L60. A matched demon baby. .36.38.

Several sisters are picking up a baby. In their absence, he becomes an adult man, and when they approach, he becomes a child again. Taking on his true form, the demon pursues the sisters. See M46a motif.

Central and northwestern (Olenek) Yakuts, Baikal, Kirensky, Turukhan Evenks, Sakhalin Ainu.

Eastern Siberia. Yakuts: Vitashevsky 1912, No. 5 (central, lake. Chupacha, Churapchinsky ulus) [the old man and the old woman have two daughters, he catches four hares each; decides to leave his 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; the youngest spies on the child pulling fish out of his penis, cooks; returns to the cradle; does not tell the younger sister to eat fish, she eats; the old woman tells her to go from the fork to the east; the older sister goes west, the younger sister does not want to throw it; there are no holes in the iron yurt; the eldest makes them as small as sawdust from a needle, they end up in a yurt; inside the abaasa woman does not bring fish, but leeches; the younger sister casts the same spell and ends up outside; the elder she sticks her head; the abaas eats her torso, the youngest carries her sister's head, throws it under the larch; she sees an island on the lake, where she is beautiful, this is the older sister's abaas essence (the informant does not remember further)]: 456-458; Ergis 1964, No. 66 (Olenek) [a poor old man takes his 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 cooked in a pot; the youngest does not eat, hides, becoming a needle, sees the baby turn into an iron man; next time the middle, older sisters hide; sisters put the potted baby in fire, they 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 her leg is rough, he replies that very much, she throws him off, he drowns ; Abaasa's daughter, with an eye on her forehead, one hand and one leg, cuts wood; catches and locks the girls; becoming needles, they get out, but the eldest tells her lungs, her stomach to swell; the sisters pull, tear off her head; they put her head on a tree, her head cries; on a birch tree, the same; on a pine tree, she laughs; since then, the coffin has been made of pine]: 245-246; 1967, No. 213 [parents take their girls to the forest to leave them there; sisters they find the Iron Child (a doll, a stone) in the forest; when they learn that this is an abaasa child, they decide to kill him, but the Iron Child pursues them himself; the sisters manage to escape by throwing a comb, scissors, needles, who turn into a mountain, a forest, etc.; on the way they meet a river, they cross it with the help of a lynx (old woman); walk along a forbidden road to Baba Yaga; the eldest dies in prison, the youngest, using a spell, escapes; comes to a man married to a frog, marries him; the older sister came to life and married the son of thunder, from him she receives wealth, and the frog is his wife brings aquatic insects and dies]: 217; Sivtsev, Efremov 1990 [poor parents go with their two daughters to pick berries, leave them in the forest; they find a hut, black stone and an iron cradle nearby; younger the sister suspects that this is an abaasa child; at home, a stone turns into a baby; sisters find baked crucian carp near the house; the youngest hides in the cracks with a needle, sees the baby turn into a giant, tells the fire catch fire, bake the fish; the older sister hides, sees the same thing; they overturn a pot of boiling water on the child, run; the youngest throws a needle (thicket), a thimble (forest), a handkerchief (a cliff to the sky); by the river, the sisters ask old woman Talas-Talas ("walkways") throw a bridge; she stretches out both legs, the girls cross; the abaas says she is busy; stretches out one leg, cleans it, he drowns]: 64-71; Baikal Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 9 (Baikal region) [two sisters find a cradle with a child, bring it home; left alone, the child comes out of the cradle, becomes a monster; then returns to the cradle; sisters throw him into a boiling pot, they run away; he chases them; they throw a handkerchief, the crest turning into a sea, a thicket; the stalker screams, Mother, where the ladle is, drinks the sea, cuts down the forest; they throw down the file but he falls in front of them; the youngest becomes hair, the eldest becomes an ant, climbs into a crack in the rock; the monster pulls the youngest, the eldest holds her, the youngest is torn in half; the monster eats the back the front older sister carries her with her; tries to leave her on a tree stump, but her sister cries; when she leaves her on a hummock, she laughs; the Frog takes her as his wife]: 179-180 (same Voskoboynikov 1967, No. 13:43-45) ; Titov 1936, No. 9 and 10 (p. Karama) [(No. 9:179-180); two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her good husband, if her husband took him, he would become a good woman for him; girls agreed to say out loud that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; they ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw her handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran away for the boat, swam across); the comb is the thicket (the monster behind the sword, cut through); the bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her ass was stuck; the youngest began to pull, but the monster ate ass, the youngest returned home alone; (hereinafter No. 10:180-181, from another informant); the youngest dragged the eldest, left; she cries; dragged again, left, she laughs; went alone, the frill untied, she she stood on a stick to tie her foot, the Frog jumped out, told her to go to her yurt, fed her, hid it; ordered her to sew a pullover (?) for his husband; the husband was surprised, she never sewed; the next day the Frog tells me to sew a pouch; the husband hid, found the girl, began to live with her; told the frog to pour blood into the skin, wrap himself; that first it was warm, but at night she froze to death; they killed frog deer; the younger sister went to where she left her elder; there was a hut, where her sister was backless, gave the youngest a lot of deer, she brought them to her husband]: 179-181 ; Torgonov 2002 (Bount Evenks) [three girls picked berries; they had no food in the plague, they were starving; one day, when they returned from the forest, they found a child in the cradle; food began to appear in the plague; girls decided to secretly watch who brought it to them; saw that the baby got up from the cradle, turned into a bear and defecates with fish; the girls decided to kill him with a boiling pot over his head; by death, the bear child shouted that reindeer people would now have dishes, arrowheads, scrapers, jewelry, clothes, etc., made from his skin, bones and claws]: 119-120; Kirensky Evenks [two sisters find a cradle with a baby, bring it home; see that when left alone, he turns into a Manga giant, catches fish, then returns to the cradle; sisters knock over he has a boiling pot, they run away; he chases them; one throws a comb, the other a bag, they turn into a forest, a rock, they can't stop M.; old woman Achekai stretches her legs for them across the river like bridge; when M. walks, removes his legs; M. shouts to make ladles from his hands, a bucket from his head, paint from his head, a shuttle from his spine; at the fork, the sisters drove along the left path, get to the old woman; she hides them, turning them into a needle and a thimble; two cannibals come; the older thimble girl laughs, cannibals eat her; the younger old woman gives a bird's wing, she flies away on it, meets a guy, goes out married]: Pinegina et al. 1952:58-61; Turukhan Evenks (Katanga, i.e. the upper reaches of Podkamennaya Tunguska, western 1928) [two sisters dug sarana, picked up a baby; when they returned, they see the plague as a cauldron on fire, two whitefish cooking in it; watched a man turn two of his worms into whitefish; filled the baby with melted with tin, they ran; they were chased by giant Mani in a tin belt; the eldest threw a suede scraper (mountains, M. made saddles in them), a whetstone (a cliff, M. split), a jagged chuchun, i.e. round suede scraper (forest, M. threw off his tin belt, crawled), comb (stones, mountains, forest), M. got lost in them as an ant]: Osharov 1936a:19-21 (=1936b, No. 15:280-281); (cf. Sym Evenks [ the girl cut her hand with a knife, the bird advises her to lick the blood; the girl likes the taste, she eats her mother, her younger sisters; the older brother runs away to the Nemelon 'e (decapod deer); the sister throws an ax, he consistently cuts off all the legs of the deer; the brother continues to flee, becoming a moose, a bear, a wolverine, a fox, a ferret, an ermine; when he becomes a mouse, the sister loses track; breaks her scrapers and tanners, dies]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 45:55-58).

Japan. Aina Sakhalin [two older sisters bring the youngest baby they find; the youngest spies, sees that the baby has become a devil, eats food; the older ones do not believe at first, stay in turn, they see the same thing; throw the baby into the fire, run away; the middle one comes back for forgotten beads; they are put on the line shoveling the fire; the girl turns into a spider, goes down, picks up the beads, runs away; hell pursues; the youngest pulls out her tooth, throws it, it turns into a rock, they climb it; hell calls other devils, some have axes made of wood resin; first the devils dive for the reflection of women; then they cut down a rock, it presses them all; women live well]: Pilsudski 2001, No. 9:43-44 (same 2002, No. 9:39-41).