L95A. Lung on water 29.30.32.-.34.

A person sees lungs or liver lying on the ground or floating in water. As soon as he touches them, a demonic character appears in front of him.

Stavropol Turkmens, Nogais, Tajiks, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Siberian Tatars, Tuvans, South Altai Tuvans, Tofalars, Buryats (SE Buryatia), Khalkha Mongols, Inner Mongols Mongolia.

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 cannot serve; the young man says that his father is coming, he will give; while the old woman looks around, grabs the alchiki, jumps away; stops three times, each time 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 him to fly to the camp; three dogs come running, tear the old woman apart]: Bagriy 1920 (2): 114-119; Nogais [in fairy tales, the hero sees on the water a swimming forest animal, touches it with a sixth, a huge elmauyz jumps out of the water, enough man, demands a son]: Kapaev 2012:164.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks [the old man sees fresh sheep's liver on the road; an old woman touches it, jumps out, threatens to kill her if he does not give her his son Khaidar-Kokul; tells him to cut firewood continuously; to HC a horse, a bull, come, they cannot escape from the old woman, she throws her torn tooth under their feet; the calf takes HC to the fortress where the diva has a girl languishing; on the way he picks up two puppies, they turn into powerful dogs, the girl hides them; the divas reluctantly promises not to kill HC; the girl gives HC a comb, a mirror, three arrows, tells them to run; objects turn into a forest, a river, three poplars; when the divas knocks down the last, dogs come running, pushing him into the river, fighting him underwater; first red blood rises, HC wants to run, but then black blood means that the divas is killed; HC and his wife return to their parents]: Amonov, Ulug- Back 1957:145-150 (=1960:164-171).

Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [the girl brought geese to the river, something that looked like an animal's lung was swimming on the water, she threw it at this stone, her lung turned into an old maskey woman, threatens to tear the girl off her with a needle skin; mother advises the girl to leave home; maskay overtakes her, begins to peel off her skin; the hunter kills Maskay with a wonderful arrow]: Khusainova 2014:71.

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 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 and killed the LCD]: 32-35; Potanin 1972, No. 1 [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; Tursunov 1983 [bay brought his horses to a watering hole, he shoved him in the water, it turned into Zhalmaus-Kempir, she grabbed his throat, demanded son; he promised to leave the boy's golden bat at the place of the night, he would return for it; the boy takes a two-year-old scabies, he turns into a heroic horse; he becomes low, the boy grabs the bat, not getting off the horse, jumps away; the LCD pulls out one, the second tooth, throws one leg, 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 an LCD, throws the tooth into the river; so twice (Lisa says she is another fox); the LCD digs his fifth tooth; the boy asks the crows, the ducks to pass His message to the wolfhounds, they refuse; the swallow reports; the dogs tore the LCD to pieces; her daughter went to look for her, the boy killed her with arrows, knocking out her eyes]: 143-145.

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, it contains 4 quails; IT killed them; everything is fine]: Radloff, Proven, IV, 443 in Potanin 1916:89-93; Tuvans (Saldan) [the old man saw his lungs floating, picked it up with an oarlock, this turned out to be a witch; she is going to eat, refuses to take 1000 horses in return, let him go for promising to give her son; the old man leaves the boy's red grandmother on the same nomadic, sends him for her; the fox tells he climbs an iron poplar, a witch cuts down the poplar with an ax; the fox invited the witch to fall asleep, clenched her eyes; two ducks complained to the gods, they sent two dogs, they killed the witch; the young man killed his older sister and father, stayed with his mother]: Radlov 1907, No. 150:10-11 (=1907:10-12); South Altai Tuvans [a man puts a swimming lung with his sixth at a watering hole, it turns out to be an old mangysikha; the man promises give her son, for this purpose he will leave his gold grandmothers in the old parking lot; the boy feels dangerous, does not get off the horse, but picks up his 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; a crow and other birds fly by, only a rubbish (red duck, Tadorna ferruginea) promises to convey the message to the dogs Gezer and Bazar; they tear the old woman apart]: Taube 1978, No. 54:268-269 (=Taube 1994, No. 22:205-206); Tofalars [a fat man named San Targyn saw his lungs and heart floating down the river; he took them, they turned into a cannibal; SM sent her for a knife to to his brother Tolzhanay; he sent Tergilitta to his younger brother; T. put her on the cart, pushed her, the cart rolled along the edge of the earth and then along the edge of the water, the witch did not find the SM and did not take out a knife]: Katanov 1907: 629-630; Buryats (SE Buryatia) [Zer Dalai sees a lung among the herd, it has turned into a 50-headed mangadhai Asuri Shara; they decide to fight in 3 days; ZD hides sister Bashalay, a bird and a dog in white rock; mangadhai kills him; asks all the objects in the yurt where the inhabitants are; the doorknob says he is in a white rock; B. runs away from the mangadhai, pours blood out of the tueska, the mangadhai licks her from ice, Primerz tongue, B. cut off his head; disguised as a man, goes to heaven to three Sundays; finds himself inside a bottomless monster camel; there are people swallowed 5, 10 years ago; B. She pierces a hole with an arrow, people and animals come out; the Resurrectionists suspect that this is a girl, but she avoids being checked; leads them to her brother's remains, runs away herself, chipping in a hare; resurrections they revive the ZD, become his wives; he is going to shoot at the hare, his sister tells him not to shoot, takes on a human form; two older wives tied a ball of red thread to the ZD belt, and found a home for them, where B. lives; they threw a gold ring in her mouth, she died; the youngest wife answers ZD that she was not to blame; he asks the elders what they want: the tails of 70 horses or the tips of 70 ribs; tied them to their tails stallions; ZD put his sister's body in a box, hung a blind red deer on the horns; the red deer came to Khartaganag Khan; a child and a golden ring fell out of the box; the girl grew up, the khan's son married her, they child; ZD found them, everything is fine]: Barannikova et al. 1993, No. 6:109-117; Khalkha-Mongols (recorded by C.J. Jamtsarano) [the best husband, Adazudai Mergen (D.), lived in Ara Khorgolji; herd Asagaldai noticed that the mare in front of the herd jumped from the water, where his lungs and heart were swimming; the old man grabbed them, they turned gray and white hares, and ran; the old man killed them; A 15-headed mangus appeared: the old man killed his children, who took the form of hares; demanded that the old man kill D. for this; D.'s wife had a dream: a shepherd in a contract with a mangus; but D. did not pay attention; when his horses descended from the sky, D. could not ride them, because the harness and armor were damaged by the shepherd; D. runs, the mangus took his wife and property; D. lived hunting, returned three years later, in the hearth the fire is still glowing: a good sign; a letter from his wife under the hearth; it says where the new armor and food are hidden; let her marry Princess Naran Gua (NG); she will sew the last button to her shirt which his wife did not have time to sew; D. wanted to go after his wife, but there was a poisonous sea on the way, so he went after NG; looking like a bad boy, D. waited at the golden and silver wells; a servant came, then NG herself; they played chess, then spent three nights together; Khan allowed them to live in a hut; 6 older sons-in-law did not kill anything while hunting, and D. returned with rich loot; gave carcasses to his brothers-in-law, but took his legs; made his brothers-in-law poisoned with the meat of the carcasses; cured them with a piece of meat he had kept; the khan sent them to look for hundreds of golden horses stolen by Haruda; D. turned into horse manure, hid; the mare necklaced, the garuda took the foal away; D. managed to shoot off the foal's tail, the garuda's feather; gave the tail and feather to his wife; in the morning his brothers-in-law quarrel over the feather left on the ground; the khan sent to garuda for stolen horses; D. also wants; he is offered to get a horse on the border of earth and sky; he got it and tamed it; while he slept, the horse ran home; everyone thought that the horse threw him off, but D. went to her horse Ezen Sharga, leading the second on the lead; in the middle of the plain, a yurt with a cup, an old woman with a finger; she sent him to the garuda; D. Haruda shot, drove the herd home; the old woman warned: the brothers-in-law wanted him destroy; D. told his brothers-in-law that the wings he was carrying were the wings of a lark; he was forced to sit in a corner of honor, fell into a hole; his horses stole the herd so that his brothers-in-law would not get it; they brought a dagini with a 99-planted scythe; the braid did not reach the bottom of the hole; to lengthen the braid, she began to comb it; this required a lake; the horses urinated to create it; sent a lark for eternal water and revived it with it raised by D.; a feast at the khan; D. beat his brothers-in-law, cutting them apart; NG begged them to resurrect them, D. did it; NG sewed up the collar of his shirt in an instant, and D. in an instant shot 80 carts of firewood, a black boulder and shot a silver needle through the ear; they returned home, where there was nothing left of their former home; while hunting, D. shot a maralikha, and a boy immediately took her away; the same again; on the third day, D. brought her boy; horse: this is your son; D.'s wife gave birth to him after the mangus took her away; the boy recognized his father by the mole on his back mentioned by his mother; D. and mangus are struggling; mangus asks his wife to fall under his feet , whoever she loves, flour, and whom she does not love, black pebbles; D.'s wife poured flour to D., pebbles to mangus; M. killed the mangus, cut off his fingers from his finger, an iron boy appeared, he was also killed, but with difficulty; at home M. executed the traitor old man Asagaldai, married his son to NG, and healed himself with his wife]: Poppe 1937:79-82; the Mongols of Inner Mongolia (Chahars, Khoshun Shand) [the rich man watered his herd of horses from the well and saw The watering deck looked like a liver; he took it out and started stoning it; it turned into a humpback old man who was a mangus, a monster about twelve heads; the mangus said, "You'll give me yours a herd of 800 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 bone and one silver bone. Before I migrate, I will try to forget his two talus bones and leave them in the place of his nomadic. The son in the new place will want to play with his bones and will look for them, and they are forgotten in the old place. I'll make him go there to pick them up. That's when you'll grab him"; the rich man's family migrated to a new place; the boy asked his father where the bones were; the rich man replied that they were left on an old nomad, told his son to go pick them up on horseback about eight legs ; the horse told the boy to take with him a comb, a mirror, a bar, a bag of lice and a bag of nits; the boy listened, set off; arrived in the nomadic and saw a humpback old man sitting near the bones; the boy guessed it was a mango, grabbed the bones and rushed away; the mangus chased him; threw a stick at the horse and tore off one leg; the horse told the boy to drop his bag with lice; the boy did it, the mangus fell behind, busy collecting and destroying lice; after the mangus continued to pursue, threw the stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the boy threw the bag with nits, the mangus stayed a little longer, collecting and destroying nits; then continued his pursuit, threw his stick and tore off the horse's other leg; the horse told the boy to throw the bar; the boy did it, A rock appeared in front of the mangus; he overcame it, continued to pursue it; once again took out his horse with a stick and tore off his leg; the horse told the boy that he had thrown the comb; the boy did it in front of the mangus a dense forest grew; when the mangus crossed it, the boy threw down the mirror; it turned into an ocean, the mangus drowned in it; the horse said: "Your parents are rich people, but they care more and love their livestock than kids. When you get home, you call your father "Wolf's Heart," your mother, "Wet Eyes," and your sister, "Between Two Fires (Letters. in ticks)"; the boy returned home, began to call his parents and sister as the horse ordered]: Todayeva 1981:102-104.