Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
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Ethnicities and habitats

L41C. Downhill skaters .31.39.40.

The

cannibal grabs the kids when they ride down the hill.

Western and Eastern Sami, Lithuanians, coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Itelmen, St. Lawrence. Cf. Motive M94.

Baltoscandia. Western Sami: Bosi 2004 [father notices that giant Stelo is about to catch children riding down the mountain in a net; jumps into a swamp to get wet, deliberately trapped; clothes freezes, S. thinks that the prey is dead; at home, his wife Lutakis hangs her body over the fire to thaw; son S. notices that the prey has live eyes; the man slips out of the ropes, knocks son S. down, kills his wife, pours boiling water over him, kills S.]: 156-157; Lagercrantz 1958, No. 342 (Lyngen, coast of northern Norway) [late in the evening, the children were skiing; Stallo put up a bag, they found themselves in in the bag, S. carried them; left them for a while; the eldest boy got out of the bag and released the others, put stones in the bag; S. brought the bag home, ordered to make a fire under the large cauldron; through the hole above emptied the bag home; the stones fell into the cauldron, it crashed, S.'s wife scalded]: 28-29; Eastern Sami: Volkov 1996 [children ride down the mountain, Taly (Bear) puts the bag in; carries, leaves out of need; the children cut the bag, put stones, left alone; T. shakes the bag over the cauldron, the boy bounces off, sings that his father, mother, brother, etc. are a sorcerer; T.'s wife tells me to take the witchcraft boy back; in the house, boy T. is grabbed, hung on a spruce]: 65; Yermolov 1959 [the guys were riding down the mountain; Talla the bear put up his bag, carried the children, lay down and fell asleep; the children got out, put stones in the bag; one the boy stayed to answer the bear; at home T. tells his wife to cook the boat; the boy sings: my father is a sorcerer, my mother is a witch; T. decided that the children have turned into stones; he was frightened and carried the boy back; he tells take it all the way; in the evening, people ask whether to hang a bear on a pine tree or on a Christmas tree; he cries; now you can see tears dripping and freezing on the Christmas trees; it's resin]: 46-47; Zaikov 1997, No. 8 [children they ride down the mountain, the Bear puts up the bag; carries it, leaves it on a tree, goes out of need; the children cut the bag, put stones, left a one-eyed girl; the Bear's wife pours the contents into the cauldron, stones they break the cauldron; the girl is taken as a cook; she cooked the cubs, ran home; Bears ate the cubs]: 192-193; Charnolusky 1962 [children ride down the mountain, Tala (the bear) puts them in a bag, takes them away; time leaves the bag; the children cut a hole, fill the bag with stones, run away; one boy stays; T. pours stones at home, breaking the cauldron; T. and his wife tell the boy to bring a skewer to fry it; he brings the wrong thing; they go by themselves; he kills their son, sharpens a knife, says he is a great sorcerer; his wife tells T. to take him back; people want to kill T., then let go]: 135-141; Lithuanians [something like that But in Kerbelit 2014, No. 59:134-136; an orphan boy inherited horses, bulls, dogs; after feeding them, he sledges down the mountain, sings a song; limes make big sledges, also ride and sing; they make a bag, catch the boy with the sledge, bring him home to fry; the boy cut the bag with a knife, put the sleeping lime instead; it was fried; the boy runs, climbs a tree, the limes begin to cut him ; The fox offers to sharpen axes, blunts them; limes gnaw the trunk with their teeth; the boy calls his animals; horses, bulls, dogs come running, tearing lime, pushing into powder; since then, the snow has been sparkling in the sun â€" this Lime fat glitters]: Lebite 1965:111-114.

SV Asia. Coastal Koryaks (Palana) [Mice ride down the mountain, willow puts up his pants, the Mice fall into them, he ties them, tells the tree to bend down, hangs it on the tree to turn sour, tells the tree to turn sour straighten up; The fox tells the tree to bend down, releases the Mice; one is tired, placed on top, the bag is stuffed with anything; willow found only one mouse at home; willyak believes Lisa that she is sick and nowhere for a long time doesn't walk]: Zhukova 1980, No. 13:175-176; kereki [mice are rolling down the hill; this is the yaranga where the Kala woman lives; she sews; something blocks the light; she thinks it's her cheek, eats it; then the second cheek is the same; when she saw the mice, she put them in a bag, hung them in yaranga on the upper crossbar; a fox lives next to her daughter Imyna; went to wander, hears crying; mice teach: in order for the bag to fall, it is necessary promise to fill it with mouse oil; the fox released the mice, was left alone, which died; the fox filled the bag with shiksha branches; told the mice to go home; let everyone migrate, leaving the carcass in its original place sheep; at home tells Ymynne to cook alder bark; feces returned with firewood; got an answer from the stone who released the mice; the fox says she is sick; gives tiny alder feces, says it's a disease , asks to go to the mountain and throw it away; she came up from behind and pushed the feces off the cliff; eiders are swimming on the ice floes; the fox asks to take her for a boat ride; they say that the boat will disappear; seagulls take; seagulls the fox got its wings; tells her not to sneeze when the sun rises; the fox sneezed, fell into the sea; swam on a log to the shore; went to bed, taking out her eyes and telling her to guard her; the old woman Kala got out of the abyss , poured water on the sleeping one; the fox was angry at her eyes for not guarding them well, ate them; went to look for new ones; the eyes made of berries are not suitable, everything is red around; made new ones from ice floes; shot at the sleeper bear; she herself offers to cure him with hot stones; the bear is dead; the fox's daughters ate meat; the fox imposed the vertebrae on a rope, tied a sleeping wolf to the tail; shouted that he was being chased toothy, fanged; the wolf cut off its tail on the bushes; the grandmother sewed a new one, but it was no longer fluffy; and the parts of the fluffy fox ordered her daughters to sew; now the tip of the fox's tail is white, and the fox is black; before the sea was transparent; after the fox fell into it, it became salty and cloudy]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:364-371; itelmen: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 179 [Kutkh sews, something blocks the light; he decided like a nose, cut it off; then his cheeks, lips, eyebrows, eyelashes; then noticed that the mice were sledding; invited them to roll into his pants; tied it up, found a tree, told him to bend down, hung his pants, told him to the tree to straighten; the fox heard the mice scream; the mice taught her what to say to make the tree bend and straighten; the fox released the mice, left only the suffocated mouse, and filled Kutha's pants with birch bark ; told the mice to kick the alder bark, prepare water that looked like blood; K. found only one mouse, came to the fox; she said she was urinating with blood, asked to pour out her pelvis and not turn around; K. turned around sees mountain ash, decides to pick berries for the fox on the way back; the fox secretly follows; pushed K. into the water and he drowned], 196 [Ivlikelhen lived; a female came to live; he was going to eat it at night; she asks to tell a fairy tale, at this time she digs out; ran away; I. chases after her; the female caught the bird, began to swing as if it were her child, made a house; I. did not recognize her, stayed overnight; the female covered him Rovduga's face, in which holes were pierced; I. thinks it's still night and stars are visible; I. chases him again; the female teases him, says she is a girl; I. did not catch her, returned home, began to fix his pants; mice roll down the yaranga past the window; I. thinks that it was his cheeks that were blocking the light, cut them off; then his nose; when he saw the mice, invited them to roll into his pants; found a tree, told him to bend down, hung up his pants, told the tree to straighten; the fox heard screams; the mice taught her what to say to make the tree bend and straighten; the mice trained rotten in their pants; at home, the fox asks the mice to cook alder bark and chew it; I. came; the fox says that she is sick, there is blood in the trough, asks to pour it off the mountain and not look back; the fox crept up and pushed I., he died]: 536-538, 575-579.

The Arctic. The island of St. Lawrence [the girls roll down from the Giantess's dugout; she shoves them into her camley, hangs them on a pole, tells him to straighten up; the birds refuse to help, the Fox tells the pole to bend down, tells him to straighten up girls put moss in their place; the youngest fell asleep, stayed in the camley; ripping open the camley, the Giantess cuts off the girl's finger; agrees to take her in her head; there are mice, beetles, squirrels; The giantess tells them to gnaw, the girl pretends to throw them away; the fox pretends to have blood from her nose, as if all the buckets are full, in fact they contain red clay; the Giantess agrees to empty the buckets at the top of the mountain; the Fox is on her heels like a spirit, pushing the Giantess off the cliff; going to bed, taking out her eyes, telling her to guard; the Giantess comes up, her eyes jump, the Fox is still sleeping; the Giantess bites through her eyes ties bones to the Fox's tail; the fox runs, then realizes what's going on; makes new eyes out of berries, since then slightly cross-eyed; releasing the girl from the dugout, the Giantess puts her in a bag, ties her to it rope; the girl's two brothers release her, put a walrus skull in a bag, run away; the girl throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; runs a river across the ground with a stump of her finger; answers the Giantess that crossed on a shell; The Giantess can't; Drink the river! She tells the Giantess to dance, she bursts, she makes iron pans and boilers]: Slwooko 1979:14-20.