L72B. Oselok-Gora. 27.-.37.40.-.42.44.-.46.

Fleeing, the character throws small objects behind him, turning into powerful obstacles in the path of the pursuer. One of the objects thrown was a whetstone, a sharpener. (In one of the Udmurt versions, abandoned objects destroy obstacles in the character's path). See motif L72.

Moldovans [+ brush], Russians (Olonetskaya) [+ comb], Russians (Voronezh) [+ comb], Belarusians (+ comb and brush), Karachays [+ comb, but in another text], Ossetians [+ comb], Georgians [+ comb], Armenians [+ comb], Uzbeks [+ comb], Tajiks [+ comb], Estonians [+ brush in another text], Lutsi [+brush], setu [+brush], Lithuanians [+brush], Karelians [+comb], Komi [+flax], Udmurts [+comb], Marie [+comb], Mordovians [+comb], Kazan Tatars [+comb], Bashkirs [+comb], Kyrgyz [+comb], Salars [+comb], Tuvans [+comb], Darkhats [+comb], Khalkha Mongols [+ comb] crest], Inner Mongolian Mongols [+ crest], Mongors [+crest], Nenets [+crest], Mansi (southern and northern) [+crest], Eastern Khanty [+crest], northern Khanty [+crest], western Evenks [+ comb], Baikal Evenks [+comb], Nivkhs [+ comb], Ulchi, Udege [+ comb], Nanai [+ comb], Asian Eskimos, Fr. St. Lawrence, tagish [+ comb], haida [+comb], bellacula [+comb+awl], heiltsuk [+comb], uvikino [+comb], menonym [+shilo], kickapoo, steppe cree, teton, penobscot, arikara [+ comb].

The Balkans. Moldovans [the childless queen conceived from the tear of an icon; her son Fat-Frumos (Born from Tears); he puts up with his father's enemy; that witch Lesova pays tribute to every tenth baby; FF wins her, she runs away shackled; he follows her daughter Ilyana tells her to change the kegs of water and force; FF kills her, takes her daughter as his wife; the king asks to defeat Lute, bring him his daughter; FF takes her away; L. asks his horse if he should hurry to chase, the horse says not so good; the first time L. takes his daughter, the second incinerates FF; St. Peter asks God to revive him; daughter L. turns FF into a flower, hides it, asks L. how to get a double-hearted horse; FF hears, comes to an old woman tasked to herd her herd, helps the mosquito along the way, cancer; mosquitoes drive scattered horses, crayfish drive them out of the water; the maid replaces the old woman's sleepy food with good food; the old woman puts the hearts of the mares in a skinny three-year-old, FF chooses him; jumps on go away with the maid; she tells him to throw the brush (forest), the whetstone (rock), the handkerchief (the lake), the witch drowns at midnight; the maid disappears, FF takes L.'s daughter on a seven-hearted horse; two-hearted throws L. into heaven; the king marries daughter L., FF on I.]: Moldavian tales 1968:139-157.

Central Europe. Russians (Olonetskaya, Velikogubskaya vol., Kosmozero, Zap. I.V. Karnaukhova) [the wife is childless; sent for fresh perch; the wife and the worker ate, both gave birth to a boy; the elder brother {the hostess's son} went, three growths: to the right - you will be rich, to the left - wife, middle - killed; went to the left; in the young lady's house; put him to bed, he fell into the underground; his younger brother went, chose the path where he would kill; a hut on chicken legs - turn the porch here; Baba Yaga fed, gave a comb, sent it to her older sister; she gave a bar, sent it to the oldest; fog over the city, in the house of Baba Yaga (apparently the oldest sister) tells stories to the girls; the guy took apples and live water , raped the girl, galloped away; girl: he drank tea, but did not cover the teapot, sent a chase; the guy threw a comb (forest), a bar (gorges), a towel (river of fire); the guy got to Rosstani and drove along the road to get married; also failed; broke the wall, everyone went out; the brothers envied him, killed him; the horse broke a bottle of live water, revived him; he returned home; the messenger from the girl Beauties from the golden kingdom: let the betrothed come; she already has a child; her older brother has gone; she put on velvet, the guy got off his horse, walked around, she drove him away; the youngest drove on velvet - here's mine betrothed; began to live happily ever after]: Vlasova 2011, No. 15:45-46; Russians (Voronezhskaya, 1964, p. Kamenno-Verkhovka of Novousmansky District) [The sorceress marries the poor beauty three times for her son, and receives consent for the third time. There is no groom. Makes a girl milk her cows. The girl has never done this, asks her mother, she replies that she should say "cows, milk yourself", the sorceress is surprised how her cows did not tear the girl apart and gave her milk. She orders the girl to shear her sheep, everything repeats itself, the wool is collected in a bag by itself. The girl is allowed to rest, she hears a noise, realizes that the sorceress wants to "tear" her apart, turns to the old sorceress, who gives her a bar, a comb, butter and grain. The girl puts a piece of bread on her head, the birds take it and do not touch the girl, sprinkles grain - they peck the grain, do not peck her eyes out. The girl lubricates the lock with oil and the doors dissolve easily. She hears the sorceress chasing her, "brushing her teeth." She throws a bar, a mountain appears, the sorceress returns for an ax, cuts a mountain, throws a comb - the sorceress cuts down a dense forest. The girl swims across the river when the sorceress is in the middle, throws resin, the river boils and she dies. The girl returns to her mother]: Kretov 1977, No. 26:42-43; Belarusians [the tsar's most beautiful ship sank; he promises half the kingdom to whoever returns the ship; evil spirits: half the kingdom is not needed, give it back what you don't know at home; it turned out that the wife gave birth to a son and daughter at home; they grew up, a serpent flew to pick them up, brought them to the forest; the boy talks about barrels, the girl talked about watermelons; the snake realized that they were not princes children; I had to give it back; once a serpent told the boy to separate the poppy from the ash, and the girl to embroider a towel; the barn took them under his wings, carried them away from the snake; he caught up, took them away; the next day the ox tells the girl to take them a brush and a comb, and a bar and a handkerchief to the boy, sit in his left and right ear; the serpent catches up, they throw a brush (forest), a comb (an earthen mountain), a bar ( stone mountain); waving a handkerchief by the sea is a bridge, on the other side there is no bridge; the ox tells to cut it into 12 parts, they turned into 12 dogs; they began to live; brother does not know that snakes have begun to fly to his sister; sister asks for bear milk; the bear gave milk and the bear cub; the same with the she-wolf; the dogs were left outside 12 doors; the sister tells the brother to warm the water; the raven: take your time, the dogs gnawed nine doors; the brother asks allow death to blow the trumpet; the dogs heard the snake tore; the sister took the snake's tooth; the brother and sister began to live with their parents; the sister put the tooth in the brother's bed; he died, the sister's body in the barrel and at sea; the wolf took out a barrel, the bear knocked out the bottom, found a tooth, took it out; they began to live happily ever after]: Romanov 1887, No. 7:63-65.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays: Dzhurtubayev 2007:367-370 [after eight sons, a daughter is born; the youngest son demands to kill her, when refused, leaves; grazes the cattle of the elderly, wins and kills the five-headed emegen, then the Emegensha, having received her parents' eyes that had previously been kept in mercury, goes to visit her relatives; there is only a sister in the village, she goes out to sharpen her teeth, her brother runs, throws a whetstone behind ( rock, sister gnaws), knife (iron rock, gnaws), awl (ironwood); the young man hides at the top; crows refuse to convey the message to adoptive parents, pigeons pass on; dogs come running, sister takes off, dogs follow her; yellowmouth girl causes eclipses of the moon and sun (dogs protect the stars)], 370-371 [the son, seeing his newborn sister, tells her to kill her, parents refuse, he leaves; helps a female leopard to give birth, she gives him one cub, the other he takes by himself; they leave him by a thread; he comes to his native village, where the blacksmith says that the young man's sister has eaten everyone; the sister consistently eats the horse's legs, each time she asks how many legs the horse had; the brother confirms that three, two, one; the sister tells me to knock on the pelvis, she goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse starts to knock, gives an awl, a comb, a mirror, tells you to run; objects turn into a bone lock, an iron fence; sister catches up; brother burns hairs, leopards come running, cling to her jaws; girl rises into the sky, pounces at the sun and moon, leopards prevent her from swallowing them]; Ossetians [seven brothers mowed, at which time their mother gave birth to a fanged girl; she immediately went to pick up her mother brothers; the youngest saw that she ate half a horse, left; met a girl in the tower, began to live with her; went to visit her family; the wife brings with her a comb, coal, a whetstone; sister greets her brother, gives a fandyr (string instrument), goes to sharpen her fangs; the mouse tells me to run through the back window, runs along the strings of the fandyr; the sister comes back, swallows the mouse many times, she jumps out from behind her; brother throws objects, they turn into bushes, forest, mountain; sister gnaws through the road; brother runs to the tower, wife gives him hand and sister grabs from below; women agree to Each owned a young man for two weeks; it became the Month; when in her sister's hands, she gradually eats him and his wife feeds him again]: Miller 1882:297-299; Georgians (Pshaviya) [=Chikovani 1986:279-284; stepmother pretends to be sick, stepson's liver heart will cure her; father sharpens a knife; Koasnukh's bull tells the boy to sit on it, take a sharpener, a comb, a bottle of water; the father chases a pig; the boy pours water from bottles (a pig swims across the sea), a crest (a pig gnaws through the forest), a sharpener (the pig falls down the mountain, breaks); the bull leaves the boy on a high poplar, gives two flutes; he plays joyful, butterflies dance; the shepherd, then the king want a pipe for himself; if trouble, let him play on the painful, the bull will come to the rescue; to lure the boy off the tree, they send an old woman; she brings a goat to the poplar and begins to stab it with an awl - supposedly does not know how to slaughter it; the boy came down to show him, he was grabbed and locked; he asks a crow, a crow, an eagle, a bird to bring it from the poplar flutes; everyone refuses, because the boy did not leave them prey, caught them in snare; the swallow brings; the boy plays the joyful flute, Rubella comes running, breaks eight doors, breaks the horn; the mouse He takes the horn for the promise to eat it with carrion; the bull breaks the ninth door, brings the boy to the poplar; one day he played the joyful flute, but the bull did not appear; the boy went down and found it a corpse pecked by birds; never played his flutes again after that]: Chikovani 1954, No. 60:299-303 (=1986:279-284); (cf. Georgians (Kakheti) [when dying, the father tells his son to pass off three sisters as the first to marry; three strangers come, take the girls away; the king makes the young man chief of the army, at the head of the army he chases Field Maiden, lost; consistently gets to sisters, they are married to Eagle, Pashkunji {mythical bird}, Gveleshapi {snake}; everyone gives a horse, Eagle's horse jumps one, Pashkunji jumps two, Gveleshapi is for three plow harnesses, but the maiden is ahead every time; devils fight for a flying carpet, a ladder comb, a sharpener, a drinking sea; the young man fires arrows - the cro will be the first to bring, he will receive magic objects; he flies on the carpet to catch up with the Field Maiden; devils after him, the young man threw the comb, a ladder appeared on the rock, he passed the rock; threw the sharpener, rushed along the dry under the sea, grabbed the edge of the Field Maiden's dress, but she herself disappeared into her father's house; her father gave it to him]: Chikovani 1975, No. 5:27-30 (Kurdovanidze 1988 (2), No. 49-56; =Chikovani 1986:169-176); Armenians ["horse advised the young man to take with him a sharpener, a comb, a razor, salt, a bowl of water"; {the list shows that everything he took was consistently abandoned to create obstacles in the way stalker}]: Gullakian 1983:170.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks (Tashkent) [after the birth of his third son, the king drove his wife away and took a young one; someone kidnaps foals from his beloved mare; the eldest, middle prince falls asleep, Yalmauz-Kampir takes him away every time foal; the youngest shot her little finger; that same evening the young queen gave birth to a daughter and fled; the prince noticed that she did not have a little finger; the father did not listen to him, drove him away; he stopped at an old woman, she has a daughter for marriage; he goes to look for his mother, the old woman gives a comb, a razor and a whetstone; gives a merry stick to go there with a blade; he found his mother, bought it out of slavery; she died; he went to visit the house; he sees his sister in the form of Yalmauz-Kampir through the crack, she goes through the heads of the parents and brothers who have been eaten; the fox tells him to run, remains to beat the drum for him while the YAK goes for the poison; The prince runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a razor (mountain), a bar (the sea; the YAK swam, but the fish dragged it to the bottom, and then transported the prince ashore; ordered to protect the wand- merry; the young king finds that old woman's daughter, marries her; when he sails across the sea over the place where the monster-fish crushed the YAK, the storm sinks the ship, but they sail out on fish; feast]: Ostroumov 1990, No. 3 : 13-20; Tajiks [=Amonov 196:365-372; the old man has three daughters but no son; he is blind; the eldest daughter dresses up as a man, visits an old woman, she says that many brave men have died searching medicine, the girl returns; the same middle daughter; the youngest is not afraid; the old woman sends her to the healer; he will ask for the medicine the seed of the tree that the three-headed diva has; in the monastery, everyone must do good; the old woman gives a mirror, a comb, a bar; the girl cleans and adjusts the gates of the fortress, shifts hay to horses and bones to dogs; sewed sleeves for baking bread, gave them to girls who toned cakes with their bare hands; the divas sleeps with their eyes open; the girl pulled a bag from under his head and ran away; the maids, dogs, horses, the gates refused to grab her; she threw a mirror (river), a bar (mountain), a crest (forest); a diva stops chasing; a healer gives seeds; his friend says that the hero is a girl; chrysanthemums are placed at her head (if a woman, they wither); the girl got up at dawn and picked the fresh ones; but the healer's son saw it and went with her; the father saw the light, the young man married his daughter]: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957:77-83:164-171.

Baltoscandia. Estonians [Big Peter and Little Peter work for the landowner; the landowner sends them to cut down the forest; BP eats half of the food taken by the MP three times, refuses to share his food; MP promises complain to the owner; BP says that the MP boasted in three days to make a church out of wax, an earthen fence, bring a keolocol for 12 votes; bees make a church, mice a fence; a hawk brings MA to hell ( vanapagan), who has a bell; VP unties the bell rope, takes it, flies on a hawk; throws a rod behind (a forest grows), a whetstone (mountain), a drop of water (sea), the devil tries to drink everything water, bursts; MP gets a lot of money from the owner; says PSU boasted to sleep in a hot stove; it burns]: Juhan Kunder in Raud 2004:144-153; in Talvet 1991:47-58; Lutsie (West 1893) [Jaan Kuningapoeg (i.e. "Ivan Tsarevich", I.), he has three sisters, his parents are dead; he is going with his older sister to see the world, the crows attacked the end; when the carriage was opened, the raven took his older sister; the same with the middle sister (the wind took away) and the youngest (the thunder took away); I. went to look for sisters and find a wife; a hut on a chicken leg with lamb horns; come up in front of me, let the road man inside; inside the eldest sister; the raven sends to the middle; the wind to the younger one; the thunder teaches you to approach the castle, there is a three-legged horse at the castle; when the ploughman leaves him and leaves the girl to guard, then she must be stolen; I. put the girl on horse, took her; Must (must - "black", est.) returned, asks the horse if we will catch up; horse: even if we plow, sow (etc. - all field work), bake pies, eat, sleep, then we will have time; I. I walked to the thunder: the girl and the horse were taken away; thunder: go through the 9 kingdoms to the 10th, there try to herd a mare with 12 foals from the king; if you can, you will get a horse that will not be caught up; gave three hairs to cause sons-in-law, they will help herd; other sons-in-law gave the same; in the castle, the cat asks him not to forget; when I. opens the doors of the stable, let him stand outside the door, otherwise the horses will trample; foals scattered above the forest, below clouds; but the crows, wind and thunder brought the foals back; the next day the cat tells them to hide in the corner of the stable; the horses are back, Must hits them again for it; cat: for two days, the horses were daughters, and tomorrow their mother will go; she must hide behind the stable; the raven, the wind and thunder and she was brought; offers to choose a horse; cat: take the plain; I. took the girl again, the three-legged horse tells you to go immediately to chase; I. threw a brush (thick forest), whetstone (mountain), handkerchief (sea of fire); Must: I had the last stake left for your head, but you escaped; wedding]: Annom et al. 2018:114-122; Lutsie ( West 1893) [the king held his son behind 10 locks; but he is strong, escaped; in the forest an old man in a house; teaches and feeds him, forbids him to enter a room with a bast door; the young man enters, there is a horse, in front of him meat, and lion, hay in front of him; the young man shifted the places; the old man is angry; after a while the young man enters that room again; horse: hold me in the face; shakes his face, the young man falls; horse: take a sip of water from bottles; same; more; this time there is so much strength that he held on; take a brush and a whetstone; the horse is flying, the old man is chasing, his mouth is open; the young man throws the brush (forest and mountain), the whetstone (mountain); the old man makes his way; the horse tells us to wave the right rein - the bridge over the river of fire; they galloped along it; left: the old man was on the bridge at that time, the bridge collapsed, the old man burned down; the horse was sent to graze, the young man arranged a house and a garden near the royal palace, with silver and golden apples; the younger princess noticed him; the grooms arrived; the king: whoever is offered a cup will be a husband; the elders brought it to the visitors, the youngest to the gardener; the elder grooms do not want such a son-in-law, they came with an army; the young man called the horse, defeated everyone, disappeared into his house again; a new groom came to the youngest, the young man defeated his army; then he brought the terrible horse out of a high mountain, and there is an old man on him; a difficult battle; the young man is wounded in the arm, asks the king for a blessing (the king does not understand that this is his younger son-in-law), then killed the old man, and the groom is walled up; the young man falls asleep for 12 days, the king recognizes his bandage; after 12 days the young man wakes up healthy; at the feast, the horse tells not to drink the first cup; the young man sipped, the horse burst, the bowl fell, broke ; the horse tells me to take the queen's handkerchief and wipe the lips of the young man and himself; turns into the brother of a young man who has long been gone; I drank and ate there, it flowed down my lips, I didn't get into my mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:135-139; seto [mother died, her father married a witch (vanapatu), she has two sons; one of them wants to marry her; she goes to dress in a barn, the witch's sons leave dogs at the exit to prevent her from leaving; the mouse asks give her bread, the girl gives her, the mouse gnaws a hole in the wall, tells her to take a whetstone, a brush and a cat with her; the girl runs, the cat listens, reports the chase; the girl throws brushes (forest, devils they run after axes; then they hide the axes, the bird says they see, they take the axes home, rush to catch up again), a whetstone (a stone wall; the same, they run for crowbars and hammers), a handkerchief ( sea, devils drink, burst)]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 35:148-152; Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 44 [old people have two daughters (only one beautiful) and two sons; younger brother has decided to marry a beautiful one sister; in winter she went out to rinse her scarves, and the door was locked; she consistently addresses all members of the family; everyone answers the same way: if you call it not mother, but mother-in-law (not father, but father-in-law, not sister, but sister-in-law, not older brother, but brother-in-law, not younger brother, but sweet), I will open it; she has to call her brother sweet; when she enters his room, she asks that the earth open, remains in her brother's hand one hair; in the hut, two daughters of a witch sew, hide a girl under a needle (more often they turn her into a needle); a witch arrives, believes that a person's smell is because of her hand or leg left between her teeth; a witch returns, finds a girl under the beds; the girl asks to show how to sit on a shovel, pushes the witch into the stove, the witch's daughters give her a brush, a whetstone, a towel; a witch she got out of the stove, chased, the girl throws objects, they turn into a forest (the witch tells the blacksmith to tie an ax, cuts through a path), a mountain (shovel), water (the witch drinks, bursts); the girl was hired to work on the estate, married Panych], 49 [an iron wolf (not just an ogre wolf) in 10 versions; the father has two children; he gave them a toy - an iron wolf; the father died and the wolf came to life; brother and sister on horseback they rode away, the wolf caught up, tore the horse, returned the children; flew away on the voron, the wolf caught up again and returned; the goby put the children on his back, ordered them to take a ball (mountain, wolf gnawed), a brush ( forest; the wolf ran for the ax; the crow screams that he would take the ax, the wolf had to cut through the path and carry the axe back) and the sharpener (the sea in front; the goby created a bridge that disappeared behind, the iron wolf drowned); the goby ordered him to be cut in half, two dogs appeared; brother and sister came to the robbers' house, killed those who came with a sword as they entered; in 16 versions, the story follows insidious sister]: 102-107, 113-116; Karelians (Kalevalsky district) [the wife has a blue finger; when she dies, she tells her husband to marry again only the blue-headed; the daughter still has the blue finger; she demands from her father star-embroidered outfit (father bought); embroidered for months (same); suns (same); daughter takes dresses, brush, sulfur, goes to the bathhouse; runs away, leaving spits responsible for herself; discovering the deception, the old man rushes after him; the daughter throws a broom (a mountain covered with birch forest, the old man returns for an ax and hoe, cuts through the road, wants to hide the ax and hoe under the birch tree, the tit says she will tell women will steal; the old man takes them home, runs again; the girl throws the comb (tar mountain; the old man runs again for the ax and hoe; the same); throws a bar (stream of fire; the old man can't cross, he threw his balls around his daughter's neck, let them mimic her); the girl was hired as a pigsty to the king; she is silent, because the eggs will mimic her; the ball is being prepared, the maids send a dumb one to carry water to the king, who with a bucket on her forehead; the late mother gives a staff to hit the stone crosswise, a horse will come out; the girl came to the ball in a sunny dress; replies that she came from where the forehead is beaten with a bucket; the prince followed the girl, threw the pigsty's clothes into the fire; but the girl is afraid to say a word; the prince married her, she gave birth to a son, he was stabbed to death on her lap, her eyes were gouged out and driven away if she did not want to talk; the pigsty cooks again, the soup is cooked in the pot; the pigsty: delicious soup; eggs: delicious; the pigsty hangs the ladle around the neck below the eggs, invites them to try the soup; the eggs are flopped into a ladle, she brought them into a boiling pot; the pigsty brought soup to the guests; the new bride: look, the hem is carrying soup; the pigsty: you spoke early, I was silent, even when my baby was slaughtered; new the bride was driven away, the pigsty was dressed in a sunny dress]: Onegin 2010, No. 32:300-304.

Volga - Perm. Komi [(=Doronin 2004:47-51); old people have a daughter as tall as a spindle; yoma asks to give her for her son as tall as a finger; tells the young man to cut her sheep; the aunt says they are wolves, teaches that tell them to cut themselves; the same goes to cow bears; the aunt gives a flax comb, a basket of resin, a bar; the girl lubricates the door hinges with oil, feeds the birds, they let her out of the house; yoma chases her in a birch bark basket pulled into a stupa; the girl threw her flax, became a forest, a bar was a mountain, a basket of resin; confused the words, the resin river in front, she and yoma were both covered in tar; the girl asks the crow, then to call her parents with crowbar and fire; the crows do not hear those words, they hear them; the old man killed yoma, saved his daughter]: Novikov 1938, No. 34:121-124; Udmurts [{link to Fuchs No. 88; apparently this is Fokos-Fuchs 1952}; before death, the father tells his sons to find their own brides; the eldest leaves, does not return; the same middle; the youngest is a fool meets a wolf, rides it, the wolf advises to pick up objects lying on the road: a sharpener, a mirror, a comb; with the help of these items, the guy clears his way; threw the sharpener - the mountain is gone, the crest - the forest is gone, the mirror - the sea is gone; this is how he gets to the possession of snakes, kills three-, six- and nine-headed snakes, frees brothers and brides for all three]: Yashin 1965:54-55; Marie (meadow) [=Sabitova 1992:153-158; seven orphan sisters went out; sent the eldest to Wever-Kuva (them: V.-Kuva); the girl invites V. to their house; V. gives fire, says that the sisters have an angry dog, asks to hit her in the leg; going to the sisters, she sings that her tow is like a calf, a spindle is like a rolling pin, a spinning rod is like a millstone; the dog barks, V. is afraid, leaves; so with all the sisters queues (break every next leg of the dog, burn it, scatter the ashes); at the invitation of his younger sister, V. comes, lies down on the stove, with her six sisters, except the youngest; at night, one after another, fall to the floor skulls eaten; V. each time replies that a spinner, spindle, etc., has fallen; in the morning, the youngest offers V. to open her mouth to jump into it; throws boots full of hot coals into V.'s mouth; runs, taking a comb, a bar, a canvas; an abandoned comb turns into a forest; the hare is called to cut, throws an ax into the lake; V. drinks it; the bar is a mountain; the same, the Fox supposedly cuts; canvas is a river, V. drinks; a girl climbs a birch tree, V. cuts; the girl asks her older sister to lower her spindle from the sky; she replies that she sows, then pulls hemp, etc.; at the last moment she descends, the girl goes up to heaven; her sister hides her from her husband; he promises not to eat who has come; the girl stays with her sister]: Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945:23-27; Mordovians (Erzya) [an old man three years in the forest, bent down for a drink, Vedyava grabbed her beard; refuses the stallion, the barn, the mill, demands to give what he does not know at home; the old man comes home to meet his three-year-old daughter; she has grown up, she has one tooth silver; she waxed it, went to Vedyava; towards the old men, teeth like splints, eyes like buckets, did not recognize the girl; then the ugly old women, the girl laughed, looking at them, the wax fell off, old men and old women ran after the girl; she threw a maple scallop (maple forest), a bar (mountain), a brush; a tree grew out of the brush, the girl at him she climbed, old men and old women began to gnaw; the girl asks her sister in the sky to lower the thread; she replies that she will first plow the field, sow hemp; remove hemp; wet the hemp; sleep; hide; let it down the thread, the sister climbed, the tree collapsed; the old men and the old women began to chew on each other; the sister's husband in the sky was a bear, she hid the girl under a pile of garbage; the bear began to eat garbage, did not finish eating, did not find the girl; the sister turned the girl into a fever, hid it in the coals; the bear began to eat the coals, did not finish eating; she hid it in the chest, the bear wants to eat the chest, the sister tells her to take the chest to her parents; on the way, the bear wants open, the girl from the chest: I see, I see; the bear left the chest in the yard, the daughter returned to her parents]: Evseviev 1964, No. 18:150-154 (=Samorodov 1972:262-268, =Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); Kazan Tatars: Gilyazutdinov 2015, No. 272 [many people die, a dzhigit goes for living water; a prisoner in the palace of the king of divas shows him a source of water, gives him a mirror and a bar; a diva chases after him, a dzhigit throws a mirror, it becomes a sea, a bar becomes mountains; divas and horsemen fight, a diva breaks a vessel with a saber, living water pours onto the roots of fir trees, since then conifers are always green]: 266-267; Zamaletdinov 2008b, No. 24 [stepmother tells her husband to take three stepdaughters to the forest; father tied a mallet to the birch tree, she knocks in the wind, the girls think he is still cutting wood; they came to Mustan the Witch; the eldest replies that she slept on her mother's right, the middle one on the left, the youngest on the stove; throws salt into the chimney, the fire goes out, M. cannot make a fire to cook the girls; they drowned daughter M., ran away; they throw a sharpener (mountain), a comb (thicket), a mirror (the sea); they told M. that they swam with a stone tied to their pants; M. drowned; the son of the padishah married the youngest, two viziers to older and middle; the eldest promises to dress the whole city, the middle one promises to feed everyone with the meat of one bull, the youngest promises to give birth to a child with silk hair, pearl teeth, silver ass; the elders did not fulfill promised; they replaced the baby with a puppy, gave the child to the fisherman {then it is clear that there were two children}; the husband ordered his wife to be blinded, his arms and legs broken, put him under the door, did not care about her; the husband talked to the fisherman, found out the truth; he gave a tree leaf to heal the crippled; the sisters and their husbands were hanged]: 203-207; Yarmukhametov 1957 [(=Zamaletdinov 1992:150-162; =2008b, No. 8:77-91; poor dzhigit came to the valley, where home and garden; three pigeons flew in, became horsemen, surprised who touched the dishes, found the young man, left him as a cook, told him not to open the seventh barn; he opened, the girl who was there repeating "Kalfak my" (kalfak - hat); pigeon horsemen say that without this kalfak she cannot be born, and the calfak is a diva; the young man goes after the Kalfak, learning magic and getting a comb, whetstone, mirror; a diva arrives at the palace, becomes a nightingale; another padishah's daughter, kidnapped by a diva, catches him, leaves him in her room; he takes a human form, finds a kalfak, flies away ; throws a comb (forest), a whetstone (mountains), a mirror (sea); hides at the bottom of a bucket carried by a girl; a diva tells to pour out water, a young man turns into grains, a diva into a rooster, the last grain into a hawk, kills rooster; gives young pigeons a kalfak, their girlfriend recovers; advises the hero to ask for a thin horse, a rusty sword and an old whip as a reward; when leaving, he sticks a knife - if it rust, he is in trouble; young man returns to her mother, tells her to marry the padishah's daughter, who orders to create a palace, a golden bridge, a garden; at the wave of a whip, the devils do everything; the padishah is ready to give his daughter, but she has just been kidnapped by a diva; a girl with Kalfak, who became the wife of her elder pigeon brother, tells the diva to fly to the island, returns with her, stops drinking wine on the way, falls asleep; two warriors chopped him to pieces, and she was taken by ship to her father, they said that they saved his daughter; the pigeon brothers revived the victim, brought him home; he comes to the wedding of the padishah's daughter, she recognizes him by her ring; the deceiving warriors were executed]: 130-144; Bashkirs ["A long time ago, when a goat was a colonel and a ram was an officer, they say an old man and an old woman lived"; an old man and an old woman go to visit, tell their four daughters not to put out the fire and did not offend the cat; when the cat asks for porridge, the girls hit her on the head with a spoon; the fire immediately goes out; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, ask the old woman for fire; she agrees give, tells them to collect ash in the hem and sprinkle it on the road - she will come to their house for the night along it; she comes to their house in the evening, eats her younger sister at night (the old woman was ubyr-ebi); the next day she comes again, eats another sister; two surviving girls run away from home with a scallop, mirror and sharpener; old woman goes in pursuit; older sister throws a sharpener, a huge mountain grows, over which the old woman can hardly climb; the girl throws her scallop, a dense forest appears; the old woman makes her way through it; the girl throws a mirror, a big one spills lake; an old woman screams from the shore, asks how the girls swam; they say: tying stones to their necks; the old woman ties a stone and drowns; the youngest sister asks for water, the eldest warns that she is here You can't drink; the youngest drinks water from a hole from a goat's hoof, turns into a goat; the sister goes on with her, marries a merchant; his older wife begins to get sick, the healer advises to eat the heart goats; the goat tells the sister to save her bones; the goat is eaten, the sister puts the seeds in a cloth, they turn into a bird; the bird sings at the market, the merchant gives it a piece of butter; she flies up to her sister, puts oil in her mouth; the bird flies up to the needle merchant, sings again; he gives her a pack of needles; the merchant's elder wife hears the bird singing, opens her mouth; the bird throws her needles, a woman dies]: 1989, No. 14:92-95.

Turkestan. Kyrgyz [an old man and an old woman have seven goats and three daughters; the old man is angry with his daughters: they drank all the milk from the goats, he and the old woman did not get it; he tells the old woman to get rid of their daughters; finds currant bushes, brings home a few twigs with berries; daughters eat, want more; the old man offers to go with him for berries, tells the old woman to make three leather buckets without a bottom; takes daughters to currant bushes, suggests filling the buckets with berries as long as the brushwood is chopped; fits the ratchet like an ax sounds, leaves, migrates with the old woman and goats; one of the girls discovers the absence of a bottom in the buckets, patches up with branches and grass, the buckets fill; the girls go to the sound of an ax, find a ratchet, hurry home; in search of parents, they search the neighborhood, stumble upon a house, who is an exhausted girl; he explains that the old cannibal woman ate everyone and keeps her to drink blood; the girls run to the station, find their father's whetstone there, throw him, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find a comb at the station, which turns into a forest; then the mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they are on the other side, girls; swam across, tying trousers on her ankles and filling them with sand; the cannibal follows the advice and drowns; the girls are found by a childless khan with 40 wives, asks what they have skills; older: can feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress many people; youngest: give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; Khan is the youngest, marries the youngest; when the wife is going to give birth, the khan goes hunting, demands to send him a messenger with news; 40 wives hire a witch, who throws the children in a box into the river, replaces them with puppies; Two messengers arrive to Khan, the first speaks about the birth of children, the second speaks of puppies; Khan tells his wife and puppies to be sealed in a bucket and hung in a tree; the girls' parents live on the bank of this river; an old woman discovers that goats come with an empty udder, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters and now drinks all the milk; the old man watches the goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck in the box goats; old people bring children, they slaughter one goat in joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life is getting better, they set up a golden pole in the yard; the old khan, hunting, stumbles upon old people with children, complains that even lonely old people have children, but he does not; he misses at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason, accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; a witch comes to children, tells the young man that it would be good to tie a golden horse to a golden pole; the sister dissuades his brother, who is stubborn, then the sister teaches how to master the horse; the brother gets it; the khan again meets children; the witch also advises finding the Sapan-Tash stone, which makes wishes come true; then you can get subjects, form a khanate and make the young man's old father khan; sister first dissuades, then teaches his brother; he takes possession of a stone and the girl he marries; with the help of a stone, the twins have subjects, a khanate is created, an old goat herd becomes khan, and across the river Khan's estate with 40 wives is being built a golden bridge; brother and sister visit the khan, bring him a cart of gold, ask for a bucket hanging on a tree in exchange; the khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to the twins; the bucket is a half-dead mother of twins, she is brought to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission to adopt his sister, gets to know his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to to immense horses, a witch is also executed; a young man with a golden head and a silver ass becomes the khan of two khanates]: Ruslan Doutaliev, personal message. May 17, 2020: retelling the audio recording of the fairy tale "Zheti Echkilu & # 1199; Abyshka Jean Kempir" (Old Man and Old Woman with Seven Goats) performed by J. Alymbayeva, Department of Manuscripts and Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, date of recording September 10, 1984, inventory No. 1a (2), recording time 31 minutes); salara [the old woman was returning with daughter from the market; met an old woman whose face turned into a wolf's face; she ate a woman and took her daughter with her; the girl was forced to work for this old woman; when she went to buy firewood, she saw the calf and told him everything; he promised to come for her and told her to take with her a comb, a bizi {no translation} and a sharpener; at midnight he picked her up from the old woman's house; the old woman rushed in pursuit; the girl threw the comb, it turned into a forest; the old woman gnawed at it and broke it; the girl threw her bizi, bamboo thickets appeared; the old woman gnawed at them too; the girl threw the sharpener, the mountain grew; the old woman climbed over it; the calf told the girl that she needed to kill him in order to escape; the girl disagreed; the calf turned into a lion and ate the old woman]: Ma et al. 2001, No. 3.3:29-32.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tuvans: Vatagin 1971, No. 11 (Dzun-Khemchik District) [the boy raised two golden eagles, received two dogs from his father's friend, began to understand their language; when he returned, he did not find a yurt; where his mother slept, he found a needle and a fragment of a crest, where the father is a whetstone; a six-headed mangys Kalchaa-Mergen came out of 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 was sitting 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 it further; the fox offered to cut for it, hit the axe with the blunt side, threw it into the lake; K. drank the lake again, sharpened his axe; the boy asked the crows to call his golden eagles, they took it away a boy on wings to his father; he gave him the name Deer-Møge (Heavenly Strongman); Cher-Aldy Khan gives his daughter to someone who wins archery, horse racing, wrestling; D. wins, kills in duel K., gets married]: 112-117; Potanin 1883, No. 84 (b. Buren-Gol) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; he turned into Jalbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised his three daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters were sent buckets without a bottom, sent to pick berries, migrated; after filling holes in the buckets, the girls picked berries; they saw a stranger in the yurt, realized that it was J.; went out into the yard, ran away; threw the comb (turned into a forest), a bar (into a rock); J. cut the road with an ax; a beaver by the river asks the girls what his tail, ribs, teeth are; they praise him, he carries them; J. says they worms; Beaver tells him to pick up stones, drops him in the middle of the river, J. drowned; Beaver told his sisters to climb three spruce trees; three fellows passed by, married them; older sisters promise to sew clothes, cover; the youngest is to give birth to a boy with a golden head and a silver neck; the elders throw the boy into the lake, replace him with a mole; he bites his returning husband; the husband breaks his wife's arms and legs, gouging out eyes; she is left alone; she consistently maims three rats that treat their paws and eyes with grass; a woman is treated with the same grass, recovers; cannot lure her son out of the lake; catches for the third time, leaving a bow and arrow on the shore; gives his milk, tears into his eyes, he recognizes her as his mother; his name is Yer-Saru; seven geese are flying, and when they scream, his mother cuts off her ear, nose, lip; E. shoots, the arrow returns with a human finger; E. meets a khan's shepherd named Buzakai Tarakai, who refuses to marry E. his daughter; E. kills him, takes his form; Khan tells him to catch a calf, E. cannot, the khan beats him; tells him to kill the cows, the cow is not given, E. says, "Milk", the milk milks itself; the khan orders to lick the soles of his boots, went to bed; E. smeared them with sour cream , the dogs are licked; gives seven daughters to Jety-tas (Seven Bald), but the youngest marries the imaginary B. (i.e. E.); she is more beautiful, only there is no index finger; E. 1) brings a mountain goat's father-in-law, whose outer meat is bitter, the inner meat is sweet (and the second time vice versa); 2) brings three horses Tengri Khan (follows them into the sky along the rainbow); 3) Khan orders to bring a foal, which Khan Garida steals from him every year; E. knocks off the tails of the foal with an arrow and Khan-Garide hides; The Jetytas tell the Khan that they have knocked off their tails; Khan Garide asks E. not to kill him, gives the entire herd of foals and carries his fluff as a sign that he has been killed; the Jetytas are digging a hole, E. falls into it; his horse brings Mengu-kyz, who makes a rope out of her braids, pulls E. out; he returns to Khan in his true heroic appearance, shows his hidden tails; whose An arrow fired into the sky will kill the shooter, falling, that liar; the Jetytas are killed with their arrows; E. and his wife visit their mother; the horse kicked her and killed her; she was buried]: 341-348; darkhats: Neklyudov et al. 1906 (Somon Khujirt, Uburkhangai aimag): Western 22.08.2006, No. WS 30011 [the husband of the beautiful Khatan-Chingis was a wonderful Hargaldai Mergen; he left home with a caravan; a black mangas with wide appeared shoulders (?) to grab HC; her mother gave her daughter a black horse, a sharpener, a comb, a broom, told her to run, throw a broom, telling her to become a dark black thicket; the mangas mowed the thicket, HC threw the sharpener , it became a black rock, the mangas punched a hole in it; the black horse said, "My black horse, become a mountain that a black mangas can't climb!" ; the black rock grew; Hansha's husband Hargaldai-Mergen followed the khansha and cut off all the heads of the fifteen-headed black bald mangas; they had a beautiful son], 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 be picked up by the lama mangas; the foal orders to take the comb of mother H., the dogs Khasar and Basar; the abandoned comb became a thicket, the lama mangas got lost in it; the girl flew into the gray yurt to the old woman, tells her not to say that she is 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]; Sanzheev 1931, No. 7 [the young man Tseiben forgot his two gold-silver ankles at the former camp, returned for them in his own eight-legged horse, there he saw a mangyska, grabbed his ankles; the mangysk pursuer consistently cuts off the horse's 8 legs, its back, front, head, C. climbed the golden aspen; Fox twice suggests cutting aspen instead of mangysky, seals her eyes; C. runs away on a goby, he splashes droppings into the eyes of the mangysk; C. finds a fragment of his father's sharpener, a comb, mother's needle; throws behind, a forest, a mountain, a river appear; C. replies to the mangysk that he crossed the river, tying stones to his feet, the mangyska drowns; the goby tells him to stab him, C. refuses; tells him to kill him on it red louse, dies immediately; in the morning at this place a yurt, woman and herds]: 96-98; Khalha Mongols [=1962:92-95; the mare gave birth to a foal three times as large as herself; he tells the owner's daughter he wants it steal the mangas; tells you to take the sharpener and the comb; the girl throws the comb not behind, but in front of her, it becomes a boiling sea; the horse jumps over it; the girl throws the sharpener, it turns into a hurricane with a shower; marries the khan's son; the husband violates the prohibition not to shake the horse, leaves; the khan sends a letter to his son that his wife has given birth; he is intercepted by a mangas; the horse takes the mistress, dies, tells him to tear four golden hairs out of his bangs, say, Let the horse's legs become gold, silver, pearl, coral trees, and the body of the sea; the woman finds herself on a golden tree on the island; mangas chews on it, she moves to silver, etc.; gnaws through two hair, two dogs kill mangas, mother and son find themselves in the steppe; gnawed by the fourth, her husband came on her horse, brought it home]: Mikhailov 1967:107-111; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia (Chahars, Khoshun Shand) [the rich man watered his herd of horses from the well and saw something like a liver in the watering deck; he took it out and began to rock; she turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus-a monster with twelve heads; the mangus said, "Will you give me your herd of eight hundred heads, or would you prefer to give it to me your son? If you do not comply with my request, I will swallow you"; the rich man decided to give his son and replied: "My son likes to play ram dice. It has one gold and one silver bone. Before I migrate, I will try to forget his two talus bones and leave them in the place of his nomadic. The son in the new place will want to play with his bones and will look for them, and they are forgotten in the old place. I'll make him go there to pick them up. That's when you'll grab him"; the rich man's family migrated to a new place; the boy asked his father where the bones were; the rich man replied that they were left on an old nomad, told his son to go pick them up on horseback about eight legs ; the horse told the boy to take with him a comb, a mirror, a bar, a bag of lice and a bag of nits; the boy listened, set off; arrived in the nomadic and saw a humpback old man sitting near the bones; the boy guessed it was a mango, grabbed the bones and rushed away; the mangus chased him; threw a stick at the horse and tore off one leg; the horse told the boy to drop his bag with lice; the boy did it, the mangus fell behind, busy collecting and destroying lice; after the mangus continued to pursue, threw the stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the boy threw the bag with nits, the mangus stayed a little late, busy collecting and destroying nits; then continued his pursuit, threw a stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the horse told the boy to throw the bar; the boy he did this, a rock appeared in front of the mangus; he overcame it, continued to pursue it; once again took out his horse with a stick and tore off his leg; the horse told the boy that he had thrown the comb; the boy I did this, a dense forest grew in front of the mangus; when the mangus crossed it, the boy threw the mirror; it turned into an ocean, the mangus drowned in it; the horse said: "Your parents are rich people, but they are bigger they care for and love their livestock than their children. When you get home, you call your father "Wolf's Heart," your mother, "Wet Eyes," and your sister, "Between Two Fires (Letters. in ticks)"; the boy returned home, began to call his parents and sister as the horse ordered]: Todayeva 1981:102-104; the Mongors [Black Khan and White Khan agree that if both wives give birth boys who will go to school together; Bely has a daughter, but he replies that a son; the daughter is raised with the son of Black Khan; it is increasingly difficult for her to hide her gender; the mother sews clothes with lots of buttons so that others can swim while the imaginary boy unzips them; Black Khan realizes the deception, comes with his son to pick up Bely's daughter, takes her away; as the chase approaches, the girl consistently throws a comb, a whetstone, a piece of iron; they turn into a wooded, stone, iron mountain; the people of the White Khan overcome obstacles; the girl orders to stretch the wicker the net, the road disappears, the White Khan stops the chase; families reconcile, live together]: Todayeva 1973, No. 9:277-282.

Western Siberia. The Nenets [two women live together, one has two daughters; the childless woman asked the other to go to tear the grass on the insoles, stabbed her, fried it, ate it, left her head until another time; she told the daughters of the victim that the mother is tearing the grass and returning, went to bed at the exit from the house herself; the eldest girl found her mother's head; realized that the childless would eat them too; leaves two birds in the plague, and ran with her sister; after 7 For days, the cannibal woke up, set off in pursuit; the eldest throws a whetstone, a river with high mountains appears on both banks; after 7 days the river has dried up, the cannibal chases again; the eldest girl threw her chair (mountain for 7 days); the comb (dense forest for 7 days); the girls run to the freaky, there are 7 crows; the eldest politely asks about the way to people; the crow sends to blue sea, there you have to ask 7 seagulls; the eldest is polite and with seagulls, the seagull sends her to the strait where the old woman has; the old woman asks what her face, arms, legs, etc. are; the girl praises her (her face is like the sun, arms and legs are thick and shiny, etc.); the old woman screams, the beaver comes, transports the girls across the strait; the cannibal comes running, scolds the old woman, crows and seagulls (the old woman's face is like an animal's ass, crows and seagulls pecked carrion, etc.); an old woman calls a beluga, a cannibal sits on her sharp back, a beluga drowns her; the girls ask the old woman how to get to people; she teaches her how to find a copper boat near the shore, she herself will bring it; but let the younger sister not pick up knives, axes and drills, of which there are many at the bottom of the boat, otherwise she will die and the boat stops; when you reach the goal, you must tell the boat to return; after crossing the seas, the boat swam up the river; in one place two larches close branches above the water; the younger sister took an ax to cut down the branch, but fell dead and the boat stopped; the older sister sent the boat back, became beat the tambourine and ask the youngest where to bury her; she tells me not to leave her on the fir - people will go, I'll be frightened; in the birch tree - the same; in the spruce tree - the children will break branches; the eldest is tired of carrying the youngest's body, left in a wolf's lair under a birch tree; she goes on, sees colorful and white deer grazing; two men came, the eldest with a white deer put the girl on his sledge, brought her to the camp, married her; one day I went to look for the missing deer; at the wolf's lair I heard the howling of cubs and the girl crying; told his wife, who realized that it was her sister; they killed the cubs, brought their sister, put them by the fire, and she woke up; married a younger man who had a motley deer]: Castrén 1857, No. 2:164-169; southern Mansi (Kondinsky District) [Mosh-ne has a boy and girl and Por-ne too; both go to tear grass for insoles, P. offers to roll down the mountain, kills M. by riding it with iron skis; M.'s children see their mother's intestines; run to her sister; P. does not tell another Por-ne to kill M.'s children, she will kill herself when she returns; she accidentally kills P.'s children, thinks they are M.'s children, and M.'s children are hiding; they run, throw a comb (forest), a bar (stone mountain), matches (fire); three P. , one of them became friends with M.'s children; M.'s son pricked his finger with an awl, he was buried; girl P. leaned down for a drink, girl M. began to drown her, she had to give her sable clothes; P. sits in a sledge, drawn by black, she married the mayor (Usyn-Otyr-Oika), M. went into a sledge with white deer, went beyond Tonton-Oika; went to remember her brother, found him alive with his wife, they gave a lot of deer; P. hid sun, the Hare promises that the sun will appear, it is back]: Kuzakova 1994:110-112); Northern Mansi: Kupriyanova 1960 [Mos-ne and Por-ne live together, both have two children - a girl and a boy; P. calls M. for grass for insoles, offers a ride down the mountain; kills M. by riding on M.'s back with iron skis; M.'s children find their mother's intestines in the grass, run to her sister; P. tells another Por-ne kill M.'s children, but she kills P.'s children herself; M.'s children run, throw a comb, a whetstone, matches, a thicket, a mountain, a fire appear; M.'s children sit on the bed, that falls apart, three Por-ne appear; one made friends with them, moves on with them; the boy pricked his finger with an awl, died; P. sat in a sledge with whites (this is the Ushing-Oyr-Oiki sledge), and M. with black ones deer (Tonton-Oiki sledge), come to town; M. finds his brother, he kisses his wife; leaves with him, does not wait for P.; she hides the sun; the hare says it will reappear; grandfather tells P. to let go sun, light again]: 109-112 (=Lukina 1990, No. 128:334-336); Rombandeeva 2005, No. 41 (Khoshlog village, written by the author from her mother) [Mosne and Porne live, each with a daughter and son; P. calls to collect firewood, invites M. to be the first to ride wooden skis, presses her with her iron skis; daughter M. looks in, sees P.'s children asking them to eat M.'s eyes, P. promises them the eyes and ears of M.'s children; daughter M. plants brother in the back, runs, throws a crest (thicket) behind, flint (flame to the sky), whetstone (mountain); P. could not climb the mountain; M.'s daughter eats cloudberries, does not pay attention to brother, who at this time falls into the ground; daughter M. comes to the lake, where daughter P. invites her to swim, takes her clothes, gives her measles; daughter M. asks to return her bag in it clothes are better than before; Toyton-Toika's son and Usyn-Otyr-Toika's son shoot at the arrow, daughter P. mistakenly grabs TT's arrow, marries him, daughter M. marries WOT's son; daughter M. goes to a wake for her brother, where she left him; there is a house, a barn; a woman tells the dogs to lick ice and snow from their man; M.'s daughter sees her brother, he married Misna; when she tried to pick him out of the ground, she poked him in the eye, now alone no eyes; daughter M. was given a wagon of deer; she arrives where her daughter P. left; daughter M. replies that she was given an iron chain to encircle the city by her father-in-law, a copper cauldron, and white deer; daughter P. says she was given an iron chain a bast rope, half a clay pot, a magpie, the crucian carp was harnessed, clothes were given from the bark; asks her husband to make an ice-hole, otherwise the magpie, the crucian carp will die; they went into the ice-hole, the sledges got up; the bast rope breaks; you can't go far in half the pot; M.'s little son says that his uncle's arrow in the house bounces off with a ringing sound, his grandfather's father with a knock; the father of daughter M.'s husband is offended, he is at war against her brother; daughter P. advises to remove the sun and moon from the sky; daughter M. takes off, attaches it to the sledge, it turns dark, her father-in-law cannot go to fight; says he was joking, daughter M. returns the stars to heaven]: 289-301; Eastern Khanty (R.wah) [Lisa and Hare live together, both have children; Lisa offers sledding down the mountain, goes first against desire, Lisa runs over, breaks her back; Hare's son and daughter see Lisa feeding with the meat of their mother of their children, Bunnies offer to eat their children; they run, throw a comb, whetstone, flint, they turn into a thicket, a mountain, a fire; the fox lags behind; while the sister eats cloudberry, brother falls into the ground; (hereinafter referred to as the Moss woman); hits the stump, from there the Por woman jumps out, offers to swim; puts on rich fur clothes M., gives M . his measles; in the city of M. manages to pick up the arrow of the son of an Urban Village Old Man, P. has to take the arrow of Tonton's old man's son (Tonton-Oika is a poor man, servant, or cunning); they marry accordingly; P. weaves a rope, which was enough to wrap half the city, M. - the whole city three times; M. comes to the place where his brother disappeared; there is a house, a bear enters, takes off his skin - this is a brother; sends a herd of deer to her sister]: Lukina 1990, No. 28:101-104; Northern Khanty: Aksyanova et al. 2005, No. 1 (b. Son) [Porne has a daughter, Moshne has a daughter and a son; P. calls M. to roll down the mountain, puts a knife on the mountain, carries the corpse home, eats; promises her daughter that she will eat M.'s children; M.'s children run away, throw a firestone (fire to sky), comb (forest), sharpener (river); P. cannot cross it; contrary to the ban, the brother drinks from a puddle, sinks into the ground, his sister has time to grab only his eye; touches rotten birch stump, a new P. comes out from under it; offers to swim, puts on the girl's clothes, gives her hers; both come to the house, P. marries Voshan-Kurtan's son, an old man, young M. for her son Tonton- old man; daughters-in-law go home; where his brother is gone, M. sees a house, there is a woman; a brother comes, M. gives him his eye; sending his sister home, his brother tells him not to look back; she looked back when her eyes fell, those deer are gone, the rest are following her; argish P. is not carried by deer, but by fish, she lets them go into the lake; at night P. puts a nail in her husband's ear, he dies; M. hears P. singing about it, says; nail they extract, the man comes to life, P. was torn apart by deer]: 236-239; Steinitz 2014, No. 28 (Sherkal dialect) [husband and wife bought their son and daughter a toy - an iron horse; the horse destroyed the city and killed spouses; the children are hiding under the floor; the horse asks where they are; the comb, the flint, the skin scraper do not answer, it breaks them; leaves; the cow tells me to sit on it, takes it to the sea, tells her to slaughter it there, wrap her guts, get into her stomach; the horse chases, the sister throws flint (fire), the crest (forest), the whetstone (the mountain), the flint again (the horse burned down); brother with a cow was killed by a sister, woke up in the house, there is a lot of food; they live on an island; a dog jumps out of a ball of foam; tells his brother that his sister will send him for fox milk; sister sends him from milk will recover; the fox gave milk: if my sister does not drink, give it to my cub; my sister did not drink, the fox drank; the same with the blue fox; the dog to the young man: the sister hid the iron horse under your bed lie down on the side; next time, milk and baby wolverine, you have to lie back to bed, and under the bunk beds there will be an iron horse; then a wolf; a bear; a horse under the threshold; in front of the threshold; sister sends to the house is behind sevenfold locks; there the old man lets the animals in, closes the door; the young man returns alone; the sister tells him to wash in the bathhouse, and then the iron horse will kill him; the bird reports three times that the animals are digging underground passage; animals came, killed an iron horse; brother nailed his sister's hands to the floor, vessels near his eyes: if necessary, a brother must fill his vessel with tears, and if an iron horse, then hers; brother married on the king's daughter; took his sister to her; she put the tooth of an iron horse in his bed, his brother died; he was buried in an iron coffin; the animals dug, broke it; the dog found a crow's nest: bring the grass of life, otherwise I'll eat eggs; the crow brought, the dog crushed one egg, restored it with grass; revived the young man; he let the animals go, left only the dog; tied his sister to two sledges, tore it with horses; threw one leg into the forest, from which a marsh willow grew, the other grew up a hill, a forest tree grew; brother lives well (with his wife)]: 169-185; Nikolaeva 1999, No. 1 (Obdorsk) [Mos woman and Por woman live together, each has a daughter and a son ; in the spring, P. leads M. to drink water, drowns in the river, gets fresh, brings meat home; daughter M. tells her younger brother that their mother has been eaten; hears P. promises his children that they will get young fat, not old; daughter M. takes an iron flint, whetstone, comb, brother, runs away, leaving two birds under the canopy so that P. thinks that the children are there; P. chases children; daughter M. throws a comb ( thicket) , whetstone (rock), flint (wall of fire, P. stops persecution); magpie, crow tells children not to spend the night in the forest; brother feels bad, sister is preparing for the night, brother is dead; sister buried his daughter P. jumped out of the larch stump; they went together, saw a white and black sleigh, a white and black man; a white arrow fell next to M.'s daughter, a black arrow fell next to his daughter M. daughter P.; daughter P. wants to become a white wife, promises to give birth to golden children, but black did not let her in; both gave birth to a son; daughter P. says that M.'s son has eyes and ears on the back of his head; white looks - there is golden child; they took daughter P. to the forest, threw her into the fire; daughter M. went to the tree where she buried her brother; there is a beautiful house, the brother went out to meet her in fur clothes; everything is fine]: 133-137; chum salmon: Nikolaev 1985 [1) as in Voskoboynikov, Menovshchikov; seven brothers; having learned that a person cries when he sees brothers on earth, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone and a horse; catching up with a man, the devil tears off the horse's leg; 2 ) The Sun takes his brother to heaven, Hosyadam eats his sister; the boy misses his sister, the Sun gives him a comb, a whetstone , a horse; H. takes the form of a sister, treats his brother with his horse's foot; he puts his horse's leg, runs away; more about the persecution and the two halves of the man]: 44; Nikolaeva 2006:123-126 [brother and sister are orphans, brother wants to see the world; Sunwoman raises him to the sky with his hands and rays; he wants to visit his sister, the Sun gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends him on a winged horse; Hosyadam ate her sister, took her form; she is outwardly friendly to her brother, but he sees that she is cooking his horse's back leg; he snatches out his leg, hastily attaches the horse, jumps away; throws a whetstone, which turns into a mountain, X. gnaws through it with his teeth; the crest is the forest, H. makes its way; the Sun and X. grab a person by the different legs, tear it apart; the Sun got half without a heart; a person will live for a week, die again; the Sun says they will see each other once a year on the longest day; throws a man into the dark half of the sky, this is the Month], 126-127 [for a grandson to learn to swim in cold water, a girl tells him how one boy decided take Hosyaam away from people; the Sun gave him a dewdrop, a whetstone, a crest; H. chased, he threw these objects one by one, a river formed (the boy himself swam across it), a mountain, a forest; H. got bogged down in the thicket]; Sangi 1989 (recording by Prokofieva; quail. Alekseenko 2001, No. 5:58-60) [brother goes further away from the plague where his sister lives; the Sunwoman takes him to heaven; a week later he asks him to let him go; she gives him a whetstone and a comb, sends him down on a winged horse; during this time Hosyadam ate his sister, took her form; he realizes this when he sees her cooking the leg she has ripped off his horse; he sticks his leg back, rides his horse away, throws a whetstone , a crest, they turn into a mountain, a forest; X. overcomes obstacles; the Sun grabs him by one leg, X. after the other, breaks him in half; the Sun gets a part without a heart, she puts coal instead of her heart, revives a person, but he dies again and again; she sends it to the other side of the sky, turns it into a Month, sees him once a year, they see each other's eyes; The month is cold because without a heart]: 142-144.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska, Western 1928) [two sisters dug sarana, picked up a baby; when they returned, they see the plague as a cauldron on fire, two whitefish cooking in it; watched a man turn two of his worms into whitefish; filled the baby with melted they ran with tin; the giant Mani in a tin belt chased them; the eldest threw a suede scraper (mountains, M. made saddles in them), a whetstone (the cliff, M. split), jagged chuchun, i.e. round suede scraper (forest, M. threw off his tin belt, crawled), comb (stones, mountains, forest), M. was lost in them by an ant]: Osharov 1936a: 19-21 (= 1936b, No. 15:280-281), Baikal Evenks (Baikal region, p. Karama) [two girls went to pick berries, returned - a baby in a shaky baby; sings that if a good woman took him, he would become her kind husband, if her husband took it, he would become a good woman for him; the girls agreed out loud say that the child is beautiful, pass him through a boiling pot of porridge, put him in the cauldron; ran away; the monster is catching up; the eldest threw a handkerchief - the sea (the monster ran to get the boat, swam across); the crest - thicket (the monster ran after the sword, cut through); a bar, it fell in front (mountain); the youngest became a fur, crawled into the hole, the eldest became an ant, her ass was stuck; the youngest became pull, but the monster ate the ass, the youngest returned home alone]: Titov 1936, No. 9:179-180.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nivkhi: Singers 2010, No. 14 [7 sisters live alone, find a baby under the snow; the youngest suddenly came in, saw the baby stand up with the cradle and lapping a boiling brew; the sisters run away, milk is chasing, the eldest throws ash (fog), comb (forest), sharpener (rock); milk gnawed on the rock, the sisters did not gnaw through the old woman's house, she consistently fights with her sisters, Kills six, the youngest runs away, comes to a single man; she is pregnant, tells her husband not to come for 7 days; he came a little earlier, the children are already playing, but the youngest child is humpback; sons hear the mother cries, she told them about her sisters; brothers come to the old woman, the youngest drowns her in a barrel; a barrel of water and the old woman drags her to the tree; sable hunters came to the tree; the youngest says he wants small, out of great need; the female broke off, the barrel fell, crushed all those hunters]: 74-82; Sangi 1974 [beauty rejects suitors; leaves her parents to live alone; one day, collecting cloudberries, she sees a woman, then a man; then finds a baby; gives a breast, he bites her; she spies on him, sees him get out of the cradle, devour yukola, he has long teeth; the girl runs, the baby follows her, Mother screams, give me a breast! She throws a comb, then a whetstone, they turn into a forest, a mountain; by the river, a girl climbs a poplar; a baby gnaws on it; she asks a tree to fall on top of her head on the other shore; crosses the river, the current carries away the poplar; the father tells her that she was punished for her pride]: 46-49; ulchi [the old man tells his daughter to look in his head; makes a tambourine out of lice skin; promises give her daughter to someone who guesses what the tambourine is made of; two giants threaten the maids to reveal the secret; the girl is forced to go with the giants; asks them to wait outside for her to clean them stone house; there is a lot of resin - this is their food; the girl cuts a horse out of paper, rides it away; after this one gets tired, she consistently carves out three more horses; throws a bar (became rock), an awl (became an iron net); another block (a stone pillar); she climbs a pole, the giants try to knock it down; with the blood of the last horse, she creates an image of a house, a barn, wraps herself in it skin; wakes up in the house; the young man she wanted to marry came to her; she shot the boat of the father of giants, which is missing; the woman lives with her husband and son]: Sunik 1985, No. 5:131-133; Udege : Lebedeva et al. 1998, No. 32 [the younger brother goes to look for his wife, the sister gives half a crest and a whetstone; turns into a hare, hides in a tree by the road; on sledges pulled respectively by wild boars, old man Kandá, his wife, their eldest daughter Emende, pass by pigs, piglets; the youngest Belé Chiha herself drags sledges with human bones; the man marries C., everyone once she teaches what to do; 1) K. will hit her feet with a spear (a person puts a dead owl there in advance, a spear covered in blood); with a hot spear (puts a dead hare in its place); 3) will give poisoned food (person quietly puts her in an angelica, e. ate it, died); 4) K. and the old woman shamanate, preparing to kill a man; he puts seven funny idols around the fire, K. and his wife laugh, his son-in-law and C. run away; throw half a crest (thicket), whetstone (mountains); K. and his wife could not overcome the mountains, the man with C. returned to his sister]: 235-241; Podmaskin, Kireyeva 2010 [an evil spirit flies into the mouth of Ege, the eldest of seven sisters; sisters create figures, they jump, grimacing; when E. laughs, sisters see a man on her teeth; sisters run away, E. tells the ski belts to break, catches up, swallows her sisters; the youngest escapes, she had fasteners with an iron chain; throws a sharpener (mountain), a comb (thicket), ash (fog; it takes E. a year to overcome each obstacle); the old woman lets the girl cross the bridge, hides the bridge; E. demands it, the old woman puts it, in the middle he collapsed, E. fell into the rapids; says that her hair will become mud, her teeth will become boulders, bones - with tree creases, blood with mosquitoes and midges]: 156-157; Nanai [Yangoki's girl went into the barn for a yukola, dropped a jug hanging under the roof, it crashed, and an old man like a balloon jumped out Boko Mafa ; said that he promised to thank whoever released him for the first 20 years and eat it for the next 20 years; but he could only eat it after sunrise; I let go until morning; she made a straw scarecrow, dressed in her clothes, left it in the house, took a chair, a comb, a sharpener, ran; crossed the river on the ice, melted it with her tears; BM rolled to the upper reaches, went around the source and returned; I threw comb (thicket, BM gnawed), chair (fire, BM flooded), sharpener (huge mountain, Y. hid inside, you can still hear her singing from the crevice)]: Medvedev 1992:244-247.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Chaplino) [girls pick berries; the giant catches them, puts them in her camley, leaves them on the tree; Ermine, the Hare refuse to help; the fox tells the tree to bend down frees girls; they fill the camley with berries; one girl gets stuck in her sleeve; the giantess takes berries for human eyes; brings the girl home, adopts; two men come, the girl runs with them; throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; draws a line on the ground, a river appears; the giantess drinks it, bursts; metal tools and utensils fall from her womb]: Rubtsova 1954, No. 5:117-120; St. Lawrence [the girls roll down the Giantess's dugout like a hill; she shoves them into her park, hangs them on a pole, tells him to straighten up; the birds refuse to help, the Fox tells the pole to bend down tells the girls to put moss instead; the youngest fell asleep and stayed in the park; while ripping open the park, the Giantess cuts off the girl's finger; agrees to take her in her head; there are mice, beetles, squirrels; The giantess tells them to gnaw, the girl just pretends to throw them away; the fox pretends to have blood from her nose, as if all the buckets are full of blood, in fact they contain red clay; the Giantess agrees empty the buckets at the top of the mountain; the Fox is on her heels like a spirit, pushing the Giantess off the cliff; when she goes to bed, takes out her eyes, tells her to guard; the Giantess comes up, her eyes jump, she calls, the Fox is still sleeping; The giantess bites her eyes, ties animal vertebrae to the Fox's tail; The fox runs, then realizes what's going on; makes new eyes out of kaavlaks berries, they are good, but fall out of the eye sockets; then from berries aamaks; they fit, but mow a little, since then slightly cross-eyed; releasing the girl from the dugout, the Giantess puts her in a bag, ties a rope to it; the girl's two brothers release her, put her in a bag a walrus skull, run away; the Giantess pursues; the girl throws a whetstone, it turns into a mountain; runs a river on the ground with a stump of her finger; answers the Giantess that she crossed on a shell; The giantess cannot; then she advises to drink the river; the Giantess's belly is inflated, the girl offers to dance on the mountain; the Giantess bursts, she makes iron pans and boilers]: Slwooko 1979:14-20.

Subarctic. Tagish [the girl went for berries, she was taken away by the Bears; her aunt, who had long been kidnapped by the Bears, tells her to run, otherwise she will turn into a bear; gave a whetstone, a comb, explained that do; girl runs away, throws a comb (thicket), a vessel of water (lake; twice), a whetstone (rock); bears can't climb, fall into the water; a girl approaches salt water , offers himself to marry the fisherman if he saves her from bears; points his stick at bears, they die; explains that his monstrous wife (or mother) kills real ones; she cannot be looked at; the girl spies on her swallowing a seal, it gets stuck in the monstrous woman's throat, she pulls out the girl's eyes; the husband kills the monster with a spear, cuts it apart, throws it into the water, the pieces turn into crabs; he puts her eyes in the girl's eye sockets; she wants to go home, her husband brings her to her parents, visits her every year]: McClelland 2007, No. 58:302-309.

NW Coast. Hyda (Skidgate) [the chief's daughter picks berries, steps into bear droppings, swears; bears take her away; in a bear house, a woman half turned to stone warns her not to eat food bears, bury their excrement; instead of them, the kidnapped woman leaves brass bracelets; the grizzly believe that her excrement is copper, forgive her swearing; the stone woman gives her a comb, her hair, oil, whetstone; the kidnapped flees from her grizzly husband, abandoned objects turn into a windbreak, a thicket, a lake, a cliff; she promises copper to a man in the boat; the boat bites off the heads of her pursuers - wolves and bears; the new husband tells him to look in his head; there are frogs, the woman bites her nails instead; at home, the husband tells me to look at his first wife when she eats; the woman sees her swallowing a whole cat; a piece gets stuck in her throat, she dies; the husband cuts and powders the body, revives his wife; the new wife gives birth to a son; see the M21 motive]: Swanton 1905a: 336-338; bellacula: Boas 1898 [ the woman was picking berries, got lost, the Stump took her to him, married her; the woman who grew into the floor of his house gives her an awl, tells them to pick up the toads that Stump has in her hair instead of lice, bite her nails, pretending what toads bite through; says that Stump's night pot is his watchman; gives a urine bubble, a comb, a whetstone; a woman drills holes under the whisk; when the pot screams, his voice is weak, but Stump still hears, rushes in pursuit; the woman throws objects, they turn into a lake, thicket, mountain; a woman runs to heaven to the Sun, which burns the pursuer; a woman gives birth To the sun of an ugly son; wants to go home; mother and son go down the eyelashes, the rays of the Sun; the children laugh at the boy; he shoots, makes a chain of arrows, goes up to his father, asks for permission to perform it duties; lights all torches at once; the earth burns, the rocks crack, people die, only his mother's house is cool; the sun throws his son to the ground, makes him a burrow]: 100-103; McIlwraith 1948 (2): 489-494 [ At night, the brother comes to his sister's hut for a ritual retreat; she stains him with paint, identifies him in the morning, leaves; goes to Stump, who takes her as his wife; a legless old woman in his house tells her what to do gives the right items; the wife must take out the lice from the Stump and bite them; these are toads; the girl kills them with a knife, snapping her teeth, as if she is biting; holes in the vessel that guards her; he is silent, not raises alarms; throws oil, comb, needle, whetstone behind; they turn into a lake, a thicket, many sharp needles, a mountain; resorts to the Sun, which burns the pursuer with its heat], 495-498 [four sisters leave home, go to the Sun; want to return; the Sun and his wife lower them to the ground in a basket , give them whetstone, comb, eagle fluff; explain which path leads to the house and which one to the ogre; the younger sister follows the ogre's path, the rest have to follow her; the ogre chases them; abandoned objects turn into mountain, thicket, fog; the cannibal stops persecution]; heiltzuk [three options; white, black, rainbow, bloody smoke rises respectively above the house of Mountain Sheep, Black Bear, Grizzly, Ogre; four brothers come to The ogre; his son greedily licks the blood from the foot of one of his brothers; the ogre pursues the brothers; they throw whetstone, hair oil, wool, comb, they turn into a mountain, lake, fog, thicket (var.: a grain grater turns into a mountain, urine into a lake, broken arrows into a windbreak); brothers and their father dig a hole in their house, make a fire at the bottom, push the Ogre, his wife and son; pieces of flesh or ash of the Ogre turn into mosquitoes and biting flies]: Boas 1928b: 49-65; uvikino [the sons told their father they would go up the river to hunt mountain goats, went looking for them themselves the missing chief 'Paasalath; the father's name is Nuúwaqaqa; he does not tell you to go where there is bloody smoke, where Bàxvbakvalausiwa lives, who ate most of the villagers (Boas has a similar symbol for spirit -cannibal in quakiutl); if the smoke is brown, there is a brown bear, if black, a black bear; father tells you to take a comb, hair oil, whetstone and palem (a ball of wool or cotton wool) with you; the brothers came there where there is bloody smoke, they went into the dugout; B.'s youngest son notices blood on the leg of his scratched youngest son N.; he lubricates a stick with blood, B.'s son licks it; the elder brother shoots arrows, each time commanding one of B.'s children ran for another arrow; they ran away, but B.'s wife called him; the brothers were running, B. was chasing, the younger one throws behind 1) a whetstone (mountain), 2) a comb ( thicket), 3) a lump of fibers (fog), 4) oil (lake); while B. goes around the lake, the brothers run home, the father hides them; says B. that he killed and cooked them, let B. call his ena and children; N. and his sons dug them hole; when the cannibals arrived, N. put them to sleep, telling the story of the flood, pushed them into a hole, filled them with boiling water; they turned into mosquitoes]: Hilton, Rath 1982:47-68.

The Midwest. Menominee: Bloomfield 1928, No. 102 [an unknown person comes to the sister of ten brothers (the main one of them Matsikivis), marries; remains in charge of her; she tells her brothers: the husband is happy that they will soon get fat; he lures them into a beaver hut, but the youngest refuses to enter; when the son-in-law puts those who come in to sleep with a scream, the younger one hits him with a spear, pushes him under the ice; M. gives his sister an awl and whetstone, tells you to run; abandoned objects turn into a thorny forest, into a rock; the pursuer makes his way; sister, after her brothers come running to their grandfathers, who open a rock for them; the pursuer is not in able to break it; grandfathers release snakes, they devour the pursuer, regurgitate bones at the edge of the earth; siblings return home]: 409-419; Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.14 [see motive F34; in a woman A bear lover; her husband kills her, buries her under the hearth; goes to the ground, tells her sons to run, take a sharpener and an awl; a dead mother chases her sons; an abandoned sharpener turns into a mountain, An awl in many awls; a crane asks to remove his lice; these are toads; a young man bites through cranberries; two Cranes stretch their necks like a bridge; the mother refuses to bite through the toads with disgust; Cranes they remove their necks, she sinks; see motif K27], II.15 [the wife chases the hunter; he runs at the speed of flying arrows that she fires in front of her; throws back an arrow, four arrows, a bow (turn into thickets), whetstone (into a mountain range); sees a man with a Bear; they take him to heaven; see motive A3]: 364-366, 371-373; kickapoo [a giant from heaven kills all people; one person hides his son and a daughter in the hearth; a young man rises to heaven, becomes a web; becomes a baby, a giant and his wife adopt him; he grows up, cuts off the heads of his own sons of a giant, saves himself on horseback; a giant chases him on horseback on a cougar; a young man throws flint, a wicker rope, a whetstone; they turn into a wall of fire, thickets of cacti, vines, a boulder; breaks a bottle with liquid; the giant is unable to overcome the water barrier, stops chasing]: Jones 1915, No. 11:89-103; Steppe Cree [The Big Skunk approaches, kills everyone with its jet; Mouse and Weasel cannot do it kill, run away; the old woman throws a whetstone first, then a hollow; slippery, steep mountains appear, the Big Skunk overcomes them; the old woman and the girl pretend to be dead; the Skunk feels them vaginas, mistaken for the wounds that killed them; putting his finger inside and smelling, decides that the meat is rotten; continues to haunt people; see motive B3A]: Skinner 1916, No. 1 (1): 341-346.

Northeast. Penobscot [a shaman pursues a man; he throws a whetstone, soap, pink mushroom, awl; they turn into a stone wall, a quagmire, a burning path, a thicket; the shaman gets stuck in more often]: Speck 1935b, No. 46:87.

Plains. Teton (oglala) [see motive F34; a woman copulates with bears, then kills and feeds meat to her three children; her husband feeds his wife bear meat to death; her head stalks children; they they throw a whetstone, it turns into mountains; she asks the snake to build a gorge; children hide in a tree; she breaks it, they go down to the ground, sit in a bird's nest; a man transports them through the river in the boat; the head climbs the paddle, he hits it with an oar, drowns it]: Wissler 1907, No. 6:195-196; arikara [the older girl reluctantly agrees to play bear; tells her younger sister to hide; turns into a Bear, kills everyone; her sister secretly meets their four brothers returning from the war; reports that the Bear has vulnerable little fingers on her legs; the brothers let her scatter thorns in front of her at home, they lure the Bear, screaming that enemies are coming; the bear dies, the brothers burn her; a drop of blood falls to the ground, the Bear revives, pursues her sister and brothers; the older brother throws an awl, it turns into a thorny forest; the second is a knife, it cuts through gorges; the third is a crest, turns into thickets of cacti; the fourth is a whetstone, turns into a high rock ( The Devil's Tower in Wyoming), which raises fugitives to the sky; they turn into the Pleiades, the Bear goes west]: Parks 1996, No. 7:146-152.