M199d. A contest against the devil in wrestling and running, ATU 1071, 1072 .15.16.27.-.29.31.32.34.36.
Theman and his opponent agree to compete in wrestling and running. A person puts his "relatives" instead of himself - a bear and a hare. (ATU numbers 1071 and 1072 are combined as they almost always combine)
Spaniards [ATU 1972], Germans (North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Silesia, Upper Palatinate) , Romanians, Moldovans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croats [ATU 1072], Bulgarians [ATU 1971], Slovaks, Czechs, Luzhitans [ATU 1972], Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Vologda, Kostroma, Tula, Oryol, Ryazan, Kursk), Ukrainians (Ugric Rus, Eastern Slovakia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Grodno, Pokutye, Volyn, Poltava, Kharkiv - only a running competition, ATU 1072), Belarusians, Kalmyks, Adygs, Ossetians, Ingush, Georgians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Livs [ATU 1971], Veps, Warlords, Karelians, Finns, Estonians, Setu, (Danes), Swedes, Western [ATU 1972] and Eastern Sami, Chuvash , Mordovians, Mari, Udmurts, Kazan Tatars, Bashkirs, Tofalars [ATU 1071 only], Shors [], Khakas [ATU 1071 only], Evenks (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [ATU 1072 only], central (?) Yakuts.
Southern Europe. Spaniards: Espinosa 1946, No. 229; Uther 2004 (2), No. 1072:28-29.
Western Europe. Germans: Cerf 1992 [the village teacher went to the haymaking; the devil wanted to grab him; the teacher squeezed the cheese and said that the stone would also flow water from the devil; the devils offer a bag of gold coins, If the teacher agrees to serve them for a year; sent to bring water, he pretends to dig in and bring the whole well; they tell them to bring an oak tree, the teacher pretends to cut down the entire forest; devils decided to get rid of the employee before the deadline; they had to pay the money and bring it themselves; the teacher taught the students what to say; the children started shouting, "I want damn meat," the hell quit bag, ran away; young devil came to sort it out; teacher to fight with his grandfather (bear in a cage), hell barely alive; run with his grandson (let the hare out); throw a hammer into the sky; teacher: I have a relative in heaven as a blacksmith, a hammer will come in handy; then the devil offered to throw a stone, the teacher released a goldfinch; whoever clicks louder; the devil clicks the whip; the teacher tells him to blindfold, hits him with a club; fight on swords; the teacher gave a line a long rod, and took a short one himself, stuck the line; then the devil asked for a short one; the teacher advised him to climb into the pigsty, stuck it through the gap; scratch (the teacher took brushes); damn it, the teacher is under the ceiling; says he darns holes so that when he blows, the hell does not fly to the moon]: 105-110; Schönwerth 1981 (Upper Palatinate) [forest is stolen from the forester; he is so cursed that hell had come; forester: take this forest and everyone who came to steal; a man making brooms came and began to break a birch tree; hell: you are mine; the man asked me to feel sorry for him for his family; hell agreed on the condition that a person wins three times; 1) race (the man let his eldest son, a hare, instead of himself); 2) climb a tall tree (the youngest son is a squirrel); 3) who will throw higher iron ball; a man pretends to be afraid that the ball will remain on the cloud; hell tells you not to throw it, left the man alone]: 17; Germans (North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Pomerania, Silesia): Uther 2001 (1), No. 1072:28-29
The Balkans. Hungarians [the gypsy did not seriously want his wife to have 12 children; so it happened; he decided to go to hell as a stoker; he dragged him there; one son grew up, went to look for his father; poplar to heaven, roots to hell, the gypsy climbed the poplar to heaven, threw his hat at the door, persuaded St. Peter let him take his hat, stayed in paradise; saw how the thief wanted to steal his mother's pig, threw benches on the ground; God kicked him out; he came to hell, pretended to build from the entrance to the church, the devils gave him his father and the kidnapped queen; Pluto returned, sent the devil to take away the queen; the devil offers to compete in the run, the gypsy puts his younger hare brother instead; Pluto sent another trait, we must throw the mace; the gypsy pretends to throw it into another world to his blacksmith brother; the third line is told to compete for who clicks the whip louder; the gypsy puts everyone on heads hoops - the head will split at his click, the devil hurts; the fourth is given a pitchfork, and the gypsy has a spit, they stab each other through the wattle fence, the pitchforks are stuck; then: who sews better (the gypsy has a short thread, finished faster); chase pigs; gypsies: I will crochet those with a tail crochet, and you drive with a straight tail; I didn't find any; the gypsy married the queen]: Ortutai 1974, No. 33:382-390; Romanians [ the elder brother is home, the youngest, Danila is stupid; he brought aspen, stuck it in the yard, told his wife that it was a quail to hang pots; but there were no pots; Danila was given the name Perepelyak; P. takes every time his brother's cart; he advises selling oxen, buying cheaper cart and oxen with this money; P. changes oxen for a cart when he sees a man rolling it down the mountain; his cart does not go, he changes it to a goat, a goat on a goose, a goose on an empty purse; borrowed his brother's cart with oxen to bring firewood; he knocked down a tree, it fell, crushing the oxen and breaking the cart; P. decided not to return, went to the lake, there were ducks, he threw the ax, the ducks flew away, the ax drowned; P.: for the devils to take you; voice out of the lake: thank you; the devil has come out, suggests a dispute, who wins the fist fight will be the master of the lake; P. pretends old uncle, a bear; hell climbed into the den, barely alive; who whistles louder; P. pretends not to hear the damn whistle at all; tells the devil to blindfold, hits him with a club, damn believes it whistle; the devils gave a bag of gold, P. hardly drove it home; P. bought new oxen and healed well]: Mirener 1958:38-49; Moldovans [young king Trandafir wheat grain at the same time married two princesses and a poor girl Ilyana; asks the hare king for advice on who to choose; one of the judges advises to turn to hell, he is involved; hell wants to measure his strength and run first around the fortress; T. suggests that he first overtake his younger brother, the hare; the hare won; then carry the horse; T. "carries" the horse between his legs, i.e. rides it; who hangs louder; T. blindfolded the line, the horse hit him with his hoof; the devil advises to marry the daughter of a poor man]: Moldovan tales 1968:420-428; Bulgarians : Daskalova-Perkovska et al. 1994, No. 1071 [a person suggests a line to fight not with him, but with his sister (or son) - a bear, a snake], 1072 [a person suggests a line to overtake not him, but his younger brother - hare]: 381, 382.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelsk, Olonetskaya, Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Vologda, Kostroma, Tula, Orlovskaya, Ryazan; Kursk - only running competition, ATU 1072), Ukrainians (Ugric Russia, Eastern Slovakia, Hutsulshchina, Galicia, Grodno, Pokutye; Volyn, Poltava, Kharkiv - running competition only, ATU 1072), Belarusians: SUS 1971, No. 1071 [ Wrestling competition: a person puts his grandfather (brother), a bear instead of himself], 1072 [Running competition: a person launches his younger brother, a hare instead of himself]: 261, 261-262; Russians (Moscow) [if the employee does not get along, the owner will cut the belt from the back and cut the belt into the head with a hammer; if he gets along, then with the owner; the owner sent to bring the bear, the worker brought it; the owner: harness it into the cart and collect it debt from the water in the pool; at the shore, the worker began to weave ropes; the imp: and to squeeze the shores and destroy your pool; the water imp: ask what he needs; the worker dug a hole, above it a hat with a hole: gold hat; imp: race; the worker put the hare out ("boy with a finger"); now fight (the bear threw the imp into the air); who would throw the stick higher; the worker quietly threw it into the bushes said that the stick did not return from heaven; the imp filled the hole with gold, the worker brought it on a cart drawn by a bear; the owner was confused where to put the burka; let him go to the horse; the bear ate the horse; the owner and wife are running; the worker climbed into a bag with crackers; got out at rest; made peace with the owner, began to live like relatives]: Khudyakov 1860, No. 27:107-110; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, p. Nizhnyaya Syrovatka, Sumy University, 1885) [The son and father are walking along the road, they see a man carrying a goat in his hands, the son promises to steal it. He takes off his boot, smears feces, leaves it on the road, the traveler picks it up but does not want to wash the paired one, then picks up another boot, also left by his son, ties the goat to the willow and returns for the first boot, while the son takes the animal away. At home, Anton wants to get the first piece of the goat he has cooked, his father refuses him, he runs out of the house, shouts that his father stole the goat, he is allowed to eat first. Anton raises the goat's head above the bush, gives a goat's voice, and the owner of the goat finds out the loss, Anton admits that he stole the goat and is called to steal the horse. Pan tells the workers to protect the horse, they fall asleep at night, Anton transfers the first from the horse to the matitsa, gives pegs to the one who held his legs, and those who held the mane - yarn, leaves the bridle, takes away horse. Pan demands that Anton steal oxen and send them to the field with workers all day long. Anton shows up and shouts as if he sees a miracle, invites half of the employees to look at it, the other half to watch the oxen, the other half does not wait for the first to return and leaves. Anton takes the workers into the forest, returns quietly, takes the oxen, puts the tail in front of everyone in their mouths, leaves them alone with their tails in their mouths - the workers decide that the ox has eaten the herd. Pan realizes the trick, demands that he steal his wife. Pan surrounds his wife with workers, falls asleep next to her. Anton ties braids to the workers, throws up a "kendyukha", spills kvass, glues the workers' hair with resin, puts a deck instead of his wife, and takes his lady away. Pan wakes up, girls scream for "", accuse each other, workers argue about who got dirty (?). Anton says he gave the hell his wife for 3 carts of pennies, and the man promises to give him a box of pennies if he returns it back. Anton weaves a rope by the pond, says to the line from the lake that he wants to measure the swamp in order to build a monastery, drive the devils out. He promises not to do that if they give up Mr.'s wife. The devil offers to resolve the dispute by running around the lake, Anton exposes the hare (like a son), wins, gets a wife, kicks the lord out, takes his place and lives with his wife]: Grinchenko 1895, No. 175: 214-218; northern Ukrainians (Volyn, Zaslavsky district) [the older brother got a shovel from his parents, the middle brother got a cat, the youngest a bast; each went to seek uses for his inheritance; the elder found people who separated the grain from the sex with their hands, sold a shovel for a hundred rubles, returned, soon ran out of money; the middle one found a village where people's mice were eating; sold the cat for a hundred rubles, returned, too, the money soon ran out; the youngest came to the lake, began to wet and weave a bast; hell asks what he's doing; guy: hang a net of devils; devils pay off; the guy put a hole hat over the hole, the devils all wear gold, but they can't fill the hat; Satan wants compete; the guy invites him to race with his child (this is a hare), carry the mare 4 times around the lake (he jumps himself, but the hell carries); hell: who will throw a heavy mace higher; the guy looks at sun: this is my brothers' forge, they need iron; hell asks not to throw, gives money]: Malinka 1902, No. 2:265-267; Ukrainians (Poltava, Piryatinsky, ca. 1878) [Gypsy falls asleep on the grave, kills a hundred flies with his hand, asks the clerk to write a table "Ivan the Great Warrior beats a hundred souls in one fell swoop" {the quote is not accurate}. He lies down on the road, the king passes by, demands to move, he does not move, telling him who he is. The king asks to beat the overseas army, he agrees if there is lard. Gypsies are fed, given a regiment of soldiers, everyone has an armful of straw in their hands, when they set fire to them, enemies see a fire army, flee into the sea, and drown. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to defeat three dogs, he asks for bacon, he is fed. He lies down at the gate, the dogs cannot enter, they notice the gypsy, they recognize him and invite him to go with them, he agrees on the condition that he becomes the main one, he blindfolds them in front of the river, as if He's going to order the river to cross them, kills them. The king rewards the gypsy, asks to exterminate the snake, he eats up, lies down at the gate, the snake recognizes him (the text of the sign). The serpent offers to be comrades, says that he is Luta (evil spirits), the gypsy says that he is Pra-Luta. They come to the Serpent's father, he offers to compete in the run, the gypsy exposes his "son" - the hare, who overtakes. Father Snake offers to compete in throwing a mace, the gypsy barely carries the mace in the field, the Serpent throws it up - it returns in 2 hours, the gypsy is afraid that if she does, she will not return. The serpent discourages him from throwing: his father has only 2 maces, it's a pity to lose. Father Snake offers to compete in whistles, the Serpent whistles - leaves fall from the trees, the gypsy blindfolds him - so as not to get out of his whistle, hits his forehead, his eyes come out of his orbits. The gypsy realizes that the Serpent wants to kill him, puts a bag of straw where he sleeps, covers him with his robe, the snake hits the bag, the gypsy says "the mosquito bit". The serpent collects a bag of money for the gypsy, he is met by gypsies, the gypsies say that it was the devils who came for the soul of the Snake. He throws the bag and leaves, the gypsy receives an award from the tsar]: Rudchenko 1870, No. 45:185-187; Russians (Vologda) [Ivan began to twist ropes by the river; imp: what are you doing? Ivan: I'll wrinkle the sea, let me make you devils; the elder imp suggests running first; Ivan sends a blue old man instead of himself - a hare; whoever throws a stick higher; Ivan: when I throw it, out of sight; fight; Ivan sends his grandfather 75 years old, a bear; devils are ready to give gold; Ivan stretched a hat with holes over the pit; the imp gives gold and a ring that makes wishes come true; the king demands to build for night house, church, crystal bridges - everything is done; after the wedding, M. found a ring, ordered herself to be moved far away to the fiftieth kingdom; Ivan goes in search, from one baba yaga to another; they - sisters; the third hides Ivan in a chest, M. comes; Ivan, who ate three prospirs on the way, broke three iron canes, realizes that M. loves him; Baba Yaga gave a ball, a sword, a tablecloth; for Ivan buys these items three times a night with Masha from her nieces; they gave her a drink twice, she sleeps, the third time she does not drink; after throwing a ring, Ivan and Mary are at home, the tsar is happy to have them returned]: Smirnov 1917 , No. 35:192-196; Russians (Kursk, Leninsky District) [The voivode has a clever son "there is a red sun in his forehead, the moon in the back of his head." The boy's extraordinary strength is manifested in children's games - he tears off other children's arms and legs. The king orders him to be expelled from the state. The son cannot choose a horse for a long time, finds him in the last stable, tied in three chains, and the horse calls him his master. The mother gives her son a talisman ring as a goodbye (she makes wishes come true). At the crossroads, the governor's son chooses the road on which he is destined to die. He drinks water and falls asleep by the stream, the mermaids steal his ring for the old devil. He cries, goes into Baba Yaga's house (a hut with chicken legs), she is surprised, feeds him and drinks him, puts him to bed and wakes him up on the third day, promises to help him find a ring, and gives him a guide - a cat. They return to the place where the governor's son slept, wind the ropes, when asked by the imp, explain that they want to pull the two banks together to crush the devils. He offers to fight, the young man points at the bear, says that it is his grandfather and offers to fight him. The bear grabs the imp, he runs away. The old devil takes a ring to the young man, says that the governor asked the king for permission for his son to return to the kingdom. The young man asks to marry one of the mermaids, the devil is angry, hits the ground, becomes a "fierce beast", the cat hits and becomes a lion, they fight, the lion wins and the young man gets the best beautiful girl, returns home]: Aristov, Pavlov 1939:82-85; Czechs [the gypsy went to serve the line; pretended to dig a well to bring plenty of water at once; that ties the forest with a rope - bring all the trees at once; the old devil advised the young night to kill the gypsy with an iron stick; he lay down elsewhere, leaving his sheepskin coat on the bed; hell hit, the gypsy sighed: the flea bit; old hell advised me to pay off the gypsy with money; the young man offered to compete first; 1) kick a stone (the gypsy poured water under the stone, she splashed, the hell believed that the gypsy squeezed water out of the stone); 2) who is taller will throw an iron stick (gypsy: I have two blacksmith brothers in the sky, hell tells me not to throw it); 3) run for distillation (the gypsy offers a younger brother instead of himself, this is a hare); 4) fight (instead of his gypsy father is a bear); 5) who whistles louder (the gypsy tells the line to blindfold, hits him in the ears with an iron club); the devil left the money and left]: Erben in Lifshitz-Artemyeva 2017:148-152; Slovaks [from father three sons; he takes them into the forest to find out their inclinations; the eldest says that this tree could be used to make a wheel, the middle tree like a trough, the younger Klinko to make a club; K. came to the king, that wants to test what he is good for; 1) quietly steal two oxen from a team of four; K. picked up chickens, released them, everyone rushed to catch them, and he cut off the tails of two front oxen, put them in his mouth two in the back, took the front ones away; 2) steal all the grain from the current; K. planted a scarecrow, the threshers threshed it and went to bed, and K. took the grain; 3) steal bacon from the royal reserves; K. lowered it down the chimney bagpipes, watchmen began to shoot, bagpipes groaned, and K. stole bacon; 4) steal the main hussar's horse; K., under the guise of an innkeeper, brought a plum brandy, said that K. did not pay him, became friends with the guards, got drunk they were taken away by the horse; the princess was stolen by the devil; K. promised to return her if the king married her; when he came to hell, he began to smoke incense and pretend to be building a church; the devils first brought an armless girl, then legless, then 12 of the same - choose; K. chose the one that was not afraid of incense; but the devils first offer a running competition; K. I'm tired, but my brother is in the bushes; the hare ran to the top of the hill before than the devils followed; offer to fight; K. put out his older brother, the bear; hell: the girl of the one who whistles louder; whistles; K;. begins to cut birch trees to cover the girl and herself when he whistles; the devil asks not to whistle; K. got the princess and half the kingdom]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 26:140-145.
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Kalmyks [when she dies, the old woman tells her three sons not to work for Khan Yad; the elder brother has been hired, the khan instructs him to clean up the manure behind Aranzal Horse; whoever gets angry will cut out belts from the back; the elder bart worked until dark, got angry, the khan cut out his belts; the same middle brother; the younger Shovara plugged the horse's anus, the horse died; the khan was angry, S. cut out his belts from his back; to the sheep did not run away, cut off their hooves; to make the cows drink less, he fed them pieces of leather, cutting a leather bucket, the cows died; drowned the last bull; killed the hanshu; the khan sent him to the mill where shulma; Sh. took a bear as a companion, caught two birds with one stone; Shulma offers competitions: wrestling (S. puts his old father, a bear, instead of himself); race around the lake (Sh. hare, stroking the other at the finish line - like the same one); carry the horse around the lake (S. rides on horseback); shulma grinded the flour, gave a pipe that plays 68 melodies of happiness and 108 melodies of sorrow; S. harnessed the bear, came, let the bear go to the cows for the night, he lifted them up; Sh. plays the pipe, the sheep are dancing and the khan with them, stepped into the hearth, screams, S. cut out the second belt from the khan's back; he runs into the reeds, Sh. hid in the chest carried by the khan; the khan ran away, S. took the chest, offered to cure the daughter of another khan; we must kill Shulma in the reeds; Khan Yada was killed, S. married the khan's daughter]: Vatagin 1964:223-230 ; Adygs [no one can save the village from giants, Bald undertakes to do it; sees a giant on the other side of the river; tells him to move him across the river; giant: whoever is stronger will endure another; crushed a stone, squeezed water out of the other; Bald shows a handful of flour, squeezes water from a piece of cheese; ate cheese, but the giant could not eat the stone; the giant carries Bald, intending to drown, he stabs him with an awl, the giant quickly crosses the river with him, brings giants into the house; Bald hid his share of meat, the giants think he has eaten it; at night, giants throw stones at Kunatskaya, Bald waits for in the attic, says that Kunatskaya has been overwhelmed by hail; giants offer a competition in running, Bald lets his younger brother, a hare; offers to fight his older brother, a bear; giants pour into kunatskaya boiling water, Bald waited in the attic, said that it was raining; the giants agreed to take Pleshivy to his house, give him treasures; he persuaded his mother to say that there was nothing to feed the guests: they stayed only bones are from the old gnawed giants; the giants run away, the fox leads them back; Bald: Thank you, but the ones I lent you were fatter; giants kill the fox, run away]: Kerashev 1957:248-254 ( =Maksimov 1937:131-148); Ossetians [the poor man worked in hell; told him he could steal better than hell; he offered to steal 1) his horse; tied a horse to his headboard; the poor man slipped the devil and his wife salt in the food, poured the water, at night the devil got up to look for water, the poor man took the horse away; 2) a magic table; the poor man invited the devil's friends, after eating he went out to see them off, the poor man stole the table; 3) sister; the poor man put a line of ants into bed, put an araku on the table; to fall asleep, the hell drank araki, fell asleep, the poor man stole his sister; the devil gives the poor gold, but offers to compete; 1) who is faster runs; the poor man lets his "little brother" (the hare, and the other was hidden and presented at the finish line; 2) to fight; the poor man kicked out his "big brother" (bear), the hell barely escaped; 3) who hangs louder; the poor man tells the line to close his eyes and ears, hits him on the head with a mallet; the devil passed off his sister as a poor man]: Dzutsev 2011:133-136; Ingush: Malsagov 1983, No. 96 [the old man felt sorry for the hare and bear, then met a devil named Tank Tank; he offered to 1) fight; the old man suggests defeating his younger brother first, woke up the bear, TT is barely alive; 2) compete in the run; the old man offered to overtake his son, TT did not catch up with the hare; 3) throw a club; the youngest devil Mank-Munk threw so high that he fell in the afternoon; old man: last year he punched a hole in the sky with a club, the hole is covered by a cloud; let the cloud will come down so as not to punch new holes; the devils were afraid of losing their golden mace and left]: 247-249; Sadulaev 2004, No. 62 []: 174-175; Georgians (Kakheti) [the royal servant decided to learn something a craft and chose to steal; the king ordered him to steal a horse, put one guard on a horse, told the other to hold the reins; the servant brought them food and drink, they fell asleep, he took the horse away; steal the bulls; the servant put a dirty boot on the road, a clean one by the water; the thieves did not take the dirty one, but when they saw a clean one, they went for the first boot, leaving the bulls; the servant took them away; steal the king's wife; the thief dressed the deceased in his put the dress at the gate; the guards started shooting; the king decided that the servant was killed, removed the guards, the thief took the queen away; the devil asked to sell her to him; the servant asked for a hat of gold; the thief dug a hole, made a hole in his hat; hell he poured gold until the hole was filled, took the queen away; the king promises the thief of half the kingdom if he returned the queen; the devil offers to compete in the run, the thief exposes his cousin, this is a hare, he hides the other behind sinus; whoever shouts louder; the thief tells the devil to cover his ears with cotton wool, blindfold, hits the devil on the head with a club; fight; the thief exposes the old uncle, the bear, who has destroyed the line; the thief received the queen, gold and became king himself]: Chikovani 1954, No. 50:259-261.
Baltoscandia. Latvians: Brivzemniaks 1887, No. 51 (Courland) [the guy was hired to hell; he can't lift a hammer, suggests pulling out trees from the root; if he pulls it out, the tree will crumble, let the hell; he pulled it out; the guy suggests the line to carry the tree by the top of his head, but not look back; he rides sitting on his butt; the hive: this is my father's snuffbox; the gun is his pipe; the hell sniffs, tries smoke; the bees bite him, the guy shoots, the hell says it's strong tobacco; the harrow is his father's scallop (the devil is trying to comb his hair); offers to throw a hammer, the guy pretends to throw it into the sky ; says that the bear is his grandfather, offers to hit him on the ass; the bear broke the line]: 55-56; Nierda 1952 [the fish tells the childless widow to cook and eat it; the maid ate the piece, the giblets are the mare; each gives birth to a son, the son of a mare is the strongman Kurbad; all three go to free the house from evil spirits; on the first night K. killed a three-headed giant on the bridge, a six-headed giant on the second night; on the third night a nine-headed giant , his heads grow back, he drives K. knee-deep, then to his armpits into the ground; the brothers sleep, do not see that the water in the ladle has become blood; K. threw pastals (shoes) at them; the brothers ran and began to burn severed heads; K. hears insects talking in the cracks: killed our husbands; let one wife become a bed, the second a spring, the third a cannibal snake; K. does not let us lie down, drink, cut the bed , a spring; the king lost three daughters when they were washing in the bathhouse; K. pinched a line in the door, he gave a pipe (10 dwarfs would come out to do the job), said that there was a stone in the swamp, a hole under it, there kidnapped; K. threw off a stone, told the dwarfs to bring a rope; the brothers were afraid, K. went down, cut off the line; in the princess's silver, gold, diamond castles; gave K. strong water, and the six-headed drank weak instead of her; sisters turn their locks into diamond, gold, silver eggs, give them to K.; K. sent the girls upstairs; the wife of the 9-headed giant cut off the rope and filled the hole with a stone; K. comes to the old man, he says that the cannibal sucked his eyes and beats the giant bird's children with hail; K. killed the cannibal, smeared the old man's eyes with a potion, he saw the light; covered the chicks from the hail; the bird promises transfer K. across the sea, tells him to prepare meat; K. cut off the last piece from his caviar; K. opens his eggs, lives with the youngest queen in a diamond castle; the wife of the 9-headed must be killed; K. came to the forge, there Debess Kaleis forged a golden crown, a silver belt and a diamond ring for the daughter of the Sun; forged K.'s horse to catch up with the witch, told her not to look back; K. looked around, thunder and lightning, the horse was gone; K. fell asleep, the witch changed the vessels with strong and weak water, K. drank, lost strength for a year; went to hell as a worker, whoever gets angry, cut three strips of meat from his back; 1) herd hares, 2) cows; dwarfs from the pipes collected everyone; K. beat off each cow's leg; the devil has to answer that he is not angry; 3) horses (the same; cut off their lips); 4) plow how much the white female will run (beat the female, she lay down); 5) clean the stable (the dwarfs cleaned); 6) bring firewood on the mare (the mare is the mother's devil, K. threatens to cut her belts from her sides, the mare is lucky); 7) slaughter the sheep that looks at you (everyone looks, stabbed everyone); 8) eat a pound of dumplings; K. lowers the dumplings by the shirt, and the devil ate his pound, it's bad with his stomach; K. pretends to rip open his stomach, the dumplings fell out; 9) the devil leads K. to the forest to cut an oak; K. brings a hare - younger brother; hell can't catch up with him; agrees to carry a felled oak together; hell carries, K. rides an oak tree; killed the devil's children; pulled out his mare's eyes; put a pot of sour cream in his place for the night, hell and his mother think they broke K.'s head; hell and his mother run away to the witch, K. hid in his belongings, here again; at night they decided to drown K. in the river, K. swapped places, hell drowned his mother; K. killed devil; strength returned, K. killed witches, threw an ogre into the fire, killed the ogre eagle; enemies attacked; the witch poured bile on K.; K. killed her and the ogre himself]: 116-146; Estonians (Viljandi) [hell (vanapagan) hired Hans on condition not to be angry; whoever gets angry will cut off the other nose; when the hell started ripping out the spruce trees, H. pretended to have a stomachache; suggested that the devil carry Butts, and he is on the top of his head, sat on the Christmas trees himself, the devil carries him with them; H. pretends to count wolves; hell runs with urine and does not look back; hell tells me to cook beer in three days; H.: while they were running, twisted his leg; hell brings barley to the brewery himself; H. sold barley, bought tar, damn drank it instead of beer and praised it; in haymaking, H. mows braids with a pen; hell I have to say he's not angry; but then gives X. the best pieces, before that, only bones; hell: let the tools work themselves; while the hell slept, H. mowed his plot; hell called the devils and they did everything for him; hell offered to fight; X .: first with my older brother; set a bear on the line, the hell barely escaped; hell: race; H. offers a younger brother, a hare, the hell did not catch up with him; began to throw stones; the stone fell back by noon; H. threw the sparrow, three days later the hell thought stone X. was stuck on the cloud; hell with his grandfather's club, he threw it almost to the cloud; H. can't pick it up; pretends to wait for clouds will swim up, throw it at it; it's a pity for the club line, tells you not to throw; the devil offers to choose part of the crop; H. chooses the tops of wheat, then the roots of the turnip; both times the devil loses; in the forest both wanted to drink, H. offered to drill holes in the birch trees to drink juice; we'll drill with his penis; H. has a drill with him, the hole is ready, the poor devil is suffering; in the forge he taught H. to fuse pieces of iron; hell to the wedding, ordered H. to clean and bring his children, would also look at him {in the sense of looking}; H. gutted the children, washed their intestines, strung his eyes on a rope, brought a line, threw his eyes in his chest; hell remembered that he should not be angry; decided to get rid of X.; told the old woman to climb under the window on a birch tree and cook {this means that the term of employment has come to an end}; H.: it's too early for the cuckoo, took gun, shot; hell: Where do you sleep? H.: on the stove; he lay down where the grain was dried; at night, the devil threw a knife on the stove, there were dishes with milk, everything spilled; hell: I'm in cockroaches; the same the next night (H. said he would sleep on a bench near stoves, on the stove myself); hell: I scared the cat; the same on the third night (I lay down not where the grain is dried, but on the bench by the stove); hell decided to run away from H., took a bag of money with him, H. hid in it; on Halt H. slowly got out: he barely caught up with you! I had to pay the line, he became impoverished himself, and H. bought a farm; in winter he cut down the forest; devil: I also froze; H. offered to put his hands in a half-split log, knocked out a wedge; freed me for promise to bring a bag of gold; hired H. as a shepherd; fell asleep on a hot day, the cattle rushed home, trampled the line to death]: Kippar 1910, no. IV.6:78-85; setu [(first-person narrative; Ivvan - the youngest of five brothers; the eldest goes to hire a farmhand; the pop promises 1000 a year, but if the farmhand swears, he will cut off his nose and drive him away without paying; and if he swears himself, he will pay twice cut off his nose more; three days before the end of his term, his brother grinded all day, but no food was brought to him; he swore, the pop cut off his nose and drove him away; the same with the other brothers; I. went; did not grind, but lay down sleep; the pop swore, I. cut off his nose; the popadya offers to send I. to the swamp for hay, there are devils; I. says hell he came to measure the land to build a church; hell told this to the main feature , he suggested - let him race with I.: first overtake my younger brother around the lake; let one go and the other in his bag; when the hell ran, the hare supposedly has been here for a long time; the same - fight; I. offered a line to fight with his grandfather, it is a bear, who ripped off the line; the same: throw a hammer; when the devil throws and the hammer falls back, he goes deep into the ground; I. pretends to be going throw the hammer on the cloud; the devil does not tell you to throw it, for the elder devil ordered the hammer to be returned; the eldest devil decided to pay off, I. asked for three bags of gold and three hay; the ass had to pay what he promised, gold I. brought her home; the king promises to give his daughter off as someone who would cure her; I. came to heal, asked for three decks of cards, three cast-iron cauldrons and a bucket of vodka as a reward; he waited in the princess's room; that devil came in from the swamp , I. began to play cards with him at clicks; I. lost, put three cauldrons on his head; the devil clicked three times, breaking three cauldrons; the rooster sang and the hell was gone; the princess was better in the morning; told her father that I. was with himself played cards, and then the cauldrons crashed; the next night I. asked for cards and a hammer; gave the devil a drink, beat him with a hammer; the princess was even better; on the third night I. asked for 10 rolls of leather; hell won, became beat I., but pierced only 9 skins, and then the rooster sang; in the morning the princess recovered; on the fourth night I. drank the devil again, tied it to the bench, in the morning he ran away with the bench; on the fifth night I. asked make an iron man a blacksmith and before starting to play cards, ordered him to tear out his tongue; the iron man closed his jaws, I. began to beat him with a hammer; the devil promised to leave the princess alone; I. received the princess and the kingdom; and then the war broke out, his wife and children were killed, and I. remarried under the name Fyodor and began to live in the village of Lõtina]: Vanahunt 2015:20-24; oriental Sami [the imp brought the boy to his place, suggests competing to see who shouts louder; the boy begins to tie his head so that his scream does not burst; the imp asks not to scream; the devil says bring a big tree; the imp drags, the boy rides behind on the butt; the devil offers to throw an iron stick; the boy pretends to throw it on the cloud; running competition: the boy caught two birds with one stone, letting one go around the lake - this is his younger brother; the devil gave the reward to the boy and he returned home]: Yermolov 1959:74-76; (cf. Danes [the blacksmith swam to catch cod, got into the fog, ended up at the siren; since then he did not need anything; six years later his son Olaf, who became an adult boy, came to him; he could not feed him, he asked his father to make him an iron club and went on a journey; hired a peasant, does his job quickly, but spoils buildings, etc. (too strong); the peasant sent people to the forest for firewood - who he will be the last to return, he will be hanged; O. uproots the trees and brings them on his shoulders; the owner sends O. to clean the well; when O. goes down, others have filled the well with stones; O.: let the chickens not throw sand; they threw the millstone, he was around O.'s neck; O. came to complain to the owner, threw off the millstones, crushing his toes; he is sent to fish on the damn lake; he hits the line, tells him to deliver everything fish to the owner; he sends O. to collect the devil's rent in three years; they had to give it back, O. brought half to the owner and the other to his father, and then returned to his siren mother]: Grundtvig 1920:58-72).
Volga - Perm. Mordva: Evseviev 1964, No. 54 (Erzya) [the son of the cook Antipka is a skillful thief; he stole his lady, threw him into the sea to demons; the master orders to return; on the way he spared a hare, a bear; says to demons that viet stir up the rope; hopeless grandfather: our sea is bottomless; Antipka: the rope is endless; the demon tells the demon to race, then fight; Antipka sends his little hare brother, grandfather bear; demon suggests throwing a baton up; Antipka pretends to throw it on the cloud; the demon gives the lady]: 360-364; Paasonen 1941 [father inherited the cat's eldest son, the middle shovel, the youngest bast; the eldest came to a city where they did not know about cats; he was locked up for the night to be eaten by rats, but the cat strangled all the rats; the merchant began selling cats; the older brother asks for 100 rubles for each instruction (show what the name is, how to call, etc.); the merchant forgets that the cat should be called "kitty kitty", comes back, pays another 100 rubles; the same with the middle brother, who rows grain with a shovel from people, oh shovels who do not know; the youngest sits down by the lake to twist a rope out of his bast; answers the imp that he is going to hang the devils; the imp jumps into the water every time to ask for advice from the old devil; 1) fight (young man: with my 7-year-old sick grandfather is a bear); 2) race (with my brother born yesterday, this is a hare); 3) who will carry the horse (the imp carries, the young man jumps); 4) who will throw the club further (the young man does looks like he wants to throw it on the cloud); 5) hell gives gold, the young man tells me to pour it into the hat, there's a hole; 6) the devil gives a pipe; the young man meets the Tatars, blows, everyone dances, goes to complain about the ass, pop with a hit too dance, popadya gave birth and trampled a child]: 324-331; Chuvash [when dying, a father bequeaths three sons an old wooden spatula, a broken pestle, a piece of wet; the first teaches those who breathed to blow grain with his hands, the second to grind the millet with a pestle, not with his fists, both are given wealth; the third by the lake viet from the wet rope, answers the imp that he is going to catch everything in the lake; the devil advises the imp summon a man to race; he offers to compete with his younger brother, a bird; the bird flew away, the imp is shamed; to fight - go fight with my old grandfather, it's a bear, a little imp alive; raise a heavy brush; a person pretends to throw a brush to get stuck between heaven and earth, feels sorry for the imp's brush, does not allow him to throw; carrying a horse around the lake is a man jumps, the imp carries; the devils agree to fill a person's hat with money; there is a hole in it, the money falls into a large bag from below; the man is rich]: Eisin 1993:306-309; Marie: Bakulevsky 1973 [At the shore of the lake, a man began to weave a rope to climb a linden tree and get honey; hell got out of the lake, asks why the man needs a rope; man: I'll cover the lake with a loop and take it away; hell asks not to do it this, runs for advice from his mother; she advises calling a man to a running competition; a man rides a horse, overtook the line; damn mother: you have to run through the woods through the vallezhins; the man exposes his younger brother : We must call that one, Agach, Agach! hell calls, the hare jumped out and ran away; damn mother: we have to fight; the man exposes his grandfather, the bear, the hell escaped; damn mother: who will throw the club next; the man is going to throw a club on the cloud hell asks not to do this - a club is needed; who whistles louder; the man shot a gun, the hell fell off the Christmas tree in fear; the damn mother advises to pay off; the man asks for a hat of money, put a hole in his hat into the hole, three pounds of money came out; the man tells him to take him home with all the good things; at home tells his wife to cook dinner; wife: nothing; man: at least out of this line; hell ran away]: 72-75; Beke 1938, No. 11 [ the man soaked his bast, began to weave a rope by the lake shore; the imp asks what he is doing; the man: I'll tie the lake and take it away; the imp runs every time to ask his grandfather what to do; he advises call a person to race (a person puts his younger brother, a hare); whoever throws a double-pound club taller (the person pretends to throw it on the cloud); the devils promise to pour gold a full hat; a man holes in the hat and holds it above the hole; when the hole is full, he tells the imp to help carry gold; along the way he says that the millstone is a spinning rod, the harrow is a comb, the plow is his chopper grandmothers, an imp can pick them up; bringing them to the lake, the imp almost drowned; it's good that his grandfather saved him]: 39-41; Chetkarev 1948 [old man Miron was fishing, an imp came out of the water; M. says that viet pull all the devils out of the lake; the imp told my grandfather, who sent him to offer M. to race around the lake; M.: I have a younger brother Ahat in the bush - go to him, shout, gasp, he will run; the imp did not catch up with the hare; M.: who will carry a mare around the lake; the imp hardly picked it up and brought it, and M. rode on horseback; M. pretends to take money, fill his hat, hole it, the money filled the kul, the imp carried the kul M. to the house; M. tells me to take a millstone and a harrow - a spinning rod and a comb for his grandmother; M. agreed with his wife; wife: nothing to cook dinner from; M.: I'll cut off your head and the legs are a devil; the devil ran away]: 168-170; Kazan Tatars: Bashirov, Yarmukhametov 1956 [the father tells his eldest son not to hire Musa; the guy comes and refuses to hire M., but he runs in go ahead, meets the guy again; the guy thinks that everyone in the village has the name M., is hired; if the employee expresses dissatisfaction, he will receive not a fee, but a hundred blows with a whip; this is what happened to him; the same with his middle brother; the youngest slaughter M. himself; he sends him for horses to a forest lake; the guy weaves a rope by the lake, answers the wonder that he wants to hang the lake from the sky; the diva dives, pulls out a horse, promises give if the guy can carry the horse around the lake; shows how to do it, he is very tired; the guy rides around the lake on horseback; the elder diva offers to throw him to the sky and catch an iron club; the guy says he will throw her on the cloud, the divas ask not to do it; they agree to take the guy home; he calls the fallen oak and millstone his mother's spindle and spindle; the divas bring them to M., he is frightened; at night, M. and his wife pour boiling water into the place where the guy sleeps, but he bounced, says in the morning that it was raining warmly; M. and his wife decided to run; the guy took out pies from the bag, sat down by himself; they go to bed by the river; the guy it turns out that M. is angry, the guy hits him with a whip]: 115-123; Zamaletdinov 2009, No. 69 [when dying, the father gave his eldest son an ax, a middle shovel, the youngest got wet; the elder came to a village where there are no axes; servants they carry sunlight in the sieve; the elder brother cut through the windows, got a lot of money; the middle brother also came to the place where the grain was blowing with his hands, began to work with a shovel); the younger one weaved a rope, promised a peary hang their lake to the sky; tied the ends of the rope, the pearies do not find an end; offer to run around the lake; the young man caught two birds with one stone, let him go, the other is his "two-month-old son" overtook the peary; the grandfather offers to fight, the young man exposes the "grandfather", i.e. the bear; the peary suggests throwing an iron staff; the young man pretends to throw him on the cloud; the peary suggests filling his hat with silver; her hole, the pearies filled the hole], 76 [buy hired an employee, the agreement is not to be angry; when the nightingale flies to the bird cherry, 200 rubles; the elder, middle brothers are angry, pay the bay; the younger Shombay does not watch as a child, stabbed horses; bai sends her to the mill where the devils are; S. pretends to throw a woman into the sky to drive piles, pushed her into the water himself; releases a hare disguised as a son to compete in the run; devils they gave him flour instead of the chaff, which the bai ordered to grind; he poured flour into the mud, the cattle ate; bai put his daughter on a tree to whistle with a nightingale; S. knocked her down, received 200 rubles and left]: 282-285, 303-308; Nasyri 1977 [the father inherits the first son a millstone, the second a drum, the third son inherits bast pads and cochedyks; the third son goes to the forest, pulls his bast from a linden tree growing near the lake; the water asks what he does; the man replies that he winds a rope to hang the lake from the sky; the waterman tells his grandfather about this; he tells him to arrange a competition: whoever carries the lake around five times, the lake and gets; the water brush carries, gets very tired; the person puts the brush on the ground, looks at the sky; says to the waterman that he wants to throw the brush behind the cloud; the water begs not to do this - the brush has they are the only one; the water grandfather gives a horse: whoever carries it around the lake will get the lake; the water one carries it five times; a man jumps on a horse, goes around the lake five times; the waterman says to his grandfather, that a person is stronger - he carried the horse between his legs; the grandfather orders to organize a competition in the form of a struggle; the man tells the waterman that he has no time and that his old grandfather, sleeping behind the bushes, will fight instead of him; tells the waterman to hit his grandfather's ear; a bear sleeps behind the bushes; waking up, there is enough water; the waterman complains to his grandfather; he tells the person to offer money; the person agrees not to touch the lake, provided that his hat will be filled with money; makes a hole in his hat, digs a hole under it; a water hat fills it with gold; a man tells the waterman to take the hat and the ground under it to his house; on the way they see a pole, a harrow and a plough; the man says it is his grandfather's staff, comb and toothpick; at home, the man tells his wife to treat the guest; the wife starts stabbing the water with a pitchfork; the waterman runs away to the lake]: 125- 128; Bashkirs: Barag 1992, No. 2 [orphan Kalmakkul was hired as a farmhand for bay; no fee is needed, but in two years he will click the bay on his forehead; and an agreement not to be angry; asks which sheep to slaughter; buy: which he would run up to the stern; everyone ran up, K. stabbed everyone; to get rid of K., bai sent him to the forest to look for the missing stallion; K.'s horse was eaten by a bear, but K. harnessed him into the cart himself: here, he brought the stallion; buy tells you to put them to the rest of the horses, the bear lifted them up overnight; K. must guard bags of bread in the yard; he lay down in the hayloft and put a block of wood instead of himself; buy and his people cartilaged under this place and threw the body (i.e. a block) into the basement; in the morning K. allegedly left the basement; K. was sent to the lake to collect two hats of gold from the devils; K. sat down on the shore, pretended to weave a rope to hang the lake from the sky; the devils offer to compete in running (K. releases his younger brother, the bunny); fight (offers a grandfather, a bear instead); who will throw the weight higher; K. pretends to throw it on clouds; K. made holes in his hats, inserted two bags hidden under water into the necks; brought home two bags of gold; when he saw K., bai and his wife decided to flee; K. hid in a bag of breadcrumbs; changed at night in some places with his wife, he pushed his wife into the water; K.: just two years old; bay clicked on the forehead with a gun], 3 [defeat the bear brother; race with the hare brother], 4 [overtake the younger brother- hare; overcome grandfather bear; carry a mare around the lake]: 23-26, 27-28, 28-30; Bessonov 1941, No. 36 [the old woman tells the old man to twist a rope on the lake; the diva comes out of the lake, asks that the old man does; old man: view the rope to drag the lake to his home; the diva brought the mare, put it on his shoulders, carried it around the lake; the old man galloped on the mare: carried it between his legs; the divas gave gold for the old man to leave the lake; he carried gold to the old man's house; the old man goes forward, negotiates with his wife; asks her if the meat of the slaughtered diva has already run out; the diva has run away; the fox leads him back; the old man fox: thank you, this diva ran away from us, let's cut it; the diva killed the fox and ran away], 54 (Chelyabinsk Uyezd) [after the old man died, the eldest got a cat; he came to a village where there were many mice; he was given a cart of gold for a cat; his middle son he got a shovel; he came to the village, where they did not know how to wind life, received a cart of gold for a shovel; the youngest bald man got a bast; began to twist the rope; told the owner of the water that he was going to drag the lake; water offers gold, the bald one does not take it; offers to run, the younger brother will run for him; the water man rushed after the hare in vain; offered to fight; the bald man pretended to be his grandfather, the bear; he hit water; the water offered to encircle a mare around the lake; the bald one galloped on it; the water gave a cart of gold]: 202-203, 273-274; Udmurts [someone steals peas from the priest; pop guards, finds peas in peas child; Mikhailo Popov grows up unusually strong, maims other children; the pop sent him to bring sheep out of the forest with wolves and lock him to the sheep; M. brought the wolves, they ate the sheep; the same is to bring bulls (brought them bears); men advise sending M. to the lake, collecting the devil's rent; hell offers to race, M. sent a hare instead of himself; throw weights; M.: throw on the cloud; hell asks not to throw; devils they give money; M. orders to pour into the hat in which he made a hole, filled a large bag; hell offers to fight, M. sends a bull instead of himself, i.e. a bear; M. harnessed a bear into the cart and brought the devil ass money; M. left them to work at the mill, went on, met them, took Usinya (twists his mustache Kama), Goryn (shakes the mountain with his little finger); they take turns cooking; a man with a fingernail, a beard with a fingernail the cook's elbow hits, goes underground again; when M. stayed, he beat the peasant, pinched his beard, he cut off his beard, went into the hole; only M. decided to go down on a rope; the girl sews a paper dress, goes with M., having rolled his hut into an egg; the same is a girl with a woolen dress; with a silk dress; that man is their grandfather, went to grow a beard; Usynya and Gorynya picked up the girls, did not lift M.; M. wants to kill the cat; duck; they ask not to kill; then they transport M., pretend to throw it off; M.: I didn't kill you; so three times; cat: I have no strength, I want to eat; M. cut off meat from caviar, gave it to the cat; on earth M. changed clothes with an old man; came to Usyna and Goryn, drove them away, began to live with three girls]: Kralina 1960, No. 43:108-118.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. Tofalars [the man answers the owner of the water (Sug ezi) that he is setting up a net to catch and eat him; he tried to fight, but the man defeated him; promised to send his own the next day younger brother; pointed to the bear, the water rushed to the one, the bear had defeated him; the waterman said that he had thrown his whip on the clouds; the man promised to throw the talina, quietly threw it away; the waterman recognized defeat, promised not to leave the water anymore]: Kaganov 1907:618-619; Khakas [{the text is almost identical to that published by Katanov as Tofalar}; the person replies to the owner of the water (Sukh ezi) that sets up a net to catch him; he tried to fight, but the man covered him with a net; offers to fight with his younger brother; pointed to the bear, the water rushed to see if the bear had defeated him; the waterman said that he threw his whip at the clouds; the man promised to throw the talina in the sun, threw it away unnoticed, the waterman could not look at the sun for a long time; allowed him to catch as many fish as the fisherman will want]: Balter 1986:52-54; Shors [{the text is very similar to Tofalar and Khakass]: Chudoyakov 2002:127-128.
Eastern Siberia. Evenki (Podkamennaya Tunguska) [the devil suggests that the hunter fight; he in response suggests that he first overtake his newborn baby, the hare; then defeat his grandfather, the bear; the devil admits defeat; cut down larch, offers to carry; hardly carries, the hunter sits on larch; the devil asks for water, the hunter pretends to dig in the lake - take it all at once; at night, the devil hits with a stick the place where the hunter lay down, but he put a log in his place in advance; the hunter drew the line to himself; he was offended that he was fed a dog and left]: Suvorov 1956:25-27; Yakuts (summary of the archival text, place of recording is not specified; central? [Waterman (devil) and farmer. A person agrees with the devil (water) to sow bread together. A person treats a trait that chooses meat bones, cottage cheese liquid and egg shells. They share the harvest. The devil takes roots from wheat, and tips from potatoes. Damn drags a log, a man sits on it. They compete in running. A person lets a hare instead of himself. They compete in wrestling. A person puts a bear in his place]: Ergis 1967b, No. 255:231.