L5G. The older sister's head is rolling after the younger sister.
. (.13.) .35.-.37.
All thatremains of one of the sisters is her head. She goes after another sister or sisters, or they take her with them; eventually, her head finds a place to settle down.
(Wed. Sudan - East Africa. Nzakara [you can't fish downstream, there's the owner of the waters Ngbouon; the woman catches there, with her two daughters, the youngest is still in the cradle; the eldest says that the cradle has sailed away, the mother sends behind her; on the way, the girl meets an elephant, a lion, politely answers where she is going; N. is kind, offers many cradles, but the girl takes only hers; returns; the mother is happy; the next day she takes with her another, eldest daughter to watch the baby; the same; the girl scolds an elephant, a lion; eats one food offered by N.; N. tells her wife to cook the girl's liver; eats the rest; the rest head rolls home; mourning]: Retel-Lautentin 1986, No. 18:121-125).
Western Siberia. Mansi [the wind blows Mosh-ne's clothes hung outside, made of sable skins; she goes in search; her younger, middle, older sisters are married to Fox, Wolf, Bear; each of the sisters and their husbands advise her to sew new clothes, not to go any further; M. comes to the house where he sees her clothes; two men cut off her head; her head rolls towards the sisters, then into her fallen apart the house where she now lives]: Kupriyanova 1969:87-89; nganasany [a cannibal and a woman have two daughters each; a cannibal leads a woman for a talnik, asks her to bend over the water, cuts off her head; at her daughter's house The victim is heard how the cannibal promises her daughters that she will eat the adult brain herself and they will eat the child's brain; the girls leave blankets full of brushwood instead, run away, throw away their mother's jewelry, creating a mountain, a lake behind them; they run to the river; the old man asks what their mother said about him; they say that she praised his face and back; he carries them in a boat; the cannibal replies that he is long like a stick, her back is like an ax; he pushes her out of the boat, she sinks; the sisters spend the night in the old man's plague, there is no way out of him in the morning; the youngest comes out with a needle through the crack, the eldest gets stuck, the youngest tears her head off; pigtails turn into legs; The head does not want to stay in the hole of the fox, the wolf, remains in the bear hole, warns not to lean on the stump; the youngest went, leaned, the cannibal jumped out of the stump; they go, they disperse, the girl visits her older sister, she has two cubs; the youngest rides a sledge, the cannibal tells her to change, her sledges are drawn by mice, the ropes are worms; they change back; dogs have bitten mice, the old man pushed the cannibal into the fire; her ash became mosquitoes, beetles, worms, bees]: Porotova 1980:13-19.
Eastern Siberia. The Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [Wolverine was eaten by the mother of two hare girls; they poured earth into her eyes, ran to the old woman; all her things move and work at her will; they hid in a cauldron , the cauldron does not go; the old woman hits it, the sisters laugh; the old woman calls them to live with her; when they want to leave, the old woman tells them to walk on the hoofed, not to walk on the kule-shaped; the older sister remembered that kule-shaped; they fight, the eldest won, they walk along the kule-shaped; the hut surrounds them in the dark; the eldest has become a fur, a needle, slips into the gap; the youngest is a bump, gets stuck; the eldest pulls her, tears her head off; left her on the deck, her head cries; left her on a tree broken by lightning - laughing; the eldest went after Thunder, her children are just like her - only heads; the youngest came to the Frog; she deer leads - these are insects, they are carried away by the wind; The frog began to live in water]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 22:23-24; Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. I.5 [the old man and the old woman have two daughters, he catches four hares each; decides to leave her daughters in the forest so that they and the old woman can get two birds with one stone; took his daughters to pick berries, left his clothes on a stump; but caught only two birds with one stone; the older sister was half abaasa herself; they find an iron yurt with an iron cradle in it; the youngest spies on the child taking fish out of his penis, cooking; returning to the cradle; does not tell the younger sister to eat fish, she eats; the old woman tells go from the fork to the east; the older sister goes west, the youngest does not want to throw her; there are no holes in the iron yurt; the older one makes them as small as needle sawdust, they end up in a yurt; inside a woman -abaas does not bring fish, but leeches; the younger sister utters the old spell, turns out; the eldest sticks her head; the abaas eats the torso, the younger one carries the sister's head, throws it under larch; sees an island on the lake, it is beautiful there, it is the older sister's abaas essence (the informant does not remember further)], II.1 [two orphans went to pick berries; the eldest found a black, younger white stone (var .: the youngest wants to take white, the eldest suggests taking black; there is only one stone, shaped like a person); the girls live in a hunting lodge, put the stone in a stone cradle, the stone turns into child; when they return, they find baked fish; the youngest spies, becoming a piece of bark; the child tells objects to move by themselves, promises to eat both sisters, takes the fish out of his mouth, bakes fish, returns to the cradle; the eldest eats fish, the youngest quietly puts it in her bosom; the sisters cover the baby with a hot pot, run away; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, the sisters cross it; when the abaasa crosses, the old woman removes her leg, he drowns; the sisters come to the abaasa with one arm and one leg; prisoners are hidden in her iron yurt; she locks the girls in the closet; the youngest becomes the size of sawdust from the needle, jumps out; the eldest sticks her head, swells, the sister pulls, tears off her head, carries it with her; hangs it on larch, her head cries; on a birch tree - the same; on a broken tree with a zipper - the head calms down; a frog lives in a silver yurt, asks his younger sister to sew a dress for her husband; before her husband arrives, he hides the girl in a bag; the husband realizes that it was not a frog, finds girl; invites both wives to go to their relatives for gifts; The frog brings worms, leeches; the girl in the place of the tree where she left her sister's head finds a living sister, yurt, cattle; sister went beyond Son of Thunder; hides the youngest; the son of Thunder finds her, gives her cattle; on the way home he presses frogworms, leeches and frogs; the husband tells his wives to lie on the roof; the frog laid a piece of moss, froze to death; the husband stayed with the girl]: 456-458, 459-458; Ergis 1964-1967, No. 66 [a poor old man takes three daughters to the forest, leaves old Doha on a stump; the girls found a farce, one picks up an iron child ; returning, they see that fish porridge is being cooked in the pot; the youngest does not eat, hides, becoming a needle, sees the child turn into iron man; next time the middle, older sisters are hiding; sisters they put the potted child in the fire, run away; he chases them with a hot pot; the old woman stretches her leg across the river, they cross; she asks the abaas if the leg is rough, he replies that very, she throws it off, he drowns; Abaasa's daughter, with an eye on her forehead, cuts wood with one hand and one leg; catches and locks girls; as needles, they get out, but the eldest tells her lung, her stomach swell; sisters pull, tear off her head; put it on a tree, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; at a pine tree, she laughs; since then, the coffin has been made of pine]: 245-246.
Amur - Sakhalin. Bikin Nanai [older and younger sisters take turns buying firewood; hammer head, skewer legs, tick hands, chalcedony eyes, back - ornamental board; younger sister hid; The eldest laughed when the devil knocks with spoons and chopsticks; he looks in her head, tells her to stick out his tongue to put a louse on it, pulls out his tongue, filled her mouth with bird cherry chips, put the phone in, left standing; the younger sister found a barn with tongues; found a fresh sister's room, put it in her severed head (it's not directly said that the hell cut off his head); came to the house where the man is sitting, he tells me to cook meat; the eldest's head rolls out, asks to give it to her; well done beats the younger sister, she leaves, her head is rolling after her, asks to take it; came to another young man, he marries both sisters (the eldest recovered - how the head found the body, it is not said); the youngest came to the sister a line, she hides it; the devil comes, goes to bed in a mortar; the sister of the devil and the one who comes push him, sift through a sieve; the most large sifting - yellow spiders; then fewer: black spiders, mosquitoes, midges, midges, small midges]: Sem 1976, No. 2:125.