L42C. Either in the house or outside. 34.36.39.

The character hides from the stronger one inside the house and then outside, the strong cannot grab him.

Chulym Turks, Tubals, Kumandins, Teleuts, Shors, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Dolgans, Central and North-Eastern (Verkhoyan and possibly Kolyma) Yakuts, Ilimpic Evenks, Tundra Yukaghirs.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Chulym Turks [the chanterelle asks the elderly to live, will be an assistant; says that she will go to visit her pregnant older sister; eats fish stocks herself; says that the child was named Full; in next time Half a thimble; then It's over; the old man shouts to the old woman to catch the fox, the old woman does not hear, asks again, the fox explains that the old man tells her to boil water; pours boiling water on the old woman, she died; the chanterelle hides in the underground, answers the old man that she is at home; when the old man entered the house, the chanterelle is outside; the old man fell, died, the chanterelle got the farm]: Porotova 1980:82-83 (=Lukina 2004, No. 5.13: 123-124); tubalars [Dielbegen came to a boy named Pashparak (Little Finger), asks him to look in his head, P. searches, fell asleep, Diellbegen carried him in a bag, P. ran away on the way, put him in a bag rotten, Diellbegen's children found them; for 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 went after them; P. promised Diellbegen's children to make bows if they released him; cut off the heads of the sleepers, cooked them, Diellbegen ate them; P. dug the way outside, answers Djellbegen from the yurt and then outside; poured boiling water] : Baskakov 1965:25-27; Kumandins [Mashparak plows the land, Diellbegen 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 him in his place shanks; next time 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 meat on the bed roasts; 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 tree, lie on a mess (even worse), tied a stone to his neck, throw himself into water; D. jumped (and drowned)]: Baskakov 1972:162-165; 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 off their heads, put them on bed, cooked the bodies, dug from 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; Shors [Mashmoruk lives alone, Chelbegen lives with three children; C. asks M. to look in his head, put it in a bag, brought it to the children; poured it out - only dry in the bag rotten; next time the same, but C. 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 show his father's sword, ordered him to lie down to find out which of them was beautiful, 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, became call M., the one 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 crossed? M.: collected the full hem of the stones and made a bridge out of dry hogweed; C. drowned]: Arbachakova 2010, No. 6:227-231; South Altai Tuvans [old man Daptamal, old woman Burshukbey, they have a 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 a better second if they untie his hands; kills, cooks seven yellow jelbegyats, puts their heads on the bed; digs going out of the house; when the jelbege rushes into the hole, D. scraps it with boiling water; finds three live goats, a living wife and children in his stomach]: Taube 1994, No. 30; 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 the meat, put their testicles in ash; the 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 the 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 Tenehon man]: 166-170, 223-227.

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 from She swallowed a needle and thread in anticipation of dinner, but found nothing, A. ripped open her stomach, found only a needle, cried; came back, brought L., hung her on the hook, left; L. relieved her small and great need, A. decided that 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 not to climb under the hearth with his head and back, he puts a hot poker in his ass; he died, L. returned home]: Efremov 2000, No. 12:223-227; Yakuts: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 13 (Megino-Kangalassky District, near Yakutsk) [y old Chaachahaan-Chaachahaan husband, daughter, two sons, a huge bull; he was stabbed to death while cooking if everyone died except HCH (daughter burned with fatty meat, son fell on ice, etc.); HC came to the eldest Angaa Mogus to help her eat the bull; he cannot eat, the middle AM too, the youngest ate, brought the HF herself, gave it to his wife; she gladly swallowed the needle and thimble; she gladly swallowed the needle and thimble; did not respond to her husband; he thought that she ate HH alone, ripped her stomach apart, there was a needle and a thimble, AM tanned; told 7 daughters, 9 sons to cook HF by his arrival; HC promised to make spoons if they showed them where the AM knife was; cut them off with a knife heads, cooked the eldest, put the rest and head as if to sleep; dug the exits out; AM eats, feels a relative; discovers the dead; HF hides from him inside the house and outside; offers go backwards, otherwise he is afraid to look at him; kills with a knife; lives well]: 163-171; Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [Chaachahaan is preparing to slaughter a bull; Alaa Mogus comes, eats a bull, C.'s three sons are hiding, AM asks all the objects in the house where C. and his sons are; everyone replies that AM has not used them for a long time, AM breaks them; only the poker says that C. always shoves her into the fire, shows where the hidden ones are, AM swallows her sons, H-na carries them home in his bag, he cuts the bag, runs away; the wife says the bag is empty, AM thinks she has already swallowed C., cuts her stomach, regrets killing her in vain; AM again brings C., gives her daughters, goes for salt, at this time the daughters got into a fight, who will eat C., killed each other; C. digs a way out, answers AM from the yard or from home; AM gets stuck in the dig, C. brings his lion bite; Ch.'s living sons get out of A.'s stomach]: 104-111 (=Sivtsev-Omolloon 1976:69-80); Khudyakov 1890, No. 9 (Verkhoyansky) [Charchakhan has people Hair Throat, Woody Leaf Chest, Smelly Side, Bubble Head; he has a lousy bull to the cloud, a faded bull to the sky; a bull was killed; Leaf Breast raised his sternum, broke his chest and died; Hairthroat wanted to swallow part of his lung, peeled off his throat, died; Herbal Leg went to get water, put water on the ice, began to jump, legs, arms, everything broke, died; Herbal Pants began to make a fire, burned down; Bubble The head scratched his head in sorrow, it burst, died; C. goes to three edunam; the first eats little, the second has stopped altogether, the third goes with C., eats everything, takes him away in his bag; while he went to relieve himself, C. cut the bag and ran away; the edun's wife was happy that he brought meat , swallowed a thimble and a needle; the eater thinks it was she who ate the meat, gutted it, there was only a thimble and a needle inside; the eater found C., he stuffed bark under his clothes, the eater stepped, there was a crackling sound, he brought the eater he came to his place, went for fish; C. promises the children of the edun to make a knife, they released C., he killed them, cooked them, put their heads on the bed, dug out; the eater eats his children; looking for C., he responds to something from at home, then outside; the eater poked into a hole, got stuck, C. cut off his head]: 232-239; Ergis 1967b, No. 79 (summary of some texts, links including the archive and materials of the Srednekolym Expedition 1964 g.) [poor man (var.: old woman) Chaarchahaan stabbed a bull; his children die from accidents; he invited Alaa Mogus to visit; he ate everything, took the owner to feed his children; on the road C. falls out of the bag; AM's wife does not find C., AM kills her, suspected that she ate a hotel, but C. was not in her stomach; AM brings C. a second time, leaves, ordering the children to slaughter and cook C.; he himself cooks dinner from AM children, digs an underground passage; AM tastes his children's meat, calls C., he responds on the street; AM jumps out there, and C. responds from the house; AM climbs into the underground passage, C. kills him, takes his children out of his stomach]: 176; Ilimpic Evenks (pos. Chirinda): Duvakin 2013 (western 2007) [Komoy decided to eat Sarsican and set up traps that were like mushrooms; Sarsican kicked one of them and stuck; K. took the prisoner home, hung him to dry, and himself left; S. persuaded K.'s children to take it off, started playing with them, and offered to dig an underground passage; when K. returned, the children and S. were sitting underground; S. shouted to K. to climb to them, but backwards, because the hole narrow; K. did so; S. pierced it with a hot iron, then killed the children and returned home]; Yermakov 1988 (Western 1965) [A Chulugdy with one leg, one arm, one eye tracks down Charchikana; he covers himself under the park with bark, pretends to be dead, Chulugdy thinks his ribs are broken, brings him home; while collected firewood, Charchikan dug a hole with two exits; calls Chulugdy from one end and then from the other; says he has cooked himself; Chulugdy climbs into the hole, Charchikan gouges out his eye, closes the exits from the outside ; Chulugdy died in a hole]: 43-44; Evens of Kamchatka [the magical man Debare saw a mushroom on a birch tree, hit it with his fist, his hand stuck, then both arms and legs; the sorcerer brought it to him, hung it over the cauldron; D . says that the sorcerer does not have an ax, he goes for an ax; then the same thing - a sharpener, a pot, etc.; at this time, the sorcerer's children were playing, knocked over the cauldron; D. asks to show how they will cut it himself hacked them and cooked them; the sorcerer ate the children, pulled the veil off the bed, and there were only heads; the sorcerer is looking for D., runs out into the street, D.'s voice from somewhere out of the ground; {the storyteller is confused, apparently D. dug an underground move}]: Kasten, Avak 2014:61-67.

SV Asia. Tundra yukaghirs [old man Tyartekan puts tree bark under his clothes; the cannibal grabs it, he creaks, the cannibal thinks he is skinny; brings it to the children, tells them to cook it; T. asks them to give him a knife make them onions; kills them, cooks them, digs a way out; the cannibal eats his children's meat; gets tired of chasing T. when he runs out and back down the underground passage; T. kills him with a spear]: Sanghi 1989:428 -429.