L81a3. A demon with a golden spoon .14.23.31.
The girl sees the demon in a frightening and disgusting form. The next time he asks what she said about him (what she saw), the girl replies that she praised his beauty and manners (she saw him in an attractive look). Usually a girl eventually answers the truth, and men hiding in ambush kill an angry demon.
Kabila, Arabs from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Maldives, Lithuanians.
North Africa. Kabila: Grim 1983 [the man has 7 daughters; one is smart (Dzidza), one is stupid, the others are so-so; he went on the Hajj, leaving food, drink and fuel for a year; left a dog named Khudaya; Gulya lives nearby, she is afraid of dogs; every time Gulya comes and says that he will eat D., the dog replies that he is on guard and Gulya D. will not eat; after learning from the Stupid that supplies for a year, Gulya came when the girls began to leave the house; told the Stupid that she would bring food, but the dog was interfering; they killed her together; but the dog's blood was responsible for her; D. found blood, hid it in a hole in the wall; when the Stupid washed away blood from the floor, blood from the wall continues to answer; but the Stupid Gulya was also found there; after the dog did not answer, the gulya began to break through the door; D. ran away, asks the moon what the cannibal was doing now; she replies that she ate one sister; then another; and so on everyone; D. came to a house where seven hunters lived; they said that if a man came, he would be their friend, and if the woman was the wife of her will find; one of them was found by D.; when the hunters leave, they tell you not to eat the beans that the cat plays; otherwise she will write on the fire, it will go out, she will have to go for the fire to the ghoul; this happened when she looked at the ghoul and Grabbing the coals, D. saw that he was eating a mule, put his skin and guts on his head; in the evening, the ghoul came and asked what D. saw; she replied that the ghoul ate a fat camel, there was a caftan on his shoulders, and his head beautiful turban; ghoul is gone; so 4 evenings in a row; hunters returned on the fifth day; told Gul to tell Gul about the intestines on his head, he would break the doors and they would kill him; and so it happened; the hunter who found D. married her]: 22-32; Rivière 1882, No. 6 [a woman asks the moon who is the most beautiful in the world; the moon replies that a woman and she, but her daughter lying in the cradle will surpass them both; the daughter has grown up, went to get a ball of threads, came to someone's house; hides and cooks secretly; the children tell the owner of the house that none of them cook; the owner waited for the girl (her name Thizourith), married her; she ate a bean, the cat tells you to give it to her, otherwise it will extinguish the fire; T. offers other beans, but the cat demands this one; extinguishes the fire; she comes to the ogre for fire; he begins to go to her and ask her what she is like saw; T. replies that he was sitting on the sofa eating partridges; the husband tells me to ask why the cannibal came; in response, the cannibal wants to eat the woman, but her husband shot him; the woman came to her father, who asked open her mouth, threw opium into her daughter's mouth, she lost consciousness; her husband found her; put the body in a chest, sent it on a camel, the sultan saw him, took out the body; the servants noticed the opium pill, took it out, the woman came to life; told the camel to bring her back to her husband; everyone is happy]: 215-221; Moroccan Arabs [parents are dead, seven brothers take care of Aisha's younger sister, give her a Minoush cat; go on business, putting there are 7 doors in the house; A. eats a pea without sharing it with the cat; she urinates on a box of matches; suggests that A. go to her neighbors for the fire; she sees a light in the distance, comes, there's a ghoul sitting on a donkey the head, interferes with a donkey's foot in the cauldron, donkey intestines on the head; gives coals, as if accidentally scratching A.'s hand; she goes home, leaving a bloody trail; the ghoul walks over him, asking what appearance he was at home; A. replies that he was sitting on a golden chair, stirring the soup with a silver spoon, a silk turban on his head; the ghoul breaks only one door and leaves; like this every evening; brothers come on the seventh evening; on the seventh evening they come; they dig a hole in front of the door; this time A. answers the ghoul that he was sitting on a donkey head, etc.; the ghoul breaks in, falls into a hole, he was burned; he manages to say that A. will die at his hands; in a few years the raven pulled the bone out of Gulya's grave, threw it at A., piercing it, she died; before that, the cat died]: El Koudia 2003, No. 1:1-6; Algerian Arabs: Belamri 1982 [7 brothers hunt, their sister stays at home with a cat, she plays with a bean; the girl crumbled the bean out of mischief; the cat demanded him back, refused to take another one; to punish the girl, she wrote to the fire, extinguishing it; the girl went to look for fire, I saw smoke in the distance, Gulya came to the house; at first he pretends not to understand what she needed; sits in a donkey skin cape, donkey intestines wrapped around his head, roasts a donkey's carcass; gives fire, but hurts her heel ; on the way home, the girl leaves a bloody trail; the swallow covers blood droplets with earth; near the house accidentally touches the wounded heel; the girl is hurt, she drives the swallow; out of resentment, she again exposes bloody trail; ghoul comes and asks what the girl saw; she replies that the ghoul was wearing silk, wearing a silk turban, frying a gazelle; the ghoul is happy, leaves; so many days; the girl turns pale in fear, loses weight; the brothers ask her, hide, tell her next time to answer the gulya that he was in donkey skin, etc.; the ghoul breaks into the house in fury, falls into a dug hole, is filled with burning brushwood and burned]: 65-70; Filleul de Pétigny 1951 [The merchant has three daughters; the youngest Aisha is the smartest and most unfeminine valiant; when leaving, the merchant tells his daughters to share any food with the cat; the eldest daughters did not share the cat extinguished the fire; A. went to get the fire, came to the hut of the gulya; he sits on a donkey's head, instead of a spoon; the ghoul brought donkey meat, began to cook; A. calls the gulya a handsome young man, says that he was cooking lamb and interfering with the soup with a golden spoon; the ghoul gave fire, but scratched A.'s leg to find a way to her house by drop of blood; at home A. told the sisters to remain silent if a ghoul appeared; when he came, she answers his questions as she likes: sitting on a golden chair, he mixed lamb soup with a golden spoon; the ghoul left; so many times; Father A. returned; A. dug a hole, covered it with her skin, sketched it into the brushwood pit; when the ghoul came, A. said she really saw; the ghoul fell into the hole, A. set fire to brushwood; ghoul: if any bone was left of me, she would take revenge; A. began to shovel the coals a bone scratched her cheek; after that, A. became even more inclined to engage in men's activities; the Sultan's son came to her; she agreed to put her ring on his finger; when he went hunting, A. put on men's clothes, met the Sultan's son, who did not recognize her, won and took away the ring; a week later she asked about the ring; everything was clarified; the Sultan's son left in disgrace; A. went on a journey; in a coastal country, lions come out of the sea, devour people; A. put images of lions on the walls, sea lions were afraid and left; A. sailed to Seksar Island; man said that cannibals lived there, he ran away from them alone and hid, climbing a tree; on the other part of the island, a local inhabitant jumped on that man's back and refused to get down; ordered wearing it, and he picked fruit from the trees; the man ran, the branches began to hit the person sitting in the eye, the man threw him off and ran away; in Yemen, A. defeated a monster with a crooked sword, whose name was Horath; began to rule this country under the name Dzou Horath]: 24-38; Tunisia: Al-Aribi 2009, No. 15 [Once upon a time there was a father with a 7-year-old daughter, Aisha. And one day he wanted to go on Hajj, but how would he leave his daughter alone? Aisha reassured him and said that he could go, but she would be alone and would not leave the house. He bought her everything she needed and left. Aisha lived with her cat. The cat asked her for a piece of meat every time, but Aisha could not give it to her because there was not much meat left, so the cat got angry and threw the boxes of matches into the well. Aisha climbed onto the roof and saw a neighbor lighting a fire. She asked him for fire, and he said he would only give it if she let her little finger be cut. She agreed. Then he gave her a coal. The next night, a neighbor came to her and knocked on the door and asked her how she liked his house. She answered him courteously and got rid of him with her cunning. This went on for a while, then her father came back. Aisha told her father everything about her angry neighbor, and her father decided to teach him a lesson. He dug a big hole in front of the house and covered it with grass. When an angry neighbor came in at night and asked Aisha how he treated her, she replied that he had treated her very badly. Then the neighbor got angry and was about to open the door by force, but fell into a hole. The father called the police and his angry neighbor was taken away. This is the end of all evil], 24 [Once upon a time Aisha had seven brothers. One day she was about to cook for them, went up to the roof, saw the smoke, and walked towards him. There was a ghoul, he gave her a coal, but he hurt her finger. She went home and blood kept dripping from her finger. A raven flew after her to hide traces of blood, but she hurt him and he flew away. Gul found her home and came to her every day to suck blood from her finger, which she put into the keyhole. The brothers found out about the ghoul and burned it. And cabbage grew in this place. Aisha cooked it, the brothers ate it and turned into birds. Aisha went to see an old lady. She told her she should get the heart of a ghoul and a gulsha. Aisha did so, cooked them with mehmes and put them on the roof. The brothers flew in, ate and became human again. Once a maid found a ring in the house, gave it to Aisha, who put it on and died. The brothers did not want to bury her, put her on a camel, and the camel came to a group of men playing. One came up to him and accidentally touched Aisha's hand, the ring fell, she came to life, married this man and had 2 children with him. Then her older brother went looking for her. I met Aisha's husband by chance at the market. He recognized him by his strong resemblance and invited him home. Aisha told her son her story, and her brother recognized it. Everyone is happy], 82 [A man and his wife gathered for the Hajj, and they left their little daughter Aisha at home, told them not to leave the house or open it to anyone, and left for a year. Aisha swept the floor, found a bob, called her cat. She didn't come, so Aisha ate it herself. Then the cat came and asked why Aisha was calling her. She told her that then the cat began to demand this bean from her, otherwise she would throw the last pack of matches into the well. Then Aisha climbed onto the roof of the house and saw a house in the distance where the fire was burning. She took small stones and began to scatter them so as not to get lost on the way back. When she came to this house, she saw Ibique Belharis roasting donkey meat on fire and his children standing around. Aisha asked for coal. Gul asked her finger to be cut off in return. She was bleeding on her way home. Gul came to her every night and asked her what she saw when she looked inside the house. She replied that she saw him roasting lamb meat and his children around him like gazelles. When the ghoul left, Aisha would go up to the roof and ask the moon when her parents would come back. They came back, and she told them that the ghoul had cut off four fingers. My father dug a hole in front of the house, lit a fire in it and covered it. When the ghoul came in at night, she told him he was roasting donkey meat and donkey skin on it. Gul wanted to break the door, but he fell into a hole and cooked himself. Parents promised they would no longer leave Aisha alone] in Korovkina MS; the Arabs of Libya (Tripoli) [seven brothers ask their father's sister: if their mother now gives birth to a girl, hang a spindle on the fence and we will come back, and if the boy is a sickle and we leave home; a girl Udêa was born, but her aunt hung a sickle; 15 years later, W. once quarreled with her peers, they said that her 7 brothers were because of her left the house; her mother gave her a camel, a black maid named Barka, and her black husband; a day later, the maid demanded that W. get off the camel and let her sit down; W. called out to her mother, who told B. to go on foot; but on the third, the mother no longer heard her daughter's voice, B. forced her to change places; the caravans sent them to the brothers' house; before approaching, the maid put W. on a camel, but smeared them her resin; the black man threatened to kill her if she told her; her tear fell on her arm, her older brother erased the tar, W. admitted that he cut off the heads of a black man and a black woman; when leaving, the brothers always tell her sister give the cat what it eats by itself; once she found and ate a bean; the cat demanded half - this particular bean, not the other; but the bean was already eaten and then the cat put out the fire; W. came for fire to the cannibal; he covers himself with one lip, put the other under him; for the coal he demanded from W. a strip of skin from ear to thumb; W. went home, leaving a trail of blood; the raven flew behind and covered the drops of blood with earth; W. scolded him: he frightened her; then the raven removed the earth, revealing blood; the ogre came and asked what W. saw; she replied that she saw him sleeping on silk and silk closes; the ogre laughed and walked away, breaking one of the six wooden doors; so every time; when the seventh iron door was left, W. sent a letter to the brothers with a dove; the brothers rode until midnight The cannibal has not yet come; they have dug a hole with hot coals in it; W. replies to the ogre that he covers himself with his own lip and sleeps on his lip; he broke the door, but fell into a hole, burned down; one nail bounced; stabbed W. in the arm and she lost consciousness; the brothers told the camel to take his mother's body home; three young men stopped him, found the body, one removed the ring from W.'s finger, the fingernail also fell out, W. woke up; I returned to my brothers, with her they returned to their parents; they stay with them]: Stumme 1898, No. 2:81-93 (retelling and quotes in Cosquin 1922b: 178-180).
South Asia.
Maldives [On going to a well near the cemetery, AimināBi saw an evil toothy bony witch sprinkling sand from her skull on her head; when she got home, AB fell ill; a witch came at night and asked what AI had said about her; she replied that she said that she was sprinkling gold sand on herself; the same the next night; then AB's husband came back and cooked a mixture of hot pepper; when the witch came, her husband told AB to tell her that she was pouring plain sand from her skull; the witch lowered her umbilical cord into the roof hole, which began to grow and fill the room; AB's husband cut her off and smeared the stump with pepper; the witch ran away and never came back]: Romero-Frias 2012, No. 29:115-117.
Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 124 [stepmother sent her stepdaughter to get fire, she came to the witch, answers the questions: she entered the gate, pushing her latch; there were jugs on the fence in the yard; she entered the canopy, opening the door in the hut with a wand, one mistress on the bench, the hair under the bench, the other on the bed, her hair under the bed; a happy witch dressed up the girl, gave money; the stepmother sent her own daughter; went through the gate throwing a human hand away; human heads on the fence; opened the door to the canopy with a man's finger; in the hut there is one witch on the bench, the cosmas under the bench, the other on the bed, the scythes under the bed; her witches tore, finger in the canopy instead of a stick, hand instead of a latch, heads on a fence stake; mother saw what happened and died], 125 [36 options; in some storytellers improvise to describe salvation girls; the weaver, the spinner and the seamstress worked in the evening, the ray went out, only the younger sister agreed to go for the fire; on the way, a white pan in a white carriage meets white horses and a white dog, then like this but black and red; everyone does not advise going - you will not return; the girl came to the hut; the gate is spinning on the person's leg, on the head fence, the door is closed by hand, there is a hand at the door, there is a barrel of blood in the hallway; in the hut a hole and a head on the cola, the laume heats up by the pit, asks what the girl saw; she describes the lords; laume: this is my day, night, fire; heads are pots, hands are rakes and a twist (?) , brine in barrels, broom and poker in the pit; didn't you see anything else? - Nothing. Laume tore it apart], 126 [a spinner, a weaver, a seamstress and a cook work in the evening; there was a ban on lighting a fire; only a woman outside town has a fire; the first three say that they are shining a tow, a loom tycoon, needle; the cook is forced to go; meets a white rider on a white horse with a white dog, beyond black, red; then people stand upside down; at the door there is a head, where the pen is the human tongue, in the kitchen - intestines, hand near the pot, bones are cooked in the pot, the witch eats a small child; demands to say what the girl saw; gives explanations: riders - day, night, dawn; people on their heads - fence, hand - ladle, jelly is brewed in a pot; in the end, the girl says she sees a witch eating a baby; - And I'll eat you too! And ate]: 304-306, 306-308, 308-310.