L72C. An abandoned mirror.
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Fleeing, the character throws a mirror behind him, which turns into an obstacle for the pursuer (ice, lake, etc.) or draws his attention and loses time. (In the Udmurt version, items destroy obstacles in the character's path).
Kordofan, Egyptian Arabs, Germans (Grimms; Tyrol; etc.), Palestinians (Niue), Mustang, Albanians, Serbs, Bosnians, Russians (Arkhangelsk), Abazins, Kabardians, Ossetians, Karachays, Balkarians, Nogais, Georgians, Armenians, Turks, Tajiks, Bukhara Arabs, Uzbeks, Karelians, Eastern Sami, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Dungans, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Orochi, (Quechua and Aymara of the Peruvian Sierra (Departments of Ancash, Junin, Huancavelica, Ayacucho, Arequipa, Cusco, Puno).
Sudan - East Africa. Kordofan (no language specified) [the king laments that he is childless; the sorcerer gives two lemons; let one be eaten by an Arab wife, she will give birth to a daughter, and the other a concubine, give birth to a son; when he grows up, he must come to the sorcerer; the boy's name is Shatr Mohammed (SHM); the sorcerer met him, told him to remind his father of the promise; he cries; the sorcerer became an eagle and took away the CMM; in his palace he gives the CMM the keys to all rooms, but forbids unlocking one of them; treasures are everywhere; in the forbidden room, the CMM is a beauty suspended by her hair; on one side there is a horse on chains, bloody meat in front of him; on the other, a lion, hay in front of him; floor strewn with the old and recently cut down heads of young men; the CMM freed the girl, swapped hay and meat, the horse and the lion broke their chains; the horse: put on armor, take the sword and the girl and jump; the lion is with them; the sorcerer catches up; the horse tells you to throw a comb (a thick forest), a piece of glass (a field covered with glass fragments), soap (a river); the sorcerer swam, drowned; the horse tells you to take his hairs to summon him and go to the city ; he hired a gardener; the youngest of the 7 princesses sees him swimming, calling a horse and putting on armor; she sends him food every day, but the gardener picks them up; princesses send his father 7 melons: them it's time to marry; everyone throws a handkerchief to the one she has chosen as her husband; the youngest with the CMM is settled in the slave quarter; the king is sick, she needs gazelle milk; the CMM gives it to his older sons-in-law, who allow them to stigmatize them in the ass ; sons' milk does not help, milk brought by the younger princess healed the father; enemies have attacked; sons-in-law are fleeing, CMM smashes enemies on his horse; to celebrate the savior, the king inflicts a slight wound on him with a sword on her hand and bandages him with her handkerchief; the wife recognizes her father's handkerchief, tells the mother; the king begs the CMM to return to the palace; the older sons-in-law have to show the stigma, now they are slaves to the CMM]: Frobenius 1923, No. 19: 216-224.
North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt [the wife of a childless king promises to fill three wells with honey, oil and rose water if God sends her a child; Yousif is born, the king forgets the promise; God reminds in a dream the king prepares wells, calling people, the old woman comes when everything is dismantled, collects drops of honey on the walls of the well; Yu played ball, got into the old woman's vessels, the honey spilled; she wished him to fall in love with Louliyya , Morgan's daughter; the servant explains that L. is beautiful; Yu goes in search; the cannibal sends him to his brother, the latter to the other, the other to his sister; if she has red chickens and she is tidy up, You can't talk to her, and if her hair is green, her hair is in a mess, and your breasts are thrown over her back, then you can; Yu sees red chickens first, is silent, then green; the cannibal sister tells me to roll the ball, he leads to a palace in the desert; the cannibal asks L. to lower her hair, climbs it; Yu also asks; L. decides to run away with Yu; hides it, turning it into a pin; returning to its former appearance, tells things in the room responsible for her, throws a needle (field of thorns), a comb (bamboo fence), a mirror (lake); the cannibal and his dog drink, the cannibal bursts when he has time to throw pins at L., she turns into a dog, Yu. lark; they come to mother Yu's house; she finds pins in the dog's head, takes it out, L. takes her shape, takes the needles out of the lark's head, which turns into Yu; wedding]: Scheub 2000:131-132.
Western Europe. The Germans [=Grimm, Grimm 1987:223; brother and sister fell into the well, undine forced the girl to spin hard linen, the boy to cut the tree with a blunt ax, fed him hard dumplings; when undine went to church, the children ran away; the girl threw her brush (a mountain of brushes), the boy threw a comb (a mountain of combs), the girl threw a mirror (a mirror mountain; Ondine went for an ax, the children ran away during this time)]: Grimm, Grimm 2002, No. 79:267; Pancritius 1913 [in German fairy tales, fugitives throw a brush, comb, mirror (mountain, forest, lake), whip, bag, blanket (fence, mountains, water), scraper, buckshot, rags (prickly hedge, forest, lake)]: 854; Germans (Tyrol) [fugitives throw a comb, scissors, mirror (hedge, thorns, sea)]: Pancritius 1913:854.
Western Asia. Palestinians [the king promises that if his son grows up safely, he will fill one watercourse with honey and the other with ghee; every day the boy meets an old woman, she tells him to remind his parents about the promise, otherwise he threatens to kill him; he forgets, she puts pebbles in his pocket, his mother finds it, he remembers, the king builds watercourses, fills him with honey and oil; the old woman comes when almost everything has been dismantled; takes the last drops, the boy throws a pebble, breaking her vessel, she tells him to fall in love with Lolabe, Lolabe's daughter; he goes looking for L., she lowers her hair out of the window, he climbs it; when her the witch mother gets up, the daughter turns the young man into a pin, she senses the human spirit, tells her to give her the pin to take out the splinter, the daughter gives another, turns the young man into a melon, the mother tells her to give the melon, the daughter hides one a seed, revives the young man from it, tells him to run, spraying all objects with henna except a mortar and a pestle; everyone replies to the mother that the daughter is here, a mortar and a pestle give her away; the witch pursues the fugitives, with her a dog; the daughter throws a comb (the forest, the witch and the dog chew), the brazier (the fire, the witch and the dog extinguish the urine), the mirror (the lake, the witch and the dog drink, burst); at the house, the young man tells L. to wait for him to cook everything for the wedding; L. climbs a tree, the maid takes her reflection in the well for her own, throws a jug (such a beauty should not serve); L. laughs, the maid asks her to go down, pierces her pins, turning her into a dove, puts on her clothes, explains to the groom that she cried while waiting for her, so she changed; the dove cries in the palace kitchen, tears turn into pearls, corals, the cook picks them up, every day the food burns, the prince calls him, finds out about the dove, catches him, takes out his pins; the maid from behind now stabs them into him, turning them into a dove; the third time L. catches him, takes out his pins; wedding; maid burn]: Muhawi, Kanaana 1989, No. 18:159-166;
(Cf. Micronesia-Polynesia. Niue [sister gave birth, brother came to her, but her son turned out to be eel, chased the man; he threw the comb (The eel began to comb it), oil (looked into the puddle like in a mirror; in the other Alternatively, a man threw a mirror, but before the Europeans appeared, there were no mirrors on the island), a belt (began to wear it); the man threw himself into the sea, turned into stone]: Loeb 1926b: 202).
Tibet is the Northeast of India. Mustang [a demoness and her daughter live in the upper reaches of the valley, a woman and her daughter live in the lower reaches; the woman went to look for the missing cow, the demoness invited her into the house, killed her; the daughter went, the demoness did her maid; ordered the cow to be herded, the dead mother turned into her, gives her daughter sweets; the demoness hears the girl chewing something at night, walking with the cow herself, she stains her clothes with manure, the demoness decides slaughter her; a cow tells the girl to hide her head, hooves and skin behind the door; a demoness and her daughter go to a party, telling the girl to separate peas, beans, barley and wheat; a reborn mother performs work, the remains of a cow turned into a luxurious attire, the girl came to the party, lost her slipper on the way back; the servant brought it to the king; he tells all women between 16 and 40 to try it on; demoness with They go to the screenings as a daughter, the mother remains to pick up the grain, sends her daughter to the palace, tells her to be the last to come; she becomes the king's wife; when the demoness and daughter return home, everything is contaminated with chicken litter; the demoness sends her daughter to hire a poultry house, tells the queen to stick a pin in the back of her head, she will be speechless, change clothes with her, take her place, and the Queen will be a poultry house; but the mother is before This gave her daughter three cowries; she was sent to herd cows; she took a cowrie, a young man appeared to herd cows, and three girls who began to spin the yarn given to the girl; pulled out a pin, Queen speechless, told the king everything, who ordered the liar to be beheaded, her body was burned, her head was hidden under sweets and meat; the Queen, disguised as the daughter of the demoness, brought her a gift; she found her head daughters, rushed in pursuit; the queen ran, threw a piece of coal (darkness), a head brush (thorny forest), a mirror (ice field); on the ice, the demoness slipped, fell on a stone, crashed to death; all good]: Kretschmar 1985, No. 39:218-223.
The Balkans. Albanians [the younger brother ate the inheritance and was hired as a farmhand to the elder; every day he went to the forest to cut wood, brought it to dinner; one day he forgot to bring it and returned; in the forest a woman cuts firewood; the woman says that she is Ora (~guardian spirit) of her older brother, and Ora the Younger is in chains in the seventh room of the evil spirits that stole her; Ora the elder teaches what to do; the youngest comes to those spirits, is hired an employee, gains trust, frees her Ora and runs with her; she takes a comb, a mirror, soap with her; when Ora of the brotherly spirits screams and the spirits chase, Ora Jr. tells her to quit comb (forest), mirror (sea), soap (smooth slippery surface, pursuers stopped chasing); Ora leads the young man to another world; gives a crooked foal, then promising to give a wonderful horse, puts rags on him and half pumpkins on his head instead of a hat; the king tells him to break three pumpkins and guess what each means; only Half Pumpkins (i.e. a young man) can do it; three pumpkins are the king's three daughters in varying degrees of readiness for marriage (the youngest is just right); everyone must pass by the princesses, the youngest throws an apple at Poltykvy; the enemy attacked, Poltykva turned into a mighty rider on a beautiful horse , defeated enemies; gave his older sons-in-law the right to be considered winners, for which he carved signs on their backs; but he told the king everything, his older sons-in-law were shamed, Poltykvs received the throne]: Lambertz 1952:83-91; Serbs [a poor man with many children is a boy in a dream; he teaches to go to the source of the stream, there is a naked girl, she can turn it into a fish and eat it; if you offer to look in her hair, you need to find and pull out the blood-red hair, run; throw a handkerchief, a handkerchief, a mirror behind; the stalker will look at them and fall behind; the hair must be sold, it is fabulously valuable; he bought hair emperor; he split it lengthwise and it recorded everything that had happened since the beginning of the world; the man became rich; that child was an angel sent by God]: Wratislaw 1890, No. 42:221-223 (=Eschker 1992, No. 1: 11-14); Bosnians [father and son mowed the meadow; after salted cheese, the boy went for a drink; the spring was under an apple tree; when he leaned to the water, an apple fell on his head; second; on an apple tree, an old woman on a goat; invites him; the guy went, he is tired of mowing the meadow; when leaving, the old woman leaves the keys to 7 rooms; in the first - a child's finger; the guy recognized the fingers of the missing brother; in the second rooster with tied legs; in the last pitchfork in shackles and a horse; the vila offers to run, otherwise he will be eaten like the brothers; let him take the meat on the road, the comb, the mirror, the scraper; the young man carries the pitchfork on his back, the old woman chases goat; the villa tells you to throw a comb (thorny thickets), a scraper (thicket), a mirror (an icy surface); the goat slipped and broke his leg; the villa took the guy to the royal palace, and flew to her friends ; the king has 5 sons and a daughter; someone steals millet at night; the princes take turns guarding, but when they see that old woman on a goat, they run away in horror; the king promises a daughter to whoever kills the monster; the boy began to guard, cut off the old woman's head, put on her clothes and came to the king on her goat; he was frightened at first; gave his daughter; the boy's father found him and his son and wife came to live with him; if they died, it's good, but alive, so better]: Eschker 1992, #5:41-45.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, 1908; Lapinskaya volost, now Karelia, an 18-year-old girl A.S. Filatova, lived as an employee in various villages in Pomorye, composes ditties and songs/"folk poetess"/, illiterate) [The king and queen notice that someone steals turnips in their garden at night, sending their sons to watch. The two oldest sons didn't see anyone. The youngest Ivan sat on the fence, "sings songs, counts the stars", sees a humped man tearing his turnips, comes up and helps him pick up. The man invites Ivan to his dungeon, Ivan takes his brothers with him. They stay at the entrance, Ivan comes in, beats the man at cards, the man invites Ivan to guess which of the birds is a parrot, a bird, a white swan. Ivan goes out to think on the porch (smoke), the Mukhtotska dog suggests that it is a fly, a mosquito and a louse. The old man gives Mary Tsarevna for Ivan with a large dowry. Ivan's brothers lift Mary in their belts, as soon as they started lifting Ivan, cut off his belts, and he fell into the dungeon. She walks into her grandmother's backyard hut, asks how to get home, she shows the way past Jaitsna Babitsna's hut, warns that she will want to eat Ivan, put it in the oven and advises her to ask show how to sit in the heat properly. He gives Ivan a brush, a comb and a mirror to escape from Jaicna-Babica's chase. Ivan followed his grandmother's advice, put Yaitsna in the oven and ran away. She knocked out the stove flap with her feet and chased Ivan. He throws a comb, a forest grows, Yaytsna gnaws through it, throws a brush - a mountain appears, it gnaws through it, throws a mirror - a river of fire appears, it rushes into the river and burns down. Ivan comes to his city, goes to his grandmother's house, who says that Maria-Tsarevna visits her. The grandmother puts Ivan in the closet and asks where her longing is, the princess replies: "The ram has a horn", the grandmother has gilded her horn. She put it on the table, then Marya said that her longing was in the lake, in the stone chest, duck, egg, and longing in it. Grandma and Ivan caught a stone and took out an egg. Ivan drops it and can't find it, the hare brings the egg. My grandmother put Ivan in the closet, made eggs out of eggs, and treated Mary to her. Maria's longing passed, Ivan came out of the closet, they told the truth to the tsar, expelled the brothers from the kingdom and got married]: Tseitlin 1911, No. 10:5-7 (=Azadovsky 1947, No. 15:102-105).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abazins [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 younger woman gives a mirror , a comb, a thimble, tells him to learn the names of their dogs; the mouse tells him to run, all he has to do is pull the strings of the Pyars so that his sister thinks he is here; the sister eats the mouse, chases his 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, the head remains; during eclipses, he tries to eat the one on brother's moon; people shoot, wake dogs up to save the moon, dogs drive their heads away]: Tugov 1985, No. 36:91-93; Kabardian people: Aliyeva, Kardangushev 1977 [when dying, father tells three sons to guard once a year a mare whose foals are kidnapped; the elder brother falls asleep, the middle brother does not dare to fight the seven-headed frost; the younger Zaur repulsed the foal, cut off one head; on the horse he follows the trail of the frost; the old woman says that Inizh kidnapped her daughter, gives scissors, a mirror, a comb; Z. takes the girl away, throws a comb (barbed fence), scissors (seven fortresses), a mirror (the ground is covered with ice); the other fell, Z. cut off his heads; married the girl]: 98-99; Kardanov 1961 [the mother is dead, the girl Gulez and the boy Inal are left; the witch stepmother decided to eat them; they ran away, the witch is chasing, the children abandoned the comb (forest) ), scissors (7 iron walls), mirror (sea); the witch asks to ford, the children point to a deep place, the waves took the witch away; I. wants to drink; G. does not allow drinking from the trail of a camel's hoof, cowhide; he drinks from sheep, became a lamb; the prince saw G., took him home, married; the witch's daughter pushed G. into the sea, put on her clothes, took her place; asks the prince to slaughter the lamb; the lamb by the sea calls his sister, says that they sharpen knives, heat the water to cook his meat; G.: I can't help, I'm in a whale's stomach; people told the prince, they caught the whale, g returned it, the lamb became human, the witch's daughter was kicked out]: 63-68; Karachays: Jurtubayev 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 Emegensha, having received her parents' eyes that had previously been kept in mercury; she 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 her (rock, sister gnaws), a knife (iron rock, gnaws), an awl (ironwood); a young man hides at the top; crows refuse to convey the message to adoptive parents, pigeons pass it on; dogs come running, sister takes off , dogs behind her; a yellowmouth girl causes eclipses of the moon and sun (dogs protect the stars)], 370-371 [the son, when he sees his newborn sister, tells her to be killed, parents refuse, he leaves; helps to give birth to a female leopard, she gives him one cub, the other he takes 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; sister consistently eats the horse's legs, each time asks how many legs the horse had; the brother confirms that three, two, one; the sister tells me to knock on the pelvis, goes to sharpen her teeth; the mouse starts knocking, 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; the girl rises to the sky, attacks the sun and moon, leopards prevent her from swallowing them]; Rumyantseva 1981 [the hunter kidnapped the boy, left him to take care of the pig and the horse: give the pig oats, the horse with sawdust; the horse asks to do the opposite, he is gaining strength, the pig is losing weight; the hunter is dissatisfied; the horse tells you to get a mirror, razor and comb from the corner of the cave, run; the hunter chases after a pig; the boy throws the comb ( a fence made of sharp stakes, a pig blew up), a mirror (the sea, the pig swam across), a razor (an iron wall to the sky, the pig could not blow it up); after giving its 4 hair, the horse leaves the boy to the old man in the village; khan will give his daughter to whoever jumps over his palace on horseback; the boy summoned a horse, jumped over, got a younger princess, they were placed in a chicken coop, and the eldest daughters married the sons of the khans; a herd was stolen from the khan, his younger son-in-law returned him, the elders tied the young man to the tree, said that they had returned the herd; the young man's horse freed him; they also stole the cows; the horse pulled the young man out of the water; the khan fell ill, they needed reindeer milk; the horse took it out; said that he himself was a man, he was bewitched by that hunter, now he was disgraced; his elder sons-in-law gave the khan cow's milk, they had black spots on their backs; the youngest daughter gave her father milk, throwing chicken manure at him; the khan moved them to the stable; horse manure; moved them into the house; the old man (former horse) tells the khan everything; he expelled his older sons-in-law, made the youngest heir]: 81-90; Balkarians (western 1965) [The man has an adult son, then a daughter was born; when he saw her, the son asked his parents to destroy her, but they asked him to clean up himself; he helped the tiger; she gave him one tiger cub and the other he himself stole; when they grew up, they let them call them by a hair if necessary; the boy came to his native village, there was only one blacksmith; the dragon left him alive to sharpen her teeth; the dragon sister consistently gnaws off her brother's horse's legs and each time asks how many legs the horse he was riding had (three, two, one); gave a pelvis and told her brother to knock on it until she returned; the mouse tells him to run, taking an awl, a comb and a mirror, remains to hit the pelvis; the guy throws a mirror (sea), a comb (bone tower), an awl (iron fence); if the sister catches up again, ask permission to do two parts of the prayer; before praying, the guy burned her hairs; tigers rushed, tore the girl, but could not tear her cheek off; the dragon girl flew to heaven with the hunters; she wants to eat the moon and the sun, but hunters (i.e. tigers) interfere (eclipses of the stars)]: Malkonduev 2017:125-127; Ossetians [the sister of three brothers goes to play with the seven daughters of the Sun; they detain her by throwing a bead into her hearth, she sparkles like a fire; returning to the extinct hearth, the girl comes to the giant for fire; he pours coals into her sieve; the giant comes to the brothers on an ash trail; the brothers go, supposedly, to look firewood, the giant goes to bed; the mouse gives the girl scissors, a comb, a mirror, tells her to run; abandoned objects turn into a mountain, a sea, a forest; the woman in the tower tells her to fill the tubs with tears (she fills), throws her a simple rope, she rises; the giant fills her with spits, demands a silk rope, the woman lowers a simple one, but cuts it with scissors, the giant breaks; the girl works hard at housewives; violates the ban on entering the seventh room; women from the first room are petrified; a whirlwind rose in the seventh room, took away the shirt hanging there; Aldar's son finds her, comes for the girl; petrified they come to life, the hostess marries the girl to Aldar's son]: Britaev, Kaloev 1959:164-172; Nogais: Kapaev 2012 [the old man has three daughters; they all refused to treat his lower back - there is a lot of work to do; old woman agreed to help; when the old man undressed, apples fell out of his bosom, the daughters picked them up; he told them that tomorrow he would take them to pick apples; tells his wife to give their daughters bags full of holes; in the forest he hangs on the tree is two sticks, they are knocking in the wind, the daughters think that the father is cutting wood, and he is long gone; night has come, the girls came to the house of four Elmauys; the youngest girl also noticed a girl with golden claws; I climbed into the attic and lit the wick to make the light fall into the house; estyrnak and elmauyz are helpless in the light; in the morning the elmauyz say that they will go to the wedding; let the girls slaughter and cook one of them, feed them estyrnyk daughter; the girls killed and cooked the Elmauyz daughter, attached her head to the doll, ran away; finding golden claws in the cauldron, the Elmauyz rushed in pursuit; the girls throw the comb, a thorny bush appeared; Elmauyzes ask how they moved; stripped naked, climbed; they climbed; the girls threw the mirror, a lake appeared, the Elmauyz drowned; the girls returned home and listened to their parents]: 165-168; Nogai 1979, No. 25 [the old man picked and brought five apples; three daughters refuse to untie his belt, only his wife untied it; an offended old man leads his daughters to pick apples, tells the dung to answer for himself, leaves; girls come to a house where four elmavyz sharpen knives; the youngest calls to spend the night on the roof, burns lamb fat, the elmavyz think it's raining (they are afraid of rain), do not dare to slaughter the girls; in the morning, when leaving, they tell the two older sisters to cook the youngest; the sisters cooked the daughter elmachallenge, put her golden nails on the bottom of the cauldron, made her doll, told her to be responsible for her; after eating her daughter's meat, the elmavyz are chasing girls; the eldest throws the comb (forest), the middle one throws a mirror (turns into a gorge, the Elmavyz stop chasing); the girls return to their parents]: 129-132; Georgians (Imereti) [the eldest daughter asks the father to buy a dress, the middle one - an all-seeing mirror, the youngest - a rose of paradise; the father steals a rose from Davy, who tells him to give his youngest daughter in return, calls her "Rose of Paradise"; in Davy's house, she hears him telling her to Slaughter PP to her sister; she cuts and cooks sister Davy herself, runs away, throws a mirror (glass forest), a comb (a forest of combs), scissors (scissor forest); PP hides in a house whose doors do not open to Davy; there is a coffin with the prince coming to life at night; servants bring him food; RR cleans the house, the prince finds her; when it is time for her to give birth, he sends her with his ring to his father; she gives birth, comes at night prince, his parents catch him, he dies again in the afternoon; the wife goes to the Sun, to which her sister is married; on the way she meets the suffering (the king's wife is suffering from childbirth, a man is standing in the middle of a burning bakery, a deer she rises to heaven with her horns; the Sun does not kill the woman who comes when she learns that she is his wife's sister; gives water to buy the prince, tells the woman in labor to be put on straw, the person to get out of the burning bakeries, deer head bent; everyone is happy]: Glushakov 1904, No. 3:27-35 (=Dirr 1920, No. 7:27-35); Armenians [the mirror thrown by the young man behind his back turned into a sea]: Gullakian 1983:147; Turks [the hunter has a second wife; stepmother tyrannites stepdaughter and stepson; the hunter's partridge has disappeared; the wife is terrified; she cut off one of her breasts, cooked it; the hunter liked the meat; when he found out what was going on, he decided to eat a man; the wife offered to fatten the children and eat it after 40 days; the girl hears, counts the days, laying stones; tells her brother to run; the father chases; the old woman gives a mirror, a comb and clay; sister threw clay (swamp); comb (thorny bush); father almost caught up, the mirror fell - the sea, the father stayed on the other side; the brother is thirsty; the rider indicated three sources; after drinking from the first, you will become a fish, the second a lamb, the third is safe; the brother has become a lamb; the son of the padishah drove up and saw the girl in the tree, decided to marry him; galloped home to return; an arapka came up, said that the padishah's son sent her, pushed the girl to the first spring, put on her clothes; the padishah's son is surprised that the bride went fool; after the wedding, the arapka fell ill, asked for lamb meat; the son of the padishah watches him; he comes to the source: you were swallowed by a fish, and an arapka wants to eat me, butchers sharpen knives; fishermen pulled the fish, took the girl out of her womb; the arapka was torn by four mules; from the sky three apples fell; the lamb ate one, became a boy, his sister put another on his chest, she woke up; the third will find a child who will read a fairy tale]: Aganin et al. 1960:122-130.
Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks: Amonov, Ulug-zade 1957 [=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 are brave died looking for a cure, the girl returns; the same middle daughter; the youngest is not afraid; the old woman sends her to a healer; he will ask for the medicine for the seed of the tree that the three-headed diva has; to the monastery The diva must do good to everyone; 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 girls who toned tortillas with their bare hands; the diva sleeps with her eyes open; the girl pulled out a bag from under his head and ran away; the maids, dogs, horses, the gate refused to grab her; she threw a mirror (river), a bar (mountain), a crest (forest); a diva stops chasing; a witch doctor 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]: 77-83; 1960 [the old man sees fresh sheep liver on the road; touches her, an old woman jumps out, threatens to kill 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 her under their feet a torn tooth; a calf takes HC to a fortress where a girl is languishing alive; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; the divas reluctantly promises not to kill HC; 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, kill him; HC with returns to his parents with his wife]: 164-171; Tajiks (Samarkand district) [the padishah has three sons, his wife has died, a new one has given birth to a daughter; someone steals apples from an apple tree; the eldest son guards, falls asleep; the same middle; younger Kenjaboy sprinkles salt on a cut, shoots a winged demon, who flies to his stepmother's chambers, K. finds a peel next to the cradle; the padishah does not believe, he kicked him out; he left, married, and his sister is a diva ate all the people and animals in his country; K. takes care of two lions; wants to visit her parents; gives his wife a jug of milk; if the milk is redder, let the lions go down; K. comes to his sister; she eats her legs horse and consistently asks if the horse was three-legged, two-legged, legless; K. replies what it 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 chases, K. threw the comb (forest); sister: how he went; K. raise the hem; the same with other obstacles: mirror (river), salt (salt mountain); K. plunged 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; the milk turned red, the wife lowered the lions, they tore the diva, K. returned to wife]: Amonov 196:376-381; Bukhara Arabs [the youngest son tells the king to slaughter his sister, she will become a witch; he does not believe; three sons take turns guarding horses; the elder, the middle son falls asleep, the witch eats the horse; the father does not believe; the youngest does not sleep, he sees that the king still does not believe; the youngest leaves, marries; after 20 years he 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 him 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 tells you to run under the walls, taking a comb, a mirror, salt, a spindle; abandoned objects turn into thorny bushes, 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 the second; the wife releases lions; the witch rushes into the river; lions say that if blood rises to the surface, they win, if blood and wool are dead; they throw themselves into the water for the witch; hair pops up first, but then blood; lions bring a piece of skin from their sister's head to the owner; drovers promise to give camels if the lion owner guesses what their load is; a piece of leather suggests that almonds; a person receives camels; distributes them in his father's city, he is elected tsar]: Vinnikov 1969, No. 58:324-326; Uzbeks: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1) [=Konovalov, Stepanov 1986: 166-178; chasing a pheasant, the youngest of the old man's three sons enters a cave and spends 40 days there with a peri; when the young man returns home, Peri tells him to ask his father to build a house for him, build a yurt; when he comes to his son, the old man sees only a cat next to him; secretly spies, sees a beautiful woman; before a relative's wedding, the old man tells his daughters-in-law to sew dresses, bake cakes; other peri do everything on orders the young man's wives; Peri replies to the other daughters-in-law that he will make clothes out of paper; they also make paper dresses, peri sends rain, dresses get wet; the old man asks his son where he keeps the cat's skin; when he finds out throws her into the fire; peri flies away, telling her husband to wear his iron boots and staff; the young man comes to the house of Almauz Kempir (AK), where his wife and boy are also; the young man asks the boy to supply water, he does not give water to the jug turns into blood for the first time, pus the second time; peri tells the boy to give water to a stranger; the young man throws a ring into the jug, peri recognizes it, goes to her husband; when AK is at home, he turns him in a flower, hides it in her hair; then marries her husband to his younger brother; AK tells her to look for hay in her hair, sucks the young man's blood; peri tells her husband to give the dog meat, the camel hay (AK did the opposite); when AK fall asleep, tie her hair to a pole, take a comb, scissors, a mirror, run; the doors, the camel and the dog refuse to detain the fugitives; they throw the comb, answer AK that two teeth must be pulled out, made of they have axes, cut through the road; the same is scissors; AK has only four teeth; they throw a mirror, it turns into a river; the fugitives answer that you need to tie stones to your neck and put stones in their sleeves, walk along the bottom; AK He is drowning; the young man and the Peri live in their own house]: 415-425.
Baltoscandia. Eastern Sami [loved one disappears; a girl rejects other suitors, says she will marry a man with a golden nose; Ravk comes, she has to fulfill her promise; he leaves her keys, does not tell me to open one door; there is a weak elk; she feeds him, three days later they run away; they throw a comb (forest), a mirror (lake), a shard (mountain), a match (fire); The elk brings the girl to his mother, turns him into a sliver underground, roots the pine tree up, runs away; Ravk did not find a chip, could not pull out a pine tree; The elk shows the girl a pine tree, she recognizes the betrothed, the elk turns into a guy, takes a girl as his wife]: Czarnoluski 1972:80-83; Karelians (Varpakylä) [the man wants to marry his daughter; she asks for permission to go to her mother's grave; the mother advises to ask before the wedding melt the bathhouse to wash, and when he goes to the bathhouse, run; going to church, take dresses, a brush, a comb, a mirror, a sword; the father chases, the daughter throws the brush (wall; the father runs after the sword, cuts a hole, the bird screams that the daughter will see where the sword is hidden, the father runs home again to carry the sword), the comb (the wall of bones (the same); the mirror (the glass wall; the same); when she reaches the royal pigsty, the girl puts on a pig's skin, hides in the prince's pigsty; in the morning he secretly puts the farm in order; the prince goes to church, asks his sister for soap, a pig brings it, the prince throws soap at the pig; in church the beauty replies that she is from the palace, where they throw soap; next time she is a basin of water; a shirt; the first time a girl loses her hat; then the prince orders to smear the door with resin, the second time the glove stuck; the third is a shoe; the prince tells everyone to try on, promises to marry; sees a pig in a hat, with a glove and a shoe; on the way to church, the heroine takes off her pigskin; wedding]: Cox 1893, No. 199:392- 394.
Volga - Perm. 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 average; the youngest fool meets 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 is not the forest now, the mirror - the sea is gone; this is how it gets to the possession of snakes, kills three-, six- and nine-headed snakes, frees brothers and brides for all three]: Yashin 1965:54-55; 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 the sea, the bar becomes mountains; divas and horsemen fight, divas break the vessel with a saber, living water pours out to the roots of fir trees, since then conifers are always green]: 266-267; Yarmukhametov 1957:14-31 [Akhmetu they say that he is more cheerful and bolder than his brothers; his mother is forced to say that his 10 brothers are gone and gone; A. comes to his mother 10 genies, promises her sons to get 11 padishah daughters for them, which means 10 batyrs interfere; they turn out to be brothers A.; A. enters the girls' room, tells the genies to go up there one by one, cuts off everyone's head, takes off their name rings from sleeping girls, one keeps it for himself, gives them 10 to his brothers; 5 batyrs claim that they defeated the genies; the padishah gives them daughters, but during the wedding, the warriors cannot raise the heads of the genies, and A. does it easily; daughters The padishah recognizes their rings, marries brothers; the father of the genies wants to get the daughter of the padishah of the Sun, who will give her only for Padishah Almazov's horse; the genie's father kidnapped A., ordered that horse to be obtained; the old man tells you to take the horse away, but not touch the bridle; A. grabs it, the bells are ringing, he is captured, Padishah Almazov demands the nightingale Padishah of the Month; the old man tells not to take the cage, A. did not take it, gave the nightingale in exchange for the horse, but the nightingale returned to him; gave the horse in exchange for the daughter of the Sun, the horse also returned; the old man told me to go from the fork to the right, A. forgot and went to the left; A. fell asleep, woke up - there is no girl, no horse, no nightingale; the old man gives a handkerchief, a comb and a mirror; putting his handkerchief on the water, A. crosses the river, takes the girl, the horse, the nightingale out of the diva's palace; he chases, A. threw the comb (forest), the mirror (the sea); the diva swam, drowned; A. gives the girl to the padishah genies, remains an employee, tells her to find out what the genie's soul is; genie: in a broom (the girl adorns the broom); four eggs under a duck in a nest on an island under the protection of four wild boars; A. fights wild boars, the main boar wants to eat a reed sprout, A. wants to eat roasted lamb; the shepherd gave him a lamb, he killed wild boars, brought eggs, broke two, the genie agreed to take it with the girl home, where A. broke the rest of the eggs; 11 brothers with wives, nightingale and horse return to their parents], 130-144 [(=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 is mine" (kalfak - hat); pigeon horsemen say that without this kalfak she cannot be born, and the calfak is a diva; the young man goes for the Kalfak, having learned magic and getting a comb, a whetstone, a mirror; arrives into the palace, a diva becomes a nightingale; another padishah's daughter, kidnapped by a diva, catches him, leaves him in her room; he takes on 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 orders to pour water, a young man turns into grains, a diva into a rooster, the last grain into a hawk, kills a rooster; gives pigeon young men 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 he rusts, he is in trouble; the young man returns to his mother, tells her to marry his daughter Padishah, who orders to create a palace, a golden bridge, a garden; at the wave of a whip, the devils perform everything; the padishah is ready to give her daughter, but she has just been kidnapped by a diva; a girl with a kalfak, who became the wife of an older pigeon brother, The diva tells you to fly to the island, returns with her, stops drinking wine on the way, falls asleep; two warriors chopped him into pieces, and she was taken by ship to her father, said that they saved his daughter; brothers- pigeons revived the victim, brought him home; he comes to the wedding of the padishah's daughter, she recognizes him by her ring; deceiving batyrs have been executed]; Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 71 [12 brothers work as woodcutters, and The 13th at the court of the padishah; 12 are jealous, it is said that Thirteen can lead the stallion to a diva; the old woman gives a comb and a mirror; 13 disturbs the stallion and hides in the hay; the diva stops paying attention to laughing ; 13 jumps away, throws a comb (forest), a mirror (river); brothers: 13 promised to bring a blanket to a diva; the old woman teaches him to throw a diva of ants; he scolds his wife for not shaking out the blanket, threw it into the canopy, Thirteen took him away; brothers: he can bring the diva himself; the old woman teaches the young man to pretend that 13 is dead and he is preparing a coffin for him; asks the diva to try on, bobs up the lid; on the way, a one-eyed aunt diva; Thirteen promises to put her second eye, burns the first one; clings to the goat from below; blind looking for the offender, throws the goat over the fence; Thirteen threatens to release the diva, the padishah has to give daughter]: 376-390; 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; came to Mustan- witch; the eldest replies that she slept to her mother's right, the middle one to the left, the youngest is 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. they ran away; they threw the sharpener (mountain), the comb (thicket), the mirror (the sea); they told M. that they swam, tied a stone to their pants; M. drowned; the son of the padishah married the youngest, two viziers to the eldest 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 their promise; changed the baby was given a puppy, the child was given to a fisherman {then it is clear that there were two children}; the husband ordered his wife to be blinded, his arms and legs broken, put her 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], 37 [the son of the poor went to seek happiness; overheard the conversation between the padishah's daughter and the horseman; came instead of him; they ran away; in the morning the girl saw substitution, but decided that the new fiancé is no worse; her father is pursuing; she threw the comb (thicket), the mirror (the sea), the ring (wooded gat, the padishah stopped the persecution); the husband hired the padishah; he wants him destroy, take possession of his wife; sends for good to the ship, where a diva, a young man killed a diva; orders to bring the gold-haired Altynchech; the wife gives a letter to the old woman, she sends her to another; the young man spares the bear, the crane, fish, they promise to help; divas give tasks: herd three horses (scattered, the bear brought them), cows (the same, the cranes brought them), geese (the fish drove them out of the sea); A. tells us to throw half an apple into the diva's mouth, he fell asleep, they ran away; the young man brought A. to his wife, they turned out to be sisters; the young man was made a padishah]: 203-207, 301-308; the Bashkirs ["A long time ago, when the goat was a colonel and the ram was an officer, they lived, they say old man and old woman"; the old man and the old woman go to visit, tell their four daughters not to put out the fire and offend the cat; when the cat asks for porridge, the girls hit her on the head with a spoon; fire immediately goes out; two older sisters go in search, come to the cave, ask the old woman for fire; she agrees to give it, tells them to collect ash in the hem and sprinkle it on the road - she will come to them along it spend the night; she comes to their house in the evening, eats her younger sister at night (the old woman was ubir-ebi); the next day she comes again, eats another sister; the two surviving girls run away from home, taking a scallop, a mirror and a sharpener; the old woman goes in pursuit; the older sister throws the sharpener, a huge mountain grows up, over which the old woman can hardly climb; the girl throws her scallop, appears a dense forest; an old woman makes her way through it; a girl throws a mirror, a large lake overflows; an old woman screams from the shore, asks how the girls swam; they say: tying stones to their necks; old woman ties a stone and sinks; the youngest sister asks for water, the eldest warns that you should not drink here; the youngest drinks water from a hole from a goat's hoof, turns into a goat; the sister goes with her then he marries a merchant; his older wife starts to get sick, the healer advises to eat the goat's heart; the goat tells her sister to save her bones; the goat is eaten, the sister folds the bones into a rag, 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 it to her a pack of needles; the merchant's elder wife hears the bird singing, opens her mouth; the bird throws her needles, the woman dies]: 1989, No. 14:92-95.
Turkestan. Kazakhs [childless bai refuses to give Khan a roan horse, because he protects cattle from wolves and robbers; khan invites only those who have children to a feast; buy and his wife still come, none of them did not meet; dreams that a roan should be slaughtered; he stabbed, his wife became pregnant; the girl speaks from the womb, is born without the help of a midwife after her father promises that she will have power over herself; Dudar calls herself, no one should know her name; she will be married by whoever guesses him; no one guesses; once a slave called her by name; the groom came and called her by name; a two-year-old explains that this is a werewolf, he dug the corpse from the grave and ate it, heard the name; we must take with him a slave on a black camel, a bow and arrows; a savras turns into a six-year-old horse; the werewolf has gone forward, returned as a wolf, swallowed a camel with a slave; the horse tells not to allow the eldest wife of the werewolf (she is also a she-wolf) to take him as an excuse; takes D., flying through the air; D. in men's clothes, took him in sister to a young man named Er Tostik; knocks a coin off the top of the poplar, gets the khan's daughter, gives it to ET, opens it to him herself, now he has two wives; he went on a campaign on Savras, ordered to name his son Altinkhan; when he was born, one-legged Kuayak-Kempir invited a messenger, replaced letters, supposedly ET ordered his wife and child to be burned; Savras rushed, although he was in fetters, Kuayak-Kempir is chasing; D. throws a comb (forest), a mirror (lake); but the savras himself found himself in the water; killed KK by kicking it, but it ripped open his belly; on the shore he tells him to throw his legs in four directions - herds of horses; brisket - yurt; A. hunts, sees a lame man, takes his skullcap away; D. says it's an ET skullcap; ET tells us how he walked without a horse; recovered; they returned to ET village, A. became a hero]: Tursunov 1983: 43-50; Kyrgyz [three naughty girls went to the forest; the father gave the elder comb, the middle needle, the younger mirror; they went to the witch's house, where the little girl who had previously been kidnapped was; they took her and ran ; the abandoned comb became a forest (the witch made an ax and saw out of her two teeth), the needle became a mountain, the mirror became a lake; how did you get there? - With a stone around her neck; the witch drowned, the girls returned home]: Brudny, Eshmambetov 193:193-195 (=1981:61-62; 1989:66-68) {perhaps this text is briefly retelling Johelson 1913:160 with reference to Radloff 1870}; Kyrgyz [the old man and the 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; tells the old woman to get rid of 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 her daughters to the 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 it, the whetstone becomes a rock; the cannibal chases, overcomes the rock for a long time; the girls find a comb on the stand, which turns into a forest; then the mirror turns into a lake; the cannibal asks how they ended up 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 skills they have; the eldest: maybe feed many people with a handful of oatmeal; medium: sew clothes from one sheepskin and dress many people; youngest: to give birth to her husband a boy and a girl with golden heads and silver tasks; Khan the youngest, marries the youngest; when the wife is about 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 the khan , the first talks about the birth of children, the second speaks of puppies; the khan orders 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; the old woman discovers that goats come with empty udder, accuses the old man: he killed his daughters, and now he drinks all the milk; the old man watches the goats, they take turns falling to a drawer, children suck goats in the box; the old people bring children to They slaughter one goat with joy; children grow up, the old man plants barley for them, life is getting better, they are setting up a golden pillar 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 is sad at home; 40 wives suspect that this is not without reason, accuse the witch, demand that she deal with the children; the witch comes to the children, tells the young man that It would be good for a golden pole to tie a golden horse; the sister dissuades the brother, he is stubborn, then the sister teaches how to master the horse; the brother gets it; the khan meets the children again; the witch advises find the Sapan-Tash stone that makes wishes come true; then you can get subjects, form a khanate and make the young man's old father a khan; the sister again 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, a khan with 40 wives is built into the possession of a khan with 40 wives golden bridge; brother and sister visit Khan, bring him a cart of gold, ask for a bucket hanging on a tree in exchange; Khan, who has already forgotten what is in it, gives it to his twins; in the bucket is the half-dead mother of the twins, hers they bring him to life; the khan comes to visit, intending to ask the young man for permission to adopt his sister, recognizes his wife, he is told everything; the khan tied 40 wives to immense horses, and also executes a witch; 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 Abyshka Zhana Kempir" (Old Man and an 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); Kyrgyz [the old man sent three naughty daughters for berries, giving buckets of holes; the girls missed all day, and when they returned, it turned out that their father had migrated; the girls came to the yurt, there was a girl in it; said that her mother was baba yaga {apparently jalmouth- kempir}; baba yaga was delighted and in the morning told her older sister to fry her youngest for lunch; the sisters cooked Baba Yaga's daughter, ran away; when she saw what her daughter had eaten, Baba Yaga set off in pursuit; the older sister quit comb (forest); baba yaga pulled out two teeth, made an ax out of one and a ketmen out of the other, cut the road; the second sister threw a needle (mountain); baba yaga cut through the road; the third sister cut a mirror ( lake); baba yaga: how they swam; girls: tied stones to her neck; the old woman did so and drowned; the sisters returned to their father and never broke up]: Muchnik 1944:70-71; Dungans [the cannibal overhears, how the mother jokingly promises the boy that his uncle will come for him on a donkey; enters, says that he is the woman's brother, takes her and her son away; on the way they notice that the ogre has a tail; in the cannibal house, a boy cooked, his mother hides his arms and legs; women who are fed are taught to switch seats with the ogre's mother, run away with 8 chopsticks and a mirror; a cannibal mistakenly eats his mother, chases a woman, picks up abandoned sticks, a mirror, returns home with them every time; women leave a hot stone near his house, he sits on it, runs away]: Riftin et al. 1977, No. 21:146-149;.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. 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 stoned it; she turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus-a monster with twelve heads; the mangus said, "Will you give me your 800-headed herd or would you prefer to give 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 longer, collecting and destroying nits; then continued his pursuit, threw his stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the horse told the boy to throw the bar; the boy did it, 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 did it in front of the mangus a dense forest grew; when the mangus crossed it, the boy threw down the mirror; it turned into an ocean, the mangus drowned in it; the horse said: "Your parents are rich people, but they care more and love their livestock than kids. 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.
Amur - Sakhalin. Orochi [(=2002, No. 2:106; 2003, No. 23:448; 2005, No. 50:477-478); father dies; mother tells six daughters to run away before she dies, because the seventh, eldest is cannibal; sisters dance to make her laugh; the seventh is dancing naked, the eldest laughs, they see human veins on her teeth; they run away on skis; five have mounts made of rags, ropes, moose, wire, iron plates; they they tear, the cannibal eats them; at the sixth, younger attachment made of iron chains; she throws a comb, a mirror; a forest, a lake appear; the eldest gnaws through the forest, drowns in the lake; the youngest comes to the young man, goes out married]: Bereznitsky 1999, No. 19:151.
The Great Southwest. (Wed. Tiwa (Taos): Parsons 1940a, No. 23 [contrary to her younger sister's warning, the Apache woman says the bison's skull was handsome, she would marry it; Bison takes her away; the Opossum gives her husband magical remedies, warns that Bisons sleep with their eyes open; husband finds his wife in the herd, takes him away, they climb a tree; she urinates, she is noticed by a calf; when her husband kills Chief Bisons with an arrow, a woman cries; he kills her too; bakes his head; tells his son and daughter to go eat meat; The head hisses; the children are hungry, they eat meat; the head chases them; the tribe migrates; the dog (actually a witch doctor) hides for fire gives them food; the old possumic woman reports that their father married Coyotich; gives them good luck, an awl, a brush, a mirror; the children come to the old woman; her leg is swollen to crush the sleeping girl; the boy asks to spare them; the crow says that the old woman needs to bring rotten water, wet firewood; the brother pretends that his sister needs to pee, runs away, carrying her on the back; throws an awl, the old woman takes him for a boy, grabs him, her arms and legs stick (resin doll motif); she can hardly free herself; an abandoned brush turns into a thicket, a mirror into ice; an old woman falls on the ice, crashes to death; children come to people, they are starving; children refuse to stay with them], 27 [the dog swallows beads; two girls and their brother find them in her litter; while they are stringing, people migrate; children come to the old cannibal woman (as at 23); the frog tells the boy what firewood and water the old woman needs; gives him a brush, a mirror, an awl; abandoned objects turn into thickets, thorns, ice; the old woman continues to persecute; the crane by the river offers to remove his lice; the boy deceives him, crunching his moose tooth, and the old woman replies that she does not eat lice; children cross the river; when the old woman reaches the middle, the Crane folds its legs, it falls into the water; continues to pursue; Bear, Bison, Puma, Elk, Deer, Antelope, Wolf, Coyote can't help, killed by an old woman; Little Bison shakes an old woman with horns, throws her in the sun; children come to people; they hit the dog, leave; the dog keeps the fire for children; the boy becomes a good hunter, and the departed starve; return to abandoned]: 64-70, 81-83.
(Wed. Mesoamerica {Probably European influence in some details}. Otomi [The Mother of God ran away from the demons, God was still in her womb, but talked to her; told her to throw pebbles behind, they became mountains; this is how the mountains appeared; next time she asks to throw a fragment of a mirror, the sea appears; rivers, lakes and the sea have existed since then; for the third time, it asks to abandon plants planted by people (plantitas que siembran aquellos hombres), they have become thickets; since then Since then, there are forests and crops; every time demons approached, the fugitives threw something and it happened]:? ; Zapotecs [old woman Läy and old Gisaj were the first in the world; G. lay at the entrance to the cave all day; S. brought him food 13 times a day, very tired; once discovered how to cook corn, then how to weave and make clothes; on the seashore they found a box with a boy and a girl in it; they raised them, they carried food for G.; a man told them that G. was not their father, called them to him, gave them eggs throw one G. in the head, the others into the body; he will die, we have to take out the heart, fill G.'s body with wasps, let S. cook the heart like it's the heart of a deer; the frog from the river told L. that she was going to eat her husband's heart; L. came with her children to G.'s body, turned it over, the wasp bit her, the children ran away; L. complained to her brother {? ; he is her husband's compadre, but hereinafter referred to as her compadre}; he advised using a suction stone and sucking the babies back; L. is going to burn the children in the steam room; the boy drills in the floor beforehand exit; run away, leaving the leaves with magnesium; they burst in the heat, L. and his brother think their brains are bursting; L. does not find their needle, mirror, comb; children have filled the suction stone with pepper in advance, L. breathed in, almost died; her brother (compadre) is a serpent, chasing children; they throw a machete (lake), a needle (vine), a comb (also a vine), a mirror (fire, the snake is burned); the girl is thirsty; to get water, ready to sacrifice her eye; God comes up, tells her not to do this-she'll be the moon, her brother the sun]: Stubblefield, Stubblefield 1969:47-62;
(Cf. Central Andes. The mountains of Peru (Ancash, Junin, Huancavelica, Ayacucho, Cusco, Puno depots) [two dozen versions; 1) a boy and a girl get in touch (often incest); 2) for various reasons, they move away from people; 3) a young man returns home to get food, money, etc.; 4) one of his relatives (usually his father) kills him, mistaking him for a thief or a stray dog; he is mourned and they bury; 5) he returns to his beloved in the form of a living dead or spirit; 6) seems strange (he does not eat, he has fire in his mouth, etc.); 7) calls the girl on a long journey; 8) they come to a lonely home, whose mistress (old or young) warns the girl about who her lover is; 9) gives objects, usually soap, comb, mirror, needle, ribbon; 10) the girl runs and throws objects that turn into a mountain, a thorny forest, a lake, a river, a long road; 11) a girl runs to a monastery, church, wagon, etc.; 12) finds out that the woman in the hut was the Holy Virgin]: Morote Best 1958:799-800; Quechua ( Arequipa) [famine came, the stepmother tells her husband to get rid of his stepson and stepdaughter; the father sent them to the forest to seek food; they came to the witch's house; she fed the boy better than the girl to make him fat ; ate; sister found her brother's bones, fled; the old woman then, a gust of wind, carried the girl forward; the old woman catches up again; the girl threw the mirror (the lake, the old woman swam across), the needle (the prickly thickets ), a thread (the road became winding); a rope from the sky, the girl also clung to it; the girl took a rat out of the bag, it gnawed the rope, the old woman fell and crashed]: Weber, Meier 2008:161-167).