L95. Returning for toys. .21.29.30.32.-.37.40.

A person (usually a child or teenager) returns to his original place for a forgotten object (often a toy) and finds a demon there that he can hardly run away from.

Tibetans (Amdo), Stavropol Turkmens, Uzbeks, Persians, Bashkirs, Kazakhs (Turgay, Syr-Darya, East), Kyrgyz, Altaians, Siberian Tatars, Khakas, South Altai Tuvans, Buryats ( Chita), Oirats, Darkhats, Mongols of Inner Mongolia, Tundra Nenets, Evenks of the Baikal Region, Sym Evenks, Evenks of Podkamennaya Tunguska, Nanai, Central Yupik.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Tibetans (Amdo) [when the boy is 15, his favorite ram says he will be slaughtered tomorrow, tells him to keep his two knee bones; one is yellow, the other is white, the boy calls them golden and silver; the cannibal grabs the boy's father, he promises to give his son for himself; deliberately leaves both bones in the old camp, tells her son that he has forgotten them; the boy rode his eight-legged mare; the witch says that it is difficult for her to get up; the boy dismounts, takes the bones, jumps away, but the witch takes it out, throws the sickle, cutting off the horse's legs; says that today he will eat the horse and tomorrow the boy; sends the boy for firewood; the dove says that tomorrow he will arrive and carry him away; in the morning the witch cuts off the pigeon's wing with a sickle: today I'll eat the pigeon, tomorrow you; the insect promises to become a bull tomorrow, carry the boy away; the bull rushed, the old woman did not throw the sickle, chased herself, did not catch up; he would go to the village, people loaded him with a lot of food, he ran away, brought it to the boy; said that he was the ram the boy was talking about cared for him since childhood; ordered him to be slaughtered, his red, white, faithful hair scattered around the villages; put his legs on 4 sides of the world, put his intestines around them; head in the middle, heart in front of his head, kidneys along the edges; cut the meat, scatter it around; the village, where white hair is thrown, is full of sheep, where black is yaks, where red are horses; head is a palace, legs are four gates, intestines are an iron fence, heart is queen, kidneys - two ministers, pieces of meat - people; boy became king]: Kajihama 2004, No. 25:103-108.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Stavropol Turkmens [the old man pulls the human liver out of the well, throws the dog; pulls out the old woman; she demands her liver back; does not agree to take the liver of the old man's wife, agrees to take his son's liver; the old people migrate, leave golden alchiki in the old place, send their son for them; a stunted foal is called to take him, turns into a horse; teaches him what to do; the young man says he can't get down, the old woman that she can't serve; the young man says that his father is coming, he will give it; while the old woman looks around, grabs the alchiki, jumps away; stops three times, each time at the owner's dog is born a puppy, the young man takes it; not knowing whether he stays with the old woman's son; he asks to leave the dogs at home; an old woman appears, the young man climbs a tree, the old woman pulls out two a tooth, turns them into an ax and a chisel, cuts a tree; a fox calls to cut for it, carries an ax and a chisel; an old woman pulls out two teeth, they turn into an ax and a chisel; the same episode with the Wolf; an old woman cuts again; the boy ties bells to the crane, tells me to fly to the camp; three dogs come running, tear the old woman apart]: Bagriy 1930 (2): 114-119.

Iran - Central Asia. Uzbeks [the young man forgets the golden bat (toy) in the summer pasture; returns for it, there is Almauz Kempir (AK); she pretends to be weak; the young man grabs the bat, jumps away; changes to a donkey, a horse, a camel, a goby; he blows the wind, the pursuer loses her way in the fog; the goby comes to the princess's maids, rides them, brings the princess to the boy; tells him to slaughter him, bury him, there in the morning garden and castle; buried eyes turn into two dogs; they jump into the water where AK has disappeared; first pus pops up, the young man thinks the dogs are dead; then the blood has won; the king comes, passes off his daughter as young man]: Afzalov et al. 1972 (1): 167-173 (=Sheverdin 1967:124-130); Persians [husband and wife ask God to send a baby; one pea flew out of the pot, became a girl; she and other girls go to the field to collect spikelets; the divas comes, calls them to his place; at night he asks who is awake; The pea says that before going to bed, her mother gives her scrambled eggs and halva; the divas brings it, G. wakes the girls up, everyone has eaten, falls asleep; The diva asks again, Goroshinka replies that after dinner, the mother from the crystal mountain from the river of light always brings water in a sieve; when the diva reached the river of light, morning came, the girls took the diva's things, left; G . remembered that she had forgotten the golden spoon; a diva entered the house, who put it in a bag, went to get brushwood to carve G.; she made a hole in the bag, put a goat in the bag, hid in the corner; the diva scored the kid to death, opened the bag, saw his favorite kid; found G., asked how to eat it; she says to bake a cake, wrap it in it; G. pushed the diva in tone, he was fried, she took it spoon, returned to her mother]: Aliev et al. 1958:223-225.

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the boy Altyn-Sak ("goldgrandmother") has a goldgrandmother; his father brought cattle to the lake; a witch in the water grabs animals by his beard, by the lip; lets go for a promise to give the fact that the old man has one thing is a son; the old man migrates, burying his son's goldgrandmother in the old camp; the son goes after her, choosing a thin foal; he has become a good horse; the boy asks for his grandmother, that tells him to get off the horse; the horse picks up his grandmother himself, jumps away; after him; her horse (previously said that Ubyr is chasing in a mortar with a pestle) calls the boy's horse brother, asks him to slow down his run, he refuses; when she hears what her horse says, she ate him; the boy's horse tells him to climb a tree, hides himself in the water; Ubyr coughs up the sharpener and ax, cuts the trunk; the fox offers a rest, throws an ax and a sharpener into the water, the felling overgrows; the second, then the third fox; the crow refuses to call the boy's dogs Akkulak and Sakkulak, because he wants to drink his blood; the sparrow calls, pecking out lead poured into the ears of dogs by an old woman; ubyr rushes into the water; dogs say that if black blood comes up, they killed Ubyr, and if red blood, it is them; blood is brown first, then black; dogs come out water, one loss tore off his ear; then the horse comes out; the boy returns home on it; they live richly]: Zelenin 1991, No. 98 (108): 428-431.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Ethnographic materials 1898, No. 1 (Turgay) [rich Ablai had a daughter, Ai-Khanym, when he was 42 years old, and his son Khudaibergen 10 years later; Zhalmaauz Kempir grabbed A. at the well; refused to take horses, daughter, wife, agreed to let her go for promising to send her son; A. specially left the golden alchik at the well, with whom H. played, migrated; H. sat on the foal, he became argamak; teaches you to approach the LCD on foot, say "here's a red mouse running", grabbing an alchik, running up to the horse and jumping away; the LCD knocked out its tooth, threw it at the horse, he limped on one leg; the same - the second tooth; the horse went quieter, fell; next to an ox with a golden saddle; the LCD could not catch up with him, the abandoned tooth did not hit the ox; H. got off the ox and walked to the holy mountain, where the LCD could not climb; the ox disappeared; the LCD began to dig in the mountain; the fox offered to work for it, buries it himself; H. asks the San Kar falcon to fly to his father to send dogs; Kara-It and Ak-It ("black dog", "white dog") came running; they bit to death LCD]: 1-9; Miropiev 1888 (Syr-Darya region) [the rich man went to water his horses, his lung swam on the water, he pushed him, it became a zhalmaus kempire ("voracious old woman"), she grabbed his 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 an ax, cut off the horse's leg, pulling out the second or second; the boy climbed a tree, the LCD began to cut it; the geese agreed to call the boy's two dogs, they ran, killed the LCD]: 32-35; Potanin 1972, No. 1 (east) [at Bulat- Paya were horses that ate people; people avoided him, he took a hundred horses, migrated, leaving nine sons at home; horses flew away like birds, he held one by the tail; his 70-year-old wife became pregnant. ate the tostyuk (brisket) of this mare, 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.; the brothers return to their father, now he is rich again; they put him on a sixth horse, tell him to find ten sisters brides; the old woman indicates where to look; B. and nine sons take the brides home; the youngest is Kenjackay; the old woman warns not to stop at the Bai-Terek tree; B. stops, sees on the water light, 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 an old woman, gives a chain mail she took from home, a horse; E. grabs the money, the old woman chases him, he falls into the ground with the horse, there 80 old women promise to let him go if he brings gold Khan's braid; on the way, E. takes as companions a mountain raising, drinking a lake, finding out fate; the khan tries to burn them in an iron house, drinks the fire; in another house, the knowledgeable says that they are wearing them they will throw the iron mountain, catch it; the khan tells him to get the cauldron out of the well; they take it out, he gives his daughter; E. cuts off his head, brings him to the old women, they let him go; the young birds of the Alyp-Kara-gush bird cry for Bai-Terek tree; the dragon (Azhdagar) is approaching, E. kills him with a sword; the cubs say that his mother will arrive with the storm; she swallowed and regurgitated E.; raises her to the upper world, he gives her water and feeds her, at the end cuts off the meat from her thighs; on the ground she regurgitates the meat, puts it back, gives a feather; 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; Sidelnikov 1958 (2) (southern Kazakhstan) [Mundybay sees blood in the well, the old man grabs it, tells him to give his son; deliberately leaves gold and the boy's silver grandmother on an old nomadic; the horse helps the boy grab the money, the old woman throws a braid under the horse's feet, cuts off one leg, then all the legs; takes the boy underground, tells the cattle to herd; the cow reports that the witch's strength is in her braid; he asks the braid to drive the heifer, runs away, climbs ashore; Mystan pulls out his tooth, digs the ground for them; the magpie offers help, takes it away; the same with the other three with his teeth, they are carried away by a wolf, a fox, a hare; the boy kills the witch with her scythe, frees the prisoners]: 25-28; Tursunov 1983 [by brought the horses to a watering hole, there is a lung in the water, he shoved it, it turned into Zhalmauz- Kempir, she grabbed his throat, demanded a son; he promised to leave the boy's golden bat at the place to sleep, he would come back for it; the boy takes a two-year-old scabies, he turns into a heroic horse; becomes low, the boy grabs the bat without getting off the horse, jumps away; the LCD pulls out one or the second tooth, throws one or the other leg, the horse on two legs jumps to the bayterek (poplar), the boy climbs on it; the LCD digs up a poplar using the third tooth as a spade; The fox offers to work instead of the LCD, throws the tooth into the river; so twice (Lisa says she is another fox); the LCD digs fifth tooth; the boy asks the crows, the ducks to convey the message to his wolfhounds, they refuse; the swallow transmits; the dogs tore the LCD; her daughter went to look for her, the boy killed her with arrows, knocking out her eyes]: 143-145; Kyrgyz [Koechpesbay decided to migrate for the first time, as the cattle ate all the grass; his wife had been messing with her luggage for a long time, they set off only at night; Shukurbek's son forgot his alchik in the parking lot, drove back; horse says that the witch Zhelmoguz is there now; S. sees the old woman, she does not give an alchik, let S. dismount; he picked up the alchik, rode away; stopped at the old man; saw J. in a dream, waking up, galloped away, grabbing three puppies; fell asleep in the parking lot, woke up as an adult, puppies became dogs named Sensitive, Sighted and Listening; J. was afraid of dogs, offered peace, let S. live with her; persuaded S. to go hunting without dogs; chased him; S. threw the alchik, which became a poplar, S. climbed onto the poplar; J. pulled out two teeth, turned it into an ax and a saw; the red fox offered to work for J., threw the ax and saw into the river; the same - white fox; S. asks the crow to call the dogs; they uprooted the tree, ran, drowned J.; S. returned to his father when he was about to wake him]: Ledenyov 1987:83-88.

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Siberian Tatars (Tyumen) [was bai Tokpay-bai, he has 9 sons; they drove herds, at which time his mother became pregnant; wanted a horse sternum (tyustyuk); gave birth to a son Ir-Tyustyuk; playing with money , he hurt the lousy guy; he: you'd better find your brothers; IT gave him all the money, including gold, asked his mother to cook wheat, pressed her hands against the cauldron, she had to tell him; IT found the brothers , the follower became unrecognized, living with everyone, eating everything; they got to know each other, the brothers agreed to return to their parents; IT tamed the foal and the mare, began to ride them; the older brother asked the father marry him to 10 sisters; he stayed in a fisherman's yurt; when he saw 5 hats, he cried, the other 5 laughed (at first he thought there were only 5 brides in the house, and then realized that there were 10); the fisherman gave his daughters to bay; the youngest Kunjakei tells him to spend the night on a waterless hill; bai got angry, stopped by the water, his lung swims there; bai hit him, it became an old woman (kempir) with seven heads, began to strangle him; refused take horses, 9 sons, IT demanded; Bai promised to leave her a goldgrandmother and send IT to pick her up; after the wedding, IT asked about her grandmother, IT was going to follow her; K. told Shal to sit on a white horse guiruk, take Ak-Polat's white sword, Ak-syrmal white chain mail; S. says IT that Kempir-jalmouth is sitting in place of the yurt; she replied that she could not get up; S. became huge, then small, IT grabbed grandmother, galloped; they began to fight with the old woman, both fell into the ground; S. left IT one hair to call her; IT meets, companions 1) hitting one mountain against another, 2) drinking the lake, 3) a runner who catches animals easily, 4) hears from any distance; they came to Ulmis Khan (it was his daughter who sent those comrades to IT to marry her); they said that a fugitive had allegedly fled to the village of UH, demanded daughter UH; he orders 1) to overcome the strongman (the thief overcame the mountains), 2) overtake the old woman (the runner overtook); the khan put IT and his companions in an iron house, put firewood, set fire (water bread flooded the fire) ; the listener said where the daughter UH was hidden (on the ground); IT went home with the girl he took; Choyun-gulak came out to him, invited him to his place, joined the fight; IT defeated him, but the saber did not take him, CHG defeated him; Sh. ran to his comrades, who saved IT; IT asked ChG's wife to find out where his soul was; she made their child cry, explained to CHG that the child wanted to add his soul to his father's soul; CHG: on top of the mountain There is an iron box at the bottom of the well, with 4 quails in it; IT killed them; everything is fine]: Radloff, Proven, IV, 443 in Potanin 1916:89-93; Altaians: Katash 1978 [Delbegen came down from the moon to swim, old woman scooped it up with a bucket; promised a son for her life; migrated; her son Chalma found her; she said that his toys remained parked; a plain foal offered to ride it; C. grabbed the toys, C. set off in pursuit; cut off the foal's hind legs, he rode on the front legs; cut off the front legs; C. climbed the tree; the fox invited D. to cut down the tree, threw its ax into the lake; D. drank lake; C. sent Magpie (refused, You called me glutton), Tit for his dogs; they killed D.; C. returned to his mother, dogs howl at the moon at night]: 84-86; Sadalova 2002, No. 17 [man grabbed felt floating on the river, it turned out to be Diellbegen; the man promised a son for himself; migrated, leaving his son's bow, he followed him; dismounted to pick up the bow, D. chased him, cut off the horse's leg, the boy (Yoskuus-Uul) sat on a roe deer that offered himself; D. consistently cut off all her legs; E. throws D. twice in the face of her giblets, climbs an iron poplar; D. spends time wiping himself off; begins to cut the poplar; the fox offers help, cuts a stone, throws an ax into the water; D. drinks the lake, pulls out an ax, cuts; the fox, pretending to be another fox, repeats the trick, D. pulls out the ax again; The crow, the Magpie refuse to tell the parents of Ë., because he called them names; The goose says that two dogs came running, tore D.; he managed to cut off one finger; the dog tells E. no later than three days bring food; YE. brings in seven, the dog became a wolf]: 147-153; khakas [the old man threw a net, pulled out a monster; promises his wife, eldest daughter, youngest daughter in exchange for his life; the monster lets go him when he promises to give his son; the old man leaves the Astragalus cue ball at the summer camp, asks his son to come back for him; at the horse riding, the boy meets a monster; enters into a conversation with him, refusing to leave from a horse; shouts that his mother is coming with a scythe, his sister with a leather, the monster runs away]: Ungvitskaya, Mainogasheva 1984:193-194; South Altai Tuvans: Taube 1994, No. 22 [=Taube 1978, No. 54:268-269; on a man pokes a swimming lung with his sixth watering hole, it turns out to be an old mangysikha; the man promises to give her his son, for this purpose he will leave his gold money in the old parking lot; the boy feels dangerous, not the horse gets off and picks up the money at a gallop; the mangysikha interrupts the horse's leg with a stick, the boy rides a cow across the sea, climbs a tree; the crow and other birds fly by, only a cinder (red duck, Tadorna ferruginea) promises to convey the message to the dogs Gezer and Bazaar; they tear the old woman apart], 23 [at the watering hole, the rich man leans to the water, the jelbag grabs his beard; he promises to give her his son, leave him on his bow and arrow in the old parking lot; his father tells him to go there on a horse that does not look at him, his mother on the one that looks and stops; he does so; picks up a bow and arrow, jumps away; 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 suggests sawing while the jelbege rests, throws her 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 the red one rises, but then black blood; dogs pop up, one leg is broken; the boy leaves her, she becomes a wolf]: 205-206, 206-210; South Altai Tuvans [Bai Nasar's 8 sons drove 800 horses and did not returned; when BN and his wife ate horse breast, his wife gave birth, a son was named Er Töstük ("brisket man"); he grew up; an old woman was weaving, he stepped on a thread and tore it; the old woman told him it is better to look for brothers; the father said he has no brothers, he was deceived; another old woman's grandson pulled ET's bow, ET hit him, the boy died; and this old woman told him to find better brothers; ET found first brothers and then horses, they returned home; BN went to look for nine sisters to marry; found them; their father did not tell them to spend the night at the Chushurlug Chuduk on the way back, but BN did not listen warnings from her younger sister destined for ET and spent the night there; she sent a man to her father asking her to give her a hemp shirt for ET and the best mare and camel; he did not want to, but gave it away; There is no mare in the morning; BN went to the Saltwell for the night: the mare is there, and next to the jelbege, covered it with one ear, put the other under her; BN asks to give the camel; the jelbege says she cannot get up, let BN come by himself; he comes up, she grabbed him, threatens to eat him, refuses to let him go in exchange for his 8 sons, for 800 horses, agrees to let him go if he gives ET; BN promises to leave jelbig is his son's triangular file, with which he sharpens arrows; says he forgot and will send ET for him; the bride tells ET everything; he asks his father which horse to ride; BN: sit on six-legged and take an eight-legged with you; bride: no, sit on the horse my father gave me, wear that hemp shirt; 8- and 6-legged horses won't last 6 and 8 years; when ET sits on a horse, he says shout to jelbig: What kind of kids are behind you? she will look around, grab the file and jump away; they run away and find themselves in the underworld of the serpent Bobbuk Khan; the horse tells you not to be afraid of snakes that crawl inside ET and go out; because ET was not afraid, two snakes turned into khans; ET says he came to get Temir Khan's daughter for Bobbuk Khan; he is happy and lets him go; ET meets people, everyone answers (at first not understanding who is in front of him) that he would like to become ET's companion; the first knows how to catch birds on the fly; the second hears everything; the third eats a lot; the fourth drinks and pours the sea back; T. will give his daughter to the winner; ET the mare wins the run; the mountain carrier wins the fight; eats the most; drinks three sips, but the sea level has fallen by only three fingers; the ET horse dives: if black blood flows, he died, and if colorless, he took out a cauldron; first colorless blood rises, then black blood rises, but then the horse swam out, brought a cauldron; the listener heard that T. was going to burn the heroes in the house; a mountain raiser turned the house upside down, they went out unharmed; T. ordered to serve the poisoned meat, the heroes changed their portions and portions of the khan's subjects, they died; ET brought daughter T. Bobbuk Khan; he gave a girl to Chünkee and five men in return; on the way, the men died; ET and her girl spent the night under the larch; it rained, and Khan Gärdi birds on the tree A snake crawled; ET shot the snake with a bow; in the morning hail began and Khan Gerdi flew in; when she found out what had happened, she carried ET with girl S. and the horse to the ground; but Jeelbege's son Schojun Gulak (SG) was already waiting there; he took C. and the horse and pushed ET into the hole; the horse managed to throw a flint into the pit; ET cut out the fire, burned the pen given to him by Han-Gerdy, who appeared, lowered its wing into the hole, and ET got out of it; ET and C. agreed, that ET will hide under the cradle in which C.'s son is from SG; she will stab the baby, he will cry, SG will begin to ask why; C.: the baby says he is ET's son, not SG, since SG does not want to leave him around with him his soul (the receptacle of life); SG whispers to the baby (and ET hears) where his soul is; 70 moose will come to the Saltwell, inside a brown box, in a shower box; ET is waiting (moose are afraid to approach, but SG calms down: he killed ET), ripped open the brown man's stomach, 9 birds in the box; he killed 8, left one, came to the SG, began to fight him, ordered C. to kill the ninth; there were 9 birds in the box again, but C. killed everyone and SG died ; his son jumped up, but ET threw him into a 70-planted hole; when ET returned home, making a camel, as predicted, gave birth to a camel; the bride waiting for ET became 15 years old again; holiday]: Taube 1978, No. 37:192-206; Buryats (Chita) [old Sholmos woman wants to eat a rich man, he asks his daughter to eat better; he will leave three goldmoney at the camp, his daughter will return for them; a seemingly bad strong point volunteers to take the girl; teaches: he will turn into a calf, rub against the yurt, he must ask for money, then the old woman will ask him to drive away the calf, he must jump on it; the goby becomes a horse again, carries a girl; they live by a sandalwood with 12 branches; the girl has a gold file, he gives food; the khan takes her third wife; leaves; the eldest promises to prepare a sable hat for his return, the middle one a silk robe, the youngest - to give birth to a son with a golden breast, a silver ass; the older wives threw the newborn into the hole, then the dogs, under the feet of the herd, under the feet of the camels, he was unharmed; threw him into the sea; replaced by a puppy; Khan tells her younger arm to be broken, thrown by the sea; she sees wounded birds eating grass, recovering; she also eats, her hands are intact; a boy comes out of the water to play; the woman grabs him, he says that his father is a cliff, his mother is a seal; she gives him her milk; leads him to that sandalwood; the son comes to his father, tells everything; the khan returns his youngest wife, makes the elders cleaners garbage and dung]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 4:85-91; Mongols [the boy liked to play grandmas, one of them gold and the other silver; the grandmothers were gone, the father said that the son forgot them at the camp; father tells you to take the horse calmer, the mother is a fast stallion; he has eight legs; at the camp an old woman, the horse tells me not to get off, grab the money on the move; the witch caught up, interrupted the horse 8 legs, dragged the boy to her a hole, forced her to do housework; the sheep tells her to gut, take everything inside her, sit on her calf, run; the boy throws sheep droppings, giblets, gum; the witch stops every time, to wash off the dirt; the calf swam across the river; the boy told the witch that he had moved with a stone tied around his neck; the witch tied and drowned; the calf told him to be killed, the boy did not want to; the louse presses on the calf , he falls dead; the next morning a boy in a yurt, around a herd and trees]: Mikhailov 1962:155-157 (=Mikhailov 1967:167-170); oirats (durbuts) [an old man drives horses to the lake for a watering hole; living in it Shulum (hell) agrees to let him go for promising to give his son; the son, on his eight-legged horse, comes to the old camp to pick up his gold and silver money (bones); the shulum chases him, consistently tears off all eight legs of the horse; the young man climbs the larch; the shulum cuts it, brings it to himself; the young man consistently asks for help from a camel, horse, ram, goat, cow coming to the hut; everyone refuses, because the young man called them names; a bull with a snake's head agrees, his head becomes bullish; tells them to take a stone, collect water in his mouth; abandoned, they turn into a field of stones (shulum broke forehead, turned red bald), lake; How did you cross? - He released his intestines and moved over them; the shulum rips open his stomach, dies; the bull asks to be killed; his severed legs thrown on four sides turn into horses, camels, cows, rams; the young man spends the night in a gutted bull; wakes up in a rich yurt with his wife]: Potanin 1883, No. 85:348-350; the Oirats [the old woman went on the water at night, scooped up Telbegen with a bucket; promised to give her son to Chalma; sent him for berries with a box full of holes, migrated herself with the old man; Chalma found his way back; then his mother said that his toys were still in the old yurt; a thin horse told him to take it; from the old one An old man sits yurts, says that he cannot feed toys; the horse tells him to grab them himself, run; T. throws an ax, cuts off the horse's hind legs, then the front legs; C. climbs a tree; The fox offers T. to cut for while T. sleeps, throws an ax into the lake; T. drinks water from the lake; C. asks Magpie to call his dogs, she refuses, because he called it glutton; Tits fly and tell; T. hides from dogs in lake; they fight it until night in the mud; black blood splashes to the moon, dogs come out alone with a broken leg; dogs howl at the moon at night; spots on the moon - T.]: Popov, Basangov 1936:32-35; darkhats [The young man Zeiben forgot his two gold-silver ankles at the former camp, returned for them on his eight-legged horse, saw a mangyska there, grabbed his ankles; the mangyska pursuer consistently cuts off the horse's 8 legs, its back, front, head, C. climbed on a golden aspen; The fox twice offers to cut down aspen instead of mangysky, seals her eyes; C. runs away on a goby, he splashes droppings into mangyske eyes; C. finds a fragment of his father's sharpener, a comb, a mother's needle; throws behind, a forest, a mountain, a river appear; C. replies to the mangysk that he crossed the river, tying stones to his feet, the mangyska drowns; the goby tells him to be stabbed, C. refuses; orders to kill a red louse on him, dies immediately; in the morning at this place there is a yurt, a woman and herds]: Sanzheev 1931, No. 7:96-98; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia (chakhars) , Khoshun Shand) [the rich man watered his herd of horses from the well and saw something like a liver in the watering deck; he took it out and began to hit it with a stone; it turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus - a monster about twelve heads; the mangus said, "Will you give me your herd of eight hundred heads, 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 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.

Western Siberia. The Nenets (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) [see motive L94; old man Tirniy-Vesako (Universal Old Man) quarrel with an old woman, who is older, diverge in different directions; the old man cuts down a spruce to make boat, it turns out to be the meta on the top of the head of the plague Yandey-Vesako (Old Man of the Lower World), they fight, Y. wins, T. buys his life, promising to give up his son, for this purpose leave his knife, for which his son will come; at this time an old woman comes to the lake with rejuvenating water, drinks, becomes young, brings the old man (both have now returned home), who drinks, is also getting younger; says that he has forgotten his knife, sends a son; the son did not exist before, now he has appeared as a young man from under his mother's yagushka (?) ; Y. takes the young man who has come to the lower world; promises life if he brings him the Daughter-Tsar-Wind]: Pushkareva, Khomich 2001, No. 1:89-109.

Eastern Siberia. Evenki Pribaikalia [migrating, parents throw away the girl's toys; she comes back for them, sees the Bear; he asks her to make a spit to fry the liver; she runs, asks the Woodpecker to transport her across the river; tells the Bear that it has crossed its gut; the bear stretches its gut, throws an end to the girl, walks her like a rope; the girl cuts her gut, the bear falls into the water, sings that his gut will become willow bark, blood - red clay, ribs - refuges, radial bones - axes, skin - places where moss grows; the girl decides that so be the case; see motive J44]: Voskoboynikov 1967, № 14:45-50; Sym Evenks: Vasilevich 1936, No. 40 [the old man sends his daughters to fetch water, everyone refused (the names of his daughters are by the names of his fingers); he goes to drink from the ice-hole, with his beard, promises On the ice of his daughters, 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 to warm up by the fire; the owner of ten tambourines agreed, threw two awls for H. to catch them ashore; the ice floe persuades them to return, offers paint stones, leathers, scrapers, sharpeners, cups, flint; H. instead they see the bones, blood, 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 trees, wool in a 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 the Evenks on it; she was noticed only in the tenth plague, she told her story; "a similar version was recorded in 1935 from the Bayakit Evenks of Podkamennaya Tunguska" (quail in Turov 2000 : 48-49; retelling to Vasilevich 1959:171)], 42 (Chirombu) [the younger sister forgot the grandmother toys when she migrated; the older sister, younger brother said that they worked and did not know where the toys were; Ostyak said that poured out behind; the girl saddled the deer, took the dog, came to the old place, where the Bear; he asked the names of the deer and the dog, tied the girl and dog to the tree; the girl tells the Bear three times that her the deceased parents did not take a litter from urine and feces, going to fresh the vazhenka (i.e. you have to cook everything away); the Bear goes away to cut away; the crossbills cannot untie the girl's fetters, their beaks are bent; The fox released her, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; the Bear wants to eat the Fox instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut her with an ax; the fox dodged, the Bear cut her her legs, began to eat her own bone marrow; since then, the tip of the fox tail is white, the bear has no bone marrow; the girl went to the river, called her father, mother, uncle; everyone refuses to transport, they say the girl is a crybaby; she tells the rock to slide down, crush them all; the ostyak carves the scoop, carries the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings "lower, taller"; the bear enters the water, sinks; orders his heels to become bars, his legs with sharpeners, his back with a soft stone, his skull with a stone for rubbing paints, his shoulder blades as a paint stone, his blood with red paint, his feces with black paint; now it's all in mountains; the girl became the wife of Ostyak; carries water, he pours out every time, says that she wears feces and urine; the girl asks the birds to carry her away; cranes, swans refuse shamanic birds gasha give her feathers fly with them; the ostyak tells her to fall, promises to make a dress, a bib, an occipital ornament, a hat, a fringe on her belt; she says she does not need it, does not fall; she sits at the old woman's door; she asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringes on her belt ("smelly"), hides in a needle; her sons smell it, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she flies away gasha catches up, they swear that their mother let her out, shoot her, injure her wing shoulder; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, speaks on how many stands; when on 10 stands, a girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha came; the woman pretends that the child is dirty, goes out with him, hides in the storage shed; gasha gnaws on the stands; they managed to gnaw three, the woman sang three times, the third time G. came, killed two gash, the third ran, leaving a fang; G. comes to people, steps over the fire, everyone laughs; he looks - people have intact teeth; when through the third fire, he sees a toothless man; asks take out his lice, stab gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, tells others that his grandfather fell asleep, leaves]: 38-40, 45-51.

Amur - Sakhalin. Nanais [the old man says that the cannibal buseu will come, leaves with his wife and grandson; the grandson remembers that he has forgotten a bunch of gold and silver goat grandmothers, returns to fanza; tries take the money unnoticed, but the old man grabs his horse by the tail; the boy wakes up in an unfamiliar fanza, the old man tells him not to go far; one day he goes away, finds many teenage boys in the barn ; the old man trains them as workers when he marries Jiadankan-fuji, who lives overseas; the boy releases prisoners, and the old man sends him for D.; the fox helps him, sables and squirrels fall from the sky; Fox turns into a falcon, lures D.; she agrees to marry a young man if he kills an old man; Lisa gnaws the old man's throat; the young man returns to his parents with two wives - F. and Lisa, who has become a woman]: Shimkevich 1896:119-122 (=Sem, Sem 2020, No. 67:321-323).

The Arctic. Central Yupik (Toksook Bay, Western 1994) [a woman does not give birth for a long time, finally gives birth to a baby with mouth to ear; at night, her parents hear a crunch, the baby devours her mother's breast; people run away on the ice of the river, the old man forgot the knife, sent a young man to pick it up; he takes the knife, runs away, climbs a tree, the caribou footprints below, the cannibal baby ran over them, the young man returned safely]: Meade 1996:209-211.