L42J. The tree bends (children in the ogre's bag) .39.40.
Thecannibal catches children (usually mice), puts them in a bag, tells the tree (pole, crossbar in the house) to bend down, hangs the bag, tells the tree to straighten again, and leaves. Another character (usually a fox) tells the tree (pole, etc.) to bend down, frees the children.
Coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Chuvans, Itelmen, Asian Eskimos, St. Lawrence.
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 it was transparent; after the fox fell into it, it became salty and cloudy]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:364-371; Chuvans [Families of wealthy reindeer herders go to visit a neighboring camp, taking them with them poor family. Both children are left alone. The poor go to play with the rich. They play and make noise without noticing how night falls. Poor children are afraid to make noise: "Don't laugh if someone comes. We're scared." The rich don't stop. Suddenly the ground started to tremble. The children of the rich didn't even notice it. The canopy opened and Devil's terrible head appeared. He opened his mouth to ear and laughed out loud too. The children of the rich died of fear. The devil went into the canopy, found a leaky kitchen, put the poor children in it, and went outside. I found a tree and said to him: "Wood, bend down!" ; hung the children to the very top and went in search of food. A fox came running and said "tree, get down!" , released the children; they ran away. The devil came to the tree and shook him. Berries fell from the leaky kitchen. The hell started eating berries saying "my children's eyes are falling." The hell lowered the tree, saw an empty kitchen, thought someone had eaten his kids, and went looking for it. I found a fox hole and went into it. The fox told him that she was ill, had not got up for several days, and there was no one to take out the pot of urine. I got the hell out of it. Fox: I'm pouring off the cliff. She advised the line to approach the cliff without turning around and raising one leg. He did so. The fox crept up behind, threw him off the cliff, the devil smashed his head]: Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 15:32-34; itelmen: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 179 [Kutkh sews, something blocks the light; he decided that nose, cut it off; then cheeks, lips, eyebrows, eyelashes; then noticed that the mice were sledding; invited them to roll into his pants; tied him up, found a tree, told him to bend down, hung his pants, told him to a tree to straighten up; 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 her 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. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino): Menovshchikov 1988, No. 12 [five girls went to the tundra; Mayyrahpak put them in a camley, hung them on a tree; Bear, Raven refuse to help, Fox tells a tree bend down, frees four girls, could not wake the fifth; four ran away, filling the camley with berries; M. pierces a knife, thinks that her eyes are falling; the girl agrees not to kill, brings her to her house; two men free her, run with her; a stone thrown by a girl turns into a mountain; she draws a line with her cut little finger, a river appears; M. drinks it, bursts; teapots and cups fell out of it, plates, buckets, other things]: 67-68; Rubtsova 1954 [girls pick berries; the giantess catches them, puts them in her camley, leaves them on the tree; Ermine, the Hare refuse to help; The fox tells the tree to bend down frees girls; they fill the camley with berries; one girl gets stuck in her sleeve; the giantess takes berries for human eyes; brings the girl home, adopts; two men come, the girl runs with them; throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; draws a line on the ground, a river appears; the giant drinks it, bursts; metal tools and utensils fall from her womb]: 117-120; Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [female mice were sewn for berries; Mayyrahpak saw them, began to sharpen a knife, packed them in her kitchen, hung them on a tree and told him to straighten up; went to her place; the mice asked for a euro release them; she refuses: they threw stones at it; the same is an ermine; the fox (or rather a fox, but this is a female) agrees; tells me to fill the kitchen with shiksha (bushes along with berries); the mice ran away, the fox she went to her place, spread the red paint of alder, smeared herself and the night pot; M. tells the tree to bend down, first takes the berries by the eyes, then understands the deception, comes to the fox to kill her; believes that she dies; agrees to carry the pot to the edge of the cliff to empty; the fox follows, pushes M. off the cliff; M. caught on the bird's nest; began to ask the birds to pick it up, but they are afraid - heavy; painted the axe; seeing this, the other axes also wanted to be painted; since then they have raised M.; she went south and the fox went north; jumped on the ice to cross to the other side; The Maskin guys started shooting at her; the fox first asked to let her go to land, ran away, began to live in a hole; and M. stopped at the crushing rocks; settled inside them; took up an evil son spirits; he, playing with children, killed them; M. herself took the liver of the walruses caught from the hunters; the hunters invited M.'s pupil to hunt, threw the liver on thin ice, the young man failed, following her, his finished off with harpoons; his liver was handed over to M.; she recognized her son's liver by his lice that fell from it; cried; sent the wind and carried the hunters into the sea; the old man had a raven as an assistant spirit; he came to M., ordered she should leave her home; the doors behind her closed themselves; the raven to the doors: just try to open - I'll spark; M. could not return to the dugout and left]: Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 7:90-106; 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.