Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

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M140B. A wolf adorns a bird.35.36.

The fox cunningly connects the wolf. A bird unties it, a grateful wolf adorns its plumage. See b97, b97a motives.

Nganasans, Western Evenks (Ilimpic, Turukhansky, Podkamennotungusky, Angarsk), Sym Evenks.

Western Siberia. Nganasana [the fox tricked the wolf; some birds (in various records these are swan; geese, duck, seagull; seagull; other loons; bullfinch; sandpiper) refuse to untie it; loon (in one of buzzard records, hawkish family) unleashes; ending options: 1) the wolf gave his painted park to the loon and put on loons to the park, now the wolves are red (1927-06-25, Chunanchar Sundampte, Lekarenko); 2) The loon gave the wolf white fluff from her chest (1938-10-01 Kokara Ngateshi, Dolgikh); 3) the wolf gave the loon a black collar around his neck, called ngulada madachyo, "wolf gift" (1961-07-27, Dolgikh, Nedya Turdagin)]: M. Momzikova, presentation at EUSP on November 26, 2015 with reference to Dolgikh.

Eastern Siberia. Western Evenks: Yermakov 1988 (Ilimpic, village. Ekonda) [Heweki created a dog, Hargi created a wolf; Lisa suggests that the Wolf tie him with talniks to make him stronger than the Bear; the Wolf cannot tear the talniks, on the fourth day the Bullfinch agrees to untie it, if the Wolf paints it; the Wolf stabbed a deer, painted Bullfinch's white breast with blood]: 12-14; Osharov 1936a (Turukhansky: Podkamennaya Tunguska, Western 1923; =1936b, No. 3:277) [The wolf offers Lisa tie her legs to jump ridiculously, warm up; then the Fox ties the Wolf's legs, leaves; the white Crossbill unties the Wolf, who kills the moose, Crossbow smears blood, since then he has a red breast; Fox broke a tooth on a frozen horse neck (?) ; The wolf found a tooth, came to the Foxes, began to beat his tail on the fire, the tail caught fire, the Foxes laughed, the Wolf identified the Fox without a tooth; invites her to look for lice from each other; leaning over the Fox, kills her]: 10- 11;? (Understone Tunguska) [the fox jumps on the ice, the wolf is afraid; the fox: if you tie it, it's okay; tied it with twigs and ran away; the wolf asks the white-breasted woodpecker to untie it; he calls the other woodpeckers, they untied it; the wolf killed the wolf, gave it to the woodpeckers; they smeared their white breasts, turned red; the wolf came to the fire where the foxes were sitting; set fire to his tail, the foxes began to laugh, the wolf recognized the one who tied him, she had a tooth broken; torn to shreds] 57-58; Suvorov 1956 (Angarsk: Kamenka; =Petrova 1936, No. 8:154-155) [Fox and Wolf agree to tie each other in turn and feed elk; Wolf kills an elk, binds the Fox, feeds; The fox ties the Wolf, eats everything, leaves him tied; the Raven refused, the Crossbills were hardly untied, the beaks bent; the fox gnawed the bone, broke the tooth, the Wolf found it; came to the foxes yurts, his tail was burned at the fire, the Foxes are laughing; he looks, all with teeth; the following yurts have one toothless; he offered to look for lice, stabbed that Fox with a tooth]: 57-58; Sym Evenks (Chirombu) [youngest the sister forgot the grandmother toys when she migrated; the older sister, the younger brother said that they worked and did not know where the toys were; the ostyak said that he poured out behind; the girl saddled the deer, took the dog, came to the old place is the Bear; he asked the names of the deer and the dog, tied the girl and the dog to the tree; the girl tells the Bear three times that her deceased parents did not take a bed of urine and feces when they were going 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 freed her, for which the girl promised to paint her tail; The bear wants to eat Lisa instead of the girl; she suggests that he put her on his lap, cut it with an ax; the fox dodged, the bear cut his legs, eat his bone marrow; since then, the tip 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 and crush them all; the ostyak cuts out a scoop, carries the girl in a scoop; the bear asks how the girl crossed; she sings - "lower, taller"; the bear enters the water, drowns; tells his heels to become bars, legs with sharpeners , the back is soft, the skull is a stone for rubbing paints, the shovels are a stone for paint, the blood is red paint, the feces are black; now it's all in the mountains; the girl has become the wife of Ostyak; carries water, he carries water every time pours out, 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 to fly with them; 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; sits at the old woman's door; she asks where to hide her from her sons; she refuses to hide in the fringes on the belt ("smelly"), hides in the needle; the sons smell, promise to eat the girl at sunrise, then at sunset; she flies away, catches up with gasha, they swear that their mother released her, they shoot, the wing shoulder is injured; Gurivul asks her to fall, promises a storage shed, speaks on how many stands; when on 10 stands, the girl goes down; they have a son; G. is hunting, gasha has come; 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 gashes, 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 him to take out his lice, stabs gash with his own tooth to death in the back of his head, says others that grandfather fell asleep leaves]: Vasilevich 1936, No. 42:45-51.