed to grab him, slipped into the water, S. and GP officers killed him with stones; old man: since everyone got rid of the GP thanks to S., she should get rid of his treasures; sisters and their parents moved to live in GP Palace {the informant must have forgotten that this dwelling is inside a cliff}]: 179-187; the Maltese [gentleman marries and takes the shoemaker's eldest daughter; takes him across the wasteland to a luxurious palace; says that he is the chieftain of robbers; the wife should not enter one of the rooms and must immediately unlock the door for him when he returns; the wife fell asleep, he broke the door and cut off her head; the same with the second daughter; the youngest pretends to like everything on the way; unlocks the forbidden room, that charming prince; he takes the girl to his father and marries him; the robber ordered a golden eagle figure, sold to the king, he climbed inside himself, the king left the eagle in his son's bedroom; the prince's wife heard a rustle, the guards were called, the robber was hanged]: Stumme 1904, No. 6:22-25.

Western Europe. Germans (Harz) [the eldest daughter took her father to the forest lunch; came across a wire with rings on it; a gray man jumped out of the cave, took the girl to him; forbid opening one room; she violated the ban, the little man just came up and killed her; the same with three other sisters; the fifth placed the corpses as if everyone was doing something (sweeping, washing, cooking, etc.); she plunged into a yulchka with honey and lying in feathers; ran home; to meet a little man who went to invite guests to the wedding; asks the bird what his fiancée is doing; the "bird" answers what he is cleaning and cooking; at home The little man believes that in every room in front of him the bride is at work; when he realized the deception, he chased the fugitive, but she managed to run to his father's house]: Pröhle 1854, No. 7:26-29; Germans (Baden- Württemberg): Hubrich-Messow 1988, No. 4 (Swabia) [=Meier 1852a, No. 63:224-230; an unfamiliar hunter comes to the miller, marries one of his daughters; gives his wife a key and an egg, tells him not to open the door to the cellar, followed by bears and wolves; she opens - there are skulls and blood, she drops an egg, cannot show her husband, he cuts off her head, throws it into the cellar; the same with her second sister; with the third - but the egg is not crashed; she and her husband visit her parents, leave a gift chest with the heads of her older sisters in it; returns to her husband's castle, and then runs away; asks the coachman to hide it; only the third agrees; the husband and his robbers search the coachman, but did not open the last bag and left; the girl returned to her parents], 5 [the robber has accounts with the miller, he decided to kill his 12 daughters; each takes turns marrying ; stops with her under a huge spruce tree, asks her to look in his head, while weaving a rope out of willow bast; the 12th sister felt that blood had dripped on her, looked up, saw hanged sisters; asked the robber for permission to fulfill her three wishes; called for help to Jesus, the Mother of God and her brother; the brother rushed and many hunting dogs with him, they killed the robber]: 13-14, 15; Germans (Swabia) []: Meier 1852a, No. 38:134-137; Germans (Schleswig-Holstein, Austria), Dutch, Flemish, Friesians, Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 312 : 193; French (Gascony) [Bluebeard is married seven times, wives disappear; kidnaps a girl; the shepherdess says that if necessary, she will send her talking jay to call for help from his new wife's brothers; when leaving, the SB gives his wife the keys, does not tell her to unlock the closet; she opens it, there are seven female corpses hanging on seven hooks; the key is in blood, do not wash it off; the key says that the owner will return in 7 days; the shepherdess sends jay; while the SB sharpens the knife, the shepherdess from the tower talks about the approach of the woman's brothers; the brothers kill the SB and his three terrible dogs; the younger brother marries a shepherdess, receives the SB castle]: Lopyreva 1959, No. 41 : 177-181; Bretons (Lower Brittany) [the widow king of Vannes has a daughter Tryphina; Count Comorre demands her as his wife, wants to go to war; St. Veltas persuaded him to agree, gave a white ring, it will report about trouble; K. already had 4 wives, he poisoned them, hung them, burned them, killed them with a stick; at first everything is fine; then T. tells her husband that he will give birth soon; he looks at her angrily; in the chapel, 4 murdered wives get up from their coffins, report on the prophecy: K. will be killed by his son; they give T. the weapons of their murder: poison to poison a guard dog, climb a rope over a wall, fire to illuminate the road, a stick to serve as a staff; in a forest hut T T . sees a magpie in a cage; when K. comes there, the magpie repeats "poor T."; K. finds a trail again; T. runs on, manages to give birth and hide a child in the hollow; her father's falcon arrives, she gives him the blackened ring tells everything; the falcon flies to the king, he sends people; K. cuts off T.'s head, but does not notice the baby; St. Veltas tells the victim to stand up, carry her head and child; at the walls of the castle there is a baby (the future St. Trever) gets up and utters a spell; the castle collapsed, K. died, T. came to life]: Soupault 1959, No. 16:192-201; Scots (recorded in 1859) [the widow has three daughters; a gray horse comes to the garden to eat cabbage; the eldest daughter goes to guard; hit the horse with a spoke from the wheel, stuck to it, he led her to the hill, told her to open it to the royal son; in the morning the prince left her keys, told her not to unlock one room; she unlocked , there are women's bodies, she stained her leg in blood; the cat asked for milk, promised to clean her leg, but the girl drove her away; the prince came back, saw blood, cut off the girl's head, threw it into that room; the same middle sister; the youngest gave milk to the cat, she licked the blood; the next day she ordered the girl to ask the prince to take three chests to her mother; they should not be opened - she would see them from the tree; let the girl will revive her sisters with a magic club, each will sit in her own chest, take silver and gold; the prince will rush, he must cut off his head, the spell will crumble, he will marry the girl; that's what happened]: Campbell 1890 (2), No. 41:279-284; English: Gerish 1896 (Norfolk) [the poor man has three daughters; the eldest goes to seek fate; shares a cake with an old man who sends her to a house with a green door; old woman takes her as a servant, forbids her to look into the chimney and at the clock; in the morning, the hostess's daughter arrives on a cat, tells her to cook a sandwich; the girl asks to wait for her to wash the hearth; the old woman cuts her off the head, hides in the chimney, the body in the clock; the same with the second sister; the youngest immediately rushes to make a sandwich; when the housewives leave on black cats, the girl finds and carries the remains of her sisters, ordering the bushes gooseberries delay the chase; the bushes do not respond to the witches, they cut them down; one said that the girl ran across the river; the witches rushed into the river, drowned]: 414-415; Kharitonov 2008 [Mr. Fox offers the lady's hand Mary, she must come to his castle in the woods; there she sees the corpses of young women, hides; F. brings the girl, cuts off her hand to remove the diamond, her hand falls into the barrel where M. hides; she comes running home, where the wedding ceremony is to take place; tells everything, shows her severed hand; her brothers kill F.]: 265-268.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the lumberjack has three daughters; stranger Abu Freywar asked for his eldest wife; cut off his ears and invited the girl to eat them with a piece of stale bread; she refused; he hung her by hair to the cave vault, and the cave turned into a palace; AF asked the second daughter, who promised to eat her ears, but hid it under the carpet; AF asked her ears if they were warm, her ears answered from under the carpet that they were cold; the middle sister is hanged next to the eldest; the youngest Zerendak took a kitten and a box with her jewelry; let the kitten eat her ears, her ears say they are warm; AF fell in love with Z.; when she left, does not tell unlock the door to the fortieth room; while unlocking the 39th, Z. saw through the window how AF was devouring corpses in the cemetery; unlocked the 40th, freed the sisters, sent them home; AF invited Z. to invite various relatives , taking their guise; Z. did not let it slip, but when her grandmother came, she told her everything; her grandmother became AF, who pierced Z. with his claw, threw it in the chest into the sea; the prince caught the chest; accidentally finding poisonous claw, pulled it out, Z. came to life, the prince married her; she successively gives birth to three children; each time she raises AF and swallows them, maybe Z.'s mouth is speechless in horror; then makes excuses, but they don't believe her; imprisoned, the prince marries his new wife, but asks Z. what to bring her; she asks for a box of aloe (sabr; omonym - patience), a box of henna (also "tenderness"), a dagger; After receiving the gifts, Z. says that aloe and henna do not have as much patience and tenderness as she does; when she wants to stab herself, AF appears, brings missing children, kills himself with a dagger; the children have come to the prince they named him father, everything was clarified, and the new bride was returned to her father with gifts]: Hanauer 2009:201-206; (cf. Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 19 [the vizier's daughter marries the king's son; the old woman gives her glass bracelets, at night they open the door to the newlyweds, the old woman says the young woman that her father is dead, leads her to the guley cave, they eat it; the same with the daughter of another vizier; she gives the daughter of the third lemon; she tells her husband, who stabs a knife into the lemon; takes it out, secretly watches the old woman with the guards, she has donkey legs; Ghulas kill, take gold and clothes eaten by women]: 175-179); Palestinians [the king's eldest sons Ahmed and Mohammed and younger Khalil; the king wants them to marry; sons go on a journey ; on the way, H. kills a monster and a seven-headed snake; H. sees a beautiful woman on the roof from a distance; comes to town; this is the youngest of the king's three daughters; H. kills four guards, enters the princess's chambers and kisses her ; confesses to the king that it was he who killed the monsters and kissed his daughter; the vizier advises to agree to give his daughters to the princes, but for the youngest let H. get a crown of gems from the jeweler Mahmud; H. comes to the green plain, there is a tree, he kills a snake that is going to devour the eagle's chicks; the eagle brings it to M.; this is the brother of the monster and the seven-headed snake, but 40 times stronger; I agree to give a crown if H. gets it Aika is the daughter of the sorceress Lahhuj; the eagle flew to A.; she turned her into stone, and H. bewitched her half; but she felt sorry and disgraced both; asked her to be released from L.; they run, taking them with them the castle, L. pursues; A. created the sea behind her, L. drank it; the glass mountain - L. cut; the mountain of fire - extinguished; A. gave H. a fiery sword, with which he killed L.; they flew to M., H. and killed him, took everything necklaces; now the king asks to cross the sea; the eagle turned into a horse and H. rode the sea as if by land; got a princess; after the wedding, everyone said goodbye to the king, but X. did not, because of this the wife cries; X . returned to say goodbye, while the Jew took his wife away; H. went in search; the shepherd became his companion; they killed the camel, H. climbed into his skin and the Jew believed that the shepherd had a camel; the shepherd lured a Jew from home; at this time, H. learned from a girl kidnapped by a Jew {not his wife} that a Jew's life was outside his body; asked him to find out where; first he said he was wearing a broom; the girl began to take care of her; Jew: no, his soul is in the claw of a lion; H. killed a lion, there was a box in his paw, a bird in it; the girl asked for a bird to be given to her; began to tear it up, tearing off the Jew's arms first, then his legs and then his head; H. returned to father {apparently with three wives} and he handed him the throne]: Littmann 2016:5-26; Lebanese Arabs [poor woman sells yarn at the bazaar; a respectable man asks her for a daughter; brings a girl to him, there maid; he gives both a pea a day to feed; gives a copper coin to go to the bathhouse and tells them to bring more change; the bathhouse attendant kicked her out and took away her towel; the husband hung his wife by the legs and she died; then but with her second sister; the third prepared food in advance; began to fish for coins from her husband's treasury; says that half a pea, half a coin is enough, the husband is happy with his wife; he calls guests, buys a bird from the boy and tells his wife to cook meat for everyone; the wife bought the meat herself, the boilers are boiling; her husband's heart burst in anger; all his wealth went to his wife, she moved her mother to his house]: 315-318.

Melanesia. Keva [an old man comes to his brother and sister, wants a girl to marry; brother cuts a pig, gives most of the meat to his sister with him; on the way, the old man says he will go for a drink, returns to his brother girls, kills and dismembers him; sister knows everything; the old man tells her to follow the path, she falls into a hole; there are already many women, dead and still alive; brother had a feeling of everything, gave it to his sister an ax, seeds, hot coals; a sister feeds women pork, makes a fire, plants sweet potatoes; women make stairs from tree trunks; a young man on the ground hears voices, helps them get out; women hit the old man is pushed into the fire with sticks; they turn into leaves used for cooking]: LeRoy 1985, No. 69:210-212; (cf. Vedau [a man has five wives; on the site he asks one to clean and bake a tarot; the Wagtail screams that she is cleaning the tarot that she will eat with her; the husband explains that he will eat tarot, not hers; When the tarot is baked, the husband cuts off the wife's head, eats the wife along with the tarot; so sequentially with four wives; the fifth warns the son and daughter that when her husband kills her, her liver will return to the house, hides in the leaves on the roof, will help; the children put their mother's liver in a wooden box, run away; seeing the father's pursuer from the hill, they ask the hill to fall on him; he gets out; the same with the second hill; the third is the mountain, the pursuer is forever buried; a boar rushes at the children, they hide in a tree; at night, the sister offers to go down and run away; the brother suggests waiting for the pre-dawn birds; waiting the children go down, the boar woke up, killed them; this is how the mother saved the children from the ogre, but not from the wild boar]: Ker 1910:45-52).

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans [three Rakshasa brothers took the form of heroes, came to marry the eldest girl; her mother demands to guess her name (the Flower of Paradise); demons ask for a hare, then a fox; the hare forgot ( Paradise Apple?) , fox - too (Paradise Fish?) ; the magpie gave the right name, the demons took the girl away; torment her with work; when they leave, they do not tell her to open one door; she opened, there are human bones; the mother's apron tells her to wear it, sit on a white horse and ride away; hired the palace to carry brushwood and water, looked like an old woman in an apron; the shepherd told the prince about the beauty who was combing her hair by the river; the prince found her, married her; left on business, the wife gave birth to boys, three Rakshasa changed the letter: a creature with a bull's head was born; they changed the answer: the wife pick up the freak and leave; the horse brought her to the desert, ordered him to be killed, his skin spread, the bones on the middle of the skin, hooves on the sides, scatter the mane; the RC woke up in the palace, around the garden; the prince accidentally arrived there, the spouses are happy; the Rakshasa appeared under the guise of merchants, bringing poison; the RC of one I recognized them by the scar, they were pushed into a hole, covered with a stove]: Komissarov 1997:91-99; Tibetans (Ham) [the cow with horns from its shells is gone; the older sister goes looking for her, meets an old woman, she invites her to for herself, gives her food; the girl does not understand what a person is eating; the same with her middle sister; the youngest notices that the old woman's house does not look residential; she smells strange, does not eat; the dog promises to tell you everything if the girl feeds her; the girl feeds her, the dog says that the cow and older sisters are in the room behind an iron bolt, tells the old woman to be killed; the girl cuts off the old woman's head, cannot open the bolt; the dog takes the key out of the old woman's pocket, the girl brings her sisters and the old woman home, the dog is with them]: Hyde-Chambers, Hyde-Chambers 1981:104-106.

South Asia. Oriya (dombo) [the weaver was weaving on the veranda, a storm hit, he called his seven daughters to help carry the machine into the house, but none came out; then he promised to marry them first, a tiger, a snake, a robber; the tiger heard and appeared as a man; sat down to weave, the father admires his skill, gave his eldest daughter; along the way, the birds warn of danger and do not tell me to go, but the tiger explains that they are always they scream so; in the lair he tears off the girl's clothes and jewelry, breaks her arms and legs, throws her into the corner; comes to her father-in-law, says that the wife has hurt her leg, asks the other two daughters to help her sister; kills them too; comes again, says they are sick, gets two more; then her sixth sister; the seventh is smart, demands that she be given a horse and hides her sword under her clothes; when the tigers gather, she is alone killed, others ran away; collected the sisters' clothes and jewelry, brought it to her father; people dug a trap hole, put it at the bottom of the stake; the girl said to the tiger who came, who again took the image of a human being, that she agreed go with him, lured him into a trap, he died]: Tauscher 1959, No. 2:17-20; kuruba [the demon settled near the village; came to a woman with 7 daughters; tells him to marry the eldest, otherwise he will eat everyone; took away, ate the girl, hung her head on a tree; came again: the wife is pregnant, she needs an assistant; so under various pretexts he received and killed 6 girls; the seventh noticed the heads hanging on the tree, ran away, I returned home, prepared an ax; when the demon came, offered to stick her head in and cut it off; all is well]: Kapp 1982:263-264.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Varope [Munggonimamei kills his wife, hides it in mangroves; the same with the following; the last youngest Witosi left the louse responsible for herself, hid in the calebass; people swam, picked it up, but threw it away, for Calebas stank; Sanadi Khari and his younger brother Sembori picked her up, saw a woman; quarreled, fought over her, turned into stones]: Held 1956, No. 60:107-109.

The Balkans. Serbs [the couple has three daughters; the devil married the eldest; ordered not to go into the 12th room; the girl opened hell there, she dropped the golden apple given to her, it rolled away; the hell pushed her into hell; I came for my second sister - the wife misses; the same with her; the youngest tied an apple in her apron, showed the line intact; hid her older sister in the basket, asked the devil to take the gift home; when the hell wants to look into the basket, the girl sitting in it says, "I see, I see!" ; hell believes that it was his wife looking from afar; hell left the basket with the girls' parents; the same with his second sister; the youngest made a scarecrow, put her clothes on it; hell took it; when he came back, pushed a scarecrow, realized that it was carried out]: Tesic 2017:22-25; Romanians: Uther 2004 (1), No. 312:193; Bulgarians: Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 311C [cannibal (vampire, snake, damn, arap) takes in the wife is the eldest of three sisters; or an arap (giant) named Oh takes the eldest of the sisters; tells her to eat raw meat (human), she hides the meat, it responds to the voice of the ogre - it is not in the girl's stomach; the cannibal kills her; the same with her middle sister; the third sister feeds the bird with cherries, which advises what to do; in the ogre's house, the girl gives meat to the cat (or carves a heart, a cross on a piece of meat), meat replies that it is warm; the girl unlocks the forbidden room, there are her murdered sisters, treasures, chest; she hides in the chest, the cannibal sells it to the prince; he finds a girl in it, marries it]: 109-110; Klyagina-Kondratyeva 1951 [the widower sat down and sighed, Oh! a toothy head leaned out of the well; asks to bring one of her daughters; in her palace she feeds human beings, the girl throws meat under the table, the vestibule (plucked tool) answers Okha, where is the meat, that locks the girl for fattening; Oh tells the old man that he married his daughter to a rich man, he brings the middle one, the same with her; the youngest picks up the kitten, takes it with her, keeps it in his bosom, he eats all the meat the vestibule replies that the meat is under his heart; Oh falls asleep, the girl leaves the kitten with him, takes off the key from his neck, unlocks the door leading to the rooms where the slaves work; they say her sisters are outside the door with another key; the girl brings another, but this door key to the outside; the slaves run away, one advises to hide in a lantern; yunak buys it, keeps it in the kitchen; at night she goes out, sprinkles salt into the pots; yunak carries the lantern to her, the girl appears, the yunak promises to marry her when she returns from the war; the princess, whom the Yunak rejected, finds out about her; tells her to dazzle, take her to the forest; the old woman returned her herbal vision; the returning yunak is ill with grief; everyone brings him cooked meals; when that old woman brings him, he finds the ring given to the girl in it, recovers, finds a girl, she asks free the sisters; he hits Okha on the neck with a sword, the saber breaks; the trees come to the rescue, kill Okha (they are grateful that the Yunak did not burn the forest into which the king fled); the yunak unlocks the dungeon, brings out sisters of the bride; wedding]: 14-25; Croats: Uther 2004 (1), No. 311:191-192; Slovenes [the devil was a count, got an eldest daughter; gave his wife a golden apple, told him not to enter the 12th room; she I went in, the apple went to hell, the devil pushed his wife in the same place; got the middle daughter (the same); the youngest tied an apple in her apron before opening the door; once she brought one sister from hell in the basket, told The line is to take the gift to her parents, do not open it, otherwise she will be behind her back, screams, I see! Damn brought the basket to the girls' parents' house; the same with the second sister; the third time Devil's wife made her stuffed animal out of straw, sat down in the basket herself, shouting what she saw on the way; when she returned, the devil found scarecrow]: Arkhipova 1962:218-220; Moldovans [Laur-Balaur turns into an old woman, gives the elder princess an apple, it rolls, the princess runs after him, trying to grab him; refuses to drink at the well a bird that comes to the black kingdom; the forehead forbids entering the same room; it enters, frees chained prisoners; the LB sees an apple plunged into blood, cuts the princess into pieces; the same with the middle princess; marrying the youngest, LB pretends to be great; drives past the well, she tells her to stop, gives water to the bird; she tells her to ask her husband for a golden apple; the wife finds the corpses of her sisters, prevents the apple from plunging into the blood ; sees where the jug of live water is, when the forehead grows its severed fingers; revives the sisters; tells the LB to take the bag of gifts to parents, puts the older sister, then the middle sister there, takes it from the forehead a promise not to look inside; when the forehead wants to open the bag, the princess from the chest says in his wife's voice that she sees him keep his promise; the third time she leaves a wax doll instead of herself, LB takes it wife to her parents; LB comes running, killed, thrown into the sea]: Botezatu 1982:257-265; Greeks: Dawkins 1916 [the woman has three daughters, they saw a cat, the eldest ran after him, ended up in a place where are 6 houses; the cat forbids to unlock the sixth; she unlocks, there is blood on her finger, {the owner kills her}; the same with the second sister; the youngest unlocks, puts the sisters' heads to the body, the sisters come to life; the girl promises the cat to marry him, but first asks her to take a chest of gifts to her parents, puts her older sister in the chest; then the middle sister; every time the cat wants to open the chest, the girl from the chest does not tell her; the cat believes that it is the younger sister who sees everything from afar; the third time the youngest sits in the chest herself; disguised as a herb seller, the cat came to that house and made his way inside through the chimney; the sisters poured peas, The man who made his way fell, one sister hit him with an ax, but her head grabbed her hand; the doctor had to cut off his arm]: 391-395; Legrand 1881 []: 1-10; Rouse 1896, No. 3 (Lesbos) [the poor man has three daughters; he sees how 40 thieves open a rock, saying Ach Karakiz, close it, saying Kapka Karakiz; after the robbers leave, he enters the rock, takes jewelry from each pile; next time he takes the whole one a bunch; robbers leave one as a watchman, kill a man; one pretends to be a merchant, others sit in bags; an imaginary merchant comes to sell, that man's daughter pays with a diamond; finding out where there was a thief, an imaginary merchant stays in the house for the night; a girl burns bags of robbers and an intoxicated imaginary merchant in the oven; the sisters took all the treasures; the evil neighbor borrowed a sieve, smeared it with honey, to a gold coin stuck to him; the neighbor's husband went to the cave, the rock crushed him; the neighbor took a new one, the same with him; she lured the sisters' husbands, they took the treasures, went to her; the older sister met the devil left in the cave, ordered to eat the leg of an animal on which the meat had deteriorated; she hid the meat in ash, the meat responded to the devil, he turned the girl into a broom; the same with her second sister, she turned into a jug; the third takes a cat with her, the meat replies that it is in the stomach (without saying who); the devil is torn to pieces, the younger sister revives the elders; the sisters free suspended sinners, find three young men, take them as husbands; the youngest's husband agreed only to be engaged, took the girl to her parents, went ahead despite the warning, spoke to her mother, forgot the bride; she built a mansion that forgot I went there, she told the lion to tear him to pieces; the ruler acquitted her]: 155-159.

Central Europe. Slovaks [the beggar asks to spend the night; when he leaves, a golden apple rolls after him; the eldest daughter follows, enters his castle, the beggar becomes a man; tells him to cook the human head, sweep 12 rooms, don't go into the 13th; she doesn't drink three pigeons, goes into the room, there are corpses on the walls and two barrels, she sticks it in one finger, he falls off; the returning husband hangs it in the same room; the same with the middle sister; the youngest gives water to the pigeons, they explain what to do; the girl revives the sisters with live water, locks them in caskets, they fly to the girls' mother; she baked the doll herself in her likeness; husband came, ate it; the girl took the weed, flew home; hell came again, she touched him with that grass, it spread resin]: Bogatyrev 1955:153-159; Poles [two sisters sequentially they get to a monster that forbids them to enter a particular room; gives them an apple, an egg, an ornament, etc., and when girls break the ban, the appearance of these items will tell the monster the truth and kills offenders; the third younger sister also enters the forbidden room, but does not take the object with her; the monster takes her as his wife; she finds and revives her sisters; asks her husband to take her parents a chest with gifts, puts sisters in it; next time she sits down on her own and leaves the doll for herself]: Krzyżanowski 1962, No. 311:93-94; Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Olonetskaya, Ryazan, Voronezh), Ukrainians (Transcarpathia, Podolia), Belarusians [Bear (goblin, magician, robber) and three sisters: the elders violate the ban on entering a special room and die; the youngest revives them, hides them, that she visited this room makes the murderer take his sisters and then himself to his home in a bag (basket), forbiding him to watch "gifts for parents" (runs away, leaving a doll on the bed)]: SUS 1979, No. 311:111-112; Ukrainians (Kherson) [the elderly have three daughters; the grandfather asks to bring him lunch in the field, promises to cut a stick and throw chips on the way; the snake found out, put the chips on the path to his house; the snake tells me to eat dinner, the salted meat is human; in the morning the serpent gave the keys, forbade entering one room; she entered, there are dead people and blood vessels; she dropped the apple given by the snake, the blood from it was not wash it off; the serpent cut off her head, threw her into that room; next time the youngest daughter, the father sprinkles ash, the same; the middle daughter, the father sprinkles potatoes; she did not drop the apple, the snake believed that in the forbidden rooms she did not look; she caught a crow, forced her to bring living and dead water, revived her sisters, put them in a chest, told the snake to take the gift home; a few years later she gave birth to a half-human half-snake; the snake took the gold home; cut the child, threw it into the forbidden room, sat in the chest itself; the serpent returned - no wife]: Hawks 1894, No. 15:145-148.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [35 options; an old man comes to the forest, the wolf wants to kill him, he promises his daughter; the wolf gives her a golden apple and a silk shawl, forbids her to enter one of the rooms; she enters, an apple and the handkerchief falls, stained with blood; the wolf took her to the closet and stabbed her; got the old man's second daughter (the same); the third; she did not drop the apple and handkerchief, the sisters came to life; the third sister asks the wolf to bring the gift to her father, puts her first sister in the chest, the wolf took her; next time, the second; then she asked for a christening, made a scarecrow, put her clothes on her and hung her; she sat down in the chest, asking her again to take it to his father; the wolf decided that his wife hanged herself, began to beat; a scarecrow full of sand fell and killed the wolf]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 104:254-257; Latvians [devil in the form of a hare (cat), (sorcerer, bear) takes away (beret) as a wife, lures) three sisters. They must keep the egg (apple, key) and not enter the forbidden room. Two daughters break the ban, the hell cuts off their heads. The third one hides the egg well, finds the murdered sisters, revives them, puts them in a box and tells them to take the line to their parents. Then she climbs into the drawer by herself, and instead of herself she puts a doll on the bed (roof). As soon as the hell stops and wants to see what's in the box, his daughter supposedly from home yells to him to hurry up. This is how the hell takes all daughters home]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 311:273-274; Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 27 (Hargla) [master takes his wife; when leaving, does not tell you to touch an inverted plate; wife raises the plate, the mouse jumps out; the husband returns, sees that the mouse has run away, drags his wife by the hair to a special room; at this time, the mother feels that something is wrong with her daughter, sends the coachman; he kills the woman's husband; they go into that room, there are 11 women's heads; she would be the twelfth; the coachman marries the rescued woman], 28 (Halyala) [there are three daughters in the house; one went to the barn, there is a golden egg, she she picked him up, a handsome man came out of the egg, ordered him to go with him; brought him to a castle in the forest; gave the keys, forbid him to unlock one room; the mouse persuades him to unlock it; there are decapitated bodies, blood; girl dropped the key; the returning husband found traces of blood on it, decapitated his wife, threw him into the same room; the same with her middle sister; the youngest did not drop the key; asked to visit her parents; the father made a solid box; when the husband came, became an egg, he was locked in a box, thrown into the blacksmith's furnace; he asks to be released, teaches him to wash the sisters' bodies with seven herbs; he is finished off, the box is thrown into the sea; sisters resurrected, the rest of the dead (they would have been resurrected from only nine herbs) were buried; sisters and parents began to live in the castle]: 119-120, 121-123; Mälk et al. 1967, No. 49 (Sangaste; mostly distributed in eastern Estonia) [when going to church, the landowner tells three daughters to cook; the eldest digs potatoes, sees a golden cat, runs after him, he turns into a German (saks), leads to her; tells him not open the last room; the wife opens, there is a chopping block, an ax, severed heads, decapitated bodies; she drops the key, the blood cannot be washed off, the husband decapitates her; the same in the second sister; the third hides does not drop the key in her pocket; the husband believes that she did not enter the room; replies that it is easy to kill with an ax, and revive by putting her head to her body and dripping blood from her little finger; the wife revives her sisters, hides in the bag of money that her husband pays her father for the bride leaves a straw scarecrow for himself; food is not ready for her husband to return, he cuts off the head of the scarecrow]: 111-113 (=Põder, Tanner 2000:31-35) ; set: Järv et al. 2009, No. 25 [the old woman has three daughters; the eldest goes to get firewood, there the red hare actually took her away, made her a wife, forbid her to open the door to one room; she opened, there are severed bodies; the husband tells him to look in his head, notices a bloody finger, cuts his wife to pieces, throws him into that room; the same with his middle sister; younger {it is not clear why the husband did not notice her bloody finger} sends her husband to take her mother a hotel; splices with dead water, revives the body of her older sister alive, tells the bag not to be untied, looks from the roof herself; the same with her middle sister; then sits down by herself, leaving a stupa on the roof, dressed in his clothes; the husband comes back, calls his wife, she does not move, he swallowed his stupa], 26 (Otepää) [the eldest daughter goes to take her father to the forest lunch, loses the road, comes to the old man, he marries her, tells her not to look into the big barrel; she looks, there is blood, she puts her finger in her, cannot clean it, the old man kills her; the same with her middle sister; the youngest sticks a chip; finds the sisters' bodies; sends her home under the guise of gifts, looks from the roof herself, tells her not to look into the bag; then leaves a mortar on the roof instead of herself, climbs into the bag herself; the old man calls his wife, she does not answer, he drags her furiously, a mortar falls on his head, kills him; the murdered sisters immediately come to life]: 113-115, 116-118; Normann, Tampere 1989 [three sisters strained their yarn, mother sends behind the frame for winding yarn; the bear locks the elder, then middle sister, in his hut; he also catches the youngest, takes them as wives; gives the keys to all rooms, does not tell them to enter the room with a red door; she finds her sisters in this room; asks the bear to give her parents a tub as a gift, does not tell her to look, puts her older sister inside; dogs rushed at the bear, he threw the tub outside the house the girl's parents, ran away; the same with her middle sister; the third time the youngest sits in the tub herself, leaves a stupa dressed in her clothes; the bear was almost killed, he came back, broke his stupa with a club, did not understand that this is not a girl]: 37-43; Karelians (northern) Onegin 2010, No. 15 (Kalevalsky district) [the father went to the forest, tells his wife to send his daughter to bring dinner; the old woman forgot to say that you should go on the right the road where the mitten was hung; the girl walked on the left, came to the bear, he killed her; the same with her second sister; with the third, but the bear took her as a bride; ordered her to go into two barns (there is food, goodness) and the third one did not go in; she went in, her sisters' bodies were hanging there, blood was dripping into the barrel, a ring was spinning in the barrel, there was no way to grab it; her finger was dirty in blood, could not be washed; she tied it up, told the bear that cut herself; asks to take the hotel to her father; revived her older sister, put it in a birch bark purse; when the bear came up, the dogs barked, he threw his purse, ran away; the same with the middle sister; the third time the girl put her foot on the roof of the hut, dressed her in women's clothes, a spinning wheel next to her; filled the chest with clothes and jewelry, sat in it herself; on the way, the bear thinks to open the chest and eat half; girl, as if from the roof of the hut, he shouts "I see, I see!" ; the bear ran home, hit the mortar, it rolled, he followed, crashed and died]: 168-171; Virtaranta 1971 in Kippar 2002 [the youngest ninth son of a wealthy peasant is cheerful and hardworking; his brothers are not they love, after the death of their father they are sent to live in the forest; he catches fish, hunts, brings skins to the merchant, who gives good money, the merchant's orphan marries a young man; they have two daughters and a youngest son; a husband prepares a distant field for burning; warns his wife to turn right at the fork; she has broken her leg, cannot carry food to her husband, sends her eldest daughter; at the fork on the left path, she sees an amazing bird; as if hit, but not given, takes the girl further; there is a giant forest master Osmo; he tells the girl to be a maid, otherwise she will cook; let her clean up eight rooms, do not go in in the ninth, otherwise she will go to the cellar to snakes, mice and toads; O. cooks for dinner and eats a whole moose; when she falls asleep, the girl enters the ninth room, there is a cauldron of resin boiling, there is a golden ring in it; she is in vain tries to pick it up; O. sees resin on his fingers, locks the girl in the cellar; the same with his youngest daughter (instead of a bird, she is lured by a fox; she tries to pick up the ring with her toe; O. looks first at hands, then on his feet); the mother sends her son; he sees an elk on the left path, jumps up on his back, the elk brings him to O.; he pulled out the ring with a stick, hung it around his neck; O. is satisfied, promises to pay generously, but so that the boy does not cover himself with the sign of the cross and turn to God; the boy asks the sisters to be returned; O. says that tomorrow he will eat them, the anniversary of Judas giving him a gold ring; boy asks him to show him; O. leads to the room, there is no ring; the boy says that he does not see well, tells him to bend down, covers himself with the sign of the cross and turns to God; O. falls into the cauldron, disappears; the boy frees his sisters, takes as much gold as he can carry, sends the sisters home, brings food to his father himself; says that O. still has a lot of money in his house; the father says that it is impossible to go there anymore: instead of O. a new one appears, a mother forest gives birth to it; now you have to run out of the forest, there is a rocky cape in your native village that the brothers do not need, you can build a house on it; the house is such that the king himself visited; a feast for everyone only the brothers were not invited]: 37-50; Karelians {but maybe the Finns} [the peasant bent over to the lake to drink water; the waterman grabbed his beard: give his eldest daughter; the peasant sends his daughter to the shore - as if forgot the yoke; the water took her away; forbids entering the extreme barn; she went in, there was a tub of blood; a golden ring; she picked it up, put it on her finger, it was covered in blood, not washed off; the water tells me to look for him in head; when the girl touched him with a bloody finger, he was burned; he killed her, threw her into a bloody barn; a peasant grabbed the boat, ordered him to give his second daughter; the father sends for the supposedly forgotten with an ax; the same with her; the father put on someone's bast shoes, they dragged him to the shore: give him the youngest daughter; the father asks me to go for bast shoes; the youngest found dishes with living and dead water, revived the sisters; sends water gifts for his father (older, then middle sister); when the girl from the chest does not tell you to look into the chest, the waterman believes that they are talking to him from the roof; then the younger one dresses her stupa in her clothes watery and took her to her parents; waterman accidentally drank dead water and died]: Konkka 1991:208-215; Eastern Sami: Kert 1961, No. 27 (Kilde dialect) [the bear married the eldest daughter; brought her mice, she did not cook, he strangled her, buried her, only her heels are visible; the same with the middle one; the youngest believes that her husband is hard-working (he trained a lot of mice), sprinkled the elder with live water, asked the bear to take it a gift from his mother; on the way he wanted to open the bag, the wife screams not to open it; the same with her middle sister; then dressed the stump in her clothes; said that if the bear returns from hunting and she was not there, let will carry the bag to her mother; when the bear returned, he spoke to his wife: "Eugenia, Eugenia!" ; she is silent; he hit one cheek - paw in half, on the other - paw in half; he sat down and began to roar]: 89-90; Volkov 1996 [Talushko (bear) married the eldest daughter of an old man and an old woman; on the second day, middle, then the youngest; replies to the youngest that her sisters have gone to visit; she finds the sisters under the barn, revives them; as the bear becomes angry, his legs and head fall off under the influence of his wife's spell]: 65; Yermolov 1959 [the old woman has three daughters; Tallo (the bear) married the eldest; the next day the middle; then the youngest; she asks where the sisters are; T.: went to visit; she found them dead under the barn, soaked them in three twigs in the well, revived the sisters with them; sewed the bag, put her older sister in it, tells T. to take gifts to her parents; if she tries to open the bag, she will see; when T. tried to untie the bag, from bag voice: I see far, I hear far; T. took the bag to his wife's parents; the same with his middle sister; the third time T.'s wife put her dress on a stone in the barn, climbed into the bag herself; when T. returned, he became call his wife; she is silent; he hit her, her paw bounced from hitting the stone; this is how his arms, legs and head bounced consistently]: 51-53; Norwegians [the troll comes to marry three sisters successively; forbids entering one of the rooms; two sisters disobeyed and killed; the third is obedient; finds a magic ointment, revives the sisters; sends them in a chest - supposedly gifts home; the troll believes that the wife sees from afar and does not look into the chest; then leaves a scarecrow instead of herself and gets home the same way as her sisters; the troll bursts]: Hodne 1984, No. 311:68-72; Icelanders [old people love the eldest daughters Signy and Asa, and the youngest Helga is tyranted by work; a handsome man married to S.; when he led him, he became a giant with three heads; brought him to the cave and locked him in the cellar, his hands tied and tied for hair; the same with Asa; and with H., but made her a maid; the giant took the key with him, but H. saw the sisters through the keyhole; tried to flatter the giant; he trusted her with the keys, but forbid her to unlock one the door; she unlocked and arranged for her sisters to send them home under the guise of a gift; put them in a bag, poured various foods on top; forbid them to look into the bag: she would see them from afar; stopped to see, alone the sisters sitting in the bag began to sing: I saw through the forest, the hills and my cave; H. herself smeared her face with charcoal and left a scarecrow at the table in her wedding dress; the giant did not recognize her, began to ask; she said that the bride was waiting for him; H. reached the house and the giant invited guests to his wedding; when they saw the deception, the giant and his guests fought and killed each other; people burned their bodies; H. married well, with her many children, and her sisters foolishly remained old maidens]: Poestion 1994, No. 2:10-21; Swedes [the girl ends up in the house of a demonic creature; she is either told to eat a human being there ( human leg), or it is forbidden to enter a specific room; the man responds from the cat's belly; the blood from the dropped key cannot be washed off; the owner kills the girl; the same with the middle sister; younger the cat helps; she finds an ointment to revive her sisters; sends them home in a chest as a gift and saves herself in the same way; sometimes she flies away in a feather dress, leaving a doll in bed]: Liungman 1961, No. 311:56-57; Veps: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 311:224; Livs: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 312:224

Volga - Perm. Kazan Tatars: Vasiliev 1924:56-59 in Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 312:224; Bashkirs [the merchant's eldest daughter asks for a scarf, the middle one asks for an unprecedented fruit, the youngest a cat; the merchant cannot find the fruit, the Sheikh gives his middle daughter to him as his wife; asks his wife to serve meat and eat with it, in the cauldron; the wife does not eat, hides it in her bosom, the Sheikh asks him to dance, meat falls out, he hangs his wife by the hair in room 41; the same with his older sister; the youngest feeds meat to the cat, dances, the Sheikh recognizes her as his wife, tells her not to look into the forbidden room; she unlocks it, frees the sisters; they take out a flying boat and precious stones from the chest, fly away; the prince marries the youngest, the vizier's elder sons; the prince's wife asks to build a tower, she is guarded by a lion and a tiger, wolf and bear; the sheikh put them to sleep, came to his wife; she hears a whisper: give your beloved, you will be saved! She pushes the Sheikh down the stairs, awakened animals kill him; a woman gives birth to a daughter, gives her to someone who does not understand; tells her traces to be gold and silver, laughter roses, crying to fire; this girl is her stepmother takes the prince as his wife, gives water in exchange for his eyes, pushes him into the sea, replaces her daughter; the prince is disappointed; an old man finds a blind man in the forest, she sends him to sell roses to the palace, he exchanges them from angry stepmother in front of a girl's eyes; prince marries her, stepmother's daughter tied to a horse's tail]: Barag 1989, No. 8:65-69; Mordovians, Udmurts, Komi: Kecskeméti, Paunonen 1974, No. 311: 224.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Adygi [being the last in the cemetery, the mullah eats the dead; buys and fattens the girl; she notices blood on her husband's arms and beard; he takes the form of her friend, finds out that his wife guesses that he is an ogre; promises to eat; the wife sits in a chest, swims along the river; the young man pulls him out; at night she secretly goes out, eats the food that his mother has prepared for the young man; on the third night he waits, grabs a girl, gets married, they have children; a mullah comes, bribes guard dogs with a ram's carcass, puts neighbors to sleep with intoxicating water, enters the house as a booger; a woman manages to break another a bottle of mullahs, everyone wakes up; the mullah is hung by the legs at the gate, everything is cut off piece by piece]: Maksimov 1937:45-63; Ossetians [Bear (wolf, sorcerer) and three sisters: older sisters die; the youngest makes the bear take his sisters and then herself to her home in a bag, forbiding him to look into the bag]: Sokaeva 2004, No. 311:20-21; taty [the merchant's eldest daughter asks for a dress from onion peel, the middle one is a mirror, the youngest is a fluffy cat; the merchant cannot find a dress; a young dervish promises to marry him; in his palace he asks his wife to get barbecue and wine; wife smells human, does not eat, pieces fall to the floor; the cannibal hangs it by the braids in the fortieth room; the middle sister comes for the elder - the same; the younger realizes that the dervish is an ogre, unnoticed feeds meat to a cat; the cannibal thinks he has got a suitable wife; when he leaves, he does not tell him to enter the fortieth room; she comes in, frees her sisters; tells the jeweler to make a chest on wheels with her sisters he goes to another padishah; shahzadeh marries the youngest, who orders to put a lion and a spider as guards; the other two sisters marry the son of a vizier and another nobleman; the cannibal put the lion and spider to sleep with meat with with a sleepy potion, grabbed his younger sister, but the lion and spider had already woken up, tore the cannibal]: Ganiyeva 2011b, No. 37:346-352; Armenians [the bear demanded three daughters from the old man one by one, gave each of them had raw meat, killed his wife for not eating raw meat, turned into a pig, a cow, a foal, came to the window of the girl who became the prince's wife, was killed by the prince, cut to pieces]: Gullakyan 1983:202; Turks (Ankara, Istanbul, Kars, Malatya; various options; see motif K118) [old man selling spindles (skewers, beads, broommaker, Jew pin seller) locks one of three sisters; either the poor, in need of money, sell their daughter to a sorcerer; or the padishah gives his daughter to a giant; or the father leaves and promises gifts to three daughters; a gift for the eldest succeeds buy only with the help of a dervish, to whom the father promises a daughter; or childless spouses want a daughter; they must throw all the peas into the sea, but forget one and the sorcerer finds the girl; or three sisters look for a chicken or cat and get to the giant; the old man offers the girl a human being; she does not eat, says she will eat his finger (ears, chest, hands, donkey tongue); the old man cut him off, but the girl's finger threw it away; the finger does not give a voice from the girl's belly, the old man kills her; the same with the second girl; the third feeds the cat's finger; the finger says he is in a warm stomach; or the girls should take care of the sorcerer's children (snakes) and only the youngest does not cry, but does what needs to be done; after that, the old man trusts the girl, but forbids her to enter room 21; she goes in, there is a young man hanging there; he advises to cut off the cannibal's hair, then he will fall asleep for 14 days; the girl hears a voice: remove the bottle from the young man's head; then he wakes up, kills the old man; or, when she enters the room, the girl sees there are corpses (an old man devouring them); an indelible drop of blood appears on the key; or the girl's finger turns gold; the girl sees the corpses of her sisters, revives them with a whip; putting the sisters in a bag or a chest, asks the old man to take the gift home; then she sits in the bag herself, the old man carries her too; or the girl is released by her brother, husband, prince; or she kills the old man herself when he falls asleep; or the sorcerer (der Böse) comes to the house of a girl who ran away from him as a horse or ram, as a midwife; puts everyone to sleep, but still thrown into the oven and burns; sometimes a sorcerer kills a girl's two children]: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 157:170-173; the Kurds [the dervish gives an apple to childless spouses three times, they have three daughters, the dervish himself gives a name to each: Basa, Havs, Kolilk; leaves live fish, tells them not to eat; the mother cooked fish for the girls, the dervish takes B., lets her eat raw meat, she throws away the piece, the meat answers the dervish that is in the dust; the dervish hangs B. upside down; asks to give H. to help sister, supposedly expecting a baby; everything repeats itself; the same with K., but she gives meat to the cat, the dervish likes it; he sleeps for 40 days, at which time K. finds and frees the sisters; they run away, marry three brothers, give birth; the dervish cut off the boys' heads, told the brothers that their wives did it; they told them to kill their wives, the servant leaves the women in the forest; one dove explains to another that a pen soaked in a spring is possible revive the dead; K. hears this, sisters revive their sons, live with them in a forest hut; brothers find them, cut the dervish into pieces]: Rudenko 1970, No. 55:197-202.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians (multiple records; Khorasan, Isfahan, Azerbaijan [a dervish marries three princesses successively]) [Namaki, the youngest of 7 sisters, forgets to lock one of the 7 doors for the night; enters divas, N. is forced to obey him, he takes her away in a bag; on the way she runs away, putting a stone in return; the diva finds her again and brings her home; lets N. eat the human ear and nose; she quietly finds them throws it away, but they answer the diva when he asks where they are; the diva puts N. in the basement; the same consistently with the other sisters; the latter feeds the cat's ear and nose, they respond to the wonder that they are in stomach; a girl finds wonderful objects in the diva's house, including a vessel with his soul; breaks it, the diva dies (or he falls into a hole with knives and fire); happy return home]: Marzolph 1984, No. 311A: 66-68; Baluchi [the old man went for brushwood, saw a jug, smashed it, from there buzlangi; tells him to give his daughter; the old man married his youngest; he took her away, ate her a day or two later; told the old man that his wife was ill, let him let the eldest take care of her; the eldest told her to be left on the roof of the house; filled her old shirt and pants with earth (a scarecrow), ran away herself, taking various items with her; buzdangi came back from hunting, pulled his wife by the edge of his shirt, the ground fell into his eyes; he went up to the roof, looked like a girl, ran after him; she threw a needle (lots of needles), a large bag needle (same buzlangi crossed again), salt (the whole earth is covered with salt, the buzlangi crossed again), poured water out of the fur, and put it on the sides on the millstone, a river formed; buzlangi: how did you cross? girl: tied a millstone to her back; tied the buzlangi, drowned; the girl came to live with an old woman; the prince saw the girl, married her]: Zarubin 1949, No. 8:64-67; Turkmens [the merchant promises to bring gifts for three daughters; the youngest wants beads, he is nowhere, he is advised to pick up beads in the diva's house behind Black Hill; the diva sprinkles beads into his hem, adds ash, she burns a hole; on this trail, divas finds a merchant's house; demands his eldest daughter as his wife; tells her to eat a human nose by her return; she gives it to the cat, the nose answers the diva from the cat's belly, the diva hangs his wife in the closet by the braids; the same with middle sister; the youngest asks where the diva's soul is, he gives her a bottle for storage; the girl does not throw her nose to the cat, but does not eat it either; breaks the bottle, frees the sisters; the beads were the tears of all former wives ]: Annanurova 1980:18-22; Uzbeks [the old woman's 7 daughters take turns locking 6 gates in the evening; youngest Namaki was afraid of the sound of a bucket turned upside down by the wind and did not lock the last gate properly; A diva came and took her away; she woke up in the palace, with a cat next to her; N. caressed her, the cat was a diva; he forbade her to enter two of the 7 rooms; when he fell asleep, N. stole the keys, unlocked the sixth room - in it half-dead girls; one says that in the seventh room a prince turned into a dog; we must remove the chain from her; N. unlocks the room, removes the chain, the dog becomes a prince, pulls out a vessel from the fountain with with a leech; tells the diva to cure the girls and send them home, and then presses the leech; the diva turns to ashes; N. married the prince]: Rogov 1980:218-222.

(Wed. Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols: Lörincz 1979 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 312:193 [deaf link, not found in Lörincz 1979]).

Western Siberia. Mansi: Rombandeeva 2005, No. 26 [husband and wife have three daughters; the old woman asks for her eldest to help make animal skins; along the way, the Katkas bird sings: your fur coat will lie under the pillow, bones under the bunk beds; the old woman says that she always screams like this; at home she pierced the girl with a stick, fried it, ate it; the same with her middle sister; the youngest does not ask the old woman why the bird screams so much; put it on a squirrel skin, ran away from the old woman's house with a squirrel to her parents; they tied one leg of the old woman to a calm horse, the other to an immense horse, tore it; they sent a mouse for living water, which was brought by her parents they revived their daughters from bones]: 245-249; Kannisto 1956 [the old man and the old woman have 4 daughters; the old man sent one to check the top; the top is empty, the girl saw a house made of twigs ("the house stands out of vitz"), went to warm up, there is an old man with his daughter; tells me not to go home, but to stay overnight; the girl lies down on the edge, the old daughter is against the wall; the old man goes underground, puts on loon boots, they creak; from the skin of a wolverine ; the wolf is the same; they do not creak from the bast; they approach quietly, pierces an iron pin into the girl's ear, tells her daughter that God sent meat; the same with the second, third sisters; the fourth night swapped places with the daughter of an old man, he killed his daughter; the girl went underground, found the bodies of her sisters, revived them; asks the old man to give her parents pies as a gift; puts her sisters in a bag, pies on top; the dogs rushed, the old man left the bag, ran away; asks his wife (the word that husband and wife call each other, but also girls or women) what was so heavy there; the girl says that she will send again in the morning gift; put the body of the old man's daughter on the floor, climbed into the bag, pies from above; the old man took the bag; when he returned, he called his daughter to eat, she was silent; he pushed her, she fell; he cried; the girl brought her father to that house, the father called out to the old man, he looked out, his father killed him with a hammer]: 148-152; northern Khanty (b. Son) [The Board Cutter man goes home, someone grabbed him, picked him up; he had to promise to give his eldest daughter; at home he sent her to bring supposedly forgotten mittens, the man took her away; forbids entering one of barns; she came in, there was a barrel of human fat and women hanging on a pole by the braids; she put her hand in the barrel, her skin came off; the husband saw, broke his wife's spine, poured blood into a barrel of blood, hung her body by the braid; the same with the middle daughter; the youngest does not violate the ban; visits her father with her husband; then they leave, MMM cries, falls to the ground, falls into the water]: Steinitz 2014, No. 18:127-130 (cf. K56A motive).

(Wed. Amur-Sakhalin. The Udege people [The fox asks the Heron to marry his chick; eats him, says that the owner of the taiga (Bua) took his wife; gets a second chick; the Owl tells the Heron that the Fox deceives her; she attacks the Fox, he runs away, grabs Kingfisher; he asks the Fox to shout at the edge of the cliff: Bua, I'm eating your bird! Fox flies out of his teeth, Fox falls off a cliff, crashes]: Lebedeva 1998, No. 37:267-269).

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [The eagle takes five sisters to heaven one by one, feeds her well; the fox tells the youngest that after feeding her, the Eagle will drink her blood; the girl finds half-dead sisters; they they weave a rope from their tendons, go down to the ground; the Eagle chases them; they create a river, freeze it when the Eagle is in the water]: Menovshchikov 1985, No. 84:194-198; Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [a lucky whale hunter, he has 5 daughters; a ceremony must be performed to kill a whale, but the hunter's wife is missing; the following year, the eldest daughter went to pick up the roots, she was taken to heaven by an eagle; when she was carried away the last two daughters, began to fatten them; the fox: he feeds you to eat, weave a rope out of your tendons; look into the pantry: there are sisters who have already been taken away, their eagle has sucked their fat, but they are still alive; to distract the eagle, the sisters tell them to bring prey from afar - they say, their father did so; the fox lowered the girl on a rope to the ground; when the eagle chased, the girl drew a line with her little finger, a river formed; an eagle He dammed the river, getting into the water and spreading her wings, but the girl told the river to freeze, the eagle froze in its years, the girl killed him with a knife; the youngest went to find someone, got to the brown bear; he told him to beat him, when she wakes up, with a scraper handle so as not to bite; sends her to those who play ball over the hill; there she was married by a young man; she gave birth twice, both times a boy; guests arrived; she won everyone on the run and in the fight; returns to the bear for a while, taking the braided rope; then to his parents; then throws the rope up again and goes up to the northern lights; {it is obvious that those who play ball are flashes}; again gave birth twice; overtook and overcame everyone; then returned {to earth} and then went under water; got married and stayed there]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 41:555-576; Bering Strait inupiate (p -va Seward, kingickmiut) [the girl rejects the grooms; the mother says let the exit from the dugout be long; the girl walks through the tunnel for a long time, goes to the seashore; finds the caribou and seal who have just been killed; a man with a beak on his forehead comes; takes her in a kayak to his place; tells her not to look into the meat vault; a girl finds a woman's hair there; a man with an eagle's beak tells her to run, otherwise she will be eaten like others wives; in the form of an eagle carries a girl; a cannibal in the form of a seabird yakshuk follows; birds fight, an eagle kills a yakshuk; a girl becomes an eagle's wife, gives birth to two sons, lives on a rock , wants to go home; they all visit her parents, bring them lots of skins]: Lucier 1954:218-222; Northern Alaska Inupiate (Noatagmiut): Hall 1975, No. EH9 [the hunter calls his wife to the lake, where he supposedly should perform a thanksgiving ritual; throws a caribou leg into the water, she is immediately eaten by worms; leaves his wife, her bones float up; at home she says that his wife died of illness, gets another; story repeats; the third tells his two brothers to be nearby when her husband takes her to the lake; calls for help; brothers throw her husband into the lake himself], PM33 [when leaving home, a jealous man always locks his wife; woman tells her to run away with a baby; swim across the sea on a self-propelled seal skin; teaches her what to do when she comes to a dangerous person; this man does not tell her to look behind the house; she finds it there the corpse of a woman; sees a man cutting wood with his flint-ended penis; with it he killed all the women he copulated with; a woman offers to copulate, pushes a person away, he falls on a wooden couch, a penis pierces a tree, a woman runs away, climbs a tree; the stalker cuts him down with his penis; the woman jumps to another tree, tells him to fall and run over the pursuer; that dies; female bears (brown) help a woman and her son], PM152 [a woman travels alone, comes to a man; his pants in his groin are wiped to holes every day; she finds the corpses of her former wives, theirs the genitals are bloody; the woman prepares for copulation, pushes the person away, he falls on a wooden bed, the penis pierces a tree, the woman runs away; comes to another husband, he is kind; sharpens ulu, asks her to kill a woman who comes to beat him every year; when she comes in, the new wife kills her by slashing her neck]: 90-91, 201-204, 383-384; Lucier 1958, No. 15 [the hunter finds a lake with worms; throws at his caribou leg, it is instantly eaten; brings his wife, leaves her, lies that his wife is dead; he is given a new one; her younger brother watches him; a man leaves his wife, tries to grab her brother, people come To help him, they throw her husband into wormy lake]: 100-101; McKenzie estuary [at the end of the Caribou hunting season, a young man takes a new wife every time; marries the petty officer's daughter; leads her to lake, throws a caribou leg into the water, worms in the lake instantly devour her; tries to leave her wife, who calls for help from her two brothers; they throw her husband's own worms]: Ostermann 1942, No. 2:69-70; Baffin's Land [(quoted from Boas 1940:516); a man fattens and eats one wife after another; the latter manages to escape, her brothers kill the ogre]: Boas 1901b: 360; Greenland (many versions from different districts) [the cannibal consistently kills wives and their children; the latter lets her younger brother cook meat; fattens her to kill; she runs away to people; they grab the ogre, the wife kills him with a spear]: Rink 1875, No. 3:106-108 (translated into Menovshchikov 1985, No. 255:464-466); East Greenland (Kulusuk) [the handsome man consistently fattens, kills, eats wives; the latter makes a scarecrow out moss-full clothes, tells her to answer that she does not move because she is fat, runs away; the husband throws a harpoon into the scarecrow, cooks, eats, he feels bad, he decides not to eat more wives; the last wife's three brothers killed and ate him himself]: Millman 2004:96-97; Labrador Eskimos [1 incomplete version, generally like Greenland, without details.]: Rink 1875:106.

Subarctic. Khan (Eagle) [The woodpecker marries one girl after another, fattens her, each time explains that his wife is dead; an intelligent girl suspects fraud; her husband feeds her fat to make her fat; she digs an underground passage from her house to the river; slides down it because she is unable to walk because of her weight; after losing weight, she returns to people; the woodpecker thinks she has taken her breath away; comes for a new wife; gets a heavy bag; picking it up breaks his back; does not know what his ex-wife is in the bag; dies]: Schmitter 1910:26-27 (=1985:39-40); tanaina [Wolverine asks a girl to marry; exhausts the long journey to his house; throws her into a hole under the hearth to eat later; asks her sister to marry (the episode repeats); the third sister is not exhausted on the road, he decides to torture her first with work, only then try tie up; she finds and feeds her sisters; they run home; he comes looking for them; he is called to a feast, they give him a fried slave; warriors run in to kill him; he dies of fear, turns into a wolverine]: Vaudrin 1969:89-85; tagish [Wolverine gets the man's eldest daughter as his wife, fattens her, keeps her in a hole, kills; asks the middle one for the same; the youngest asks to put her in a hole near the stream, give her a sharp stick Beat mice, digs an underground passage, returns to his father; father sends sons to kill Wolverine]: McClelland 2007, No. 89:415-417; helmet [Wolverine gets a girl as his wife; keeps in the cellar, fattens, kills and eats; marries her younger sister; this is how she kills almost all sisters; the penultimate in seniority asks for a sharp object to kill mice; digs an underground passage, runs away; Wolverine comes to her parents; returns to himself; girls' brothers lock him in his cellar, kill him]: Teit 1917a, No. 23:470-471.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [a person takes a girl out of the village; returns, says that his wife is dead, asks for another; so several times; he is given a lame woman; her husband and his brother feed her; taking out her husband's insects, she notices a mouth on the back of his head; under a pile of dry grass she finds the bones of his wives eaten; soaks herself in water, washing off fat; runs away, climbs a tree; her husband sees her reflection, jumps into the water, leaving his a knife on the ice; she cuts off his head with this knife; the same is with his brother; the journey home is very long; she sleeps at Chickady's Blue Jay; Loon gives her a lot of dried fish; the woman comes home; now helps loons]: Jenness 1934, No. 21:171-174; shuswap [A month freezes to death every woman she marries; the youngest of three sisters becomes a shaman, unravels his plans; when he brings her to her, the ice grotto melts at her sight; spring begins]: Teit 1909a, No. 32:701-702; clackamas: Jacobs 1958, No. 24 [four sisters one by one come to marry the sons of an old woman Snake Tail; she tells them to sit on the ground; snakes crawl into them, their bellies burst; the lark explains to the fifth sister how to kill snakes and their mother; she hits them with a stick, burns corpses], 27 [the hunter breaks awl; the tip turns into Flint; lives with a hunter; kills four sisters one by one who come to marry a hunter; the lark advises the fifth to evade the blow when Flint becomes combing her hair; Flint gets stuck in the wall; the lark shows where the sisters' corpses are; the hunter and his wife bury them]: 194-199, 227-241;

Midwest. Menominee [a man consistently marries girls, sacrifices, feeds a snake living in a tree near his house; tells his next wife to go ahead, make a fire; stomps on a hill, a one-year-old bear comes out, he kills him, tells his wife to cook it whole, eat it, drink the broth; she does it; the former wives could not, he stuffed meat into their mouths, threw it into the water, where his pets ate them; her husband's brother tells her to dig a hole where she can quietly dump the meat and drain the broth; warns that when you touch a tree with a stick, you should rush into the house; the snake does not have time to bite her; the husband asks what eats a ski; the wife replies that there are large strawberries in the south; the husband breaks the ski furiously, runs after strawberries; the husband's wife and brother are running; seeing the sky covered, they realize that the husband has grabbed strawberries; they throw pieces snakes, the husband loses time taking them home; the man in the rock opens the door, his two dogs devour the stalker, takes him to the end of the world; the husband's brother takes the widow as his wife]: Bloomfield 1928, No. 112:503-517.

Northeast. Montagnier [Lynx kills wives; alone promises to cope with him, marries; hides outside when he comes hunting; he pierces wigwam with a spear, finds no one; cuts off, roasts and eats first a piece of meat from her leg, then other parts of her body; dies when she has baked her heart; a woman laughs, returns to people]: Desbarats 1969:53-54; naskapi [Lynx consistently marries women , kills, eats; the last one (she has a porcupine face and a lot of lice, runs away; Lynx begins to eat itself; eats her heart and dies]: Millman 1993:66.

(Wed. California. Pomo [Shini Suni took wives and they died; refused to pay a ransom to the relatives of the deceased women, for which Chief Kuoti had to do so; he asked the two girls to agree to marry the SS, prepared a hole with hot stones, disguised the bed in this place; the SS suspected deception, but when he saw the girls, he lay down, fell down, burned down; everyone began to sing to send his spirit forever to the world of the dead ( the origin of funeral chants); SHS did not want to go in the right direction, but K. partly persuaded him, partly forced him with threats; but his embittered spirit could not fly up and walk along the Milky Way as all dead, fell into the sea, became a crab]: Clark, Williams 1954:76-79).

Ecuador. Colorado [an old man kills his wife every time she gives birth; the latter beats him, becomes the head of the house]: Calazacun, Orazona 1982:198-202.

Central Amazon. Tupi (Madeira) [demon kidnaps sisters; eats the eldest, then the middle one; the youngest finds their bones, runs]: Barbosa Rodrigues 1890:131-132.

Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [the cannibal marries three sisters sequentially; eats the older two; the youngest finds a hole with bones; hides in the forest; the cannibal eats meat from his legs, cannot get up, wife finishes him off, returns home; people burn the cannibal's corpse]: Wagley, Galvão 1949, No. 22:148.

Montagna - Jurua. Ashaninka []: Zolezzi 2014, No. 30:234-236; machigenga [wife dies, husband eats her corpse; successively marries nieces and eats; two of her younger sister come with her youngest sister brothers; find bones; burn an ogre; he turns into a wasp]: Baer 1984, No. 20:479-480; pyro [the ogre marries three sisters sequentially; eats the eldest two; the youngest comes to a forbidden tree, finds pieces of clothing; climbs a tree; an ogre cuts meat from his body, roasts and eats; his wife finishes it off, returns to his father; he burns the cannibal's corpse; bamboo grows in this place ]: Matteson 1951, No. 7:66-67.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Takana [husband forbids his wife to visit a certain place, she finds women's skulls there; saves herself]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 274 [husband eats wives when they become fat, turns into a spirit -anteater]: 411-416; Nordenskiöld 1924:275-276 [husband eats snakes, gives his wife plenty of vegetable food], 287-288 [the forest spirit takes the girl as his wife; throws a nut on her head from a palm tree, eats it; likewise kills her sister; third sister finds the bones of the first two, runs away while her husband is in the tree; he cuts and eats flesh from his calves and thighs; wife kills him with a club]; Ottaviano 1980 [man consistently marries five women, fattens them, eats them, hangs their heads on a tree; the sixth, despite the ban, goes towards the tree, finds the remains of the victims, runs away, climbs a tree; the husband cannot reach her, eats meat from her calves, turns into an anteater: predicts that in three days his wife will return to him; a woman comes to her parents, dies on the third day]: 39-43; chacobo [a man leads a wife into the forest, kills, roasts, eats him with dried cassava; marries again; his new wife's brothers catch him when he is about to repeat the murder; kill him, burn his corpse, sparks turn into wasps; In other versions of the same myth, a man sends his wife for brushwood; when she comes back, she sees him eating his own leg]: Bossert, Villar 2002:372.

Southern Amazon. Iranshe [the forest spirit of Aana consistently takes girls, supposedly married to her son; fattens and eats them; the latter puts a bone figure instead of her son; the girl runs away; A. comes for her; the girl's father drives him away]: Pereira 1985, No. 22:113-114; paresi [the owners of the stars go down to earth, ask girls to marry, kill and eat; the latter warns with a nightjar, she runs away; cannibals turn into jaguars]: Pereira 1987, No. 99:574-576.

Chaco. Matako [all women like Velá (Month); many marry him, but every next wife dies; the latter discovers that V. has a big dick, he kills women with it during copulation; people cannot kill V. with weapons or poison; they feed boiled pumpkins, put a stone in them; V. breaks a tooth, dies; resurrects a few days later, women are happy about it]: Calífano 1974:48.