L64. Removable head.

(.11.) .12.15.19.23.25.26.28.-.37.47.52.55.67.

A character takes off, takes out a part of his body (head, scalp, lungs), picks it up, puts it back.

(Xhosa), Ashanti, Von, Songhai, Portuguese, Italians (Tuscany), Wagawaga, Abelam, Vedau, Santala, Muria, Bontok, (Southern?) Chinese, Chuan Miao, Lisu, Russians (Vologda), Ossetians, Mountain Tajiks, Turkmens, Uzbeks in Khorezm, Lithuanians, Lutsies, Norwegians, Mari, Udmurts, Komi, Bashkirs, Kyrgyz, Yellow Uighurs, Dagurs, (Siberian Tatars) ), Buryats, Mansi, Central and Western (Vilyuan) Yakuts, Nanais, Chiroks, Totonaks, Lacandons, Embera, Nonama, Chacobo.

(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Scythe [father learns that the chief wants to marry; the eldest daughter demands that she be sent; refuses to go properly with his retinue; disdainfully rejects the help of a mouse, a frog, a boy, an old woman, girls (this is the leader's sister); contrary to the advice of an old woman, laughs at laughing trees; drinks yogurt from a wineskin found; drinks water offered to a person carrying his head under his arm; in the leader's village is clumsy and poorly cooked; the chief turns out to be a five-headed snake, swallows the visitor; the younger sister is accompanied by relatives, gratefully listens to the advice of others he meets; cooks delicious food; the snake eats, turns handsome; wedding]: McCall Theal 1882:47-53 (=1910:279-282; =Held 1904:14-20; =Maarnott 2000:189-197).

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 to 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; background [mother dies, father tells another wife to take care of her daughter ; she adjoins her; the girl broke the vessel; her stepmother sent her to fetch water where animals would eat her; she sees two stones fighting; tells them she saw nothing; they hit her, she says she did not it hurts; they miss her; the old woman takes off her head to brush her hair, the girl says she saw nothing; at the crossroads another old woman, the girl licks her ulcers with her tongue; passes between two butting buffaloes, they show the way; tohosu asks to stroke his back, she is covered with tips and knives, the girl hurts her arm, but says that everything is fine; tohosu gives water to wash her hands, the wounds disappear; he grinds and cooks one grain of millet, which is enough for everyone; tohosu tells you not to take calebasses who will ask you to take them, take seven silent people, collect water in them; these calebasses must be broken down into on the way back; people, fields, wealth arise from them, she is carried in a stretcher; the stepmother sends her own son, he replies to everyone that he has seen their strange deeds, refuses to lick ulcers, hurt his hands, cook from one grain; tohosu puts the boy in a goat pen for the night; tells him to take calebasses who ask for it; when he breaks them, the boy loses his way, the animals eat him]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 69: 293-298; Songhai [stepmother pushes Bouli's stepdaughter, daughter of her husband's deceased wife; hit her, her nose dripped blood on the calebass; stepmother tells her to go to the "swamp of paradise" to wash her; she comes to an old woman who is looking for lice in her head, putting her on her knees; puts her head in place, asks B. what she saw, B. replies that it's okay, the old woman blesses her; B. sees two terribly roaring butting bulls; answers them that she did not see or hear anything; they bless her; B. comes to the old woman, who gives one grain of rice, she makes a lot of food out of it; the same canari sauce; the old woman teaches you to take only three crooked calebasses; break them only when she sees her native village (and voices will always ask to be broken); gold-sewn clothes, slaves, cattle come out of the calebas; B. marries the king; the stepmother wounds the finger of her own daughter Ada to drip a drop of blood, sends her to wash the calebas; she does everything wrong, takes calebasses with a straight neck, everything is bad in them; she does not go home returned]: Hama 1967:255-258.

Southern Europe. Portuguese: Braga 2002 [grandmother sent her granddaughter to sell linseed oil; she came to the castle, no one; she cleaned it all up; when the 7 bewitched brothers came, she hid; they promise to do it the brother of the person who came, if it is a man, and a sister, if a woman; one day the seventh brother says he would like to have his hair washed; at night, the girl washes her brothers' heads, but the seventh does not sleep, grabs her; brothers promise not to harm her; the prince sees the girl and marries her; the brothers tell him not to agree with him until he says: "(Will) the seven bewitched"; she is not given to the prince, he settles her in with as a maid, takes another wife, a princess; the maid reports how the girl combs her hair: takes her head off her shoulders and then puts her back; the new wife, imitating, cut off her head, died; the king again marries; maid: that girl, if her spindle falls, cuts off her hand, reaches the spindle where it fell, then returns to her place; the new wife cut off her hand, dies; mother The prince advises to try to say that phrase about the bewitched; after that, the prince meets his wife, and the enchanted princes are disgraced]: 192-194; Cardigos 2006, No. 898 [predicted that the princess becomes pregnant by the Sun or gives birth to an illegitimate child; she is imprisoned in a tower; she makes a hole in the wall with her bone and becomes pregnant by sunlight; the newborn is found by a prince or she gets to seven bewitched brothers; patrons will only allow a prince to marry a girl if he says a certain word that will disappoint them; or the prince refuses his intention to marry a girl, each once receiving an incomprehensible answer to a question about her name; does not pay attention to her or mistreats her; marries three times successively, but every wife dies trying to imitate the sorceress; she cuts off his hand, a watermelon appears; creates grapes, setting fire to the room; combs his hair, cutting off his head; cuts off his hand over tea, and then puts it back; gives orders to objects and all perform; the prince learns the girl's true origin when he grabs the jug she sent for water and she scolds the jug; or hears her telling who she is; he says the right word; wedding (reconciliation)]: 225-226; Italians (Pisa) [the king had a daughter; astrologers predicted that when she was 20 she would give birth to a daughter from the Sun; the king enclosed her daughter in the tower, with her a maid with a little girl; when the age of 20 approached, the girls put benches and chairs on top of each other, looked out the window; the princess became pregnant from the sun and gave birth to a girl; the maid left her newborn on the beanfield; the king did not notice anything and let the princess out of the tower; the other king picked up the baby; when the girl grew up, the king's son decided to marry her, but the king did not want the son to take his wife- foundling and married him to a princess; on the wedding day, everyone was sent almonds; when they knocked on the room of the daughter of the Sun, she went headless; apologized: they found her combing her hair; In the eyes of those who came, she told the firewood to jump into the oven, catch fire; then the stove shouted that it was "ready"; the daughter of the Sun climbed into the oven and took the cake out of there - let them take it to the audience; the bride, out of jealousy, decided Repeat everything, climbed into the oven and burned down; the king married his son to another princess; the daughter of the Sun went to the servants, going through the wall; put her fingers in the oil boiling in the pan and 10 fried fish appeared there; the bride tried to repeat and died of pain shock; the third time, the daughter of the Sun cut off her care, pulled out a long gold lace from her head, gave it as a gift and put her ear back; the bride cut off his ear and died of blood loss; the prince fell ill from love; witch: barley food that grew, ripened and harvested in one day will cure him; the daughter of the Sun brought food, but it was tasteless and her prince spit it out; "How dare you spit on the Sun's daughter and the king's granddaughter"? The king heard this, married his son to the daughter of the Sun, after which she became a normal woman]: Calvino 1980, No. 74:269-273.

Melanesia. Wagawaga [to fish, the woman took off her head, left it in shallow water, the fish swam into the head, the woman took it, put her head in place; the man followed, took the fish, the head threw it into the bushes; the woman died, a coconut grew out of her head; first there was blood in the fruit, the man wiped them from the inside with charcoal, then with lime; the bird brought the nut to the village, a palm tree grew, the coconuts spread]: Seligmann 1910, No. 3:380-382; abelam [people spear fish; everyone catches little and Jatdu takes a lot; he took off his head, went into the water, the fish got inside his body, he went out, dumped it, put his head back on; told others that he was drinking the river and picking up fish; people tried to drink the river but could not; they sent the boy to follow; he took his head away; there was a thunder and Jatdu took to heaven ; when it thunders, it's Thunder looking for his head]: Slone 2009:82; vedau [only one person always brings a lot of fish; men send a boy to follow; he sees a man take his shoulder off his shoulders his head, leans over the water, fish falls out of his throat; he comes back, puts his head in place, collects fish; at home, the boy does not eat fish, in the evening he tells others what he saw; men follow the owner of the fish; when he takes off his head, they throw it into the thickets; not finding his head, a person rushes into the sea, becomes a big fish; the first coconut palm grows out of his fallen head; one the old woman decided to try nuts, everyone has been eating them ever since]: Ker 1910:92-96.

South Asia. Santala [Thakur Baba first made rice grow in a bush and cotton to grow ready-made fabrics; to clean her head from lice, you could take it off and pick it up; Raja's maid became she got in need and at the same time began to collect the rice that grew nearby; and when she was cleaning the barn, she wiped her hands on her clothes; TB got angry, the rice ear became small, the cotton had only fiber and head was no longer removable; the sky was low; the woman threw away the dirty leaf that served as a plate and the wind blew it into the sky; then it moved away from the ground]: Bompas 1909, No. 160:401-402 (retelling in Elwin 1939:323 (note 1); in Ho 1967, No. 47:234); muria [at first people were small, plowed on rats; through soft ground you could fall into the lower world; to look for lice, people took off and they picked up the parietal part of the head; Mahapurub wanted people in his world (the dead) too; asked the man and woman to remove the crown, show what was in their heads; smeared the edges with glue, they put the crown back , it didn't peel off anymore; people have been dying ever since]: Elwin 1949, No. 24:427.

Taiwan - Philippines. Bontok [people scalped, put them on their knees, took out insects; one woman remembered that she had left rice on fire, ran into the house; at this time the dog took her scalp away; when she returned, woman said people wouldn't take their scalps off anymore]: Scott 196:57.

China - Korea. Southern (?) Chinese [some perfumes are able to remove their heads to comb their hair]: Eberhard 1968:447; Chuan Miao [a merchant sees a woman sitting by the river, marrying her; she is reluctant to go with him to theatrical performance, sits away; actors tell her husband to watch his wife; he sees her taking off her head to comb her hair; how her fangs grow; husband asks actors to give him blood black dogs, splashes around the house; actors beat gongs and drums, a woman runs to the mountains, turns into a tiger]: Graham 1954:157; fox [people used to have mobile skin on their heads and can be was ripped off. When lice started in the hair, the scalp was often ripped off, put on your knees and caught lice like this]: Wang 2016:1613.

Central Europe. Russians (Vologda) [the guy went to see a girl in another village; one day he looked out the window and saw her take off her head, comb her hair, braid her braid, and then put her head back; he did not come to her again; she fell ill and asked her father: when he dies, let Ivan (this guy) take her to bury her; on the advice of the old woman, Ivan asks the girl's father to put 6 hoops on his daughter's coffin; on the way the hoops burst one by one; when he was alone, Ivan climbed onto the spruce tree; the girl came out of the coffin, became a fox, found a spruce, began to nibble on it; when the spruce was ready to fall, the post office arrived; the fox became again as a girl, she lay down in a coffin; postal people helped: together with Ivan, they took the deceased to the cemetery and buried her]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 38:100-102.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [a boy unknown to him (this is his son who has returned from the afterlife) lead Uryzmag to another country; there the boy's horse fights against a local iron horse; the boy tells W. not stick out of the shelter; he raises his head, the wind blows the top of his skull; the boy brings the top of his skull, puts it back; since then, the sledges have not removed the top of the skull; they used to remove it to make it more comfortable was to shave my head]: Libedinsky 1978:85.

Iran - Central Asia. Mountain Tajiks (Vanch) [young man sees wagers swimming; one agrees to marry him if he does not watch her, does not watch her wash her hair, cook; he breaks prohibitions, sees that the bet walks without touching the ground, takes off his head, and after washing it, puts it in place, puts oil in food, which he pulls out from under his arm; the bet flies away]: Gornensky 2000:165-167; Turkmens [Yuvha is a beautiful girl who has lived for many years, the ajdarha dragon turns into; she marries a man with a number of conditions in advance: do not watch her comb hair, do not stroke the back, take a bath after intimacy; breaking the conditions, the husband discovers snake scales on her back, sees her head take off her head to comb her hair; if you do not kill Yu, she will eat her husband, but she can only be killed in a waterless place]: Basilov 1982c: 676; Uzbeks in Khorezm [a person sees three su-paris by the river; one agrees to marry him on the condition that he does not look at her belly when she gets pregnant; watch her brush her hair; at her heels when she walks; the husband breaks the condition and sees that the fetus is on her side, that she takes off her head, combing her hair that she has duck legs instead of legs; the wife flies away as a bird; descends on a sycamore tree in the middle of the sea, gives birth to a child, wraps her in scraps of her dress, throws herself into the water, again becomes a sous-pari; the husband notices a shadow, looks at the plane tree, finds a child, who becomes a prophet]: Snesarev 1973:56-57.

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians [59 options; the beginning varies; 1) a pig chases a guy, he hits her (or cuts off her leg) - the girl dies; 2) the guy throws a rib (bridle without bits) on the girl's head - the girl turns into a mare; 3) the guy sees how the girl takes off her head, combs her hair, puts her head back on - the girl dies; the daughter and mother are witches; the daughter wanted to marry one person, but he did not agreed; she died; parents ask him to perform the funeral service for their daughter at night in church; the man agrees after the old man promises to help; when the deceased began to move, the old man turned the man into a log, hid it matice; panychi appeared, began to throw coals into the deceased's mouth, it became hot; the rooster sang; the old man ordered nothing to be done for the deceased, no matter how much her parents asked; when they took her to the cemetery, the deceased told the man that this was his happiness, her misfortune]: Kerbelite 2014, No. 50:116-118; Lutsie (West 1893) [mother and daughter went to visit, lost their way, witch (tik: tige, "feisty", "feisty", ect.) stole them; the mother killed and ate them; the mother from the cauldron tells her daughter to collect her bones and wrap her in a white handkerchief; on Saturday a bathhouse; a witch to a girl and her daughter: whoever dries her hair faster, I'll take him tomorrow in church; the devil took off her head, dried it quickly; on Sunday, the witch and her daughter left; the mother tells me to go to the pigsty, where the daughter will find something to comfort her; clothes, golden shoes, a carriage, horses in the pigsty; Everyone in the church is surprised: where the beauty came from; the guy noticed her; the same next week; the third time the guy waited under the bridge, stopped his horses, ordered him to give him a golden shoe: he recognizes a girl by her; the witch cut off her daughter's fingers so that her foot could fit into her shoe; the boy took her; there were golden apples on the apple trees, goldfish in the lake; everything came from the girl's mother's insides when the witch gutted her; guy: whoever brings me apples, fish, I'll take it; apples, fish don't give hell, but the girl brings them; the guy threw the hell into the lake, took the girl; after a while the witch went to the lake, hears her daughter's voice; pulled out the reeds (pipes) that grew out of her daughter's navel; the devil was reborn; both came to the girl, the witch threw tar skin at her, she turned into a she-wolf and ran away, changed the devil; but she did not have milk for the baby, the baby was crying; the shepherd saw everything, brought the baby to the forest, the she-wolf ran out, threw off her skin, fed the baby, ran away again; the next day ; the husband saw, went to the healer; he ordered to heat the stone on which the she-wolf throws her skin; the skin burned down, the husband returned his wife; cut the devil with a sword; the witch did not come to them again]: Annom et al. 2018: 173-177; Norwegians [a woman has a well-fed son, his name is Butter Cup (WC); a witch comes, carries her head 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 a stone and root at them, everyone dies, he takes gold and silver]: Dasent 1970:124-129.

Volga - Perm. Marie [a man went hunting in the forest, met another, they walked together for 7 years; then the companion asked: when you sleep, do you get smoke or foam coming out of your mouth? the man said it was foam; at night he hid behind the fir, putting his clothes on an old block; steam rises above him from the rays of the sun; the satellite began to strike at what he thought was a sleeping man; the man shot; the companion said that the man had killed him; before his death he gave his handkerchief, sent him to marry his sister; when she saw the handkerchief, the girl realized that the person who came had killed her brother; married a man, 7 years old they lived well; then she asks that when he enters the house, he cough or creak the door; the man looks out the window; on the floor, the wife's head is in one corner, the legs in the other, the body in the middle; the wife tells me to bury her now alive in the ground; the man was left alone]: Beke 1938, No. 8:30-32; the Udmurts ["my grandfather's father Juldash was nicknamed Imanay"; once hunted in the forest; Shurali approached the fire laughing and screaming; asks how I. sleeps; I.: tight as a block, and you? Sh.: first smoke comes from his mouth, and then sparks fly; when Sparks flew from his mouth, I. covered the block with his clothes, stepped aside; S. got up, plunged a red-hot iron stake into the block; I. shot, the arrow pierced Sh.'s chest, came out of the back; Sh.: shoot again; I.: no; W. marry my daughter, she will now be alone; I. did so; the wife tells me to cough or stomp before entering the house; one day he came in unnoticed; his wife was sitting, holding her hair on her knees, wearing lice; as soon as I. opened the door, his wife fell and died]: Potanin 1884, No. 14:240-241; Komi: Novikov 1938, No. 7 [as in Rochev; P. kills V.'s household members, one girl says she was kidnapped by V.; P. takes her as his wife; kills when she sees her scalp off her head]: 54; Rochev 1984, No. 24 [Pera and Leshy (Vörsa) measure their strength by pulling his belt; P. tied him to the stump, says V., that his veins are cracking; that he sleeps without moving his hand or leg; puts a birch chock in his place, at night V. comes to kill him, he kills him himself; takes his wife; sees her scalp off her scalp, bites her teeth with lice; P. is angry, his wife ran, he caught up with her in the swamp, killed her]: 38-39; Bashkirs: Barag 1987, No. 126 [the leader of a school of horses comes back black with sweat every time; Kamykai smears it with resin, shurale's daughter sticks to the horse, sitting face to tail; her claws have been cut off, passed off as a servant, and leads from them beginning Vyatka family; shuralikha asks her husband to grumble before entering her room; he enters, sees his wife combing her hair with her head off her shoulders; wife dies], 128 [=Roudenko 1908, No. 1:50-51; the old man met Satan, who first pretended to be human; at night, the old man noticed that Satan's mouth was burning; the old man covered a pile of brushwood with his Armenian and left; Satan burned an Armenian; the old man shot; Satan ran, disappeared into the cave; when he entered the cave, the old man asked two women where the owner was; they replied that he was ill; the old man promised to cure him; he did not recognize him, agreed to give him up for treatment the youngest wife; the old man strangled Satan, told the eldest wife not to wake her husband, and took the youngest to him; he had another wife; the new one always asked her husband to let him know about his arrival and not look under mouse; one day he came in unexpectedly and saw his wife take off her hair and, holding it in her hands, looked at it; when the wife fell asleep, her husband looked under her arm, there was a hole; he put his hand in the hole and pulled out his heart] : 112-113, 114-115; Nadrshina 1985, No. 63 [one of the sons of old man Azau noticed that the immense stallion returns every time in the morning in a black sweat; smears his back with resin, a shurale girl sticks; he is on she marries, they have five sons; she tells her husband to warn her about his arrival when she washes in the bath; he comes in suddenly, sees that the wife is holding the upper part of her skull in her hands, examines; wife falls dead, sons grow up to be horsemen]: 55.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [hunters killed a deer; a girl ran up to him and mourned like a brother; the hunters took the girl with small horns on her head; she was married; she made a condition for her husband did not look at her body, allowed her to swim alone, did not hit her head; her husband entered the yurt when his wife was swimming, saw her rinsing her lungs; after that, Muyuzduu ene (Horned Mother) or M. baibiche ( Horned lady) leaves or dies; one day a cradle appears in the yurt; according to another version, Alseyit (the woman's husband) spies and sees not his wife in the yurt, but a deer; the wife disappears]: Abramzon 1977:159; yellow Uighurs [a woman approaches the young man on the way to his idol; he finds her, stays for three days, in fact, a month has passed; she comes to him as a wife; the elder says that this is the spirit of the deceased, tells look at her through the window; the wife takes off her head, scratches her hair; the old man tells her not to be afraid; shoots at the woman, the arrow bounces off; the young man comes to her, asks for the release of the old man who is tormented by the woman ; she sends the young man home with a whirlwind; if you cover the whirlwind with a basket, she appears; the neighbor smashed the whirlwind with a broom, the woman did not appear again, the young man died]: Malov 1967, No. 118:121-124.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Dagura [a 7-year-old girl wanted the spirit of a vulture to take over her; at night she strangled chickens and drink their blood; her mother accused her daughters-in-law, they followed her, told their husbands; the parents did not believe drove both sons and their wives away; a month later, the brothers secretly returned, saw the sister throw her head up, saying: if she falls face down, then the brothers have arrived, and if face up, not arrived; the brothers let their dogs on the werewolf, they tore their sister, the brothers burned the corpse]: Stuart 1994:164; the Baikal Buryats (Ida) [Hordut shaman Dolhoto-Zogdor came to Obusa; Seeing this, Onge Tode pulled out her small intestine, pulled it around her yurt, and, taking her head off and putting it on her knees, killed the lice on her head; Dolhoto-Zogdor rode, releasing her mouth and nose worms, beetles, snakes and others; Onge Tode invited him to the yurt; as soon as Dolhoto-Zogdor entered, he immediately fell to the floor, his nose and mouth bleed; entering the yurt, Dolhoto-Zogdor, stretched inside the small intestine became unclean (burshida) and died from it; Onge Tode, taking pity on Dolhoto-Zogdor's youth, revived him; he asked Onge Tode for permission to stay in Obus; she allowed him do this and have your own mouth]: Rumyantsev 1969:87 (note 1).

Western Siberia. Mansi [an old woman enters, calling Mosh-ne to come to her tomorrow; a grandmother living in a stump gives M. a ball of thread; M. follows him to the house where the owner uses the skull as a bucket; there an old woman is sitting, taking her hair off her head to look for insects; M. tells her about this, she is frightened, her face forms at the back of her head, her chest appears on her back; this is how she lives]: Kupriyanova 1960:118-119; (cf. . Siberian Tatars (p. Karagay, Tyumen Region): Kozlova 2006:415 [when people appeared, the ish (devil spirits) went into the forest; the man saw a hut in the forest, there was an old man with three daughters, gave the man a wife, the man closed and opened his eyes, I ended up with my wife in the village; they have a daughter and a son; the wife does not tell me to enter without warning; one day the husband came in, saw his wife take lice from under her mice and throw it into the cauldron; she had a hole under her arm; the wife ate that's it, took her son from the cradle, flew out the window; 18 years later, the man and daughter went to pick up hay; a thunderstorm began, the wife appeared, said that she would pick up the hay herself, that their son would marry ish; and they broke up ], 416 [a hunter met a girl, brought her to the village; a young man tells her husband to shoot before entering the house; one day he looked quietly out the window, saw his wife pulling lice out of her mice, cooking them out of them soup; her husband killed her, her children remained; their descendants were called lousy]).

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts (Ust-Aldan and Namsky Uluses) [there have been shamans who, having cut off their own heads, put it on a shelf, and danced themselves in a yurt]: Seroshevsky 1896:630; Western ( Vilyui) Yakuts ["ancient shamans could cut off their heads and jump, putting it on a shelf; they could take out their insides"]: Popov 2006:55.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai shamans [when Nanai shamans were at a reception with Governor N.N. Muravyov-Amursky, one of them, shaman Koya, grabbed his head with both hands, took it off with a braided scythe, and put it on knees and began to look for lice in his hair]: Melnikova 2004:165-166 (referring to the novel "Condonkan Dalamdini. Condon Warden").

Southeast USA. Chirokee [two girls come to the dance, a young warrior falls in love with one; a week later she comes back and says that her brother agrees to the marriage; they walk down the river, the water turns into grass; at home, girls take their hair off their heads and hang them on a rock; their benches are turtles, their horse is a snake, bracelets are other snakes; the thunder is furious that the young man is frightened, lightning flies out of his eyes, the young man is furious alone in the woods]: Mooney 1990, No. 84:345-347.

Mesoamerica Totonaki [two children get lost in the forest, climbed a tree, see the Forest Old Woman (Viejita del Monte) scalping off her scalp, washing her hair in the stream, putting it back on; the children throw it on her the heads are fruits, she thinks they are birds, then notices the children, tells them to get off, takes them home, feeds them, puts them to bed; tells her husband that today they will have tender meat, both sharpen their nails; mask (una má scara bendita, this is Palantlilco, or San Francisco) wakes children up, tells them to run; old people hit the mask; so dancers wear masks]: Arenas 2000:186-187; lacandons [the hunter is lost in the forest; climbs a fruit tree; the daughter of the owner of the dead wants to take him home; stops under a tree, takes off her scalp, taking out the lice; he throws a fetal bone at her head; follows her, marries; her father tries to kill him; he runs away on his way back to earth]: Boremanse 1986:78-79, 293.

The Northern Andes. Ambera [husband climbs a tree for fruit; wife sees his genitals from below, starts laughing; takes off his head, holding it in her hands, takes out the lice; the husband begins to throw the fruit away to get down in time; runs away; people clean the stairs after him, preventing the stalker from entering the house; luring her to the rock, cleaning the stairs; the woman dies]: Pinto García 1978:265-266; nonama [the fisherman saw how the alpadi forest spirit took off his head, took out the insects, put them in their place; the fisherman told others but they did not believe him; heard ooh sounds at night; he could not wake up the sleepers; his with sharp fingers, alpadi cut people's breasts, took out their hearts; the man ran away, hid in the agouti hole; when alpadi put his finger in there, the man caught him in a loop; water rose in the river, alpadi drowned; people accused the man of killing comrades, but believed him when they saw alpadi dead; decided to kill his wife; called her in her husband's voice ooh, killed her; she had only one breast]: Wassen 1935, No. 9:137-139.

Bolivia - Guaporé. Chacobo [women Wari (sun) and Osche (moon) pluck the coloring fruits of uruku; the owner of the bush comes; V. runs away, O. is forced to marry him; O. takes off her hair like a wig to take it out insects; hair falls into the river, O. after them, husband follows her; sister and mother O. live at the bottom; husband sees sister playing with a heavy ball; playing himself, the ball crushed him into porridge; O. puts his bones under the vessel, the husband is reborn as a baby; taken by the vulture to his mother; she becomes an adult again]: Kelm 1972, No. 8:235-236.