L42B. Trustful cannibal children.

.11.-.14.17.21.23.29.31.34.-.37.39.48.59.66.

The child (less often the wife) of the antagonist believes the words of the hero he caught and brought home, and frees him. Usually, the hero kills the antagonist's child or wife and puts him in the pot to cook for himself. See motive L42.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Sakata [Takinga does not listen to his parents, they give him to a harsh teacher; on the way, he asks for permission to say goodbye to his parents, runs away to the forest, eats bananas on someone's property, Trimobe comes (this is a buffalo man), says that his bananas, puts T. in a bag; he asks him to put stones there as well; on the way, Trimob calls out to T., he throws a stone every time; the last time he jumps out himself, Trimob thinks it's a stone; realizing the deception, he catches up with T., brings him home, tells the children to cook their prey; the rat advises asking Trimob to go for pepper, while T. will supposedly turn into a cauldron in two boys; T. tells the children to untie him to put them in the cauldron, throws them into the cauldron; runs away after receiving an egg, a stone and a stick from the rat; the rat tells Trimob that he ate his children; T. throws objects, they turn into a forest (stick), lake (egg), mountain (stone); Trimob asks to lower the vine, promises to become T.'s friend; he cuts off the vine, Trimob breaks; the bird helps T. go down the mountain for a promise to become an obedient boy; T. comes home, everyone is happy]: Colldén 1979, No. 19:172-174.

West Africa. Ashanti [eight sisters go looking for husbands, do not want to take their younger brother Kwasi Gyinamoa with them; he goes; hitting his cow's tail with his whip, tells the three-jet waters to part ( white, red, black) rivers; in an empty city, an old woman took off her head, put her head on her knees, looked for insects in her hair; when she sees them, she puts her head in place; gives girls her eight husbands sons; at night, KG sees the old woman's teeth turn red to eat the girls; promises to fall asleep if the old woman brings him water in a leaky calebass; outweighs the amulets from the old woman's sons on her sisters; at night, an old woman burns her sons' necks with her teeth; those who come run away; an old woman in the form of a young girl comes to their village; promises to marry someone who pierces her calebass with an arrow; this is done by KG, but his uncle marries; at night, an imaginary girl takes his eyes out, takes him away; knowing that the old woman's granddaughter is pregnant, GK comes disguised as a pregnant woman, says that her husband has fallen, lost his eyes; the old woman gives replacing the eyes of Uncle GK, GK inserts them back to him; bathes with other children, the old woman takes him away; leaves him in the vessel at home to cook, goes for spices; KG knocks with pebbles, the old woman's granddaughter believes that these are nuts, she wants it too, opens the vessel, the KG kills her, puts her skin on, puts the meat to cook; KG and the old woman eat the brew; the old woman adorns her imaginary granddaughter with gold jewelry; KG runs away, gives jewelry for her relatives; the old woman is chasing; the rustle is still heard along the trail, it is the old woman chasing the KG]: Rattray 1930:221-227; soninke [the witch has 7 daughters; everyone who comes to sleep with them , die; Marandénboné ("Maran, Son of Misfortune") tells her older brothers not to be afraid and go to the girls; their mother leaves her daughters with her brothers, and M. stays with the sorceress; at night she gets up and is about to go out, but M. asks her to pour water on him, bringing water into the basket, so does his mother; the witch tries to bring water with a basket all night; when the witch falls asleep the next night, M. ordered the brothers to switch seats with the girls and cover them with their clothes; at night, the witch cut the throat not for her brothers, but for her daughters; cooked blood, M. asked for it to him; told the brothers to run; in the morning tells the witch that her daughters are still sleeping; in the village of M., the witch turned into a baobab; many boys climbed on him and the witch took them away, but M. felt deceived and did not climb; the same with the donkey (climbed on his children were missing, M. stayed); he moved into a white heifer given birth to a witch's cow; told the kidnapped children to grab the tail, ears, etc., she took them home; one day the witch caught M. brought it home, put it in three bovine skins, went to make a fire; M. promised the witch's little daughter to feed her, she released him, he put her inside a bag of skins, the witch burned it; when the daughter started screaming at her, she did not believe it; M. told the witch that she had killed her last daughter, ran away]: Monteil 1905:115-123; Cassonka [after the three brothers went hunting, a fourth was born; immediately grew up, very strong, went to look for brothers; they tell me not to kill red antelopes, he killed, came {premature?} night; seeing the lioness, the brothers congratulated her on the birth of lion cubs, the lioness is happy; began to hunt with her brothers, and the youngest remained to watch the lions; kills one at a time, gives the lioness to feed the rest twice, then three times; the brothers run away, the lioness catches up, the big bird picks up the fugitives; the younger brother says that the bird stinks, breaks its wing, everyone has fallen; comes to the woman, secretly spoils her field, then shoves her head into a hot porridge; comes to the girls whom her mother told to fry hares; fried the girls, called her mother; hired a blacksmith; when he fell asleep, he put a hot rod in his groin; the blacksmith recovered, made honey couscous, began to walk and ask the boys which of them was the worst - he would give him couscous; the bad one began to talk about his atrocities, the blacksmith put him in a bag with couscous, brought it home to fry; while he was making a fire, his two daughters tried couscous, decided that his father was hiding it from them; the voice from the wineskin promises the most delicious; the girls opened the wineskin, the boy planted They went there, the father burned his daughters; when he heard the blacksmith groan, the boy began to rise into the air and laugh]: Monteil 1905:158-165.

Sudan - East Africa. Malgashi [the couple promise the ogre Rabibiba an unborn child if he allows them to pick plums; the boy Kifundri grows up, R. comes for him; the mother says he recognizes her son by white clothes; R. tears clothes apart, gives them to all the boys; mother tells R. to come at night, she will put K. at the hearth; K. puts her younger sister in her place, R. takes her away; fearing his mother, K. runs away, builds a hut; R. steals in the garden, he catches him; K. says that his meat will deteriorate if he is pierced with a spear, hacked with an ax; advises putting a stone on his head and not turning around if something falls; jumps down the road, R. brings only a stone to his wife; next time K. advises him to carry it in a closed basket; R. and his wife went home for firewood, K. persuades R.'s children to open the basket; pushes them into the fire, cooks; shouts to cannibals what they ate; runs away; cooks meat, treats R. who comes; says that meat is delicious if you put hot iron in your eye; R. dies; R.'s wife comes, chases K. around her husband's corpse, dies of fatigue]: Korneev 1977:195-200.

North Africa. Kabila [from across the 7 seas, a man carried 7 apples for his 7 wives; someone asked him for an apple, he gave him half; all wives ate an apple, and the half ate gave birth to Amor Ennefç; brothers came to the cannibal, she offered to feed their horses; the AE horse ate only coal and salt and did not die; the cannibal asks how to know that the brothers are sleeping; six say they will snore; AE that there will be stones fall into the hearth; cannibal about herself: all the animals will scream, make sounds; she fell asleep, the brothers rushed to the horses, they are dead, they all rode AE horse together, got to their father; one of the brothers says that the cannibal has a carpet, the father tells AE to get it; AE poured thorns into the carpet, the cannibal threw it away, AE took it away; the same: get a mill that grinds salt; AE began to beat the mill with a cannibal, cannibal tells her to calm down, then threw it away; the same with the bowl that makes couscous herself; the same - tamis qui tamise le couscous; the cannibal herself - supposedly beautiful; AE brought an iron chest, suggested to the cannibal get in, brought her father, released her, she ate his father, chased AE; the old man advised me to glue the donkey's back, AE stuck; said that thin, let the cannibal put him in a date box; she planted; asks to show his finger, he sticks a spoon, a rat tail; then his hand; the cannibal goes to call other cannibals, her three daughters must cook AE; the blind man is told to kill him; she asks to show how AE's parents danced, and he asks to show where the knife is; killed her, put on her skin, the cannibal's daughter is eaten instead of AE; one of the sisters recognizes the victim's eye; AE burned them all]: Rivière 1882, No. 8:225-230; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [Gulya keeps trying to catch Hadidouane, but he hides in his bronze house every time; promises to go with her for water and firewood, but let her pour out water first who is still there, does not take ropes with her; she does not go to fetch water, Gulya cannot cook bundles of firewood; finally caught H., carried it in a bag; H. recalled that Gulya missed the prayer time; Gulya went pray, H. filled the bag with stones, ran away; one day he found a coin, bought a fig, ate it, threw it away, threw it away, a large tree grew out of it overnight; H. climbed a tree, began to eat fruit; gulya asks for it not to throw it, but to pass it from hand to hand; Gulya grabbed him again and brought him home in a bag; began to fatten him, each time she felt her hand - whether he was fat, but H. sticks her hand not her hand, but a spindle; realizing the deception, gulya went to call her relatives, telling her daughter to cook a "calf"; H. says that there is a dangerous louse around Guli's daughter's neck, she asks her to kill, H. cuts off Guli's daughter's head, cooks meat, puts on her clothes; while gulya eats , H. runs away and shouts from afar that Gulya has his daughter; cannibals covered H.'s house with firewood and set it on fire, but H. sat in a vat of water]: 100-106; Scelles-Millie 1963 (Souf) [Sultan has 7 sons, seventh - tiny named Encis ("half a portion"); the brothers left without him, he caught up with them on a goat; they asked him to go down to the well and left him there; the caravans pulled him out; he made himself a tiny a house with an iron door; the cannibal suggests going for dates in the morning; E. got up earlier, ate all the dates, and the cannibal threw off the resin he had taken with him from the palm tree, she thinks they were dates; E. sent her for water; hid in her jug, made a hole in it, got out, took water with a calebasa; the cannibal tried unsuccessfully to collect water with a leaky jug, and her daughter tried to collect water with a sieve; invited E. He came early, ate all the meat, threw the cannibal's bones, knocking out her eye; she took him to melons, he ate all the ripe watermelons, hid in the last one, and when the cannibal took it, she cut off her fingers; she had him grabbed it, brought it in a bag, began to feed him; E. began to sing, the cannibal's daughter released him, asked her to cut off her hair; E. cut off and cooked her head, the cannibal ate it, saw her daughter's eye; E. rode off on goat home to his father]: 307-310; the Berbers of Morocco [Hadidouan (the name refers to his iron house) ended up with a cannibal; she raised him, he mocks her, rides her on a donkey, hides in his house; the Jew advises to lubricate the donkey's back with glue made from the old man's oil-cooked brains; the cannibal cooked the Jew's brains, caught H., began to fatten her; the cannibal's daughter freed him, he hers killed, cooked, fed a cannibal, hid in his cabin; the cannibal started a fire, H. ran across the roof, and the cannibal burned down, blowing the fire]: Laoust in Scelles-Millie 1963:310-311; Arabs of Morocco [a family with seven sons decides to move; each one takes turns getting tired asking his father to build a wooden house for him; Hdiddan's seventh son asks for an iron house; six guli are eaten, the seventh is not; old Mamma-Goula and her ugly daughter remain guarded; they can't lure H., he goes for food and water; the man advises to smear donkey H.'s back with the old man's brains, H. sticks, MG grabbed him; H. advises put him in a date barrel to make him fat and give him a pestle to knock; knocks, says he's too fat now - let MG call other gulas; MG leaves, leaving her daughter to cook X .; H. praises the beauty of MG's daughter, offers to cut her hair, cut her throat; puts on her skin, serves meat to the ghouls; gets the key to his iron house, runs away, screaming who the guli ate; collects a bunch firewood, screams he's under it; ghouls rush there, he sets fire to firewood, ghouli burn]: El Koudia 2003, No. 12:81-84; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [the old man gave the judge 12 apples for his childless wife to their ate and gave birth to 12 children; she eats 11 and half of the last, giving birth to another sister; gives birth to 11 normal sons and one half boy; they go to marry 12 daughters of their father's brother; Half warns that they did not come to the uncle, but to the ogre; he covers his wife with red and daughters with a white veil; the half put red on his daughters and white on his brothers; he also changed the brothers' hats and cannibal daughters; at night, the ogre's wife kills her daughters instead of brothers, only the latter wakes up and talks to her mother about it; brothers run away, come to their real uncle; brothers get to the bride, Half is the youngest and most beautiful of; brothers, out of envy, tell him to go down to the well and cut off the rope; the fish gives him scales to call her for help; on the way home, Half meets his wife the ogre, who brings him to her place; he advises the ogre to feed him first; then asks to invite other cannibals to a feast, remains to cut wood to bake it; asks the cannibal daughter to help, kills her with an ax, runs away, hides in an iron tower; tells the cannibal who has run up to gather all the cannibals - let them bring firewood, overlay the tower, it will burn in it; when the tower is hot, the cannibals themselves burned down; and The half upstairs was unharmed; he picked up the cannibal on a rope, cut it off, the cannibal fell, crashed; on the way home, Half met another cannibal; she said that today his wife was being remarried; says she will help for promising to give her first child; put her older brother on her back, carried her older brother with his wife, Half, to her wedding; became a scorpion and bit her brother to death; father says Half, that his brothers said he was killed; the boy grew up, the cannibal met him, asked him to remind his father of his promise; the boy forgot; then she put a ring on his finger; his mother asked where He told me everything, his parents sent him to the cannibal; a year later, the father went to visit his son; he says he has found a better father and mother; the cannibal promises that she will not take away new children from Half]: Stumme 1898, No. 3:93-104.

Western Asia. The Arabs of Syria [the gulya ate everyone, there are three brothers left - one in a wicker house, the other in a glass house, the third in an iron one; Gulya demands that the first one borrow her a sieve, he refuses, she blows, the house flies away, gulya eats the owner; the same with her brother in a glass house (asked for a glass goblet); she asked her brother in the iron house for an ax, who brought firewood and fur, heated the walls of the house, the gulya stuck, terribly burned, her daughter Aisha glued her together; gulya offers to go for melons; the owner of the iron house runs to the field before her, fills one of the melons with her urine, gulya eats it; next time the hula goes for figs; the man climbed onto the fig tree, smeared the figs with his feces, threw the drone, she ate them; went to buy firewood, the man climbed into the bundle in advance, when the gulya carried it, began to stab it with an awl; she had difficulty carrying the firewood home, found a man there, told her daughter to cook it, went to call the other guli; the man asked A. to untie him, he would help her break the firewood; cooked it herself, put it on dress; gulya and guests ate A.; the man invites the Gula to take out her lice, pours oil on her head and sets her on fire; the gulya burned down, all the gold went to the man]: Kuhr 1993:176-182; Iraqis (Mosul) ; jibbali [the hyena saw a fox on an island in the pond; the fox said it was being given food here; the hyena took her place, she was beaten; the hyena took out a basket of dates, the fox stole them; the hyena caught the fox, She told her daughter to guard, went to buy firewood to burn the fox; the fox promised the hyena's daughter food, she untied her, the fox ran away]: Müller 1907, No. 7:15-17.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Rai: Ebert, Gaenszle 2008:83-92 [orphan Khosipa (X.) has two older sisters, an older Tõwama and a younger Khliyama; their uncle Saphopte (an owl; they're all birds too) is angry; K. teases him, he He tears his throat, eats him, leaves only his bones; his sisters revive him by putting his bone in a calebass with beer; they have difficulty getting some rice, putting him to cook, he accidentally overturns the pot; falls asleep; they they think that he is dead, buried with a knife on the grave; he wakes up, gets out of the grave, tells the banana to grow and ripen right away, eats bananas; the cannibal Cakrodhoma asks to lower her banana, tied to the boy's long hair, pulls her hair off, brings it to her, tells his daughter to cook the prey, goes to call her brothers; the daughter is surprised how long the boy's hair is; he says he doused it on them with boiling oil; puts her head in boiling oil, pushes her pestle, puts on her clothes; K. eats her daughter; H. shouts to her what she ate, runs away; throws ash (a cloud of fog), a shard (a mountain), an egg (a river) behind her; K. asks how he crossed; you have to tie your hands and feet, go into the water; the river carried it away; then motive F7], 111-124 [two sisters, they have a younger brother Hecchakuppa (X.); their father went up (i.e. north, mother down (i.e. south); sisters fed brother pine resin; he let his stepmother talk about it, she put soot in the resin to spoil the taste; they had a goat, she gave the children everything they needed; the stepmother pretended to be sick, only a medicine made from the goat's flesh would cure her; the goat was slaughtered, the children were crying, the stepmother pretended to feel better; H. lost consciousness from hunger, the sisters thought he was dead, they buried him with a knife and a calebass; they trampled the grave, heard the calebasses crunch, they think it was a crunching skull; Tangwama's sister went to her mother, Khiyama's sister to her father; when T. returned, it turned out that their grandfather killed K.; she revived her by putting her bones in the pig's trough; the sisters were spinning; the brother got up from the grave, called the sisters, they left the excrement, urine, drooling and snot responsible for themselves, left; a banana grew, H. climbed in at him; the cannibal asked her to throw off her bananas; he threw her foot, she asked to tie her to her hair, pulled her hair, brought her home, told her daughter to cook, put her to sleep, taking out H.'s lice; daughter the cannibal fell asleep by herself, H. killed her with a pestle, cooked her, the cannibal ate her; H. shouted who she ate, ran away; threw fried rice and chicken eggs behind, the cannibal picked them up and ate them, wasted time; the fishermen transported H. across the river; he answered the cannibal to enter the water with ants on his buttocks; the water carried her away; she was dragged through chicken and pig crap, and H. was carried in a palanquin; both were given bags; from this Tigers came out to the cannibal, ate her; from this X. - food and wealth]; kirati (? eastern Nepal) [brother asks sister to give him bread; sister: now, wheat must be sown first; etc., all operations; when the bread is ready, the cake rolls and turns into a banyan tree; the boy is on him climbs in; Rakshasi comes, threatens to cut down a banyan, the boy falls into her bag; on the way she leaves out of need, the boy runs away; at home, Rakshasi finds only sand laid by the boy in her bag; she returns to the banyan, everything repeats itself, a wasp nest instead of sand; the third time Rakshasi goes straight to the house, goes to call his aunt, tells her daughter to cook the prey; she likes the boy's black hair, he promises to make her hair just as beautiful, cuts off her head, puts on her dress, cooks meat; tells Rakshasi who has returned that he does not want to eat, will go to bed upstairs; takes flails and millstones with him; screams Rakshasi that she ate her daughter; Rakshasi runs out, killed with an abandoned flail; aunt killed by a millstone; all is well]: Heunemann 1980, No. 16:129-133; Bhutan [the raven dropped the fruit; the girl ate it and asked bring more father; it was fruit from the shinpo garden (demon), the father had to go; the shinpo was sleeping; the man climbed the tree, but when the bag was full, it fell off, the shinpo woke up and was about to eat the man; agreed not to do so for promising to give him his daughter; but let Shinpo know her name; he sent a pig, she overheard the girl named Sing Yangdonma (SS, but on the way back she was eat roots and forgot; the same monkey (began to eat bananas); the bee did not forget, the shinpo did not eat it, sing sing sing sing is still buzzing; the sinpo led the SS through beautiful valleys and mountains, but brought it to the desert, in the middle whose palace was made of bones; hung it in the basket from the ceiling and left; SS pretended to always stay in the basket: you can see India and Tibet from there; Shinpo's daughter also wanted to see this, took the place SS, she lowered her into a boiling pot in a basket; unlocked the rooms; one had children caught by Sinpo, the other was young, the third was aged women, the fourth had aged men; the last old woman; she said that when she was young, Shinpo brought her here as his wife and locked her; when he had no food, she would eat her too; told her to take all the jewelry and let her skin wear; when she ran and the shinpo caught up with her, he believed that she was an old woman; once she met three brothers princes; she chose someone who was not rude to her like an old woman; went swimming and took off her old skin; the chosen prince saw it; it was so beautiful that it would melt in the sun and reappear in the shadows; they lived a life in love]: Choden 1994:99-105; garo: Mandal 2009 [brother and sister are orphans, went to the forest for fruits, got lost; the sister went to look for water, did not return; the brother climbed the fruit tree; began to eat fruits and call his sister; Rakshasa and Rakshasi came; the boy agreed to shed fruit with them, but refused go down; they say that the fruit falls into the mud, swore not to touch it, but put it in a basket and brought it home; left it in the pigsty and left; the Rakshasa son asks why the boy has fair skin; he explains that you have to swim in hot water; the Rakshasa son released him, the boy put him in the basket and scalded him to death; returned home, but his sister was gone]: 109-110; Rongmuthu 1960 [Jerang boy, an orphan, climbed a fruit tree in the forest; a pair of Matchadus (werewolf tigers) came up; they asked them to pick fruits; said they were in the mud, let J. hand them the fruit between their toes ; they stole it, brought it home, told his son to cook it, and left themselves; the son of cannibals asks why people have light skin; J.: we wash in boiling water; the cannibal let J. out of the cage, undressed, and he scalded boiling water on him to death; put on his clothes and smeared him with soot; his parents ate their son, thinking they were eating J.; the imaginary son asked where his parents had hidden their treasures; they answered and left, and he hid it them on the other side of the river; asked cannibals to teach him how to swim; swam across the river and said who they had eaten; said that the river could be swam across the river in leaky jugs; cannibals drowned; J. brought the treasures he had obtained into the cave; there was a boa constrictor, J. killed him, filled his skin with treasures and climbed into it himself; the peasant's two daughters were chasing parrots; J. answered the one he liked best; she went into the cave, J. got out from the skin of a boa constrictor; taught the girl to ask her parents to pass her off as a boa constrictor; her father resettled her, a boa constrictor was brought to her from the cave, which contained a young man and treasures; on her wedding night, the servants spied: a young man with a girl, the house is rich; the elder sister also demanded that she be passed off as a boa constrictor; he ate it at night; and J.'s descendants became kings, queens and brave warriors]: 100-194.

South Asia. North India, Balundshahr County, Hindi [the potter's son climbed a tree for fruit; the cannibal asked for fruit; when he went down and handed her the fruit, she grabbed the boy, put it in the bag took it away; on the way he got out, put stones and thorns in his place; the next time it happened again, but the cannibal carried the boy home; told his daughter-in-law to cook it; she wonders what The boy has beautiful eyes and the shape of his head; he says that his mother pierced his eyes with a hot needle and treated his head with a pestle; the boy blinded her, crushed her head, put it on cooking, put her clothes on; when the ogre was eating, she also gave it to the cat; he ordered him to spit it out: she was eating her daughter-in-law; the cannibal did not hear, the young man (disguised as a daughter-in-law) said that he would explain now, ran away; he did not fit that tree again]: Crooke 1895, No. 540:193; Rajastans [widow is fasting to improve karma; her son wants to fast with her; she persuades him not to do so, and he agrees only after she agrees baked him his favorite treat - gulguls (sweet pies); he ate 6 gulgul, and buried the seventh, watered it, ordered him to grow up with a tree on which gulguls grow; he climbed on it, began to eat, in everyone's place Two grow up torn; a witch and her daughter come up; the witch also asks her to give a gulgul; does not tell her to throw it off, asks to put it in a turban and lower it; pulls the turban, the boy falls, the witch puts him in a bag with thorns and carries him to eat; on the way he asks once or 0 to allow him to drink in the lake, dives, swims away; climbed back on the gulgulu; the witch comes again, changing his face; the same (she takes him away in a keg from under water); at home, a witch tells her daughter to stretch the pestle caught, cook it, and went for wine herself; the boy shows the witch's daughter her teeth; she wants her teeth just as beautiful; he says that his mother every day He kneads it with a pestle, but before that he must change clothes; the boy broke the witch's daughter's head, cooked the meat; the witch eats it; the cat asks for it, since the mother eats her daughter, but the witch is drunk and does not listen; finds her daughter's finger, but does not want to believe it; the next morning the groom came to pick up her daughter; on the way, the imaginary bride gave a sign to stop to relieve her need, ran away; the witch came again to the gulgul tree; to this since the boy did not fall, but threw a stone on the witch, killing her; since then, mother and son have always eaten gulgulas and distributed them to neighbors]: Dinesh 1979:99-114; Nepalis [the witch asks the shepherdess to get it fruits from the tree, teaches you to stand on a dry branch, grab a green one, the dry one breaks, the shepherdess falls into the witch's bag; on the way she stops to drink water, the traveler unties the bag, the boy puts instead a wasp's nest; the witch brings "meat" to her daughter, she was bitten by wasps; next time the witch advises the shepherdess to step on a green branch, grab a dry one; the ploughman unties the bag, put stones in it; for the third time, a witch pulls the shepherdess off the tree by the legs, carries her home, leaves, telling her daughter to grind rice; the shepherdess offers help, kills the witch's daughter with a pestle, runs away; the witch has stopped catching children]: Bystrov et al. 1962:165-168; ho [the boy grazes cattle, his mother gives him bread every day; once he left a half-eaten piece, it has grown into a tree that brings bread instead of fruit; one day he climbed to the tree for bread; Rakshasi came, asked for bread, told him not to throw it - it would get dirty, she was old to catch; the boy went down, she put it in a bag, took it away; while she went down to the water for a drink, the travelers heard the boy screams, released him, he put stones in the bag; Rakshasi's daughter found them at home; the next day, Rakshasi lured the boy in the same way, brought his daughter, went to buy firewood; daughter she answered the boy that she would crush his head; he asked him to show how he blew her head, put on her clothes, cooked meat; Rakshasi ate her daughter and fell asleep; the boy killed her with a stone, returned home]: Bompas 1909:464-465; the Sinhalese [Yakshini has a son and daughter, the son brought flour under his fingernail, the pot was filled to the brim, the mother ate pies (kevums), ate everything with her daughter, the son got only one that fell into the ash ( mother said that the owners of the flour took everything); the son planted a pie, a tree grew, the kewums were ripe on it; yakshini asks to throw her kevum; says that he fell on a spit, into the mud, into the manure; asks to take the kevum in his mouth and jump into the bag; takes the boy, leaves the bag for a while, people untie it, the boy puts clods of dirt instead of him, returns to the tree; yakshini tells his daughter to slaughter the boy, the cup with Put blood under the stairs, let the meat be fried; the girl found only clods of earth in the bag; the yakshini goes back to the tree (the same, the boy puts rat catchers instead of him); for the third time, yakshini brings boy; he invites Yakshini's daughter to comb her hair, stabbed her, left the meat to roast, put a cup of blood, took a pestle, a pestle and a mortar, climbed a tree; yakshini began to eat his daughter's meat, boy began to sing about it; she climbed a tree, he threw a pestle, mortar, pestle at her, killing Yakshini]: Volkhonsky, Solntseva 1985, No. 162:368-371; Maldives [poor old woman found a coin and gave it to her daughter Koe' buy a pie; on the way home, K. ate half a pie, and then, hiding the pie under the leaf, went to relieve herself; the crab dragged it into its hole; on this place there was a tree on which, instead of fruit, there were pies; and no matter how many K. ate them, their number did not decrease; one day a cannibal came up and asked me to drop the pie; said that it fell into the sea; etc.; asked not to throw it, but to hold it between her toes and give it to her; the cannibal pulled K. by the leg, put it in a bag, brought it to her daughter and told her to cook while she was washing herself; the daughter untied the bag out of curiosity; K. offered to change clothes first and with jewelry, and then see who sleeps better; when the cannibal's daughter closed her eyes, K. cut off her head, chopped her body into pieces, cooked it; climbed a tree; the cannibal ate her daughter; K. talked about it sing, answering that she was talking to a crow, a bat (and then to others), but then told me how it was; the cannibal tried to knock down the tree; K. jumped down, ran; the cannibal followed, but fell into a lime pit, caught fire, burned]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 18:65-71.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Dargins [the father sends the boy with the bulls to a watering hole, does not tell him to look around there; he looks around, sees an apple tree, climbs for apples, the witch's daughter talks about it to her mother, she takes it away a boy in a sack; leaves a bag by the forest to collect firewood; shepherds find, release the boy, put a stone in a bag, the witch brings the stone home; the next day, shepherds put an evil herd in the bag; On the third day, the witch goes home without stopping; while sharpening her teeth, the boy speaks "zilpipi" from the cauldron; the witch's daughter likes it, she pushes the lid, the boy shoves it into the cauldron instead of himself, hides under the roof; a witch eats her daughter, asks the boy how he got in, he replies that he was a red-hot crowbar; the witch burns]: Osmanov 1963:112-114.

Iran - Central Asia. Pasha'i [the orphan boy said that when the mulberry grows and the fruits on it are ripe, he will eat; she grew up, he climbed the tree; a cannibal came, asked me to drop the fruits, said they bad, he threw off a branch, she grabbed it, brought it home, told his daughter to cook it; the boy asked the cannibal's daughter to give him her dress, dressed like her, threw it into boiling water; the cannibal did not understand that the daughter changed; the imaginary daughter says she does not want human meat, she will eat chicken; asks the cannibal to give her long hair; ties her, runs away; the cannibal sees what her daughter has cooked, cries; the boy killed her with a stick]: Morgenstierne 1944, No. 21:127-129; Tajiks [the man caught a fox, told his wife to cook shurpa out of it; the fox offered to chop the meat herself, killed the woman, cooked it, fed the man; when he ate it, showed a fox tail, ran away; the hare asked the fox to take firewood to the mountain, then give it food; set fire to her hair, she fell down the mountain; the hare offered to fish; the fox has a clay raft, the hare has a tree, a fox drowned]: Levin et al. 1981, No. 206:214-215.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Dasent 1970:124-129 [the woman has a well-fed son, his name is Butter Cup (World Cup); a witch comes, her head is under her arm, her mother tells the World Cup to hide; replies that the World Cup is gone; the witch says she has a silver knife for him; the World Cup pops up, the witch asks him to get the knife out of the bag, takes it away; on the way asks how far it is to Store; the World Cup replies that it is only half a mile; the witch goes to bed, the World Cup cuts a hole in the bag, returns to her mother; the same for the second time (silver spoon); the third time (silver fork), the witch comes home straight; goes to call guests, tells her daughter cook the prey; she does not know how to start; the World Cup advises her to lie on a cutting board, cuts off the girl's head, puts her in bed, cooks the meat, climbs onto the roof, taking the root of the spruce and the stone; when the guests feast, The World Cup screams that they eat broth from the witch's daughter, throws stone and root at them, everyone dies, he takes gold and silver], 215-221 [the younger brother inherits only sauerkraut; the elders are hired to to the king as assistants to the coachman and gardener, the youngest in the kitchen; everyone loves him; the brothers say that he can get seven silver ducks belonging to the troll across the lake; the youngest brings them in sauerkraut; the same - a troll blanket with silver and gold embroidery; a troll's golden harp; a young man lets himself be caught, a troll tells his daughter to fatten him; he lets you touch a nail first, then a sliver, and finally his little finger; a troll goes to invite guests, the daughter sharpens a knife; the young man offers to sharpen her better, cuts off the troll's daughter's head, cooks, bakes; puts on her clothes; the troll advises his daughter to dispel her sadness by playing the harp; finding out where the harp is , the young man takes her away, swims away in kvashna; the troll, when he finds out that he ate his daughter, bursts; the young man gets the princess and the throne]; Icelanders [the giantess lived in a cave and robbed people next door; the woman's son had very beautiful chess; the giantess kidnapped them; the mother threatened to kill her son if he did not return the chess; the boy went to the giantess's cave; she told her daughter, while she was away, to cook the boy before that stretch her tendons by tying them to the handle of the cauldron; the boy asked the giantess's daughter to show him the old woman's jewelry, then offered to fight; cut her throat, changed into her clothes and started it cook; not knowing what to do with his tendons, he jumped out to the horse, cut off his penis and tied it to the handle of the cauldron; eating his horse's penis, the old woman said that the piece was harsh; then she heard a voice from the cauldron: Mom, you're eating me! The giantess rushed outside but fell down and broke her neck; the boy took with him as much stuff as he could carry, including chess]: Árnason 1955:244-245.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Altaians: Radlov, I: 28 in Potanin 1883 [Tardanak plows the land; seven-headed Jelbegen puts it in a bag, brings it to his house, wants to cook it; T. frees himself from the bag, throws it into the cauldron of children T.; scalds him himself, knocking over the cauldron; (options recorded by missionary Fr. Verbitsky among the black Tatars)]: 774; Sadalova 1989 [Dielbegen deceives Bashparak into a bag on arable land, brings him home, goes for firewood, tells the children to watch for prey; B. promises show children games, frees himself, kills children, hides in the dig; D. tries to climb after him, B. pours boiling water on him; D. jumps into the river, dies; options: B. and D. meet hunting; D. comes home to B. or B. wanders into D.'s house himself]: 84-86; Teleuts [the boy Tardanak was on arable land; the seven-headed Elbegen told him to get into the bag, carried him, lay down, fell asleep, T. got out, filled the bag with grass, returned to himself; it turned out that E. brought herbs to his children; E. put T. in the bag again, brought it to him, went to buy firewood; T. promised E.'s two children to hit the arrow; they untied the bag; T. cut them off put his heads on bed, cooked the bodies, dug out of the yurt into the street; E. returned, began to call the children, found their heads; T. answers from home and then from the street; when E. found a dig, T. knocked over the cauldron on him, E. cooked]: Tokmashev 2013:346-348; Kumandins [Mashparak plows the land, Dielbegen comes, tells me to look in his head, takes M. in a bag, goes to watch the trap at the fish; M. runs away, leaving guns instead of himself; next time he brings stones; the third time he brings M. to his daughters; goes for firewood; M. promises to teach D.'s daughters how to play, they release him, he cuts off their heads, puts them on bed, roasts meat; answers D. who comes from the underground, he climbs there, M. returns to the house, pours boiling water on D.; advises to rub himself on the aspen, lie on the village (even worse), tying the stone to neck, throw himself into the water; D. jumped (and drowned)]: Baskakov 1972:162-165; tubalars: Baskakov 1965 [Dielbegen came to a boy named Pashparak (Little Finger), asks him to look for him in his head, P. looked for it, fell asleep, Diellbegen carried it in a bag, P. ran away on the way, put rotten things in a bag, Diellbegen's children found them; the second time Diellbegen carried P. home, asked what fire he would boil on; On the branches of an ironwood growing at the base of the sky; Djellbegen followed them; P. promised Diellbegen's children to make onions if they released them; cut off the heads of the sleepers, cooked them, Dijellbegen ate them; P. dug a way outside, answers D. either from the yurt or outside; poured boiling water over them]: 25-27; Radloff 1866, No. 13 [there were three brothers, one of them stupid; drove up to the house, broke the door, in the room cooked food; the foolish offers food, others are afraid; the foolish man began to eat; the wind blew, the brothers climbed into the basement, there are three girls; the brothers returned to the room, finished their meals; is the seven-headed Zhelbegen, says that the house smells of human spirit, sees that the food has been eaten; tells one of the girls to cook a man for her, give her a liver; J. leaves; three girls are going to bake one of the brothers in the oven; two afraid to go out, the stupid one goes out; the girl tells him to lie on a shovel, which is sent in heat what needs to be baked; stupid brother: I can't, show me myself; the girl lies on the shovel, the stupid brother pushes her into the oven; when she is baked, she cuts out the liver, puts it on the table; J.: "Well done, baby, made me a liver", eats it; then shouts that it is not a person's liver, but her daughter's liver; orders the two remaining girls after all, cook a man for her, leaves again; (the same as the first girl; then the same with the third); the brothers want to go out, but the door is locked; the stupid brother fights with J. who comes, kills her, cuts her off and puts his hand (she is like an ax) and a leg by his waist; twelve-headed J. came, the brothers climbed a tree; the stupid overcomes her; the brothers recognize the superiority of the stupid]: 283-290; the Shors [Mashmoruk alone lives, Chelbegen with three children; C. asks M. to come look in his head, put it in a bag, brought it to the children; poured it out - there was only dry rotten in the bag; next time he did not want to rest ( so that M. did not run away along the road, but apparently stopped); there was only ice in the bag at home; M. brought him the third time; C. left, M. asked his children to show their father's sword, ordered them to lie down to find out which of them handsome, cut his throat, chopped the meat, began to cook, covered his heads with a blanket; C. began to eat, called the children - they did not answer; C. found heads, began to call M., who was in the basement; C. down, and M. at that time up; so several times; M. called out to C., poured boiling water into his face; advised him to rub himself against the cedar bark; his skin was torn off; M. went across the river; C.: how did he cross? M.: picked up the full hem of the stones and made a bridge out of dry hogweed; C. drowned]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 6:227-231; Khakas: Samdan 1994, No. 18 [the kid's seven mothers are missing; an old woman is coming Chilbyga; he pretends to be dead; she brings him to her house, leaves him to roast above the fire; her children eat his feces and urine, believing it to be fat; he promises them the best if they release it; kills , roasts their liver and kidneys, digs a hole with two exits; C. eats the liver and kidneys of children; rushes to one or the other way out of the hole; asks how to kill him; Hit with an ax; he jumps out , she hits her crotch, dying, asks not to cut her little finger; he cut, there are seven birth mothers there, he released them]: 361-364; Taube 1978, No. 56 [earlier, when Milk Lake it was a puddle, and Mount Sümber was a mound, the old people had a son, Döng Sööshük; his father told him to sit on a white ox and bring calves; D. did not find calves, and when he returned, he did not there was a trace left; his ox fell, he began to burn his fat; Chylbyga appeared, put it in a bag, carried it to her children; he cut a hole, hid behind a bump; when she saw that the bag was empty, C. screamed so much that D. came out of the shelter; she hung it in the chimney, went to get firewood; D. promised her seven children to play with them if they released him; stabbed everyone, put their heads to bed, cooked meat, collected blood in empty stomach, hid himself behind the yurt; C. found the meat cooked, called the children, found heads; D. ran, spilled blood on the ice; C. began to lick it so that it would not spill into the water, his tongue froze, D. cut her throat; cut her stomach, his parents and all the cattle came out alive]: 273-276; South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1994, No. 30 [old man Daptamal, old woman Burshukbey, their boy Ottukbay, Gestickbey girl and seven goats; jelbege comes successively, swallows goats, children, an old woman; drags the old man, who leaves stone and turf in his place several times; she holds his hands, brings him children, leaves them to smoke, goes for a skewer; children eat his feces and urine; he promises them something better if they untie his hands; kills, cooks seven yellow jelbegyats, puts their heads on the bed; digs the way out of the house; when the jelbege rushes into the pit, D. scraps it with boiling water; finds three live goats, a living wife and children in his stomach], 47 [The fox pretends to be a poor orphan, childless old people take him to sons, let their seven goats feed; every day one disappears; the fox explains that the goats are left on the rock; the old man finds skins full of grass there; shouts to his wife to kill the Fox, who hears poorly; The fox explains that her husband tells her to bake a cake in butter for him, Fox; hits the old woman to death in the face with his tail, runs away; the old man's heart is broken; the Wolf sees the Fox regurgitating fat; he explains that you have to put the tail into the water, oil will fall from the sky; the tail froze, the fox brought the old man to kill the wolf, who took the Fox as his son; the fox killed the old man's horse, the old man hung it in the chimney, went to buy firewood; the old man's children began to lick the urine and feces of the fox, thinking it was fat; the fox said that sugar would flow from his mouth, asked him to bring a knife to cut off their sugar, killed both boys, cooked; the old man recognizes his sons, falls out of grief into a boiling pot; the fox tells the birds that he is a llama; a hundred birds take turns for blessing, he bites each wing, kills; jumps on a rabbit, is trapped by a hunter]: 238-240, 266-268; Buryats: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 23 (Bayandaevsky District, Irkutsk Region) [old man Harhan stabbed a bull, could not finish eating his ribs, offers a crow (she only wants eyes), a magpie (stomach contents), a 7-headed mangadhay; he eats a bull, takes H. to him, tells seven his sons to cook it; H. persuaded them to untie it (he would make them toys), killed him, cooked it, put their heads as if they were sleeping, filled their stomachs with blood, put needles in meat, put testicles in ash; mangadhai came, he pricked his needles, his testicles burst into his eyes, he thinks this is punishment for not sharing with fire with his sons; he found heads, looked for H., who dug a passage, answers outside the house and then from the inside; runs, throwing his stomachs with blood on the ice; mangadhai begins to lick blood every time, his tongue freezes, H. cuts off his head; so he cut off 7 heads]: 277-281; Khangalov 1960, No. 117 [Tyonehon stabs the bull, calls the crow, the magpie eats meat; they answer that they will bite their eyes, the scar; T. drives them away; calls the seven-headed mangathai; he eats everything, is not full, takes T. in a bag to him; hangs over the fire, leaves his seven sons under supervision; T. urinates, they think that lard is dripping, drinking; T. promises everyone an arrow and a bow, they let him out of the bag; he cuts off their heads, cooks meat and heads puts him on bed, hangs his stomachs with blood around his neck, digs a passage under the wall of the dwelling; m eats the meat of his sons; calls T. hears his voice on the street or in the house; T. runs away on the ice of the yellow sea, bleeds on the ice, m licks her, his tongue freezes; T. cuts off seven heads in turn, burns the body, scatters the ashes]: 304-308; Eliasov 1973, No. 23 [old woman Harhan stabbed a bull; magpie, crow, shepherd want is not what she offers them; the seven-headed mangathai eats everything, takes H. to her place, tells the children to cook; she promises to make them arrows if they release it; kills, cooks, mangathai eats her own children; H. digs a course, hides from the mangathai in and out of the yurt, runs away on the ice, throwing wineskins full of blood; mangathai licks them, her tongue freezes, she cuts off all seven heads one by one, burns the corpse], 31 [same as (23), but the hero is a Tenekhon man]: 166-170, 223-227; Mongols (Eastern Khalkha) [old Tochikhan killed a bull, did not finish eating the rib, goes and asks who will eat; forty, the crow can't, Mangat eats, takes T. away; she puts wood and stone instead of herself, he catches her up every time, brings her home; leaves the children to fry; she defecates, they eat, they think fat; she asks them to give them a knife, frees himself, kills, cooks children; M. eats his children; T. runs away on the ice, M. slides, crashes]: Amsterdam 1940, No. 2:36-38.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty (b. Wah); Mansi; Southern Selkups; Northern Selkups [Icha goes to the taiga to hunt, leaves her grandmother in the plague. Shoots at teals on the water, misses. When you try to pull an arrow out of the garbage heap, it falls into the trap of the devil - it sticks with its hands and feet. The damn old man calls Icha "a bird, a Kuksha chick," and brings his daughters to his chum. Icha says the pot is too small to cook. The hell goes for a big pot. Icha promises to cut a patterned spoon for her damn daughters to slurp his fat. A tree amuses a tree outside, calls to look, kills both with a blow in the middle of the forehead, cooks them in a cauldron, hangs pieces on their pins, puts their heads under the cauldron. He cuts off the socks of the damn old man's pims, fills him with ash, lets two forty into the plague. Attaching a hatchet to his belt, he climbs onto the larch. The hell comes, eats her daughters' meat: "Ooh! It's like it smells like meat!" He takes forty votes for talking to her daughters. He finds heads in the cauldron. He finds Icha on larch, cuts it down. A bear comes, asks for help cutting an ax, leaves with it. The devil brings another one. Wolverine comes, also offers to help cut, and also carries away an ax. The hell remembers that in the old fashioned way, when he swallowed the whole city, he also swallowed Teslo. He regurgitates him. A fox comes, offers help, takes away the Teslo. The hell's trying to vomit again. Icha shouts: "Grandpa! When you vomit your insides, what are you breaking again? You lie down on your back (dosl. "fall down"), your mouth, your eyes, your nostrils, your anus - crucify everything in two with chopsticks." That's what the hell does. Icha comes down, covers the devil's eyes with ash, kills him with the butt of an ax, and burns him at the stake. Sparks make mosquitoes. Icha speaks to his grandmother]: Prokofiev 1935:101-103; the northern Selkups [Ichkycha, who lives with his grandmother, sails into the forest on a shuttle, falls into the dung trap of hell. The hell calls it a "baby bird". Ichkycha gives his daughters a colorful spoon, kills them, cooks them, lets the chicks into the house, and the devil eats the meat. A hare, fox, wolverine, wolf, bear offer him to help cut down a tree from Ichkyc and take every axe that the devil, thanks to the city eaten in the past, regurgitates. Ichkycha suggests: "Grandfather, how long are you going to mess around like this? Grandpa! Crucify your eyes and everything related to them, your mouth and everything related to it with sticks. I'm going to fall in your mouth." He falls asleep on his face with ash, kills him with an ax and burns him, cursing that in some years there will be a lot of ash (mosquitoes), while in others there are few]: Kuznetsova et al. 1993, No. 5:15-17, 54-57; northern Selkups ( Krasnoselkupsk) [Ichakychika lives with her grandmother. goes fishing with a net, quarrels with damn dung cake, sticks. The damn old man calls him "bunny" and leaves it to his daughters. I. promises to forge a spoon, invites them to sit on his knees, kills their father with tools, and cooks them. A hare, fox, wolf, under the pretext of helping, take an ax from the damn old man, who regurgitates axes swallowed along with seven cities. I. suggests: "Grandfather, you go ashore, crucify your eyes and your nose, your mouth with bars." That's what the hell does. I. throws ash into his mouth, kills him, breaks his dugout, burns him. Ash particles will now eat people at the behest of the devil]: Kuznetsova et al. 1993, No. 6:17-20, 57-60; Northern Selkups (Tolka) [A boy, the son of a single woman, goes hunting in a shuttle, falls into devil trap. He takes him down the hole, feeds him, tries it with a needle, whether he is fat. The boy asks the imp to show his father's iron things, saws the iron door with a file, kills two devils, hangs meat, climbs a tree. The hell's trying to cut it down. The hare and the wolverine take the teslo off the hell. Boy on top: "Grandpa, lie down on your back! Crucify your mouth, your eyes! I'll fall into your mouth myself!" He cuts and burns the devil, mosquitoes, flies, midges, insects appear from pieces of his meat]: Kuznetsova et al. 1993, No. 7:20-22, 60-62; chum salmon [when Baba Yaga comes (translated by the storyteller), Casket and Totabol hide behind the olatin and under the focal chock; Kleinitsa gives them out, B. puts them in their pants, carries them to their daughters; tells them to eat more; K. fills his sleeve and throws them out, T. eats, becomes fat; while B . hunts bears, K. asks her daughters to give him a drill, drills a hole in the wall of a stone plague; kills daughters, hangs their meat, runs away through the hole; T. gets stuck, K. carries his head; B. mistakenly eats the meat of his daughters; pursues K., who creates larch trees, climbs to the top of his head; B. regurgitates an ax, cuts the trunk; the hare calls to help; puts chips back while B. sleeps; when wakes up, K. asks her to open her mouth and eyes: "First (now) lie down at the butt of a tree and expand your mouth with a stick, and expand your eyes with chopsticks!" ; throws sand in his eyes; goes down, kills with a horn, burns; puts T.'s head, he comes to life]: Dulzon 1966, No. 5:23-27.

Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [Lyybyra sails in a boat, jumps on a rock, paddle, arm, leg, etc. stick; Angaa Mongus carries him away in his pocket; L. ran away while he sat down to recover, his wife is looking forward to dinner swallowed a needle and thread, but found nothing, A. ripped open her stomach, found only a needle, cried; came back, brought L., hung it on the hook, left; L. relieved her small and big need, A.'s children thought it was dripping fat; L. promises them to make spoons, they release him, he cuts off their heads, cooks meat; A. ate the children; L. answers A. either from behind the wall or from the chimney; tells them to climb under the hearth not with his head, but with his back, puts him in the ass is a hot poker; he died, L. returned home]: Efremov 2000, No. 12:223-227; the central Yakuts (4th Malzhagar Nasleg of the Khangalas Ulus) [Chaachahaan promises to slaughter the bull by evening; his son Ot Atah ("grass leg") happily started riding, fell, broke his right leg, began to ride on the other leg, broke it too, began to ride on both arms, broke them too, began to ride on his head, his head flew off, began to roll on his chest, his chest broke, and the guy died; Ora Mayi's son ("naughty brain") ran to collect branches, threw them up, the branch fell on his head, he died; son Ot Syalyya ("grass pants") let him hold a burning splint, he accidentally set fire to his pants, burned down, died; the wife of the old woman Chabychahaan (the name of birch bark dishes), sitting and stirring the bull's blood in birch bark dishes, fell into this dish with blood and died; son Sebirdeh Tues ("foliage breast") was walking carrying bovine breast, his chest broke and he died; daughter Kyl Kyuemei ("hairthroat") wanted to fry and eat thin bull's oil seal, clay from the hearth stuck to the omentum, she swallowed it, choked and died; son Habah Bas ("bubble head") said, My relatives all died, stood, cried, scratching his head, suddenly His fingers dug into his head, which killed him; C. ate one fried intestine, decided to call Mogus to reduce meat; the elder, middle Ala Mogus, says that they have lost their ability to eat; the youngest agrees, eats meat and the dead, carries C. himself as a gift to his wife; he cuts through the bag, falls out; the wife hastily swallowed a thimble with a needle, found an empty bag; Mogus decided that she ate C. in the yard, ripped her stomach, a needle and a thimble fell out of there; Mogus returns for C., he hides himself in dry bark, M. tramples on C., thinks that her bones are cracking; at M. C. says it's better to eat it with small dried fish; promises M.'s children to make a spoon, who give him their father's knife, he cuts off their heads, puts them on their bed, cooks their meat, hides in a hole leading from home; to get into it, M. becomes thin, C. cuts off his head, takes the swallowed ones out of his stomach; does not find live water; the bird screams, Little finger; C. cuts M.'s little finger, there is a snuffbox with live with water, he revives his wife and children]: Ergis 1964, No. 38:112-116; Northwestern Yakuts (Deer) [Charchahaan wants to pick wood fungus from larch (it serves as a medicine); his hand, second arm, legs , his forehead sticks; Angaa Mogus takes it away, C. cuts through the bag, runs away, puts bark under his fur coat; AM finds him, kicks him, thinks that his bones are cracking, brings it to the children, leaves himself; C. promises to make them a spoon, tells them give a sharp sword, cuts off their heads, puts them on bed, cooks the meat, digs a way out; AM felt that it was the meat of his blood relatives, wanted to catch C., could not put his head into use; C. offers to climb backwards, pierces with a hot foot; he tells him to make oars from his two hands, make a boat out of his back bones, his ankle bone with a pole in the booth, a cauldron from the skull, and cups from his eye sockets]: Ergis 1964, No. 39:118-120; Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man filled the box with resin, called the fox to eat honey, it stuck; pretended to be dead; at home, the man's children say that the fox is alive, they do not believe them; the parents went to buy firewood, the fox promises the children to cook dinner, they untied her, she ran away; asks the wolf to tie her to a tree and feed her; the wolf also asks to be tied to a tree; the fox tied it up and ran away; the Kuksha freed him; the fox stole the roll, says the wolverine that she caught it on the tail in the ice-hole; the tail froze, the women beat the wolverine with rocker arms, the tail came off; since then, the short-tailed wolverine has been looking fox]: Suvorov 1956:53-54; Evenks (Baikal region, Sym, Ilimpic, Turukhansky, Angara region, Amur); Evens; Evens of Kamchatka.

Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi.

SV Asia. Tundra yukaghirs.

California. Yurok.

Guiana. Makushi [Anikê and Inskirã brothers set up a bird-hunting shelter in a tree; Okreimã appeared with a wind tube; A. ordered not to look, I. looked, O. noticed him, killed him; ordered A. to throw off the corpse, otherwise he would kill him; A. followed; O. cut it, began to cook the prey, his wife Kamaiuapá was cooking cassava; the girl at their house said that a special leaf should be shaken in front of O.; A. shook in front of her, she died; killed O. and his wife in the same way; covered pieces of I.'s body with leaves, began to blow, he came to life]: Soares Diniz 1971, No. 4:81-82; oyampy [two men went hunting birds, settled on a platform; Woo (underground creatures in the form of giant sloths) appeared from the ground, and his gaze at the head of one of the men rolled off his shoulders; the other hunter shot, but the arrow for Woo was like a fly bite; a man descended down a hole into the lower world; Woo's children replied that the parents were fresh on the Kinkaju River (i.e. the killed person); the man asked the children how the weapon worked, pointed them at them, tearing them off their heads; then killed adults Woo; lived for two months stealing peanuts from the Sun's garden; the children of the Sun tracked him down, trapped him; man lived by the Sun until the next new moon; the Month came, asked to sell pet; The Sun reluctantly gave so that the son of the Month could play; The month brought man to earth; since then it has been known what is underground]: Grenada 1980:322-324.

Montagna - Jurua. Chayahuita: García Tomas 1994 (3): 283-285 [The eagle takes the children who have climbed the tree; Cumpanama turns into a boy, the Eagle takes him away; leaves him to roast at home, goes for firewood; K. defecates, Eagle's children say that "It turned into two" (Esta haciendo el dos), laugh; K. takes the form of Brother Eagle, asks for an ax to chop wood, kills him, tells eagles to eat animals, especially iguanas, but not humans], 286-287 [as on p. 283-285; K. also kills Eagle's wife], 288-289 [as on pp. 283-285, K. also kills all eagles except one]; kashinahua [Naimbo builds a forest, the end reaches the sky; the storm breaks it, takes N. far from the village; he follows the hunters, but is afraid to step on poisonous ants, goes to others by; gets stuck in the hawk cannibal trap, falling into it first with one leg, then with the other, with one hand, with the other, head (=tar-baby); Hawk has huge testicles and carries his penis in his bag; puts N. brings home; goes for firewood; Hawk's wife is N.'s ex-fiancée, whom Hawk stole; she hides it under a vessel; Hawk asks their pet parrot what happened; the woman promises kill a parrot if he gives it away; the Hawk tells his ants, wasps, snakes to look for them, but the woman recalls them or presses them every time; at night, Hawk's penis crawls towards his wife, ejaculates between her knees; now she sleeps with N., gives birth to a boy; N. goes to the forest, climbs the genip tree; the Hawk finds him, leads him down; N. throws him fruits, tries to throw them further; goes down, runs to the river; there animals fish, hide it in the sand, covering their faces with a basket; the Hawk blows the wind, but N. manages not to cough; the hawk returns home, the animals show N. the way to his mother's house; he loses her, but ends up getting home]: d'Ans 1975:214-232.