L94A. Grabbed by the beard .16.27.28.31.-.37.39.

When a person leans towards the water, the demon grabs his beard and lets him go for promising to fulfill his demand.

Germans (Pomerania), Hungarians, Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Ryazan, Voronezh; {and others?}) , Western Ukrainians (Pokutye), Northern Ukrainians (Chernihiv), Belarusians, Poles, Lithuanians, Lutsies, Estonians, Setus, Veps, Norwegians, Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Southern Selkups, Sym and Western Evenks, Negidals, Forest Yukaghirs, Coastal Koryaks.

Western Europe. Germans (Pomerania) [spouses are childless; husband went to the forest, leaned down for a drink from a stream, grabbed by the beard; voice: a son will be born; when he is 13 years old, bring here; you will live rich; man promised and released; saw a huge black frog, she grabbed his beard with her paw; when he returned home, there was a lot of gold on the table; when he found out that his wife was pregnant, the man hid the gold in the chest and carried the key with by himself; the young man grew up, studied best; not afraid of what the devil was promised, he came with his father to the stream; the frog told him to go to hell; the young man took a crucifix and a candle with him; on the way in the forest he met a robber; he asks if he can be saved; the young man promised to ask the hell about it; the door of hell opened, but it's dark; the young man lit a candle and picked up the crucifixion; the devil and devils don't know why the young man came; when a frog appeared, the young man hit her with a crucifixion and killed her; he was told to get out of hell; he asked about the robber; the devil pointed to the cradle of hot iron: there is his place; but if he finds the first the knife with which he killed a person will plant him, take care of him, and he will grow, bloom and bear fruit, then the robber will be saved; the robber found it, watered it; when the young man came to this place again, there an apple tree was growing; the robber's body suddenly fell to dust, and his soul flew to heaven]: Jahn 1891, No. 61:336-339.

The Balkans. Hungarians [motive known, Aarne 1930 (FFC 92) :105]: Christiansen 1959:96.

Central Europe. Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians [A miraculous escape: a young man promised a line (to the water king, sorcerer) comes to him on time, performs with the help of a girl ( daughters of the water king) difficult tasks, runs with her; they turn into different animals and objects. - Tales number 313A begin with an episode: devil (waterman, etc.) grabs the beard of a traveler who tried to get drunk]: SUS 1979, No. 313A: SUS 1979, No. 313A: 113-114; Russians (Arkhangelskaya: Severnaya Dvina) [the tsar did not know that his wife was pregnant, wanted to get drunk from the well, grabbed by the beard: give it who you don't know at home; Ivanushka was born; (grew up, came to the sorcerer); he tells Mary Tsarevna to know; she flies in: tomorrow they will release 12 ducks, she has a white feather; found out; new task: sew shoes, while a selimenka with gunpowder is burning; Marya: we must run; a flint threw: a river of fire from heaven to earth; (the sorcerer crossed); threw a baton: ldes (cut through); M. became a chapel, I. a deacon; the pursuer did not found out, came back; reached the city; M.: they will give the child in their arms - don't take it, you'll forget me; I. took it, forgot, they married him; M. became a flower, the old man tore it off, brought it to him, put it on the window; in the morning everything tidy up; on the third night, the old man waited for her, gave her clothes; at the wedding, a pigeon and a dove flew out of the pie, started a conversation; dove: forget me; I. remembered, married M.]: Mitrofanova, Fedorova 1966, No. 6:113-114; Russians (Olonetskaya: Zaonezhye) [the king bent over the well, someone grabbed him; let him go, gave water for a promise to give what he did not know at home; the king did not know that a daughter was born; the water promised to come for a gift in 12 years; when his daughter was 12 years old, the king put her in a cart, harnessed a goat, he took her to another country; from a counter wagon {is there a sorcerer?} they ask the goat what he is lucky; he replies that brushes and pins; {it's not entirely clear, but they are running away from the chase}; the girl asks the goat what she can hear, he each time replies that the chase is on his heels ; the girl throws a comb (ice floe from east to west, from earth to sky), a brush (bone mountain); the pursuers drilled, cut through; the towel is a river of fire, the chase stopped; the girl locked herself in the house, but the king had to open it, he married her; Yaga-baba pushed the queen into the water, replaced her with her daughter; the king is surprised that his wife is thin; she asks to slaughter the goat; he comes to the sea: sister Natasyushka, I will be stabbed tomorrow; N.: a white stone presses my neck, the sands fall asleep, the water floods my eyes; the king overheard, took out N., on the fourth day she came to life, told everything; Yaga Baba and her daughter tied to 12 stallions and let them into the open field; "Where the head fell, there is a slit {rocky ridge}, where the corpse is there is a swamp, where the legs are hooks, where the hands are there are rakes"]: Karnaukhova 2009, No. 64:176-180; Russians (Ryazan) [the soldier returns home, leaned to the river to get drunk, the waterman grabbed his beard: give me what you don't know at home; the soldier did not know that he left his wife pregnant; Ivan came to the house on swamp; the old man offers to recognize the bride Alyonushka; she says in a dream that she will dance and wave her handkerchief; then every day new tasks, A. repeats in a dream: morning is wiser; church is ready in the morning ; well; rye sown, squeezed, bread baked; the old man again tells the bride to be recognized; she says that she will dance and throw her leg back; I. and A. got married, A. tells me to run, left the spits responsible for themselves; with his ear to the ground, he realizes that force is chasing them; turns I. into a hut, himself into an old woman; a shepherdess and a lamb; a drake and the sea; when they got to I.'s parents, he forgot A., he is married; she flew to the wedding as a dove, said I. that she would cuckoo]: Smirnov 1917, No. 236:129-131; Russians (Ryazanskaya) [the merchant leaned over to the water for a drink, grabbed by the beard, must give what does not know at home; son Ivan is at home; at the age of 18 he went to the sorcerer; his 12 daughters are swimming, the young man hid Maria Tsarevna's clothes; the sorcerer tells me to recognize her among her sisters (her husband will sit on his face); collect scattered grain ( the birds collected); build a golden palace by morning; the palace is ready, M. tells him to run; chase; she chipped off as a goat, and I. as a shepherd; an apple tree and a watchman; when the father himself is chasing, M. tells Ivan to cross the river, she will grow up there as a flower, you have to pick it; and if you don't pick it, you'll forget it; and you'll forget not to take home what you don't know; M. became a crucian carp, and his father became a pike; he chased for three years, retreated; I. took it in his arms at home newborn brother, M. forgot, did not come to pick the flower; the shepherd cut off the flower to make a pipe; pipe: I. forgot me; M. became a teacher, I. met her (the informant does not remember)]: Samodelova 2013, No. 69:78-80; Russians (Voronezh, Bobrovsky District) [the tsar leaned to the well to drink water, the tsar bear grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know in the house; at this time the queen gave birth to twins: Ivan Tsarevich and Mary Tsarevna; the children were hidden in an underground ward; the parents died, the tsar bear came, the palace was empty, a chisel was stuck in the wall; replies that he should be thrown: where he will stick in, and dig there; the king bear found I. and M., took him to his place; the children asked for a drink; when the king bear went to get water, the eagle picked up the children and carried them, but the king bear scorched his wings; next time the children if they want to eat, the eagle carries; the third time the children are carried by a dristun goby; defecates three times in the face of a catching bear; then gives I. a comb and a towel; the abandoned comb turned into a forest, the bear gnawed; I. waved a towel - a lake of fire; the bear stopped chasing; brought the goby to his house in a clearing; tells him to slaughter and burn it, scatter the ashes in three ridges, a horse, a dog and an apple tree will grow; I. took a horse and the dog, brought a wolf cub and a bear cub from hunting; once he did not take the dog with him; the six-headed serpent flew in, became handsome, asked M. to build a bridge over the lake, took it away, and locked the dog and key into the lake threw it away; I. went to look; in the open field of a hut on chicken loaps, on dog heels; I.: turn your back to the forest, in front of me; in front of me; in the hut, baba yaga, bone leg from corner to corner, nose grew into the ceiling; baba- The yaga tells you to break three twigs from that apple tree, hit the castle, it will stop, you can pick up the dog and go to the snake; the dog, the wolf and the bear tore the snake, I. returned M.]: Afanasiev 1958, No. 201:90-93; Western Ukrainians (Pokutye) [pan bent over to the well to drink water; the underground king grabbed his beard: give him what you don't know at home; when the pan returned, it turned out that his wife had given birth to a son; he grew up at the age of 15 went to the forest; a voice came out of the fire: remind his father of his promise; the boy went to look for the underground king; there were 12 white shirts by the river and 12 ducks in the water; he hid one shirt; the ducks went ashore, became girls; whose clothes he hid, says that they are 12 daughters of an underground king; stomped, a passage to the lower world opened; teaches her father to approach her father on his knees; he gives 3 tasks; 1) to build a castle overnight; the girl tells go to bed, the castle is ready in the morning; 2) identify my youngest daughter among 12, otherwise she will be given to live pigs to eat; girl: my ear will be spinning; 3) sew boots; the girl can't, they are running, for the young man is answered by her spit; the chase; the girl has turned herself into a field, the young man into a sower; the lake and the fisherman; the tavern and the tavern; now the girl throws the comb - the dense forest; they are almost there; the young man goes forward, the girl tells him not to kiss the child, otherwise he will forget her; he kissed; a wedding is being prepared with a girl; the girl has hired a cook, baked a loaf and two doves; a dove and a dove exchange phrases about how the young man forgot everything; Mr. is glad that his son returned, and with his bride; the cook became a dove, flew for the young man; {it is unclear, he still married the daughter of an underground king or an earthly girl}]: Zinchuk 2005b, No. 88:392-401; northern Ukrainians (Chernigov, Nezhinsky U.) [the hunter saw a well on the mountain, started drinking, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise what he did not know at home; when he returned home, it turned out that his son was born; when Ivan is 7 years old, he went to the snake; woman towards: 12 doves will fly to the river; we must wait for another one, hide the shirt; the girl promises to call the one who took it father; brother; when she said that her husband, I. came out from behind the bushes; she is the daughter of a snake, they came to him; serpent: in order to cut down the forest in a day, harvest crops, bake bread; the girl called her servants, did everything; teach the horse to fly (done); the bridge over the wide river (done); the girl tells him to run, ask for cherries be responsible for her; the serpent sent 12 doves in pursuit; the girl became a lamb, I. a shepherd; church and pop (I. each time pretends not to understand the questions of the pursuers and answers inadvertently); the serpent flies by itself; river and ruff; the snake became a pike, did not catch up with the ruff; I. and the girl reached Ivan's father, got married, began to live happily ever after]: Malinka 1902, No. 17:282-286; Poles [childless king returned to the castle, wanted to drink; the scoop at the well was not handed over; the king leaned to the water, Koschey grabbed his beard, let him give him what he did not know at home, and when he returned he would immediately find; the king promised the well disappeared, the king caught up with the squad; found his newborn son at home; his name was Nenadalek ("unexpected"); when he grew up, he met an old man with green eyes, he recalled his promise; N. went and found it by the sea 12 girlish shirts, and saw 12 jaws in the water; hid one shirt; the jaws became girls, dressed and flew away; the 12th asked to return the shirt, promised to help; she is Koschey's youngest daughter; ordered crawl to K.'s throne on their knees; they fell into the underworld; K. laughed, did not kill N., promised to give tasks; 1) create a palace with a garden overnight (the girl created it); get to know the youngest daughter ( girl: you will notice the sun under your right eyebrow); in the presence of K., sew a pair of shoes while the straw is burning; the girl tells you to run, leaves the spit responsible for herself; K. sends servants; the girl turned herself into a river, N. into a bridge, a horse into a crow; into a forest with many paths; into a church, a priest, a bell tower; K. did not recognize, returned; the girl tells me not to enter the city: if R. kisses the one who came out there towards the child, he will forget her; and so it happened; the girl became a cornflower in the field; the old man found it, transplanted it, brought it to him; someone cooks and cleans; the fortune teller advised to guard, the old man found the girl ; on this day, the Queen gets married; the girl speckled the cake, asked the cook to serve; two doves jumped out from there, began to tell how N. forgot the girl; the Queen remembered everything, came with the girl to his father's country; wedding]: Lifshits-Artemyeva 2017:209-221 (=Wratislaw 1890, No. 17:108-121).

Baltoscandia. Lithuanians: Kerbelite 2014, No. 70 [28 options; while hunting, the king bent down for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give back someone he did not leave home; this is a daughter; when she is 20, the king left so as not to see what would happen; the goat tells her to climb into the barrel, takes the barrel on a sleigh; meets three groups of devils, sings well, the funny devils move on; the king ordered the ribbon to be thrown over the sea, the goat crossed it, bringing the queen; the devils followed; they threw a ribbon, pulled them, all the devils drowned], 71 [about the same; the goat hides the girl on the cart in straw], 72 [wolves are chasing, drowning at the river crossing]: 155-157, 157-163, 163-164; Lebite 1965:146-148 [the king leaned to the water for a drink, someone grabbed his beard, told him to promise to give back what was not left at home 18 years later; a newborn daughter is at home, 18 years later her father took her to the palace overseas; the goat offers to take the girl home; three times answers the matchmakers on his way that he is carrying hay, singing a song to them; calls the king, he sends a ship with silk ropes; matchmakers run to the sea, ask for the same; the king throws them ropes from the tow, in the middle of the sea they tear, the matchmakers sink], 149-153 [the fisherman did not catch the fish, he says Let the hell cling, the devil gives fish for promising to give what you don't know at home; a son was born at home when he grew up, his father sent him to the old man of Gray Mountain Kost (SGC); the young man comes to one, then to the other old woman; the first calls birds, the second is animals, no one knows the way to SGC; the old man sends three swans, the daughter of SGC, to the river, tell them to hide the wings of the youngest; he hides the wings of the eldest, middle, swans take their wings, fly away; then the youngest, she asks for his wings to be returned, puts the young man on his back, brings him to SGC; he promises him a daughter if the young man can 1) uproot the forest, plow the field, collect wheat , bake pies for the wedding (by order of the Swan, the devils do everything); 2) go around one of the three stallions (this is SGC himself, the Swan tells him to stab him in the neck with a knife); 3) identify the bride among the crows (he will sit on the edge, scratches his beak); identified three times; 4) swim in boiling milk (the wife stabbed the vat, the husband is unharmed); the wife leaves drooling responsible for her, runs with her husband; 1) turns into rye, the husband is old, devils return; 2) church and priest (same); 3) lake and pike; SGC chases himself, becomes a bull, tries to drink the lake, bursts]; Lutsie (West 1893) [in the forest a man leaned to the water to drink; water grabbed his beard: give what you don't know at home; a son was born at home; grew up, went to the forest, the mother gave 9 cakes with her milk; the devil got involved; the boy consistently throws cakes over his left shoulder; they they close the way to the line, he runs to the spring every time to drink; the blacksmith hid the boy; the devil demands to be unlocked; the blacksmith: spill his tongue; grabbed his tongue with hot mites, the devil ran away; the blacksmith gave a horse, tells not look at what he met; the young man did not look at the underground dwarfs, at the naked old women, but looked out of the corner of his eye at the girls; the horse was gone; the devil tells him to get a princess; gives ducks, pigs and veal - these gifts are enough; he gave it to a wolf, bear and swan; there is a man as tall as a thumb on a stone, advises you to take it with you; a young man comes to the king; king: I have in the forest 9 years ago 30 stallions are missing; bring and get the princess; the bear brought; 30 oxen: the wolf brought; the princess lost the ring in the sea: get it; the swan dives, took it on the third attempt; the king tells you to go to the hot iron bath; the first person with a finger enters, the bath becomes cold, the tooth does not fall on the tooth; so three times; swim in boiling water; the man with the finger first, the water is warm, wash well; get to know the princess among many girls; she warned: she would stand on her left heel; next time: I'll stand on tiptoes; the third time: I won't be among others, I'll carry the bowl across the meadow; the king sends the young, giving money and gold; here and hell, a grave with burning resin, a rope through it: go through it, I'll return the horse; young man: show me how; hell went home on a rope, the young man cut it with a sword, the hell fell into the resin, only the smoke remained; they came home on horseback; wedding; ate and drink, flowing down his lips, didn't get into his mouth]: Annom et al. 2018:215-220; Estonians (Rannu) [the king saw a spring in the forest that did not exist; leaned down to drink, captured; released, promising to give something he does not know at home; and then he guessed that he had forgotten about his son; the devil took the boy and left him in the forest, but so much so that as soon as you knock on the stump, food appears; the young man has grown up; the old man teaches: three women will fly they will take off their clothes, they will swim; we must take the clothes that they put away from others; the guy takes the clothes twice and the girl takes them twice; the third time the old man teaches not to show; the girl promised stay; she is not a daughter like others, but was kidnapped by him as a child; hell tells her to build a stone bridge across the lake; cut down the forest and make beer {apparently finish all the work: sow barley, etc.}; the girl does everything; tame the black stallion; the girl: it's the devil himself, you have to put a hot scrap in your throat and hit the head with a hammer; recognize the girl among the others (the handkerchief will be beveled to the left; then one leg to the side); now we have to run, the girl left the spit responsible for her; the farmhand catches up with the devil, the girl became a herd of geese, the guy became a goose herd; then she was an ox, the guy was a ploughman; the lake and the duck; hell to catch a duck in the lake, but the shores came together and he was gone; the guy went ahead to the house; girl: don't kiss anyone; but when he put his younger brother to bed, he kissed him and forgot everything; the girl came to wedding with a new bride, the guy recognized her; asks guests what is better - an old gold ring or a new one; guests: old; guy told everything; wedding]: Mälk et al 1967, No. 51:121-126; setu ( Satserinna; recorded in Estonian) [the man went to sell linen, returned a year later, leaned over to the water for a drink, someone grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he did not know at home; for this while the wife gave birth to a son; (he grew up); one girl told the young man to take with him two loaves, two belts and a ball of yarn; the ball rolled, the young man followed; threw two lions on the waist, the other two on bread, they were his missed; Damn (vanahalb) tells you to plow the field, etc., bake bread; 2) build a church; 3) build an iron bridge; daughter Devil tells you to go to bed, does everything; 4) choose a wife among him daughters turned into mares, turtles (the assistant will bite and bite other horses, pigeons); the young man gets a wife; she tells him to run, leaves saliva responsible for herself; the devil sends in pursuit sons, the wife throws bark behind (forest grows; sons Devil chop down, hide axes, lark says he sees where, they have to hide), clay (mountain; same: lark, shovels), water from glasses (lake; Devils drink, burst); young man brings his wife home]: Järv et al. 2009, No. 33:139-141; Veps: Ariste 1964, No. 5 [returning from town, a man leaned to the water, someone grabbed his beard; give him what you don't know at home; his wife just gave birth to a son, the sun is in front, a month in the back; the guy grew up and went to the ogre; he has a pot of boiling water; the guy threw the ogre into the cauldron, covered with a lid; went home; on the way he bought a sheep from a shepherd; he ripped it off, put it on himself; began to live with an old woman whose son was killed, but the horse, armor, weapons remained; the guy smashes the enemy three times; when the king found out what it was, gave him his daughter]: 18-19; Onegin, Zaitseva 1996, No. 8 [the fisherman leaned down for a drink from the lake; grabbed the waterman by the beard, ordered him to give the most precious thing; the fisherman promised a daughter; did not tell his wife and daughter; in the evening there was a knock on the door, the old man told her to come tomorrow, the daughter was not yet born; he told his daughter that he had forgotten his scallop and mirror by the lake, asked to bring it; the girl comes to Baba Yaga; she warns of water, sends to her sister; she hid the girl in straw, drove her on a sleigh, the water chases; the old woman and the girl turned into a priest and a church; then into a lake and a ruff; the water tried to drink the lake, grabbed ruff off the tail, choked and burst; the old woman brought the girl to her parents]: 60-62, 86-87; Norwegians [the king leans to the river for a drink, grabbed by the beard, forced to fulfill the promise of the one who grabbed him demon]: Christiansen 1959:96.

Volga - Perm. Mordva: Evseviev 1964, No. 13 [an old man three years old in the forest, leaned to the water, Vedyava grabbed his beard; refuses the stallion, the ricks, the beekeeper, demands what the old man does not know; at home Three-year-old son; grew up, went to Vedyava; Baba Yaga sends to his older sister, she sends to her eldest sister; she says that her brother has 40 stakes, but the last one does not have a head yet; they will come to swim three ducks will become girls, we must hide the youngest's dress; she promises to become a wife; tells her not to eat what her father will offer; he tells 1) to do all the work overnight, from uprooting the forest to baking bread; the wife tells the servants to do everything; 2) the iron bridge from the porch to the church, on the sides of the apple tree with apples and birds (the same); 3) tame the stallion (this is the girl's father, she became a man, tamed him herself with a hammer and with iron bars); he promises to marry the young, the wife tells him to run, otherwise the father will kill, leaves the spits responsible for himself; turns himself into a cow, her husband into a shepherd; church and pop; himself into a ruff, her husband in lake; this time the father himself is chasing, telling his daughter to be 7 years old female; the wife says that she will become a woman in 7 days, but at home the husband should not kiss his younger sister; he kissed, forgot his wife; she flew a dove to a new bride, became a woman, the bride sees a reflection in the well, thinks that she is so beautiful, returns without taking water; the same younger sister; the young man came himself, saw his wife, everything remembered the wedding with her]: 77-87; Samorodov 1972:83-95 [a childless old man leans to the stream for a drink, Vedyava grabs his beard; he promises to give what he does not know at home; when he returns, he finds out that have been absent for three years, he has a son; three baba yagi consistently send the grown-up young man further; the latter tells the youngest duck girl to hide his clothes when they arrive to swim in the lake; they are daughters her brother; her father tells 1) to carry out the entire cycle of work in a day from cutting wood for arable land to baking bread; 2) an iron bridge on the sides of the apple tree; the wife tells the forest men to do everything; 3) go around the stallion (this is the father-in-law himself, his wife tells him to beat him with a hammer and an iron bar); the girl leaves her spit to answer, the young run; she becomes a cow, he is a shepherd; church and pop; servants do not recognize the fugitives, father-in-law himself flies with a falcon; a lake and a ruff; father-in-law pike cannot swallow a ruff; tells her daughter to be a dog for seven years; the wife tells her husband not to kiss her younger sister at home; she chases the dog away, kisses her brother herself, he forgets everything ; he is married, he sees a reflection in the well, remembers his real wife; he is married to a dog, seven days later she turns into a woman], 98-107 [the sick Eagle asks him not to shoot three times; Suralya agrees, feeds the Eagle with bulls; he carries it across the sky, drops it three times and catches it; in the copper, silver palace, Surale does not give bodies to save the Eagle; palaces burn; they give in gold; the Eagle does not order open the bodies on the way; S. opens, wealth ("cars") falls out; the old man puts everything back for promising to give what you don't know at home; son Pandai goes to the old man; his daughter teaches that do; the tasks are the same as on pages 83-95; the girl's father is the last of the heads on the stakes; the fugitives turn into a birch tree and a forester, a mountain and a rat, a river and a fish; horses drink the river, burst; at the young man's house, the wife tells he does not kiss his older sister; she kisses him herself, he forgets everything; the girl promises to marry the one who brings her ram ring at night; he enters the ram, remembers, marries], 262-268 [(=Pomerantseva 1973:69-75); the old man bends down to drink, Vedyava grabs his beard; he promises to give what he does not know at home; returns three years later, his daughter meets him; grows up, goes to V.; she has a front tooth silver, it is waxed; the mother gives a comb and a brush, the father gives a whetstone; old men and old women ask if she has seen the girl's Silver Teeth; she laughs, the wax falls off, they chase her, she throws objects; the comb turns into a forest, the whetstone turns into a mountain, the pursuers gnaw through obstacles; the brush turns into a tree, the girl climbs it, asks her sister living in the sky to lower the thread; she consistently replies that he will plow the field, sow hemp, soak the tow, hide it; lowers the thread when old men and old women gnaw through the trunk; in the sky he hides his sister from his bear husband; he eats coals, not finds it hidden; the sister puts her in a chest, tells her to take it to her parents; the silver tooth from the chest says, I see every time the Bear wants to open the chest; the father finds a daughter in the chest]; Paasonen 1941 [on his way from abroad, the old man leaned down for a drink, the devil grabs his beard, tells him to promise to give what he does not know at home; he meets his daughter at home, her front tooth is silver, he is waxed; parents decide to send her to her older sister; she meets young devils, then middle-aged devils, replies that she did not see a girl with a silver tooth; laughs at the old ones, the wax falls off, devils they chase, the follower girl throws back parts of the spinning wheel; a lime, maple, birch forest grows, the devils gnaw through them; when she throws a spinning rod, a tin mountain grows, the girl climbs on it, calls her older sister who is in heaven; that follower replies that she is already plowing the field, sowing, collecting, fluttering hemp, waving a rope, etc.; the devils have almost gnawed through the mountain, the girl climbs the rope to sister, that follower hides her from her bear husband, making her a needle in moss, a coal in the coals, a garbage dump in a pile of garbage; the bear eats it but does not find the girl; the sister turns the girl into a pea hides it in a cake, tells the Bear to take the gift to her father; The silver tooth from the box says, I see every time the Bear wants to eat a cake; at the house, the Bear was attacked by dogs, he ran away, his father found daughter; at home The bear is looking for a wife to eat; she tells him to open his mouth on the roof, throws a millstone there, the Bear dies]: 282-291; Marie: Sabitova 1992 (meadow) [(=Aktsorin 1984:133-139); old man Yangelde leans to the river for a drink, Black Water grabs his beard, tells his youngest son to marry the old man's daughter Silver Tooth Pampálche; she paints over her silver teeth with resin, runs away ; on the way, she sees Verny Vodyanoy on horseback in a luxurious outfit; Old Water Woman carrying wine to the wedding sings; P. laughs, resin bounces off her teeth, the old woman recognizes her; A. climbs a pine tree, an old woman cuts the trunk with an ax; the hare offers to chop it instead, throws an ax into the lake; the old woman drinks the lake, cuts it again; the same episode with the Fox; with the Bear; when the pine falls, sister P. lowers her down the mountain silk swing; this older sister is already married to Vodyanoy; she puts the youngest in a bag, tells her husband to take it to her father as if there are cakes in a bag; when he sits down to try cakes, the girl screams, I see ; returns to his father]: 87-93; Tudorovskaya, Eman 1945 [the hunter has Srebrotoothed Pampálce's daughter; picking berries, he sees a kite, asks if trouble will happen; at this time her father leaned to the water drink, the water grabbed her beard, tells him not to fish in his lake and give her daughter; P. put on a torn dress, covered her silver teeth with resin, left; towards the Lord of Waters on a black stallion, blows gold horn, P. hid in moss; then girls, old men, aunts; everyone sings that they are going to P.'s wedding; when the old woman, P. laughed, the resin bounced, the old woman saw silver teeth and grabbed P.; she ran away, climbed a pine tree, her hatchet fell out, the old woman began to cut the trunk with it; P. asks her sister living on the mountain to lower her silk swing; she replies that she is short of time - unwinds the silk ball; the bear offered to chop it, threw the ax into the lake; the old woman drank the lake, began to cut it again; P. asks his sister for help again, receives the same answer; the fox offers to cut, threw the ax into the lake, the old woman she drank the lake again, continues to cut; the same episode with the hare; the pine tree began to fall, the sister lowered the swing, picked up P.; Mother of Water found only three hairs on the pine tree]: 13-19; Chetkarev 1941, No. 37 [soldier returns home, leans to the pond by the mill for a drink, the devil grabbed his beard, let him go for promising to give what he does not know at home; his son Ivan is at home; I. goes to look for someone to whom he was sold; enters the door is in oak, the stairs are down; the old man (he is the younger brother of big Satan) tells you to walk three hundred miles, 11 pigeons will fly to the lake, turn into girls, swim, put on their clothes again and fly away; after This will arrive on the 12th, her clothes must be hidden, returned for promising to become a wife; she promises that she is three years away, she will hang a ribbon from the window, her house will be the third on the edge; I. comes, his wife tells me to go to her father, slam the door loudly, take away his spoon, start eating himself; Satan is surprised, promises to give work in a week; tells 1) to uproot the forest overnight (the wife sends workers, I. offers last stump); 2) plow, sow, harvest, bake bread, bring one boat of bread (same); 3) build a church and let the pop serve; same; Satan will turn into a pig, the wife tells you to throw it at it hammer; tame the stallion; this is Satan himself, we must beat him with a hammer; Satan tells you to choose a wife from 12 girls, they are in the form of pigeons; wife: I will go down and rise; 12 sheep (the wife will come out third); 12 dewdrop (third on the edge, here it will drip); Satan sends young people to a cast-iron bath, wants to burn; the wife tells the broom, trough, bucket to answer that they are still soaring, washing; the young are running, Satan's 11 daughters in a chase; the wife turns I. into a chapel, an old woman herself, the sisters return; Satan chases himself, his wife a ruff, her husband a lake; Satan becomes a pike, cannot catch a ruff, breaks the shore so that the young do not go out but I.'s wife restores everything; wedding at Father I.'s house]: 282-286 (=Sabitova 1992:102-109); 1948 [the old man bent over to the river for a drink, the waterdevil grabbed him by the beard, let him go for promising to give the lamb from silver head; at this time he had a silver-headed son, Pazi; grew up quickly, rode a horse, does not stop meeting girls, men (that's all hell), climbs a pine tree; hell made an ax out of a tooth, an axe out of his finger, began to cut it; the Bear offers to chop it for him, throws an ax into the lake; the hell drinks it, cuts it again; the same episode with the Wolf, the Fox; The squirrel climbs with an ax on a pine tree; the devil makes a new one out of another tooth and finger; The squirrel tells P. to ask Aktavia to lower the iron chain; P. climbed into the sky, left one hair; the hell ate it, said it was tasty, but not enough, went to water]: 8-10; Genetz 1889, No. 3 {it is not clear, this is the same text as Chetkarev's, or very similar} [the old man and the old woman are childless; the old man went into the forest, leaned over to the water for a drink, grabbed his beard as a waterman; let go for promising to give him a silver-headed Pazi; when he returned home, the old man found out that he had a son; in three days he grew up as a young man; the young man chooses a thin skate among his father's horses, leaves; meets many women, but does not pay attention to them; meets a crowd of men - the same; to escape from the water, he climbed onto the fir; the waterman made an ax out of his finger, an ax out of his tooth, began to cut; tired, the bear offers to chop for him; the waterman fell asleep, the bear threw the ax into the lake; the waterman woke up, drank the lake, found his ax, began to cut again; the wolf offers to chop for it (the same); the fox (then same); squirrel; the waterman does not believe her, but she persuaded him; did not throw the ax into the water, but climbed into the fir tree with it; the water drank the lake, did not find an ax, made a new one in the same way as the first ax, became cut, the fir is ready to fall; the squirrel tells the silver-headed Pazi not to wait, but to pray to Aktβi; the young man asked A. to lower the iron chain; the young man climbs under it, leaving a lock of his hair on the fir; the fir fell, the water ate his hair, said it was delicious, but not enough and returned to the lake]: 83-84; the Udmurts [the man leaned over the ice-hole, Vu-peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give the 12-year-old son; the father told me to take the horse that would look at his son, it was the skinniest; V. chased him on a good horse, did not catch up, ate it; the boy came to one, to the other to his sister, each gave puppy; came to sister V., V.; V. became a fire in the oven, one of the dogs was lying in the snow, extinguished the fire; V. became a feather bed, the dog lay on her; V. locked the dogs in the barn, chases the boy; horse the boy became a tree, V. began to cut him down, went to bed; the bear put chips back, threw his ax into the lake, ran after the dogs; they killed V. in the lake, where he rushed for an ax; V. was burned, the boy returned home]: Klabukov 1948, No. 27:69-73 (Kralina 1960, No. 47:132-136); Tatars [the fisherman leaned over the water; someone grabbed him by the beard, ordered him to give something that is not in the world; the fisherman caught an unusual fish; ate with his wife, she gave birth to a son; the divas began to demand him; the fisherman promised that the young man would come by himself; he goes to the forest, through the gate to another world; refuses the help of the eldest, middle daughters of the diva, promises to take the youngest is a wife; she helps to fulfill the diva's instructions: 1) uproot the forest, arrange a field, harvest, bake bread in a day; 2) tame the argamak (this is the diva himself); 3) distinguish the bride from her three sisters ( raised her feather); the divas locked the young in an iron bath; the girl became a needle, turned the young man into a thread, they got out through a small hole; they run, the divas sends their people in pursuit, they do not understand that the fugitives have become 1) a yellow and red flower; 2) a church and a bell ringer; the divas chases himself, the fugitives have become a lake and fish; the divas tries to drink water, the daughter tells him to fall knee-deep, turns him into stone; the fugitives took the diva's treasures, returned to the young man's parents]: Zamaletdinov 2008a, No. 58:264-273; the Bashkirs [the boy Altyn-Sak ("goldgrandmother") has a goldgrandmother; his father brought cattle to the lake; a witch in the water grabs animals by the beard, by the lip; lets go for a promise to give what the old man has one; this is a son; the old man migrates, burying his son's goldgrandmother in an old camp; the son goes for her, having chosen a thin foal; he became a good horse; the boy asks him to give his grandmother, she tells him to get off the horse; the horse picks up his grandmother himself, jumps away; he follows; her horse (before that it is said that Ubyr chases in a mortar with a pestle) calls the boy's horse his brother, asks him to slow down, he refuses; when he hears that her horse says, he ate him; the boy's horse tells him to climb the tree himself hides in the water; the ubyr coughs up the sharpener and ax, cuts the trunk; the fox offers to rest, throws the ax and sharpener into the water, the felling overgrows; the second, then the third fox; the crow refuses to call the boy's dogs Akkulak and Sakkulak, because he wants to drink his blood; the sparrow calls, pecking the lead poured into the ears of the dogs by the old woman; the ubyr rushes into the water; dogs say that if black blood comes up, they Ubyr killed, and if it is red, it is theirs; the blood is first brown, then black; dogs come out of the water, one ear is torn off; then the horse comes out; the boy returns home on it; they live richly]: Zelenin 1991, № 98 (108): 428-431.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Miropiev 1888 (Syr-Darya Province) [the rich man went to water his horses, his lung swam on the water, he pushed him, it became a zhalmaus kempir ("voracious old woman"), she grabbed him by the beard, ordered to give her youngest son; taught him to leave the golden grandmother in the old place when migrating; the boy came for his grandmother on horseback, grabbed him, galloped away, the LCD after him, pulling out his tooth, turned him into the ax, cut off the horse's leg, pulling out the second or the second; the boy climbed a tree, the LCD began to cut it; the geese agreed to call the boy's two dogs, they ran and killed the LCD]: 32-35; Potanin 1883 [(Zap. Imp. Geogr. Geography 1:526 in total); Itygyl is the son of an impoverished old man abandoned by his eldest nine sons; born from his mother eating meat cooked for a passing guest; is looking for his nine brothers; they agree to come to their father if he finds nine brides for them from the same house; the father sees a yurt with nine singing maiden heads sticking out of the upper opening; the youngest, the tenth, The old man takes his sister for I.; on the way, Satan grabs the old man by the beard in the lake, tells I. to give in for a term; instructs I. to get Tokhtamys Khan's daughter; on the way, I. finds comrades: one master to run, the other - eat, the third to drink, the fourth to sit in the bathhouse;...]: 787; Potanin 1916, No. 35 [bai went to water the horses, Aydahar (dragon) grabbed him by the gate, let him go for promising to give his son Janala; D. asks horses , two say that they can run for 30 years, the third says that as long as there are black hooves; D. rides it for 30 years, persecuted by Aydahar; the father married another, from which the new boy is also Janaly; the other boy asks why he is not looking for his brother; D.-Jr. asks his mother to fry wheat, clamps in her hand, forcing her to talk about the fate of D.-Sr.; D.-Jr. with one arrow cut off the leg of D. Sr.'s horse, the other killed dragon; made the elder horse whole; both brothers returned home]: 137; 1972, No. 1 [Bulat-Pai had horses that ate people; people avoided him, he took a hundred horses, migrated, leaving nine sons at home; the horses flew away like birds, he held one by the tail; his 70-year-old wife became pregnant, ate this mare's tostyuk (brisket), gave birth to a son Yer-Tyustyuk; people ask why he is not looking for his nine brothers and nine thousand horses; he clamps his parents' thighs, makes them tell the truth; comes to nine brothers, takes an eight-legged horse; the youngest, then the rest of the brothers recognize E.; brothers they return to their father, now he is rich again; they put him on a sixth horse, told him to find ten brides-sisters; the old woman indicates where to look; B. and nine sons take the brides home; the youngest is Kenjay; the old woman warns not to stop at the Bai-Terek tree; B. stops, sees a lung in the water, hits with a stick, it turns into an old woman (kempir), grabs B. by the beard, lets go for promising to give E .; K. asks E where his goldmoney is; he thinks he is left by the Bai-Terek tree; K. talks about the old woman, gives her chain mail, the horse she took from home; E. grabs the money, the old woman chases him, he falls into the ground with the horse, where 80 old women promise to let him go if he brings the khan's golden braid; on the way, E. takes as companions a mountain raising, drinking a lake, finding out fate; Khan tries burn them in an iron house, a drink fills the fire; in another house, the knowledgeable says that an iron mountain will be thrown at them, he can catch it; the khan orders to get the cauldron out of the well; they take it out, he gives his daughter; E. He cuts off his head, brings him to the old women, they let him go; the young birds of the Alyp-Kara-Gush are crying in the Bai-Terek tree; the dragon (Azhdagar) approaches, E. kills him with a sword; the cubs say that his mother will arrive with a storm; she swallowed and regurgitated E.; raises her to the upper world, he gives her water and feed her, and finally cuts off the meat from her thighs; on the ground she regurgitates the meat, puts it back, gives her a pen; the man in whose house E. stopped, dug a hole, E. fell through there; burned the feather, the bird carried it upstairs; E. returns, his wife is the first to recognize him, everyone is happy]: 104-116.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Baraba) [a man leaned to the river for a drink, peri grabbed his beard, ordered him to give what he did not know at home; at home, a person finds out that he had a son; at the age of 16, he went to look for peri, three old Peri sisters consistently give advice; first 37, then 3 more peri pigeon daughters will come to swim, take off their clothes; the young man must take medium out of three clothes; peri requires Identify the bride among 40 girls, she warns that a fly will sit on her nose; the young man takes Peri's daughter as his wife; he tells her to uproot the forest by morning, plow, sow, bake bread; the Peri do it, then again ; father-in-law locks the young in the bath; when he leaves his spit to answer, turns her husband and herself into a needle and thread, they go out through the gap; the father sends a chase; the daughter turns 1) her husband into millet, herself into a reaper; 2 ) her husband to the mosque, herself to his grandfather; the father chases himself, she turns her husband into a lake, herself into a duck; the father tries to drink the lake, the duck pushes his stomach, the water flows out; the young go to her husband, the wife does not tell him kissing his younger sister, she kisses him herself, he forgets his wife; at a new wedding, the peri-dressmaker creates pigeons, they kiss, remind the young man of his former wife; he reunites with Peri]: Dmitrieva 1981, No. 6: 111-115; Tuvans (Buren-Gol river) [old man Tyumendey saw felt floating along the river; he turned into Jelbag, grabbed the old man by the beard; let him go when he promised three of his daughters; the old man and the old woman gave their daughters buckets without a bottom, sent them to pick berries, migrated; after filling the 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 a 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, a 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 milk 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, dogs are licked; gives seven daughters to Jety-tas (Seven Bald Men), 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]: Potanin 1883, No. 84:341-348; South Altai Tuvans [at the watering hole, the rich man leans to the water, the jelbag grabs his beard; he promises to give her his son, leave his bow and arrows in the old parking lot; the father tells him to go there on a horse that is not will look at him, his mother at the one who looks and stops; he does so; picks up his bow and arrows, jumps away; the jelbege consistently interrupts the horse's four legs with a leather stick; the horse flies; she cuts the horse in half, cuts the neck, takes the boy's head, throws it on the poplar; the fox offers to saw while the jelbege is resting, throws the leather into the sea; she drinks the sea, saws again; The raven and others refuse, the Eagle brings news to the dogs; they fight the jelbag in the depths of the sea; first red blood rises, but then black blood rises; dogs pop up, one leg is broken; boy leaves her, she becomes a wolf]: Taube 1994, No. 23:206-210.

Western Siberia. Southern Selkups: Pelikh 1972 (Narym) [the old man leaned to drink by the ice-hole; the ice grabbed his beard; the old man promised to give his youngest daughter; then the eldest; Ice let him go; took his eldest daughter; she swims, asks people on the shore where she is taking her; the tenth replies that she is going to the waterfall; the girl runs to the mountain, does not turn around as Ice asks her; resorts to an old woman overgrown with hair; she asks her to be killed; wool turns into deer, old woman's liver into grandmother; girl stays with her]: 322-323; Tuchkova 2004 (b. Chizhapka), No. 1 [=Lukina 2004, No. 2. 4:36; almost the same as in Pelikh 1972; the tenth person replies that the girl is being carried "to a bad place"]: 328-329, 395.

Eastern Siberia. Sym Evenks [the old man sends his daughters for water, everyone refused (the names of his daughters are by the names of his fingers); he goes to drink from the ice-hole, freezes his beard, promises his daughters to Ice, Ice agreed to the youngest Heladan; the girl took toys, sat on the ice, the ice floe swam along the shamanic Engdekit River; H. asks shamans living on the capes to let them get off by the fire; the owner agreed ten tambourines, threw two awls for H. to catch them ashore; the ice floe persuades them to return, offers paint stones, leathers, scrapers, sharpeners, cups, flint; X. instead of them sees bones, blood, the feces of the dead; comes to the den of the bear Ngamondri; he tells him to kill him, put his heart to sleep with him, his intestines and head in a place for honored guests, duodenal and straight against himself, thin in a tree, wool into the hole; in the morning an old man and an old woman sleep against her, an old man next to her, children play in a place of honor, deer around, halters on the tree; the strongest deer was the smallest, H. came to Evenks; she was spotted only in the tenth plague, she told her story; "a similar version was recorded in 1935 from the Bayakite Evenks of Podkamennaya Tunguska"]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 40:38-40 (quail in Turov 2000:48-49; retelling to Vasilevich 1959:171); Western Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the man sold his fur and went home; leaned over to the ice-hole for a drink, someone grabbed his beard; he had to promise a son whom his wife was supposed to give birth to; the boy Goodey grew up instantly; the father gave an iron staff with him; came to the lake; three swans took off their outfit and became girls; G. hid the clothes alone, gave them for a promise to become his wife; made a ball, will lead to three plague; where white dresses are a witch with daughters, where black dresses are a waterman who kidnapped her, where red ones are herself; I must say, "Ayalik, open it"; water orders that by morning the plague should have 1000 deer (A. performs); go around the deer (this is the water deer himself, you have to beat him with an iron hammer, he died from blows); A.: we must run away from the witch; left two responsible for them a thimble with saliva; a witch's daughters are chasing, A. turned G. into a wolf, herself into a bear; then an ant heap and a frog; a hunter and a hut; a witch chases, A. became a lake, G. became a perch; the witch became a bull, I drank the lake with the perch; he pierced his belly with needles, went out with water, the witch died]: Suvorov 1956:7-14; Yakuts (summary of the archival text, the place of recording is not specified; central?) [the old man cuts an ice-hole, a half-bear half-wolf jumps out, demands that his son and daughter be handed over; the old man sends them to the ice-hole, the abaas carry them away; the bull, the horse, try to save, the abaas catch up, return them; they are carried away by a deer; When the Abaas girl catches up, they throw a comb (forest), an igloo (iron wall), a handkerchief (river); they move to the other side, run away; the deer dies, tells him to throw his ribs, they turn into a house, a barn ; the head is the stove, the lungs are a guard dog, the heart and liver are wolves; while the brother is hunting, the sister hides the abaas, digs a hole under her brother's bed; the brother kills his sister, leaves; meets three companions; each cooks one by one, a man in Doha squirrel does not let him cook dinner; a young man defeats it, descends to the lower world, takes wealth and women, gives them to his brothers; comes to an old man and an old woman, tells everyone stick to their beds; sticks them off for a promise to marry him; marries, lives richly]: Ergis 1967, No. 127:190.

Amur-Sakhalin. Negidals [The fox offers a person to help drag a sledge with fish; pretends to break his leg; asks to put it by bags of fish; replies that they have passed the Nachalnaya, Srednyaya, Konechnaya rivers ; limping, goes to the taiga for firewood, throws an ax, spoiling it; in a bag a man finds a broken fox tooth; puts small birds and animals in his pants; shamanite foxes in the house, birds and animals flutter out and they jump out; everyone laughs; one Fox covers her mouth; asks the hunter to spare her, promises to bring him a wife; the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the Fox bends his head to the water; lets him go for promising to give his daughter; brings it to a person]: Khasanova, Pevnov 2003, No. 64:129-131.

SV Asia. Forest Yukaghirs: Jochelson 1900, No. 19 (b. Corcodon) [see. Jochelson]: 42-45; Nikolaeva et al. 1989 (1), No. 25 (p. Ridiculous, Verkhnekolymsky District; = Zhukova, Chernetsov 1992:71-75) [the old man drinks water from the ice-hole, the fabulous old man (SS) grabs his beard, lets him go when he promises to give him his two children; the old man the old woman runs away, hides the children under the floor; only the bank answers the UK where they are; he asks the children to take out his lice; these are mice and ermines; the foal takes the children, the SS regurgitates the ax, throws it, kills foal; next time the children are carried away by a calf; tells him to kill a louse, he will die, make a fence out of his skin, hooves, lie in the middle; brother and sister wake up in the house, there are also two dogs on an iron rope; brother hunts with them, sister takes SS as husband, hides in the house; both think how to kill her brother; SS promises to spit in food to poison him; dog hears, warns brother; dog kills SS, brother kills sister with an arrow]: 79-83; Jochelson 1926 (b. Corcodon) [the old man looks into the ice-hole where he put the net; the Mythical Old Man (MS) grabs his beard, lets him go for promising to give his son and daughter; the old man lowers them into the ice-hole; the MC puts them on his raft, tells him to clean his pants from lice, falls asleep; Falcon takes the children to the roof of the house; MS throws up his lower jaw, she falls on horseback, the children are immediately back on the raft, the MS hits them; the same with Eagle; for the third time, the Cow (Russian borrowing) puts them on her back, carries them to the top of the mountain; MS throws her jaw down and up the river to the sky; each time it falls with its upper end down; throws them to the shore, she falls right; he leaves the raft, almost catches up with the Cow; she tells the children to throw the scraper that scrapes her neck, a mountain appears; MS returns to the raft for a drill, drills a hole through the mountain; children they throw the comb with which the Cow was scratched, the forest grows; MS returns for an ax, cuts the forest; children throw silver women's jewelry from the Cow's chest, a lake appears; MS sinks; children return home]: 304-305; coastal Koryaks (villages. Palana, Western 1958 Zhukova) [the old man puts a chiruch (fishing gear), falls to the water to drink, he was pressed against the sand; let him go when he promised to give the children; sent his son and daughter to the chiruch at home; they ended up at the kele; they they try to leave on their own; they ask for a deer, he takes them away; the bear is the same; every time Kele catches up and returns; a pot-bellied calf offers to take them, Kele kicks him sleepily, the calf flies to the sky descends overseas; turns into a house; in one room two dogs become friends with her brother; sister sees a kele on the other side, throws a comb, it turns into a bridge, the kele crosses, becomes the girl's lover; on his advice, she serves her brother poisoned food, the dogs splashed a bowl; the wolf gives the young man two cubs as companions, the bear two cubs, the fox goes with the young man himself; Kele asks to heat the iron bath, the Fox tells not to heat it hot; the young man manages to get out of it, the dogs stayed inside, but broke through the iron door; Kele washed himself, it turns out that dogs, wolves, bears tore it; the corpse was burned along with bathhouse; sister finds kele's fang, put her brother in bed, he died; Fox wolves, bears pull the fang out of the young man's body, he comes to life; brother hooked his sister with a fang, burned it in the house]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 137:422-430.