L65b3. Rescue in a tree.
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Acharacter who climbs a tree manages to escape from a demon (usually he tries to knock down a tree).
Hottentots, Herero, Owambo, Zulu, Xhosa, Suto, Chwana, Mbundu, Pedi, Ronga, Lenje, Yaka (Baya), Kongo, Zombo, Nkundu, Bena-Kanyoka, Mitsogo, Rwanda, Gusia, Bolia, Kaguru, Temne, gola, ikom, manden, bambara, malinke, mandingo, dan, samo, lobi, von, yoruba, dogon, ikom, ekoi or niang, mamprusi, mosi, dagari, hausa, kpelle, jukun, temne, songhai, mofu-gudur, madi, sarah (mbai), Dagari, Joluo, Iraku, Shilluk, Dinka, Sudanese Arabs, Somalis, Moru, Malgash, Kabila, Tuareg, Berbers of Algeria (probably), Algerian Arabs, Arabs (?) Tunisians, Arabs of Egypt (probably), Spaniards, French (Dauphine), Irish, Bretons, Alsatians, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, Vogeo, Olo, Motu, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Rannell, Oh -va Gilberta, Mustang, Lavrung, Muria, Kannada, Croats (?) Albanians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Gagauz people, Greeks, Hungarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Vladimir, Moscow, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov), Ukrainians ( Transcarpathia, Volyn, Galicia, Grodno, Podolia, Chernigov, Kherson), Belarusians, Slovaks, Poles, Stavropol Turkmens, Ossetians, Abkhazians, Abazins, Ingush, Nogais, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Lurs, Persians, Bukhara Arabs, Baluchis, Tajiks, Mountain Tajiks, Pashayas, Kafirs (Prasun), Norwegians, Swedes, Western Sami, Finns, Estonians, Setus, Lithuanians, Latvians, Bashkirs, Kazan Tatars, Mordovians, Udmurts, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uighurs, Dungans, Altaians, Khakas, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats, Darkhats, Mongols of Ordos, Oirats, Mongors, Mansi, Eastern Khanty, Southern Khanty, Northern Selkups, Southern (?) Selkups, Yugi, Dolgans, Central Yakuts, Baikal Evenks, Evens, Nanais, Japanese, Tundra (?) Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Shuswap, Koutene, Seneca, Lassik, Pech, Bribri, Kogi, Sicuani, Shuar, Aguaruna, Shipibo.
SW Africa. Hottentots: Schultze 1907:389-399 in Parsons 1922 [a young man gets a cannibal daughter; leaves a stone in her place, runs away, climbs a tree; a cannibal resorts to a tree, breaks off branches one by one; when the last one is left, the young man calls his Löwenhunde, who tears up the cannibal]: 11; Schmidt 2007, No. 11 [the cannibal ate her younger brother; the eldest came to her, her daughter is there; with a young man two lions raised like dogs; at night lions prevent the cannibal from approaching the young man; in the morning the daughter says that the young man is gone; the cannibal chases with an ax; the young man climbs a tree, she cuts it; he calls his lions, they came running, killing a cannibal; if lions try human beings, they must be killed; a young man asks to shoot a female, but the shooter accidentally kills a male; so lions bred], 17 [one wife has two crippled children, the other has 4 eggs; the husband loves the first one, but when 2 boys and 2 girls hatched from the eggs, they immediately got to work, the husband fell in love with the second; the son of a blind woman sees an older sister named Lutanga and gives her a ring; L. asks her sister to remain silent, she takes her food for it, then tells her mother anyway; the mother laughs; the young man takes L. in a bull, his sister accompanies her; on the way L. leaves out of need; from the tree to her the spirit of the dead rushes, takes her clothes, takes their place; at night, the false wife pricks, the husband stabs her with an awl in response; the bull finds the mistress in the veld, she is brought to her husband, who understands the deception, his mother sees the light; the imaginary wife is pushed into a hole with fire; the people of her husband's village are jealous of him, prepare to cut off their sisters while dancing; the mother-in-law tells them to run, leaving the calebass and the blanket to answer for themselves; the sisters run, they climb a tree; the pursuers cut down the trunk, L. calls his father, the bird, the tree becomes intact; when the tree is cut down again, the bird carries the sisters under its wings, the tree falls, crushed all but one boy; at the request of (earthly) father L., husband and mother-in-law move in with L.'s parents], 46 [the young man is in no hurry to comply with his mother's requests; she warns that one day he will see a great thing; he leaves, comes to a sick, worm-covered old woman; she replies that she is a great thing; asks her to wash it, he does it; she gives him eggs, warns him of a cannibal who has a daughter with seven eyebrows, The young men who came to her all died, they had to run away from her in the morning; the cannibal's daughter herself invites the young man to change clothes and bed; at night, the cannibal kills her instead of the young man; eats her; in the morning, the young man runs away; the cannibal chases, the young man throws an egg, a bush appears; when the ogre finds an egg, the bush disappears; when the young man throws the second egg, a river appears; he comes home; the cannibal, putting on half of the girl's body, comes to the boy's mother disguised as a woman; the young man does not want to deal with her, goes with his dogs to the veld; the woman follows him, the mask falls, the cannibal takes on his true form; the young man He climbs a tree; when he sees the ogre, he goes down, he rushes at him, but the dogs tear it apart; the young man tells his mother that the one she thought was a woman is actually an ogre]: 33-35, 45-54, 108-112.
Bantu-speaking Africa. Yaka (Baja, Cameroon) [The man has three dogs, Godongkela, Kilo, Gbara, they help him with everything; there were many unmarried women, one asked a man to marry her, he refused; she became cannibal, the man climbed the tree, she began to cut the trunk with her genitals; when the tree is ready to fall, the Toad tells the felling to be overgrown, hides; so twice; the third time dogs came running at the call of the owner, one tore the cannibal's genitals, the other's face and body; the man brought the Toad to the village, told people not to eat toads; some women became men, so there were no more unmarried; the man stayed with the dogs single]: Tessmann 1934b: 236; nkundu [western in Bologna; woman and brother went to the woods to fish; got to Mokufi's house (Death, kufi means "die", note 3); he married a woman; went with his brother into the forest, killed him, told his wife to fry and eat his liver; one man from the village found a woman, she told him everything, he came back; (the other) brother took his hundred dogs, came to M.; at night dogs are not allowed M. kill a man; in the afternoon, the man left the dogs, told them to rush quickly if he called; M. invited the man to climb the tree, called Mukufi's other people to eat him; the man called the dogs, they tore him apart all Mukufi, man and sister returned to the village]: Colldén 1979, No. 3:152-155; Congo [a hunter with three dogs got lost in the savannah; spent the night in the house, tebo lived there (spirit, hell); at night he vanishes in fire is an iron nail, trying to approach a person, dogs growl; in the morning leads a man for cola nuts, covering the dogs in the house; when a person in a tree calls others tebo; they begin to cut down a tree, man calls dogs, they broke constipation, ran, tore all tebo]: Struyf 1936:219-223; zombo [the hunter with dogs got lost, ended up in the village of the dead; at night the owner is going to kill him hot with a rod, dogs are not allowed in; in the morning, the chief tells the hunter to climb the same tree, leaving the dogs in the house; the dead want to burn the tree, the dogs heard the owner's voice, ran, tore the dead to pieces]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:297-299; bena-canioca [the rain caught the hunter in the forest, he took refuge with his dogs in a hut; a spirit with two and a spirit with three heads want to eat him, dogs don't; they ask him get fruit from a tree; they tie dogs; a hunter from a tree calls dogs, they come running, kill spirits]: De Clercq 1909, No. 7:85-86; bolia [women went for reeds, one lost, went into hut; a cannibal without a head comes; says he will take her as a concubine and cook; the elder brother finds her, she hides him; explains what to do; brother does not eat man; runs, throws honey, cannibal wasts time eating honey; bees, they bite cannibals; throws de terre avec fermeté (ou: a foie?) {incomprehensible}; at home, the younger sister also decides to go to her elder; does not listen to advice, eats the head of a man brought by the cannibal; when she runs away, she shouts that he is headless, he kills her; tells to his wife, she explains that smoke eats her eyes, so she cries; the elder brother, taking 12 dogs, comes to his sister; in the morning the cannibal leads his son-in-law to collect cola nuts; when he is in the tree, all cannibals come - whoever is without heads who have no legs; they cut down a tree, it begins to fall, a man hits it (l'homme donne une gifle), the tree recovers; he calls dogs locked in the cannibal's house, they come running and exterminating cannibals; brother and sister return to people]: Mamet 1960:115-119; mitsogo [the mother of a beautiful girl passes her off as many applicants, killing her son-in-law each time; to do this, she leads him into the forest, asks him to climb on the tree for the fruit, when he peels off, kills his mother-in-law; one young man first finds out everything from the gnome, who tells him to take a dog and a sword with him; he kills his mother-in-law, his wife is glad]: Raponda-Walker 1967:333-337; Rwanda [insibika dog or hyena-like monsters live in the forest, spewing fire from their mouths and butts; Maguru promises to bring their leader's tail; his mother gives him calebasses with 1) pumpkin seeds, 2) eleusines, 3) with beans, 4) small peas, 5) fog, 6) water; in the absence of insibika, M. comes to their lair, the old woman hides it; when insibika comes and falls asleep, M. cuts off their leader's tail, runs away; consistently throws calebasses behind him to detain pursuers; {do they collect small seeds?} ; the wind dissipates the fog, but insibika cannot overcome the reservoir; when leaving, the last insibika predicts that M. will find a beautiful rod, a good cow, meet a beautiful woman, they will turn into insibika, they will eat it; M. rejects the rod and the cow, after listening to the advice of friends and mother, but accepts the woman; at night the wife gets up, but M.'s dogs are on guard; the wife says every time she is in need; becoming pregnant, invites her husband to go to the forest to get ingredients from the tree for the witchcraft that pregnant women need; the mother tries in vain to prevent M. from letting M. in; he ties the dogs, tells the mother to release them, if a leaf falls on her chest; M. climbs a tree growing near the confluence of two rivers; the wife turns into insibika, the whole flock joins her, they cut the trunk with an ax; every time a bird shouts to prevent the tree from falling, the felling overgrows; M. throws a leaf, the mother releases the dogs, they tear insibika to pieces; on the way home, dogs demand their part of the prey, M. refuses, they tear it up and they devour; the little mongrel swallows the heart unintentionally; mother M. makes the dogs come back and regurgitate what they swallowed, but there is no heart; the mongrel promises to regurgitate it if she is given the best pieces; this promised, she belches her heart, M. comes to life, returns home, has always fed dogs well ever since]: Smith 1988:79-80; kaguru [son leaves his five dogs with his mother, goes to get his wife; in in a distant country, they agree to give him a girl if he knocks down a tree with three blows, otherwise hyenas will be allowed on him; he cannot knock down a tree, he climbs it, hyenas climb after him; he calls a song their dogs, they rush to help, come running on the third day; the biggest dog ate all the hyenas, told the owner to go down, sit on her back, brought it home; on the way, smaller dogs caught game, fed the owner; he began to live well at home]: Beidelman 1971, No. 3:19-20; Zulu [the chief's son runs away with the cannibal's daughter Langzeh; he follows, the young man climbs a tree, his dogs stay below; L. begins to cut down a tree, dogs kill him, felling overgrows; he comes to life, the episode repeats, but this time dogs throw pieces of his body into the water]: Callaway 1868:48-52 in Parsons 1922:10; braid [ the woman leaves, becomes a cannibal; she has a son Magoda; her brother's two daughters went to get water, the youngest broke the jug, they decided to leave; came to the house, M. warns that his mother is a cannibal; in the house there is a woman with half of her body vertically says that the cannibal ate the other half; the cannibal has come, the girls hear her sharpening her ax, leave pieces of wood instead, run away, climb a tree; a cannibal runs to cut it, but the bird tells the chips to stick back; the cannibal swallows the bird, but one feather falls to the ground, continues to curse the chips; the children saw their father's three dogs, they called them , the dogs ate the cannibal, the children returned home]: McCall Theal 1882:115-119; Suto: Kipple 1992:363 [the young man has a skin disease; a big bird gives a feather to cure her, tells him not to tell anyone; young man they make me say; the bird swallows a young man, cattle, people; there is only one woman left; she hid inside the shell; the bird swallowed it, but the woman's shell came out from the other end; her knee was swollen; the dove asks for beans, tells her to cut the tumor, two boys, Maschilo and Maschilwane, and their dogs came out; Mashilvane climbed a tree for the fruit; the monster tells him to shed fruit; the young man plays flute, calling brother and dogs; monster chews on a trunk, a young man jumps into a nearby tree; dogs rushed at the monster, the brothers finished it off; the brothers' mother shows where to make a cut; people and cattle go out] 363 [the monster Kholomodumo swallows everyone; there is only one old woman left, her leg is swollen, and two boys, Maschilo and Maschape, came out of the abscess; one day Mashape went hunting east and Mashilo went west; raised the pot, under it something orders to raise it and then lower it; he runs, the monster after him; he climbs a tree; his brother and his dogs come running, but Holomodumo killed dogs; only his last lousy dog overcame; swallowed people and cattle came out of his stomach]; St. Lys 1916 [Masilo ("fools") was his older brother, Masilonyane ("fools") was younger; they went hunting; at the fork they went in different directions having arranged to meet in the evening; Masilonian comes to the village, there is no one in it, all the pots are turned upside down; he turned alone with great difficulty; underneath him a little old woman asks her to carry; to the watering hole, where antelopes, he asks her to get off: he will get the skin to carry it; while the dogs are chasing the antelope, he hides in the warthog's hole, but the old woman easily finds it and tells her to carry it on; the same with other antelopes; For the third time, Masiloniane promises the old woman leopard skin, but lets the dogs hit the old woman; they kill her; she has a swollen big toe; Masiloniane slapped him three times with an ax; after the first blows cattle came out, after the third, a rainbow-colored animal; Masilo is jealous; the Masilonian offers him all the cattle, but not the rainbow animal; he asks for water from the well, pushes the Malognans there, drives the cattle home; a bird sits on the horn of a rainbow animal and shouts that Masilo killed his brother for this animal; Masilo kills the bird many times, but it comes back every time; when they hear it, people drove Masilo away from villages and killed him]: 98-100; chwana [Masilo and his wife dig up the plot; when they go home, a bird arrives, tells the field to go untreated again; the same the next day; on the third evening M. remains to guard, catches the bird; it asks not to kill it, makes the site again cultivated, promises to create milk at M.'s request; at home M. tells the children not to tell anyone about the bird; but other children they ask M.'s children why they are so well-fed, they tell them; children ask the bird to dance, take them out of the house, it flies away; children are afraid that their father will kill them, they go look for a bird; during a storm, one boy tells the house and hearth to appear with fire, everything appears; the cannibal comes up, demands yam roots; the boy throws them away to him, the children run, climb the tree; the cannibal comes running, begins to cut off the trunk with his fingernail; the boy tells all children to shout, "Tree, be strong"; a bird arrives, tells the children to sit on it, brings them home]: McCall Theal 1882:39-46 (=Radin 1970, No. 37:146-149, but the text is mistakenly referred to as a braid); Herero [the hunter comes to the house of a little monster; when he leaves, he does not tell him to look up; the hunter looks, there are dead people; the hunter runs away; when he hears the monster approaching, he climbs a tree; he cuts it down the hunter tells the dogs to break the monster, they do it, he gets off, runs away, but the monster respawns; repeats everything; the third time the dogs are tired; the hunter calls the one who is at home, she tears up the monster; the hunter comes running to his mother, hides; the monster is here again; his mother asks him to swallow her, gets out of his ass twice; now he suggests that the monster allow himself to be swallowed, plugs his ass monster dies]: Estermann 1941:178-179; mbundu: Anpetkova-Sharova 1975 [three girls went to the ma-kishi; the girl got involved with them; the ma-kishi were going to eat the girls; the girl did not sleep, three nights The ma-kishi replied that they were not sleeping, but wanted to eat and drink more; on the third night, the girls ran away; the river overflowed, they climbed the tree; the ma-kishi began to cut it; the girls asked the hawk for help; he carried all four in turn from the tree to the other side; the tree falls; as a reward, the hawk is entitled to the best chicken meat]: 182-188; Nekrasova 1975 [two sisters go to an old woman to get a tattoo, their youngest Sister Muyongo followed them; she does not drink wine, hears and sees the old woman turn into a double-headed monster at night; answers her that she will not give fire, pipe, etc.; the next night the sisters fill the hut with brushwood, run away, climb a tree above the river; an imaginary old woman and other monsters burn the hut, resort to a tree, gnaw it; a big bird carries the sisters to the other side for the promise of an average one go out; turns into a human; three years later she flies back to his native country in the form of a bird; his wife and children run after her, her husband decides to stay with them]: 41-46; Knappert 1977, No. 16 [four girls followed her with water; handsome young men invite them to their place; the youngest notices the young men's second mouths on the back of their heads, realizes that they are cannibals, kishi; tells them to run; the river has risen, the girls climb the tree; the quiches are trying it knock down; the youngest asks the eagle for help, the eagle carries her across the river; the second girl drops into the water; the other two quiches are eaten]: 155-157; pedi (Transvaal) [children run away from the cannibal, climb a tree; a bird with saves them with beautiful feathers, brings them home]: Werner 1933:199; ronga [Chief Makenyi's daughters (from different wives) go for clay; older sisters ask Chichinguane to go down to the hole, leave it there; the water in the river rises, the huge Chipfalamfula fish invites C. to enter her mouth; there are people in the fish's belly, fields, abundance; now C.'s younger half-sister is forced to go for water; she cannot herself put a jug on your head; C. comes out of the water, helps; the girl tells her mother, she grabs C., she slips out, returns to the water, asks the fish to let it go to land, she gives it as a gift a magic wand; at home, C. rips off fish scales, they turn into silver; other girls go for brushwood, ask C. and her sister to climb a tree, cut off the lower branches, leave; come cannibals trying to cut down a tree, C. overgrows the felling with his wand; girls go down, run away, ask the river to part; when cannibals in the middle, the waters close, the cannibals drown; the sisters take jewelry in the cannibal cave, marry the chief]: Knappert 1977, No. 17:58-63; ovambo [young man's dogs are various wild animals; he throws the bird to bake by the fire of the spirit, he is afraid of his "dogs", does not dare rush at him; same with a different spirit, "dogs" killed him, the young man cooked him, others ate him thinking they were eating a young man; he killed all the spirits; married, the wife warns that her mother is a cannibal; the young man's "dogs" are not let the mother-in-law come up at night and kill her son-in-law; the wife offers to run; they climb a tree; the mother-in-law begins to cut him, the dogs devour her, she revives from the remaining piece; the same second time; the young man with their wife comes to his mother; she eats the cannibal, the cannibal comes out of her ass, swallows her, who in turn goes out, swallows the cannibal, clogs her ass with the fruit, then defecates over boiling water, the cannibal turns into locusts, flies away; the young man clears the area, the vegetation recovers; he watches, sees how the locusts tell the bushes to revive; the young man catches them, puts them in a vessel, covers them with a lid; this time the cannibal finally dies]: Loeb 1951:307-310; goose [the woman cultivated the field, refused to give the bird a piece of food, she ordered the field to be regrown with grass; the woman's husband caught a bird, put it in a barn, it began to give honey; the son showed the bird to his peers, it flew away; the father made a powerful pen, left his son inside; the cannibal Rinani came; the boy called his dog, she ran, tore Rinani at the last moment; together with the dog, the boy went out through her fence break]: Vinogradov 1984, No. G15:311-322; Lenje [brother and sister orphaned; brother He has sown castor seed; if he wilts, let his sister feed him two dogs porridge and release him; goes to a country where only women have eaten; all men have been eaten by an old woman; women want to hide it in a hole, but he is not afraid; the old woman asks to climb a tree to cut off branches for firewood; begins to gnaw the trunk; eats dogs; the young man climbed to another tree; castor withers, the sister feeds and lets the dogs go; they tore off the old woman's hands and legs; when her teeth were pulled out, she died; brother brings his sister, marries those women]: Earthy 1937, No. 3:212-215.
West Africa. Dark [a man ties his dogs, goes to steal cola nuts from the cannibal Krifi; K. cuts a tree that a man has climbed with an ax; he calls dogs, they tear the leash, come running, tear K . to piece]: Thomas 1916:33-34 in Parsons 1922:9; Turay 1989 [the hunter has 5 dogs; he was surrounded by monsters in the forest; he asked for permission to say goodbye to his fellow villagers, climbed a tree, called dogs; those heard, ran, tore monsters]: 86-89; naked [the girl rejects the grooms; the forest spirit borrows various parts of the body from others on the way, comes handsome, the girl goes with him, he returns borrowed, the girl is forced to live in his lair; the girl's mother gives birth to twins, goes to look for her sister; by the river, one makes a bridge of arrows, the other crosses in clouds of smoke; they come to sister, they live with her, their two big dogs protect them; while the spirit is gone, the brothers pour rice to the rooster of the spirit so that he does not raise the alarm, run away with their sister to their parents; the spirit again appears under the guise of a beautiful woman, one of the brothers takes her as his wife; the wife takes her husband to the forest to collect fruits; when the husband climbs a tree, takes his true form, tries to knock down the tree; the husband restores the tree by witchcraft; so several times; husband's dogs come running, killing his imaginary wife]: Westermann 1921, No. 20:101-102; ikom [Chief Leku has Achor's wife; Akoba young woman is beautiful, uses the services of many men, does not want marries; promises to marry someone who falls into a far-away calebass; L. gets there, she has to marry him, but gets tired of doing housework; she decides to kill him; asks him to go to the forest for the fruit, leaving the hunting dogs at home; when he climbs a palm tree, she cuts the trunk with an ax; L. sends a bird for his dogs; the palm tree falls but he moves to another; Achor causes a spill rivers, but dogs cross, tear Achor apart; L. makes five bundles with pieces of her body, lets five dogs carry; Akoba doesn't understand how he could carry so much, he has to tell; she goes for firewood, makes five bundles, tells dogs to carry; they brought and died of fatigue; since then, dogs have not talked and do not comply with the requests of their owners]: Dayrell 1913, No. 6:11-12; manden [ The girl's father promises her to the one who will run faster; the fastest antelope, but the chameleon hides on her back, touches the girl first, gets a wife; she gives birth to a son, then a daughter; the mother tells them to take it food for their father; they call their father, the chameleon answers; the children do not believe that he is their father, they laugh; (in anthropomorphic form) the father tells them to always be together; they hear the chameleon again, kill him, the mother drives them away; they come to the lioness, kill, cook one of the three cubs, feed the lioness; she asks to bring her cubs to breastfeed; the boy brings one twice; explains that he has already eaten beans, so does not want to suck; the same with the second; they fed the lioness and the last, hid in a hole, threw the lioness the skulls of her children, put a bag over her, sold the bag with the lioness to merchants - supposedly there was a big dog; do not open it right away; at night, the merchants opened them, the lioness ate them, the old woman was left alone; the children climbed the tree, lowered the lion's rope, she got up, they threw the rope, the lioness broke to death; the tree high, don't get down; the bird put the children on its wings; boy: the bird stinks, I'll cut off its wing; the girl doesn't mind: I have to be together; the wings are cut off, the bird fell, the children crashed to death; the turtle revived the boy, he does not want his sister to be revived, but the turtle also revives her; sister: let's eat a turtle! went to buy firewood; the brother tells the turtle to leave, but the sister catches it; they come to the blacksmith and ask him to cook a turtle; he has swollen testicles, the children offer to cure it, burn it, run away; they come in a peanut field, a boy tells a story, people understand that this is about how he maimed a blacksmith; the blacksmith puts the boy in a bag, walks away for a while; he tells the blacksmith's children that there are peanuts in the bag; they untie the bag, get inside instead of the boy, the blacksmith throws the bag into the fire; the boy screams that he burned his children, runs away; comes with his sister to the village, gets a wife; sister: let's kill her; brother does not I may disagree, they kill the girl, run away, climb trees; two old men come, the sister pees, they think it's raining; the brother poops, they notice them, they cut down the tree with axes, it starts to fall, two lizards restore it; a sister kills one lizard, a tree is cut down again, but a second lizard restores it again; a sister kills a second lizard, people cut down a tree, brother and sister go up to heaven, since then they have been making rain and thunderstorms]: Frobenius 1922b, No. 95:170-177; bambara [a boy of 8 years old Kama Kamasoro has a sister of Fatima Kamasoro 15 years old; when dying, mother and father told his sister everything obey her brother; (hereinafter F. tries to object to K every time, but he reminds her of her parents' will); K. tells F. to make him a bow and arrow to hunt rats; hit a rat, and she hid in the barn; K. set fire to the barn and killed the rat, the grain burned; ate the rat, left its head on stone; their only slave ate it; K. killed the slave to get a rat's head out of her belly; F. hid the cow, but K. tied A bag of gold at her foot, found a cow on an ash trail and stabbed her to have a wake for her father; tells F. to go wandering with him; comes to the lion, he offers to hunt together; K. climbs on a tree asks the antelopes who have come why they were not there before: the lion waited for them; the antelopes ran away; then the lion hunts F., and K. stayed with the lions; he killed them, made stuffed animals; wrapped the lion {in cloth?} , carried it, exchanged it from the chief for jewelry for his sister, saying that it was selected meat; when he later unwrapped the bag, the living lion jumped out, but told him not to be afraid: he would go to pay K.; when the lion was ready eat K., a big bird took K. and F. under its wings and carried it away; K. broke the bird's wings, K. and F. fell and crashed; the turtle took the amulet and revived F.; she advised not to revive K., but the turtle revived and him; K. roasted the turtle, but F. refused to eat it; they came to the king, where there is eternal darkness; every time the sun is about to rise, the big bird says three magic words and the sun hides again; K. and F. stopped at the old woman's house, she gave porridge, K. broke a plate of porridge on the old woman's head, forcing her to serve two roasted roosters; K. mockingly responds to the bird's three cries; she comes to eat it, K. cut off her head; plucked the bird (F. could not do it, the feathers were too big), fried it; F. said she could not eat it; the sun was rising; the leader would give the hero half of the kingdom, but let him show the bird's head; the impostors bring only feathers; K. comes to dance; someone Sambou says he is too small, let him dance after him; K. hit him, he fell, ran away; K. took out his head the birds and showed everyone; the sun (at the sight of the bird's head) disappeared again; K. hid his head, the sun appeared again; K. refused to take half of the kingdom and the leader's nine daughters; took one for himself and the other as servants sister; they are on their way again; the leader's daughters cannot walk so fast, K. killed them; the chief was told that he sent soldiers; K. broke an egg, a tree grew, K. and F. climbed on it; the chief ordered him to cut tree; monitor lizard hits its tail and the felling overgrows; K. killed the monitor lizard; the tree collapsed; rope and chain descended from the sky; K. climbed the rope, and F. climbed the chain; they were not seen again]: Zeltner 2013:47-62; bambara [Siriman hunter kills many animals; the hare advises animals to turn the antelope into a woman to trap S.; S.'s mother warns him that the woman seems dangerous to her; she asks S. kill and fry his dogs; his mother keeps their bones, puts them in a vessel; his wife asks what S. turns into while hunting; he replies that he is a stump, grass, agama lizard; his wife asks S. to accompany him to her parents, asks her not to take weapons with her; in an unfamiliar forest she calls animals, they rush to S.; S. turns into a termite mound, grass, stump, agama, her wife every time says that termite mound, etc. there is S.; a hare gnaws on a tree trunk on which S.; mother S. sees her son in a tree from a distance, cooks dog bones, dogs come to life, kill and disperse animals; since then it has been known that it is impossible to argue with the mother]: Gö rög 1979:106-111; Mandingo (Guinea-Bissau): Mendelssohn 1971:170-174 [hunter Samba kills numerous animals; Gazelle and Guinea fowl have become girls, asked to let them rest in the house, but to tie dogs - they are afraid of them; the elder wife Maryam does not want to do it, the youngest Cady tells them to tie them; S. goes to see the girls off, K. readily agrees not to untie the dogs; girls in the forest turn into a gazelle and guinea fowl, S. behind them, finds himself among lions, elephants, etc.; he runs, throws an egg (lake); coconut; a palm tree appears, S. climbs it; animals bring axes, dogs they hear, M. releases them, they drive the animals away; K. tries in vain to prove that it is M.'s fault, S. drives her away], 203-212 [Malan goes hunting, his stupid and angry sister Njatta tells me not to take it with him dogs; M. throws beans behind to find his way home, N. follows and picks up; M. searches for fire, sees smoke, comes to the blind cannibal; a huge cat brings her a man; M. crept in, take coal, but N. tells the cannibal that her brother has come; the cannibal tells her hair to tie those who come; dogs hear, come running, kill the cannibal; M. and the dogs go one way, N. to the other; dogs see how a hedgehog kills a frog and immediately revives it with grass; M. collects this grass; the girl Maria Futuma is eaten by a seven-headed snake in exchange for water; M.'s dogs kill a snake, he carves out tongues; a swineherd says that he killed the snake, N. confirms; everything turns out that swineherd and N. pull out their tongue; N. puts a knife in M.'s bed, he dies, he is buried; dogs find reviving grass, killing N., reviving M. ]; raspberries [animals are concerned that Sirankomi is killing them; to find out his hunting secrets, buffalo turns into a beauty, comes to S.'s house, asks her to tell her secrets in proof that he is really a great hunter; he says he can turn into an anthill or termite, a stump, a hummock of grass; when he is ready to talk about the last transformation, S. his mother stops; in the morning, a woman leads S. to the bush, asking him not to take weapons with her; animals rush at him, but do not know when he leaves in the form of a small tornado; var.: woman forces the hunter get rid of his dogs, but his mother or sister lowers them or revives them from their bones; the hunter hides in a tree, dogs save him]: Belcher 2005:42-48; dan [the chief has 12 wives; one is childless and unloved, she was put in a hut on a pile of garbage; she was beaten by melons and pumpkins; then she is 12 years pregnant; other wives despise her, do not want to help collect firewood; finally, Gueu's son tells his mother to give birth to him; he born in a shirt, walks and talks; tells his father to put his mother's hut in the center; all the bows break in his hands, he ordered him to make an iron one; brings an elephant from hunting; the father is afraid of G. and that get rid of him, says that there is someone stronger; it happens; G. promises to bring his hair to bandage his own; on the way there he asks for directions to the monkeys, the river, the leader of the baby village ( they all have umbilical cords); everyone warns that sometimes no one has returned from everyone, he has a mountain of skulls of those he killed, a giant who turns rocks into dust, and his wife; everyone's wife G. I liked it, it helps him; lets him throw three pebbles while fleeing; an amulet Anything happens to be a vessel of water, it does not touch it; so let G. hide under it, and touch everything that eat in the house; they also went to the river (marigot); Everyone came, smells G. everywhere, but does not look under the vessel of water; everyone's wife combed his hair the day before and gave G. combed out; G. runs; everyone has magic words that make the runner wait, but G. has others that make the pursuer not chase; then G. consistently throws three pebbles, a mountain appears, river, thorny forest; Everyone sometimes passes through them (the river water parts), but by this time G. reaches his village; in a dream he finds out that he should have a dog; has seven dogs; a year later Everyone- Sometimes she took the form of a beauty, she came to G.; says that she does not eat chicken, but dog meat; G. promises to feed her in the morning, and her mother replies that she knows who has come: it all happens; at night a monster took on his form, but G. became invisible; in the morning, the beauty promises to leave on the eighth day (to eat all the dogs in 7 days); G. warned her not to break her bones; leaving on the morning of the eighth day with the beauty, G. teaches mother revive the dogs and let them down when she sees a red cloud at sunrise; while Everyone is gone to take her form, G. climbed the tree; everyone sometimes makes the tree bend down, and G. again straighten up; each of the dogs that come running swallows everything happens, but it immediately comes out of her ass; G. tells the seventh dog to sit backwards on the ground, everyone sometimes could not get out and died; so dogs sitting backwards on the ground]: Tiémoko 2019:24-36; scrap [mother reproaches twins Zine and Sele that because of their strength they break dishes, it would be better to return a sister kidnapped by the evil spirit of Nyanwole; they they come for her, Z. creates a harp, N. dances, the brothers run away, put a stone on the road, it turns into a hill; N. runs home for a knife, cuts the hill in half; they spit, a river forms, N. runs again for an ax, cuts the river, crosses (dry); brothers create fire, N. cuts it; Z. turns into a dog, she bit N.; brothers return for their sister, bring them home]: Schwab 1947:459; self: Platiel 1984:181-191 [A hunter and his seven dogs kill animals; they gather to decide how to kill himself; decide that the antelope will become a woman, become his wife; the husband gives her goat meat, she says that goat meat cannot be eaten in her kind; the same goes for sheep; says she eats only dogs; his mother warns that dogs are his main asset; he kills dogs one at a time to to feed the wife, the mother hides her bones; after the latter is killed, the wife calls her husband to the forest for firewood; going far away, she invites her husband to climb a dry tree and throw her branches; she calls the animals, which surround the tree, they begin to cut him with an ax; playing the flute, the hunter calls on the dogs; the Toad asks for her to chop the ax, they throw it away; hearing the flute, the hunter's mother pours over the bones of the dogs, they come to life and kill animals under the tree; the husband gets down, tells his wife to carry home the dead elephant; she replies that he cannot lift her, he kills her with an arrow; half of her body has become the body of an antelope, the other remains human; at home the hunter's mother offered the dogs a drink; they replied that the corpses did not drink, ran east; the hunter cried; people despised him; there are three versions of the text; in two, the wife is not an antelope, but a monkey; in two the hunter kills dogs, accusing them of eating his newborn son's ass when they start licking it (dogs are allowed to lick the dirty ass of newborns); the number of dogs is 3 or not specified; var.: when dogs run to the tree, the leaves they touch also turn into dogs; dogs kill a woman on the orders of the owner; tear a woman in half, one part turns into the sun, the other into the moon; the hunter brings all the dead monkeys, dries their skins on the terrace; the Hare comes, blows on their skins, the monkeys come to life; dogs kill them again, but two escape, the current ones come from them], 193-199 [people many animals are killed; guinea fowl turns into a woman, marries a hunter; when she goes for brushwood, it becomes a bird again every time, other wives are surprised how quickly she brings brushwood; when they find out where the husband is going to hunt, warns animals and birds; they give guinea fowl brushwood, leave this place; the old woman followed her; calls the hunter to follow for himself; the husband plays a chant that sings Guinea fowl, warning others; when she hears him, she turns into a bird in front of her husband's eyes; he kills it, tells the children to cook it; (var.: the bird does not drown; this is a warning to people against excessive hunting)] ; dagari [a hunting magician does not miss, and in case of danger can turn into various objects and elements; he has a pack of good dogs; he destroys many animals; he once killed a lioness, the lion cub escapes, grows up, decides to take revenge; turns into a beautiful woman, marries a hunter; says that he loves a dog, the hunter allows his wife to kill all his dogs; the hunter's mother hides their bones; the wife chooses the skin of the murdered mother to bed; asks how the husband manages to be invulnerable; he replies that fire, straw, wind, drawer...; at this moment, the hunter's mother hears and tells him to be silent; in the morning, the wife says that she will take her husband to her parents, asks him to leave his gun, bow and arrows at home (she is afraid of them); after walking away for a minute, the wife turns into a lion; the hunter throws his flute at her, turns into fire; the lion in the rain, the fire into the grass, the water vapor into the buffalo, which began to eat the grass; the grass into the tornado, the buffalo into the wall around it, the tornado into the lizard; the lion regains its normal form, waiting for The lizard will come down; the hunter tells him to play his flute, his dogs come running, kill the lion; the hunter's mother revived them from the bones]: Hien 1995:82-96; kpelle [two brothers had the means to kill people; killed their father; came to the king, who gave them two chickens and two girls; they killed their wives, climbed a tree, shouted that they were murderers, asked people to cut down a tree; he was knocked down, but a hawk He picked up the brothers, carried them to the rock; the younger brother killed the hawk with a knife, the brothers fell and crashed; the turtle revived them, the elder went down the river, and the youngest went up; he came to the woman working in the field, asked her to kill and eat the turtle {the one that saved him}, they did; the woman asked her to watch over her child, fry the frog and give him a leg; the younger brother killed the child, fried the leg and gave frog; came to the blacksmith, that woman's husband, asked him to sharpen the knife, cut off the blacksmith's scrotum; his wife came running, both began to cry; the husband took a basket of peanuts, went to look for the boys playing; asked who "did a great job"; one said he once stole rice and fish from his mother; blacksmith: not you; then the villain boy spoke about his deeds; blacksmith: I adopt you, go into the basket so as not to go on foot; closed the basket; brought it to his wife to burn the villain in the field; their daughter asked him for peanuts, opened the basket, the villain locked the girl in it; she screamed, but the father did not believe and burned her; angry went out to her father and ran away]: Westermann 1924, No. 5:129-130; jukun [Fatsumate is beautiful; when leaving, parents mix seeds with clay, tell their daughter to sort them out; other girls deliberately call her to the forest for brushwood; they tell the ants to do the job, F. has to agree; Dodo appears, the girls climb a tree; each one goes down, says she is not F., passes; F. is left alone, asks for a hawk, a vulture they refuse to help (she did not let the chicken be carried away, drove him away when the vulture was pecking carrion); the dove agrees to help; F. leaves him clothes and jewelry, goes down, says that F. stayed upstairs , runs away; Dodo runs after a pigeon that has flown away, falls into the river, drowns; F. gives the dove a black thread, since then it has been around his neck]: Meek 1931:477-478; dark [one of the three brothers slept so long that when he snored, a girl came out of his nose, three days later an adult, gave birth to twins Fearless and Cautious, fell ill; dying, told them never to argue with each other, gave them a pair of shoes that can quickly take them to the afterlife of Rokerfi; many years later B. offered to go there; old Dundukulma transported them across the Sirathi River; the one going to Rockerfy must pass 12 cities; in one of them the man received them in a gold house, slaughtered two cows for them; B. offered to kill him, and O. could not argue, promising his mother to be unanimous with his brother; they killed the owner, took the valuables, and moved on, climbed a tree; the victim's brother raised the alarm, told the king; spread a prayer rug by the tree; B. wrote on his head; people began to cut down the tree; when it had already bent down, the lizard hit the trunk the head and the tree recovered; B. killed the lizard; the bird picked up the brothers and their property and carried them away from danger; it has two wings - English and dark; B. killed a bird, they fell on a rock and crashed; in those times, the sorcerer revived people, revived O.; he asked to revive the bird, but not his brother, but the sorcerer revived everyone; it turned out that the sorcerer was a snail; B. was going to fry it, went to get the fire, but O. let them go; brothers went on; on the tree the monster Kamyoko, by the tree there was a slit gong; B. began to beat him; O. ran to hide in the cockroach's house, and B. cut off the monster's head; O. went to tell the king; he promised the killer K. half the kingdom and half of his property, including wives; B. came when O. was already on the throne; the king told him to bring the head of a monster if he was victorious (O. brought his head); B. brought the heads of his 7 sons, but they did not fit; O. remained king and B. poor]: Turay 1989:165-191; Songhai [dying, father, then mother tells his daughter not to let her younger brother cry; the boy beats other children kills animals; brother and sister run into the forest, climb a tree; the king's men cut him down, the Lizard tells the felling to grow every time; the brother kills the Lizard, but the Eagle picks up the children, takes him away; the brother kills the Eagle , children fall, break; The turtle revives the sister from the bones; she asks her not to revive the evil brother; the turtle does not listen, the brother comes to life, kills the Turtle]: Hama 1967:258-259; background [brothers Sagbo and Zinzu found themselves in the forest without fire; saw smoke; Z. came to a giant (Yehwe) named Zogbano with 32 horns; saw that all parts of YZ's body were lying separately and eating; when YZ noticed Z., he gathered in one man; Z. got fire, left, began to play the flute about how YZ was watching; he went to look for the player, Z. denied it was him; put out the fire, came for him again; so three times; to the village a girl came, promised to marry someone who would hit a pea on a calebass on her head; only Z. got hit, the girl became his wife; at night she turned into a giant, wanted to swallow him, but 42 dogs Z. barked; Z. saw a tree in the forest, wanted it to be his wife instead of that monster; the tree turned into Djeluba's girlfriend; she made a condition that he would not remember that she was a tree; she did not cook; Z. returned home, had nothing to eat, went to his first wife, said that the second was just a tree; when Z. was in the forest, the first called the second tree, she returned to the forest, became a tree; the second went to the forest to her relatives; the mother gave Z. a drum, did not tell him to be beaten; the man asked to be beaten, all Yehwe Zogbanu ran to the noise, Z. climbed a tree, they knocked him down, he flew away in a partridge; the mother hears him tells his wife that he could turn from a partridge into an ant, a leaf, a river, sand; then his mother told him to be silent; in the morning his wife took Z. into the forest; he told his mother to let the dogs down if the water turned red; Z. climbed the tree for leaves, YZ ran into, the water turned red, but his mother was not at home; friend Z. found himself in the forest, drove away the monsters; the wife said that everything happened without her knowledge; at home she told Z.'s friend that Z. died; the friend hanged himself; having got rid of him, the wife took Z. back into the forest; the friend's wife told Z., who found the body, brought him home; went with his wife to the forest; she asked him to climb the baobab to get leaves; the monster gathered, began to cut down, Z. successively broke 7 calebas, the felling overgrown each time; when the tree collapsed, Z. became an ant, a partridge, etc.; again a man, rushed to run, climbed on the tree, which was his wife; the notches immediately overgrown on its own; the mother let the dogs down, they tore the monsters; the tree wife refused to return, but sent her four tree children, who have now become human; Chief Dada Segbo ordered dogs to become man's best friends; his Z. sacrificed his deceased friend; they still honor the Adiku tree, Z.'s wife]: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958 , No. 65:275-284; mofu-gudur [seven brothers go to look for brides, leaving the mother pregnant; after two years of pregnancy, the baby from the womb asks how to get out; refuses to go out like everyone else, the mother tells me to go out through her ass; the boy is born young, dressed; catches up with the brothers; they do not believe that he is their brother; they stay in a house with eight sisters; the girls' mother asks the boys to lie with their heads against the wall , daughters head to door; comes in, playing the flute to make sure everyone is sleeping; younger brother answers; she goes out, he tells the brothers to lie head to the door, the girls turn to the wall; woman comes in, plays, no one responds, she cuts off the heads of her daughters, thinking she is cutting off the young men; the youngest tells the brothers to run; everyone runs away, but one cannot be woken up; the youngest stays asleep, turns into bell; seeing that her daughters are dead anyway, the woman cooks and eats them; makes the sleeping young man a slave; leaves the grain to guard from the goats; the bell becomes a cow, pretends to butt the boy, takes her on her back, turns into a young man, both run; a woman turns into a beauty, comes to people, promises to marry someone who takes a splinter out of her leg; no one can; against her will, Saday {apparently the name the young man who was a bell} pulls out his knife, the splinter was immediately taken out with this knife; the woman is given to Sadai; she turns into fire, but the dogs do not tell her to eat their owner; she is afraid of them, says her husband's parents, who can make a good sauce by adding the bark of a tree growing far away in the savannah, asks them to let their son go with her; the woman hides a cauldron under her clothes, says she is pregnant with Sadaya, gives food to seven dogs, locks them, goes with her husband; in the savannah he turns into a panther with 30 tails; gnaws on a tree on which S.; S. asks the vulture to bring his horn, he is in the trash, there is a chicken the vulture is driven away; asks the hawk, there is a white chicken, the hawk brings a horn; if S. catches an abandoned horn, he caught it; S. caught, sounded, called dogs by name; dogs broke constipation, ran, tore the witch to pieces; one bone pierced S.'s leg, the dogs pulled her out; S. brings the witch's dishes and one of the panther's tails; reproaches the parents and chief for telling him to marry a witch; mother breaks her leg, father breaks his arm, chief breaks his neck; other people break something for themselves too; S. burns his tail]: Sorin-Barreteau 2001, No. 18:126-134; Lobi [Sie chases three cows; tries when it rains take refuge in a house; only a third cow breaks through the door; there is a dintinker cannibal; This replaces the pots of ointment that D. gives him and his son; at night she kills her son; in the morning tells S. to bring milk in a leaky vessel; S. notices holes, sends d. to bring water in a leaky jug; leaves with cows; the bird teaches d. to cover holes with clay; without finding S., d. chases after; the woman asks S. wash her back; he reluctantly agrees; she gives him a stone, a stick, a broom, an egg; thrown behind, they turn into a forest (broom), mountain (stone), stick (thick trees), sea (egg); d. swims across the sea in a boat, comes to S.'s house in the guise of a girl; S.'s father tells his son to marry her; D. tries to poison S.; rushes with an ax; S. climbs a tree, d. cuts the trunk; the frog offers to chop for her, the felling is overgrown; the same second, third frogs; S. played the flute; the animals that his father bought him {not named} heard, ran, tore up d.]: Anpetkova-Sharova 2010:127-131; background: Herskovits, Herskovits 1958, No. 17 [Azizã is a sea creature, another name for these creatures is Djehun; when A. went ashore, the hunter killed him, brought the king a severed tail, but Woman-J. went to sea; this the woman, the daughter of the murdered man, took the form of a beautiful girl, came to the king, promised to become his wife if he shot and hit the calebass she put on her head; the king did not hit; the same with others kings and hunters; only the old hunter who killed Father J. got; she married him; the hunter has 6 dogs; the wife asks how he will escape in case of danger; he replies that he will turn into a river, into a tree, into the sand, into the vessel; the mother hears, tells him to be silent; he did not say about the last transformation into a horse; the wife leads to the seashore for leaves; the husband climbs a tree, the wife calls her relatives Yehwe, they they begin to gnaw, cut the trunk with their legs, arms, hair, teeth; when the tree is ready to fall, the hunter breaks one of his seven calebas, the felling overgrows; the last time dogs hear, come running, they drive everyone away Yehwe; the hunter asked the fortuneteller what sacrifices to make; Yehwe killed the hunter's parents and all relatives, but he survived; Yehwe has not been killed since], 51 [Kpadunu hunter leaves his mother water with a magic remedy; if the water turns into blood, the dogs must be let down; climbed a tree to watch for the animals; the tree belonged to Yehwe, she began to cut it down; when ready to fall, K. broke one of three calebas, the tree was intact; the third time K.'s mother woke up, saw blood, let the dogs down; they ate 12 Yehwe, and K. ordered the 13th, pregnant woman, to let go, because she did not cut down the tree and asked leave the person alone; K. took the pregnant woman home], 63 [Zinzu leaves the mother water with a magic remedy; if water turns into blood, the dogs must be let go; comes to Yehwe, who eats everyone with parts of his body; Z. tells him this, he rushes at him, Z. climbs a tree; many J. cut down a tree; every time it is ready to fall, Z. breaks one of the seven calebas, a tree recovers; pregnant J. advises leaving Z. alone; mother Z. sees blood, lets dogs down, they eat all Y. except the pregnant woman, she gave birth to new Y.], 65 [Sagbo and Zinzu brothers found themselves in the forest without fire; saw smoke; Z. came to a giant (Yehwe) named Zogbano with 32 horns; saw that all parts of YZ's body were lying separately and eating; when YZ noticed Z., he gathered into one person; Z. got fire, left , began to play the flute about how YZ was watching; he went to look for the player, Z. denied it was him; put out the fire, came for him again; so three times; a girl came to the village, promised to marry him whoever hits a pea on a calebass on her head; only Z. hit, the girl became his wife; at night she turned into a giant, wanted to swallow him, but Z.'s 42 dogs barked; in the forest Z. saw a tree, wanted to, for it to be his wife instead of that monster; the tree turned into Djeluba's girlfriend; she made a condition that he would not remember that she was a tree; she did not cook; Z. returned home, eat Nothing, he went to his first wife, said that the second was just a tree; when Z. was in the forest, the first tree, she returned to the forest, became a tree; the second went to the forest to live with her relatives; the mother gave Z. the drum, did not order to beat it; the man asked to be beaten, all Yehwe Zogbanu ran to the noise, Z. climbed a tree, they knocked him down, he flew away with a partridge; the mother hears him telling his wife what partridges he could turn into an ant, a leaf, a river, sand; then his mother told him to be silent; in the morning his wife took Z. into the forest; he told his mother to let the dogs down if the water turned red; Z. climbed the tree for with leaves, YZ ran in, the water turned red, but his mother was not at home; Z.'s friend found himself in the forest, drove away the monsters; the wife said that everything happened without her knowledge; at home told Z.'s friend that Z. was dead; the friend hanged himself; Having got rid of him, his wife took Z. into the forest again; the friend's wife told Z., who found the body, brought it home; went with his wife to the forest; she asked him to climb the baobab to get leaves; the monsters gathered they began to cut down, Z. successively broke 7 calebas, the felling overgrown every time; when the tree collapsed, Z. became an ant, a partridge, etc.; again a man, rushed to run, climbed a tree that was his wife; the notches on him were immediately overgrown; his mother let the dogs down, they tore the monsters apart; the tree wife refused to return, but sent her four tree children, who are now human; Chief Dada Segbo ordered dogs to become man's best friends; sacrificed his Z. to a deceased friend; they still honor the Adiku tree, Z.'s wife], 66 [Sagbo and Zinzu brothers work in the field, found themselves without fire; saw smoke; S. went, did not find it, returned; Z. came to Azizã; saw that all parts of his body were lying separately and eating; his mouth asked why Z. came and what he saw; Z. is responsible for with fire and saw nothing; on the way back she sings about what he saw; one of yehwe came disguised as a young girl; she would marry someone who falls into the calebass placed on her head; Z., she falls chooses him as her husband; they go to the forest for firewood, Z. tells his mother to let the dogs go if the water turns red; the wife brings Z. to where yehwe lives; when Z. climbs the baobab, the wife calls all 32-horned yehwe; they they almost knock down the baobab twice, but Z. breaks two calebasses, the felling overgrows; the bird flew, woke up Z.'s mother, she released the dogs, they, at Z.'s request, spared the pregnant yehwe, because she advised others do not touch a person; the current yehwe come from it]: 186-190, 240-241, 271-272, 275-284, 284-287; Yoruba [at the festival, the hunter meets a beautiful woman, does not know that she is a cannibal, wins into a game where the winner is promised the hand of a beautiful woman, brings her into the house by his wife; at night she turns into a pile of teeth three times, three hunter dogs see it, bark, the hunter wakes up every time; the wife suggests the hunter takes her to the forest, tells the dogs to be tied; the wife turns into a pile of teeth, the hunter climbs a tree, his teeth gnaw the trunk, the hunter moves from one tree to another; asks a bird to fly by fly to his house, free the dogs; they ate the cannibal]: Walker, Walker 1980:17-19; catch-up [the hunter killed many animals; his mother hid one bone each time; the animals decided to kill the hunter, he climbed the tree; the dogs began to fight, everyone died, the dog Sadale escaped without a paw; when the hunter's mother saw him, the hunter's mother sprayed the bones with water, they turned into new dogs, killed animals; when they returned, the hunter asked the men to help him bring firewood; his wife told him not to go; instead of firewood, people brought meat from animals killed by dogs; the wife told the man that he was always at home; went through the village, everyone gave her a piece of meat, she gave her children, but didn't give her husband]: Arakelova 2005:168-169; ikom [Chief Leku has a wife Achor; young Akoba woman is beautiful, uses the services of many men, does not want to go out marry; promises to marry someone who falls into a far-away calebass; L. gets there, she has to marry him, but gets tired of doing housework; she decides to kill him; asks him to go to the forest for with fruits, leaving hunting dogs at home; when he climbs a palm tree, she cuts the trunk with an ax; L. sends a bird for his dogs; the palm tree falls, but it moves to another; Achor causes the river to flood, but dogs cross, tear Achor apart; L. makes five bundles with pieces of her body, lets five dogs carry; Akoba doesn't understand how he could carry so much, he has to tell; she goes for with firewood, makes five bundles, tells dogs to carry; they brought and died of fatigue; since then dogs have not talked and do not comply with the requests of their owners]: Dayrell 1913, No. 6:11-12; ekoi or niang [Atikawt is a great hunter; after learning that elephants poison crops, he decided to exterminate elephants until none of them trample the fields anymore; elephants are sorcerers who optionally take the form of humans and elephants; they sent a downpour to prevent A. from returning home from the forest; A. came to the house of the mistress of the Ada forest; her lame girl warned her not to touch the food that would be served; if Ada snores like a storm, then awake; and if like thunder, she fell asleep; the girl gave two plants; the juice of one will open the door, the juice of the other will dry the river to cross to the other side; as it happened, Ada stopped in front of the river; the next day she took the form of a girl and came to the city where A. lived; he fell in love with her; but one of his wives was a sorceress and realized that it was Ada; A. did not believe it; his wife told A.'s two dogs to take care of A. the owner; Ada took a hot iron pin out of her stomach and prepared to pierce A. at night, but the dogs were ready to rush at her; she said she could not be in the same room with the dogs and A. chained them on the veranda; Ada took out the rod again, but the dogs broke through the window; then Ada led A. to the fruit tree and asked them to climb; made the tree tall; jumped out of her belly armed warriors began to cut down a tree; A. called dogs; his wife cut the chains, threw the dogs to help; the tree fell, but not to the ground, but to another; the warriors began to cut down the second tree, but then they ran up dogs, tore Hell and her warriors]: Kunze 1990:116-124; mamprusi [mischievous brother Nanzu-bishi (NB) and calm Nanzu-kara (NK) were born from a bump on a woman's leg; leaving their parents, they went travel; a woman with a baby asks a grasshopper to be roasted for him; NB roasts a baby, tries to feed meat to a grasshopper; an old man asks to take threshed millet to a house across the stream, NB sprinkles it into a stream ; brothers climb the tree under which the naba (ruler) rested, the NB spits on the naboo; he orders the tree to be cut down; when it is ready to fall, the lizard raises its head and the tree straightens up; the NB kills the lizard with a knife ; the tree falls, but the vulture picked up and carried the brothers away; the NB tells him that it stinks, the vulture drops them; where the NB fell, small hot peppers grew, and where NK is large sweet]: Anpetkova-Sharova 1966, No. 12:22-24; mosi [parents, daughter and son hid to see what Naba Ouende (God) looked like; the girl looked out of the calebasa where she hid, NO, on pain of death, told her where her father (in addition) killed he baked, forced the girl to eat his meat; the same with her mother; the girl told her brother not to go out, they ran away, climbed a tree; the boy wrote the chief sitting under the tree into the beer; the chief's men cut down the tree, but the boy clicked his tongue and it recovered; finally it fell, the children took off and became thunder; booming peals were his brother's laughter, the deaf whistle was his sister's whisper]: Frobenius 1986:91-92; dagari [y the blind father's eldest son is Hard Heart (TS), the youngest is Soft Heart (MS); the MC always objects to the TS's decisions, but he threatens to kill him and he is forced to agree; the TS tells his father's cows to tear out their eyes, fry them, tell their father that they were (bird's) eggs; when there was only one cow left, the mother found what was going on; the brothers climbed the tree, spoiled the vessel from which the father was drinking; people began to cut down the tree; when it's ready to fall, the hawk rescued the brothers by carrying them on its wings; the TS broke the hawk's wings to plan for them, the brothers roasted and ate the hawk]: Métuolé Somba 1991:184-186; hausa [when going to the forest, a man forbade two wives to untie abandoned dogs; in the forest he met Dodo, climbed a tree, played the flute; the eldest wife untied the dogs, the youngest objected; dogs ripped Dodo apart, husband beat younger wife]: Olderogge 1969:250-251; hausa [spouses live in the woods; Ssara's eldest daughter, youngest, tenth, child is Dan-Auta's son; when dying, parents tell S. to take care of D.; children have large reserves of grain, D. deliberately burns everything; S. carries him to the king's palace, where they live, D. gouges out his eyes to the king's son with a stick; S. takes D., they flee the city; climb a tree; D. urinates on the king's head; he tells us to cut down a tree; when it falls, the falcon picks them up, takes the children away; D. grabs the bird by the tail, it throws them off; the whirlwind picks them up, gently lowers them to the ground; they come to the city; it is surrounded by a wall to protect him from Dodo; at night you cannot answer Dodo's scream, otherwise he will enter; D. calls him, he climbs into the city, D. throws hot stones into his mouth, Dodo dies; D. cuts him off, hides his tail; the king asks to know who the hero is; rejects liars who bring the tail of a horse, a cow; the king gives D. a hundred wives, cows, sheep, camels, horses, slaves, and half a city]: Frobenius 1913 (2): 483-493.
Sudan - East Africa. Joluo [Obong'o has a talking Sijenje bull; S. and all the cattle are gone; O. went to search, came to Lang'o country; all the people he met are pointing the wrong way; O. sang, S. answered from afar; so a few once, S. found; in the country, L. offers poisoned food and drink, S. warns the owner each time; everyone went to the leader's funeral, the Kaki hyena (a particularly ferocious type of hyenas) remained to protect the cattle; O. crept up, cut off her tail, her strength was in it; there was still a blind old woman, O. promised to cure her, dripped aloe juice into her eyes, she died in agony; O. brought his cattle back; K. became a beautiful girl, came to O.'s country; all men are interested in her, every time she asks which animal the man killed, rejects everyone; O. replies that he cut off K.'s tail; she immediately chooses him as her husband; suggests following with firewood, do not take dogs with you, because he is afraid of them; suggests O. to climb a tree, break off branches first; turns into a Kaki hyena, begins to cut; O. calls dogs; the bird distracts K., asks , why kill a handsome man; at this time, the felling overgrows; O. calls the dogs again, they hear and come running; seeing them, K. became a beautiful woman again, but the dogs tore her apart]: K'Okiri 1970:11-31; madi [staying in the cemetery at night, the man saw a white spirit; cried out, all the animals and birds came together to eat it; his dogs helped him escape and return home; after that, the man did not go anywhere alone in dark time]: Arewa 1961, No. 2435:120; sarah (mbai) [Sou has 10 dogs; he went to cut reeds by the river; a witch lived there; he asked for a meal worthy of a guest; she cooked child; Su noticed his head in the brew, poured the food under the bed, and chewed a dry cake himself; witch: I gave you food as a guest, now you must be my lover; took your pest, chased Su; at night they entered the hut, the witch released her teeth to eat Su, but the dogs began to bark; the witch calmed down, threw a pestle into the fire and said that tomorrow Su should go across four rivers and bring her a new one; in the morning I asked me to lock the dogs in the hut, they are angry; they went across 4 rivers, Su had an ax to make a new pestle; the witch told Su to climb the tree: cut it above and I'll be below; then: you poured out my food and now you're going to die! my teeth become an ax, my child's teeth become an ax! and Su began to sing, calling the dogs; they escaped from the hut, but the big dogs could not swim across the river; the smallest swam across, came back and carried the others; they tore them apart by the sorceress; Su went down with a tree, cut it down, made a fire and burned her remains; a woman collected ash to make salt, brought it to her; her daughter tells her mother that ash sings: I am ash (from the burned) witch, and my name is ash (for cooking) salt; the mother only replies that she will give this salt to her daughter when she has her wedding; but still scattered ash; she has grown a pumpkin vine; a huge pumpkin has come off the stem, rolled around the village, devouring everyone; the pregnant woman asked the lion to hide it: if you have twins, you can eat one; when she gave birth, she asked the lion to wait: let the boys grow up; the woman caught on the stump, which teaches to feed the lion with food and sleeping pills; when the lion woke up, the lion caught up with them, the woman pretended not to run away; stump: feed the lion to the dump so as not to wake up; they they ran to the blacksmith, the young men made throwing knives, climbed a tree, called the pumpkin sorcerer; the thrush screams, naming two vines; the young men smeared the knives with the juice of these vines; cut the pumpkin, all swallowed went out; so there are many people on earth now]: Fortier 1967:177-183; Iraq [the night caught honey pickers; Ama'irmi came, offered roots, seven ate and died; others took the roots and ran away; A. follows, the roots answer; people abandoned them; then the necklaces answer - they also threw them; people climbed the tree, A. gnaws on it; when the tree almost falls, two dogs heard a noise, ran and killed A.]: Kohl-Larsen 1963:121-123; shilluk [mother gave Garo's son to a lion; he went for firewood, G. told the palm tree to bend down, climbed on it, then told him to stand up; the lion began to dig up a palm tree; Father G. heard his song, sent help, the lion was killed]: Hofmayr 1925:368; shilluk [Anyimo's girlfriend, her brother and father are with her; the lion took the form of a young man, brother A. gave it to him; on the way, an imaginary young man asks what this is places; when A. replies that she does not know, runs away into the thickets, and she tells the palm tree to bend down, climbs the palm tree; the lion scrapes the ground, tries to knock down the palm tree, but A. tells her not to fall; calls for help; those who hear do not believe at first, then people come and kill the lion; A. tells the palm tree to bend down, go down; feast]: Westermann 1912, No. 85:208-210; Dinka [man's wife is a lioness {in the sense of cannibal, gulya}, lives separately, they have a son Kon; the father married her son a girl; Kona's mother asks to bring her young daughter-in-law to her; ate her; so consistently with all the girls; the last one, Nyanbol, remains with her mother-in-law Her little sister also went; N. insisted on sleeping not with her mother-in-law, but with her sister; the house is full of skulls; her mother-in-law replies that they are relatives who have died from illness; she leaves the next morning hunt, sisters run away; at the sacred palm tree, N. asks her to bend down, climbs a tree, and her sister runs to the camp where men; mother-in-law begins to cut the tree with an ax; the husband has managed to run; agreed that they would all return to their mother-in-law; at night, N.'s husband blocked the exit from the house where his mother stayed for the night and burned her with her house]: Deng 1984:103-106; Sudanese Arabs [the elder's horse by the river Fatma's brother slipped on strands with an ox; the brother promised to marry the one whose hair it was, even if it was F.; F. persuaded seven girls to run with her, or their brothers would do the same; before marriage at night I went out to pee, pierced a pre-prepared wineskin of water, the murmur of the jet, the girls managed to leave; in the desert they came to the cannibal; she offered them milk and one of the girls tasted it; at night, F. replies that he is awake; asks him to go calm the dogs in a distant village; and other tasks (not named); in the morning they asked the cannibal to bake bread for them on the fire that burns there; this is the sun; that I tried it, but didn't bake it; when I came back, I found only the one that tasted the milk; she broke her neck and ate it; the girls asked the tree to become small, climbed it, then asked he was tall again; knives were stuck around; they lowered the cannibal's rope, picked it up and threw it several times; knives pierced her and she died; the girls moved on; F. began to look for the old man in his head; asks how he can be killed; the old man: to pierce a thorn into the crown; F. did so, wearing old man's skin; the girls began to live in a cave; merchants passed by, their camel began to chew on the straw that closed the entrance; the merchants dismantled the girls; one of them is crooked; says to the merchant: they took the curve, but left the flower; the Sultan's son heard, came back, took the imaginary old man; when they go, F.'s jewelry rings; "These are my bones"; F. chose to herd geese rather than sheep to be able to swim; the slave sees her removing old man's skin; she deprives him of speech (apparently by witchcraft); at home he points to F., but can't do anything say; F.: he is crazy, he should be burned with iron; burned to death; this is how almost all slaves died; the Sultan's son went to spy himself, climbed a tree, stole F.'s ring; at home offered to play checkers: the winner will take off the skin; F. won twice, but did not exercise her right; then the Sultan's son won; married F., but hid it from people; one day F. came out, people fell breathless from her beauty; she sprayed them with blood from her little finger, everyone came to life; everything is fine]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 21:114-118; Somalis [the man brought the camels to the well to get water; at the well a hyena in guise offered the man to fight, killed him, took his form, returned to his wife; when she left, the werewolf threw away the food offered because he did not eat what people eat; asked his wife's parents to allow take her to his parents; on the way, tells his wife to get off the camel, sits down by himself, gnaws off pieces of fat from the camel, says that the camel is worried that her jewelry, skirt are ringing on the woman; she takes off her bracelets, but refuses to walk naked; sits on the camel again, notices wounds; asks to drive up to the tree, supposedly forgot something there; climbs the tree, taking with her a vessel with a lightened oil (ghee); hyena gathers other predators; a woman asks a crow to fly to her parents and tell her about the trouble; the crow demands that the woman first oil her feathers, deceives her, flies away; the same - eagle; a little bird is flying to the woman's brother, who does not understand anything, threw a stone, breaking the bird's wing; it is difficult to fly to the woman's mother, she throws her head; to her maternal uncle; he understands, along with others run to the tree, the predators have fled; the woman refuses to get down at the request of her parents and brother; the uncle orders the branch to break, and the niece, falling, broke only her finger; and so it happened; in honor The rescued lamb was stabbed to death]: Hanghe 1988-202; moru [after taking water, Kide met a man and asked for help to carry water; when she entered the hut to start cooking, a snake fell off the roof ; K. ran; the Elephant could not help her; The Bat hid K. in his house and killed the Snake with an ax; married K.; they have a daughter Ariawa; she fell into the river; Hyena pulled her out of the water, raised her, and then invited other hyenas to a feast to eat her; the girl was placed on a platform, she turned to Eagle and Vulture, who picked her up and brought her to her mother, K.]: Evans Pritchard, Mynors 1941, No. 34:82; Malgashi [three brothers, and the fourth named Isilakuluna has half of his body wooden; his father drove him away, his mother left with him; they live in the forest, have dogs; brothers ask their father what are the curiosities in the world ; father: white guinea fowl, red bee honey, wild bull, monsters with a woman's head; brothers go in search, I. with them; tells the mother that if the bananas dry up, he is in trouble, let him release the dogs; I. lures guinea fowls, fills the calebass with honey, tames the bull; each time the brothers take what they have earned from him, take credit for themselves; when they enter the monster house with a woman's head, they are frightened; I. tells them bring water with a net, brothers are fleeing; monsters are chasing; I. stuck a piece of wood into the ground, a forest appeared, monsters cut it down; scattered rice (tall hard grass); eggs (river, pursuers drank it); I. s the brothers climbed the stone, I. told him to become a high rock; I.'s mother let the dogs down, but the monsters ate the red, black and yellow ones; the brothers lowered the rope, then cut off, two monsters crashed; the third did not began to rise; the last dog grabbed him by the tail, I. captured him; brought him to his father; told how everything was his father made him heir, the rest of his sons were happy]: Rodman 1965:161-169.
North Africa. Kabila [the old man bought 7 apples for 7 daughters-in-law, ate half of one apple on the way; the daughter-in-law, who got half, gave birth to a boy named Amar half, the rest were normal boys; brothers went hunting; caught two lions; good jinnia offered them black milk (supposedly, her goat is afraid to graze, because there are predators all around, so she eats coals near the hearth), brought them to her; brothers left the lions to protect the ginnia, went to clear the forest of predators, spent the night with the cannibal ceriel; she ate horses and six brothers; A. asks her to bring him water first with a sieve, ran away; calls the river a river of oil and honey, it opens a dry bottom, A. crosses, the river flows again; ceriel calls the river with swear words, tells the dog to drink it; the dog bursts, the river continues to flow; the sheikh teaches ceriel to name it the river is a river of oil and honey; the river parts, ceriel crosses, A. climbs a tree; ceriel cuts the trunk with an ax all day, casts a spell in the evening, goes to rest, in the morning the trunk is intact again; the sheikh teaches : I must say, "in the name of God"; she does so, by morning the notch does not overgrow; A. asks for permission to shout 7 times; lions hear, come running, eat ceriel; A. warns not to let a drop of her blood touched the ground; one lion dropped a drop, but another managed to catch it in the air]: Dermenghem 1945:63-67; Tuaregs (central Niger) [man wanted to see something amazing; came to a stream of oil, then to the buttocks, then to the eyes that were fighting with each other; djinnija (a genie woman) asked if this was not surprising, the man replied that nothing special; jinnia became a woman invited her place, she has many children; she fed the traveler, he went to bed, she sharpened his knife, but the rooster sang; when she saw that the man had left on a camel, Ginnia rushed in pursuit; she was a giantess - until sky; he left the rooster, she ate it; then began to bite off and devour the camel's legs, one at a time; when she ate the last leg and the whole camel, the man climbed the tree; she tore off his penis, turned it into an ax, began to cut down a tree; the Chameleon (considered a wise and good animal) asked to let him chop, ordered the felling to grow, the tree became the same as before; the man called dogs; one wife wanted to let them off the leash, another said they shouldn't; in the end, the dogs were lowered, they came running, tore the woman apart; to go down, the tree had to be made lower {it's not clear who did it}; the man divorced his wife, who prevented the dogs from letting down]: Rasmussen 1998:269-270 (retelling), 279-284 (substitch); Algerian Arabs (Blida) [spouses have a son; husband asks his wife to take the drug in order to conceive again; she prepared a potion, went to the bathhouse; her husband accidentally ate it himself; the wife returned, a quarrel began, and a few days later the wife died {from beatings?} ; the husband's leg was swollen, a girl came out of the tumor; he told his son to get rid of it; he left the child in the tree; for three years an eagle fed the girl, then the young man took her and went on a journey; he had three dogs with talking names (the last "Pulling the lungs out of her shoulders"); the girl's name is Bent essaq ("Foot Daughter"; B.); they came to Ghoul's house; he left with the key in the door; they began to live in this house; until the brother was gone, the ghoul returned; B. did not unlock it, the ghoul broke the door; B. called the dogs, they did not come; the ghoul married B.; the brother returned, began to fight the ghoul, called the dogs, they tore the ghoul (the third dog pulled out her lungs); but his sister cured him; his brother returned again, cut the ghoul in half; left, leaving B.; in one area people are thirsty; the dragon closed the water, demands a bowl of couscous, ram and every year a girl; a young man cut a dragon, the water poured out abundantly; the girl exchanged shoes with her savior; all men are told to bring their shoes; the young man comes last, the princess threw it at him apple, recognized her shoes; wedding 7 days and nights; B. came, persuaded her to forgive her; collected dragon thorns, put her brother in bed; he died and buried; dogs removed the body, pulled out the thorns, young man came to life; sister crucified at the city gates so that everyone passing by would spit on her]: Desparmet 1910:140-149; Tunisia [a woman has seven sons and a daughter; the daughter is very thin, does not want to eat anything; woman I went to the doctor, who said: in order to cure a girl, she needed to give the liver of a young child; the woman saw the baby returning from kuttab, started playing with him, called him home for sweets, turned into a predatory beast, fed the liver of her daughter's child; she ate a whole herd of sheep, then her father, brothers one by one, then her mother; the youngest brother ran away from home to horses, his sister chased him, he climbed a tree, she ate his horse and began to climb the tree; the boy had two sparrows, he called them, they flew in and picked him up, and his sister rushed to boy and fell down; he went down and beat her with a stick]: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 81 in Korovkina MS; Egyptian Arabs, Algerian Berbers: El-Shamy 2004, No. 315a: 142-143.
Southern Europe. Spaniards (Extremadura) [a dog man has Iron, Lead, Steel (or Sun, Moon, Star); he chases away a giant seeking his sister's hand; sister lures brother to collect for she has fruit from an orange tree; a giant runs up, shakes him, a man calls dogs, they come running, drive away the giant; next time the giant lets his sister add poison to his brother; dogs feel poison, cat tries, dies; then a man saves a princess from a seven-headed serpent, dogs kill a snake]: Parsons 1922:8-9.
Western Europe. French (Dauphine): Joisten 1991, No. 8.1 [when parents die, parents leave their daughter a house, their son a herd; the brother sells it, keeping three sheep, exchanges them for three dogs; settles in an empty castle, which will be owned by someone who can spend the night in it; those who tried to do so before died; at night the devil rushes at the young man, dogs drive him into the closet, the young man becomes the owner of the castle; he settles there and her sister, forbiding her to open the closet; she opens it, takes the devil as a lover; the dog All I know turns over the dish of poison that her sister tried to feed her brother; the devil advises sending a young man climb a tree to collect pears, he will knock down a tree; the young man calls the dogs, they drive the devil into the closet, the young man drives his sister there, the devil and the girl disappear into flames], 8.2 [a person ends up in in the forest, flees from predators in a tree, calls his dogs Lomay-Iron, flies like the wind, passes by the Squash Mountains, they kill predators]: 95-96, 96; Bretons [the king has a daughter; a son was born in old age Jean; the king and queen are dead; Jean is raised by a peasant; his sister wants to kill him, but the peasant loves him; Jean grew up, left with his beloved white lamb; the man he met persuaded him to change her to two dogs - Tearing Iron and Incomparable; Jean was hired as a hunter to the castle; others are jealous, locked the dogs in the tower; Jean was surrounded by predatory animals, he called dogs, they ran, bitten to death the animals; Jean left, came to another castle; there is food and bed, he sees a woman's hand; three devils smelled it, fried it and ate it, the girl revived it from the bone; says that there are still two nights left; on the second he sees the girl's head, the devils played they threw it into the ball, threw him against the wall, he was alive again; on the third night they cut it and ate it, the girl revived it from her fingernail; the spell fell asleep, the girl appeared, and with her people, servants; she became the wife; his sister came, wants to lime him, pretended to be sick, sent him to the mill; the witch dug a hole, Jean fell into it, the dogs were pulled out; the witch advises sending Jean to the spring for water, where he will be attacked by 50 invisible knights; dogs saw them and drove them away; the witch confessed her helplessness; Jean and his wife came to Paris, the people greeted them; another witch offered to put razors in their bed; bodies the couple were cut to pieces, buried in the same coffin; the dogs were pulled out and revived; said that they were Jean's parents, who took the form of dogs to protect him from his sister; she should be thrown into the oven; then she will atone for his sins and end up in paradise with his parents; and so it happened]: Luzel 1879:23-38; the Irish [first-person story; the man is surrounded by 13 monstrous cats; the leader orders to give them food; they they eat him by a horse; a cow; he threw his clothes on a stump and climbed a tree himself; the cats tore the stump, looking for a man; the leader notices him; cats gnaw on the trunk, the tree falls, the man jumps to another; like this all night; when the last one was left, 13 wolves appeared and cats were bitten to death; the man returned home]: Kharitonov 2008:12-14; the Alsatians [the father sent his son to work, giving him three lambs; the old man suggested changing them to three dogs and a whistle - they would be more useful in the forest; their names were Stronger than Steel, Attentive, Fast as the Wind; the sound of a whistle will be heard from afar; in the forest the young man stayed in the house old women; 12 robbers came at night, the old woman warned that the guest had a dog; tomorrow she would send him to the forest to get a hare, keep the dogs with her; the robbers rushed at him; he asked for permission climb a tree and read a prayer; dogs whistled, they tore up the robbers, and then the old woman; the young man came to a city where mourning; every year a girl is given to the seven-headed dragon, it is the turn of the king's daughter; while the dogs were holding the dragon, the young man cut off his heads, cut off his tongues; promised to return in a year and marry the princess; the deceiver said he killed the dragons; the young man returns when the wedding is being prepared ; the princess recognizes dogs, the young man shows his tongues, marries, inherits the throne; the deceiver is torn by four bulls]: Lefftz 2006, No. 13:209-212.
Western Asia. Palestinians [the couple has three sons, the wife asks her daughter to even ghoul; gives birth to a girl; a sheep disappears every night; brothers take turns guarding, falling asleep, the youngest sees his sister devour sheep; parents do not believe, the young man leaves, lives with an old woman, helps the lioness to be born, she gives him two lion cubs; he decides to visit his native places, where the cannibal sister ate everyone, chases the last curve rooster; eats the horse's leg, the brother replies that he came on a three-legged horse, then on a two-legged horse, on foot; he is going to eat his brother, he asks him to bathe, he ties the rope from his belts to the stone, runs away, climbs a palm tree, she saws it with her hand, he calls his lions, they tear the cannibal apart; merchants ask to guess what they are taking, otherwise they will take the lions; sister's blood screams that they they are carrying sumah, a young man takes the lions given back]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 8:93-98; Syria [like the Palestinians, Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 7]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989:334; Syria, Jordan , Qatar: El-Shamy 2004, No. 315a: 142-143; the Arabs of Iraq [the sultan killed his wives every week; the daughter of the vizier remained; she ran away, found an empty castle, gave birth to a son there, he grew up; The young man hunts, each time shares his prey with lions, they become his friends; he unlocked all the rooms in the palace, in one he found a chained black man with a lip that he covered himself like a blanket; the absence of a son, the mother frees the black man and lives with him, and when the son arrives, she shackles him again; to get rid of the young man, the mother and the black man agree that she will pretend to be sick, let the son bring it 1) a grenade guarded by cannibal eagles; young lions killed eagles, a young man brought grenades; 2) water from the river in which the dragon gives water to the residents of the city in exchange for girls; a young man comes to an old woman, she says that the dragon has already eaten all the girls, it is the turn of the sheikh's daughter; the young man killed the dragon, the girl anointed him with dragon blood; the slave claims that he killed, the sheikh is ready to give him his daughter; she says that noted her savior; the sheikh gathers all the men; the young man is the last to be brought, he gets a wife; goes to visit his mother; the wife gives a ring, another for her: if it turns yellow, the husband is in trouble; the mother offers her son play chess and when he finally wins, he gets the right to shackle him; he replies that you can only tie him with his own hair; she does; the black man refuses to kill him, his mother kills him, throws away the body; the lions came running, one began to lick his wounds, the other brought the caravans; the young man was still alive, he was leaving, he returned to his wife; killed his mother, scoped a black man]: Weissbach 1908, No. 8:43-53.
Melanesia. Vogeo [boys send ants to bite an old man by the testicles; he makes the boys small, puts a gong in the crack, lets them into the sea; the gong nails to the coast of New Guinea; the cannibal is going to eat them; the youngest hides in a tree; answers the cannibal that he has climbed upside down; his nose is bleeding; a hawk saves the boy, brings him to the sky above Vogeo Island; he sees his mother, throws them she has a coconut, a palm tree grows out of it; the boy's father wakes for it, forgets to feed two orphans, who climb a palm tree, reach the sky when they are old; together with the young man they go down to land, bringing ornaments, bananas, tarot, areca palm nuts (agricultural origin)]: Hogbin 1970:32-33; olo [the hunter fell asleep soundly; masalai (spirit) saw him, put him in a bag and carried him away; masalai lived on an island and swam with a bag on his back; when he woke up, the man cut the bag with a bamboo chip, put a floating block in it and reached the tree; domestic masalai saw that the bag was not game, but a block of wood ; masalai returned to the shore; the man climbed the palm tree; the masalay cut it down with an ax and the man moved to another; so several times; the stars noticed the man and lowered the stairs for him; masalai asked let him down too; they lowered the rotten one, it fell apart, the masalai fell and crashed; the stars brought the man to his house; the man celebrated a party, warning that guests only he could see would come; When the stars returned to heaven, they lit the lights; they had not lit the lights before and they were not visible at night]: Slone 2009:110-112; motu [the huge Eagle took the girl to his nest, took her as his wife, they have a son; the boy sees the smoke of the village in the distance; the Eagle allows his wife and son to go to visit their relatives, tells him to follow the left path from the fork; the son wants to follow the left path, the mother says he is on the right; they come to the huge Snake; the woman deliberately drops the fish she took with her parents as a gift, tells the Snake that she has lost them; while he crawls to collect fish, she runs with her son, the Serpent easily catches up with them; next time she runs to home, but the Serpent crawls there, stays in her house; she sends her two sisters to hunt with the Serpent, runs to the Eagle with her son; the Serpent tries to knock down the tree; when it's ready to fall, the Eagle spits, the tree recovers; so several times; the Eagle lifts the Serpent into the air, throws it, it is unharmed; then it raises it so high that it is not visible from the ground; throws it, the Serpent breaks; the Eagle speaks to his wife and son that they're safe now]: Romilly 1889:107-120.
Micronesia-Polynesia. Marshall Islands [Before dying, a woman with Likjeroni promised her two sons to bury her on Rongerik; they wrapped her body in mats and took her by boat; the elder held the steering paddle and the youngest the sail; the deceased repeated that she wanted to be taken to Ronjerik; her body began to decay; a heron descended from the sky, took the oar from her older brother, and told the younger brother to tie sail to the boat; let them jump overboard and sail to the island; the heron itself, in the voice of his older brother, continued to sing the same song as him; when they reached the island, the brothers climbed the palm tree; the dead mother got up and ate a heron; stretched out in different directions until she saw her sons on Ranjerik; the older brother threw the nut west, the mother reached out and ate the nut; the same with all the nuts the young man threw at in different directions; then he cut off the spear-shaped upper leaf of the palm tree and threw it into the sky; the leaf broke through all three tiers of the sky; the mother then ate the leaf, but when she tried to return to earth to eat sons, the holes in the sky closed; the brothers stayed on the island]: Kowata et al. 1999:70-72; Tuvalu (Niutao): Koch 1966:72-73 [11 boys collected seashells to play (they are put in bowl); one found a good stone bowl; the boys carried it with them, but it got heavier, and then rolled into the forest; the boys followed it, there was the cannibal Taukinotoe; he went to get firewood, the boys climbed the tree; T. noticed the boys when he saw their reflection in the water; grimaced to make them laugh, but they did not laugh; began to cut the tree with an ax, but one of the boys immediately overgrown the felling; the boys asked to carry them away, they took them away, but for the youngest the bird was too weak, could not pick him up; T. caught him, began to feed him at home; the boy asked for time off out of need, refusing to relieve himself of need at home; T. tied a rope to him, a boy tied it to a tree; a bird brought him home; parents are happy], 74-75 [~ (72-73)]; Tokelau [the cannibal Nautoa caught five brothers; at night they got out his houses and climbed the tree; N. began to cut him down; each brother has a hand gannet of his own species, each offering to take it away, but N. scares them away; the bird of the youngest brother, Hape, takes everyone at once; however H., who grabbed his tail, fell; N. brought him to his home, began to fatten him; H. asked for relief, offered to tie him to a rope, tied it to a branch and ran away; his gannet took him to to his house; N. angrily swallowed a tree branch to which a rope was tied and died; now the bark of this tree is N.'s skin]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 185-186; Rennell [three orphans run away from cannibals climbing a tree; big birds frigate Ariel and then gannet are unable to carry them away; the little tern takes all three]: Richter-Gravier 2019 (1): 186 (-2019 (2), No. 106C: 70); (cf. Gilbert Islands [{the text seems to be authentic, but most of the other texts in the collection are of European origin}; all three sisters were named Ikuiku by their mother's name; parents live in the south of the island and don't tell them to go north; they go, come to the house of old Atutababa; she tries to put them to sleep by removing insects from her head, then decapitating them and eating them; the eldest is the first to understand the danger; A. does not let the girls go otherwise he will kill immediately; they ask them to go to the beach to relieve themselves; A. goes with them, also relieves themselves, asks them to bring leaves to wipe themselves off; at this time, the sisters run away, climb a tree above the water; A. sees reflection, dives, then hears laughter, notices sisters; sings to cut the trunk and the tree fall; younger I. pees and sings her song, the tree recovers and grows taller; next time a tree restores the middle I., then the eldest; A. tells the heron to shake the sisters off the tree with its tail; the heron is forced to obey, the eldest falls, rushes to run, runs to men; they tell A. first listen to their song, take it high into the air with a song, throw it on the rocks, it crashes; the heron brings two younger sisters; everyone is happy]: Koru, Gullivan 1986:81-93).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [the old woman who sheltered the boy Lhawa Döndrub said that a demon killed his father and took his mother away; he goes for revenge; another old woman tells the demoness to fall to her chest and name her mother; she tells you to put the demon's thumbs in her mouth, then he will not eat it; he tells him to go only during the day, the mother of the young man across the river; the demon senses that his wife's son has come, advises him to pretend to be sick, send his son 1) for the tiger's milk; after shooting at the tiger, LD shot him off a goiter, a grateful tiger gave him milk and a medium tiger cub to boot; 2) behind Garuda's pen; LD killed a snake that was about to eat four Garuda's chicks; she gives a pen and one chick; 3) a golden pen from the demon's brother's forehead; the tiger jumped on his chest, Garuda grabbed the pen, the demon screamed that he would go; they brought him in, LD killed his mother and her demon husband; went to look for a bride; the king has three daughters, LD chose the youngest when they came for water, but the king did not give it up; Garuda found the home of a heavenly fairy, LD married her; they planted two trees: if with anyone the trouble is, it will dry up; while the LD was hunting, an old woman came to the fairy to look after the dogs and cattle; she guessed that LD's life in a golden dagger threw it into the fire, LD fell dead; then the old woman offered the fairy feed rice to the fish, drowned them; Garuda saw that the trees had dried up, a friendly demon (who had a feather on his forehead) threw the amulet, found out that the old woman was to blame; she was tied, nailed to a tree, the remains the golden dagger was taken out of the hearth; everything is fine {no details}]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 28:165-168; Lavrung [the farmer's wife fell in love with a giant, is going to kill her husband; sent her husband to hunt, leaving him two dogs at home; the giant met a peasant who asked for final advice to his parents, climbed a tree, called dogs, they tore the giant; the man cut his wife in half, fed half to dogs]: G.yu lha 2012:57.
South Asia. Kannada [a seventh girl was born in the family of an oil merchant; at night she turned into a monster, walked around the city, ate people; brother saw, they did not believe him, he left; in one city they offered jump through a hole; the young man succeeded, he got a wife; got a lion cub with a tiger cub; decided to visit his native places; told his wife to release his animals if they showed signs of anxiety; young man I came home, not a soul there, my sister ate everyone; left him in the kitchen, and she goes out, eats one leg of his horse and, when he returns, asks if he came on three-, two-, one-, legless horse; he every time says yes; while she was eating her torso, the young man ran away, climbed a tree; the sister released the animals and they tore the monster; the young man returned to his wife]: Ramanujan 1997, No. 7:27; muria [from Rakshasa's daughter teeth in her vagina; in the guise of a girl, she bit off penises; as a tigress, she ate the penis, and gave the rest to her 10 or 12 tigers; so she killed six brothers; the youngest seventh deity was told to insert it into The vagina was an iron rod, he knocked out their teeth; he climbed into a mango from the tigers, became small, climbed inside the fruit, the parrot brought it to the Raja's house, he married a princess; told Rakshasa's daughter to become a bat, which has a single hole in the body, i.e. eats, copulates, defecates through the mouth]: Elwin 1949, No. 26:386-387.
The Balkans. Croats: Uther 2004 (1), No. 315a: 203; Bulgarians [a woman who used to have only sons or is childless asks God to give her a daughter, even a lamia (vampire, plague); gives birth to a daughter, she is a lamia, eats horses; the younger brother, when he herds horses, injures them (cuts off his finger); leaves home, gets helper dogs along the way, lives in another village; decides to visit his native village; there the lamia ate everyone; the sister consistently eats the horse's legs, asks her brother if he came on a three-, two-, one-legged horse; The mouse answers his sister instead of his brother (hits the drum, sings); running away, the hero consistently climbs on three trees (poplars, oaks, they were planted by him); when his sister had almost gnawed through the trunk of a third tree, the hero's wife, after learning from the behavior of dogs or by another sign that her husband was in trouble and was releasing dogs, they break a lamia]: Daskalova-Perkovska 1994, № 315a: 117-118; Romanians [the stepmother has two children of her own, she demands that her husband save her children from his first wife; the boy heard, said to his sister ; they took ash and flour with them, poured them on the ground on the way; the father tied an empty pumpkin to the tree, it knocks in the wind, and he does not cut wood, but is long gone; the children returned home in the footsteps; the same next time ; the third time the father took the children further, and the rain soaked the flour and the birds pecked it; the boy made a bow, the sister got a friction fire, they began to eat birds; the fox tells her not to shoot at her, gave her own fox; then the same with the she-wolf and the bear; the children came to the palace, where there was a giant chained to the wall behind a steel door; he asked for water; the boy did not give it and told his sister to unlock any doors except the steel one ; the sister opened the door, brought the giant three mugs of water, who broke the chains; the sister is ready to be the giant's mistress and destroy her brother; to do this, she must eliminate his animals; to do this, she asked him to leave them with when he goes hunting, she is bored alone; they locked the animals in a room with a steel door; the giant chases the young man; he climbed a tree; throws the giant's hat, one sandal, the other, each sings once, calling on his animals while the giant devours what was thrown; first only the fox, then the wolf cub, finally the bear cub hears; the bear broke the door; the animals decided to run like the wind, for if thought, they would be too tired to fight; the giant chipped in with a log, but the animals ate it, and the young man took his heart and liver; he told his sister to cook them; left 9 barrels to fill them tears, and left]: Mawr 1881:52-56; Romanians [the young man dreams that when he reaches the age of 20, he will shoot his parents; leaves, is hired by a boyar as a huntsman; gypsy: when you are 20, you will be eaten by a wolf with with a copper head; at the age of 20, he leaves and meets an old woman; she gives a handkerchief to overcome difficulties and three more that will help in trouble; with the help of a handkerchief, the young man crossed the Red Sea and entered the country Wolf while Wolf is in his country; thanks to three scarves, dogs appear Tyazhel-as-Earth (Erdeschwehr), Hears Well, Light as Wind; he comes to Wolf's Mother; her daughter tries find out how he crossed the sea; the young man gives her a handkerchief, she tells her mother that now the Wolf will be able to cross; the Wolf hid in a hole at the doorstep; in the hearth; under the chair; every time Erdeschwehr does not allow to attack him; the next day, the Wolf's Mother convinced him to leave the dogs at home; the wolf attacked, the young man climbed the beech tree, called the dogs; after the third call, they heard, broke the door, ran, tore the wolf, ate it, leaving only the liver and lungs; the young man shot the wolf's mother and daughter and returned home with a handkerchief]: Bîrlea 1966:449-450; Moldovans [his master has Kyrmyz's daughter; he promises it to whoever gets up into her tower, takes off the ring, calls her name; the Dragon succeeds; Gaitan's beloved horse teaches her to fall behind her husband, hold a sword in his hand, breaks forward, the Dragon's head is cut off; G. tells K. to get it out his ear is a shepherd's clothes, she pretends to be a young man; Ion suspects that this is a girl, the sorcerer offers to test her; but K. overtakes him on horseback, talks about a wattle fence, not a spinning wheel, chooses a weapon, not towels, however, betrays himself without stepping over a broom, but sweeping the floor with it; I. takes K. as his wife, goes to war; sends a letter home, Draconich replaces him with an order to burn K.; G. extinguishes the fire, takes him away K., who gives birth to two golden-haired sons, G. tells him to be killed, his chest has become a zamk, his head is a table with food, his eyes and ears are two wolfhounds, his wool is a garden, his hoof has become an old servant; The dragon, in the form of another old woman, asked the boys to throw hairs at the dogs, which turned into chains, but the dogs tore them, killed the old woman; K. recognized her as Draconich; I. returned from the war, traveled around the world dogs brought him to K. Castle, the couple met; in the morning the castle disappeared, G. reappeared]: Botezatu 1981:226-234 (=Moldavian tales 1968:276-285); Moldovans [Fat-Frumos is a strong guy; stepmother tells her husband to get rid of him; the father sent him to herd the cattle, gave him an ash cake; the white bull tells him to get food and drink from his horn; the stepmother takes turns sending three daughters; the eldest, middle they fall asleep, the youngest talks about everything; the stepmother is sick: you have to swim in the blood of a white bull; the bull teaches FF to pretend to catch him, and takes him away, putting him on his back; they stopped in the forest; the deer tells us to go out: this is his domain; the bull refuses, they are fighting, the deer threw the bull on the ground so that the horns fall off; the FF took them, knocked them, and the cattle began to come out of their antlers - they cannot be driven back; the lame wolf drove FF for permission to eat when he becomes the groom; FF wants to marry, people promise to drive the wolf away; while the best man was talking to the wolf who came, FF ran away, was sheltered by Baba Zhgiver, then Baba Khadyra, then Baba Byrkosha, each gave her a dog; Byrkosha gave another ring and a handkerchief; he waved, the waters of the river parted, FF crossed dry; on the other side there was a girl, FF, did not know it was her sister wolf; she persuaded her to entrust her with a ring and handkerchief, with their help let the wolf cross the river; the wolf hid in a hole in front of the doorstep, but the third dog lay down, pressing him down; the next day under the bed (same); under table; the wolf's sister persuaded her to leave the dogs, locked them in the cellar; FF climbed into a tree from the wolf, called the dogs; threw one bast to the wolf, the wolf gnawed them, began to gnaw on the trunk; the dogs heard they broke the door, ran, tore the wolf; FF returned the handkerchief and ring to Baba Byrkoshe, returned to continue the wedding]: Botezat 1981:305-316; Greeks [a woman has a son and a daughter, a daughter gives birth to a girl; at night the monster devours cattle; the young man shoots his little finger, the baby girl cries in the morning, her little finger is torn off; the young man demands that his sister kill the monster, she refuses; he takes his mother, leaves; they they stop in the cannibal's cave; he agrees with the young man's mother to kill him; the mother pretends to be sick, asks for 1) cannibal milk, 2) the melon of life, 3) the water of life; each time the fairy helps get what she is looking for, replaces him with horse urine, plain melon, plain water; the sister asks what her brother's life is like; he replies that he is in a broom, in a joint (she adorns them); in golden hair on his head; she pulls her hair out, she and the cannibal eat it; the fairy sends two young doe (they are described as dogs) brought in; first, the little finger is missing, then it is found; revives immortality with milk, melon, water; a young man kills an ogre and mother; comes to his sister, she has eaten everyone, tells him to ring the bell while boiling water; the mouse rings instead of him, he runs away; climbs on three trees that grew out of nuts given by the fairy; deer cubs come running, eating a monster; a young man marries a fairy]: Paton 1900, No. 12:340-344; Gagauz people [while the brother is hunting, a giant came to his sister; advised him to pretend to be sick, ask for wolf's milk; the she-wolf gave his brother milk and one wolf; the same lion's milk, bear milk - the lioness gave a lion cub, a bear cub; the guy found a bear at home two giants; they wanted to execute him, but he called his animals, they broke their bonds and tore the giants to pieces; his brother stabbed his sister and left]: Moshkov 1904, No. 76:138; Albanians [the king has three sons, a wife died, he took another one, she gave birth to a daughter, she is Kutschedra (werewolf); someone steals apples; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep, the youngest cuts off his little finger, does not sleep, wounds K. with an arrow in the chest; daughter complains to his mother, the king orders the execution of his youngest son; the hangman lets him go, teaching him magic words, brings a bloody sword to the king; the young man runs, meets K. again, climbs the poplar; K. knocks him down, then second; when the young man climbs the third, he remembers the words taught by the hangman; two dogs came running and killed K.]: Lambertz 1952:49-55; the Serbs [a wolf with an iron head wants to eat the shepherd Peter; that persuaded him to wait until he married; the wolf agrees; came to the wedding; when he saw the wolf, P. ran and ran all day; asked the mother of the sun to hide him; she left him overnight and do the towel: if wave, the waters will part, and then close again; went dry across the river, closed the waters behind him, went on; but the wolf finally swam across the river; P. ran to the mother of the month's house; in the morning she gave it inexhaustible bread; the wolf is catching up again; P. waved his towel - the path opened at the thicket; waved again - the trees clamped the wolf; he began to nibble on them; P. lay down, and when he woke up, a lion, a bear and a lynx nearby; he fed them bread; took them with him; paved the way again in the forest and locked it behind him; P. came to the mother of the wolves and asked her to be her shepherd; lured P.'s handkerchief, went into the thicket and freed her a son who was clamped by trees; but now Peter is guarded by his animals; when the wolf hid in the hole and his mother covered it with branches, the animals lay down just in this place and the wolf could not rush to P.; then the wolf asked his mother to persuade Peter to leave the animals at home; the wolf rushed to P., who climbed the tree; the wolf gnaws at him; P. throws his shoes to him and screams three times; first he hears the lynx, then the bear, finally lion; the door is locked, but they crawled under the wall; they tore the wolf to pieces; then P. let the animals at the wolf's mother, and they tore her up; taking the gold and rams, P. returned home]: Eschker 1992, No. 18:100-106; Hungarians: Gidash 1953 [Peter is hired by an old man to pick up horses; gets a nut as a reward, breaks it along the way, cattle come out; the iron-headed man puts everything back for a promise never not to marry; P. gets rich, his father insists that he marry; Ironhead comes to the wedding, P. runs away riding a stallion; three old women consistently feed him, give him scarves, buns; driving through flame, he spreads it apart with handkerchiefs, throws buns, they turn into three dogs; Ironhead stays waiting at the wall of fire; P. is hired by an old woman, tells the girl about the scarves; she spreads the fire with them , Ironhead spills this, passes, P. climbs a tree, calls dogs, they tear Ironhead to pieces, they turn into poppies (the origin of the poppy); P. returns home, returning the old women buns, scarves; his wife is dead; a girl from the country appears behind a wall of fire; wedding]: 124-133 (=Hungarian... 1955:99-111); Shustova 1964 [the shepherd's sheep ate the giant's hay; he tells him to feed him all sheep; falls asleep; the shepherd pours boiling fat into his eyes; leaves; the giant throws his ring; put on his finger, it calls the giant, it cannot be removed; the shepherd cuts off his little finger, throws him into the lake, the giant after him, dies; the bear tells the shepherd not to marry; the shepherd and his fiancée share the ring and the handkerchief, disperse; one old man sends the shepherd to the second, the third, each gives a ring; the latter teaches how to get dogs Know, Doglyad, Vsehdavish; a shepherd lives with a witch, she hides the Bear; dogs prevent him from attacking a shepherd; a witch locks them in a barn; a shepherd hides in a tree; dogs escaped, killed the Bear; witch; a shepherd comes to his wife's wedding, shows half a ring, half a scarf; the wife recognizes him, drives the new groom away; three rings turn into gold-fleece rams]: 174-185; Hungarians [the king placed a daughter in a tower to isolate her from men; one of the two wanderers lifted a stem up to the window, the smell of which made the girl pregnant; her father put her in a barrel, threw her into the sea; the barrel was nailed to the island, the girl got out, gave birth to a son, he grew up, began swimming across the strait to the mainland, bringing apples to his mother; his mother herself baptized him in the name of his father of the sun, his godfather of the month and his cousins star brothers; his name is Beautiful Szérus; a hussar costume and sword fell from a tree to him; on a tree trunk he transported his mother across the strait; towards a giant, S. hacked him down; brought his mother to the giants' castle; the king of giants met with mother S., they decided to get rid of S.; the mother pretended to be sick: we must bring the bear cub and eat his heart; the bear gave a bear cub; when she saw him, the mother said that she had already recovered; the same with a wolf cub; a lion cub; mother suggests that S. jokingly tie his thumbs - will he be able to break; cannot; the giant agrees to fulfill his last wish; S. asks to put him three whistles in the mouth, given by a bear, a she-wolf and a lioness; the lion grabbed the giant, the wolf grabbed the woman, the bear tore the fetters; S. cut the giant, pieces of meat into the trough, the second, the water, the mother left between troughs; left with his animals; you need a bride; the bear advises you to ask the sun - Father S.; the lion brought them all to heaven; the sun does not know about brides, advises to turn to the month; the month to the stars, more precisely to the Morning Star; neither star knows if the winds ask, they are blowing everywhere; they replied that his betrothed sleeps in the golden cradle at the bottom of hell, she is rocked by 42 features; S. and animals returned to earth; the count himself tried to get this girl, promised to help; S. grabbed the girl, the devils in pursuit; the lion threw the brush (forest), the handkerchief (the sea); the bear threw three pins (three mountains to the sky); the devils did not were able to overcome them; the count took the girl; she would marry only someone who could milk three golden mares; the animals milked; she would marry someone who buys in their milk, heated to a boil; the animals cooled him, S. swam, became handsome; the count also wanted to swim, the animals heated the milk, the count cooked; the girl was going to marry S., he went out into the garden, fell asleep, the count's younger brother cut off his head; animals saw a snake, whose snake was cut in half with a scythe, carrying healing grass; the lion stepped on the snake's head, the animals took the grass, the snake hit the lion's tail, ripping off its hair, leaving only its mane; at first the head was attached backwards, had to be redone; at that time, the count's brother was preparing the wedding; the lion and the wolf tore him apart; the wedding; S. dug up his mother, who ate the giant's meat, took a sharp bone, put her son in bed, she pierced his heart; the animals revived him with that elixir taken from the snake, tore his mother; a son was born; when he is 7 years, 7 months, days, hours and minutes, he needs his blood sprinkle 3 stones; S. did it, his three animals became princes again, the castle of the giants is their castle; S.'s son did not die, they only took blood from him; they are all alive if they did not die]: Dégh 1965, No. 8:109-126 .
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Vladimir, Moscow, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov), Ukrainians (Volyn, Galicia, Grodno, Podolia, Chernigov, Kherson), Belarusians [boy (Ivas, Zhikharko, Lutonyushka) and a witch: a witch lures a boy to her, imitating his mother's voice; instructs her daughter to fry him or shows him how to sit on a shovel; a boy puts a witch's daughter or witch in the oven; climbs a tree; swan geese bring him home: in a fairy tale like 327F, a fisherman boy catches fish while sitting in a boat; a witch forges her rude voice into a thin one and pretends to be a mother who brought food (grabs a boy, brings him to her)]: SUS 1979, No. 327C, F: 120-121; Russians (Vologodskaya; storyteller: "This is in kin they said") [the parents went to the city; the daughters took their brother for a walk; Grandmother Ega sends geese for food; they grabbed the boy, brought it to her; she tells her daughter to fry him; he pretends not to know how to sit down Grandki-Ega's daughter shows that he pushed her into the oven; Grandma Ega ate her daughter, but thought it was a boy; the same in the second, with her third daughter; the boy climbed a birch tree; Grandma Ega came to the blacksmith, who did it to her an iron tooth, she began to chew on a birch tree; the boy asks the flying geese to carry it away; only the latter put it on his back, brought it to his parents]: Kuzmina 2008, No. 43:108-110; Russians (Tverskaya, g. . Kuvshinovo, 1989) [Ivanushka asks to let him go fishing; for the third time his parents let him go; in the evening his mother calls, I. swam to the shore; Baba Yaga overheard, but she has a rude voice; then asked the blacksmith to give her a thin voice; I. swam up, she took it away, told Alenka to bake it, went to invite the guests himself; I. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; A. shows that he shoved her into the oven, climbed on wood; the guests ate meat, began to ride bones; I. from the tree: to the Alenkins; Baba Yaga gnaws on the trunk, broke her tooth, asked the blacksmith to make her two iron ones; the tree is about to fall, asks his geese pick up; the first pack points to the second, the second to the third, the third picked up and brought it to parents]: archive of the Center for Tver Local History and Ethnography, sent by V.E. Dobrovolskaya; Russians ( Moscow) [my grandfather brought a log, put it behind the stove; from there the voice: dad, mom, take me; they called me Ivanushka, he is riding in a boat; mother comes up: Ivashka, Ivashka, swim to the shore, eat porridge; Baba Yaga overheard, called, he swam, she took him away; told daughter Alena to fry; I. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; she showed I. put her in the oven herself; I. climbed a tree, shouts to Baba Yaga, that she ate her daughter; she began to nibble on the trunk; I. asks the geese to take him to her parents; each pack is responsible that they are flying for them (and they will take them); picked up the last goose; the tree fell on Yaga and nailed]: Vedernikova, Samodelova 1998, No. 33:83-84; Russians (Ryazan) [Tereshechka was swimming in a boat, fishing; grandparents came to the shore, called T.: they brought food; Baba Yaga overheard and called; took T. away; went fishing, told her daughter to fry; T. pretends not to know how to sit on a shovel; BYU's daughter sat down by herself, T. put her in the oven, ran out, climbed a tree; shouts to Baba Yaga that she ate her daughter; BYA began to gnaw a tree, broke a tooth; the blacksmith repaired it; the tree is swinging; T. asks the swans to pick it up, everyone points to the next one, the last one picked it up lame, brought it to his grandparents]: Samodelova 2013, No. 76:85-87 (same No. 77 [geese instead of swans]: 87-88); Russians (Kursk) [childless old men wrapped the deck in a diaper, Tereshechka's son appeared; made a shuttle, fishing; his mother calls him, he swims to the shore, she gives him milk; the witch Chuvilikha calls in a terrible voice, T. sails away; next time she sings in a voice he has learned, T. swam, she took him to her place, told her daughter to fry; he himself put the witch's daughter in the oven, climbed the oak tree; C.: take a ride, eating tereshechkin's meat! T.: ate her daughter; C. asks the blacksmith to tie her ax; he tells her to cut her butt; the tree is unharmed; then C. dug into the trunk with her teeth, he swung; swan geese are flying, each pack replies that they will take next; the last plucked goose agrees to take T. home; the goose was fattened, released]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 112:183-184; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1968, p. Aleksandrovka, Pavlovsky District) [Ivashechka asks her parents to give him a shuttle and goes fishing. At lunchtime, the mother calls Ivashechka and Baba Yaga, and he says that this is not Mother's voice. Yaga comes to the blacksmith and asks him to shackle his subtle voice. Another time she calls Ivashechka, he swims to the shore, she grabs him and takes him to her hut. Orders her daughter to fry Ivashechka. He cannot sit on a shovel, Baba Yaga's daughter shows how to sit, he throws it into the oven, goes outside himself, sits on an aspen tree. Baba Yaga comes back and eats her daughter with her friends. She goes outside, rides underwire, Ivashechka says that these are her daughter's bones. She chews on aspen, Ivashechka grabs a migratory goose, who brings the boy to the roof of his house. He hears parents drinking tea and crying for it. Shouts to them that he is alive, they take their son off the roof]: Kretov 1977, No. 18:35-35; Western Ukrainians (Transcarpathia) [the poor man has many children, he sold his son's shuffles; feeds nuts to eat; horse offers to take him away, the shuffling caught up, forgave me ("my mother forgave me the first time, beat me with a rod, the third time you can eat it"); the same second horse; the third is thin, tells me to take a comb, a towel and a cup (or goblet - pohar); the boy throws a comb (thicket), a cup (ice), a towel (a bridge over the water; they crossed and removed the bridge); the horse orders to cut it into three parts, the dogs Dalekochui, the Dalekovid, the Head appeared -ka-iron; once a guy saw a girl on the other side; she asked me to throw in the towel so that the bridge would appear and lock the dogs; she shuffled this girl from the boy's parents, and came herself instead of her; the boy asks for permission to climb a tree before his death and whistle (that horse gave it); the dog with an iron head broke the door, the dogs came running, tore the shuffling, the boy returned to his parents]: Day 1981:69-73; Northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky U.) [The king, queen and one daughter died, leaving the second daughter and son; when the father died, he buried them to hide them from the snake; the serpent flew in, asking the pomelo, pokers, hooks, axes, shelves where the king is hid the children; everyone replies that the king or queen was kind to them; he will drown (bury the heat, take the pots out of the oven, chop them, etc.) and put them (put them), so I stand (lie); but the snake insists that the chisel shows signs of work (wrinkles); it agrees and tells you to go out, throw it behind you and dig it where it falls; the snake dug up the children and carried them into its hole; on the way, Olenka invites you to look for the snake lice; the snake fell asleep, Ivan cries; the bumblebee puts the children on his back, carries him away, but the snake caught up and returned; next time the goby offers to help; carries children, the snake catches up; the goby tells I. to climb into him right ear, get out of his left ear, he has a scallop and a handkerchief in his head; I. waved his scallop - a thicket, a handkerchief - the sea parted and the goby ran dry; the serpent was afraid, built a house for himself and stayed in it; brother his sister and his sister came to another house; the goby tells him to slaughter him, hang his legs in different places; in the morning they appeared dogs Protyus and Nedvyus, a sword and a gun; his sister went to the river to wash, snakes from another the shore asks to get a handkerchief and wave to cross it; O. told I. that she wanted to wash the handkerchief, waved, the sea parted, the snake passed; O. agreed to pretend to be sick, ask the animal milk; when I. comes up, the serpent turned into a needle, telling O. to stick it into the wall, otherwise the dogs would tear it; the dogs caught up with the hare, she let her milk, gave a bunny; the same with the fox, the she-wolf, a bear, a lioness, a tigress; the serpent offered to send I. to the mill so that the animals would remain locked behind 12 doors; when I. left the mill, the doors closed; I.'s houses asked permission before he died climb the ash tree; magpie: don't go down, the dog's three doors have already gnawed; dogs have come running, tore O. and the snake]: Malinka 1902, No. 16:277-282; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky y.) [my brother was sailing on a boat, and my sister came to the shore and called him: Iwasyk Tulesyk, brought you a cake; the witch heard, went to the blacksmith to make her a thin voice; she called the boy, who swam, she grabbed it, brought it to her daughter and told her to bake it in the oven, and went to invite the guests himself; I. asked the witch's daughter to sit on the shovel herself, pushed it into the oven, baked it, and climbed into the sycamore himself; the witch ate the meat she took out the bones and said: I'm lying around, I'll ride on ivan bones; I. repeats from above, but together she calls her name her witch daughter - Aunt; the witch brought an ax from the blacksmith, began to cut sycamore; I. asks geese to take him; the first say that the hind goose will take it, the rear goose brought I. to his sister; the goose was drunk and fed]: Malinka 1902, No. 10:272-274; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava) [on In old age, a childless woman asks her husband to cut down a chock, put it in a cradle; a chock turns into a boy named Telesick (Russ. Telepen); he asks his father to make him a golden shuttle, a silver oar, will fish; every day his mother brings food, calls T. with a song, tells him not to respond to someone else's voice; the Snake overheard, twice sang, her voice was rude; went to the blacksmith, he forged her a thin voice; T. swam, she grabbed him, brought him home, told her daughter Olenka to bake it; T. asks to show her how to get into the oven, fried O., climbs on sycamore; The snake ate her daughter, T. shouts to her about it from the sycamore; she gnaws on the trunk; tells the blacksmith to tie her good teeth; many geese fly by, only the last goose picks up T., brings her home]: Pankeev 1992:331-336; Eastern Ukrainians (Poltava, Romny Utilities) [Ivashko's son goes fishing, his mother brings him lunch, calls him a song, the snake hears her and calls Ivashka, grabs him and takes him to his hut, asks Olenka's daughter to heat the stove and fry the boy, he asks show how to sit on a shovel, shoves it into the oven itself, it is eaten by the snake "I'll swing, fall, find some meat," Ivashko replies. The snake nibbles the sycamore, the boy asks migratory geese to carry it, the last group of birds picks up the boy. He hears his parents remembering him and asking him to treat him to a pie. They bring their son into the house and treat geese. Preverb (This is a fairy tale, and meni bublekiv vyazochka)]: Gnedich 1916, No. 1480:10-12; Eastern Ukrainians (c. 1878, St. Gadyach, Poltava Gubernia) [A childless grandfather and woman dream of a child, she asks him to make a wooden stroller, puts a "tree" in it, treats it like a child, sings, the next morning the "tree" turns into a boy Telesica. He asks his grandfather to build a golden boat to fish. Telesick catches fish, his mother calls him to the shore with a song, picks up his catch, brings him lunch. The snake tries to lure the boy, sings like his mother, but he does not recognize his voice and does not stick to her shore. The snake asks the blacksmith to reforge her thick voice into a thin one, the boy takes her singing for his mother's, the snake brings it to his hut, tells his daughter to fry it, and flies away to visit. He does not fit on a shovel, says he can't, Olenka shows how to sit, he puts her in the oven, climbs onto the sycamore. The snake returns, eats its daughter: "I'll ride, fall, Telesicovoy imagining!" , sees a boy, chews on a tree, breaks a tooth, a blacksmith puts new ones. The boy asks the swan geese to carry him away, and the first and middle groups of birds say he will be the last to pick him up. He is picked up by the last goose that has fought off and puts him on the roof of his parents' house. He hears his parents sharing pies, asks what he will get, they bring him into the house, feed him, and rejoice. The saying "they live, they chew, they wear good at the table, carry water with a rocker. And I was bula there, I drank honey wine: it flowed down my beard, but it wasn't bulo in my mouth!"] : Rudchenko 1870, No. 15:38-43; Slovaks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 327F: 215; Poles [the widow gave her son a golden shuttle with a silver paddle, tells him to approach the shore only three times a day at her call, she will bring him food; the witch overhears the song, repeats it in a rude voice; the boy does not recognize his mother's voice, sails back into the sea; the witch told the blacksmith to remake her tongue; the voice has become thinner, but the boy understood the deception; the blacksmith explained that it was necessary to reforge his throat; this time the boy swam; the witch took it to her daughter, told her to wash it, comb it, cook it; the boy pretends not to know how get into the oven, asks the witch's daughter to show her, shoves her into the stove, climbs on the maple tree himself; the witch ate her daughter, starts rolling on the grass, the boy from the tree sings along with her, saying who she ate; the witch began to gnaw maple, breaks two teeth, the blacksmith makes it steel; the boy asks the geese to carry it; the first two flocks refuse, the last short tail takes it, gives it a stone, he throws it at the witch's forehead, killing her; tail brings the boy to his mother]: Dombrovsky 1992:158-166.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Stavropol Turkmens [the old man pulls the human liver out of the well, throws the dog; pulls out the old woman; she demands her liver back; does not agree to take the liver of the old man's wife, agrees to take his son's liver; the old people migrate, leave golden alchiki in the old place, send their son for them; a stunted foal is called to take him, turns into a horse; teaches him what to do; the young man says he can't get down, the old woman that she can't serve; the young man says that his father is coming, he will give it; while the old woman looks around, grabs the alchiki, jumps away; stops three times, each time at the owner's dog is born a puppy, the young man takes it; not knowing whether he stays with the old woman's son; he asks to leave the dogs at home; an old woman appears, the young man climbs a tree, the old woman pulls out two a tooth, turns them into an ax and a chisel, cuts a tree; a fox calls to cut for it, carries an ax and a chisel; an old woman pulls out two teeth, they turn into an ax and a chisel; the same episode with the Wolf; an old woman cuts again; the boy ties bells to the crane, tells him to fly to the camp; three dogs come running, tear the old woman apart]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 114-119; Stavropol Turkmens [the tsar has three sons from first wife; she died, he remarried; the new one gave birth to a daughter; mares disappear in the herd at night; the eldest, middle sons fall asleep; the youngest comes, cooks dinner; the old woman comes, then leaves; disappears under a stone; a young man goes down there; 40 robbers sleep there; a young man hit one with a boot, hides; then said that he is the son of a thief and wants to steal with them; promises to get three daughters of the king; killed the guard, went to the princesses; each had a sword; he hit his own, cut the first two, when he hit the youngest's sword, his sword crumbled; the young man took this sword; called the robbers and killed one each, ears strung it on a thread; killed an old woman, taking the keys to the pantry; shot into a black cloud, a shot child's finger fell to the ground; at home, the queen says that her daughter's finger was cut off; the young man gave his finger - in the steppe found; the king (the one who is the father of the three princesses) summons people, looking for a hero, only the young man's sword came to the sheath; three princesses are presented as three princes; the stepmother orders to drive the younger one away; he came to the tree; the snake crawls to the eagles nest, he killed her; for this, the eagle gave him two out of three eagles; the young man went on, took the splinter out of the lioness's paw, who gave him two lions out of six; left the lions and eagles to guard the horse, he put on lamb skins and tripe himself, went to the city; the youngest of the king's three daughters realized that it was a prince; invited the sisters to send three apples to the king: green, half-ripe, ripe; the king ordered everyone men walk outside the window, let every daughter throw an apple at whoever she wants to marry; the elders threw the viziers at the sons, the youngest into an imaginary beggar; the king lodged them at the stable; the king is sick, he needs kulan meat; an imaginary beggar in his true form, with the help of his lions and eagles, obtained a kulan, gave the meat to his older sons-in-law, who allowed them to be stamped on his sacrums; what his elder sons-in-law had brought to the king worse; and from the fish guts cooked by his youngest daughter, he recovered; at the feast, the prince truly said that two slaves had run away from him, his elder sons-in-law had to show stamps; the prince gave slaves to the king; everything was explained; the prince decided to visit his home; let the eagles go, but the lions said that they would still be useful, stayed with the prince's wife; the city was intact, there were no people; in the werewolf sister's hut they were thin father, stepmother, brothers and wives; sister consistently asks if the brother came on horseback with three, two, one legs, whether he came on foot; tells me to play the balalaika; the fox volunteered to play for him, and let he will hang his boots, which can be seen from the kitchen - as if he is still sitting; his sister is chasing, the prince turned three arrows into trees, climbed the first one, his sister gnawed at him, it fell, the prince moved to second, then to third; the lions feel something, their wife released them, they tore up the cannibal; brought a lot of cattle; at home, the prince handed over power to his older brother; he himself began to live with two wives (when he married first, not said)]: A.K. 1875, No. 1:1-13; Abkhazians: Bgazhba 1983 [the prince has three sons; he begged God for a daughter; he shot off a finger to the wolf, his daughter is crying at home, he put his finger to her hand, it was her a werewolf; the sister chased his younger brother; the woodpecker complained that the tree would soon fall, he would have no place to get food for the children; the young man made the rotten tree young, hard; the witch Arupap sent him along the way, he came to the moon, got married; went to look for parents and brothers, Luna gave a ring; everything is desolated at home, only his sister lives; consistently eats the horse's legs, goes to the blacksmith to sharpen teeth; the rat tells the young man to run; the woodpecker, A. send the witch down the wrong path, but she catches up again; the young man throws the ring to his wife in heaven; dogs rush at the witch, the young man climbs to his wife along the moonpath; a witch tears her brother's leg to knee; a one-legged man is visible on the moon]: 33-35 (=2002:39-41); Chursin 1956 [Gudauta County; the prince's 7 sons want a sister; a girl was born; a wolf carried a lamb at night, 4th his brother cut off his finger on his back leg; saw that the girl lying in the cradle had her finger cut off; left home; got married; went to visit his homeland; father-in-law ordered him to take a boxwood branch, walnut, coal; husband gave his wife a ring; only my sister at home, consistently eats the legs of the horse, the whole horse; went to sharpen her teeth; the rat began to play the violin; the brother throws a branch (forest), coal (mud), a nut (wood); the brother hides at the top; the witch chews on a tree; the wife looks at the ring, lets the dogs out, they tore the witch apart; the man stepped on her tooth, died; the Raven pecked out his eyes; God gave the Hawk powder, he sprinkled, dead resurrected]: 151-153; Abaza people [a daughter is born after seven sons; the younger brother is not happy, he is driven away; the girl eats cattle and people, when the younger brother returns, goes to sharpen his teeth; the youngest the woman gives a mirror, a comb, a thimble, tells him to learn the names of their dogs; the mouse tells him to run, all that remains is to pull the strings of the Pyars so that his sister thinks he is here; the sister devours the mouse, chases brother; he throws objects, they turn into an ice field, a forest, an iron pole to the moon; he rises to the moon, calls dogs, they eat the pursuer, his head remains; during eclipses he tries eat brother on the moon; people shoot, wake dogs up to save the moon, dogs drive their heads away]: Tugov 1985, No. 36:91-93; Ossetians [a childless man's dog broke his leg; Uastyrdzhi gives an apple, tells him to eat in half with his wife; three sons will be born, the dog will be cured, one son must be sent to him; sons grow up, the eldest is drawn by lot; W. tells him to bring a soul from the gorge instead of his own; young man kills a deer, the mother of seven giants swallows it, the dog comes home; the middle son goes the same; the youngest throws this giant hair not at the dog, but into the fire, her giant spindle is not on the gun, but into the river; the giantess begins to overcome, but the dog grabs her heel; the giantess belches the swallowed brothers, they (brothers and dog?) tore it apart; the youngest took her meat to W.; the brothers are jealous of the younger, put their sword in front of the entrance to the gazebo, raised the alarm, the youngest ran out, the sword cut off his legs; they come blind and armless; a leaf fell, putting it to his feet and eyes, everyone recovered and saw the light; the youngest returned home, killed his brothers, healed with his wife]: Sokayeva 2012, No. 2:19-22; Ossetians [every evening the poor man flew over his gelding across the sea, kidnapped a girl and a young man from the khan, married them and created his own people for himself; when he learned that the poor man had decided to get the khan's daughter, her servant warned that to do this he must fly to the top on horseback her towers; the young man did it, the khan's daughter became his wife and gave a whip: if she is kidnapped, the whip will fall; the whip falls three times, each time further away, but every time the young man meets the people he should bring to his house, following the laws of hospitality; then jumps in search; consistently sees the corpse with a white, black greyhound, horse, man, boar; buries all the first, and cuts the boar to pieces, for he is the one killed the others; a buried rider comes out of the mound, becomes an assistant; in the distance there is light, it is Khan who takes the kidnapped; the rider from the crypt offers the khan to give a ransom: a goat and a lamb; then a bull and a buffalo; Khan does not give; they destroyed his army, then killed the khan; the dead man returns to the crypt and tells him to go without turning; but the young man returned to find out the name of the assistant; he replied that he was Barastor, ruler the afterlife; gives a knife and tells his wife to be slaughtered, but not to want her; the young man heard the child crying and turned into a crevice; the entrance closed, the child became a cannibal woman; the young man called for help from the buried they had dogs, they could not gnaw through the mountain; then the horse, which broke two holes, the dogs came through them, began to nibble on the woman, the young man stabbed her; the dogs and the horse returned to the mound; the young man returned to B. I looked out the window and saw the light: B.'s wife's neck opened and the light flooded the room; when the woman fell asleep, the young man stabbed her, but could not resist kissing her; this place on her body turned black; at home he told his wife that committed a terrible sin: B.'s wife will be in hell until blackness comes off her lips]: Dzagurov 1973, No. 121:510-518; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 35 [cannibal Akhkepig ("half a penny") killed his father, mother and two brothers; the third brother and sister ran into the forest; the bull put them on his back, went across the sea; A. tried to draw the sea into himself; the bull went out, but lost his strength, ordered him to be slaughtered, his skin put his hair out, legs hooves down four corners (there will be 4 towers), ears thrown into the sea (people will appear), two eyes will become two hounds, liver and heart will be thrown into the sea (weapons and gunpowder, as well as gold will appear), bile will hate enemies; there will be a girl in one tower; if you gather to throw her kidneys on the ground, a horse will appear; that's what happened; A. asks her sister to swim up, promises to become a father, mother, brother (she rejects him); agrees when he promises to be her husband; sister hides A. in her tower; he rushes with a dagger at his brother; he asks not to injure his body; A. pierces him with a bear's claw, young man dies, they bury it; the hounds dug the grave, one pulled out her claw, the young man came to life, the hound died; the other pulled someone out of her - died herself; the first pulled out her claw with a stick, everyone is alive; the brother tells her sister to become with a thorn growing in abandoned places; hounds tore A.], 45 [after her husband's death, a woman gives birth to a toothy girl; she eats cattle; her mother refuses to kill her; her brother takes her to the forest; later arrives visit; she looks like a scary cat; consistently eats away the horse's legs, the brother agrees that he came in a three-legged, etc., legless, half; the cat gives a comb, a jug of oil, three needles; brother runs, throws objects, thickets appear, a sea of oil, three cast-iron poles; when the din gnaws on the third pillar, the mother releases her son's hounds, they kill the din]: 156-159, 181-183; Kapaev 2012 [from childless spouses , a son was finally born; one day the husband saw an old woman, who turned into an elmauyza, demanded that in three days he give her son or kill him himself; the boy stroked the foal, he became a tulpar; going to Elmauyzu, shot him in the eye and galloped away; he is chasing; he compartments one, the other leg of the horse, the horse jumps two; when Baiterek is nearby, the horse tells the boy to jump on the tree; Elmauyz began to dig the ground knock down Yuaiterek; crows, geese fly by, the swallow agrees to inform five samyrs (winged dogs); they scratched out Elmauyz's second eye, carried the boy home; Elmauyz's daughter, a boy, came shot her in both eyes, dogs drove her away; old Elmauyz hid behind the sun, his daughter behind the moon]: 314-317; Georgians [a daughter is born after a son, she has two teeth; brother watched her sister get up, devours cattle; warns mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; brother leaves, gets to a one-eyed maiden; at night, the ram tells you to dazzle the deva with a hot skewer, slaughter the sheep, pull her skin over him; dev lets the sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; the devil promises to adopt him; tells him not to herd on the mountain of the black maiden; the young man kills the one, his deva is grateful; the same with the red deva; with an eagle; she asks to receive she gives birth; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding the parents' heads in her hands; she gnaws off her brother's horse in turn, he agrees that he has come to three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; sister goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse wakes up his brother, talks about danger; he leaves a stone in bed, a bag of ash above him, climbs poplar; sister cleans his eyes from ash, poplar gnaws; The fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed one overgrows; the same with the Bear; the young man calls eagles, they eat the cannibal; three drops of blood fall on a leaf, a leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret not taking it; the young man hides him in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants offer to guess what they have in their chests; the young man does not guess, he must give up his eagles; the leaf says that one is cotton wool, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, gets chests and eagles, marries a beautiful woman]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46:182-187; Turks: Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 148 [after birth, a poor daughter eats a donkey, then eats people; a brother runs away with his fiancée, is hired, the owner gives him a daughter; a young man asks for wives (?) release the red horse if the salt becomes water and the water becomes blood; the cannibal sister catches up with her brother, who climbs five cherry trees, the sister knocks them down one by one; at the last moment, the red horse comes running, killing a cannibal]: 161: Stebleva 1986, No. 15 [the poor man has a young son; a daughter is born; immediately eats his father, then his parents; the brother runs, lives well, has two wives; leaving to visit the house, leaves wives have water and salt; if salt turns into water and water into blood, his stallion must be released; the sister greets his brother when she recognizes him by the ring; goes to his horse every day, says that she has three legs, two , one leg; that there is no horse; brother climbs a tree, from him to the other, third; sister gnaws and knocks down trees; water turns into blood, wives release a foal, he lies down the cannibal, kills her; young man returns to his wives]: 45-46; Eberhard, Boratav 1953, No. 315 [three brothers let the freezing giant go; he kills two, the third runs away, meets several old women consistently, they give him dogs , growing to the size of an elephant; the latter gives a needle; the needle turns into a bridge across the sea, but the young man forgets to clean it after him, the giant crosses the bridge after him; in another country, a young man marries; does not know that the wife is the giant's sister; the giant comes, hides in the barn, in the hearth, every time dogs prevent him from attacking his master; the giant locks them in an iron shed, chases the young man and grabs them him, allows him to express his last wish; he calls the dogs, they came running, tore the giant]: 161-162; Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 9 [the couple has three sons, they want a daughter; they say, even if headlong the cauldron and teeth are like axes; the sheep disappear; the brothers take turns guarding; the older, the middle fall asleep, the youngest sees his sister coming out of the cradle; they do not believe him; he leaves, throws date seeds along the way; lives with a shepherd, who does not tell him to herd cattle by the mountain, there are dangerous animals; he felt sorry for Leo, Bear, Tiger, who gave him a cub; he misses home; tells the owner to let the animals down if they belch blood; at home, the sister eats one leg of the horse after the other; the brother replies that he came on a three-, two-, one-legged horse, came on foot; the sister is looking for her in his head, is going to bite it off; he asks her to open her mouth , jumps into it; throws a stone skating rink from the roof to roll clay; runs away, hides in grown dates, his sister gnaws one tree after another; he asks for permission to play the flute before she dies; at her sounds, his pets come running; she advises cutting off her tongue, putting it in her pocket; animals kill her; the owner of the caravan asks what the name of his rod is; if the answer is wrong, he will take the Bear, the Tiger and Leo; sister's tongue suggests, Magic Wand; the young man gets a caravan, lives richly]: 86-90; Turks [when the king's daughter was 3 years old, he told his son to kill her and bring a cup of her blood; the young man felt sorry for the girl, gave it to an old woman, brought rabbit blood to his father; he suspects deception, predicts misfortune for his son; the king is blind, he will be healed by a precious box from the land of fairies; son went to get the box; his sister followed him; reluctantly, he put her on his horse with him; they came to an empty city; the residents were eaten by a giant, a black Arab; the young man defeated him and hung him from a tree; planted three cypresses at the spring; the sister freed the Arab, they became lovers; the sister fed the Arab with the game that his brother brought; asks the Arab to kill his brother; the Arab is afraid of him; offers the girl pretend to be sick and send his brother to buy black and light grapes to 9 Arab brothers and mother; the young man fed the fox, who advises him to approach the giantess from behind and venerate her chest; the giants gave grapes ; next time: lion's milk in a wineskin from a lion's skin; fox: go to the pond where lions and their mother drink; clean the pond, pull out the splinter from the lioness, she will give milk; the lioness allowed me to make a wineskin from lion skins; gives the young man two lion cubs; the Arab tells his mistress to pour lead into the ears of the young lions brought in; but one shook off the lead and kept his ear; the Arab tells his mistress to hit his brother from behind with an ax, when he began to fight with him; when he saw an Arab and his sister, the young man climbed one of the cypresses he had planted, called lions; when an Arab cut down one cypress, the young man moved to the second, then to the third; the third The lions heard the call, tore the Arab to pieces; the brother cut his sister to pieces; sent the lions to their mother; he went to look for the box himself; the fox teaches how to take the box from the fairies; they want a sword stolen by giants in return ; he is from the mother of giants; the young man managed to take it out of its scabbard; fox: do not give up the sword until you get the box, and then take the sword; asks to wave his sword over her head; the fox has become a young man; this is his sword the fairy was kidnapped, turning the young man into a fox; leaving the sword to the young man, the prince returned to his father and he saw the light]: Walker, Uysal 1966, No. 10:90-103.
Iran - Central Asia. Lura [when the seven brothers were told that their mother had given birth to a girl, they were happy and returned home; and if a boy were born, they would go on a journey; that same night the girl got out of diapers and ate two sheep; thought it was a wolf; six brothers took turns guarding; they did not notice anything, although the demon girl ate a pair of animals every night; the youngest cut his finger and rubbed salt into the wound; saw a gulya, one tooth drank, the other an ax; the young man told his parents about this, they did not believe it and he left home; on the way he picked up two puppies; settled in the city with an old woman, calling her mother; once said he wanted to visit his home; let the old woman let the dogs down if they started howling; there was only one chicken alive in his parents' town; the ghoul sister came to kiss and snatched a piece of meat from her face; bit off a horse's leg: did you come on a three-legged horse? then: on a bipedal? She ate all her legs so much, then swallowed what was left; the young man asked his gulya sister to bring him water; let him bring him in a sieve; the sister left, the young man ran; the crow taught him to cover the holes in the sieve with clay; the sister chased the young man, he climbed onto the plane tree; called the dogs; they ate the gulya, but one drop of blood fell to the ground, became a sparrow, he flew away; the young man got off the plane tree, met the caravan; he offered bet: if he gives the name of the caravan {apparently says that the caravan is lucky}, then the caravan is his; if they name the dogs, they will take them for themselves; the young man did not guess, the caravan said that the dogs were Salan and Dalan took them; a sparrow sister from the sky: the caravan carries resin, indigo and ginger; the young man caught up with the caravan, the caravan had to give both the caravan and the dogs]: Amanolahi, Thackston 1986, No. 14:67-70; Persians : Osmanov 1987:342-344 [The youngest daughter is born in a large family; the kneaded dough disappears; the mother asks her youngest son to see his sister come out of his diapers; the young man leaves on the way He plants three peaches; the tigress asks him to help give birth, he leaves her one tiger cub, takes two, calls Zangi and Zarangi, lives with an old woman; goes home, tells her foster mother to let the tiger cubs down, if the milk in the jug turns blue; only her sister finds herself at home; she leaves, each time she comes back and asks if his horse had three (then two, one) legs; he replies yes; the Rooster says sister went to sharpen her teeth; tells her to hang her pants full of sand and salt on the edge of the chimney, run; the sister bites her pants, salt and sand fall into her eyes; the brother climbs the peaches he planted, the sister gnaws, the trees they fall one after another; the milk turns blue, the cubs eat the cannibal, the young man tells a drop of blood to fall on a box of cotton; the man tells him to guess what his club is made of, otherwise he will take one of the cubs; the young man hears a voice that is made of a jar-jar tree; the man disappears; there is a snake in the young man's pocket, the cubs eat it; the young man with the cubs return to his foster mother], 345-348 [the healer gives the childless padishah an apple to he ate it with his wife; the wife gives birth to a girl; it turns out that there is also a son who was previously stolen and now returned; the girl has iron teeth; she bites off her mother's nipples, then the cows, then eats the animals and people; the rest are running, among them Shahzade; marries; tells his wife to let down his beloved cat when the water in the basin turns red; on the way he throws date bones, palm trees grow out of them; he finds only at home sister, she rushes after her brother, he hides on a palm tree, she gnaws trunks one by one; the water turns red, the cat bites the monster sister in the brain; shahzade and his wife move to Shahzade's homeland, the city again filled with people]; Baluchi: Zarubin 1932, No. 4 [a newborn rips open the bellies of cattle at night; her brother has second eyes on the back of his head, he sees everything, asks to kill her sister, they don't believe him, he leaves; returns, on the way he meets three blind girls sucking milk from three goats; sucks milk, they catch it; he kills buzlangs, brings magic leaves, restores the girls' eyesight; leaves two dogs, tells them to let go if the feeder is covered with rust; a dead city finds him at home, his sister leads his horse to drink, eats one leg, his brother in fear agrees that he came on a three-legged horse; he the same episode with other legs, head, harness; he asks his sister to bring water with a sieve, his sister tells him to hit the cup; the mouse hits instead of him, he runs away; the sister eats the mouse, chases; he throws one or the other gold hearth supports, the sister hesitates to pick them up; throws an antimony brush, it turns into a tree, he's at the top, she gnaws on the trunk with her teeth; he calls the dogs, they kill his sister, she says The bead in her throat should be crushed; with this powder he revives the dead], 5 [option; the king has three sons, including Lalu four-eyed; sees her sister getting up from the cradle, gutting the camels; to the house three blind girls fall from the sky bread; L. bites off them, drinks goat milk, catches him; he goes to the buzlanga, he whips him, L. pretends to be nice; beats the buzlangi, who dies tells him to crush three beads in his throat, the powder makes the girls' eyes sighted; further as in (4); L. leaves his ash-filled clothes; three hearth supports; L. hides in date trees that have grown from seeds he planted earlier; the end is like in (4)]: 52-60, 60-68; mountain Tajiks (Vanj) [the son of a rich man has the gift of predicting; when a sister is born, he tells her to cut off her head, throw it in river; parents do not listen; he goes to another city, gets married; a dragon girl bites her mother's lips, kissing her, then eats her parents, swallows property; her brother tells his wife to let the dogs down if the soup will turn into blood; comes to his sister; she greets him, devours the last ram; he runs, asks the poplar to grow to the sky, climbs to the top; the sister gnaws on the trunk; the wife pours dogs have soup, she turns red, the wife lets the dogs down, they tore the dragon; the survivor lives with his wife and children]: Rosenfeld, Rychkova 1990, No. 11:55-56; Tajiks (Samarkand district) [the padishah has three sons, the wife is dead, the new one has given birth to a daughter; someone steals apples from an apple tree; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle one; the youngest Kenjaboy sprinkles salt on the cut, shoots a winged demon, he flies into stepmother's chambers, K. finds a peel near the cradle; the padishah does not believe, he kicked him out; he left, married, and his diva sister ate all the people and animals in his country; K. takes care of two lions; wants to visit parents; gives his wife a jug of milk; if the milk is redder, let the lions lower; K. came to his sister; she eats away the horse's legs and consistently asks if the horse was three-legged, two-legged, legless; K. answers what he was; mouse: leave your boots to make it seem like you are sitting, take three needles, salt, a mirror, a comb; and she will hit the strings of the vestibule; sister is chasing, K. threw the comb (forest); sister: as he went; K. raise the hem; the same with other obstacles: mirror (river), salt (salt mountain); K. pierced three needles, they turned into three boxwood trees; the sister pulled out her tooth and began to saw the trunk with it ; K. jumped to the second tree; to the third tree; the milk turned red, the wife lowered the lions, they tore the diva, K. returned to his wife]: Amonov 196:376-381; Tajiks [the old man sees fresh sheep on the road liver; touches her, an old woman jumps out, threatens to kill her if he does not give her son Haydar-Kokul; tells him to cut firewood continuously; a horse, a bull, comes to HC, they cannot escape from the old woman, she throws his torn tooth under their feet; the calf takes HC to the fortress where the girl is alive; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; the divas reluctantly promises do not kill HC; the girl gives HC a comb, a mirror, three arrows, tells him to run; objects turn into a forest, a river, three poplars; when the divas knocks down the last, dogs come running, push him into the river, fight him under water, killed; HC and his wife return to their parents]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1960:164-171; Tajiks []: Amonov 1961:376-381; Bukhara Arabs [the youngest son tells the tsar to slaughter his sister, she will become a witch; he does not believe; three sons take turns guarding the horses; the eldest, the middle fall asleep, the witch eats the horse; the father does not believe; the youngest does not sleep, he sees, the king still does not believe; the youngest leaves, marries; after 20 years she tells his wife to release his two lions if the milk turns red, yogurt is black; comes to his sister, she hugs him, weans his ears; she has already eaten everyone; tells them to beat the drum, goes out to the horse, eats his leg; the brother replies that the horse had three legs; the sister goes out to eat the horse again; someone from under the wall tells him to run, taking a comb, a mirror, salt, a spindle; abandoned objects turn into a thorny bush, a river, a swamp, two trees; a brother climbs a tree, a sister takes out her tooth, cuts down a tree with it like an ax; begins to cut down the second; the wife releases lions; the witch rushes into the river; lions speak that if blood rises to the surface, they win, if blood and hair are dead; they rush into the water for a witch; hair first floats up, but then blood; lions bring a piece of skin from their heads to the owner sisters; drovers promise to give camels if the lion owner guesses what their load is; a piece of leather suggests that almonds; a man receives camels; distributes them in his father's town, he is chosen tsar]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 58:324-326; Pasha'i: Elwin 1944 [the young man's sister turned out to be a cannibal; he ran, married, had two dogs; when he returned home, he saw that all the people were eaten; asked his sister so that before eating it, she would bring water in a sieve and sharpen her teeth; she went to the river, told her brother to beat the drum; the rat began to beat him; the sister set off in pursuit, the brother climbed the tree; when she almost grabbed him, dogs came running; the young man told them to kill the cannibal without a drop of blood spilling on the ground; they tore her apart]: 373; Morgenstierne 1944, No. 3 [the prince has a cannibal sister; he runs, lives with a woman who has two dogs; decides to visit the house; only his sister is there, says she will eat it; he asks her to bring a bucket of water and sharpen her teeth; she leaves the drum and tells him to hit it ; brother lets the mouse run on the drum so that the sister hears the shot; the brother runs, throws needles, a ball of salt, soap behind; every time thrown turns into a mountain, the sister overcomes obstacles; the brother climbs to a tree, calls dogs, tells them to eat a cannibal so that not a drop of blood spills on the ground; dogs tear the cannibal], 4 [the king has 7 sons, he asks God for a daughter, a cannibal is born; at night he gets up from cradles, gnaws off the legs of all horses; the youngest son watched, the king does not believe, expels him; he marries in another city, has dogs named Hangir and Bangir; wants to visit his home; the guest leaves a drop of blood and a drop of milk; says that if blood turns into milk and milk into blood, dogs must be unchained; gives seven grains of wheat, they must be abandoned in case of danger; everyone is eaten at home; sister asks how many legs the brother's horse had; eats two, then eats the whole horse; promises to go fetch water and eat his brother; the mouse tells the brother to run; the sister finds the mouse, eats it, chases it; the brother throws grains, seven plane trees grow out of them, he climbs one, his sister gnaws on the trunk, the tree falls, the brother moves to another; when the last one is left, dogs come running, the brother tells them to tear his sister]: 18-19, 19-23; kafirs (prasun) [the giant took Kime's seven daughters one by one; the latter resorts to a tree growing in the middle of the lake, calls her mother, asks where to escape; in a tree A gap opens, a girl goes inside; a giant tries to cut down a tree, but the felling overgrows; later the girl gives birth to the god Mandi (=Moni)]: Snoy 1962:85.
Baltoscandia. Norwegians [the boy walks with his old mother through the forest; despite her prohibition, he picks up a blue belt at the crossroads, girds himself, becomes a strongman; they come to the troll's house; the son hears how the mother agrees to the troll's offer to marry him by getting rid of her son; the troll wants to roll a stone on the young man, the young man rolls on him himself, injuring his thigh; the young man brings him home; the troll offers to feed the young man to lions; the mother pretends to be sick, asks for lion's milk; the troll sends the young man to the lion's pen, he kills one lion, the others obediently let themselves milk; the troll does not believe, the young man He throws him to the lion who comes, takes him away while he is still alive; sleepy apples in the garden of the troll brothers; if he eats them, falls asleep, the trolls will kill him; the mother pretends to be sick again, wants apples; the young man eats apples, He falls asleep, but obedient lions guard him; trolls come in the guise of cannibal horses, the lions have eaten them; the young man wakes up, meets an Arab princess kidnapped by trolls in the castle; before going with her to Arabia, visits her mother, invites her and the troll to move to the castle; when she learns the secret of the belt, her mother tears it off, wraps it around her hand; the young man burns his eyes, goes down the river in a boat; lions they pull him ashore; one sees how the blind hare saw the light after swimming in the stream; the owner is treated, he enters the castle, grabs his belt, kills his mother, burns the troll's eyes, lowers the boat; swims in Arabia; on the island, an egg is cut, with a chick the size of an elephant; a young man tells me to sail to Arabia, where he clings to a spruce, others hide in the sand; a bird raises an island, throws it on ships; when it attacks a young man , he kills her with a sword; the princess's father will give her to whoever finds her; the young man dresses as a polar bear, dances; if anyone laughs, tears her; the maid laughs, is killed by a bear; the king leads the bear through the castle there, where the princess is hidden so that he can dance for her too; he discovers himself; in the morning he finds a princess in the guise of a prince, gets married]: Dasent 1970:155-171; Swedes [three princes hunt; when they arrive at hut, three girls hear talking; when his older brother has a wedding, his mind will be clouded, he will throw a knife at his father, but the youngest will take his hand away; and when the youngest is married, he will come for him polar bear; it happened; the king appointed 300 warriors to protect his youngest son, the bear killed all but one, promised to come the next night; out of 600 warriors, two remained; on the third, three out of 900; the bear promised to return in a year; the prince decided to leave to avoid the death of the warriors; came to the first girl, who told the maid to feed the dog Hundshön, she fought off the bear; the hostess gave the prince a dog, a rod and a ball; the prince hit the water with a rod, the water parted, he crossed the river, followed the ball to the second girl, that dog Hundstark, two dogs fought off the bear together; The third Hundschlund, fought back three, he promised to come in a year; the sisters whistled the prince to call dogs; the prince came to another country, married a princess; someone sings across the lake, promises to teach his wife prince; she takes his rod, hits the water, the polar bear goes dry, but the dogs tore it; the wife found the bear's tooth, went to show it to the prince, dropped it on the sleeper, he died; they did not bury the coffin; dogs take turns guarding; the first two fall asleep, Hundschlund sees the old man sprinkling one of the coffins that lay in it come to life; Hundschlund hardly begged the prince to sprinkle the coffin, he came to life; went with dogs further; the giant asks to send dogs to fetch water, consistently throws them over each chain, is going to kill the prince; he asks for permission to blow the whistle, the dogs fell off, killed the giant; The prince takes the treasure, returns to his first wife; dogs are told to cut each into three parts, they turn into princes themselves]: Stier 1971, No. 3:15-21; Sami: Szabó 1967, No. 41 in Uther 2004 (1) , no. 315a: 203; Læstadius 2002 [two women married to two stallo brothers (cannibals); one has children; they hear brothers agree to eat them; the one with children is sorry to leave her husband, childless runs away, climbs a tree; dog S. barks at her like a squirrel; a woman calls "dogs whose parents did not give them hot broth"; bears, wolves, lynxes, foxes come, tear S. and his dog apart; a woman eaten with children]: 251-252; Finns: Goldberg 1953 [The childless king sails, the water stops the ship, lets go for a promise to give back someone who was born at home in the king's absence; these are his son and daughter; the king secretly dug an underground shelter for them; the waterman who came tried to give him a foal, a calf, a lamb; he himself began to look for children; in the forge, a hammer told him to take him and walk; he fell down where the shelter is, the water took the children away; they grew up with him, the girl married him; her brother shed tears, a wolf appeared, told him to sit on him and run; the young man enters the room where the water man and sister sleep, grabs his sister, sits on the wolf; at the direction of the wolf, takes a stone from under his tail, throws it, grows a mountain to heaven; the water returns for a hammer and a chisel, makes its way; wants to leave tools, but forty begin to shout for them; the waterman takes them home, comes back, catches up and returns the fugitives; the young man cries again, the bear comes, everything repeats; the young man throws the bear's bristles, wooded mountains appear to the sky; then the same episodes; the third time brother and sister run away on a fox, she tells us to throw flint; the water cannot overcome the sea of fire, he stops pursuing; brother and sister they build a house for themselves across the bubbling river; the wolf, bear and fox come to live with them; the sister throws stones into the river, the current calms down, the water crosses the river, lives with the girl; during the day she turns into a pin, the girl hides her in the cracks in the wall; the animals feel it; the sister asks to lock the animals behind 9 iron doors for the night; the water man grabs the young man, throws it into a hot bath; the animals rush, breaking one door behind another; the raven tells the young man to hold out a little longer; at the last moment the animals break in, tear the water to pieces; the young man forgave his sister; she found a water bone in the ash, put her brother under the pillow; bone pierced his head, his sister buried the deceased; the animals dug his body; the bear put his head on him, the water bone passed into it, the young man came to life; the bone passed from bear to wolf; the fox framed her head was pulled back, the bone was stuck in the pine tree; they all came to the brother and sister's parents, the young man rejuvenated them with live water; the father expelled the traitor daughter, his son became king]: 170-186; Concca 1993 [ the sister asks her brother to sell the sheep, he exchanged it for a dog; so with three sheep; the dogs are Al, Tal, Everal; the dogs caught an elk, a bear; when the robbers came, two dogs did not let them into the house, and the third took their money; the king must sacrifice his daughter to the dragon; dogs tremble the dragon three times, he promises not to come again; the man with the ax says that he saved the princess; during the wedding, the guy came with his dogs, the impostor was imprisoned; the guy married a princess, his sister was made a maid]: 45-50; Estonians: Järv et al. 2009, No. 3 (Pärnu) [brother and sister got lost in the forest; The devil (vanapagan) brought them home, raised them; taught the young man the art of a hunter; he wanted to kill a bear, a wolf, a fox, a hare, a kite; everyone asks not to kill, gives his cub; the devil got along with the young man's sister, decided to get rid of his animals first; sent him to the barn for bread; the young man went inside with the animals, went out, the doors closed, the animals remained inside; the devil wants to kill the young man, he asks allow me to wash in the bathhouse, then climb the tree to pray; during this time, the animals escaped, ran, tore the Devil; the brother hung his sister by the legs in the bathhouse over two cauldrons - with coals and empty; he will let her go when she eats all the coals and fills the empty cauldron with tears; went to town; told the old woman to release his animals if they burst; he went to fight the 12-headed serpent, which every day ate a man; now it is the princess's turn; instead of a severed head, a new one grows; the young man threw his shoe, hitting the sleeping old woman, she released the animals, they ran, tore the snake; the young man cut off, hid the snake put his tongues, pieces under the stone; the princess tied a piece of her handkerchief to each beast; the officer forced the princess to say that he killed the snake; to the wedding, the young man sends a wolf, then a bear, then comes by himself; the officer cannot pick up the stone under which the pieces of the serpent are, does not know where the tongues are; the animals ordered him to be torn to pieces; after the death of the king, the young man reigned; the wife asks for his sister to be returned; she the Devil's hidden tooth pierces his sleeping brother's forehead; he is put in the coffin; the wolf licked, the tooth jumped into the wolf's forehead, the owner came to life, and the wolf died; so the animals took turns reviving each other; the fox hid behind the cauldron, the tooth missed her forehead, fell into the fire]: 41-46; 2015 (Virumaa, Lüganuse khk.) [father taught his son bird language, asks what crows are talking about; son: that one day you will bow to me; the father drove his son away; he bought three dogs on the way - Ass, Võts, Murra kaul ("Atu!" , "Take it!" , "Break your neck!") ; came to the city where it was the king's daughter's turn to be eaten by a snake, otherwise it would flood everything; when a three-headed serpent came out of the lake, the young man told the dogs to bite it, cut off their heads, cut off their tongues, hid it in a handkerchief; the same with 6- and 12-headed snakes; promised to return in 5 years, cutting the princess's ring and taking half; in the fifth year, the general showed his head, demanded the princess for himself; before the wedding was a real savior, presented his tongues and half of the ring; wedding; the general was hanged]: 17-20; set: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 52 [mother died; brother and sister went to the forest, came across to the house, there is an old man; they began to live with him; when he died, he gave them each a handkerchief, they were tied together in a knot; if they untie it, trouble would happen; one day my sister decided to untie the knot; a handsome guy came to white, it was hell; asked the girl to lime her brother; let her pretend to be sick, ask for wolf's milk; the brother went to look for the she-wolf, she asked her not to kill, let herself be milked and went with him ; the same with the bear; bring water from the lake in which there is a huge snake; the young man, along with the she-wolf, the bear and his dog, defeated the snake, the young man brought water; bring flour from the damn mill; when the young man took the flour, the 12 iron doors behind closed and the animals remained behind them; the devil's house was going to kill the young man; from asking permission to wash in the bathhouse before death; drowns for a long time, stalling for time; the animals broke the doors, came running, broke the line; one tooth was left; the young man left his sister in a bathhouse with two barrels; let one cry for his brother, the other for hell; see where there is more; taught the animals to dance, went with showing them for money; the king will give her daughter for someone to make her laugh; when she sees the animals dancing, the princess laughed; the wedding; the young man is told to bring his sister; he went after her - the barrel in which tears down the line; on the way back, sitting in the carriage, the sister put a damn tooth in her brother's ear, the brother died; the wife placed the body in an iron coffin on a pole; the animals howl at the foot; the king of a stranger who passed by saw it ordered the coffin to be removed; the tooth fell out, the young man came to life, drove his sister away, inherited the throne from his father-in-law]: 127-132; Sandra 2004 [dying, the king told his daughter to rule until her brother grew up; she decided to lime her brother; pretended to be sick, told me to bring hare milk; the hare gave milk; next time a fox; a she-wolf; a bear; a tigress, a lioness; the sister sent her brother to bring bread from the mill where the witch was; he went , with him all his animals that gave milk; he took bread, and when he sent the animals to eat too, the witch slammed the doors shut; his sister put his brother in the cellar, the witch must eat it; at this time the animals break the doors alone after another; this is reported by a raven, a dove, a swallow; each time the young man asks the cannibal for more time; the last time he asks for permission to light a pipe; animals break in, kill a witch; a young man, telling sister to cry for his return a bucket of bloody tears, leaves with his animals; comes to a city where mourning; a man explains that every year a sea serpent demands a sacrifice, otherwise it will flood the city, the queue the royal daughter; the animals were torn by a snake, the princess gave the savior her handkerchief; the coachman crept up, cut off the young man's head, told the princess to swear that she would declare him the snake the winner; the animals mourn, the fox tells them to pretend to be dead, a raven with a crow descends, the fox grabs the crow, tells the crow to bring water that connects the dicks and living water; he brings it; the fox tore the crow for testing, glued it together, revived; then the young man; the animals cast lots, falls on the bear, he brings the handkerchief to the palace, the princess recognizes him; meets the savior; the king orders to tear the coachman apart by four bulls; the young man receives princess; goes to see her sister; she cries a bucket of blood; she puts a witch's tooth into her brother's head, he falls dead; he is put in a tower; the hare comes, the tooth pierces him, he dies, the young man comes to life; the fox takes the tooth out of the hare, throws it into the bush, the bush has dried up; the animals tore his sister; the young man became ruler over both kingdoms]: 192-202; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 51 [Mr.'s son went to the end of the world; on the way, one woman gave a bag, told me not to untie it; the other gave two balls with a needle; if you throw it, they would turn into two dogs and a stick; the man untied the bag, a golden horse with a diamond tail jumped out , can't be driven back; the wolf promised to catch if a man promises to give himself; the wolf caught the horse, but he died on the bridge; the man turned the balls into dogs, came to the sick lady, the wolf's sister; she asks to enter the house for eight doors, bring her pies; the man came in, the doors closed, the wolf was going to slaughter him; he asked permission to go out and play on the pipe; climbed the tree and began to play; dogs broke doors, killed a wolf], 58 [Lipnickelis's parents (from the word "linden tree") let him fish in a boat to the lake; bringing porridge, his mother sings a song, L. swims up; laume sings in a low voice; then asks the blacksmith to make her a thin voice; L. swam, grabbed her laume, brought her home, tells her daughter to fry; L. asks her to show her how to sit in the oven, baked it himself, hung her braid on the hook; lauma and the guests were eaten daughter laume; L. shouts to her about it from the oak tree, she sees her daughter's braid; laume gnaws on an oak tree; only a third flock of geese picked up L., brought it home]: 118-119, 131-134; Lebite 1965 [an orphan boy went to horses, bulls, dogs; after feeding them, he sleds down the mountain, sings a song; limes make big sledges, ride and sing too; make a bag, catch a boy with a sled, bring him home to fry ; the boy cut the bag with a knife, put the sleeping lime in his place; it was fried; the boy runs, climbs a tree, the limes begin to cut it; the fox offers to sharpen the axes, blunt them; the limes gnaw the trunk with his teeth; the boy calls his animals; horses, bulls, dogs come running, tearing lime, pounding it into powder; since then, the snow has been sparkling in the sun - it shines lime fat]: 111-114; Latvians [The witch carries in the boy's bag, he's going to fry it at home. The boy puts a witch's child in his place (puts a witch's daughter in the oven), and climbs a tree himself. Returning home and seeing that the boy has run away, the witch chews or cuts down a tree, tells him to forge his steel teeth. Birds throw feathers to the boy and he flies home]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 327C: 277.
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the boy Altyn-Sak ("goldgrandmother") has a goldgrandmother; his father brought cattle to the lake; a witch in the water grabs animals by his beard, by the lip; lets go for a promise to give the fact that the old man has one thing is a son; the old man migrates, burying his son's goldgrandmother in the old camp; the son goes after her, choosing a thin foal; he has become a good horse; the boy asks for his grandmother, that tells him to get off the horse; the horse picks up his grandmother himself, jumps away; after him; her horse (previously said that Ubyr is chasing in a mortar with a pestle) calls the boy's horse brother, asks him to slow down his run, he refuses; when she hears what her horse says, she ate him; the boy's horse tells him to climb a tree, hides himself in the water; Ubyr coughs up the sharpener and ax, cuts the trunk; the fox offers a rest, throws an ax and a sharpener into the water, the felling overgrows; the second, then the third fox; the crow refuses to call the boy's dogs Akkulak and Sakkulak, because he wants to drink his blood; the sparrow calls, pecking out lead poured into the ears of dogs by an old woman; ubyr rushes into the water; dogs say that if black blood comes up, they killed Ubyr, and if red blood, it is them; blood is brown first, then black; dogs come out water, one ear torn off; then a horse comes out; the boy returns home on it; they live richly]: Zelenin 1991, No. 98 (108): 428-431; Kazan Tatars: Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 1 [my brother has three dogs : lighter than the wind, lighter than hops, heavier than the ground; the sister took a yuha snake as a lover; he offers to poison her brother; one dog overturns poisoned water, the other overturns a bowl of porridge, the third breaks the bath, whom Juha wanted to burn the young man, carries him to the river, the young man comes to life; leaves his sister to fill the barrel with tears, dry like a ray, eat a brick; kills the 6-, 9-, 12-headed ajdaha, to whom the eldest was given, the middle, youngest daughter of the padishah; each gives her own ring; the watchman says that he saved the princess, but cannot lift the stone under which the heads; he was shot, the young man took the middle princess, lives with her in in the forest; a sister came, put Yuha's two teeth in her brother's bed; the dogs found, pulled their teeth out of the young man's ear (made the bear cry and the hare put his ear to the boy's ear); the young man cut off his sister's head], 2 [ the hunter caught and tamed a bear, a wolf and a hare; came to four divas; defeated three, the fourth overcame him, the animals came running, killed three, the fourth was thrown into the well; the hunter's sister pulled him out, took him husband; brother saw, killed the diva, the sister hid the two tibia, put her brother in bed when he married; the animals ripped off half of the hare's skin, the magpie went down to peck, the hare grabbed her, let her go for promising to bring living and dead water; the young man came to life; cut off his sister's head]: 25-32, 33-37; the Udmurts [the man leaned over the ice-hole, Vu-peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give the 12-year-old son; the father told me to take the horse that would look at his son, it was the skinniest; V. chased him on a good horse, did not catch up, ate it; the boy came to one, to the other to his sister, each gave puppy; came to sister V., V.; V. became a fire in the oven, one of the dogs was lying in the snow, extinguished the fire; V. became a feather bed, the dog lay on her; V. locked the dogs in the barn, chases the boy; horse the boy became a tree, V. began to cut him down, went to bed; the bear put chips back, threw his ax into the lake, ran after the dogs; they killed V. in the lake, where he rushed for an ax; V. was burned, the boy returned home]: Klabukov 1948, No. 27:69-73 (Kralina 1960, No. 47:132-136); Mordovians: Anikin 1909 (Erzya) [dying, the father blessed his son with two dogs, the mother blessed his daughter with a comb and a spindle; sister angry, she has a seven-headed lover; she pretended to be sick, sent her to the dugout in the ravine for snake fat; there the door is constipated, the dogs gnawed, ran in, the door slammed shut; but they broke the constipation returned; the same again, 7 constipation occurred; the brother thinks that the dogs cannot be returned; the sister sends him to the bathhouse where the Meker hid; the magpie tells him not to hurry, do everything slowly; the dogs are broken constipation, came running, tore Meker; brother left, met a girl given to Meker to eat; said that Meker was killed; they exchanged rings; wedding]: (p.?) ; Evseviev 1964, No. 30 (Erzya) [parents died, brother and sister fled from the war into the forest; the bear gave them honey, ordered them to swing the chest in which they went to bed; they ran away; the elk tells them to sit on it, takes them away; tells him to kill him, watch the grave, take a gun on the first night, and the second dog; his brother goes hunting with the dog, his sister is at home; that bear came in the form of a man, became his sister's lover; so lime his brother, the sister pretended to be sick, asks the bear meat; the bear asks not to kill him, promises to help; the same is a lion; the lover became a bear, killed his brother, then became human again; the dog, the lion and bear at the mill at this time; they broke the door, found the owner's coffin, the dog caught a crow, tells the crow to bring live water, revived the owner, tore the lover, the brother drove his sister into the forest]: 227-230; Samorodov 1972 [when he dies, the old man tells his son to slaughter a heifer, her heart and liver will turn into two dogs; the sister pulls a snake out of the well; both decide to lime their brother; the sister pretends to be sick, sends for lion milk, tiger milk; to the mill for flour; the old woman tells you to take flour so that one leg comes in and the other leaves; the doors shut when the dogs are inside; the young man climbs the birch tree, the dogs have time gnaw doors, kill a snake; the princess is given to be eaten by a 12-headed snake; the young man's dogs kill him, he hides his heads under a stone; the soldier says that he killed the snake; the young man shows the princess's ring to the soldier they cut off the head; the sister puts a snake tooth in the pillow; the young man's body in a barrel is thrown into the sea; the old woman finds it, revives the young man with living water; the brother ties his sister to the horse's tail]: 293-299; Yurtov 1883, No. 8 [ the father is dead, the mother is trying to kill her son; pretended to be sick, tells her to bring milk to the bear; the boy went to the sleeping bear, milked it, took one bear cub; the mother poured out milk; the same milk tigresses; now the mother demands water from a distant river; the boy has reached the hut; the bear cub and the tiger cub have entered it and went underground; the boy brought water to his mother; the mother tells him to cut wood, heat the bathhouse; the raven: Your animals have dug two plants out of the ground so far; then there is only one fathom left; the bathhouse is hot, the mother locked her son in it; the bear cub and the tiger cub escaped, the son was rescued, his mother was torn to pieces]: 19-23; Kippar 2002 [Maskeev 1966:143-153; almost the same as in Samorodov 1972, but different details; mother dies, wants to bless the children, son comes up; father dies, orders to stab the calf, heart and liver in stomach, leave under the stove; three dogs will appear: Mastordonga ("heavier than the ground"), Warmadonga ("stronger than the wind"), Komlyadonga ("lighter than hops"); neither bird nor animal leaves dogs; sister is domestic; snake in the well asks him to get him, promises to become a groom; at home she offers to get rid of his brother; the sister pretends to be sick; 1) asks her brother to bring lion's milk; the mistress of the Virbaba forest meets him; teaches to say guards who came by order; lions give milk; the snake tells his mistress not to drink it - lions bewitched milk; 2) the same - tiger milk; 3) bring flour from the ever-working mill; V. teaches: entering alone Put his foot forward, the other with his toe out; the young man took the torment, went out, the doors slammed shut, the dogs remained inside; in the yard to meet the snakes, his sister is wearing, they say that they will now kill the young man; brother asks for permission to wash in the bathhouse; the magpie tells me to drown slowly: the dogs gnawed through one door, 11 remain; this is what he says after each door; when the last one, the brother asks for permission to climb the birch tree, say goodbye to everyone; the serpent knocked down the birch tree, the young man to another, the third, the dogs broke in, the snake killed; the young man takes the dogs and leaves; gently greets the three-toothed old woman Virbaba; she says that otherwise he would swallowed; asks her to tell her fairy tales, otherwise she will not fall asleep; the young man tells his own story; V. fell asleep; the next day the young man returned from hunting - V. sleeps; on the third day, neither V. nor prey; V. went to kill him because he kills animals and birds; revived the prey, let him into the forest; enters and wants to eat, the young man again tells a fairy tale - how dogs caught game without his knowledge; V. fell asleep; the young man buried prey and lay down too; in the morning: what's the sound? V.: this snake is going to eat the princess; the young man leaves, leaving the dogs; if they worry, let them go; the young man falls asleep on the princess's lap, wakes up from her tears; calls the dogs, they tore the 18-headed snake, the young man hid his heads under a stone; leaves for 3 days, the princess gives him a ring; the soldier says that he killed the snake; the princess promises to confirm in 3 days; the soldier cannot move the stone under which the heads; the young man returned, the soldier was beheaded, the wedding; sent for his sister and V.; V. did not come - she cannot leave the forest, otherwise he will dry out; the sister has a pillow with a snake tooth inside; brother lay down and died; sister: Our custom, the dead is thrown into the sea in a barrel; the barrel is washed ashore; dogs cannot be opened; V. opened it, sent a black grouse for living water; the young man moved, the snake tooth fell out of his mouth; the young man returned, sister She asks for forgiveness, but she was tied to the horse's tail; wedding again; V. is waiting for the young man to come to tell a third fairy tale]: 137-145; Paasonen 1941 [father died, mother does not love her son, pretended to be sick, sent bring milk to a bear from 7 forests and 7 fields; she gave milk; the tigresses were the same; then she told them to bring water from there; the young man went with a bear cub and a tiger cub; they entered the house but could not leave; the young man came back, gave the water, his mother poured it out, ordered the bathhouse to be heated; the raven arrives and says that the bear and the tiger are digging a dig, how much is left; the mother locked her son in a hot bath, but then the animals escaped released him, his mother was torn apart]: 260-263; (cf. Mordovians [six girls have a brother; one comes to Viryava's house in the forest, invites the old woman to her place; her brother's dog does not let her cross the river; for the fourth time V. persuades the girls to take the dog away; spends the night in the house, swallows her sisters at night; her brother from the stove invites V. to open his mouth, throws a log at him, V. dies; he cuts her stomach, lets her sisters out]: Pomerantseva 1973:85-88).
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ethnographic materials 1898, No. 1 (Turgay) [rich Ablai had a daughter, Ai-Khanym, when he was 42 years old, and his son Khudaibergen 10 years later; Zhalmaauz Kempir grabbed A. at the well; refused to take horses, daughter, wife, agreed to let her go for promising to send her son; A. specially left the golden alchik at the well, with whom H. played, migrated; H. sat on the foal, he became argamak; teaches you to approach the LCD on foot, say "here's a red mouse running", grabbing an alchik, running up to the horse and jumping away; the LCD knocked out its tooth, threw it at the horse, he limped on one leg; the same - the second tooth; the horse went quieter, fell; next to an ox with a golden saddle; the LCD could not catch up with him, the abandoned tooth did not hit the ox; H. got off the ox and walked to the holy mountain, where the LCD could not climb; the ox disappeared; the LCD began to dig in the mountain; the fox offered to work for it, buries it himself; H. asks the San Kar falcon to fly to his father to send dogs; Kara-It and Ak-It ("black dog", "white dog") came running; they bit to death LCD]: 1-9; Tursunov 1983 [bay brought his horses to a watering place, he had a lung in the water, he shoved it, it turned into Zhalmauz-Kempir, she grabbed his throat, demanded a son; he promised to leave him at the place to sleep the boy's golden bat, he will come back for it; the boy takes a two-year-old scabies, he turns into a heroic horse; becomes low, the boy grabs the bat without getting off his horse, jumps away; the LCD pulls out throws one or the second tooth for himself, cutting off one or the other leg, the horse on two legs jumps to the bayterek (poplar), the boy climbs it; the LCD digs up a poplar using the third tooth as a spade; Fox offers to work instead of an LCD, throws a tooth into the river; so twice (Lisa says that she is another fox); the LCD digs his fifth tooth; the boy asks crows and ducks to convey his message to the wolfhounds, they refuse; the swallow reports; the dogs tore the LCD to pieces; her daughter went to look for her, the boy killed her with arrows, knocking out her eyes]: 143-145; Kyrgyz [Köchpesbay first decided to migrate, as the cattle ate all the grass; wife for a long time I was messing with my luggage, they set off only at night; Shukurbek's son forgot the alchik in the parking lot, drove back; the horse says that the witch Zhelmoguz is there now; S. sees the old woman, she does not give an alchik, let Sh. dismounted; he picked up an alchik, galloped away; stopped at the old man; saw J. in a dream, woke up, galloped away with three puppies; fell asleep in the parking lot, woke up as an adult, the puppies became dogs named Sensitive, Sighted and Listening; J. was frightened of dogs, offered peace, let S. live with her; persuaded S. to go hunting without dogs; chased him; S. threw the alchik, he became a poplar, S. climbed onto the poplar; J. pulled out two teeth, turned it into an ax and a saw; the red fox offered to work for J., threw the ax and saw into the river; the same was the white fox; S. asks the crow to call the dogs; they uprooted the tree, came running , drowned J.; S. returned to his father when he was about to wake him]: Ledenev 1987:83-88; Uighurs [a woman gives birth to a son with her husband; later a daughter from a neighbor, who has one eye in her forehead; boy Sees her sister reach out of the window to the river to get water; tells her mother that it is yalmauz; his mother scolds him, he leaves; takes three puppies with her on the way; grows up, marries; decides to visit house, asks his wife to let the dogs down when they bark; his village is empty, only his sister, who has eaten everyone, is alive; while cooking, asks him to play on the dutar on the roof with his legs hanging; the mouse tells him to pour into the hanging ones boots sand, run, runs along the strings herself; yalmauz pulls her boots, sand falls into her eye, she chases a young man; he climbs one of the five poplars; yalmauz takes out a tooth, cuts the trunk; Fox offers to cut for her; Yalmauz falls asleep, Lisa taps, runs away with a tooth in the morning; the same with the Wolf; when the last poplar remains, the dogs break off the chain, rush to the yalmauz, she runs to the lake, drowns; the young man scolds his wife that she forgot to let the dogs down right away]: Kabirov 1963:170-174 (=Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951:74-77); Dungans: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 16 [the emperor's wife gives birth to seven sons, but parents they want a daughter; a werewolf fox hears their conversation, throws up their daughter, they are happy; when a girl reaches seven years old, horses begin to breathe out; on the advice of the teacher, the imperial son spies, sees how the sister turns into a white fox, sucks the horse's blood; the next night the brother hits the fox with a sword, but only cuts off her fingers; the girl tells her father that at night her brother tried to rape her, and received the refusal wanted to hack her; the emperor is preparing to throw stones at his son in the well; the teacher tells him to run; he helps the little tiger cub and the little golden eagle, which the older cubs push away from food; the young man becomes a scribe, accountant, son-in-law of the emperor; the emperor allows him to visit his relatives; the young man leaves his wife a cup of tiger milk; if she turns red, she will lower the tiger and the golden eagle; the young man finds her country empty; the sister says that the cannibal ate ate everyone; eats up the horse's leg, asks why his brother's horse has three legs; goes out to boil tea; the mice tell him to escape; the young man climbs the poplar; the sister turns into a white fox the size of a camel; the sister gnaws on the trunk, the brother moves to another poplar; the wife releases the tiger and the golden eagle, after a long struggle they kill the fox; the emperor gives up the throne young man]: 126-133; Yusupov 1970 [a greedy rich man named Lihyn gets a hue in a pile of garbage; first eats ducks and chickens, then eats the owner's daughter Lihua, takes her form; devours sheep; the father tells his son named Lisyn that he does not protect them well; the sister says that the brother drinks and walks; at night the brother sees his sister turn into ë., drinks sheep's blood; hits the monster with a spear in the forehead; In the morning, the sister explains that her brother stabbed her in an attempt to steal jewelry; her brother predicts everyone's death, leaves; marries the gardener's daughter; when going home, he tells his wife to take care of his eagle and dog; in an empty village, the brother finds his sister; while she is making tea, he finds salted human heads in barrels; the brother runs, climbs the poplar, he chews on it; the last fifth poplar remains; the dog and the eagle worried, the wife releases them, they kill the monster]: 30-35; Shujang Li, Luckert 1994 (g. Bogda in northern Xinjiang) [Luguma has Meinai's younger sister; sheep go missing; L. sees M. put on wolf skin, turns into a wolf, carries his father; he wounds a wolf in the front leg; M. complains in the morning parents that her brother shot her; they drive her son away; L. stays in the same village, marries; tames a hawk chick and a tiger cub; decides to visit his father's house; tells his wife to release the hawk and the tiger, if they are worried; at home there are only bones eaten; M. eats L.'s horse's leg, asks how many legs there were, the brother replies that there were three; then two; he climbs onto the roof, M. tells him to sit with his legs hanging; he hangs up her shoes, must play a string instrument; red and white mice promise to play for him, tell him to run; M. comes, sees only mice; rubs her forehead, she has a third eye, she sees in the distance brother running barefoot; turns into a wolf, chases, brother climbs one of the three trees; M. says she is a wolf, ate M. and takes her form; she gnaws on the trunk, but L. jumps to the other a tree; the wife releases a hawk and a tiger, they tore the werewolf; L. brought his wife to the ruined village, other people also returned]: 112-126.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Khakas: Troyakov MS in Riftin et al. 1977 [people find a foundling girl, this is a cannibal chilbig; brother runs, marries, returns to his native places; there is complete desolation, only alive sister; brother hides from sister in a tree]: 453; Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 16 [the elderly have a son (he is younger) and a daughter Altyn-Tana; the old man is dead, the mother is also preparing to die and tells them not to go to the one in front Mount Ah-Tag, you can't help but extinguish the fire - you won't be able to light it again; but brother and sister went; only AT climbed to the top, there was a house, there was a black woman in it; AT asked for fire, but she asked to go into the house first; AT not she went in and ran away; when the children ran through the taiga, they were chased by Hara-Khashty, black, with a long beard and huge eyes; brother and sister reached the old woman's yurt; she replies that she could not to resist the Aina, refers to her middle sister, she to the elder; this eldest gives AT a golden shawl: if you wave, the waters of the river will part, you can cross to the other side; brother and sister crossed, XX could not cross and come back; brother and sister have set up a house; the boy learns to hunt, asks his sister what the animals are called; three geese are flying and shouting: there is a baby on the other side of the river, we have to pick it up she will be an assistant; AT went to the other side, but the child turned into the 20th and made her a wife; began to live with her at her house, where her brother; XX gave the boy the name: Adygchy-Ool; the white dog overheard XX telling AT put a fang in the soup prepared for the brother; he will pierce the boy's throat; we will eat him and his dogs; the white and blue dogs agree to pretend to fight: they will knock over the cauldron and the fang will fall to the ground; when the fang fell to the ground, it caught fire; the next time XX and AT agreed to bring his brother to a house in the woods, where XX would wait to kill him; the boy managed to climb onto the roof and called the dogs; they they jumped out underground, bitten to death XX; blue dog: We'll tie AT to the wall, let the bowl be white under the right eye, blue on the left; if AT feels sorry for her brother, her tears will fill the white bowl, and if XX, blue; then Adygchi-Ool came to the Aal with his dogs; the old people took him to their son; one day the cattle stopped mooing, people started screaming; the dogs ran away and brought blue and white wolf skin; the old people are happy - these wolves they destroyed cattle; Khan gave AO his only daughter; when they came to see AT, only tears from her left eye filled the cup (i.e. she grieved for the demon); AO brought her home; she gave him poisonous Araks and he died; dogs dragged her body to the mountain; blue ran for a reviving potion; brought arrows in her ear, but she had arrows in her sides, she died; white revived both her and her owner; Altyn-Tan was tied to her tails three mares]: 321-335; Khakas [Altyn-Tabatay is a young man; his two brothers are married but no children; the brothers went to collect their livestock; AT stayed with their daughters-in-law; crying outside the window; elder daughter-in-law found a baby girl; she was adopted; she was constantly crying, exhausted both women; when she was walking, AT woke up and saw her go out into the yard, and when she returned to the house, her mouth was bloody; goes to bed with her foster mother; next time AT sees a girl running to a mountain range at night; an all-knowing old shepherd wonders who is eating cattle; realizing that no one will believe him, AT decided to run; her youngest daughter-in-law persuaded her to take her with her; she could not go fast; AT tied her to a poplar, left gold and silver on the branch, wrote that a good man should take this woman; AT comes to the house with a stone barn; inside is a beautiful girl with big breasts; she says that she was waiting for AT and that she is Tuner-Khys, the owner of this taiga; he has to stay with her even though he wanted to go further; when he leaves, TX follows a ball of white thread; if anything, they will shake the horse; but AT invites the ball to travel around the world with him; AT comes to another house with a stone barn, there is a girl named Chanar Khys; he stays with her; the same (she is the owner of the water; a ball of blue threads); AT comes to the old man, he has a daughter; the old man gives AT araka until he loses consciousness, his daughter Chibek-Aryg goes to bed with AT, he stays with her; loves her, she is pregnant; the great khansha Khan-Khys sends to tell AT to go to her; she tells him to get a fiery red fox, then she will marry him and he will become khan; he did it; wedding; he homesick, cries; tells his wife that the wind brought dust in his eyes, because they are red; XX summoned the owner of the wind and began to scold him; he explained what was going on; XX will soon give birth; AT has eyes again red - says that a branch knot hit; XX called the tree owner, who explained what was going on; XX asks AT not to deceive her; AT is going home; there are no people or cattle; only in one yurt Chelbegen girl; her lower fangs by 6 quarters, her upper fangs grew by three quarters; she guesses her father's jaw - nothing; from her mother's jaw, she finds out that AT has arrived; AT flees; Chelbegen has caught up, It was swallowed by a dog, a younger horse; on the ground, Chanar-Khys AT threw her white ball to tie the chelbegen; she tore it up and chased on; Tuner-Khys released a white stone hero from the barn, but Chelbegen ate it; AT threw a blue ball - the same; Chanar-Khys released the hero out of blue stone, Chelbegen ate him; caught up and ate the AT horse, AT himself climbed one of the seven larches; Chelbegen cannot look up, only down; begins to gnaw larch, it fell; AT jumped to another; the white bird, the daughter of Tuner-Khys from AT, flew to her mother, she sent two bears, but the chelbegen ate them; the same - a blue bird, daughter of Chanar-Khys, two tigers; when AT on the last larch, two Khan Kire birds descended, raised the chelbegen to the sky and threw it to the ground, the chelbegen fell apart; a winged one flew behind the AT Hees-Khan horse; XX already has two sons from AT; she is angry with AT for going home without consulting her; she sent two Khan Kira birds to him; she forgave him, everything is fine]: Torokova, Sychenko 2014, No. 15:287-321; Altaians [{there is no motive in Sadalova's paraphrase; given the Tuvan text, it probably exists in the original}; Dyellbegen wants to eat a person; he promises a son instead of himself, migrates, sends his son to wait for D.; D. chases him, cuts off the legs of the horse on which the boy rides; the boy climbs an iron poplar; the fox begs for D.'s ax, throws into the lake; D. drinks the lake; the boy asks Magpie, the Raven to call his dogs; they refuse, the Goose calls; dogs defeat D.; one is injured, the boy forgets about her, she turns into a wolf; options: the old man goes to fetch water at night, scoops up D., sends his son to the former camp for a forgotten toy; the father promises his son to the owner of the water; he turns into a girl, marries him; the old man meets him in the forest D., complains that he has no heir; he promises that the old man's wife will hurt her finger, if he squeezes blood, a son will be born; the old man promises that when his son reaches 18 years old, he will give it to D. to eat; boy grows up, his parents tell him to run, he climbs poplar (the episode with the Fox and the ax in all versions); when dogs fought with D., his blood splashed on the moon; so dogs, when they saw spots on the moon at night howling]: Sadalova 1989:83-84; South Altai Tuvans [a rich man leans to the water at a watering hole, his jelbag grabs his beard; he promises to give her his son, leave his bow and arrows in the old parking lot; father tells me to go there on a horse that does not look at him, his mother tells me to go there on one that looks and stops; he does; picks up his bow and arrows, jumps away; jelbege consistently interrupts with a stick -four legs of the horse with a leather; the horse flies; she cuts the horse in half, cuts the neck, takes the boy's head, throws it on the poplar; The fox offers to saw while the jelbege is resting, throws the leather into the sea; she drinks the sea, saws again; the Raven and others refuse, the Eagle brings news to the dogs; they fight the jelbag in the depths of the sea; first red blood rises, but then black blood; dogs emerge one has a broken leg; a boy leaves her, she becomes a wolf]: Taube 1994, No. 23:206-210; Tuvans (Dzun-Khemchik District) [the boy raised two golden eagles, received two dogs from his father's friend, became understand their language; when he returned, he did not find a yurt; where his mother slept, found a needle and a fragment of a crest, where his father was a whetstone; a six-headed mangys Kalchaa-Mergen crawled out from under the ash; cut off the boy's horse's legs; the boy threw a whetstone, a comb, a needle, they became a rock, a thicket, an iron poplar; K. climbed the rock, made his way through the thicket, began to cut the poplar; the young man sat on top; the axe flew to the side, K. fell asleep, The frog threw his axe into the lake; K. drank the lake, began to cut further; the fox offered to cut for it, beat the axe with the blunt side, threw it into the lake; K. drank the lake again, sharpened his axe; the boy asked the crows call his golden eagles, who carried the boy on their wings to his father; he gave him the name Deer-Møge (Heavenly Strongman); Cher-Aldy Khan gives his daughter to the one who wins archery, in horse racing, wrestling; D. wins, kills K. in a duel, gets married]: Vatagin 1971, No. 11:112-117; Tuvans (Saldan) [the old man saw his lungs floating, picked up with an oarlock, it turned out to be a witch; going eat, refuses to take 1,000 horses in return, let him go for promising to give her son; the old man leaves the boy's red grandmother on the same nomadic, sends him for her; the fox tells him to climb the iron poplar, the witch cuts down the poplar with an ax; the fox invited the witch to fall asleep, clenched her eyes; 2 ducks complained to the gods, they sent two dogs, they killed the witch; the young man killed his older sister and father, stayed with his mother]: Katanov 1907, No. 150:10-12; Buryats (Mongolian Hantei aimag) [the lama tells old people that their daughter is a cannibal; parents drive their daughter; the horse brings her to rich places on a wooded mountain; servants report Khan, that a handsome man has settled on the mountain, but they do not know whether a woman or a man; the horse tells me to pretend to be a man so as not to become the khan's daughter-in-law; she wins horse racing, wrestling and archery; but the astrologer determines that this is a girl; she marries a khan's son; in the absence of her husband, she gives birth to a boy with a golden breast and a silver ass; that lama replaces letters both times, and the khan's subjects receive orders bury the daughter-in-law and child in a hole; the daughter-in-law's horse tore the fetters, dug a hole, took the woman and child to the mountain, but did all his energy; when he died, he turned into a house and 4 sandalwood; sholmos appeared { Is it the same llama?} , a woman with a child climbed a tree, he began to cut it down, the wolf offers to chop it for him, throws away an ax; Sholmos regurgitates another - the same thing, the fox throws it away; the last tree is left, two come running dogs; sholmos urinates, a hole forms, he hides in it, dogs behind him; they say that if red foam rises, they are defeated, and if white foam rises, they win; there is red and white, then dogs come out- winners; run away; khan returns, executes messengers, returns his wife and son]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 3:61-85; darkhats [(somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag, western 24.08.2006, No. WS 30020); y Khan's daughter Hanchin Geseg, the riding horse was a foal standing on two legs, flying through the air; the girl wanted to pick up the lama mangas; the foal tells the girl to take the comb of the mother of dogs Khasar and Basar; the abandoned comb became a thicket, the lama mangas got lost in it; the girl flew into the old woman's gray yurt, telling her not to say that she was a woman, dressed as a man, began to hunt and feed the old woman; became pregnant, gave birth to a child; her gray flying horse grew old, told her to climb with her child to the meat ball he would become; the lama mangas began to hit the meat ball against the sword and climb it; The fox offered to cut instead of mangas, threw her sword into the sea; the mangas gnawed pieces of meat with her mouth, reached the top of the obo; the dogs Khasar and Basar ran, the lama mangas threw them into the sea, but they returned; the lama threw himself into the sea; Hasar and Basar said that if the sea turned red-brown, then the lama-mangas had defeated them, and if it did not change color, they defeated it; Hasar and Basar for a long time fought underwater, grabbed one leg and the other hand, tore the mangas lama]: Neklyudov et al. 2006; Oirats [the old woman went on the water at night, scooped up Telbegen with a bucket; promised to give her son Turban; sent him for berries with a box full of holes, migrated herself with the old man; Chalma found his way back; then his mother said that his toys remained in the old yurt; a thin horse told him to take it; An old man sits in an old yurt, says he cannot feed the toys; the horse tells him to grab them himself, run; T. throws an ax, cuts off the horse's hind legs, then the front legs; C. climbs a tree; The fox suggests T. cut for him while T. sleeps, throws an ax into the lake; T. pbet water from the lake; C. asks Magpie to call his dogs, she refuses, because he called it glutton; Tits fly and tell; T. hides from dogs in the lake; they fight him in the mud until night; black blood splashes to the moon, dogs come out alone with a broken leg; dogs howl at the moon at night; spots on the moon - T.]: Popov, Basangov 1936:32-35; The Mongols of Ordos ["Ordos Ardyn Ulger". - Hohhot, 1992, p. 311; Goadagur's eldest daughter, middle Shirbigul, younger Davigur; mother went to her sister for flour; G. advised me to follow the road shepherds, Sh. - for the one she likes, D. - along the path of dogs and birds; towards the old mangas woman; offered to take out her lice, asked about her daughters, swallowed her, put on her clothes, began to knock on the house; G .: our mother has a black mole on her cheek (mangas smeared mud on her cheek); S.: our mother does not have hair on her back; D. opened it; G. asks how much water to pour and cook rice; mangas: how much you need; G.: this not the mother, she always knew for sure; while G. called the sisters, mangas ate all the rice alone; G. and S. refuse to lie down with their imaginary mother, D. goes to bed; G. at night: what do you eat? mangas: old cheese; G.: give it to us too; she gave it is D.'s little finger; G. asks for permission to go out of need, ties a rope, but on the street she ties it to two roosters; the sisters are running; in the morning the mangas chased I saw them in the tree; how did you get there? G.: they coated the tree with oil and grease; the mangas did it, slides; G.: they tied a millstone and a stone from the stove to the feet; the mangas fell again, threatens; Sh.: cut down the steps with a chisel and an ax; G. pushed mangas, she fell, injured her back, took on its monstrous appearance; a white swan, Tangry's messenger, flew, turned her legs into gold and silver hooks, carried it to heaven; a black swan flew, turned its legs into iron hooks, the mangas grabbed them; white: we curse the black crow and the evil mangas; they fell and crashed; Tengry tells G. to become the Dagina of the Sun, and S. to become the Dagina of the Moon]: Egupova 2012:27 -31; the Mongors [after the death of their father, an unkind younger brother and especially his wife abuse his older brother, decide to resettle him; the spotted bull tells him to ask for him, a wagon and two apricots, consecrated in the Buddha's niche; tells you to eat apricots, plant seeds on the way; goes to the wedding of an official's daughter, turns into a goby with golden horns, silver hooves; the bride wants to ride it, he is hers takes her away, her older brother marries her; the bull is old, tells him to bury his kidneys under the threshold, throw his bones into the barn and chicken coop, place a pelvis of blood and a basin of water in the Buddha's niche; if the water begins to fade in the blood, it's all right, if the blood is in the water, you have to open the kidneys; a herd of cows and a herd of sheep emerge from the bones; the older brother goes to visit the youngest; the wife has eaten everyone, she has a red face; the elder runs, climbs an apricot that has grown from a planted seed; his stalker gnaws, he jumps on another apricot; his wife sees blood splashing into the water, digging up her buds, they turn into two tigers, kill a cannibal]: Stuart, Limusishiden 1994:122-124.
Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 139 [Ekva-Pyris lives with his grandmother; loses an arrow, a woman with an iron body takes him away; he drills a tiny hole, runs away; twice; on the third since the body is copper, the knife breaks, the woman brings E. to her daughters, goes to kick birch bark; E. asks the girls to release him, he will make them a wooden ladle the size of their skull; cuts off their heads; taking hot ash and red-hot scrap, climbs a tree; a woman cuts a trunk; Fox, Hare, Wolverine offer help, axes blunt against a stone, a woman takes another one each time; E. asks a woman to open her mouth to jump into it; throws ash and scrap, finishes off the cannibal with an ax; returns to his grandmother]: 373-376; Popova 2001, No. 7 [grandmother does not tell Ekva Pygrisyu to walk towards the north wind; he goes sees a boat, shoots ducks, a boat takes it to old Kirp Nölp; carries it in a birch bark body, he cuts a hole with a knife, runs away; it repeats itself, KN carries it in an iron body, he drills a hole, falls out with a needle; the third time, the copper body, the EP knife is broken, KN brings it to his two grandchildren, goes to make birch bark scoops; EP promises KN's grandchildren to make wooden ones, they they release; he asks to put their heads on a log to measure, cuts off, cooks meat, climbs larch; in the corner he ties mice to squeak like children; KN eats grandchildren; Lisa offers KN to help cut a tree, breaks an ax against a stone; the same is Olenikha; EP invites KN to open his mouth to jump there; throws a hot walk; KN dies]: 59-69; Rombandeeva 2005, No. 25 [Ekva-Pygris lives with her grandmother , fires an arrow, goes looking for it; the woman invites him to climb into her birch bark body, promises to look for his arrow herself, takes him away, he drills a hole along the way, gets out; the next day the same with an iron body; on the third day she cannot drill a stone one; a woman brings it to her home, tells her son and daughter to watch, goes for firewood; E. asks them to release it, make it for them shpyr shonah (ladle) drink his blood; cuts off their heads, cooks meat, climbs larch; a woman eats her children; begins to cut larch, the Hare offers to cut for it, dumb the ax on stone; the same Fox; Wolverine; E. invites her to open her mouth, throws hot ash with her, then hot scrap; she dies, E. returns to her grandmother]: 237-245; Eastern Khanty (b. Tromyegan) [the grandmother does not tell her grandson to go to the hut; he goes, comes to Menk-Iki's house; he nails him to the wall, goes after the cauldron; the grandson asks M.'s children to let him go, promises to do it the ladle and trough eat its meat and fat; kills them, cooks them, hides on aspen, taking bags of ash and hot foot; M. comes back, sees children's meat, cuts aspen, sits down to rest; animals and birds they come to spoil around the aspen, the felling overgrows; the same again; the grandson asks M. to open his mouth to jump there; throws ash and foot; burns the corpse, the ash turns into mosquitoes]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. they used to kill his father, grandfather and all relatives, stumble upon him ate; the boy steals his sword and 97:87-88 (= Lukina 1990, No. 33:132-133); the southern Khanty [hunter's dogs are bear and wolf; leaving, he does not tell his sister to take revenge on the floor and scratch her head; she does this, filled the dogs ears with tin, put them on a chain; her lover, a seven-headed menkv, comes; then chases her brother, who climbed the larch; menkv cuts, tired; the hare offers to chop it for him, the larch becomes stronger than it was; the same fox brought land and sand, the larch became even stronger; the same otter; the brother asks the sparrow to call his dogs; the bear and the wolf do not hear; the raven hear; the bear fell off the chain, helped the wolf fall off; after three years of battle, the wolf, bear and their owner killed the menqua, burned the corpse; the prince gave the hunter the youngest of 7 daughters; sister put a menqua tooth in bed; the hunter was buried, the animals dug his tooth, tore his sister to pieces]: Patkanov 1999, No. 3:328-330; the northern Selkups [the hunter has three sons; Loz comes in; twisted his nose, cut his knee, made arrows; spinning, went underground, saying that if the hunter's sons could do as he did, let them come; the eldest son went, did not return; the same middle; the youngest repeats all his shamanic tricks after Loz on the way to him and in his house; secretly leaves; Loz tells his daughter that their dogs are now young dogs, tells them to put glue in their ears; young man approaches the 7 larch trees he had dreamed; climbs the first one with a sable, Loz cut it down with an ax, the sable jumped to the second; when Loz cut down the last larch, the dogs heard it, ran, they tore the Vine; the young man went to Loza's house, covered it with birch bark, burned Loza with his daughter; when he came home, the plague was covered with snow; the young man looked through the {probably upper} hole: the father and mother turned gray, they can't light a fire, they grabbed each other's hair; he threw them in different directions and they're several years younger]: Stepanova 2017, No. II-5:38-42; Kets: Dulzon 1966, No. 5 [when he comes Baba Yaga (translated by the narrator), Casket and Totabol hide behind the olatina and under the focal chock; Kleinitsa gives them away, B. puts them in their pants, carries them to their daughters; tells them to eat more; K. fills his sleeve and dumps, T. eats, gets fat; while B. hunts bears, K. asks her daughters to give him a drill, drills a hole in the wall of the stone plague; kills daughters, hangs their meat, runs away through hole; T. gets stuck, K. carries his head; B. mistakenly eats his daughters' meat; pursues K., who creates larch trees, climbs to the top of his head; B. regurgitates an ax, cuts the trunk; The hare is called to help; puts chips back while B. sleeps; when she wakes up, K. asks her to open her mouth and eyes; throws sand in her eyes; goes down, kills with a horn, burns; puts T.'s head, he comes to life]: 23-27 ( quail in Alekseenko 2001, No. 125:222-225); Nikolaeva 2006 (village. Pakulikha, western in 1959 R.V. Nikolaev) [{just like Osharov 1936a, but the name of Chuuta's hero]: 158-162; Osharov 1936a [Damn it, this is his trap; Ichekochko stuck; asks the Devil not to eat him, but to take him to his daughters for toys; asks him to untie his daughters, he will cut out spoons for them; killed the girls with a knife, cooked them, placed the fried pieces on sticks on the way to the plague; ran away, leaving the little birds in the canopy as if the girls were having fun; Damn it ate meat, released the birds, found the heads of his daughters; counted the stars, missed the grains of sand, realized that I. ran away on the ground; I. climbed the tree, the devil began to cut, the Hare offered to cut for him; when the Devil fell asleep, hit him with the butt of an ax, as if the forest had fallen, ran away with the ax; Damn a new axe vomited (he swallowed it once, swallowing seven cities); the same episodes with the wolverine; with the bear; I. offers the Devil close his eyes, open his mouth, he'll jump there; threw sand, killed Devil, burned it, mosquitoes, spiders, midges appeared out of it]: 101-105; Selkups (southern?) [Icha (Itya) falls into the trap of the line, he drags him into his home; in the absence of a devil, I. kills his daughters, runs away, climbs a tree; the devil vomits an ax (he's last year swallowed the whole city); Bear, Fox offer to help cut down a tree, but they deceive the line; I. promises to jump the line into his mouth, he lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash eyes of the line, jumping off the tree kills, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes]: Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov 1951:135-139; Prokofiev 1935 (northern) [Icha lives with his grandmother; shoots an arrow at a teal, she flies by; tries take an arrow, sticks with his fist, heel, etc.; hell brings it to his daughters, goes after the cauldron; I. promises his daughters to make a wooden spoon, kills them, climbs on larch; the devil eats his daughters ; cries; an ax vomits to cut larch; Bear, Wolverine, Fox consistently offer to help cut down a tree, run away with an ax, the devil vomits a new one every time; I. promises to jump the line into mouth, he lies face up; I. falls asleep with ash, the line jumps off a tree, kills it, burns it; sparks turn into mosquitoes], No. 1:101-102; yugi [{the text is almost identical to Symsko-Ket in Dulzon 1966, No. 62}; the devil took Erulya and Tuta to her; E. eats a lot, T. little, thin; found something iron, made a hole out; got out; E. climbed after him, got stuck, because he was fat, T. pulled him, head came off; the devil ate E.'s body, T. took her head away, placed it on larch, ordered to shamanize, many larches grew, T. climbed on one; the devil took out an ax, a scraper, a knife, knocked down the larch; T. climbed in On the next, the devil knocks down all the larches one by one; T. tells her to lie on her back with the last one, he jumps into her mouth; throws sand in her face, breaks her head with a hammer]: Werner 1997, No. 20:267-269.
Eastern Siberia. Dolgans [to have children, the old woman turns to ayyi, the old man turns to Abaasa; ayyy gives a boy and a girl, the abaasa threatens to swallow the old man, makes him give up what she does not know at home; spouses they hide their children under the hearth; the abaas eat their spouses, do not find children; they grow up, a horse descends from the sky, takes them away, gives them flint, flint, an ax, they must be thrown into an Abaas pursuer; they turn into fire, into the mountains, into the sea; the abaas remain overseas; the horse tells him to be killed by crushing a louse on his head; parts of his body give rise to a city, buildings, property; his kidneys turn into a dog bear and a wolf -dog; in the absence of the brother, the abaasa comes, the sister agrees to become his wife, lures his brother's handkerchief, gives it to her husband; the brother is in a hurry, the interpreting rocks crush his dogs - the bear and the wolf; the horse brings brother to old woman, she gives a bow; a hawk fights a yokshokyu bird; brother shoots a yokshokyu in the wing; for promising to cure him, he helps open the mountain, freeing the bear and the wolf; they kill the abaas; brother hangs his sister by the legs, puts two plates under her eyes; during the night, the left one fills with tears, which means that the sister cries for her husband, not for her brother; he leaves, leaving the bear and the wolf; one-eyed, one-armed and one-legged abaasa fights with another over a woman; Er-Sogotoh (his brother's name is first mentioned) frees the woman, takes her away; the abaas pursues them, E. throws the comb, the forest grows; E. kills the abaas, marries a rescued woman]: Popov 1937:208-237 (quail. Efremov 2000, No. 2:79-135); Central Yakuts: Illarionov et al. 2008, No. 17 (Western 1940, Megino-Kangalassky District, South-Central Yakutia) [one-eyed abaas ate two horses, two cows, two the mares, the wife of the old man Chopcheyokyeong, himself; his little son and daughter, a little older, rode off on a goby; the abaas chases him, the goby splashes manure in his face; across the river tells him to look for lice, crush him larger than the size of a spider, it has its soul; the skin has become home, the skull has become a stove, the legs are pillars, the heart and liver are black iron dogs, the blood clot is dog food, the hooves are four orons (a shop for sleep); the boy returned from hunting, ate his sister in the abaasa house, dived under the pot, the dogs followed; they said that if the black foam foams, you should hang yourself, if it was red, get ready to meet; boiled black, then white, then red foam, dogs carried out his sister's skull; his brother buried him, began to live well with the dogs]: 185-195; Ergis 1967, No. 118 (central? the place of recording is not specified, links to archival materials; the same text as in Illarionov et al. 2008?) [The abaas ate the fisherman's cattle, himself, his old woman; boys and girls run away, the calf covered the pursuer's eyes with its manure; tells the children to look for lice on him; they kill the louse in which his soul is; from the calf's bodies appear house and dogs; the boy hunts, the abaas ate his sister; dogs descended into the lower world, brought her skull; the crows were injured, the Raven brought live water to revive them; the remains of the dog resurrected a girl; everything is fine]: 187; Baikal Evenks (north of Transbaikalia) [Evenk met another hunter in the taiga; he catches a lot of fur animals, but Evenk gets nothing; once there is nothing else got it, gave everything to Evenk and warned him not to let him in at night; Avaasi came in the evening, but could not count the crosses until morning; Evenk went home and the next evening climbed onto a birch tree; Avaasi began to chew on it, but didn't have time until morning; the next day, Evenk climbed into the storage shed; there was another avaasi, the first one rushed at him, they began to fight, killed each other; Evenk brought home lots of fur]: Pinegina 2019:178-179; Evens (Olsky District of Magadan Oblast) [a man does not kill a duck, it promises to help; his dog tells me to see what crawls on it; cut it into six parts; a man presses a flea, a dog dies immediately, he cuts it, these parts are eaten by two bears, two wolves, two foxes, become helpers; Cholare with one hand, one leg, one eye in his forehead asks the man's sister how she crosses the river; the girl: the brother has a handkerchief, he will wave, land will form; C. asks to steal the handkerchief; she steals, C. crosses, marries; persuades him to send her brother to barns behind the yucola; barn doors cannot be opened, bears, wolves, foxes are sitting in the barns; when a person returns, he sees C.; he tells him to wash himself in the bathhouse first, then he will eat him; the animals tell him to call H himself to the bathhouse .; tear it apart, the person burns the remains, leaves his sister tied to a tree, two cauldrons under her eyes; if the right one is full, then she mourns her brother, if the left is C.; leaves, marries; when the ropes are rotten, the sister picks up C.'s teeth, comes to her brother, puts his teeth in bed; he dies; the sister offers to burn the deceased, the wife to leave the coffin in the tree, bury the animals nearby; foxes, the bear breaks through the way out, the duck pushes the coffin off the tree, the wolf brings live water, the rest lick the owner's wound, he comes to life]: Novikova 1987:66-69 (=1958:60-65).
Amur - Sakhalin. Nanai people: Chadaeva 1990 [six brothers found a girl in the hollow, the youngest warns that it is not good; he was beaten, he left, began to live with Fudin; the light flickers in the distance, Mergen fires an arrow there, comes; old man: your arrows knocked out a bone stuck in my throat, I give me two cubs, don't tie them to strong poles; M. decided to visit the house, tells his wife not to tie the cubs, but she tied them with chains to a snag; there the cannibal girl ate her older brothers, looks for the youngest's skull, notes M.; he asks to bring bast from the forest, runs away, the witch then; M. turns the arrow into an iron tree, the witch gnaws at it; the same second, third, no more arrows; cubs come running, dragging a snag, M. frees them, they kill a witch; he hits F., lies down alone, two girls next to each other in the morning - former cubs; they revive the dead brothers M.]: 64-68; Hodger 2011 [younger sister Pudin suggests that the eldest take turns picking berries so that someone is always in the house; the eldest goes, Taka (an arrow with a blunt head) falls next to her, tells leave, because Inda Khochiani will come (a dog's leg with a tail from the waist down); the eldest returns; the youngest comes the next day, does not listen to Taka, they tell him to allow him to look for lice from her; says that found gold, brick, stone, you can't crush it on a stone, the earth will not stand it, tells you to stick out your tongue, crush it on her tongue, pulls out her tongue, runs away; at home, the eldest puts the dog's younger tongue; an old woman, girded with live snakes, in a dream tells the youngest to go back her tongue, leaves three silver tōro rods, a white horse; the youngest takes rods, a needle bed, a scallop, a knife, and flies to the house on horseback dog people, pretends to marry THEM, cleans the house, finds his tongue in a bunch of others, picks it up, leaves the dog's tongue, flies away on horseback; THEY tried to grab the horse's tail, Pudin cut it off; the horse asks whether to fly home or to people, P. says that he marries people; the husband goes hunting on a horse, P. does not tell her to be tied to a tree, only to grass; gives birth to a son, her husband's parents send a maid to him with news, THEY tell her to return, tell her daughter-in-law to be expelled, she supposedly is homeless; P. leaves, chases THEM, she throws a comb (thicket), a needle (thorny bush), rods (turn into three pillars); THEY gnaw on them, P. moves from one to another, calls the horse; when the third pillar is ready to fall, the horse comes, dragging the tree to which P.'s husband tied it; P. flies away on a horse; dying, she tells her to take off her skin, cover herself, P. wakes up in a warm house, two roe deer are tied at the entrance; THEY come, the roe deer tear him to shreds; P. and his son burn the leftovers; P.'s husband comes (Mergen); roe deer fly to heaven; husband takes P. to his place, his parents have repented; sister P. is also married]: 15-29; (cf. Medvedev 1992 {apparently Russian borrowing} [two brothers went to look for wives; separated at the fork, each left a knife; whoever rusts is in misfortune; the elder Ikto came to the village of exhausted people, spent the night with the girl; she said that the witch was coming to drink blood; the young man took a spear, went to the hill, made a fire; an old woman came up, complained that she was freezing, began to swallow the fire, turned red, breathed, incinerating the young man and his dog; the knife rusted, Yogo's younger brother came to that girl, she mistook him for his older brother; he came in a witch, he tied her up, hung her on a tree; she just asks not to burn her her; The yoke made a fire, the witch began to swallow fire; the dog Ygo rushed at her; the yoke scattered the fire; the witch said that the ash should be poured with stream water; the older brother and his dog came to life, the dogs tore a witch; Ikto married that girl]: 240-244).
Japan. Japanese (including northern Ryukyu): Ikeda 1971, No. 315A: 80. I. The Cannibal. The young man learns that his sister is a cannibal (G30) (at night his sister turns into a snake or cannibal). He tells his parents about it, but they only scold him and kicks him out of the house. On the way, he helps animals. She's getting married.
II. Coming back home. After a few years, he returns home. He leaves his wife an object that can be used to tell if he is alive (E761.4.3). He finds his native village empty, only his sister lives in it. She says the others died from the disease. It goes out to sharpen his teeth to eat it (G83.1). Before that, he leaves him with a tambourine and asks him to hit him (this way she will know that he did not run away).
III. Parental help. Appearing as mice, his parents say that all the inhabitants of the village have been eaten (G71; G346) and tell him to flee (B313.1). They hit a tambourine instead of it, hitting it with its tails. IV. Rescue in a tree. The young man runs away, climbs a tree, his sister starts to nibble on it. When a tree falls, it moves to another tree. The wife learns from the sign that her husband is in trouble, releases animals that her husband once helped. They save him, the cannibal is killed.
SV Asia. Tundra Yukaghirs (p. Rusk, Kolyma Delta; west in 1896 from Anna Korkina's Russified Yukaghirka) [the wife wants pike, the husband brings it, the wife cooks and eats it, discovers that she has iron teeth; gives birth to a girl, she grows up hours; her brother hears her promise to eat everyone; parents don't believe him, he runs alone; comes to the house, there's a naked girl; he marries her; wants to visit his parents, she gives him a six-legged deer; at home, he finds his sister playing with her parents' skulls; runs away, she chases him, tears off and eats two extra legs first, then the fourth leg of a deer; his brother turns his arrow into an iron pole, climbs upstairs; she gnaws at the pole with iron teeth; he asks the kuksha to give his wife a request to send dogs; the kuksha refuses; the snow-bunting, petishka agrees; the sister sends bears and wolves; the girl The pike turns into an ermine, wolves and bears catch it; brother cuts it to pieces, burns it]: Bogoras 1918, No. 10:65-67; Chukchi: Baboshina 1958, No. 60 [kele ate daughter, father, mother; the boy looked into the house, ran, taking two dogs, climbed a tree; Kele followed the trail, but the dogs bit him]: 149; Brodsky, Innecay 2018, No. 21 [the girl told her father that the vazhenka has a wart; father: you just want slaughter her; the girl saw the devil, threw it into the canopy, left; there was an old woman in the yaranga, a wolf and a bear at the entrance, the girl threw meat to them, they let her through; old woman: if you need my help, scratch left palm; when the girl returned to the old camp, there were only yaranga poles, hell by the big cauldron, and a few remaining deer; the girl fed him 10 meat boilers, put him to sleep and ran away; hell catches up; she consistently throws him her torbas, siskins (torbas stockings); when the devil swallowed the second siskin, scratched her hand; the old woman lowered the bear and the wolf, the wolf killed the devil, the girl stayed with old women]: 46-48.
The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [the little boy wants to see his grandfather; the father allows his wife to take his son to her parents, tells him to go only to open places; the woman enters the grove, which turns into a huge forest; they lose their way, they come to the house of four women; they shove them into the fire; the boy puts out the fire with urine, runs away with his mother at night; the mother turns her hair (from her head or pubis) into four trees; hides with his son at the top; cannibals cut down three trees; when the fourth is cut down, the boy starts a stream of urine, the felling overgrows; the father sends four dogs (grizzly, rattlesnake, wolf, puma), they cannibals are killed; mother and son first return home, then come to her parents]: Teit 1909a: 635-636; kutene [Young Buck tells his sisters Fawn and Olenukha Young Doe) throw the soft parts of the ribs of the hunted animals into the water; they, contrary to the prohibition, take these bones for themselves, the bones turn into dentalium shells; then the Deer takes its people into a hole in the ground, sisters they are left alone; they cross the river on stilts, come to Olyapka's house; the deer swallows the blood that Olyapka gives her; walking after her sister does not fall into her tracks; a deer gives birth; the deer sends her back to Dipper; she punishes Dipper by keeping her under water; the Rabbit who meets the Deer makes sure that she refers to him as "husband", he takes her to his grandmother Frog; she hides her; Lynx unnoticed her becomes pregnant, she gives birth to a child, all three are abandoned; Lynx catches many deer, and those who have left go hungry and return; when people pass the baby to each other, the Toad and the Owl reach out to him and kidnap him; The deer follows them, picks up the child, escapes in the tree; calls his dog, it's the Grizzly, he bites the Toad and the Owl, eats their dog, which is the mouse; the deer comes home with the baby, gives birth to the Lynx second son; these boys turn into Sun and Month]: Dyer, MS at Reichard 1947:170.
Northeast. Seneca [wife does not feed her husband's dogs; cutting meat, she cut her finger; sucks blood, she likes the taste, she cuts and eats her flesh; eats her little daughter; chases dogs, eats her little daughter; chases dogs, eats people in the village, chases her husband; he with his dogs swims across the river on a raft; she jumps after him, falls into the water, drowns; a man with his three dogs stays in a poor house; the chief calls him 1) race (the dog in his form wins), 2) play ball (the other dog wins, cuts off the chief's head); the man becomes the chief]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 46:179.
(Wed. Southeast USA. Yuchi {most likely to borrow from Africa} [women come to marry a young hunter, he hunts a lot of deer; his grandmother tells him to go with them; the hunter tells her he will go - she is probably tired of the food he brings; tells her to tie the dog and put the hoe in the fire; if he calls, the hoe will wake up the grandmother, and she will untie the dog; once in the forest, the hunter saw that there were a lot of deer around to kill him; climbed a tree; when the deer blew up and knocked down the tree, the hunter fired an arrow, which pierced the ground and turned into a new tree, but the deer and he was almost knocked down; the hunter screamed, the grandmother untied the dog, which ran and drove the deer away; when he returned, the hunter said: I didn't want to go with them]: Wagner 1931, No. 4:31-33).
California. Lassik []: Essene 1942:95
Honduras-Panama. Pech [man flees from a cannibal companion; he cuts a gun; monkeys carry a hero]: Flores 1989:55; bribri [boy and girl hide from the cannibal; she cannot cut down a tree and waits below, a boy and a girl fly away (finding wings?)] : Bozzoli 1977:73; Bozzoli, Cubero Venegas 1983:9.
The Northern Andes. Kogi [an ogre or cannibal chews on a trunk with animals; an eagle or vulture carries a hero on his back]: Fischer, Preuss 1989 [cannibal; eagle]: 180; Preuss 1926, No. 9 [Niuálue descended from the sky, he began to fish with poison, went downstream, and when he returned, he saw that Taimú had eaten the catfish he had already picked up; he ate them raw, with his mouth and back, and (S. 85) he had a second set of eyes on the back of his head; N. climbed one of the four trees nearby; T. asked the fish where N. was, they were silent, he ate them; finally, one looked at the tree; T. began to nibble on the trees, and a day later he knocked down two out of four, butterflies flew out of the trunk, worms crawled out, T. ate them; he could no longer gnaw, broke his teeth; called squirrels, mice, hedgehogs and other animals, they knocked down the third tree; N. tied the last tree with 9 threads to the sky; when the trunk was gnawed, it did not fall; asked the eagle for help, which carried it to its nest to watch for the chicks; the tree, meanwhile, fell, T. ate butterflies and worms that had fallen with it, thought that N. was eating; N. decided that the eagles smelled bad, threw them on the ground, went down and ran away; the eagle asked his sister Saumá (a female forest demon, crazy) to catch N.; she put T. in her bag, N. became play her twice; the third time she carried the bag, but put it down and walked away; N. tore the bag and ran away]: 194-201; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1985 (2), No. 10 [Teimú is the mistress of the fish; Andu began fishing with T.; noticed that she was eating fish with a vulva; climbed one of the four trees that grew there; T. asked the fish where A. was; they were silent, but the catfish looked at the top of the tree; T. called various rodents to cut down wood; they have not been able to gnaw through the trunk; it gnaws on the trunk with the vulva, gives animals two teeth from their vaginal teeth, since then rodents have two large teeth; the tree fell, A. moved to another, and T. began to eat cockroaches and other insects falling from the tree, thinking it was T.; T. opened her belly, the cockroaches replied that she did not eat A.; so with three trees; A. asks Vulture for help, replies that he did not call him smelly; Vulture puts him on his back, takes him away; tells him not to look down when they dance and play musical instruments in villages; for the third time A. looks The vulture breaks its wing, they fall; A. repairs its wing by inserting his digger; they fly on], 10A [Teimú (male character) has teeth in the anus; Nyiueldue goes fishing with T., hides in a tree; further as in (10); T. doesn't find N.; fights Vulture]: 52-55, 55.
Llanos. Sicuani [Wereketo's father-in-law asks his son-in-law a new job; after asking for palm starch, he tells the tree to grow; the young man asks the Caracara bird to call him (boys!) for help the grandfather of the Royal Vulture; the Vulture lowers the young man to the ground, and the palm tree falls; the young man returns home in the guise of a water snake, lives in his mother's womb; crawling out of his womb, climbs a tree, drops mother pendare fruits; when the serpent was in the tree, the mother ran away and hid; the serpent came in the guise of a young man; enters the river when she greets her father, thunder is heard; the mother dies, her spirit falls where her son]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 141:476-477.
Western Amazon. Shuar: Pelizzaro 1993 [people hide from Ivia at the top of a cliff; the monkey Machin (arachnid) turns the stone into an ax, sends I. to swim, replaces it with an ax, throws it into the river; I. hit M. on the genitals, he now has a small penis]: 49-51; Rueda 1987, No. 54 [people are hiding from Ivia at the top of a cliff; the monkey Tsere offers I. help to cut the rock; does The appearance that the axe bounced and fell into the river throws it further and further; I. unsuccessfully tries to stop it, creating rocky rifts, dense forest, etc.], 54a [as in (54); Cere pretends to help to dry the river, and he throws the axe further]: 234-237, 238; Aguaruna [people climbed from the cannibal Iwa into a tree; he began to cut it with a stone ax; the monkey Machin sent I. to swim, replaced his ax with an unusable fake, put back the chips that had already been chipped off, cutting down the thicket; hit the trunk so that I. could hear blows; told people to go down, threw the real ax into the river; I. broke the fake ; began to dive, M. carried the axe deeper into the river, I. could not drain it; I. pulled his waist and mutilated his penis; M. invited everyone I. to go pick fruits from the tree on the other side of the ravine; when everyone came in on the bridge of vines, brought it down; all I. died]: Chumap Lucía, García-Rendueles 1977 (2), No. 84:666-668.
Montagna - Jurua. Shipibo [a jaguar gnaws a gun; a shaman flies away with his son on his back]: Roe 1982, No. 9:67.